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17 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I'm just trying to think of anything I have bought in an airport, apart from over-priced food and drink.

You still paying extortionate prices, why not book into one of the 500 baht lounges? Great seating, WIFI, Limited food but plenty of drink, and you can easily eat and drink to get your money back. Also, many have shower facilities these days.

2 hours ago, Benroon said:

Hmmm I think living in one country and putting your very sick mother in another to save a few quid qualifies as ‘dumping’

 

Would you do it ? 

No,

I wouldn't and couldn't.

1 hour ago, toenail said:

If the Muslim fanatics in south Thailand put as much energy in helping their community and furthering their own education instead of listening to propaganda on the internet ( or from outsiders) and causing harm to innocent people they would have a better life. 

What happened over a century ago ( Anglo-Siamese treaty of 1909-Malaysia & Siam) is “water over the dam”) Focus on making your area prosperous instead of thinking of the past. 

+1.

16 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

It is within 24 hours of arrival at your residence not arrival in the country. They are wrong if they are telling you it is from your arrival in the country.

I am on the extension of stay and have had a yellow book for a few years now and been at this address for a dozen years.

If I go, for example, to Koh Chang, and stay at a resort there. I would reasonably expect the resort to inform immigration as to my stay. The same will apply in August, I will leave the country for a couple of weeks and I will stay in an airport hotel. I expect to do nothing, apart from checking in.

I don't expect and never have filled in TM28 OR TM30 forms.

My son recently went home after visiting me here on a 30-day visa waiver on entry as he is a UK national. Whilst here, they stayed in Kalasin, Chiang Mai, and Krabi as well as finishing in Bangkok. Surely, it is the hotels' responsibility to inform immigration of their checking in, not the tourists' responsibility?

This thread is confusing!

Sakon Nakhon OK if you are oiling the wheels, if you are not, be prepared to sit there all day whilst they go for lunch or just sit and pretend they are too busy to deal with you or send you away after finding a fault with your documents. That's OK unless you live a couple of three hours away.

Anyway, the next renewal will be in Kalasin. Let's see how that one goes.

2 hours ago, Old Croc said:

Round them up and deport them the same way they would do for most other nationalities committing crimes.

The gang boys won't be able to afford knives there, nor bikes to get them to the beach.

Agreed,

And how come 100 Burmese teenagers can afford to be in Thailand? let alone to be on motorbikes and at the beach with knives in gangs?

I  very much doubt they are in the country legal anyway. However, their behaviour typifies what they have seen Thai teenagers doing and getting away with, ' Monkey see, monkey do ' 

If this was Westerners all the TV news channels would be down there and the crowds screaming and baying for deportation.

I recall being on business a few years ago and I was sat in a private room for dinner with the head of tourism for Halong Bay. He was also a senior police officer and held multiple positions of power in Vietnam.

I remember him talking to me directly when we were talking about the plans for increasing tourism in Vietnam, visas etc and he flat out said to me in English....' We don't have any of that ' bang bang ' nonsense from the younger generation here in Vietnam as they do in Thailand. We deal with them straight away. He was meaning the youngsters driving around armed with guns.

When I pushed him on this, he told me he was referring to the tearaways and troublemakers in the likes of Pattaya and Bangkok, which information he was obviously privy to due to his position.

It is true as I noticed afterwards. Yes, Vietnam suffers thefts and petty crimes but they do not stand for and major disturbances or disorder in the country.

They definitely look like Asian guys to me! Maybe, ' quality ' Chinese tourists?

I can't see any big fat white beer bellies in the picture.

48 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Last time I went to SG the IO had to reach over and clean the bodily fluids off the glass with a rag before it took my prints. Yummy. I'd much prefer a retinal scan.

Yeah,

I had a retinal scan during an overnight entry to Abu Dhabi. Far simpler, cleaner and faster.

What am I getting wrong or missing here,? If the system is just starting up, How can they catch previous criminals who have changed names and acquired new passports as they will have no data,to go on, will they? They will be starting new from scratch, I should imagine?

They have been photographing us in and out for years. OK Now they are adopting similar to the Cambodian system where they fingerprint and handprint as well as this.

The Cambodian one breaks down regularly and Thailand airports are far busier. Nightmare queues to follow methinks!

7 hours ago, connda said:

  The message is: "You must suffer due to your own bad Karma.  It's not a Thai doctor's duty to ease that suffering!"  And the Thai elite are on board with that policy.  

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Yep,

Onboard with that policy until it is one of them suffering from an illness that could be treated by CBD oil. I bet they will be quick off the mark then to look after themselves!

2 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

Comparing with the abysmal consular services of other countries is hardly a recommendation for a country like the UK that promotes itself as one of the most sophisticated, which of course it isn't.  

Pilotman,

Yes, but also sometimes the expectations of the British expat and visitor is a lot greater than the Embassy has the power to do. Some think they are there purely and simply as a convenience for ' Brits in the Sh*t, and they are not.

Their primary duty is for diplomatic matters and trade affairs.

1 minute ago, Bert got kinky said:

I am surprised at members saying they were treated rudely

I am not surprised in the slightest.

Every time that I have had to deal with Embassy in Bangkok I have dealt with rude arrogant staff.

 

The worst ones to deal with are the Thai staff, who believe that they are above the people that they have to deal with and as such they look down on everyone. 

 

I never understand why anyone who does not like dealing with the 'great unwashed' would take on a job that puts them in that position.

That would be like being petrified of heights and becoming a steeplejack. 

 

 

 When you refer to Thai staff working in the embassy, that is a different matter entirely. And to answer your question simply, why do they do the job? Power, influence and it looks great on their CV.

2 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Wrong mate, i never said i was treated rudely, but my wife was.

The fact she is Thai and asked the British embassy for help/advice, shows they have no compassion.

Well, I was talking generally and not about your particular problem with them. Also, none of us is privy to the conversation that took place between your wife and the Embassy nor do we know if it was a British official or a Thai official appointed to work at the Embassy.

I am surprised that she was spoken to rudely but as I say, I do not know the details of the matter.

For those of you that think the British Embassy deals poorly with consular matters, spare a thought for those that come from the Middle East from countries such as Jordon, Iran or Iraq that do not see their Embassy officials for months and months on end, some never and have to use other Embassies to get in touch with their own!

I had a problem many many years ago now and I accept times have changed but I found consular officers who I dealt with directly, to really push the boat out as in visiting me outside their remit and without being compensated by the Embassy for their time and travel, especially the Honorary Consul of Pattaya at the time, Mr Barry Kenyon.

I similarly found a great deal of help and kindness from unpaid helpers who were expats and voluntary prison visitors.

I am surprised at members saying they were treated rudely by the Embassy as that is not really one of their trademarks. I admit they can pontificate at great length but not in a rude manner I have found.

10 hours ago, Suradit69 said:

A fairly slow "fast one."

 

 

Agreed,

But he may have been slow off the mark to react if he was busy working in the UK and believed the person he bought the condo with to be a friend.

12 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

You have little or no factual information on the current situation of your property in Thailand.

 

I would ignore advice to get UK and/or Thai lawyers involved due to costs involved.

 

Simply state where the property is, and offer someone on this forum who is in Thailand to get all the necessary information you need.

 

Lots of foreigners here who would have the spare time to do this for you, for a cost of a few hundred quid.

 

Then you could consider further steps after getting the factual up-to-date info you need.

Common sense, but obviously he needs to find somebody he can trust to do the job which also can be difficult.

14 hours ago, Khan1230 said:

Thank you for you reply. 

The condo is in foreign name as we purchased it jointly. 

He is living in UK and his wife is in the condo in Thailand until she can join him in UK.

 

Yes the property was also purchased as a source of income.

Hi.

You haven't answered the question buddy.

Yes in a foreign name. Whose name? His or yours?If it is in his sole name you could very well be peeing in rhe wind.

I smell a rat by virtue of the fact he is avoiding you and not updating you nor providing you with information.

I would take this like he is trying to pull a " fast one "  but I believe you know this.

9 hours ago, DingDongLing said:

good point, whats S>F>A

 

It was mostly bitcoin, stocks are crashing too. 

SFA  is Sweet Fanny Adams or commonly expressed as Sweet <deleted> All.

11 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

monk and drugdealer! unusual yet  lethal alliance

Well, it isn't unusual actually considering many youngsters join the monkhood short term to make amends for misdemeanors outside or to use it in court as an excuse to avoid prison sentences.

Many in the monkhood are former criminals.

52 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

which office? 

Kuchinarai, Kalasin.

On 5/18/2019 at 10:19 AM, crazykopite said:

It depends on your office one way or the other you will be able to renew and for those who don’t know you cannot renew your licence until it has expired twice over the last 13 years I have gone to renew the day before and every time I got turned away the last time I was told come back two months when it was clear the licence only had 1 day left before expiry  I went back 4 months later as I live on another island and had no problems they just dated it from when it expired.

It surely must depend on the local office.

Recently, I had three months left and went to the local office as I wanted the licence with the new barcode to put on my phone.

They issued a new one there and then after a brake test and colour blindness test. I think I paid in the region of 500 baht for a five-year licence.

Why the hell would somebody go to a beach destination at the other side of the world without funds to support themselves and then sit in a tiny condo all day playing the internet?

The beach costs nothing to walk on, the cities cost nothing to walk around and if you can't afford a drink at the local 7-11 you are in bad shape, stay home!

Stocks around the world are at an all-time high, so I don't get it that you have had bad luck with your stocks being low recently.

Also, if you are an online addict, why did you not research your job prospects before coming?

God helps them who help themselves!........... I am an Atheist, but substitute the word God for Life and you are nearly there.

It seems to me the only reason this girl hangs around is it is costing her S.F.A to stay there with no utility bills or rent to pay.