Henryford

I agree with Jacko45k early December. But it will take a while for the bars/a go gos to get staffed up to a "normal" level. Jan/Feb 2022.

Who pays 6 or 12 months rent in advance, in Thailand. That was the biggest mistake. Just asking for someone to take it and run. Under English law you might be able to argue the agent was acting on behalf of the owner but here just not worth the cost of taking it through the courts. What was the loss @50,000 baht?

Breaking news, it gets colder in winter

Sorry no suggestions but if it is in the middle of nowhere why would he open a shop there. One can only hope his business fails.

Fat Cats 3 - Poor 0

Me too, i use cash for every purchase, even my new car. Never use a card in Thailand.

Surely the bank security systems would pick up multiple charges of the same amount in one day.

Any country that would have me with reasonable visa requirements.

I only use COD via Lazada or via payment in cash at 7/11

All thai beers taste the same, whatever is the cheapest.

I presume they can tell on which floor the rope was cut by the length of the remaining rope beneath him.

Plus the second hand value. I wouldn't buy an MG new let alone second hand.

Brown envelopes finished?

So a mix of Sinovax, AZ and Pfizer. What could possibly go wrong?

I was thinking of doing the combination method and started sending 45,000 baht a month to my thai bank. Initially it was shown as foreign income FTT. This month however as many people have mentioned WISE have stopped using FTT and now it shows as an internal transfer. Now there may be ways around this but i don't want any arguments/difficulties with immigration when i come to renew my extension at the end of the year. Resigned myself therefore to having to use the 800k in the bank, which is so easy.

That's strange, i recently had charges to my UK credit card from "Steam Games". They hit the account several times with a 50 GBP charge ( i guess the maximum before it raises questions). Luckily the bank noticed these many similar charges and alerted me and i finally got the charges deleted. I never had an account with Steam Games or gave them my credit card details so heaven knows how they managed to hack the account.

UK NHS 10th that's a joke. It can take weeks just to see a GP then maybe months to get treated. I can walk into a hospital here with no appointment and get seen and maybe even treated the same day. OK you pay but then i pay for the NHS through taxes.

You would like to think that farang drivers would know better and drive well but some of them are worse than the thais.

Will be the first sober Festival ever

Did Thais ever exercise? I always used to laugh when the thai girls got a motorbike taxi to go about 200 yards.

People always blame their metabolism when they get fat haha. As we get older we eat more and exercise less, yes even me.

Me too, i use cash for everything. Would never use a card in Thailand. BTW can they withdraw 34.15 from an ATM, thought the minimum for 100 baht.

Just look at the UK nearly all vaccinated but 41,000 C cases a day. 'nuff said.

We were doing some shopping in Central Festival Pattaya a few weeks back. As it happens they were doing vaccinations on the 6th Floor. My tgf just walked up with no appointment and got her first jab, Sinovac.

chad3000 - a gree with most of your points but not the dental service. I think the dentists here are good and reasonably priced but then i am coming from the abysmal dental service in the UK.