KMartinHandyman

In 1973, a 24 story building under construction in Bailey's Crossroads, VA, USA collapsed because of the premature removal of shoring from beneath newly poured floors. Killed 15 and injured 35.  The building was more or less sliced in half. A few wrists got gently slapped. About 5 years earlier, the same construction company had two floors cave in at an office building due to insufficient wooden shoring, killing three and injuring 29 others.  
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_Towers_collapse
 

Can Kudlow make his King Dollar a reality?

Bike for lane splitting I’d say.

Yes  THE  biggest stumbling block of all renewable energy....maybe they can use solar electric to pump water uphill during the day  to behind the dams,  release at night hydroelectric   divert the outflow to a capture area for reuse next day instead of letting it all flow downstream.

Good thing they gathered in 40 groups of five.

Just looking at what looks to be a home made bucket on the front I'd say the forklift was being used as a front end loader, forklifts are flat level floor machines, they are not meant to be driven up onto mounds of sawdust with a full "bucket", the end result will be this.

Bingo! Thai style.

So your wife prefers the 1/2 baht gold band in Thai 24 k or 23 k gold. Harder, lower k, are not acceptable for Thai people?
 
Just asking because I may have to go through the same process!

1 hour ago, phuketrichard said:

KMartin; any jewelry, ( ie anything set with a stone), wont use more than 18 k gold, ( and NOT viewed as inferior)  otherwise its to soft..doesn't matter if its made in USA,the UK or Thailand

ONLY thai chains/bracelets, wedding rings, small earrings,  are 23 k

Good point, thanks. 

Ive forgotten all about diamonds here. My wife puts no value on them and declined the idea for a wedding ring. She preferred a 1/2 baht gold band and so did my wallet. 

Do you know it's illegal under Thai law to even roll your own cigarettes as it takes work away from Thais......... Check it out.........

Thanks for the help. I'm glad to see it doesn't say I was deported. I read that as long as you accept the charges, go to court, pay the fine etc and buy your air ticket out as agreed with immigration within one week they don't actually deport you or stamp that you were deported in your passport, you just get a ban. All these things I did and was very cooperative. I want to go to Malaysia and I'm really worried about my prospects of travelling and working abroad after what happened. That's mainly why I'm trying to find out more about this stamp and what exactly it says.
 
Yes, they came to my house and "caught me". I had been staying in Thailand (in Chiang Mai) for 5 years already, always with legal visas (mostly ED or work not just tourist) and working legally online and never for Thai companies without a visa. I think the police and everyone else involved was surprised too, they were expecting me to have overstayed by 90 days or more. Sii Wan is all I heard over and over again. I have overstayed longer before and happily exited and paid the fine. I'm not sure how or why this happened for a 4 day overstay. Apparently they are cracking down, I was also told that I came up on an alarm on their new system which triggers after 2 days of overstay. I would highly advise anyone tourist or local not to overstay any visa longer than 1 day as on the second day you are all fair game whether you have overstayed 2 days or 100. Basically as an overstayer you are breaking the law and can't expect lenient treatment as an illegal with no valid visa if caught.
 
I suppose it's easier to catch people who are not intentionally overstaying as they would not put a false address too :)

The top four yes

You’re likely using 14 or 18 carat gold which may be viewed as inferior to 23+ carat Thai gold. (Thais don’t care about the hardness quality of less pure gold)

You’re bringing sand to the beach and inferior sand at that.

12 minutes ago, riclag said:

Getting out of the Paris climate agreement ,getting out of the TPP, renegotiating NAFTA,to electing a SCJ,t tax reform for the the people who were paying  way to much taxes and putting it back in their pay checks, raining in big government spending  like on social programs,cutting jobs in gov agencies , 2 million reduction in food stamp recipients, bringing attention to eliminating  or changing of any kind of immigration law,ending the ISIS Caliphate,doing away with OB care mandate,cutting many federal regulations on business.taking on Iran,taking on NK,making nato pay their fair share,creating jobs.31% increase in the stock market from his first year.

 

And most importantly  the number 1 accomplishment is showing American's how corrupt and bias Washington and politics are and to be careful of bias news sources.

And that’s the short list,, my number one might be moving the embassy to Jerusalem rather than sign off a waiver like presidents from both parties did for many years. 

Why? Monthly allowances can be stopped at any time, especially when the "services' start to dry up.

26 minutes ago, Thakkar said:

 

It’s true. So far Mueller has only indicted Trump’s top campaign aides, his national security advisor, one of his foreign policy advisor and eleven Russians accused of manipulating events in Trump’s favor—something that has never happened to any campaign in American history. But, hey, no biggie.

 

Yup and nothing about their charges thus far has involved President Trump or the Trump for President Campaign having colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. Mueller has however made good use of the Related Matters provisions in order number 3915-2017 against these individuals in an attempt to get information.

Is the Bangkok area where you will live and if not open the account in the region where you will reside to avoid charges for deposits etc. from the bank of the same name but different profit centers. It’s been a few years so policies may have changed but I went with Bangkok Bank upcountry with a marriage visa and wasn’t blocked from opening without a work permit. Just had to have a Thai government worker vouch and fill out all the papers.
I’ve also read Citibank being global is an option to consider but I don’t know how many locations they have in bkk or any presence throughout the rest of Thailand.
Someone will be along to tell you to keep trying banks or to request speaking with a superior and tell them you don’t need a work permit to open an account in 3,2,1,,,

I am wondering if these habits are changing ? Civilisation having now reached this country, they should start to understand that the ground where rats and cockroaches run is not a proper place for food ?
 
But maybe nothing will change ? Look, kids are as stupid as they parents when it's about driving and road safety, but in my country, kids find totally stupid adults who do not use a safe belt in the back of the car.
I mean that in the west kids get good habits, maybe from their parents but also learnt from TV.online, but here, kids learn nothing and do not improve the lifestyle about anything, they just mimic their parents ridiculous or dangerous habits. I am so hopeless about this country.
 
You can tell what you want about culture or habits, eating with dirty hands or on the ground is far to be clean, and these people should learn from western people who make a different with animal habits.
 
 
 
 
 
 

And the village lottery dynamics are quite amusing as a foreigner who married into it. Like when someone bets on credit and then pays with a chicken, dog or a 5 gallon pail of paint. Then there’s the lottery underwriter overlord lady who can’t cough up the ฿140,000 when one of her underling peddlers wins against her on a ฿5,000 wager, solution? She pays a little which is infuriating and he keeps her cut each month until everyone is happy again. Theres the underling who can’t pay ฿40,000 to his customers and is heartbroken because he has to sell a cow to retain credibility so his wife pawns some gold to stop the sobbing. And of course the dynamics wouldn’t be complete without the bib’s wife who picks up ฿800 each month while he sits in the a/c’d truck and doesn’t see anything going on here.