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5 hours ago, SEtonal said:
There are no abnormalities in the system. Each office can make its own rules.
Quite right and I have yet to fully understand this from Phuket Imm...............
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10 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:He lies even when he doesn't have to.
That's his personality. he just cant help himself............and yet the very Republicans who called Cohen a pathological liar, can't see that the biggest teller of porkies is old pres porky himself.
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17 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:
Money in the bank is 800k baht in the bank or the combination of funds in a bank and annual income totaling 800k baht.
Thanks Joe it appears that you are a "lifesaver''!!!!
This because I can bring in a monthly total of say 90k upwards to cover this and which will include some of my spending money and will add up to well over 800k total for the year............and I can spend it!!!
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6 hours ago, sgoodes said:Yes I have lied but I'm not a liar.
Nice try, Cohen. Enjoy your holiday in the big house.
There was a point during the investigation when a Republican was having a go at Cohen and said to him, "why should we believe you, you're a pathological liar.............".
What I would have liked to have happened next is the following: –
– Cohen: "what do you mean by pathological liar".
– Republican: "someone who continues lying and cannot help himself".
– Cohen: "so you believe such people to be untrustworthy and that they can never tell the truth?".
– Republican: "yes I do".
– Cohen: "much like Donald Trump you mean?".
And that's the irony of some of the questioning by the Republicans, here they are calling Cohen a liar, whilst at the same time defending Donald Trump who is a well-known liar and has proven it time after time over the years – – he just cannot help himself, he opens his mouth and lies just roll-out.
How one-eyed and stupid do the Republicans have to be before the American public realises that they haven't got an ounce of common sense between them, and Trump's supporters likewise.
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2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:
Not for the income option. The order was issued on December 21st with immediate effect.
The rules that started today are only for the money in the bank option.
I think I have stuffed up, or I am totally confused – – take your pick.
By the "income option", I take it you mean regular monthly income of 65K coming into the Thai bank? Or does this refer to the embassy letter that at one time stated one had a regular income/pension?
"Money in the bank", could mean either monthly money coming into the bank and proven by bank statements or a lump sum of 800 K deposited – – which one does it refer to?
I got my retirement extension in October based on the embassy letters and part lump sum (combo) method and I had assumed (rightly or wrongly) that the new regular monthly income rules started on March 1, so I did nothing about addressing my monthly income transfers from overseas as I was intending to do so on March 1. Now it appears that the ruling came into force in December, so I have missed a couple of months of potential "top ups" and my regular income amounts of around 40,000 baht will not do by all accounts.
As I said I can easily make it up to 65K but was anticipating starting this today!
I don't know how immigration will view this.......... any thoughts?
Going over to the 800 K method irks considerably, but it looks like I may have to now!
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10 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:
For this year it is allowed since the new rules did not come into effect until December.
Sorry Joe, I thought the new rules applied from March 1st this year??
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4 hours ago, DoctorG said:
As I sad... nuttin!
A lot of nuttin here....................
· Over the last two years, while speculation about Russia has dominated the headlines, investigators have been quietly and methodically pursuing a different thread — Mr Trump's finances, and those of the Trump Organisation.
· "Is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding Donald Trump that we haven't yet discussed today?" Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi asked.
"Yes," Cohen said. "Those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the Southern District of New York."
· The obvious place to start is the payments Cohen made on Mr Trump's behalf during the campaign to silence women with whom he'd had affairs.
Cohen has already pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws — a felony offence — by paying off the adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels.
· Mr Trump has repeatedly, shamelessly denied having any knowledge of the payments. That lie imploded yesterday as Cohen gave Congress irrefutable, documentary proof of the President's involvement.
Cohen said Mr Trump reimbursed him for the expense of the pay-off to Ms Clifford with 11 such cheques, disguised as monthly payments for legal services.
· And this doesn't end with a few dodgy payments to women. Cohen's testimony also raised questions about various types of fraud Mr Trump may have committed.
He claimed Mr Trump had submitted inflated financial statements to get a loan from a bank, and under questioning from Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, suggested he'd done something similar to get a better rate on insurance.
"To your knowledge, did the President ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?" Ms Ocasio-Cortez asked.
"Yes," Cohen said.
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2 hours ago, DoctorG said:
The payoff was supposedly for $130k. What we have here is 2 cheques for $35k each with no demonstration that they relate to the payoff.
As I sad... nuttin!
More to come in this sorry saga involving a liar, a cheat and a crook...........then of course there's Cohen!
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9 hours ago, DoctorG said:They got nuttin!
Signed cheques..........for a start.
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20 minutes ago, BRMC said:
Though I decided to be a cheapo and buy the M&S extra strong brand instead which hits the spot.
Never thought about price when buying tea and the M&S branded teas are great, esp the stronger ones.
Did like the Nerada brand when I was in Oz, but haven't seen it here.
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On 2/25/2019 at 7:43 PM, Snow Leopard said:
I watched it on Netflix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vietnam_War_(TV_series)
Gives the basics. It was really informative for me.
Just watched episode 1 and even though I may have seen excerpts from it before, I found it fascinating.
Also wondered how the French have managed to <deleted> up so many countries and lose so many wars/battles.....well they would have lost two "world wars" if it wasn't for the help they received!!!
Thanks for the recommendation.
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12 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:
Even the continuous backstabbing did not stop him from all the amazing achievements he keeps making.
I must have blinked and missed them..........now let's see:
--Fostering racism in the US.
--Shutting down the Govt and putting thousands of Americans under financial stress.
--Making sure his business cronies benefited from tax cuts
--Lying about anything and everything almost every day
--Behaving like a spoilt child when he didn't get his wall funding
--Getting offside with traditional Allies
--Pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal but his belief that he has single-handedly thwarted all of Iran’s designs just isn’t true — according to his own administration.
Could add a few more "achievements" as you call them but haven't got the time of day to complete the list of duds and damage this clown has bestowed upon the USA.
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25 minutes ago, Patong2 said:
Good commentary and insights again Xylophone.
Well, rest assured, no matter how bad we think Patong has got,
it is still a million times less boring than Auckland where we have been stuck for the last month.
Look forward to diving back into the chaos and pandemonium next month and doing some open mouthed head-shaking at the idiocy of some of the business decisions.
Thanks for the compliment P2, but how can you denigrate my beloved Auckland/New Zealand in this way – – just joking as you know.
Believe me there are times when I think that moving back to Auckland/New Zealand would be a sensible thing to do, but compared to Patong, it is boring and as I have often said, there is something about the vibrancy in Patong which draws one to the place..........but then again perhaps part of that vibrancy is down to the fact that you never know what you're going to get here, from danger to stupidity, from corruption to construction, to infrastructure fails and sewage smells and so on, and as for a "grand plan", forget it!
Will be interested in your comments on Central Patong and the other building of which I have posted, upon your return, but in the meantime enjoy what time you have left in Auckland and have a safe and pleasant journey back to ting tong Patong.
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On 2/26/2019 at 8:45 AM, AhFarangJa said:
The remaining 10,392 items were packaged for re-distribution to keep the wheels turning......
Oh yes.........and a guy who imports this stuff and supplies many shops here continues to pay off "officials" so that they turn a blind eye to the proceedings because as you say, got to keep the wheels turning.
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12 minutes ago, Just Weird said:"...however here the family have decided to bribe the easily bribeable police and justice system to allow the family member to escape any sort of justice...".
Have they? I'd love to know how you justify that uncorroborated speculation!
Living here, seeing and experiencing corruption first hand, the Thai Ombudsman report saying that the BIB was the most corrupt body in Thailand.............and many more glaring examples.
Then of course the fact that next to nothing has been done to bring this piece of sh!t to justice. In this instance 2 + 2 does equal 4.
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On 2/25/2019 at 6:56 AM, DrDave said:The owners of Terminal 21 in Bangkok have a very different business model.............
Well at least they have one, which is more than can be said, in my opinion, for things that are currently happening in Patong and as has already been mentioned, the actual marketing/positioning of Central Patong is a bit of a mystery.
As for other things........I was out and about last night and was very surprised to see what has happened to the "resurrected Tiger" complex, mystifying to say the least.
When it first opened it was full of bars which were going to be sold and fully staffed, much like the original one, and almost a complete clone of the new Tiger, which was opposite, but it missed the mark by a long shot. The few front bars were successful, but behind that there stretched a large area of vacant and unsold bars.
Now that huge area has been converted into.......something, but I'm not sure what. It looks like there are about 20 shop-like units either side of a little walkway, with just one being occupied at the moment and having a tattoo parlour in it. Now who is going to walk through a couple of large bars to find small shops?? Not a good mix or logical positioning.
Then upstairs there appears to be a Thai boxing arena, which didn't seem to be at all populated when I was there, but then again this whole place has become a bit of a mess in my opinion and as for a "business plan".......hmm. Too much money and not enough brains spring to mind, and designed by somebody with the mental capacity of a pickled squid.
Still on the subject of marketing/positioning (part of the business plan) I see that a former unsuccessful Italian restaurant in Soi Banzaan has now been converted into "something". It has the name "La Drinkeria" over the entrance, which is decorated with a wooden frontage in which wine glasses and bottles have been cut out, and it is in dark brown and looks about as inviting as the entrance to an old cemetery.
I can only assume (wrongly quite possibly) that this is going to be a wine bar of sorts/similar? But the target market???
There are several small bars/drinking establishment within a hundred metres and they are never full and even those folk that sit there would be the usual bar hoppers, drinking beer, and whose most exclusive tipple would most likely be Montclair, so appealing to that market is highly unlikely. Then you have the positioning because there is virtually no foot traffic at this place and there is no parking because all the spaces are taken up with other folks motorcycles.
So there you have it, a place (whatever it's meant to be) with very little street appeal, no passing traffic, no parking, in a side-street and surrounds which usually appeals to the budget travellers and resident expats on pensions.
A friend tried to explain the rationale to it as he saw it: "someone said, there are no wine bars in Patong, so let's open one, and I know a restaurant in a little backstreet which has closed due to lack of business, so let's convert it into one – – it is sure to be a success because it will be the only one". Or something like that.
Unless it's a place solely for the Patong Mafia or the BIB in which case making money is not the issue, I give it less than six months.
And just around the story off........met up with a friend last night who has just returned from Malaysia and who had been to Central Patong and said he was surprised that it had actually been opened because there were very few people in it!
Bangla was lively last night, but there was nowhere near the amount of people out and about as on my visit last week, and I think the tourist rush/influx that was experienced over a few weeks has diminished somewhat, and as a pointer to this, I have noticed a bunch of property selling guys drinking in a bar here, at 2 PM over several days, and that could well suggest that there is not enough business to keep them occupied!
Patong, business, target market, planning, shopping and bars all up in the air and it would make a great case study for the Prof at Darden University who ran a business workshop which I attended, on why Singapore was successful and what changes turned Taco Bell into profitability. But then Thailand is different, just as some of the girls here are...........!!
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4 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:The Nattering Nabobs of Negativism crowd will never find any positive result from anything Trump accomplishes.
Not surprising really, because those who are not blinded by this conman see him for what he really is – – a liar, a conman, a cheat, a misogynist, racist, an adulterer and someone who adores himself.
Very hard to like a person like that or indeed that which he achieves, and to give some sort of analogy, some people say that Bernie Madoff had one or two good points, but they do have a lot in common!
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2 hours ago, SooKee said:16 hours ago, xylophone said:Actually thought that "Mary........." was a better movie!
Better it might have been. Accurate it ain't LOL.
Actually there were some elements of truth in it SooKee, esp as regards the internal conflicts in the court and family of Mary. A bit like the Elizabeth movies, elements of truth, but not in the correct timelines, but the director/producer tries to cobble something together that is "interesting" and of course makes money!!
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7 hours ago, Kalasin Jo said:
Also wondering how using the service offered by BB for transfers from UK will show. The service is that you transfer online within the UK from UK bank to BBL London in GBP quoting your Thai BBL account number, they for a £10 fee then credit your Thai account with them at the exchange rate of the day. No BBL London account needed
You might want to check that again Jo as I have had very recent confirmation from Bangkok bank in London, the same service that you posted about, that for it to show as an international transfer they have to send it in pounds and it is converted to baht in Thailand.
For that they charge £20 at the London end and a fee of anything between 200 and 500 baht at the Thailand end, and in my book that is a hefty fee for my small part-pension. If they convert it to baht in the UK, then the fee is £15 and not sure about any deductions at the Thailand end.
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8 minutes ago, SooKee said:3 hours ago, xylophone said:Watched "The Favourite" last night and wasn't overly impressed with it, and Queen Anne's supposed lesbian tendencies were given too much free rein by the producer, as without this, the movie wouldn't have worked.
Main reason I've put this and Mary Queen of Scots (2018) on the Movies Binned list.
Actually thought that "Mary........." was a better movie!
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9 minutes ago, JackThompson said:
Where I live now (boonies), my provable income well above 40K+ Baht/mo is not acceptable, because it is not "from a state pension."
I don't think that's the case now Jack, as income is provable by showing bank books and bank statements and it doesn't matter if it's from a pension or overseas savings, it all counts as long as it totals a minimum of 65K per month.
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4 minutes ago, TheFarangGuy said:I just can’t figure her out completely and I’m quite good at judging people
Well you'll have your work cut out if you can "figure out" Thai women because many of them have problems with their wiring.........there is a disconnect between the brain, the heart and the pussy, however they are all connected in one way or another to a farangs wallet/bank account.
Love as foreigners know it, is virtually unknown, or should I say extremely hard to find in a Thai woman, and playing the game with a few farangs in tow is highly regarded by friends of theirs, as well as increasing their own wealth.
Picking up farangs and playing them along is a great way to be able to afford to buy one's own house and car as well as enjoy holidays with different partners when they eventually arrive in Thailand......variety is the spice of life.
No problem with enjoying fun times whilst you are here provided you don't get "hooked".
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35 minutes ago, Henryford said:
Good news for the alcoholics. Mont Clair 3 litre boxes of wine down from 993 to 925 baht in Makro, Pattaya. I can afford an extra glass a month now.
Well that should please you no end!!!
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Watched "The Favourite" last night and wasn't overly impressed with it, and Queen Anne's supposed lesbian tendencies were given too much free rein by the producer, as without this, the movie wouldn't have worked.
Trump ordered aide to give Kushner security clearance: NY Times
in World News
Posted
Can excuse him on that one because he is not good with numbers or anything that requires the little grey matter that he has, to work............in simple terms, he's dumber than a bag of rocks.