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can anyone  recommend a set  of very bright headlights for a Mazda  2. 

11 hours ago, Andycoops said:

Thailand 4.0 has been O.O since it's inception, the idea of computerisation or digitalisation is remove paperwork not increase it but the Thai bureaucracy is so dumb it can't work this out.

All any Immigration office need do is to open a file upon an individual first applying for whatever he needs. On the left hand of the file is a colour photocopy of the passport etc, the main substantiating documents. These are never to be removed from the file. Right hand of file is for future applications etc. Each year you turn up with your passport and application form. No need for any copies.

On 4/22/2021 at 4:47 PM, GreasyFingers said:

It is on my list, but I do update any changes from year to year. The old passport request is a new one (I was there in January) and they did not need even a copy of the original visa.

Writing you full name is a new one too, before it was just the signature on every page.

You can obtain from UK stationery shop a small stamp with your name imprinted, a wee ink pad, and you are done. I believe you can also get an actual copy of your signature imprinted, that would really <deleted> them off. But don’t forget to buy 2 different shades of blue inkpads.

11 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Oh please! This is serious! Send him to an inactive post!

 

A helicopter!!, you would be lucky to see a police car in Udon.

Yesterday, on a half hour trip, I passed 10 village checkpoints, all fully manned, all fully asleep. Cones placed haphazardly, actually causing obstruction to traffic. Our village has cones now to filter traffic down to a single lane, causing delays. 

On 4/3/2021 at 7:07 AM, NE1 said:

I also did mine online , had it sent to the UK address that is on my license , then had that person send it to me here .

Exactly the same route that I took.

17 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Damn you were faster ????

 

For years there was the head of village health volunteers who started his morning fanfare (same "Thai rap" day after day) as early as 5:10h. Followed by important information like what day/date/time it is, time to get up, do morning hygiene, healthy breakfast and clean teeth.

Even my wife found him ridiculous.

The village headmen of the three villages around have varying routines/schedules and sound levels depending on distance. Sometimes two at a time.

Additional there is twice weekly a market with barking from the speakers.

The enormous noise by some family events (marriage, death, monk novice) is incalculable.

Sometimes silent for weeks and then every other day.

Should I mention the deafening noise by loudspeaker trucks driving around for the last two weeks or so promoting candidates for the mayor election ????

 

Thankfully the elections are over, it was overkill with up to 7 different loudspeaker vans touring the area. When they handed out the cash on Saturday night, it was done so,so quietly by comparison. As a rule, our village loudspeakers are at 12pm and 4pm daily, only occasionally do we get an 0600hrs broadcast. But it is seriously loud when it happens. Funerals around here are 7 days long. Some days, there is almost complete silence, with locals staying housebound, very peculiar the differences.

 

The  Left hand lane is reserved for farang  use only.

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Using my TAT logic calculator, I can see that:

6 million divided by 300 passengers per flight =20,000 flights

divided by 180 days for the last six months of the year = 111 flights per day

divided by 18 hours, flights per day = 6 flights per hour.

Is no problem, Mr Fawlty.

THAI have this under control, as they are going to order in new aircraft.

Divide and conquer, muddy the waters, you could not make it up.

On 11/24/2020 at 8:16 PM, madmitch said:

With a population of nearly 70 million that's perfectly feasible.

Feasible, but ultimately pointless exercise in training so many.

On 11/27/2020 at 6:37 AM, LomSak27 said:

 

Sure, but as French people had to endure your compatriots gun, knife and truck attacks they have become less receptive to migrants. Go figure.

You have a way back, simply pay the fees, and reverse your route.

My bank manager signs for me, no charge, but I give her something anyway.

Any UK members have problems receiving their P60 for FY2019/20. For the first time in 24 years I have not received mine.

E-mails have received only one cursory reply, asking for additional personal information, and despite my sending a follow-up e-mail no reply has arrived.

equiniti have been top notch since I left, superb administration, but this year...........

14 hours ago, khastan said:

For what its worth I live near Nong Khai immigration and have never seen has many cars parked outside on the road. I counted at least 30  so it appears all immigration offices are very busy

I went yesterday, to extend my stay (retirement) as I had all my ducks in a row, and my bank is only 20k from Immigration, so I decided to go have a try. Not due until 29th, but always leave some wiggle room. Well it was a shambolic mess, bodies strewn everywhere, more staff than I have seen in 9 years. An overflow office for pre-screening in use. I had assumed that a system would have been in place to service the customers who needed to get their extensions before the 26th, and that other routine cases would be serviced separately. Boy, was I wrong. Their were apparently, at 3pm, still 80 people ahead of me. An IO who has dealt with me before, advised that I return on Monday, when she believes all will have returned to normal. All I need do on Monday is pay in some money to the 800k account and update the book. 99.9% of customers at Nong Khai were Lao. Only myself and 1 other Farang. 

19 hours ago, Jimbo2014 said:

Im starting to think that this is an elaborate way to increase car sales.  After all, why else would one of the largest per capita police forces be completely absent from the roads?

I actually saw a Highway Patrol car on duty outside Nong Khai yesterday, even the wife commented.

1 hour ago, djayz said:

I had no idea it was that many! Is there no sex education in this country? 

20% of these were from our small village.

On 8/21/2020 at 11:22 AM, bluesofa said:

I'd suggest that 'alleviate' needs to be replaced with 'exasperate', going on City Hall's abysmal handling of all other projects.

 

It would help if they stopped holding pointless meetings at City Hall, every other day, involving hundreds of participants, who are merely attendees with nothing to contribute.

17 hours ago, MAJORUS said:

I have two pensions,The British State Pension and A British Army Pension Both are British Government pension but the British"Embassy"refuses to provide any letter for Thai Immigration certifying it's own government pensions WHY?? perhaps you should drop the word Embassy and call it a trade mission as that is what it is.

In the same position, I fully agree. The Embassy should be able to provide a letter of confirmation based upon the P60. Then there can be no doubts about the validity of UK income.