Jonathan Swift

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

20 year old Merc driver... nail the idiot.

Makkasan - that's where I live, on Ratchaprarop. 

6 hours ago, Tookta said:

Online, you can report up to 14 days before due date. If you apply on the actual due date it's too late. Also you cannot apply up to 7 days after due date like you can if you were to go to immigration in person.

And where do you get YOUR information? From experience? No, you didn't. You should know better than to give wrong information to people. Look it up before you speak. I've been filing online for at least 2 years.  I just this month did my 90 day extension online on the exact due date and it was accepted and confirmed without problem. Given that, I seriously doubt that there is any problem doing this online within the 7 day grace period. It would serve no useful purpose for immigration to impose such a burden when the whole point of online reporting is to ease the burden and workload. But to anyone reading this, ask immigration, don't ask anyone here, you'll get as many different answers as there are members. And most will not be reliable, because most people really don't understand how the bureaucracy works. Attached emails are: The notice of due date sent to me on the due date; The receipt for my application online filed ON THE DUE DATE, and my notice of successful processing. 

1 hour ago, actonion said:

Enjoy all the perks a retirement visa has to  offer ?.................. What perks ?

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. How about this for one: Renew once a year, not reapply,  without having to worry about visa runs or other complications. 

7 hours ago, Bim Smith said:

"You can complete the 90-day reporting within 14 days before or up to seven days after".

 

Has anyone tried online reporting. I want to try it for the first time next month and always thought it was 7 days before due date and 7 days after. Can anyone confirm? Thank you 

This story was negligent in not including that as well as the link to online reporting. Yes, I do online every time and it is easy. If I were you I would assume it to be 7 before and seven after. I miscalculated and I did mine on the very day it was due and had immediate confirmation. The big advantage is that once you've done it you will get email reminders of the next due date. 

1 minute ago, bignok said:

Explain the 1730 warming period and the 2016 to 2023 cooling period.

I'm not going to do your own work for you. Do you own research. You'll need a college course. You don't want to learn anyway, you'd rather argue. 

For those of you inclined to argue, and who also find words a bit of a struggle, here are a couple pictures that might do the trick. But this is science now, and if you don't believe in science, just never mind. The first one is a global chart, the second one with the black background is for Southeast Asia. 

You're asking a Thai Visa forum "what if global warming is here" when  you won't get anything useful in response. This is not a forum of experts and scientists.  Anyone at this point in time who has doubts about this is so far out of the information loop or so deeply in denial that no amount of information will likely be of any use. I'm no expert, but my opinion would be that it is difficult to say whether unusually hot weather in Thailand right now is directly caused by climate change. Statistically, given the average global rise in temperature, it is likely. But averages are of limited use, since some areas see a higher rise than others. But if you WANT to answer your questions, go to where the answers actually exist. Search generally on climate change Southeast Asia, You might try including the year 2023, You can compare seasonal temperatures going back 10-20 years using graphs, you can research the damage from tropical storms over the last 20 years and see whether they've gotten worse, you can search on general climate disruptions and catastrophes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes, over the last 20 years, THAT is the only way you will get reliable information - to research it yourself and draw your own conclusions. One factor that confuses people and is often used to deny climate change is the disruption of normal wind and ocean currents that occurs with overall warming. This has precipitated record high snowfalls in otherwise more temperate areas of the US. So then the deniers point and say "see! it's colder, not warmer". meanwhile the polar icecaps are melting at a record rate to the extent that polar bears are in danger of dying out through loss of habitat. The overall disruption of weather patterns is likely to become a catastrophe in and of itself. Here is one specific research report. Remember that a rise of a single degree on average may not sound like much, but the impact overall is huge. This is only one source out of many. If you want your questions answered accurately you will need to do some work. Try Youtube, maybe a visual explanation will be easier for you, but be sure of who you're watching because there are a lot of tinfoil hat climate deniers with youtube channels. I've attached a graph for the global trend, and the black one is southeast asia. here's the link. https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/climate2030_southeast_asia_pacific_islands.pdf

3 minutes ago, bignok said:

So the current cooling is natural. Therefore all the warming by definition isnt caused by humans as warming happened pre 1900.

 

So there is no crisis, just money grab.

here's your natural cooling, I used a picture because it seems like big scientific words might only serve to confuse you. But if you ARE ambitious, here's a link to get you started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Thailand 

here's a general wikipedia link. But remember, this is only a start, if you want to know about this it will take some serious learning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Thailand

You're asking a Thai Visa forum "what if global warming is here" when  you won't get anything useful in response. This is not a forum of experts and scientists.  Anyone at this point in time who has doubts about this is so far out of the information loop or so deeply in denial that no amount of information will likely be of any use. I'm no expert, but my opinion would be that it is difficult to say whether unusually hot weather in Thailand right now is directly caused by climate change. Statistically, given the average global rise in temperature, it is likely. But averages are of limited use, since some areas see a higher rise than others. But if you WANT to answer your questions, go to where the answers actually exist. Search generally on climate change Southeast Asia, You might try including the year 2023, You can compare seasonal temperatures going back 10-20 years using graphs, you can research the damage from tropical storms over the last 20 years and see whether they've gotten worse, you can search on general climate disruptions and catastrophes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes, over the last 20 years, THAT is the only way you will get reliable information - to research it yourself and draw your own conclusions. One factor that confuses people and is often used to deny climate change is the disruption of normal wind and ocean currents that occurs with overall warming. This has precipitated record high snowfalls in otherwise more temperate areas of the US. So then the deniers point and say "see! it's colder, not warmer". meanwhile the polar icecaps are melting at a record rate to the extent that polar bears are in danger of dying out through loss of habitat. The overall disruption of weather patterns is likely to become a catastrophe in and of itself. Here is one specific research report. Remember that a rise of a single degree on average may not sound like much, but the impact overall is huge. This is only one source out of many. If you want your questions answered accurately you will need to do some work. Try Youtube, maybe a visual explanation will be easier for you, but be sure of who you're watching because there are a lot of tinfoil hat climate deniers with youtube channels. here's the link. https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/climate2030_southeast_asia_pacific_islands.pdf

14 hours ago, Crossy said:

"Global Warming" is passé, it's now "Climate Change". Same, same!

 

Climate Change is real enough, just how much of it is caused by us is debatable but it's definitely not "none".

 

Debatable by the uneducated or those in denial for various reasons, most of them crooked and political. No debate among experts. The evidence is incontrovertible, if you're educated enough to understand it. That's not meant as in insult, it's just that this is not simple science, it's quite complex on many levels. But the science has been done. Problem is a lot of people overestimate their grasp of such things. Splitting hairs over blame doesn't matter at this point anyway, if we let it continue we're headed for catastrophe after catastrophe, and a lot of loss and suffering. 

1 hour ago, Gold Star said:

Could have been worse.

 

China claims sovereignty in this part of the world for most waters, and he might have been taken away for spying.

You're right. I recently saw Chinese battleships conducting military exercises in the Chao Praya River. Not. 

Hopefully Bolt and others will drive these scammers out of business. 

20 hours ago, bignok said:

Best to use Bolt. Fixed price no scams. It is so cheap you can add a tip on if you want. Lot cheaper than Grab.

Bolt is fantastic

I think the question you should be asking is why you are attracting these kinds of encounters. Any good therapist would start exactly there. The mirror. I've been living here 10 years and find most people to be interesting and full of Joie de vivre. As far as the general human race, the same cross section applies anywhere, there are going to be a certain percentage of dysfunctional ones, and Thailand in its unique way will attract some of those for specific reasons. 

I tell people over and over that trying to avoid red tape and bureaucracy by using unofficial channels opens one up to unnecessary risks. This is but one example. The proliferation of visa services, which bend if not outright breaking the rules, including falsification and money laundering of the 800,000 baht requirement,  serves to make people vulnerable to these scams. 

12 hours ago, Bim Smith said:

UK-renewpassport.net really. For every scam you need a dumb customer and anyone dumb enough to use that URL shouldn't really have a passport. My country like my US cousins is a falling nation. Glad I got out. Love my adopted home. Thank you Thailand 

I'm with you brother, I escaped the US 10 years ago.

"Mammary"? Is the word "breast" illegal? Or are they calling her an animal? 

4 hours ago, roo860 said:

No video? Didn't happen. 

there probably is a video and that would be how they were caught. 

20 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

This a Nightwish bar and K.Reece is the manager ?

I believe so according to the original story in the Mail

On 4/5/2023 at 1:46 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

I took my gf out of the bar when she worked in that business maybe 3 months (yes, really). Her older sister decided that is what she should do. My gf was happy to leave that business and be together with me. And we are still together after many years. The way I see it she wasn't long enough in the business to get damaged. And she didn't have any real bad encounters.

I know lots of other guys with girls from bars who are together since years. And they seem to be happy enough.

I think the advantage from such relationships is that both have a pretty good idea what to expect from each other. That is a good start.

It seems many good girls and women who have little to no knowledge about farangs think they want to be in such a relationship with a rich foreigner. Until the moment they are and realize it is not what their fantasy was about. 

 

wise words

On 4/3/2023 at 10:55 AM, Foreignheight6foot2 said:

Im not in favour, personally, in furthering corruption and criminality in Thailand, no matter how many people think it a "legal" practice, because it is accepted.

Thanks anyway.

 

Not only that, but with the new policies of intolerance to corruption, any one of these "agents" could take a hit along with any of their clientele. As you say, tolerated does not make it legal. So continue to ask questions until you are sure of yourself. 

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Holy cow, I know we are in Thailand, but if this is true and all of the Joe Ferrari assets which were sold have gone elsewhere instead of into a government fund to assist in paying those wronged, what a massively corrupt country this has become.  I mean we know it is corrupt, but this would be next level.

No different from a hundred other countries. Thailand is simply a lot sillier in its methods