58 minutes ago, pontious said:

Can you park at Trendy?

Yes, bikes and cars. Has a multi-storey car park which you access on Soi 13

2 hours ago, pontious said:

No they do not - that is what it says in the rules. Some HMPO do not know that - even though one poster sent them the relevant page.

Get on the   phone Monday and tell the boss of HMPO that some of there operatives are telling people to send there passports. Remind all your operatives that Thailand only send copies. !!!!!! Then email the same thing.

Just to clarify the phone call and email should come from the BE not the poster.

They don't know their <deleted> from their elbow - I have the Bangkok Embassy saying the complete opposite of the HMPO in regards to keeping the old passport

5 hours ago, ImageDude said:

I have no clue, but obviously things are going to get far more interesting for me, to say the least. The biggest problem is that no one person is dealing with it. Each time I make enquiries, a different person responds and I have to go over the same ground each time. Nobody is prepared to own it and see it through to a satisfactory conclusion.

If you have the old passport number you will be OK, they can look that up on their system. I had a damaged passport some years ago, I sent it to Hong Kong to get a replacement and only got the new one back. At immigration I just gave them my old passport number.

I put an application in at VPS on the last day before they closed. My passport expires end of December and I called HMPO a few weeks ago to check if they had cancelled my current passport electronically (they had received my application and charged me). I was told it wasn't cancelled and I did a visa renewal on Wednesday with no problems. 

However, HMPO did say that they needed my current passport back to proceed with the application. I did tell them that in Thailand you keep the passport and they cancel it electronically, but they kept saying I should send it back. I tried to contact VPS, they are useless and even through the British Embassy says they are monitoring their email address, they never reply. Finally did get to speak to someone at the British Embassy, the initial phone calls to them were like pulling teeth trying to get them to help in any small way. The subsequent response I got from the Embassy is that HMPO will process the application with just the copies of the passport (if the application is from Thailand). 

The whole thing is a mess, but this is what you get with an already pretty useless embassy and a passport service that has been farmed out to a private corporation who will still get paid whatever mess they cause. 

11 hours ago, lee b said:

Who cares? Thousands of normal people are also out of pocket. Why dont they get a mention????

Did you actually read the article, or just went straight into knee-jerk reactionary mode?

17 hours ago, connda said:

"Conspiracy Theory" - A pejorative used by individuals with lower than average intelligence and an inability to engage in basic logical analysis in order to disparage someone who questions a narrative that they themselves blindly accept after watching propaganda laced television or information originating from an authoritative' propaganda source on their social-media screen.

There is so much projection going on, I don't know where to start. 

Real conspiracies do exist. Volkswagen conspired to cheat emissions tests for their diesel engines. The U.S. National Security Agency secretly spied on civilian internet users. The tobacco industry deceived the public about the harmful health effects of smoking. We know about these conspiracies through internal industry documents, government investigations, or whistleblowers. Conspiracy theories, by contrast, tend to persist for a long time even when there is no decisive evidence for them. Those conspiracy theories are based on a variety of thinking patterns that are known to be unreliable tools for tracking reality. Typically, conspiracy theories are not supported by evidence that withstands scrutiny but this doesn’t stop them from blossoming. 

27 minutes ago, nervona81732 said:

Ok Thailand roll it out. Youknow not of the health effects nor the global tracking via vaccines ( KILL GATES ) . Flip the switch. You will know then. stupid is as stupid does. 

Well you got the last bit right - stupid is a stupid does

43 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

No, no, no, no. You got it all wrong. Covid is essentially dead here. We beat it. I get the panic and caution in the US and Europe and Latin America. But, here is it gone baby gone. In Ohio? Not a remotely reasonable comparison, on any level whatsoever. 

laughing in second wave infections

47 minutes ago, rasmus5150 said:

Pedophiles and child molesters are always at the lowest on the hierarchy ladder in any prison. When inmates get lonely and need a "girlfriend" for the night, they always pick from these scum. I hope that they "run a train" on Uthit Onprasong......

is this a fantasy of yours? I Let's encourage and glorify sexual violence in prisons... cos you know that can't do any harm, right? Cos it will only be the pedos who get raped, right?

9 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

I see you’ve taken full advantage of the booze freedoms.

Nah, mate, I don't drink at all, but do tell me how Borris and Trump are doing a bang up job, would love to hear it 

14 hours ago, jastheace said:

perhaps a mass exodus of muslims from muslim countries will happen because ......

oh no. sorry , happened

can not state reason. not PC

aww you should like a bit of a snowflake, can't stand up for what you believe, hey?

29 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Is there a meter fitted?

I'll take idiotic things to say about a taxi driver who has just been robbed and shafted by the cops, for 500, please

7 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Only foreigners screened... why not everyone.

got evidence for that? And what do they mean by screened? Temp check or full test? 

2 hours ago, bartender100 said:

The Stormtrooper must be the easiest killed, worst shot, dumbest solider ever in the film industry

I would say 2nd to the battle droids of Episodes 1 - 3, as Lucas said himself, 'they can be cut down like butter', a great way to create dramatic tension from the master of script writing, George Lucas ????