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1 hour ago, holy cow cm said:

This is soooooooo BS ludicrous. It is a golf course for Christ Sakes and she works at the golf course. Sort of like being at a fire dept and getting wet. 

It's a saw mill for Christ's sake, he lost his fingers in the cutting blade, what does he expect!!!!!

19 hours ago, Rancid said:

I have no issues with gay marriage, to each their own, however other groups use it as a stepping stone. Transgender activism generally comes straight after, which would be fine except for the excessive demands being made to completely rewrite society. Additionally the New York Times and other publications are now saying that pedophilia is a condition and not criminal, despite the damage to the victims.

Citations needed for that lot....

19 hours ago, rocksniffer said:

Keep the sheeple scared. Rising CASES.  How many new deaths ? Zero ? 

You must be right, you used the word 'sheeple' ???? 

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Lots of African in Thailand mainly hiding behind " Thai girlfriend" serving as a front for the shady criminal activities, a while back i have been stung by of them flimflam african guy, not a good person in the lot of them... 

Lots of white westerners too, and I am sure they feel the same about you ???? 

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Exactly correct, with competition between delivery services the price & efficiency will dictate who gets what in the pecking order, customers will choose who they think best serves their needs.

The government should stay out of it and let a perfectly viable private business continue on it's own.

As soon as the government want to get involved with regulations the whole thing will become an overpriced fiasco.

Funny, cos in the UK when things went private e.g. trains, electricity etc. they prices have gone up, yet tax payers still subsidize them and they still get massive tax cuts. 

What would happen is left unregulated is one company, backed by capital will undercut the others, buy them up, until there is no competition. Then the prices will be jacked up

5 hours ago, sungod said:

And doesn't stick them in bed and breakfasts, gives them jobs and goes through a 5 year process trying to deport them back to the 'really dangerous' country they just legged it from, so dangerous in fact they left their wives and children behind.

 

Yes, you have a great point.

You do know asylum seekers can't get jobs, right? They are not illegal, or as with most people who spout this kind of gibberish you get confused very easily. Most live in detention centers, not B&B, and I bet you haven't the first clue how hard it is to get status, but guys like you never do bother to actually read about it, other than the throw away headlines from the Sun and Mail.

Also, guarantee, you will bleat about helping our own and then moan about how the homeless should pull themselves up by their boot straps, or some other meaningless platitude 

6 hours ago, ImageDude said:

Thank you for that information. Although you are not renewing a passport at this time. Your input has been useful and much appreciated.

For the visa swap over, I had no problems doing mine before after I got a police report to say I had lost my other one. I submitted the old passport number and the police report and they transferred everything to the new one.  My passport wasn't actually lost, Hong Kong didn't send it back with the new one, but I just told the police I had lost it - they literally couldn't care anyway, they just wrote the report and gave it to me. 

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