AlexRich

It’s not that unusual. If you buy a cheap ticket there are very few inexpensive options if you decide to change the date of return flight. Many of the seats could be taken, so you are left with those on inflated prices.

7 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Well that shows how much you know about the James Webb Space Telescope, It doesn't have a lens. 😊

James Webb? I wonder where in Thailand he was born?

20 hours ago, Dexxter said:

 

I think it is part of their mental illness believing they will never get caught and the kids under their control will never tell. A person would have to be crazy to commit crimes against multiple victims in a location where they are well known thinking they can get away with it. I am surprised his run lasted 7 months.

If it turns out to be true, his actions are insane. 

1 hour ago, kinyara said:

 

That's one option, for me it was more practical to transfer in enough pre 31st December 2023 so that no further transfers were required in 2024. I figure that buys me 1 and 1/2 years for the specifics to be clarified. I've already got a TIN from working here several years ago. 

Yes, good option. Until the situation is clear moving money into Thailand is best kept on hold.

I recently had to transfer money to a Government authority in the UK. I usually do this online but a problem meant that I had to go into the branch and do it there. The guy asked me umpteen questions designed to elicit if I was been subjected to a scam. The whole process took forever. At the end I asked how many times he comes across a genuine scam. He said “all the time”. Most are romance scams but these things are happening in every country and many are falling for it.

49 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I actually feel empathy for the young man , or the alleged offender(s)

 

He obviously has anger issues that need to be addressed and he needs a listening ear and somewhere to sit quietly to talk about why he feels angry 

He could be disturbed by past things such as bullying or sexual abuse 

Of course you do, it’s only human. Especially when it’s not your family being terrorised?

I would not stay in Thailand greater than 180 days this year until the rules are clear. The new rules exhibit all the hallmarks of “unintended consequences” … and by the time everything is clear you might find that you are on the hook for a tax liability.

He’d have been better off heading to Cambodia. 

51 minutes ago, flyingtlger said:

First thing that comes to mind:

 

 

Your mind is cleaner than mine. First thing that came to mind was “spank the monkey”. 

1 minute ago, AlexRich said:

I think being dead is a pretty solid alibi? 

Edit - first husband dead, moved on to a new one. 

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Apart from the usual confession where's the evidence the swiss man is guilty?

I think being dead is a pretty solid alibi? 

I think Columbo would be focussing on the young relative who is possessed with her spirit? Thais don’t seem to have grasped the concept of “omertà”.

8 hours ago, Card said:

You mean incredibly stupid.

No. Incredibly brave. It takes guts to BASE jump, it’s not a sport for the faint hearted. One mistake and you are dead. I don’t see them as much different from mountaineers braving the “death zone” at Everest. 
 

Like the French guy who traversed between the Twin Towers in the 70’s on a tightrope. Mad as a box of frogs but brave nonetheless. 

46 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

You nailed it.  The only US Person in the room was Marina Gross, an interpreter employed by State. She was not allowed to take notes, nor speak with reporters or even then-SecState Mike Pompeo.

 

trump emerged ashen faced, and putin had a cheshire cat grin. trump that proceeded to claim he believed putin more than the agency. I know how putin threatens, and I suspect he read trump the riot act in that meeting. Some of what is known remains classified. Of course if trumpers knew, they would fabricate an excuse for trump's behavior.

 

Note that Presidents virtually never go into any meeting with any foreign leader, neither friend nor foe, without someone like the DNI or SecState or National Security Adviser, so as to fill in details the President might lack, or stop a President from revealing things he shouldn't. trump specifically told Pompeo and other to stay away. Then DNI Dan Coates was shocked, and resigned after.

 

trump did the same thing when he held that infamous Oval Office meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak, when trump burned an Israeli penetration of an Islamic terror group by mouthing off. NOBODY from the US was allowed in the room. There was only a GRU agent acting as cameraman, who took the famous shot of trump laughing with the two Russians, and who leaked word of what trump had told the two, against the admonition of Israel when it had shared that intel.

 

 

Yes. It amazes me that many Americans view Trump as a controversial, but otherwise normal candidate. It's unbelievable.

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

You've got it bad dude. 

 

 

Unfortunately, I've got him right. 

Would it be possible to open a foreign account, say in Singapore, that your wife could access should something happen to you? 

The A-One hotel gym is open to anyone who can pay the membership. It has nice shower and changing facilities and the people who go there are very decent. That was my experience.