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The article above appears to suggest there is something wrong with these individuals i.e. their development has somehow malfunctioned. I'm not sure if that fits with the wider woke narrative, but in any case, it amuses me that the movement you align with has somehow found 'something' we all missed in a system that's worked for humanity, until the turn of this century.

18 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Brilliant 

Reality's a bitch

I had a very nice family holiday on Koh Tao last year. I'm planning to build our family home there (believe me I've seen just about every part of Thailand and it's Koh Tao for me, or maybe Phangan, or maybe, maybe. . .). Every British person thinks they know AAAALLLL about death island, just like everyone in Britain knows AAAALLL about Thai women. Yawn. Yawn yawn yawn. Massive yaaaawwwnn.

To be honest it's news to me that company stamp is no longer required. I had to register my company seal when the business was registered at the DBD. Thereafter your rubber stamp is a kind of legal fingerprint that ties any document to your company. This could be anything from taxation to customer invoices (my invoices are generated in PDF with my company seal digitally added).

Personally I just like the satisfying feel of stamping my logo on stuff to satiate my desire to be officious from time to time.

On 7/11/2023 at 2:57 PM, mfd101 said:

Cheap 'n nasty is the norm in LOS.

 

To do what you sensibly suggest would involve (1) detailed long-term planning, which doesn't come naturally to anyone here (2) scarce management, excavating & labouring skills (3) far more funding, in a country where some 1/3 of government funds is regularly siphoned off by the decisionmakers, bureaucrats & contractors ...

No need to worry, HTMS Chakri Naruebet will protect us. I saw it in a dream.

Company registration document is all you need for the .co.th, use the THNIC website.

37 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

My accountant told me the rubber stamp is not necessary (anymore) and she advised me not to have one. So I have no stamp. 

In practice you'll find people still expect to see it. It costs effectively nothing to have one.

I have a DBD registered company. I find it very hard keeping abreast of what it what, things that are needed for this that and the other. Just running the business takes all of my time, I have no inclination or spare capacity to put sticky labels on documents. . . I keep up to date PDF scans of everything (with Ingrish file names), useful for Paypal company accounts etc etc.

. . . but it sounds like you have the right idea i.e. someone you trust. In my case that's my wife and daughter, and my son when he's old enough.

You'll need the company registration document for pretty much everything. The company rubber stamp is a big deal in Thailand too. As you're just setting up, you might want to investigate the availability of your .co.th domain name (in Thailand only available to registered companies, emails from a .co.th domain go a long way towards credibility, where most SMEs still use Hotmail).

10 hours ago, Thaddee said:

Great article about another act of overzealousness on the part of Thai Immigration.

Haven't you ever seen Thai cops taking pictures of themselves at road junctions? They do it to show their boss they're not watching telly in the police box. Immigration officers need to chase down some clueless but mostly innocent foreigner for pics to show their worth. It could also just be a slow day at Siam Wrath.

2 hours ago, GarryP said:

When I was a child, I had to walk across the Pennines to get to school, and hunt my lunch on the way. Used to communicate by smoke signal but had to bang rocks together to start a fire. Times change but some people don't.  

In this case I'm very happy to be stuck in my ways.

11 minutes ago, Seppius said:

Hypocritically, The Sun regularly had topless 16yo's on its famous Page 3 a few years ago

Contemporary Britons take themselves far too seriously. I remember a few years ago there was a big media frenzy about some teacher running away to France with his 16 year old student and it was quite the international incident... with the French wondering what all the fuss was about.

I'm not saying KrungSri don't require facial recognition, this is a mandate by central government. I'm saying SCB have all kinds of internal rules that are overtly restrictive and inconvenient to foreign nationals.

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

Now I am upcountry, I understand why so many kids ride scooters/waves. They really don't have much option if they want to go to school.

When I was a kid I walked to school, something like 10 kilometers a day round trip. Sounds a lot but actually it's not.

Stop making excuses for parents sending children out on motorcycles, unlicensed and no helmet. There is none. It's just stupidity being passed down to the next generation.

On 7/11/2023 at 10:42 AM, Crossy said:

Ah, SCB have no mechanism to do this for foreigners!

This was why I abandoned SCB in favour of KrungSri, where I have no such issues. Endless restrictions, absurdly low daily card limits, that sort of thing, with the reason "Difflen lule farang, no can"

. . . OK, bye.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

“Must be awake and aware all the time. I was talking to my customer, and it happened right in front of me. It was lucky that a man who was on the escalator managed to jump to safety. So scary.”

So they CAN walk on escalators. I knew it!!!

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

The young are always disproportionately represented in vehicular accidents, ask any insurer.

I imagine even the insurers underestimate that representation, insurance to Thai people is like the ground wire in an electrical circuit i.e. they don't know what it's for so it's a waste of money.

8 hours ago, eisfeld said:

Apparently at 22 years old she is also not an adult who should make their own decisions? A bit too much control. At some point you can give your kids advice but you can't tell them what to do anymore.

Sure she can, but you're always a parent and decisions always have consequences.

On 7/7/2023 at 5:45 PM, 1FinickyOne said:

Very responsible young 18 yr old wants a motorcycle for use in Chiang Mai..

I told my 22 year old that if I ever find out she's been on a motorcycle anywhere in Thailand, be that pillion with some young punk, or her own bike, I'll be cutting her off (or some other grave punishment). She's smart and responsible enough to do what she's told. Even with good sense and professional rider training (but where is that available in Thailand, seriously) the risks are still too high. . .

If you want to expose her to the risks of two wheels in Thailand (IMO an utterly unacceptable risk) then buy her two wheels. I see teenage kids everywhere in Thailand on bikes in school uniform, clearly underage, clearly unlicensed, I just don't understand how any parent can send their kid out into the metal carnage that is Thailand's roads, on a motorbike. Sorry but it is what it is.

On 7/7/2023 at 11:22 PM, sharksy said:

Maybe you haven't been to Asia.  It's the equivilent of Hilton etc.  I presume you've heard of Hilton....?

I think that's a bit of a slur on Hilton Brands. Well managed Thai owned hotels are rarer than hen's teeth. They just don't 'get' hospitality, just can't seem to go the extra mile, and are closed-minded when it comes to employing international talent (Thais first mentality, or slaves from Myanmar at 6000 Baht per month). This would be fine if they were developing talent in-house, or the schools and universities were churning out a competent workforce, but they're not. . . . and what good/qualified local staff DO exist are sucked up by the international chains, who give them proper career development, training, opportunities and decent pay.

My advice, stay at Hilton/Marriott/Accor/Intercontinental whenever possible, unless you're fine with mediocre everything. Centara don't even come close. I'll give you an example, I stayed at Centara Grand in Hua Hin a couple of years ago. It's now a shadow of it's former glory under Sofitel, stained ceilings from water leaks, the beautifully cultivated and sculptured gardens just ruined, the formerly 5 star beachfront restaurant now just mediocre at best, the breakfast buffet a flop, food you'd find in a 3 star roadside motel. Tragic, and this is supposed to be their flagship hotel.

On 6/18/2023 at 2:35 PM, Crossy said:

You will also need to know roughly what size service you will need, out in the sticks anything over 45A / 3-phase is likely to be needing your own transformer which will add $$$ to the price ???? But talk to the man, deals can be struck!

 

 

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Turns out that they will actually install the cable to the front of the land for free.

The guy at the PEA office had to see the chanote and then look it up on his computer to see if it's free for me or not.

The PEA is a kind of QUANGO and they will have rules that they have to follow set out by central government to provide a minimum service area along public roads/rights of way as part of the country's wider infrastructure development planning. This may or may not be to your advantage. Only they will have this information of course for your area and 'your' road. It's usually massively to your advantage to go with a 'cost share' to have the PEA extend their service footprint to your gate and deploy the meter there, because the alternative is you paying for all the ONGOING (i.e. forever) cable losses when the meter is half a mile down the road.

If you have to pay for a transformer, don't ever make the mistake of thinking your will ever own it, and believe me that's not something you want unless you're a medium/large commercial enterprise. . . We have four transformers, and together they burn through almost 10,000 Baht per month just be energised and make that gentle hummmmmmmmmming sound (quiescent current).
You also have to get the transformer oil checked every few years. You also have to call the PEA out to swap out the expulsion fuses when a snake ends it's life on or near the transformer (and they WILL give you the bill). Really, this is not something you want. Share the cost of installation with the PEA and it's all their responsibility thereafter.

Ditto on JIB. They even send you a video of them packing your order. By far the best online IT retailer in Thailand.
InvadeIT are lame, they fill their website with stock they don't have, or never will have. They're also more expensive than anywhere else. Frankly I'm surprised they're still in business.

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I stand corrected

Ditto that, I had no idea, I guess I'm relying on my memory of first aid taught at school in the 80s

Slapping him on the back, you might as well have just punched him in the face. Is that what actually happened?