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Your native currency. Paypal are skimming from you if you let them do the conversion.

Same with Paypal payments. The default is to let Paypal do the conversion. Plough through the warnings, I always get a better exchange rate with my Thai bank doing the conversion rather than Paypal.

You see, this is one of my problems with dog lovers. Aside from the fact they're unable to accept that other people can't pretend their dogs aren't dirty, they're so delusional that they think my kids having to step in their dog's excrement when on holiday somehow makes the world a better place.

Well I guess birds of a feather flock together. See how you enjoy it. Last time I went the pool was so acidic it burned my son's eyes and the cement lining was so badly dissolved it was leaking massively. In any case, "dog friendly" says to me "Don't stay there". I hate dog krap, I hate yapping dogs all night, I hate dogs sticking their nose in my balls when I walk out of my room, I hate eating breakfast with dogs licking eachother's ar$eholes and trying to phuc eachother under the tables, and I hate dogs.

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What nobody seems to focus on is that while first line defense 'may' be less effective, T-cell defense will still almost certainly remain highly effective against serious illness or hospitalisation. This is what should help you sleep at night. . . Personally I paid for Moderna, even though we had Sinopharm shots very early on. We had our first Moderna booster last week, but the medical advice was to sell our second doses. I find it pretty ironic I now have Moderna shots I'm trying to shift onto extended family. In any case, I feel relaxed I have mixed vaccines which will very likely protect me and my immediate family from serious illness as the virus mutates.

Meh, the Centara Chaan Talay in Trat used to be one of our favourite family holiday hotels on account of it being so remote (until they started letting it decay). Last time we went they'd become 'dog friendly'. Other than the yapping dogs keeping us awake all night from the nearby rooms, the beachfront had a nice coating of fresh dog Krap. . . We never went back.

I don't expect I'll ever go back to Blighty but it's nothing to do with weather or anything else. Nobody there gives a phvck about me. I sure miss a pint of Theakstons Old Peculier in springtime though.

Come on man, who the hell doesn't like Daiso (rhet)

Why do you need the passport now? Can't you just wait and renew the passport in Bangkok after sorting the naming convention at Amphur? EDIT: You stated she doesn't want to change her name on the Thai side. This is needless complication. She's British and can never be refused entry to the UK, but it sounds like she's making things harder than they need to be. This is one of those things you can't have both ways. Choose a name. If you're ordinarily resident in the UK and her Thai name is a comedy name (Mrs Tittiporn), I suggest she sticks with her married name.

When my daughter (dual national) travelled to Europe, I drummed the following into her, repeatedly, for weeks... When you arrive in Europe, don't tell them you're Thai. When you come back to Thailand, don't tell them you're British.

Melancholia has been on my watch list for a while but I can't seem to get past the notion it looks like a middle age version of an 80s teenage angst flick... If it compares favourably with The Revenant, which I consider to be the film of the decade, I'll make the effort to watch it.

Today, Thailand set to be global crypto hub. Sometime in between, prominent Thai politico gets crypto wallet phished by Eurasian gender-fluid persona non grata. Tomorrow, Thailand announces crackdown on crypto

Thailand will never be short of temples, and irresponsible dog owners.

I've been keeping a close eye on this. Terrestrial options are so ubiquitous in Thailand I doubt it'll ever be a thing here, except for a few extreme corner case deployments (marine, mountainous non-line-of-sight). Even remote locations can be connected with ground based gigabit point to point radio links over many tens of kilometres at a similar cost. Rain fade also makes Starlink an option of last resort. I'd consider it as a backup of last resort for network critical sites.

If your neighbour's bathwater is still hot and soapy when they throw it out you could re-use that too. Strewth, I thought I'd seen it all until now. Re-using tea bags. Savages.

Re-using tea bags, good grief, that's like re-using someone elses condom.

I'm not sure how high the transients are but I doubt more than a couple of thousand volts are making it into the panels (I'm making really wild guesses here). The problem is sometimes the snake doesn't get blown off, and there is sufficient resistance for it not to burn up in seconds. There are phase to phase/neutral arresters of some kind all over the place that the PEA deployed when they built this system for us, but I guess they have a 'life' too. I've never pulled one down to dismantle it so I don't know what they are specifically but they look like gapless Type 2 MOVs, like this I posted in another topic ages ago. . . In any case, I agree with you, anything I can do with my soldering and my boxes of stuff won't stand up to something built for the job, and in layers.

Meh, the current TM.6 stapled to my passport is Christmas Day 2013. You're just getting started. I think there are worst places in the world to be 'trapped' and actually I've felt pretty lucky to be here during the pandemic. Thailand's had a relatively easy ride compared to much of the world. About insurance, I'm fortunate to be in the social security system. If I didn't have that I wouldn't want the wight of worry hanging over me of becoming ill and the associated costs if I couldn't afford to self insure. Thailand is not friendly to broke foreigners, but show me a country that is (rhet).

We gave everything to a charity shop. What they didn't want went to the domestic refuse dump. Everything else like personal documents went in a big fire on bonfire night. Very liberating. We left with just our suitcases and notebook computers.

What a shame, there is no Turkey SubSubSubSubSubSUb forum.

I think this is my all time favourite, from a hot spring in the north of Thailand. . . "Yoda, you seek Yoda!". . .

Education in Thailand. Laugh my <deleted> ar$e off, I took the following picture in the grounds of a Thai university. . .

Firstly, I wish you both luck. My wife and stepdaughter became British around a decade ago. I advise one of you to have a handle on the entire process and oversee it from start to finish. Sounds like that's you. . . We decided I would be the person overseeing the entire process in the UK. In return, my wife is overseeing the process for my Thai citizenship. About your questions, it's not really clear exactly what you're asking. It's a long time ago now, my memory of the time is fading and the process may have changed, but we did none of it online. The documents and application I prepared for them, when mailed with registered post, probably weighed a couple of kilos. Everything was in that package, multiple copies and CERTIFIED translations of Thai documents, divorce certificates, birth certificates, grandfather and grandmother birth certificates, CERTIFIED translations of those, copies of name change documentation from first marriage, marriage to me, more translations of those. . . You basically submit everything they ask for. Too many documents is not a problem. Missing documents = pain, frustration and possibly a failed application and your application fee is lost. The case worker handling the application will probably try to contact you to give you the opportunity to remedy anything missing before failing the application but don't bank on that. I recall having to get my income certified by my employer at the time because pay slips were electronic. I had to print hard copies and get every one of them certified and stamped by my employer. It took a long time and wore his pen out. I had to include household bills proving we lived together, rental agreement with both our names showing the joint arrangement, I can't remember which bills but it was probably telephony services etc etc. Also included wife's National Insurance documentation. Obviously their Indefinite Leave to Remain cards were included. My stepdaughter was 'registered' British as she was still a child. My wife 'naturalised' British. The difference is that if my stepdaughter ever has kids, they will automatically be British, so she is in effect as British as me and might as well have been born there. We had a private citizenship ceremony at Northampton Guildhall. Only me, my wife, son and stepdaughter were in attendance. It was a special moment, not only for my wife and stepdaughter, but the finale of a personally very challenging process for me, (juggling the massive input of preparation hours, with my work life). We did it all alone, with no help or pecuniary support from anyone. I'll never forget the moment they took the oath were declared British Citizens. As my stepdaughter was a child, she was exempt from taking the oath, but took it anyway, with her perfect, Richmond-Upon-Thames English accent which she'd learned in just 3 years. I was so proud. As I said, good luck.

I worked in the hotel industry since my late teens (I'm 50 now) and I got my experiences from the bottom up. . . I started bashing pots in the kitchen of a hotel in my hometown in middle England. I then somehow got on the opening team of Eurodisney in Paris in what was the largest hotel in Europe at the time, this was a crazy time in my life. I stayed in the industry for a number of years, and then left for New Zealand and did various jobs. From New Zealand I went to Hong Kong Then Thailand, where I married back into the hotel industry, built a new hotel, founded an IT consultancy, had kids and settled.