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40 minutes ago, Excel said:

Soi dogs + pit bull terriers would most probably eat them if they did that

You joke but it really happened in our village. Some poor guy went missing, later body parts were found in the ditches. The working assumption is that he dropped dead of a heart attack or something and the dogs ate him.

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3 hours ago, Excel said:

Unless it it was your own Mother

"Bring out yer dead. . . . . . . Bring out yer dead. . ."

Small addition to the above, the minimum salary requirement is relaxed for those married and supporting Thai family.

5 hours ago, jackdd said:

That's because of the yellow book, has nothing to do with the pink ID card.

Actually it does. You can't get the latter without the other, and once you get a Tabien Baan, there is some legalese that states you're supposed to get the Pink ID. Back in the day when I got my Pink ID, long before lots of farang started doing it (I was the first person at my Amphur to do so) my wife used this legalese to show the Amphur staff I was supposed to be issued the ID, as they were being obstinate about it. Once reading that, they thanked her for the information and issued the card.

6 hours ago, Tony M said:

Well, it must have been a long, long time ago.  

It was, she long since became British and we moved back to Thailand. IIRC when she skipped the x-ray, they gave her some card of some sort and was asked to put a number and address she could be contacted at. As we arrived without an address I have no memory of what we put on that. Whatever the case, there was absolutely no follow up.

29 minutes ago, rott said:

 

But anyone here a looooong time will know better than me. 

Well you'd think that during my loooong tenure I'd have seen something that confirms all these rumors and 'stories from strangers on forums' but I haven't. Instead, what I see is a population of farangs that have a tendency to exhibit personality issues and bring problems upon themselves.

Except the horn honker in your above example was Thai, and the farang with a machete charged with attempted murder, and rightly so.

I could post any number of crime statistics from London or New York that would make you think twice about living there, including numerous hate crimes directed at someone for their appearance or belief system. . .

What about Thailand? I just don't buy it, other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which is a law of life anywhere. If the perp in the OP had just sat down and waited for the police, been sober, and helped the other people involved, I feel quite sure he would have been treated respectfully.

In other words, you can't.

Full disclosure, I get deeply irritated by the propagation of paranoid stories and rumours. I prefer to see facts and examples. In that case, I have no problem with being wrong.

So give me an example. Dashcams are ubiquitous, there must be something. Maybe you should have recorded being chased. Was it high speed, with tyres a-screaching?

I didn't say what you imply I said. Of course I see aggressive driving here, to deny that would be absurd. What I want is someone to prove to me farangs are a specific risk group, which which no one seems able to do, except talk about it 

Maybe it's harder to remove the sauce if you didn't want it???

About the TB X-Ray, there was the possibility my wife was pregnant when we arrived UK side, so the X-ray didn't proceed. It appears to me that ANY woman of child bearing age going to the UK can skip the x-ray by simply saying they're pregnant, even if they know they're not.

My wife was not told to have the sputum test, but this was a long time ago, maybe the rules changed since, I don't know.

7 hours ago, jacko45k said:

 

If I remember correctly, this farang 'victim' instigated the road rage incident by threatening another driver with a machete and then driving off. The other driver later caught up with him and punched him. In other words, he had it coming. . .

So if you're one of these folk that wants to convince me farangkind are in enhanced danger from local society because we might f@rt upwind of a Thai and make them lose face so grievously that they'll shoot us dead, you'll have to find a better example than that. I've yet to see any example where the provocation didn't come from the foreigner, and I've been here for a looooong time.

12 hours ago, simon43 said:

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...Graduates are invariably clueless pr!cks and their qualifications serve only to inflate their sense of entitlement over those with better experience.

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Lol, the usual comments from those who don't have a degree ????

Yet you offer no comment to discredit, because I'm right aren't I {rhet}. . . and It's happened to me, one of the reasons I started working for myself, sidlelined out of a job by some graduate ten years younger who climbed past me on account of his paper qualifications. Later the phone rings from the same company asking for help, I hang up. . .

.. . because I'm right, aren't I. Experience trumps youth with paper.

I think conceptually, they account for how much their parents had to pay to bypass their kid's slack jaw and get the degree. It's a cultural thing, you know. . .

22 minutes ago, mikosan said:

I wish the new generation of 'digital nomads' all the very best

When I was a lad, I had to go to the newsagent to buy smut printed on paper.

On 5/18/2021 at 12:32 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

It's almost impossible to 100% protect yourself and/or your company IT.

The problem is click happy humans and Thailand is a very, very soft target. I'll wager a straw poll would show at least 9/10 people use their mobile number as their password. We are blocking a lot of exploits from WITHIN our networks with DNSBLs, this prevents a lot of malware looking up the domain for it's command and control centre. It's pretty effective. Any department not following company IT policy is walled off on their own isolated VLAN and marked as a cesspool, and honestly, that's most departments in our company. By definition, it's any department running Microsoft.

On 5/17/2021 at 11:43 PM, Antonymous said:

Instead I keep all my data on a PC that is not connected. I do all my work and hobbies offline and of course, don't keep anything in a third party 'cloud'.

This is good advice to a point. You should have a combination of cold storage and warm backup. By cold storage I mean completely isolated from any network and you rotate in such a way that there is always at least one copy of critical data and systems in cold storage at all times, even during the backup process itself (effectively means you have 2 cold stores). . .

. . . and if you don't use Windows and succumb to being a Linux geek, you're close to 100% safe already. This is a fact Windows fanboys seem to hate for some reason.

1 minute ago, InevitableCost said:

I'm a multi millionaire by Thailand standards. .... .. They must be kidding. 

YOU'RE kidding, right?

11 minutes ago, Tubby said:

LOL pay tax! I been a DN here for 12 years on my wifes WP. This is complete pants! 

It's pants until you get audited and back taxed.

26 minutes ago, cncltd1973 said:

 

Only the best digital nomads are wanted in Thailand

Ah, I get it now, Asia's Digital Nomad Hub™

10 hours ago, EricTh said:

These digital nomads are already working illegally in Thailand so this new rule just make them legal but they must pay digital nomad visa fees instead.

This silly rule, if it ever comes to pass (it won't) will be really good news for the nomads it'll apply to, all three or four of them. Any such person earning over 80,000 per month will be earning far in excess of that and won't need to take this proposed route anyway. If the government want to entertain themselves with the notion they can strike it rich by attracting a handful for Wordpress 'gurus' trying to stay alive making 5 Dollars per hour competing with Sanjay from New Delhi, with a girl in Cowboy or on an extended dreadlock holiday then let them go through the motions.

I launched a hotel, established an IT business, and am about to embark on the biggest project of my life in Thailand for the next 4 or 5 years, without qualifications, instead leveraging my experience, connections and inner Machiavelli. Graduates are invariably clueless pr!cks and their qualifications serve only to inflate their sense of entitlement over those with better experience. I find it utterly absurd that the Thai authorities tacitly acknowledge this by setting the fiscal bar higher for non-graduates. Absurd, really.

Frankly, if not for the fact I married into the country Thailand would have been the last place I'd have chosen.

You might already have phase protection in your pool pump Room. Take pictures. I'll take pictures of my own systems later so you know what to look for.

It shouldn't be on the front end like that. You put phase protection at the point the protected equipment is with a contactor system (which will self-recover) e.g. at the pool pumps. Instead you have the cheap and nasty option (and VERY inconvenient!)