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Some years ago my wealthy family made substantial donations to a few temples in our home villages amounting to millions of Baht. Due to my position in the family I was expected to be present during the big ceremonies that ensued. It's part merit, it's part status building. I played along, but privately made my disgust clear to my wife and children. So much more good could have been done with the money, paying for a disadvantaged child to be educated for example.

I can tell you for sure that it's not. It may be that you read it somewhere in relation to applying based on marriage, seasoned it, and then went to apply, and if so they're unlikely to tell you that you *didn't* need to do that. . . To illustrate the point, this is what I am doing in Chiang Rai division, Mae Sai office. Ordinarily I would apply based on my income. However, there was an 'i' not dotted on my tax forms (or a t not crossed, something like that) and the time needed to correct that would have meant I didn't have time to apply before expiry. So, the officer invited me to apply on the basis of supporting my Thai child. I pointed out that I had not seasoned any money, to which the officer explained 'never mind'. So, I assumed they were bending the rules, and I offered my thanks for that. . . but the officer explained that the rules weren't being bent, in fact that *IS* the rule i.e. the money doesn't need to be seasoned as I have Thai children.

I love these comedy jail terms in the USA. Always reminds me of Stir Crazy. . .

I'm not impressed with the lightning protection. You can pay a uniformed man to sit there and salute you as he operates the gate for around 13,000 Baht/month. Doubles as security, kill two birds with one stone and feel like a king.

Catholicism will fix this.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that the money doesn't have to be seasoned if the extension is based on having Thai children. You can drop the money into your account in the day of application.

I said local attitudes, I didn't say local Thais. i.e. bending the rules, see my post here You're not the first person to call me a bigot while making your own assumptions about me, you won't be the last. . . and actually I believe that to be bigotry. You might better be served with the ignore function, you can just pretend you know what I believe.

I find it's the ignorant that tend to close their ears and eyes when confronted with fact.

This is way too big for a single residential property. What sort of 'distressed asset' was this, some kind of light industrial unit or some other SME?

You almost certainly don't own the transformer. We own our 4 transformers but the paperwork was enormous, even for Thailand standards, and took years and years to cement into place. The downside of ownership is the cost of maintenance (transformer oil checks and replacement, re-arming expulsion fuses, worn MOVs etc etc).

Direct burial in concrete, one of my pet hates.

Wow, I must be doing something right to be on people's ignore lists!

Some breeds are designed to bite and savage so severely they kill. It's not the dogs fault for existing, but no one is convincing me these animals have a place on the streets of civil society. This idea works for me.

What an immature and baseless comment. I can tell you for sure, if any dog attacks my kids, it won't end well for the dog. Personally, I don't hate dogs for existing, but I do hate their dumb<deleted> owners.

I actually did this once a few years ago. Some old harridan kept letting her dogs ###t everywhere on our road, garden and footpaths. She would even let them off leash to come into our garden, and she'd observe it while it defecated. Me and my son kept stepping in it as we walked home at night. She was asked nicely to clean up after her dogs and to keep them out of our property, but she genuinely believes the world is her private dog toilet. So, I scooped it all up one day and made sure she got it back. The dogs never shat here again. So I say do it. Irresponsible dogs owners are a plague on Thailand. We have a problem with dogs coming around our house trying to get in to kill out cats, snarling and scratching at the windows. It's happens two or three times a week on average, I only realised it was happening after I added more security cameras on the east and south side of the building and viewed the records. Some of them are dangerous breeds/mixes too. I interpret this as a danger not only to my own domestic pets, but to my children. They are unable to get into the building, but they often leave a nice big pile of $### outside the window, and p$$$ on the wall to take ownership of the house. The dogs are often collared, so they have 'owners'. But I'm told by dog lovers and Thai cultural apologists that I have to like this because my life is in Thailand.

This is just your silly imaginings. I'm quite passive in not giving a <deleted> {shrugs}. Your attempt to portray me as aggressive just discredits you.

There is also the fact he arrived the day before... Long flight, clotty blood, this can get you days later. RIP.

Yeah, I'm sick in the head me, parking for 20 minutes outside my kid's school so I can pick her up. Sick in the head. Best avoid folk like me.

Hilarious. Thailand's IP space is by far the biggest source of Malware anywhere in the world, so much so that I have to route all our company outbound mail via Singapore so it has any chance of being delivered.

He didn't pay me for it so I don't give a ##:t

. . . Actually it was my wife that explained how to deal with them. Public roads are a shared resource and I pay my taxes. I don't have to apologise or excuse myself that.

. . . Ughh, more mythbusting en route. . .

No. Should I? I would politely explain that I got their first and he could politely wait until I'm gone.

You have to understand local attitudes towards territorial p!$sings. They really believe it's their personal parking space and don't really have any concept of property demarcation lines (until it suits them), and they often put traffic cones on 'their' patch of road. Just ignore them, you can even move the cones out of the way if you want, but expect a confrontation. I recall waiting in my car outside my daughter's school years ago, I got there half an hour early to had to wait, very difficult location to find a space, but I found one. . . A food cart vendor told me he needed to set up shop so I must move. I sat there and ignored him anyway.

Actually this whole debacle has been a grade A example of LOS idiocy.