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My missus has been married for 28 years to a uk national, they have been separated for over 20 years and I have been with her for 10 years. We recently moved back to Thailand and she was looking at getting a divorce so we could marry to make it easier for me on the visa front there is no other reason we want to get married as we have been together for 10 years. We looked into it from this side and it is a long drawn out process around 2 years even though the ex husband is fine about signing the papers, so she spoke to him and he has agreed to file for it from the uk it will be both cheaper and quicker that way.

I not worried that she will try and take my money as she has already gifted me half of her London apartment she bought it before we were together with her own money and it is now in both of our names and rented out, she also owns a house in Bangkok which we are living in at the moment but may move elsewhere. I did however sell my house in Wales to fund our move  the value of the house in Wales and the London apartment are about the same so if in the unlikely event that things go tits up in the future neither of us would have actually lost anything.

I wear them most of the time apart from when on the beach when I go bare chested haven't got a chang one though but I do have a leo, beer lao, red bull, Bangkok and ban krut ones that I can think of. I normally wear them with cargo shorts, flip flops and sunglasses obviously no socks as I think that is wrong.

I do have tattoos am not over weight and have a reasonable physique.

I don't really give a monkeys about what anyone thinks of me but I will dress up tidily if the occasion befits it and if going to the temple then I would always wear at least a proper t shirt.

Have had many good things happen to me here over the years, last week for instance I took my laptop which had a black screen of death to a place at future park in Rangsit as I needed to save the files and pictures on it, he sorted it out within around 20-30 minutes and it was alive again, I asked him how much and he said nothing I insisted on giving him a couple of hundred baht for his time. Another one also last week I was in a taxi from the middle of town coming back to north Bangkok and we were chatting about football in my limited thai, we were or rather probably I was talking quite a bit that we missed my soi and when I realised he turned the meter off turned around and drove me back and then tried to charge me less than what was on the meter when he had turned it off, I wasn't having any of it and he got a decent tip as well.

It really comes down to the way you are with people and i'm always happy to help other people if I can, you get back what you put in and sometimes a lot more.

3 hours ago, chainarong said:

What happens if you're into roasts only..................................

You sir if your driving skills are up to it maybe entitled to half a potato.

8 minutes ago, DM07 said:

Really?

It is of importance, if he died of AIDS or "only" a heart- attack?

I for one, don't give two hot 5h!ts!

He was a talented singer and I liked a lot of his music!

I understand, that there are different tastes, but I would not go on a threat of Justin Bieber's death and tell everybody, what I think about his dumb songs!

What kind of a sad life must one lead, to come on this thread and have nothing better to do, that to 5h1t over the mans legacy and gloat about any speculative sickness, he might have died off!

Really pathetic!

I agree with you it doesn't matter what he died of, however I don't give a toss if that talentless <deleted> Justin Bieber is alive or not.

30 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

She can apply for a one year extension as a returning Thai national. She just needs to show proof of her Thai nationality with any type of entry. See clause 2.23 of  Police Order 327/2557  basis for extension of sta.

She could also fly out and back to swap passports.  Leave on her UK passport and then enter on herThai passport. It is well known it cannot be done at a border crossing.

Thank you for that I shall print it of and get her to take it with her, will probably go to a different immigration office towards the end of her current extension as we will not be in Bangkok then.

I naively thought that it would be an easy process of going to the immigration at a border crossing and telling them what she intended to do, after all it isn't breaking any law and she just needed the exit stamp in the uk passport to clear that passport.

We will be flying out in February for  me to get another visa so we will do it then she just needed that extra month so the uk passport doesn't go into overstay.

28 minutes ago, Evilbaz said:

As she now has a valid Thai passport surely she can just ignore Immigration now - and if they come sniffing around tell them firmly "I'm Thai" !

She could do but we don't want any future issues with the uk passport.

RIP George Michael wasn't a fan of Wham but his solo stuff was very good, he was obviously a very talented man.

2016 hasn't been a good year for legendary artists and there is still another week left of it.

Be some gig in the afterlife with the talent that has left us this year.

7 minutes ago, steve187 said:

she can get a 1 year for being Thai

How do we go about this?  cheng wattana told her she could only get one extension on her visa exempt and only for one month if we could get another extension on this it would be really helpful.

We aren't married at the moment bit of a long story as she is still technically married to a uk citizen but they have been separated for over 20 years, he is currently filing for the divorce on the uk side as it will be quicker and easier than from this side. It should all be sorted when we are back in the uk in May and then we will marry when we return here in June.

2 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

Bit late now but for future reference she could have entered Thailand on her expired Thai passport.

We did think about that but the thai passport had expired 8 or 9 years ago and we didn't want any problems.

2 minutes ago, steve187 said:

no air only, she should be able to get a 1 year extension

As she was on a visa exempt she was told at cheng wattana she could only have 1 month extension

My missus entered Thailand on her UK passport as her thai one was out of date, she has since renewed her thai passport.

We thought it would be a trip to the border and get the exit stamp in the UK passport and then reenter Thailand on the thai passport and job done. So last Wednesday we made the trip to my least favourite border Aranyapretet the sister in law wanted to do some shopping so we thought we would kill 2 birds with one stone, but she was told that she couldn't leave on one passport and come back on the other. As she didn't want to go to Cambodia we just left it and returned to Bangkok and went to Cheng Wattana the following day for an extension of her visa on the british passport.

Is there any land border where she could leave on the uk passport and return on the thai one?

I am ok until the end February when I get a month extension at the end of January and our plan was to fly to either Vietnam or Burma for a week for me to get a new visa then which would see us through to May when we have to go to the UK for a couple of weeks. As it stands it scuppers our plans slightly if we have to go out at the end of January as we would need four months worth of stay which would make me need a extra visa.

There must be an easy way out of this issue as there must be quite a lot of thai people with dual nationality.

9 hours ago, gemguy said:

Now, Now ..do not be irking the gun proponents as they will try to browbeat you with their pro gun mentality and gun toting attitude....lol

Although they have numerous valid arguments and various facts to present and used to argue with, the fact of the matter is, the world over, where there are more guns there is more gun related violence and more crimes committed with guns.

That is factual and the most important part they conveniently ignore while absolving themselves of any complicity in the proliferation of guns running into the tens of millions of weapons all over the place in the hands of law abiding citizens and of course, the criminals, and a well known hall mark of criminal behavior and perpetrated criminal conduct.

In effect, gun ownership laws facilitates the criminal elements in every society and those who would otherwise not have the ability to do the damage that is and often done with the aid of firearms....a most useful tool used to accomplish their crimes and more so than nearly any other useful tool available to them.

Naturally it is a contentious social issue especially when the public learns of more unnecessary deaths by way of firearms, while who are they to blame????,....more so than others, while the blame ..the anger...and who's fault is it and who created this problem???.... will come to rest on those that supply the guns and or those people that sustain the manufacturing and or supply of firearms and by way of "other people"  buying those "particular and specific products" and easily enough supplied to the public in relatively large numbers.

If there is accountability to be thrust upon "someone"???..... then it is pretty obvious where that accountability and responsibility should rest.

The argument says that if everyone had a gun to protect themselves then the kind of events that this gun related news article discusses would not have occurred ( in theory ) or at least a huge reduction in events such as we are discussing while licensed firearms carrying citizens would in effect be able to police themselves and or attempt to stop any attempted crimes or any crimes in progress. 

In a good number cases and circumstances it is proven true, and no denying that fact while the usefulness and benefits certainly afforded to every individual citizen, who may find themselves in need of a firearm to protect themselves or their family or property,  can not be ignored and a valid argument and part of the bitter reality of the precarious social environment that many live within,  in all too many cases.

However, what is also being witnessed is the ongoing and continuous increase in firearms violence that correlates with the volume of guns being manufactured and supplied and eventually sold and eventually in circulation amongst the public.

In other words, more guns in circulation is not eliminating the rate of gun related violence and or crimes perpetrated with guns used as the tool and means and ways to accomplish those crimes or violent acts....while many are deadly crimes taking the lives of all too many innocent citizens..as seen in this post and its sad subject matter.

Anyhow, I do not deny people the right to buy a gun but I simply do not buy into the argument arming the whole nation and  every law abiding citizens owning and carrying guns will result in a significant drop in incidents involving guns and making for significantly less violence involving guns and the overall amount of crimes and violence perpetrated with guns as the prime tool to do so.

That is not the case overall........not at all.

It helps but the overall amounts of gun related violence and crimes involving guns increases year by year ...and not declining overall.

Just saying.

Cheers

 

I agree with a lot of what you say and you present a good argument, yes there are far too many guns being produced and not all of them are going into the right hands, in my opinion there should only be a few people who are allowed to carry guns the military and the police and stiff penalties for anyone else found in possession of one.

In the end of the day it is the weapons manufactures who are to blame for the amount of guns in the world today, but it is big business and big money and they will continue in the trade of death.

A lot of people don't realise that their mental health can be affected by any number of reasons and an otherwise sane normal person can crack at what may seem like not a lot as in the case here, how many instances of these sort of crimes where the people who know the perpetrator say what a nice person they were and that they wouldn't think that this person would be capable of doing something like that.

I know my views aren't that of everybody but I stick by them.

I have to agree with Robblok here, from the photos it looks like the bus hit the drivers side of the Pajero and it backs up the bus drivers story.

One thing I noticed when driving here is that if another vehicle is flashing there lights at you it means get out of the way i'm coming through in the UK it means the opposite, maybe this has something to do with this particular accident.

The main thing is that there isn't any serious casualties.

Some more senseless gun deaths, the pro gun lobby will be along in a minute stating that it isn't the guns fault and if there were more guns this type of thing wouldn't happen rubbish.

RIP to the victims of yet another mentally unstable person with a firearm.

1 hour ago, fruitman said:

 

I do speak thai sir but taxidrivers should speak english as well!! Is that too hard for you to admit??

 

Last week i took a taxi to River Wine, a 5* restaurant...the taxidriver didn't know it so i told him in thai how to drive there...he was laughing all the way cause of my crappy thai language...the idiot. They even don't know the toprestaurants because they only get cheap customers.

 

But he took the wrong U-turn so we got lost and my wife had to guide him through the phone.

 

Tonight i go to another restaurant and go on motobike since i'm tired of those lowclass taxidrivers.

I have never had a problem with a Bangkok taxi driver, yes a lot of them don't speak English but guess what we are in Thailand and they speak thai here, why should they have to learn English when the majority of their customers are thai.

You state that you speak thai, but then say he was laughing at your crappy thai language then who is the idiot, and as for knowing where restaurants are the are thousands and thousands of them in Bangkok with some opening and closing down frequently I wouldn't expect a taxi driver to know all of them.

As for taxi drivers being of low class, well guess what you don't get many hiso's trying to earn a little extra cash driving taxis, the majority of taxi drivers here are not well off.

You come across as a rather unpleasant person or is your post trying to be sarcastic.

7 hours ago, nuananddon said:

 

The flawed thinking belongs to you. Correct me if. I'm wrong, the country of Switzerland requires that firearms be kept in the home by all adult males and that they be trained and qualified for marksmanship annually. If there's a gun in every household where's all tragic accidents. I'm not sure the percentage of households in the USA but I would guess it's not as high as Switzerland. It's the human factor!

Your wrong i'm afraid so I will correct you, Switzerland doesn't require all adult males keep a firearm at home it is actually part of military service. I will quote below a BBC article on it

All healthy Swiss men aged between 18 and 34 are obliged to do military service and all are issued with assault rifles or pistols which they are supposed to keep at home.

Twenty years ago the Swiss militia was a sizeable force of around 600,000 soldiers. Today it is only a third of that size but until recently most former soldiers used to keep their guns after they had completed their military duties, leading to lots of weapons being stored in the attics or cupboards of private Swiss households.

In 2006, the champion Swiss skier Corrinne Rey-Bellet and her brother were murdered by Corinne's estranged husband, who shot them with his old militia rifle before killing himself.

Since that incident, gun laws concerning army weapons have tightened. Although it is still possible for a former soldier to buy his firearm after he finishes military service, he must provide a justification for keeping the weapon and apply for a permit.

You go on to say if there is a gun in every household where's all the tragic accidents, your not sure of the percentage of gun ownership  but you assume Switzerland is higher so I have a little graph from the same article below to correct you as your wrong again. As you can see the US has almost twice as many civilians with firearms.

I know it is a waste of time arguing with a lot of Americans on gun law and gun restrictions, but we are not going to move on in this world when all we are doing is killing each other often over very little and we are allowing these tragic accidents to happen because of the love of firearms. Whether firearms are legal or not it doesn't change the fact that they kill people and there are a lot of people out there with mental health issues that are armed and that is worrying, in fact our minds can be destabilised very easily by many things personal tragedy, jealousy and many other things can change a rational person into an irrational person. Guns don't save anything they kill things.

52 minutes ago, Tracyb said:

Sad but frequent story.  Why do we even need guns?

 

We don't

1 hour ago, cromagnon said:

Of course, leftists will make this into a gun control issue as they do with every gun tragedy.  Simply put, the parents are fully responsible for what happened.  Perhaps the worst part of this is not even the death, but the fact that the 6-year old kid will have to live with the knowledge that she shot her sister to death....for the rest of her life.  But at the end of the day, we should not be taking away the rights of the majority to defend themselves with a gun for the relatively minute number of instances where guns are misused.  That is flawed thinking.

Flawed thinking what drugs are you taking, give everybody a gun in case they may need to defend themselves, rubbish.

More guns = more tragic accidents like this, more gun crime and more death. It really is that simple.

19 hours ago, aswer777 said:

Thanks for advice , but I would like to bring the motorcycle from India.

Get your hearing tested as you clearly aren't listening to the facts, or your eyesight as this is an internet forum.

I had to sell my beloved hornet 900 as it isn't possible to bring second hand bikes to Thailand.

2 hours ago, Johnniey said:

A man is innocent until proven guilty. 

If this was his first offence I would be inclined to agree with you, but he has previous and this has to be taken into account.

Because of his previous offence he needs to be held in custody while the investigation is on going, this is to protect women of all nationalities from him, you don't want a possible serial rapist on the lose.

If after a thorough investigation with no stone left unturned (not happening here) he is found innocent then he should be freed.

To be fair with the facts available it looks as if he is guilty, what with the previous and also the fact that she was left in the middle of nowhere not knowing where she was or how to get back, if it was consensual surely they would have used a room somewhere, and should it be proven beyond reasonable doubt he should get a long sentence and I for one think anybody found guilty of rape beyond reasonable doubt should be castrated  as well.

What will probably happen sadly is that the victim will return home and he will be let loose until the next time, so I have to agree with the posters calling him scum and given the facts of this particular case guilty until proved innocent. If after a proper investigation not a mickey mouse one he is proven innocent I shall purchase a large top hat to eat.

On ‎14‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 3:05 AM, oceanyachting said:

Looking at the sellers, I do wonder how on earth they would pay out if they sold numbers that actually won

The SIL runs one of these things usually makes a few thousand every couple of weeks, but every now and again she will lose and have to find the money to pay her punters. The last one she was down 20,000 she hopes to make it back tomorrow. If she loses and hasn't the money to pay her punters then she will borrow it from a loan shark, I asked the missus if she was working for a someone and she said she isn't she just takes 20% of the bet and normally does ok.

I don't believe these figures quoted in the article as pretty much any thai would be able to find one of these illegal lotteries they are everywhere and even though it is illegal a huge percentage of the population gamble.

On ‎14‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 2:37 AM, sandgroper2 said:

As the saying goes, "theres one born  every minute."

I have obviously taken your originally comment completely the wrong way.

I will ask the missus where she has put my sense of humour.

As John Cleese said to Kevin Kline while being dangled out of a window in Butlers Wharf I apologise unreservedly and I offer a complete and utter retraction, the imputation was totally without basis of fact and was in no way a fair comment, I deeply regret any distress that my comment may have caused you and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.

A degree doesn't prove someone is more intelligent than some one without one, however it does however prove that someone has the dedication to complete 3 or 4 years of advanced education.

One thing I will add though is that some people were unable to do a degree due to financial or other commitments and I myself fall into that category. I left high school with 10 O levels and 4 A levels, so I wasn't stupid or academically unable but due to circumstances at the time I couldn't commit to taking a degree.

I'm not jealous of people with degrees and I definitely don't feel inferior to them in any way many of my good friends have degrees and they don't look at me as inferior because I don't have one, but our lives are all different and our individual circumstances lead us down the paths that we take. Some people are smarter than others but just about everybody on the planet has something they are good at and I think a piece of paper that shows that you have the commitment to study for 3 or 4 years means just that and nothing to do with intelligence.

The fact is that these schools are looking for people with that commitment because they think that they will make better employees, but because they have had the commitment once doesn't mean that they will have it again, in my opinion people who have done an open university degree or people who have self funded their degrees show the most dedication to bettering themselves and would probably make the better employees.

2 hours ago, sandgroper2 said:

Totally agree. People without a degree have absolutly no work ethic, dont care a hoot about education. If you dont ave a drgree like me have, yor uselessl.

What a load of codswallop, your saying if you haven't got a degree you have no work ethic and that is a ridiculous statement to make, there are many people out there without degrees that have a great work ethic. I don't have a degree and i'm not a teacher however I have run several businesses which require dedication and a strong work ethic, I have also met many people who do have degrees but who don't have an ounce of common sense and outside of their field of knowledge they know very little.

Your last sentence is barely comprehendible I hope your not teaching English.

To the op you can get a job teaching here but as people have said pay will be low and you probably won't be able to get a work permit, however you may try private lessons and if your any good and get a good reputation the work will roll in.

Good luck and take what some people on here say with a very large pinch of salt.