kwilco

You're showing all the signs of a disaster waiting to happen.

I qualified for Thai national health for a few years. It's not enough. If you think you can avoid the need fir healthcare, you probably already need healthcare Exit plan return medical flight can be 20 to 40000. Then when repatriated, you need to qualify for healthcare in your home country. If you survive that you may then need somewhere to live in your home country. Property if course is much more expensive than in Thailand so is rent and care assistants.......

I think you are the one who needs to worry about what is or isn't humorous.

If you are over 65, the first thing you need is healthcare - whatever you think you are going to do. THis can be VERY costly especially as you get older. The terrible thing is that Thai hospitals will only treat you for what you can afford - you could end up just wasting away in a bed until they ca dispose of you legally.

You really don't need an agent. If you have a UK d/l or similar, you can avoid parts of the riving test - but if you haven't got one anymore, I'm not sure what they will say. If you are in the country on a non-imm visa the rule is you need a Thai driving licence - this doesn't seem to be particularly enforced but if you get in a serous incident it could invalidate your insurance etc.. You IDP if you had one is invalid if your home licence is.. You can renew your UK licence on line. you need proof of address from immigration. If you have a work permit, the address on that should be good enough. you'll need a licence for each class of vehicle - e.g. Motorbike and car.

Sounds like most people on this thread have already got dementia of some kind

So clever of you to spot that and feel the need to point it out....

Every yer we get the same story from the same company - EF - run by an eccentric Swede who is intent on selling his bizarre brand of English. Quite frankly we should take this "one quote wonder" with a pinch of salt.

Probably a factor. But the visa less and undocumented extend well beyond Russians. Lots of Brits working without permits some are teaching, others claim to be "digital nomads" others are in the diving business and in gyms. Many are just arrogant enough to think they don't need to obey the laws in Thailand.

Samui and Koh Pha Ngan are full of foreigners on overstay or incorrect visas - many are operating shonky massage or healing operations. some are working gyms - all think they are above the law and most serve no benefit except their own

People who claim cannabis as a medicine do so because they "want" it to be. They used recreationally and now they want it legalised. I've nothing against it as a recreational drug but medically it's 99% quackery. THe whole thing about quack medicines is their claims are nebulous or psychosomatic....pain is usually the target claim as that is nigh-on impossible to quantify.

What kind of healthcare service has nurses in SKIRTS of any kind????

Cam across this guy http://www.speedhunters.com/2017/08/building-bmws-in-the-heart-of-bangkok/

Is it a 4x4 pickup? Why not fit a locking diff?

The mazing thing is that the English had the arrogance and audacity to drag Scotland and Wales out of the EU with them. Whether or not you approve of independence for Scotland ad Wales it has basically sealed the fate of a dismantled UK, N.I merger with Eire is also inevitable. Countries around the world just look on in amazement as a once great nation destroys itself. Little England is an international joke.....

I think you failed O level economics amongst many other subjects....... do you really think it works like that? Would you like to try giving a more der=tailed reasoning? I didn't think you would or could.

I'm always slightly befuddled by your questions as they always appear to have no connection to what has been said. Instead they just reveal your simplistic attitudes to race or life in general.

Brexit was brought about by the same kind of thinking that brought Trump about. Probably the most embarrassing blunder in British history it was a fatal mix of lemming-like stupidity and nationalism – and we all know where both those traits lead. Everything that Remainers said would happen has happened.... The problem with the UK at the present is that everything that is affecting other nations is affecting the UK between 4 and 10% worse. This is made even more devastating because the current government is a bunch of second-rate politicians elected on a single issue – Brexit – they have no skills to run a country on the general issues that are needed to run a country, they are swamped by dogma – to the point they elected a series of PMs who weren’t up to the job. The first tried to mitigate the damage got sacked, the second tried to lie about it, got sacked, the third put UK on the edge of collapse, got sacked and now the current PM is being told what to do by the Monday club and Tory men in grey suits in a vain effort to try and restore the UK’s reputation before the next election. The fact is that the UK is now looked at quizzically by other countries and is outside the political arena in which it used to be an influential leader. The only nation in the G7 in recession. There have been blunders in the past, the South Sea Bubble, the British Expeditionary force, and Suez but Brexit dwarfs them all; it can only be compared with the loss of the American colonies – and even then, we didn’t lose the whole lot.

so what is they voted the world was flat?

" not possible to tick none of the boxes .: - QED!!!

It's same old cliche's somewhere between Jackanory and conspiracy theory. What I can't fathom is how the UK got so stupid.

So no good using reasoned thought and deduction, then?

Voting leave wasn't a result of critical thinking, it was a largely emotional response so now that project fear has materialised they can't go back because there is nothing to go back on....it involve a degree of naval gazing tat is way beyond them. They will just latch onto another feeling to get them by . Dunkirk spirit and nationalism are 2 that spring to mind - and of course the shape of bananas and contents of sausages.

Not all Brexiteers are racists, but all racists are Brexiteers

THere's a common theme running through all your posts on Thaivisa - look back at that checklist of Tropes and cliches I posted.