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Don't know about you guys but she has my congrats for outsmarting the most inept set of muppets ever to grace the face of this world.
What with plod and the poet I could not imagine a more useless bunch of cretins and I would be very reluctant to employ any of them to do the job they are supposed to do.
I believe that the poet has shot himself in both feet and as an earlier poster mentioned, sweet Y has all the cards in this poker game irrespective of how she evaded the highly trained special forces who were keeping her in check over in Land of smoke and mirrors.
The rest of the the world is laughing at you dear leader, well at least those who give a rats bottom about you.
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50 minutes ago, maxcorrigan said:
Fanny, Crumpet, minge OK that's enough getting too crude?
......fud, muff, bearded clam, foo foo, front bottom..........
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Superstition and the constant never ending stream if inane crap on the TV creates a wonderful educational process.
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How can competitors from other countries afford the import duty to bring their cars in?
Must be a right old shindig at the border........
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Just read the last few pages from you guys, being a little pissed right now cannot post sensible but you guys are just <deleted> awesome.
Really you are and and I love you all ( platonically) will try to post sober over the weekend
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9 hours ago, Bluespunk said:
Nonsense.
Really?
Try it sometime, I am trying it now and fundamentally what is being said rings pretty true in my actual experience!
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24 minutes ago, Rc2702 said:92 and an absolutely great innings. She was in A&E and they were partiyng away?
You sure she was not in a ward for pallative care?
I know aproximately 15 nurses and umpteen doctors in and around London. St John's, Gosh etc and none of them work there for a wage they are hard core there up for it and regardless of the state of NHS funds they bloody well work for you and me TO THE END and I'm kind of sick to be repeating my ex's words but I never saw her walk through the door before 9.30pm after starting at 8am and we lived 1 mile from her hospital and it annoyed me but nurses need a break too and if more could be done I do not doubt it would have been, not for a second.
My ex lost her father a giant of a man who had leukemia for 30 years and still built a family and successful biz around his illness, 3 hour dialysis sessions in hospital abroad etc for 30 years and at 67 he passed fighting and still yearning a spicy meal.
In between his wife was suffering from dementia and the last two years of her life were spent trying to stop her getting naked whilst eating dinner. 3 months after john passed she passed. The biggest mistake made was the private care. The NHS is the absolute pride of the British. I'm not talking about the politics or the strategies of the funding cuts I'm talking about the people who enter into it and the all them folks could have gone onto be anything but what they are.
They do not do it for the money or the pension or overtime (unless they do BANK) those people are in it to preserve life to save lives and to feel good about what they do and TDL's example is up there but I'm sorry sir i don't think you portray the truth of the matters as they should be.
I lost my father at 40 and you talk of your loss like it was anything but expected. Your points concern me and I detect a certain negative when you could be celebrating those points. I'm sorry to say but it seems ungrateful.
Hi guys,
I think we all have varied experiences of the NHS. My Father died on the operating table at 75 during a routine operation, my elder sister is a Ohysio who started in the NHS then moved to private then quickly went back to the NHS so that she could ( and I quote) care for real people with real problems. She has worked some god awful hours and has been remunerated appallingly however she refuses to move into private ( she is now a manager of several NHS funded and operated old peoples care homes ) even though to do so would effectively triple her salary so your point about dedication rings very true. Likewise my BiL's brother is a doctor in the NHS and his wife ( nurse at the same clinic) gives him a bollocking daily for working so long hours caring for patients for which his remuneration is no different.
I think the problem does dies stem from us not funding these angels, and they are angels, well enough and as such less European nurses are signing up leaving the places open for Sri Lankan, Indian Phillipine nurses all of whom are great but have different ideas on care to those that we have come to accept.
Yes there are the occasional cock ups and sadly, like an aeroplane crash, hit the headlines and are very sensitive to the relatives but in my very humble opinion they do in general do a cracking job under the circumstances.
Just a quick story about my doc, she was running late by about 30 minutes and when I got in to see her she immediately apologised for being so. My response was that I would rather wait for a doctor whose dedication to the health of her patients took priority over the allotted ten minutes per visit, than one who throws you out irrespective.
Georgio my friend, yes I am able now to kill virtually all the rats in the (choose from the following) a) Government where you reside, London Underground with the amount of warfarin coursing through my veins. That is due to the DVT I had before flying back to Blighty which did not improve by flying.
Sasly this mornings blood tests were to check for over 9 potential ailments. That is outside having to get my knee bone broken and reset sometime in the future and the extensive physio that accompanies it and the cardio all lined up in anticipation. I certainly feel more comfortable here with the medical than that which I experienced back in LoS .
the heart thingy came about due to some very odd readings on my T line ( any ideas chaps?)
my health though is not so much so much physical as psychological and much to my surprise I am lined up to see a shrink to see if he ( or she) can undo that which has been done.
None if this however ever is a patch on what our good friend Ody is going through and though I don't know him, if I could in any way take some of his suffering away, I would gladly do so.
Gotta dash but still we have a great dialogue going on here. Thanks guys,
very best to you all
TDL
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On 20/08/2017 at 11:35 AM, luk AJ said:I have no idea how many silent readers are following this particular thread, I just want to come briefly out of the shadow to express my warm feelings to all these contributors of real life stories combined with beautiful writing skills and a wealth of experience and knowledge. I feel that many of you could write books which stories would probably surpass many movie blockbusters. A thread with warm feelings without anger and venom in a way it even repells the well known keyboard warriors is unfortunately a very rare case. I really wish that some of you would share their life stories, so much better reading than all the pulp and fake news of these days.
Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa ConnectWow LAJ my friend, you see this as I do, a healing place, a place for contemplation, a place to receive unsolicited support from an eclectic group of fellow sufferers most of whom we will never know in real life more is the pity.
This group, this band of brothers have some superb raconteurs, so much so that even at my darkest hour,they gave me not only a smile but a reason to live, a reason to get out of bed and most of all the moral strength to do what was right.
I can never ever thank them for what they did for me however I hope that they know how much what they did for me, means.
There are, as always, the odd triller or captain negative endlessly hovering on the far reaches of the thread trying to apoear clever but ending up being just nasty but most of us shrug that off like an annoying turdfly.
thanks for "coming out" and making us aware of your interest and your thoughts, you are welcome by me and I am pretty confident the other thread brothers welcome you too.
Enjoy the ride!
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On 19/08/2017 at 0:17 AM, Odysseus123 said:Thank you Andrew,Rhodie,Old Hippy and so many others-I am deeply touched.
The contributors to this topic have managed to create a safe place-a "men's shed" in Aussie parlance-and this is quite a remarkable achievement on what is,after all,a public forum.
Well done to all.
Oddy.
PS..I hope that The Dark Lord is okay...
Hi Ody and once more I have to shout my joy at your return. You have been sorely missed by many on this thread, some just making themselves known to us having previously been thread wraiths (watching but not posting).
you do realise that it is going to cost you a shed load of Aus dollars when we all turn up "chez Ody" in need of a cool tube or two? I am going to have to pop out for a chilled one now just at the thought of it.
Thanks for expressing concern for the dark one. Whilst greatly appreciated your concern for me now I am out of my bubble of unreality in which I had resided for the past four years) is no longer needed as my dark powers are returning ( ask my estate agent who has another "thai minister or butthole" which I chewed out for him).
Challenges getting used to civilised driving driving and customer service but, hey what price freedom?
ok I have a list of previously unrecorded medical problems along with my head that needs attention but the weight off the shoulders the feeling of not having to walk on eggshells that the rozzers are actually there to help you ( mostly) and that there are acres and acres of different beer options. I meN my big sis took me to a place called the gin trap for a weekend. Little sis birthday took from 1600 on day one to 0930 day two non stop. Ooh my head!
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On 18/08/2017 at 10:16 PM, George FmplesdaCosteedback said:Buying your way in is a problem here, agreed. But you need need money to pay for it, as I said above.
Knowing the right person and being in the right place at the right time is not the same, if you know enough to do the job.
Talking of standards, have you had the misfortune to go to a NHS hospital lately?
Anyway, I do understand the point.
Hi oh wise one,
been away Way from the forum for a while mostly to get my head on straight( more of that later) but just to give myself a break from all things Thai.
First thing i realised bavk here here was that I was living in a bubble of self delusion over in LoS, second thing that hit home was the cost of things over here.
after signing up with a cracking doctor ( both professionally and visually) she gave me the once over. As our chum Trans would say a complete MOT but sadly stopped short of an" oil change"
anyway she kicked up a stink stink that I had to pay £70 to see her ( worth every penny, really she is) and got me NHS'd very quickly. The MOT turned up a series of very worrying things including that I had recently had a heart attack ( not surprised when she felt my leg for the DVT) but I was seriously unaware of it. She found all sorts of minor and a few worrying things which she is taking on as a sort of project. In a moment of self pity I suggested I should save the NHS money and take up my Brother in laws offer of borrowing his rope and using the hanging tree at the bottom of the garden. Her response was to put on the stern secraterial look, peer over her glasses and tell me " you will die when I tell you to die and not before!"
oh God I think I am in love...............
Apparently the medical care in Khorat is not up to scratch but, and in answer to your point about the NHS, here ut is free, good and there are some awesome nurses and doctors sashaying around. I have no reason to fault the NHS especially if it means multiple trips to see my doctor.
Oh oh and there was another thing, she has recommended that I consider psyciatric help (I dont think it is because I become a weak kneed jibbering wreck of a schoolboy in a strip joint when I see her) because I inadvertently blurted out the real reason for my return to the UK in one sentence. She was shocked, and after a few superbly worded questions ( oh she us not only massively attractive but clever with it too) she pulled the truth out of me.
Long way way to go but I am now riding in style!
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On 18/08/2017 at 4:26 AM, Odysseus123 said:Hello everyone,
My apologies for not being in contact but it has been a quite hectic time for me and I do not know how I made it without Captain Anginine egging me on.
But I did..amazing really..but with doctors,tests,hospitalisations etc..etc..it's been kinda busy but I AM HOME!
I have had a very quick look at the topic and have noted that a few of you have been ill.I hope that you are all fully recovered and that all is well..
Many thanks to all for your support for what was,after all,a truly desperate time for me.
Many thanks for being human....
Ody.
Hi Ody old mate,
you bugger, you had us all pissing our pants with worry about you.
Hugely delighted to hear that you made it back, got some proper medical treatment and are possibly sitting back watching the sun dip into the ocean with your loyal and trusted best friend VB right next to you.
Joking apart, great to hear you made it, that's cheered my day up no end.
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2 hours ago, CMKiwi said:
Unfortunately it's only the Yanks (Sorry...Americans) that are able to rock up to their embassy/consulate and swear an oath to say they have the required funds for the appropriate visa.
The rest of us have to prove it in cold hard cash.
With the comparison between marriage or 'retirement' I am led to believe that the 'retirement' visa is a lot less hassle paperwork wise.
I've had a few friends that reverted back to retirement visa as the marriage visa is a crock to work thru/abide by. Too many hoops to jump through.
You can always chat to the friendly staff at Assist Thai Visa or any other like minded agencies. They do provide a great service.
Absolutely spot on my friend.
Khorat immig, at my last marriage visa renewal asked me why I did not go for a retirement visa ( his words not mine )
his explanation went as follows;
with a marriage visa you submit (considerably more) papers here (DanKiwan) then we send them to Bangkok who will take anything up to 3 weeks to maybe approve.
Retirement is less paperwork and we will sign off on it and give you back your passport and visa within the day.
He was true to his word.
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11 minutes ago, Grumpy Duck said:
Sorry my friend my post was not clear, I was referring to the £ to the THB not the dollar.
Apologies offered.
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Just now, brewsterbudgen said:
Surely if you can show that you have returned to the UK permanently, you are entitled to free NHS care?Eventually but certainly not immediately as your records would have been sent to the central filing place ( or google!) during your absence.
How can you prove you moved back permanently?
I have an NHS number, an address but needed a letter from the bank and/or utility suppliers etc before they would act. Fill out a four page questionnaire including multiple choices on gender you declare yourself to be but until that has been cleared ( and no bugger will write to tell you that you are now back on line) you pay. Fortunately my doctor has an excellent reception and practice management so mine was expedited. In the interim however.......
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On 24/01/2017 at 7:44 AM, Sooo Upto Me said:
I'm from London, been here in Thailand since 2008. Only been bac UK once for 2wks. Not missed it.
Not much has changed apart from obvious traffic worse, fares up, more immigrants. an still crap weather.
Anyway as long as u hav ur NI number u should fit bac in no prob. Rent out a room for 3 mths contract get ur self bank acc & an easy to apply job like courier or delivery driver & u should fit bac in system no prob.
Oh & from wherever ur going bac to, visit Southend or Blackpool then u know ur be missing Thailand. ?
Good Luck.
Do t forget that nowadays a background check is the de rigeur and they use Experian to contact thai Plod to see if you behaved in the last 5 years. I wished my potential employer good luck when dealing with thai woodentops. Not sure if I got the job yet.
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7 hours ago, theoldgit said:
You'll need to demonstrate that you meet the minimum income requirement of £18,600 per year, or have cash savings, for your wife to be issued with a Settlement Visa.
The application fee is in the region of US$1990 and in addition your wife will need to pay a NHS Surcharge of £600.
She will need to pass a basic English Language test and get a certificate to confirm she's free from TB.
You seem to be aware that you need to provide confirmation of suitable accommodation.
Once your wife has her visa she needs to get to the UK within 30 days and collect her Biometric Resident Permit.
She can apply for Further Leave to Remain after 30 months and the Indefinite Leave to remain after a further 30 months.
The goalposts haven't changed for some years, though the prices increase annually.
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That is very useful info. Many thanks
big problems are the NHS who are a total pain. I moved back to the UK after 4 years in the land of greed and got DVT en route. A doctors appointment cost me £70 per 10 minutes followed by a prescription at an eye watering £137 .
Fortunately my new doctor is a star and fixed it such that I now am an NHS recipient but it rankles after having paid a massive amount if ££££ in my life into the system through NI and Income tax to be treated worse than an immigrant in my own country.
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4 hours ago, alant said:
it is not going down on my graphs, where do you get this from please?
Nor mine or maybe the £ is falling faster............
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I don't know about you guys but I am sick to my stomach about this case. I have no evidence and am no legal expert but with so much doubt and so much concern about the validity of the "investigation" I have serious reservations about their "guilt beyond reasonable doubt"
in fact the the only thing I am confident about is that I have consigned any notion of returning to the mire of corruption and greed into my historical list of mistakes I made but am not intending to repeat.
My my heart goes out to those chaps as it does to the victims and their families. I just hope and pray that in this life, or the next the real perps get what they are due.
I wish all all those who remain in the cesspit of corruption filth and greed (LoS) a safe life there.
I only realised how we get get sucked into a bubble of alternative reality whilst residing there, once I got out. When I got out it was with the intention of sometime returning. Not so now.
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8 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:
Just the usual "we can do anything we want and if caught just smile and say sorry. The carry on doing what we want mentality."
They think every where is the same. Have money can do as you wish, ignore any rules.
The dick in the cap was typical - another "do you know who we are, who my dad is" type. Listen to his inflection. Used to demanding, with an expectation of getting his own way.
Many many Thais hate this sort of selfish arrogance when they see it.
Yet so many do it
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17 hours ago, totally thaied up said:I hope that clears some things up. We are all a complicated mob. We make mistakes. We are human, but one thing we can do is learn.
Hi TTU, you seem to have landed on your feet this time, congrats. Your wisdom infers you are from Old Owl stock, he is a wise one too!
mine never criticised my driving and never ever tried to Lord it over others as she was married to a farang. We had shed loads of money when we first came over ut lost it in a business deal gone ( horribly) wrong. She never criticised that, taking it on the chin and adjusting accordingly. Others however accused me openly of being "khee niou" for not spreading the perceived wealth. Despite the loss of face she never rose to those occasions. The only crack in our relationship was a very deep streak of jealousy and a great deal of insecurity. I am totally honest when I tell you that I never gave her any reason to have those feelings and I strongly suspect I was paying the price for the activities of the former husband who could not keep his "chap" zippered up and often beat her, so much so she was hospitalised numerous times.
I don t beat women and certainly nowadays only bring out the love log to perform bathroom related activities. It has never appeared in a side show, ever.
That begs the question"why am I being punished for the ex's transgressions?"
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15 hours ago, Rc2702 said:
Fair play owl it's nice to see someone looking after the animals. Not a cat in sight in my Mrs families village I dare not wonder why. To be honest it's all good at present we had the rain to thank for not paying a visit I do miss the dogs mind you but they will be fine.
32 cats that's really great work.
I fully concur Captain Kirk, old Wise one seems to have got his stuff ( avoid the deletion) well wired and for that I salute him!
life is never an easy path but if you can ride the ups and downs it is fulfilling. My problem is/was the ups were more than deleted by the downs after 17 years together.
Made de a big mistake in that all our contacts were linked by the cloud so when I deleted my line app I was wrong in my assumption that I was uncontactable because being stupid I put my new UK mobile number in my contact details on my ipad.............
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21 minutes ago, wildewillie89 said:
I think if people have those things in the back of their minds then they should not be travelling/living in the country in the first place.
Good point but it probably was initially consigned to the far reaches of their minds only to be recovered when the poop hit the revolving thing, maybe!
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Don't you guys realise that the law does not apply to self declared hiso's?
ever!
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1 hour ago, Jip99 said:
Dream on........... folklore.
Saw jack when I went up there..
How was he? ( Jack that is), I haven't seen him in a while......
Ghost police pickup truck focus of attention
in Thailand News Headlines
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Well although slightly biased, I genuinely hope it is my thieving step son driving my car which he stole. At least that way Plod might do something about it but there again.........