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11 hours ago, observer90210 said:

There was a big scandal this summer on a Revolut client whose card was hacked and lost a five figure amount. Very poor and unacceptable customer support was provided from Revolut  I do not trust this firm any more.

 

(for the reference purists, internet has many other reports on issues with Revolut in the past)

My experience with their support was awful. Really dire. The staff themselves are fine. It's just the system. Totally unworkable. Took months to get my issue resolved, Where it could take a day or two, conventionally.

1 hour ago, Balooo said:

Could I use hotspot with that packages? 
Because on DTAC website under term & conditions is wrote:

"- Uses for BitTorrent, hotspot, commercial purposes or any use that affect the Internet efficiency in general are prohibited."

 

Anyone has tested?

I don't have a dtac sim at moment to test by myself.

 

Yes, you can. 

2 hours ago, yogi100 said:

Don't read it then.

 

What about qualifications and equipment in the post you've just made. Not good.

 

I made reference to qualifications and equipment with regard to mine and many other people's recommendation. Are you unable to read? Look again. They are there.

So what can you tell about the qualifications and equipment available with regards to your 'recommendation'? 

Bad enough that you bumped an eleven month old thread to post it. But worse that there is absolutely no information other than he is "good natured and funny".

Ridiculous.

Their advertising board states "Implants from 45,000 baht". Does he have a 3D scanner at his disposal? Is he an oral surgeon or a General dentist...or just "good natured and funny"?

I think I would prefer an oral surgeon and a hospital for when it comes to invasive surgery.

it's currently 229 baht + VAT for the 7 day 10 Mbps package.

Go No Limit 1 & 4 Mbps (30 days) still works, as do some other unlimited packs.

You may find some of the relevant codes posted on other threads.

39 minutes ago, Beardog said:

I just had 7 implants in my front upper teeth done in the states.I personally would avoid at all costs going to Bangkok Pattaya hospital for the implants they did a front upper implant on a friends mouth that chipped in 2 & a half weeks & they told him to pony up more money for a new tooth No Guaranty whatsoever & they charged him a million baht. The U.S. was only $10,500 a tooth . The premium way to have them done is six months after they do the initial work the teeth are installed. Any quicker they do not last as long. You can read up on this I did before getting mine done & all the experts said 6 months to heal before they set the implant -s in. Bone graft is usually a good idea because your bone matter will recede over time & the last thing you want to do is cheap out on an expensive venture & have to start from scratch if it were to fail later.

I would recommend a dentist here but the ones that were good then may not be good now is why for major work I have my home country fix my teeth. At least I have a written

Guaranty when it is done & I know the dentist isn't going to be gone next year. They do tend to come & go in Pattaya.

Good luck on doing it without being put under . Mine was quite painful (cause I did 7 together) But you can get Valium from a clinic cheap 30 baht +the 100-150 for the doctor to see you to take the edge off the experience.

Wish I could give you a good referral but my dentist that I really liked changed once he got popular & charged more & got lazy. Alright for Xrays & a semi decent cleaning but I wouldn't use him for an implant.

Good luck & I would read up on your best plan of attack. Whatever you do don't choke & go for the 1 day miracle.You will have problems later. *If it needs a bone graft it takes time to heal, they cant just screw in the implant over a new graft.

Ms Suwangatte at Phyathai Sri Racha comes highly recommended and has all of the facilities of a hospital at hand. Certainly has been there for more than ten years. Not one of those roaming Implantologists.

You could have had your work done under General for perhaps around US$1320 per tooth plus the cost of Theatre.

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

Yes

Prayut not care the tourism. Thai people not vote for Prayut. (85/500) Tourist not care about thai government.

 

 

Yes, very good. Have 5 star 160,000 villa to cheap clean room for 500 baht. 

Easy for thai, good for foreigner. 

100 + million will come next three years. 95 million + will have good time!

 

is same very busy restaurant. Some mistake will happen. Some people disappoint, but most ok. 

Some people like complain. Thailand good for them also! 

I hope you sink.

Unnecessary. I told you.

You make yourself look the same stupid as the person you call stupid. Understand?

Don't do it. Respect yourself. You don't have to follow their behaviour.

Good to have all points of view on the forum. But if we get angry, we cannot express ourselves in the best way.

So even if you think he is wrong, don't take it personally. I can see his point of view and I can see your point of view. i understand you both.

But if you get angry, you cannot understand what he means. You are only angry.

Maybe he does not use the best words to express his meaning. I think he speaks about the environmental effect of mass tourism on the country and how it affects the local people.

Is the everyday local reaping the benefit or just a privileged few?

As I told you before, when someone is upset, they are not always able to express themselves in the same way. You too.

So don't get angry. We appreciate having your input, I'm sure.

25 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Everyone welcome if polite. EVERYONE 

 

He said that. I think feel it.

 

He say angry that Thailand welcome Indian and Chinese. 

He think “superiority” them.

Angry thai not agree that.

 

EVERYONE a welcome to thailand if polite.

i happy for all nice people to come have good time, enjoy. Black, white, Muslim, Chinese, Indian. 

No problem for me. 

I think Indian family lovely people. Polite, not drunk. But if thred on TVF mention Indian, many member say terrible thing. Everytime. For what? 

 

Want thai to “sink” because we welcome Chinese and India? 

His problem.

I guess that many of their words come from the same place as a child or a partner who feels abandoned.

More from hurt and pain. 

Maybe you too feel the same, if your partner leaves you for someone else.

Sometimes it brings up many bad feelings. But even though you are angry, it doesn't mean that your love for that person has disappeared.

There are many 'westerners' feeling displaced and upset. I might not agree with everything they say and do, but I try to stand back and look at the whole picture.

I agree that everyone should be welcome and don't like the superiority complex. We all learn from each other.

As to the sex tourist argument..... They have their place. I'm not going to speak for nor against them.

None of my friends are sex tourists. I am certainly not. 

From my point of view, Thailand has become an increasingly unattractive prospect. For the reasons I have outlined in my earlier posts. I am very polite, not a sex tourist and have money to spend. Perfect tourist you might think.

So why am I made to feel uncomfortable? 

Either way, it's my life and I intend to make the best of it. If they make me feel unwelcome, I simply won't go. 

But not everyone reacts the same in a broken relationship. ????

So don't take their words personally. Of course there are some idiots with unpleasant views. Racists are racists. They are completely stupid.

Thais, Indian, Chinese....they are family. You can say what you want about your family. But of course you don't want outsiders to speak badly about your family. 

21 hours ago, Yinn said:

A lot of you guy on TVF. Live in Thailand. Hope thai people to sink. 

 

Will not happen.

Jealousy is not good thing. Hurt your brain. Not mine. 5555555

 

To be fair, I don't think it is about jealousy. I think many here love Thailand and feel hurt by the perception of being made to feel unwelcome.

It's a positive thing if there are local people to contribute to the discussion. But unfortunate if it turns into a kind of childish back and forth.

Sometimes, in a discussion, you need to take the high ground. Stand back and look at the whole situation. Don't get involved in petty squabbles or you lose sight of what is actually happening.

No one wants the Thai people to sink. They just don't like being made to feel unwelcome after contributing many years of their life to the benefit of the country.

So they want that to change. I guess some think that the only way it will change is when more people feel the pain in their pocket.

So don't blind yourself to the full picture because you decide to only focus on a tiny part of it.

Understand why they are feeling upset in the first place and try to heal their hurt.

8 hours ago, alfieconn said:

Sorry my mistake it wasn't nearly 15,000 stabbing's it was nearly 15,000 incidents of knife crime, so that obviously makes it ok then ????

 

 

 

London recorded the highest rate of 169 offences involving a knife per 100,000 population in 2018/19.

 

BBC analysis has revealed that London has 16 of the top 25 knife crime hot spots in England and Wales.

The data from 34 of the 43 police forces include crimes of assault, robbery, sexual offences, the threat to kill, attempted murder, or murder committed with a blade. The report comes as the capital looks set to see the murder rate surpass that of last year, which was already a decade-high level.Analysis in May by the London Assembly’s Conservatives claimed since Labour’s Sadiq Khan became mayor in 2016, the city has seen knife crime rise by 52 per cent. 

Are you and the 'Conservatives' hoping to blame knife crime on Sadiq Khan??

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the rise in these violent incidents was "unacceptably high", and they were "a national problem that required national solutions from the government"

I hear kids of different hue, shouting that they will cut someone during an argument. Adults too.

What do you suggest should be done? 

Weren't knives used in the murder of Stephen Lawrence?

Shall we blame the Conservative government, since they have been in power over these periods? 

The BNP has been trying to cover up their spots, unsuccessfully, for many years now.

But they expose their real selves so easily. 

1 hour ago, yogi100 said:

I worked off Bellenden Rd for four years and have lived near there all my life so far. 

 

You 'embrace' multiculturalism, I do not. Let's just leave it at that.

 

Another thing  about your statement which confuses.... If you are against 'multi-culturalism, does that mean that you are against Westerners being allowed to migrate to Thailand and God forbid, enter into any form of sexual congress with the women from a different culture?

Do you mean that you are ok with multi-culturalism, as long as it benefits you?

That explanation somehow fits with the narrative of the tables being turned. That perhaps you don't believe in multiculturalism, but you are happy enough to be blind to it when you are exploiting the situation.

Not so happy when the tables are turned and you feel like the exploited. Now you are complaining about how you are being priced out of Thailand and made to feel unwelcome.

The irony....

Please, clarify.

56 minutes ago, yogi100 said:

I worked off Bellenden Rd for four years and have lived near there all my life so far. 

 

You 'embrace' multiculturalism, I do not. Let's just leave it at that.

 

If you've lived there for most of your life, then you would know that is has been multi-cultural around there for tens of years. Minimum of forty years, since one of my friends was born on the Chadwick Road there.

So it's strange that you state having lived near there, since it has been 'multi-cultural' for as long as I remember.

So how old are you that you appear to have a concern about it now being 'multi-cultural'?

7 hours ago, alfieconn said:

Not so much "black townships" and "African ghettoes", but certainly areas where you will see very few English people. If you disagree that there are such areas then i suggest you get out of your bubble and have a good look around areas such as Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Walthamstow, etc and various areas in South London, but obviously not after dark.

 

If you think nearly 15,000 stabbings in London (2018/2019) is a few idiots then perhaps you need to look at yourself in view of this comment.

 

See a recent conversation i had with a friend awaiting a hospital appointment, " i hope they don't send me to North Midd hospital, i can't stand  going their with all of them foreigners walking around spitting everywhere" suggest you pay it a visit to confirm what she ses.

15,000 stabbings??!! I defy you to me the evidence. I'll accept any kind of statistic. Exactly the kind of person that I described earlier. Reading without understanding.

No doubt you are equating 'knife crime' with stabbings.

I actually visit all of those areas and more, even when dark(best time to do training when there is not much traffic polluting the air) and haven't witnessed any "township violence". Nor even any threatening behaviour.

You comments are beneath contempt. Your friend too sounds like a 'winner'. Birds of a feather and all that.

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-is-a-thin-skinned-bully-says-thai-cave-rescuer-11830547

4 hours ago, johng said:

Maybe her lights where not working or  obscured by stuff in the basket on the front..???

 

Many trucks have very inadequate  reflective safety measures..either they have fallen off or obscured buy crud..same with brake and indicator lights...then you have the ultimate  warning  system of a  branch placed  2 meters in front of the obstacle.

 

R.I.P  Urairat Suksawaeng

Scary.

8 hours ago, dddave said:

Sorry to stray OT.  I had a Roku stick, couldn't figure out how to use it through my VPN, gave up and went another direction.

I gave it to a friend last week and deleted my account but he is having great difficulty setting up his own account, keeps defaulting to my email address.  Any suggestions?   Also, how do you have your Roku set up to work in Thailand?   I'm not technically very savvy and couldn't do it.

https://support.roku.com/en-gb/article/208757008-how-do-i-factory-reset-my-roku-streaming-device-

To get the full function in Thailand, you would need to configure your Router, so as for the connection to appear to be from the U.K/EU/U.S.A.

But if you don't have that option, you can use it for the non-geographically blocked channels or for Streaming Torrents(needs a subscription).

3 hours ago, pattayadude said:

you are absolutely correct. I have been in and out of thailand the last 20 years and I have always complained about Thai attitude being rough, arrogant, loud, condescending and even violent at times towards farangs and this is about both, their men AND their women! Maybe the $hit finally hit the fan and visitors/farangs finally realized this and decided they ain't coming back.

too much more can be said on this topic but I should stop here since I left Thailand a while ago and now living in the Philippines/the actual "Land of Smiles"  and very happy to live among people who are MUCH friendlier, easy to communicate with and where life is less expensive in general. The women are sweet,friendly, romantic and one can actually have long conversations with them. On a final note, they love to sing in your ear any song between 1950s and 2019 IN ENGLISH and they are perfect with the lyrics.  These are things Thailand lacked during my entire stay and I was not even aware of it.

In other news; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/04/gunmen-abductelderly-british-man-filipino-wife-beach-resort/

10 minutes ago, GalaxyMan said:

It seems as though you're being deliberately obtuse. It is very clear that the poster was referring to the exchange rate, not what basket of goods the money would buy. In baht, we are getting approximately 50% more for each USD. As for inflation of goods prices, where has it not gone up the same amount, if not more?

Are you continuing his nonsense? How can you discuss exchange rates without discussing relative values?

It's like saying that your great grandmother was 66 years old when she died and she is still 66 years old and therefore younger than your mother.

If doesn't make any sense in the real world.

8 hours ago, thaibook said:

I was just happening the other day to be looking at some old papers from the early 80s.  Among them were some hotel price lists, in THB and USD.  The exchange rate was USD 1 = THB 20.  So expatriates now gt 50% more for their dollar.

 

It all depends on where you start and the currencies you use.  Obviously if most of your earnings is in one currency and most of your spend in another there will be periods when you benefit more and others when you lose out.  It is simple basic economics.  One needs to adjust tot he world and not always expect the world to adjust to one's desires.

 

What on earth are you asserting??!!

Of course they are not getting 50% more, when basic items are 400% more expensive.

9 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

We don't speak, we don't hear and we don't see.

Sad to see them cower in the political corner.

No longer an Opposition.

Perhaps you don't understand the adage, "He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again".

Just now, Just Weird said:

"He asked if it were possible and my answer was that it is, utilising a method wherein an authorisation code is utilised. 

What Bangkok Bank offers is a Cardless cash withdrawal".

 

You would be right if not for the fact that the BBL transfer service is not a "Cardless Cash Withdrawal" as that is not a service offered yet.  But, if it was, by extension using your logic, a SWIFT transfer, for example, would also be a cardless cash withdrawal, and it's not.

 

Pedanticism doesn't enter into it.

Sorry, but not even bothering to read your post, since it most certainly will not advance the thread in any way.

More likely just to continue a pointless argument or simply to pander to your ego.

have a nice day instead.

3 hours ago, Tayaout said:

I don't know which bank offer this but some cash transfer service like Everex allow cardless withrawal in Thailand ATM. 

I think perhaps three Thai banks have the service via ATM and at least one, Bangkok Bank in this case, is administered via their branch network.