20 hours ago, JAS21 said:

discusting

 

PJ's topics are 'interesting', in case you hadn't noticed ... still it's holiday so many are bored ..

 

And .. when they cleaned out our road drains one guy had to submerge for about 20M to get the rope from one drain manhole to another ... that wasn't exactly a pleasant job either ...

3

Years ago along 'beach road' Pattaya they were cleaning out the drains, young lads were going from one manhole to the next(underground), you should have seen what was piling up around the holes, I thought this drainage was a 'runoff' to the sea, if so, what goes out into the sea.

On 12/23/2017 at 10:24 AM, VocalNeal said:

I believe the "original" Chang was 6.5% . Then there was Chang Export at 5% And Chang Gold? at ??. 

 

They consolidated/changed recipe back to Carlsberg, for the export market, and now only have Chang Classic at 5.2% 

 

It is not as sweet as some Thai beers so a bit more European or Pilsner-like in taste. 

 

I still drink Tiger as Chang for me still has a stigma of beer euphemistically known as "award-winning" meaning cheap piss. [ i have a hang over as last night I drank 6 award winners] 

Tiger for me as well,for the 'local bought beers',or is it Singapore,still 'local',Chang is the only one that gave me a headache after only a few bottles.

13 hours ago, elviajero said:

You can renew right up to the expiry date of the existing permit to stay.

Maybe true,but,a bit 'chancy' though,if they decide to be a bit 'official' and ask for extra paperwork,or something that takes their fancy that you need to do a 'runabout' for,Banks etc, the day the date is up for the 'O' visa(usually 4.30 that office day) you can be told to leave the country and apply for a new visa.

6 hours ago, baneko said:

I bought a black, blue and red bin for my house. 12 people in the house by the way including kids.

I told them green for plastic, red for metal and black for general waste. I came back from offshore all bins full and mixed.

We have the local scrap man who takes metal, plastic and cardboard.

Family happy to go thru the trash and separate it by hand.

Given up. Haha.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

Sounds about right.

Fist time I did mine it took five days to get the 'Green pass',the second time it took one day, then when it went down(the last time) my  90 day reporting was due along with doing my next one year retirement extension , the police bloke said it looks like you will have to pay, I said all the paperwork copies are there,(three) he went into the computer again, and after what seemed like forever, continued doing my visa request also did my 90 day at the same time and never told me it was okay,actually he has turned out to be a nice one,now I will continue going in person.

Only problem for my daughter was the signed photo, they were not happy with the first signature, after a good friend signed it, has known her since her birth, all went well, I have just renewed my UK passport there they were excellent, hope it goes well for you and your daughter, sorry a little bit of misinformation, my daughter already had her short first one, but that should not make any difference for you, maybe a little bit more to fill in.

20 hours ago, overherebc said:

Had an experience with a female IO once where my wife and self needed to prove income, long time ago. The IO produced a form and my wife filled in the info including monthly income. The IO looked and pushed it back and said with a laugh don't be silly it's monthly salary not yearly. My wife smiled pushed it back and said that is my monthly salary. IO stood up disappeared and someone else came to finish the paperwork.??

I can just imagine her reaction and would loved to have been sitting next to you, (quietly of course), and I think you have hit the nail on the head for one of the main 'problems' when visiting places like immigration and the reason, in my experience anyway, why it is always the females that dig deeper than necessary looking for an 'I' not dotted and a 'T' not crossed, the old "Green Eye", and I must say I have dealt with, or they dealt with me, some excellent male officers and some good female officers, it just might be a case of the time of the (week) Month I go as far as some of the female officers are concerned.

SABloke, If I can just put my tuppence worth in with my experience over many years, the only time I have had problems with immigration have always been with female officers, the first time many years ago I arrived early with all paperwork, 'so called ' correct, in a nice neat bundle, she beckoned for me to come before her presence and sit down, when motioned to do so I gently placed my bundle neatly  before her, she made a sort of "huffing" noise then 'swooshed' all the paperwork all over the desk, she picked up the bank letter from the bank for the said amount, holding it between two fingers like it was poisonous, she took a quick look and said,"go get new one for today", the  'so called' law then was it must be less than seven days old, mine was two days old,so, off I went for my couple of hours driving and a two hour wait for the new letter, I have had a few more similar happennings, always female officers, now they are beginning to clamp down there might be more of it, the thing is with the immigration 'Law Book' they have left a get-out for their comrades, at the bottom in the small print is/was written "it will always be up to the local immigration officer how the law should be interpreted".

On 7/20/2017 at 2:33 PM, Emster23 said:

I go in with the attitude "Whatever I bring, it's not enough". Usually proven correct

Always been the way it has worked for me, usually only have 'problems' when a new 'big boss' start, appears to be yearly, and the staff are on 'full alert' and must find something wrong, even if made up, they will always have the last word, I just try to 'go with the flow' and have the attitude of the less I say the better the 'experience', usually, but not always, and I enjoy the 'easy ones' when they come around.

On 5/26/2017 at 5:24 PM, NanLaew said:

Thanks for the figures and link. I think that most of the noisiest complainants about UK immigration confuse the EU's Freedom of Movement act with refugee claims. The media doesn't help. For example, when they focused on the relatively few who broke into lorries at Calais or were otherwise caught in smuggling operations. Instead of headlining with "Kent police apprehended 5 illegal refugees outside Dover this morning" it should have been, "About 6000 migrants with absolutely no chance of seeing the white cliffs of Dover woke up still stuck in Calais this morning."

 

Back on topic; the current governments 'one-size fits all' approach to selective immigration is a bloody disgrace though.

You conveniently forget the illegal numbers in your estimations, and the figures for people arriving from outside the EU members countries are also far higher than you try to make out, one becomes six or seven family members following on that do not go into the audit until the following year.

On 5/26/2017 at 5:29 PM, NanLaew said:

I don't know what is worse; believing such rubbish or writing it.

Chill out and enjoy life, far too many sad miserable ones like you taking life so seriously, I still stick to what I said, that actually happens and is still happening, even though it was said as a form of humour.

6 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

Oh yes just jump on the nearest airline & fly in........you might even be lucky and get an upgrade to business class..............

No, 'thats not the way to do it',you need to sneak into the back of a UK heading lorry, or walk the channel tunnel, you get extra points and a better property upgrade for that one,or, sneak onto a channel crossing boat, or, get a rubber dingy, or, get onto another nearer to 'home base' people traffickers group and be fast shipped over to a few yards from the British coastline where they will make a 'Mayday' call for you just before they do a runner back for the next load ,then the illegals will be picked up by the nice coastguard people and taxied free of charge to the land of freebies, there are other ways.

3 hours ago, Foozool said:

Seems the old man is full of so much "hate".

Jealousy mixed with envy.

It's okay saying it's like moving next an airport then complaining but this is a little different I had similar, the land where we built the wife's pad was sold by the next doors wife's family to her, he has always been known as a bad piece of work and suddenly did exactly the same thing with about thirty cows at a time when he or his wife owned a huge piece of land, always putting them smack bang beneath the windows,I love everything about the rural area from chickens crowing early in the morning, when I think to myself, "ah, made it to another day", to all noises coming from birds and cattle, I was brought up in a rural area, what became obvious was when the wife went to collect the 'monthly loan payback' from his wife, that she always conveniently forgot to pay back each month, when asking her why her man always corraled his cattle underneath our bedroom window, she let it out, he wanted to sell some of the land, so,it ended up after halving the price, which was still too high at that time we(I paid) bought a strip all the way down the side and a good sixty, seventy feet plus towards their place, then it came back from the local Thi boozer he was down there crowing about how 'he had done the foreigner up good', the last laughs on him though, the price has gone up three or four times the original worth, I know not one bht will end up in my pocket.

1 hour ago, nealthewheel said:

I renewed my passport in Bangkok in 2014 and I had to get a letter from the UK embassy to request that the Thai immigration transfer my visa extension from the old to the new passport. Is this still the case? I have to renew again in July as my passport is now full - at least I shouldn't have a 60 day wait like last time!

 

I did ask on another thread about Chiang Mai immigration processing of non-B extension whether it was still done at the airport or at the razzle dazzle all stop Promenade Platz. I don't live in Chiang Mai so I am trying to save time by going to the right location the first time. I have to do my extension in Chiang Mai as my WP is issued from there and my local immigration officer can't process the extension. Any help please . . . 

 

When recently renewing my one year retirement visa extension at the Nakhonratchsima immigration the officer said your passport runs out soon I said yes I'm about to renew it in Bangkok, she said don't forget to get a letter from your Embassy so we can move it to your new passport, I thought the British Consulate/Embassy in Wireless rd was closing down, or can I ask for the letter after receiving my new passport at the same office.

Peter P, I have to go a later than you, May,  to the office for renewing my passport and I have seen information stating I will need to make an appointment first, do I have the wrong information.

3 hours ago, the guest said:

Any kind of work in Thailand requires a work permit, this is the law. If you work without the proper dokumentation the you are breaking the law, and take the risk of being arrested, incarcerated at a detention center, then deported, and blacklisted. 

 

You are correct 'the guest', I have been ridiculed in the past when mentioning how the 'authorities' have jumped on foreigners for doing menial work when they have decided to, people should before attempting to mock other people always remember a few rules with regards to doing menial work/jobs, basically no foreigner is allowed to do something a Thai could do no matter how small, each area of Thailand have their own way of 'turning a blind eye' for instance, if you somehow upset the local 'big wig' you would be surprised at the rules that can be pulled, it's the same with applying for a visa or something to do with a visa the rule books are there in black and white but in the small print is also written "each area office can interpret the rules as they see fit", that's how it works, yes, no doubt people have built their own pad and done all sorts of things with no problems, some say things like they have been driving for ten years with no legal documents I'm sure that works just fine for them but it does not make it okay for everyone.

I have made several applications apart from the first one being a bit iffy it did eventually succeed, plus returning to check on the progress for them now when I click the bottom of the Thai information form down the bottom where it has the few words in red saying something like click to complete the 90 day I get "extranet" twirling around on a tab on the top bar then the Error page comes up, now I see others are getting the same problem, maybe they're changing over the system or on training, or Holliday again even.

On ‎5‎/‎4‎/‎2016 at 0:32 PM, johnatong said:

The site does appear to be down.

I have no idea why.