Phulublub

Just like some farag insist Thai authorities always require to see a "passport" when what they actually want is some form of ID - of which a Passport is one. I have never had a problem after beign asked for "Passport" and showing my Thai Drivers Licence (Immigration excepted, of course). Just because the translation is poor does not mean we should use incorrect terminology. PH.

Searching around the 'net found this thread from 2013 (which had not come up in Forum Search) which may be of interest but highlights the confusion:

A thorny subject for sure, but does anyone have definitive advice on what is allowed and required? As I understand things, to increase the Common Fee requires an AGM vote of at least 50% of the ownership. If this is not achieved ( acommonn occurance where nowhere near 50% attend or send proxies - apathy rules!), a follow up EGM can pass an increase with a reduced hurdle - but I have seen and heard various numbers mentioned. Then there is the option of Special Assessmnet which, if I am correct, is primarily brought in the restore the Sinking Fund - but is it limited to that? Can this be brought up at AGM? If so, what is the vote needed (I have heard majority, with minmum 25% of ownership in favour). I have read discussion that any EGM for either or both of the above must be held within two weeks of any AGM where a quorum is not achieved - which seems daft, especially for the SA which might need urgent and unforeseen action in the case of emergeny works being carried out. Am seeking professional advice but, of course, everywhere is closed for NY and there must be members here who sit (or have sat) on Committees and dealt with these issues. Appreciate any experience and directions to any useful publications that might help unmuddy the waters. PH

Absolute utter tripe. Plenty of insurance companies offer policies. PH

There are, sadly, many entitled farangs who think similarly. PH

It is a Multi ENTRY visa....so as long as you (try to) enter while the Visa is valid, you will be fine. How long you can stay after entry is nothing to do with the ENTRY visa. PH

Who? The guy who climbed Everest? PH

Juast tbhose susceptible? What about their families? Their carers? How do they earn any money to survive? PH

Or even "solutions" to things that would not even be issues were it not for the same online hogwash PH

Would that be the same Goons who only gave the vaccines they were initially able to source to the local population, but as soon as the Western vaccines were available, foreigners were pretty much put at the front of the queue? (And why was it a huge proportion of the World was so low on vaccine availability? Oh yes - so that the developed west could pick and choose and have multiple vaccines available for their own populations.) PH

They stopped you before - so you stayed and are NOW on overstay and expect them to let you through? Bit of non-joined up thinking on your part there! Leaving from another point before your time was up would have been a sensible move, but too late for that. To expect them to act differently now you are on overstay than when you were not (for whatever reason they previously refused) is a bit daft frankly. PH

Why? Is a motorbike not a vehicle? PH

Effectively, yes. You said So it is bye bye 1st class insurance. The implication from that statement is that it is impossible to get Class 1 for older vehicles PH

Your insurance company? You could always try a different one. Or a broker... Utter BS to suggest that every single vehicle on the roads in Thailand over 7 years old only has compulsory insurance. PH

Depends on yoru home country, and the country(ies) you may visit. For the UK, you can drive on a Thai Licence for up to a year. That may or may not also be the case for others. Also for the UK, if you emigrate (as you have done) by law you must surrender your UK Licence. May ignore this and, indeed, renew using a family or friend address as theirs to receive the new one. The bigger problem may be if you need to rent a car. Some rental companies will charge more for insurance, or not rent at all if only a Thai Licence is offered. You may also need an IDP - an Internatinal Driving Permit, alongside your Thai Licence (there is no such thing as an International Driving Licence, though many refer to the IDP as an IDL). PH

That it has been the system for a long time does not make it roght, or mean it works well. For rather more than 300 years other, even more archaic systems were in place. Did their longevity mean they worked well? If not, then if OK to change them, then OK to change this. If they did, why were they discarded? PH

So what Alex Salmond said counts, but what the Leader of the UK Inpedendence Party - the ones who led the charge to leave the EU - doesn't? Hypocrisy writ large! PH

How is this in any way different to Nigel Farage saying a 52/48 Brexit vote would be unfinished business? PH

I'll have a go: Trading - you need them more than they need you. rUK has made over 70 trade deals since Brexit doncha know. Energy - now the turkey is well and truly ready cooked, they can turn off the ovens. No need for so much energy. Job done. Water - climate change is bringing more rain to the whole of the UK, not just the sunny uplands. No need for new reservoirs as the ones we have will be more than enough as they fill up again quicker. _________________ meanwhile, back on planet Earth....

Says a man who is happy that the UK walked away from its biggest trading partner! But once again, if they are such a drain, you should be helping them out the door so rUK can prosper. The total strawman of being in EU and independent deserves no further input. PH

Unnecesary and perhaps showing your anti-Scottish bias. It is entriely possible to be pro-Independence and not anti English. But that would probably not fit your narrative. PH

"52-48 power but no legitimacy." Who said that? "52-48 will be unfinished business." Who said that? (Hint: Not a Remainer) PH

Whereas the UK-wide majorithy for Brexit was huge. Overwhelming. Massive. Unambiguous. Decisive. Yeah, that mere 10% swing would be a game changer! PH

And since then, how many times have the SNP - who's central plank and pretty mucbh single reason for existence is Independence - been successful in elections? Aparently, having multiple quick fire reruns is OK for the Nasty Party, whose 180,000 get to choose the PM, but not for a Country!!! PH

The uncertainty is exactly why many of us voted to stay in 2014. Why is that so very hard to understand? That so many are now willing to risk this uncertainty should tell you something. But - again - if many are not, then another referendum really will put things to bed as the landscape is not going to undergo such a huge change in the near future. It is not Sturgeon (for whom I have no time) but the Scottish people. If they are so gullible to fall for her rhetoric (if that is what is is), then what business is it of yours? Let them go, if that is what they want. Or perhaps it is the English seeing that they may lose control over yet another colony that worries them so much? PH