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4 hours ago, webfact said:

Despite his attempts to escape and the intervention of a Thai man, the assault continued, with the woman that he had purportedly slapped hitting him on the head with a high-heeled shoe.

I remember that a few years back, a similar altercation ended in the foreigner dying, the heel having punched through the skull.

This would be indeed an attack with a potential deadly weapon. I wonder if we will read more about it, as indentity of the katoey must be clear to police.

6 minutes ago, statman78 said:

The departure tax is still there.  It is now included in the price of the ticket.  You’ll see it if you look at the itemized receipt for an international ticket.

People's attention span is really short, that it is part of the ticket has all but been forgotten.

The weird thing is indeed, why they are not simply increasing the departure tax.

That indicates to me, that this is a different trough that needs filling for snouts to feed who get nothing from the first one. Is corruption not a nice thing?

3 hours ago, jaxon said:

Kid was born in UK and had a Thai passport previously.  New Thai passport not possible as no Thai ID (not living in Thailand as adult). Question, does he still retain Thai citizenship or does it need some kind of confirmation?  He does not need a new Thai passport I am just wondering if he remains Thai and has a right to one/residency in the future. 

The OP wanted a fairly succinct answer to a specific issue with his kid, one that also has only one correct answer in the real world.

Now there are three pages of contrary discussion if it is theoretically illegal to have two nationalities after being an adult.

What a swamp AseanNow sometimes is! 😆

1 hour ago, UKresonant said:

For the UK born kid we just went to the Embassy and obtained a Thai birth cert as mother is Thai.

 

Then Thai passport.

 

ID card was much later.

The issue is age: you can make a Thai passport for a child without Thai ID card if it is less than 7 years old; after that, it needs the Thai ID card.

For that it needs to be registered in a house book, but it does not need to live there, or have lived there previously ever (another poster mentioned that, it is the correct information).

As others questioned, if there would be future issues if the child has two nationalities / passports. My son from first marriage is now 24, he simply has kept both passports and has just renewed his German one. You actually have to write on the application if you have a second nationality, no issue at all.

Neither he nor my daughter have ever encountered any difficulty with the two passports, or any renewal of both either in Thailand or in Germany, and from all the people I know, there has never been an issue reported.

We are German, so this might differ with other nationalities/passports.

A dual Thai passport is therefore no problem for girls at all. However, for my son, Thai military service became an issue, and if you have a Thai passport, you will participate in the lottery.

2 hours ago, jaxon said:

Kid was born in UK and had a Thai passport previously.  New Thai passport not possible as no Thai ID (not living in Thailand as adult). Question, does he still retain Thai citizenship or does it need some kind of confirmation?  He does not need a new Thai passport I am just wondering if he remains Thai and has a right to one/residency in the future. 

We were in exactly the same position as you: because of Covid, our daughters passport lapsed, and as she was older than 7, she had to get a Thai ID card first.

1) your child will not loose Thai citizenship without passport; actually, he -- as any Thai citizen -- is entitled to enter Thailand even on a lapsed passport

2) your child will need to be registered in the Thai house book to obtain an ID card; you need to apply for the ID card in person, with child and both parents present, as the will make fotos of the child for the card there (you can do that in the same province the house book is located)

3) with the ID card, you then can get a Thai passport for your child at any consulate, this step does not need to happen in Thailand any more

4) very important: all documents for the ID card need to be originals (ask me how I know, we left them in Germany and had only notarized copies, they were not good enough...)

The process is straightforward, but impossible if you did not plan to go to Thailand.

On 4/26/2024 at 4:49 PM, Prubangboy said:

Also: Toberone chocolate bar -ever knowingly bought outside of Duty Free?

They were once a really good chocolate until bought up by the Americans (since then they do not have the hidden bear inside the mountain on the packaging any more, as not a majority Swiss company).

But of course I live in Europe, so getting good chocolate is not a particularly high hurdle.

On 4/26/2024 at 3:40 PM, Lacessit said:

If I am picking up hold luggage, I wait seated until nearly everyone has left the plane. I've never had the situation where my luggage beats me to the carousel.

 

I am usually last aboard, or close to it. No plane can take off when there is hold luggage aboard, and no corresponding passenger.

Travel (work) smart not hard. 👍

I also cannot understand how adult people do not understand how boarding and unboarding of an airplane works and how much more efficient it would be to just be calm and relaxed and wait the correct turn.

2 minutes ago, AreYouGerman said:

 

And the story is also that France once banned energy drinks including Red Bull for 10+ years because they thought Taurine is harmful. 😅 

 

Imagine what food has big amounts of Taurine. Meat. Eat more meat!

Not just France. I remember in the old techno days, that we bought horrendously expensive cans of Red Bull illegally smuggled in from Switzerland from the trunk of cars in the club parking lots. Those were the happy days 😜

On 4/8/2024 at 2:44 PM, Ratel Snake said:

The joy of capitalism and its endless creativity when it comes to manufacture junk food and kill people.

The reason for the prevalence of diabetes in Thailand is the rice. Maybe a shock for some, but polished white rice is really unhealthy.

In our village, there is not a single older person without diabetes.

Why was this not an issue in the past? Then, price was not polished by modern efficient machinery and people ate a lot less -- at least in the Isaan I know, people were that poor, that they had a single bowl of rice and whatever plants could be gathered on the paddy edges.

2 hours ago, finnomick1 said:

Just a thought, one of the lads down here near Buriram has a large swimming pool at his house. He offered to teach the kids to swim for free.

He offered that to a few kids he knew, or *all* the kids of the neighboring villages?

That could easily be a 4-digit number, meaning constant classes of 20-30 kids in turns 10 hours a day, 5 days a week. Hardly realistic, I am sorry to say, but maybe at 10 Baht a kid a day a business idea if he is also a certified swimming teacher very bored with his life?

9 hours ago, webfact said:

“Particularly in the droppings of geckos, there may be contaminated fungi and salmonella, which can cause dysentery and adversely affect one’s health.

The risk cannot be very big then, because they are really everywhere when living in the countryside -- both the geckos and their dropping.

I think the belief that geckos would be good for charisma and sexual health comes from the fact, that they all clump together when mating, also their ability to be everywhere and squeeze into any situation (literally).

They are a very common Chinese medicine (dried and pulverized, I have seen them sold thus in hat Yai) and there is a very common Sak yant tattoo that a lot of male Thais carry for this reason specifically, so this belief is fed from both the Chinese and the Thai culture direction.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

After three weeks of searching, police found that Obritzberger had changed the registration plate of the motorcycle to 1 กว 1982, changed the colour of the wheels, and changed his clothes upon arrival at Koh Pha Ngan.

The mind boggles why people would do this, in a foreign country, with a jail system known to be quite uncomfortable.

I can understand crimes of passion or crimes of opportunity, but this was obviously planned -- over a motorcycle worth less than 10,000 euro. Why?!

At least he did not kick anybody...

On 10/12/2020 at 3:53 AM, webfact said:

OBITUARY

Legendary nightlife columnist Bernard Trink dead at 89

 

Mr Trink, who passed away at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital from a blood infection, is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

My condolences to his family, may he rest in peace.

During my first years in Thailand, his column was a weekly mainstay for me, even though I was not actually in Bangkok or Pattaya at the time. This was right before arrival of the internet, possibly the reason to why it gave such a strong feeling of belonging to some kind of "expat community" he informed us all about.

I am sad to hear of his passing, another small facet of my own life during my youth gone from the world.

7 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Big stick , pocket full of stones ,make sure you have running shoes on incase they don't work

 

regards worgeordie

A sturdy stick, dogs know what it is from sight. Also making a hitting or throwing motion, even with an empty hand, will make them flee.

However, if there are several of them, they will remember and the clever ones will try to get you from the back.

If it is always the same dogs, and the owner in the village is known, having him chat with you friendly in sight of the dogs will also make them remember that you are 'part of the allowed circle'. With street dogs, this option obviously does not exist.

18 minutes ago, Bundooman said:

Wow! a couple of posts, an I-ta-lian-know-it-all, describing every foreigner her as though 'h'e, or is it a 'she' is aware of every older expat's physical appearance and sex habits, trounces into this forum, a Brit-hating spaghetti-eater, with no idea what he/she/it is talking about!

Who are you? Are you the older-sexual-activity-policeman-checker-upperer?

Why do you think Brits, but slightly less, the Germans, treat you so badly?

Is it because you are so dreary? Opinionated about expats?

They've all got bad teeth, bad breath, overhanging bellies? Pigging out on knob enhancers?

Demeaning Thai women who associate with foreigners? 

What a gem you are! No wonder you are so lost, unhappy, bitter, twisted and sad. 

Italy is best for you old man - sob your heart out to your beautiful women there  - they'll probably laugh at you - just as they did before you left the place!

Indeed, the original poster voiced so many horrible opinions in one post, it can only be a wind-up in this enlightened day and age:

1) taking agency away from women for their life decisions

2) ageism; weirdly against only the males (why would they be less capable?)

3) body shaming; even if outer appearance would not be optimal, are they lesser people for it?

4) being born in Italy makes the OP somehow wiser, so he can give advice to the natives? That is rank with post-colonialism

I think, the OP can only be a troll post, persiflaging all the bad opinions we all have left behind. I think such a post does not deserve of the "respect" this person orders us to have of him.

14 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Having an older felang boyfriend maybe the the best and easiest option for them , either that or doing menial work on minimum wage or brothel work .

   If they took the menial work, they would probably get married and have a family and have a normal life , rather then being widowed at 40

Still, the decision of a consenting adult.

Her body, her decision, is it not? This at least was what feminism fought hard for during the last 50 years.

On 3/18/2024 at 1:24 PM, Nick Carter icp said:

You are ruining the woman's life , she likely to be  widow at 45 years old , past it and unable to reproduce and find another husband and no work experience and then will be banging felangs cheaply hoping one of them will marry her  

What a weird thing to say.

Are you telling us that women of a young or any age do not have agency to decide what is best for them?

You make it sound as if they need a mentor to guide them through life, and basically a slave to their waning reproductive system.

I thought we have left this world view in the 1970s.

On 3/15/2024 at 12:42 AM, Jingthing said:

There is a lot you're not aware of.

 

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft - Wikipedia

I am German and I was completely unaware of it. So I would not put too much weight on it, that some person in the UK also does know nothing of this.

Interesting tidbit from the wikipedia article, 'transsexual' as an expression is actually a German invention, the concept a German definition. I wonder how man transsexuals know that they are basically a category framed during the Weimar Republic.

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Magnus Hirschfeld coined the term transsexual in the 1923 essay Die Intersexuelle Konstitution.^[47][48][46] This identified the clinical category which his colleague Harry Benjamin would later develop in the United States; only about thirty years after its coining by Hirschfeld did the term enter wider use, with Benjamin's work.^[48][46] Hirschfeld also originally coined the term transvestite in 1910, and he sometimes used the term "extreme transvestites" or "total transvestites" to refer to transsexuals.