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On 1/19/2020 at 4:45 PM, Templar Knight said:

When i was at Tesco the lady informed me it was also Big C and 7.  I have not tried them yet, but my wife was with me so she used her id.  I have not tried my passport yet but maybe next time i will try. I did ask about the passport but no reply or maybe she does not know how to input the numbers.  I will ask for a manager next week and hear what they have to say.  It is not just the foreigners that have to produce ID it is also Thais.  I cant understand why this has to be done. Next month my wife is going away maybe i will get her to leave her id ha ha

pay online! have you learned nothing from the responses to this thread?

On 1/19/2020 at 2:53 AM, holy cow cm said:

I can't believe most the posters on this topic are lay down roll over complacent of the <deleted> this government is doing about stuff that is against basic freedoms and has zero to do about corruption as in money laundering. It is a means of full control I am not going to set up auto pay or do anything else of the same. This is just strangulation except for the ones running the show who I would think are all unusually wealthy and untouchable. Totally out of line and drives my spike and I would gather even the Thai people's spike deeper into the ground of dissent. Let's see what happens with FFP., What I can say is my son in Uni sees hatred building more and more each day towards the you know who. It is their future not these archaic saluting dinosaurs.

you are amusing to me

On 1/6/2020 at 9:34 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

And if those girls decided they are willing to have sex with him to enhance their careers, would that be called rape or prostitution?

 

It seems lots of those stories are about he inviting girls to his hotel room and then he wants to have sex with them. Obviously that is not nice, but is it a crime? Could the girls have just turned around and leave the room? If they could have left but they stayed then that was their own decision.  I understand that maybe after it, hours or days or years later they think they should not have done that. But that doesn't make it rape, it was still their decision to stay (at least if it happend like that).

Ah, ThaiVisa, you never disappoint...I came here to see the sordid spectacle of feckless douchebags shamelessly defending a rapist, and my clicks were not in vain.

When I'm in Thailand (about 2 months a year) usually about 5-8,000 in 1,000 bills, with about 1,500 in 100s and 20s. However, 60-70% of my spending in Thailand is done with credit cards. Cash only when absolutely necessary. In my home country, I never carry cash--use credit cards for everything.

On 11/9/2019 at 9:52 PM, natway09 said:

I will stick to a bit of the folding stuff in the back pocket

Every Government salivates over the cashless society when they can keep track of all spending 

& tax you according to your spending 

boy, there are some scary, wacky weirdos hiding out in this country

On 4/13/2019 at 3:08 AM, Sealbash said:

Does this imaginary “downside” affect you personally?


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Yeah, keep up your sanctimonious "holier than thou" attitude...but the cultural invasion of Chinese tourists is real. I used to decry people criticizing them too, including the <deleted> blogger Richard Barrow, who, when I criticized him on Twitter for fomenting anti-Chinese sentiment (in Thai, no less), the <deleted> blocked me!

But then I read the now well-known article by a Chinese blogger, translated into English, on the horrors he witnessed being perpetrated by his countrymen in Sihanoukville in Cambodia, a city they have pretty much destroyed (https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/newsworthy/sihanoukville-seen-through-the-eyes-chinese-blogger-t25829.html).

So...yeah, I've given up defending them. They are a major problem and detriment to the countries of Southeast Asia. Even level-headed Chinese nationals agree.

I'm planning to retire in Thailand in 2026, and I just turned 60 this year. Since most (all?) Thai insurance providers will kick you out in x years if you didn't open your policy before turning 60, I opened a Thai Aetna health insurance policy last December, when i was still 59. Not crazy about paying for health insurance I'm not present to use (though I do visit for about 6 weeks every other year leading up to retirement, and my current policy is only about 22k baht per year), but at least I won't get booted at 70 or whatever.

2 hours ago, leeneeds said:

Going the same way as America

the land of the head job,

not considered sex, by most.

Lucky to be blown on first date.

Ah, another incel heard from.

Several respondents have already given you the advice you need, even if it's not the advice you want: assuming you have your passport, just consider it a loss and chalk it up to experience...move on. It's not your country...you can't win. And I would add to this a second piece of advice: stop trying to get into romantic relationships with sex workers. You're welcome.

On 9/19/2019 at 1:42 AM, GeKoSc said:

It sounds good and I would like do the same for my colon. I found at the Internet a similar place in Pattaya. But this time I will need to see a medical doctor to remove an intestinal obstruction, clean out the colon and replace the bad bacteria....

???????????? learn some science and it will save you a lot of money

23 hours ago, EricTh said:

Western culture is different from eastern culture.

 

Traditionally, eastern culture do not permit extramarital sex but not so in western culture.

 

So it's quite common for westerners to have sex outside and before marriage.

???????????????????????????????????????? you obviously haven't noticed all the "man ruud" love hotels densely packed into any Thai city of any size. those hotels are NOT primarily for farangs, they're for Thais, some of the horniest people on the planet (and I'm not talking about the sex industry either, though there's a reason it's so huge in Thailand).

Free lobotomy at the border. So we'll all fit in better.

On 9/16/2019 at 9:05 AM, whitemouse said:

No. Western democracies are free countries, not police states.  

Get back to us in 2 years or so. Sincerely, the US and UK, currently being taken over by Nazis.

This probably won't be appreciated by the OP, but I gotta say it. It is never a good idea to force a saying that sounds good to you in English into Thai, especially for a tattoo. You're much better off finding an established and accepted Thai saying that resonates with you when you hear an accurate English translation of it.

Why do I say this? Well, because if you force an English saying into Thai--whether it "makes sense" or not--trust me, it will just lead to head-scratching among your intended audience. Who is your intended audience? Well, if you're talking about getting a tattoo on your body in Thai, your intended audience is native speakers of Thai who are literate in their own language.

Please don't tell me that's not your intended audience. Because if it wasn't, then you wouldn't be getting the tattoo in THAI in the first place.

C'mon people, let's use our brains and THINK.

On 9/1/2019 at 4:23 PM, bsb7140 said:

I have this service booked next month - are you expected to tip? I noticed someone above mentioned they tipped. I won't have any THB on me at the time so just trying to think ahead if it is expected.

No, I would definitely not tip (I never have, at least...and I'm American! haha)

3 hours ago, timendres said:

There is actually a sign (if it is still there) here in Bangkok on Sukhumvit giving a brief explanation of the history of Sukhumvit road. I think it is near Asok.

Yes, it's just past Asoke (as you're heading east toward soi 18) on the southeast corner, near the Skytrain stairs, if memory serves.

On 8/28/2019 at 6:14 AM, KhunBENQ said:

I can't tell from experience whether this service works:

https://www.limousine.in.th/fast-track-immigration.html

 

It's labeled as limousine service but you can also book arrival service without transportation.

It does work. Very reliable and efficient.

On 8/27/2019 at 8:05 PM, Letseng said:

It is always worth it if you can find a service. It has become restricted to premium pax. 

It's not "restricted" at all. Please don't spread false information. Anyone can get it for 1,250 baht:

https://www.limousine.in.th/fast-track-immigration.html

The human body is a self-cleansing machine. Learn some science.

10 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Maybe there would be less homophobia if the whole LGBT community stopped wagging their sexuality and flags in peoples faces and just got on with life.

Does that mean your kind would stop posting in this forum, contributing nothing to a topic you know nothing about? Also: you chose this forum to post in out of all of the various fora on ThaiVisa...which might be telling us a bit more about you than you're willing to disclose (or admit to yourself).

No, you can't live like that on that amount almost anywhere in Thailand now. When I first came to Thailand (2002), I:

1. gamed the system by doing "visa runs" to the Cambo or Lao border every month (no longer possible)

2. lived on a $1,000 USD income for doing work online, plus income from a seasonal job in the US that required me to be there 3 months a year

3. benefitted from the 44 baht to 1 USD exchange rate at that time

4. lived in a very decent, 3,000 baht a month, furnished apartment in On Nut

5. benefitted from an "LT" price of 1k from sex workers

Times change, gotta deal with it.