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Thai society tends to be much more formal than we outsiders acknowledge. Even in the small remote village in Chaiyaphum, where my wife is from, everyone tries to "dress up" at funerals. In a country where the immigration offices warn you to dress properly for your visit, and where access to temples requires adherence to a dress code, you would think visitors would realize this.
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Show up at your friend's funeral wearing shorts, flip flops, and a T shirt? And smoking a cigarette?
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Why are you so hostile in these topics? What difference does it make to you if someone can or cannot comfortably put away $12,000. I thought the immigration forum was to help people solve problems and get information about what is going on and what to expect at various immigration offices. Not jump down their throat.
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I'll bet that when your fourth grade teacher asked for someone to volunteer to be the classroom monitor, your hand was the first one in the air, with you saying "me, me, me." What difference does it make to you or me what conditions someone else gets to remain in Thailand? Doesn't effect me whatsoever. Especially during a time when the tourist industry is going bust, the Covid extenders are bringing some money into the country.
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It often takes a high visibility person getting hurt for any action to be taken. I think it was about 12 or 13 years ago that someone "important" got killed turning across the traffic and into the main entrance at Mahidol. Within a few days, Mahidol fixed it. Just closed off the road permanently from any right hand turns across traffic.
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Is Thailand facing the risk of stagflation?
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
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I saw the unblurred video. She was just a step or two from reaching the sidewalk and must have relaxed for a moment. Same as I do. She had already run the gauntlet. Sometimes, the motorcycles are so reckless there is nothing you can do to avoid them. Just last week, I got to the bottom of a sappan loy and was in the process of turning to go down the sidewalk and a motorcycle roared past on the sidewalk from the blindside of the sappan loy. Another half second and I would have had the same thing happen to me as happened to this young woman.
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Rate your Embassy's usefulness
John Drake replied to World Traveller2's topic in US & Canada Topics and Events
I don't begrudge you your access through the mail. I would just like the option to go in person. -
Rate your Embassy's usefulness
John Drake replied to World Traveller2's topic in US & Canada Topics and Events
Would be nice if they would allow us to come into the embassy to renew the passport and pick it up when it's ready, instead of forcing everything through the mail. -
What happens is people who have been here for some time tend to think they've figured it all out and take things for granted. Get a little too comfortable. Maybe it isn't the case, here, but it seems so in many of these farang-Thai confrontations (I put up a reminder about a similar story of a young British man who was chased by a Thai guy with a knife because the Thai guy wanted the British guy to buy him a beer; but it was taken down for some reason. But it's the same problem. Cultural assumptions and ways of dealing with foreigners that I would never think about fully understanding). The only place to be complacent is inside your own house by yourself. Some rules I follow: avoid crowds, stay off the street late at night, don't go to places that might mix alcohol with any sort of social confrontation.