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3 hours ago, jojothai said:

The announcement on june 13 said that true has got the rights and they claim that they will be the only ones showing it in thailand.

Assuming its on the normal channels that would be ok. I only pay about 200 baht a month extra for the football add on.

True have the direct broadcast rights for the next 3 seasons.

From today they have new channels up and running that will show the EPL. 600 Onwards on Sat TV feed.

I changed by Gold package from the old BeIn 299thb package to the new True EPL package for 199thb a month yesterday via their call centre.

16 hours ago, gbswales said:

I agree with the original poster and I am living in the UK - at least this is the general direction it seems to be heading in if you look at who the clown (Johnson) has appointed to his cabinet.  I am stuck here for health reasons but if I could get out before the brexit mess concludes I would.

If you get out to Thailand you'll need alot of GBP.

Exchange rate down in the 37s yesterday. 

19 hours ago, Classic Ray said:

Shame the Ambassador can’t devote a bit more time to the interests of British citizens who live here and have and still do pay UK taxes, which pay his salary.

 

All the nonsense about income statements could easily have been sorted out if there was any will to provide service for citizens.  There isn’t, they prefer just to share extra fees from encouraging the Thai elite to visit the UK. With luck they will get the chance to see Yingluck and Thaksin while they are there!

Quite correct.

Native Thai so called English language teachers can't speak English so why would anyone think they can teach code. 

Beggars belief.

11 hours ago, Thechook said:

where would thailand use these

In Thailand for the next coup.

On 7/26/2019 at 7:42 AM, Fred31 said:

Still, not quite as crazy as the US Whitehouse

Or the houses of parliament in London. 

Bloody marvellous. 

I can't stop laughing. 

5 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

But no Aussies, tfft.... ????

Most Ozzies I know don't stay here 12 months a year Because they get docked by the Government from their pension(s) if they are out of Oz.

Because it beats the <deleted> out of where I came from.

6 hours ago, darksidedog said:

So, yet another big song and dance over finding a few immigrants from neighbouring countries. There are after all over a million of them spread around, so finding a few with dodgy credentials shouldn't be too difficult. No mention of any expats involved, but the tone of the story still tends to tar us with the same brush and makes readers get the impression that so, so many foreigners in general are bad for the country. I like this attitude less and less with every such story.

Thailand is singing and dancing everyday of the week so it should come as no surprise. 

Usual Thai m/c nonsense. 

21 hours ago, Yeahbutwhytho said:

It doesn't matter if he's fit or not, he's in charge like it or not

 

There are incompetent governments all around the world, who are not 'fit to lead'. Sometimes it makes me think humans are biologically swayed to always vote the dumbest person in the room

 

Or in this case, a team have successfully taken control and everyone's too lazy to bother

Just look at the incompetence in my old hangout the UK.

3 years after a vote they still haven't left the EU.

Yawn.

6 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Can he explain to me, in a manner that is logical, the purpose of 90 day reporting for people who have been here for YEARS, retired, married with families?

It's the law. 

Logical or not.

My wife had a 500k baht life policy on me.

When she pays the yearly premium she asks me for a copy of my passport photo page and for me to sign it.

Which I do and have never been asked to supply any other documents. 

I'm on a Non O marriage and also have a yellow book, Thai DL.

The day after BJ went the no tip we are professional banners were removed at my IO. 

So of course it's back to business as before.

33 minutes ago, Oxx said:

 

In the case of the UK, the Embassy knows nothing about my relatives in the UK - not their names, where they live, or how to contact them.  I wonder how that would work?  Indeed, my understanding is that hospitals will not release bodies for burial/cremation until the whole Embassy process has been gone through.

 

Is it possible to tell the British Embassy to contact my partner instead of going through this pointless rigmarole?

Hospital will only release body after Post  Mortem which is required by the British Embassy. 

A letter from the embassy is required by the widow for official release of the body to her for a death certificate to be issued and cremation can then take place.

I unfortunately have just been through this for my late friend.

Copy of UK will was kept in Thailand and is now being executed by his family as virtually all his assets were in the UK.

9 hours ago, nickstav said:

A friend's 15 year old son recently needed brain surgery for a motorbike accident. No helmet of course. He's alive, but his mental capacity will never be the same. Such a shame.

There must be enforcement of helmet laws by the police, whatever it takes. 

Don't let children drive! I was cut off on my motorbike by a kid who couldn't have been older than 12 and in his school uniform. If a kid is driving the police should impound the bike and the parents have to go claim it and pay a hefty fine to have it released. Let that happen a couple of times and they won't let the kid drive.

I've just been sitting at the traffic lights next to PC Plod with a helmet on but with the strap swinging in the wind, there by negating its effectiveness in an emergency.

2 minutes ago, Liss Camber said:

There was at least a teacher in the north to teach children a language! If government supported all schools with enough money so they can afford a "regular" teacher with Visa and work permit they hadn't to employ "bad farangs"! What a misery. Northern children seem not to be as valuable as children in Bangkok. Education still is not a goal for Thailand to hold for. 

We had Cameroons teaching at our local high school and my kids said no one could understand them.

So it was a useless exercise. 

Same was said of South Africans.

The schools do it because they are cheap and it ticks a box.

18 hours ago, transam said:

What happened to the school head honcho..?...

Nothing.

4 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

I did money laundry a few times back in the young days. Forgot banknotes in pants' pockets and load them in washing machine. Money came out sparkling clean after drying. Good it's made of cotton, not paper...

Had my share in the washing machine too. 

What goes around comes around.

A friend last week booked a taxi.

No greeting upon arriving at his hotel, no loading bags into taxi, no off loading bags from taxi. 

Driver complaining he has no customers.

My friend said you just lost another and all my friends because I will give them your taxi number and say don't use this guy he's lazy whingeing s***.

He told him in Thai as well. 

My friend said his face was priceless.

18 hours ago, Basil B said:

I think some people are knocking the fact that there is a well established muslim community in Thailand.

Yes in the South and they are born Thai not in Arabia.

A priority would be fixing the drainage and sewer systems before anything else should be even considered.

The world class family resort always knee deep in water after every hour of rain.