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19 hours ago, Halfaboy said:

Never had one and I do not regret...

But you are here, though?

9 minutes ago, gamini said:

I find it extraordinary that so many posters on this forum seem to think that paying an agent to put money into your account to get a retirement visa is perfectly legal.

I pointed out to some higher authority, that the "agent bypass" was being vastly promoted here. And the answer I got was: "Is it really illegal?". In my head I could help adding "T.I.T".

19 minutes ago, apophyss said:

Algerian ?

 

Are you sure they dont have a french passport ?

Yeah, you are right, this would be such a convenient way to prove that all French are thieves, isn't?

1 hour ago, fforest1 said:

If a guy wants to live in a 3000 baht a month room with no air-con and only eats mama noodles from 7-11 then this is the appropriate way for him to live if he can support himself....If some ones not begging in the street then that should be good enough for Thailand... 

Nope, just take the host country's prospective:

a) Cost / benefit? = low,

b) Risk  (of becoming a burden) / Benefit = high,

Therefore I am not interested; we want high spending, properly insured tourists who come to visit us for a few weeks.

As for many other things I cant blame Thai immigration for their intent, it is their lazy, sloppy, ineffective and burdensome implementation of rules that drives me mad.

This is sheer laziness, they stretch their own rules to deny entry to obvious offender, when the only thing they need is one rule stating that no one can stay more 90 days a year on tourist visa, and/or exempts.

On 7/29/2019 at 8:17 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

For an outsider (I am EU citizen living in Thailand) it's amazing how much support hard Brexit has. 

I understand that lots of people voted for the idea of being independent from the EU 3 years ago. But what was called Brexit at that time has, as far as I see, little resemblance with what it is now.

It seems 3 years ago many UK citizens thought it will give more control to their own government. And they thought they will soon make some trading agreements with the EU and not much will change. Politicians and aligned newspapers told them everything will be fine and easy. Yes, I understand why people voted for that idea.

But now? Everybody had 3 years to learn about lots of details. And everybody should have learned that most of what the politicians promised is impossible. Cake and eating it with lots of cherries while the unicorns run around in the garden is just not possible. It's not that the EU holds those unicorns back, they just don't exist and nobody will make them appear.

But looking and Boris and his supporters now they still behave like all would be fine if the EU would just release those unicorns.

Why it not obvious for everybody that No Deal makes no sense at all? Because if the UK leaves in October with no deal what will happen in November? People will frantically try to make deals - but now under more difficult conditions.

 

I know we are all stubborn from time to time and realizing that our decision was not perfect and changing it is sometimes difficult. But it's amazing how far that goes in the UK. Follow me over the cliff and somehow there is a bright future after that... ?

Yes, the Brits voted "leave", but they overlooked the reality that the only politician they had, capable of negotiating the exit, died with Alzheimer's in 2013.

Indeed, my lovely Wife and two girls are the only reason I stay here.

I feel quite uncomfortable with the climate here, and miss many things from my "Alpine Europe", but I feel I can make some sacrifices for my love ones.

I know this has been debate at length here, but this study (2015) has the merit of being based on surveys made by reputable organizations.

Racism rising in the Land of Smiles.pdf

Another fine example of Thai incompetence. A very poorly prepared jump, they probably didn't even look at the weather forecast; the wind at landing was stronger than expected and they have been pushed into the forested area at the back of the dropping zone. With the parachutes they use these poor guys are totally passive and cannot avoid any obstacle.

Maybe they wanted to reenact D-day...

3 hours ago, nkg said:

Then there are those who take every opportunity to ridicule their country ....

If you asked any outsider, 95% would say that, with regards to Brexit, Britain ridiculed itself.

P.S I am using "Britain" deliberately.

59 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

No it's nothing to do with face that goes out of the window when money is on the table, it just proves the illegality of what is going on or they would not be sharing the ill gotten gains with agents.

Yeah, actually I thought there was a rule on Thaivisa, about "not promoting illegal activities", what happened to that one? This whole thread, and a few others, would be in contradiction.

Cannot believe this, "coding as a third language" ! Total joke, they should teach algorithmic as part of the Math curriculum, and dedicate a large chunk of time to IT topics.

This quite revealing of something I have been suspecting for a long time the Time language claims an unnecessary amount of time, especially in the earlier grades. And later is a poor medium for science, technology and business tuition.

“It’s incredible,” the Welshman said. “I said to him, ‘Enjoy it, soak it all up and don’t worry about crying, because all real men cry.’ He’s an amazing athlete and it’s been an honour to be part of this.” (Geraint Thomas).

What can I say?

21 hours ago, TeaMonkey said:

Will I be able to do normal extensions again with my own money?

Interesting OP, how "normal" becomes a synonym of "legal"... But T.I.T.

15 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

I have been here for years and never once have I witnessed a Thai being rude to a European, American or Australian...

 

Are you one of these?   ????

Varies a lot if you ask me, when I take of my pants gogo girls always say: "big!", my wife, she giggles..

5 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

France gives awards to foreigners for promoting the French language, for instance using French lyrics in songs.

That's correct, smaller, "has been", countries try to stay on the map by pretending to be cultural giants.

11 hours ago, webfact said:

warned that if the bloc refused to negotiate then there would be a no-deal Brexit.

That's probably one of his deepest thoughts.

BJ, the chosen, to negotiate a no deal. The king of (oxy)morons.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

which has seen one US dollar fetching only Bt22 – a large drop over the usual Bt30 rate.

51 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The woman was working in Canada. 22 baht sounds about right

Ok, ok, ok, so it was the Canadian USD.