ICELANDMAN

21 hours ago, MadMac said:

There is light at the end of the tunnel, as recently reported the TAT commisioned fortune tellers to find out what everybody else knows ????

But TAT informations speaking, fortune tellers have said only bad news.

20 hours ago, Spaniel said:

Thanks everyone for the helpful replies.     Wife and I have been shopping the past week and we have decided on two Diken units from Home Pro.    After assorted discounts here is the final price.

18,000 btu       B 27,790

24,000 btu         43,247

 

  Total            B   71,037

 

Carrier price   B 61,080

 

Mitsuvish       B  78.616

   

From the price you paid I hope the external unit has a copper coil, if instead it is aluminium with the new cooling liquid for the "protection of the environment" it will only last you two years.

What I find scandalous and those policemen who are prance of having found an alien thug who is perhaps not excluded has simply forgotten to ask for an extension of his visa, after a certain age it is possible for many to have memory problems or first step Alzheimer. But coincidentally, with all the drug traffickers arrested there is no souvenir photo put in the newspapers. And scandalous is worthy only of a dictator government of asking and offering rewards for taking the Farang in overstay, if Thais adore this and congratulate themselves as here on this forum only means that they deserve the government they have.

She told the police that they had separated at the airport - a friend picked up her husband and took him to Khao San Road while she headed south to her home-town in Songkhla. 

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The wife know the name friend ? Maybe is not a really friend ? Have him kidnapped or health problems, difficult know the real live the people. Before make idiot speculation better know many informations, this a serious situation.

The wife ask everyone, you have see my husband ? This is question maybe someone I hope to replay.

5 minutes ago, Phuket Mafia said:

I’m trying to stick with one of the major Isaan towns. I was in chum phae before and people stared me down like I was an alien.

 

Also, can anyone explain why I saw like 12 year old girls with black pornhub t shirts walking around in the markets. Do they just not understand the meaning?

Don't worry about it, we're all considered aliens.
They simply can't read English and think this a brand name

21 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

I would look into the towns of Pranburi, Kanchanaburi, and Prachuap Khiri Khan. 

 

 

Not so much young people this place but Petchaburi have university more funny for young man

The report urged the public to report illegal foreigners on the 1178 hotline with premium 1OOO baths

Not forget.....

17 hours ago, mogandave said:

Carrier has the best warranty and is significantly cheaper. 
 

I have three older Carriers, one cassette & two wall units. All conventional, no problems with any of them.  
 

I have one new Carrier inverter and it’s great, much quieter than the conventional. 
 

I also have an old Mitsubishi and a old York, they’ve both been good. 
 

If I were buying a new unit today, I would buy a new inverter cassette model, probably Carrier. 
 

If you own the house, regardless of what brand you go with, the cassette units are absolutely worth the extra money. 

I agree with cassette units work the best but the going to the ceiling to change air filters regularly doesn't seem very practical, If you put on the wall near ceiling you the same effect I think and the cassette unit is normally double price i not think is the best solution but everyone have to make the choice him like

My only question here is will the State US or China that will vassal Thailand ?

2 hours ago, Caldera said:

I have an easy solution for any kind of unsolicited call: I never answer my phone, unless the number is one of my contacts.

 

It has served me well. In the rare event that anyone else has anything important to bring to my attention, they can send an SMS to suggest that I call back. Or call an acquaintance of mine.

 

That's not primarily to fob off immigration officers and other criminals. Too many people simply have the wrong number or want to sell some crappola.

I also use the same technique but I don't know why my girlfriend always rushes to answer my phone????

Very strange news this about book yellow, someone another have same problems ?

See also Haier inverter, I have one new and work very well and not noise sleep on my bedroom

2 minutes ago, Loonie said:

Already have. 70-80% they say haha

Then you already have your answer

I see that you like to live dangerously with relationship.

14 hours ago, sirineou said:

What you need then is a shock collar with an electric fence

there is a whire you bury in the ground where you don't want the dog to go , the wire activates the colar

  There are a a few of them at Lazada.They might be available elsewhere also.

 

I have tried this on your neck before ?

19 hours ago, Daffy D said:

 

14 hours ago, fittobethaied said:

During my business career I traveled all over SE Asia and lived in Taipei for 3.5 years and Manila for 11 years. When I moved to Thailand in 2010 I expected to assimilate as easily here as I did in other countries, but it has been an uphill battle ever since. I gave it a year before I invested in a home and I figured I was just a little slower than most people at adjusting and over time I would be okay, but that hasn't been the case. I know there will be some that will say "if you don't like it here why don't you just leave". That's oftentimes easier said than done. First off, my wife would never move away from her adult kids. I had a one time health event 4 years ago that scared me so badly that I liquidated all of my assets back in the US and transferred everything here in an attempt to make things easier on my wife in the event that I passed away sooner than I expected, so I have essentially "mopped myself into a corner".

 

I am OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), so I don't thrive well around chaos, disorder, people that don't obey basic rules and regulations, people who say one thing and mean another, people who's smile can mean 20 different things...and I could go on and on with a list of things that rob me of my contentment. Thailand is all of those things that rub me the wrong way. "Just change your attitude" you might say, but if you know anyone with OCD you will understand that is has nothing to do with attitude and more to do with just being wired differently than most people.

However, in spite of all of the things that I dislike about Thailand I have managed to carve out a fairly nice existence for myself. I spend a lot of time at home where I can control my environment and I try to avoid as much contact with the locals as I can. The females are tolerable, but the males are totally toxic to me and I have nothing to do with them. Life could be better, but I have learned that we humans can adapt to most any circumstance that life throws at us. I never thought I'd say this, but with all that's going on back in the US right now, I think I'm better off here in Thailand.  

 

Sorry for your OCD, maize I think Udon Thani city is not the best place to live, I lived 2 years in Udon and it was a bad experience for the chaotic traffic and the pollution, to continue living locked up in the house with the air conditioner it seems to me that what is not expected of the LOS, there are many more healthy and pleasant places to live in Thailand the only reason and that in Thailand and the wife who takes the lead which seems to me your case.

29 minutes ago, Chazar said:

IF you have your name in a yellow  book............nothing for one residence below 10million although also read up to 50  million..............

 Farang with name a yellow book and living at home below 10 million have to pay soon or later, same privilege have farang for ticket hospital and parkland.....

55 minutes ago, Shaunduhpostman said:

A billionaire with connections to the UN and Elon Musk. Hmm. My guttersnipe's paranoid science fiction conspiracy theory guess would be that Thanatorn is the globalist banks' smart dusting, "sustainable" planet agenda and technocrat's man. The Thai establishment is too messy, too dinosauric, anachronistic, too oblivious to hi tech,  too connected to China for this lot to get their 5g satellite monitored globalist UN 2030 agenda thing going in Thailand to the extent that they would like. So, I would not put my money on Thailand becoming more democratic should Thanatorn prevail, if what some posts on this thread has said  about his background is correct, that he is part of the Musk network and has worked with the UN previously and therefore may still be doing so. Surely there would be hope of a very  different Thailand but not a democratic Thailand as democracy is rapidly evaporating as a possibility for the whole world with the quickly ramping up  global surveillance state, the internet of things and its apparent aim of an AI monitored social credit system that will make the problem of differing opinions and dissent negligible for the elites everywhere except amongst themselves, of course. As 5g, the new internet of things network goes in place, not only is total surveillance and control  down to our eeg's and bodily proceses everywhere all the time possible but also weaponization  anytime anywhere, so perhaps the Thai police force would find themselves out of a job, and the sooner they realize this the sooner they would be fighting tooth and nail against Thanatorn. Elon Musk is playing a big role in laying the infrastructural foundations for this total surveillance state with his company making up the lion's share of the 84,000 5g satellites that are slated to be up within three years, and which has already begun and consistently ahead of schedule and getting whatever green lights they want from any who might have authority to regulate them. So I would speculate that what we are looking at with Thanatorn is an agent who is working for this particular juggernaut not a democratic Thailand but a globalist compliant Thailand, a driverless car Thailand, which Thailand probably would be better off with, heheh,  a Starlink to Neuralink satellite connected internet straight to the brain  Thailand which I doubt few Thais care one way of the other about,  though a Thailand that has cut down all of its trees and microwaved its eco-systems to make way for the signal paths, a Thailand that has made its people even more sick and unhealthy than they already are with the large upswing in electromagnetic radiation that the new 5g system blasting through the ionopshere and creating even more disruption in the weather will create. It would seem this demonstration would be the start of something like  a show down between western and Chinese proxy forces, between Huawei-China Mobile-the Communist Party and Starlink-Verizon-AT&T-Chase Manhattan Bank (or whatever bank or banks are behind the internet of things and the UN) over who gets to run the infrastructure for the Thailand sector of the one world system.

I agree on part of what you wrote, the only difference is that the two sides use the same tools to dominate, so nothing will change or most perhaps probably only for the worse,  when commanders lose they are always the people who pay the bill

How strange I don't see the usual Thais trolls now ?

5 hours ago, Jessi said:

@5PM in BKK yesterday reminds me of "The people power" movement in the Philippines against Marcos years ago.

Movement promote from Vatican, I not see same movement in Thailand on the next future but the recent visit Pope maybe is not a coincidence.

3 hours ago, Martyp said:

I married a Thai woman this year. I divorced my US wife 3 years ago. Thailand is pretty much a community property country. 50/50. That is not to say that you would be treated fairly in a court if you had an adversarial divorce. There is a lot of lore about courts favoring Thai nationals ( no surprise there). I got a prenuptial agreement before getting married here. Some would say a prenup is worthless but they would probably say that about a prenup in any country. I would expect, in the worst case, that my wife would get at least half (or all assets) in Thailand. If you buy land that will be purchased in her name. Most of my money is in the US and of course my pension income is all mine.

 

I had the same questions about marriage/divorce in Thailand. I first talked to an American lawyer who is a partner in a Thai law firm. You should do the same since this is such an important aspect of your decision.

 

Again . . . there is nothing Thai about thinking you might change your mind about marriage. She very likely won’t change her mind on this issue. Eventually she will dump you and move on. My Thai wife said (after we were married) that that is what she would have done and I totally understand that. My 56 year old sister in the US recently dumped her boyfriend who wouldn’t commit after 5 years of dating.

 

A lot of Thai woman have sworn off marriage to unreliable Thai men but doesn’t mean they have sworn off marriage. It is a very strong aspect of Thai culture. Having recently experienced a traditional Thai marriage I can appreciate how important this is to them, their family, and their community. Or . . . maybe you have found a Thai girlfriend who is so influenced by western progressive culture they have relaxed the rules. 
 

Good luck.

Or do just the traditional Buddhist wedding without going to the government office, found it the best solution for me personally.