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Extension 1900 baht. Multiple re-entry 1900 baht. Leaving 8700 baht split between agent and IO. Agent has 800 K on deposit, earning 1% interest. Which office accepts a bribe that low?

IMO supply would vastly outweigh demand.

When I used to drink, I preferred Sangsom and cola. Seemed to taste better than Hong Thong. I was not referring to sweat as the cause of a wet bed. Useful info here, I normally have a glass of water before going to bed. I'll try sleep without it tonight.

Figure of speech. I suppose it depends on whether people think they can do better elsewhere with the money. If an agent is charging 30,000 baht to avoid the financials, that equates to an interest rate of 30,000X100/800,000 = 3.75%. I would need to be making at least 2% more on outside investments to be worthwhile, and there's also tax to consider. YMMV, I can't be bothered.

I always had the 800K on deposit in my own account, from the get-go.

If I was too "bladdered" to get up, I guess I would end up with a wet bed instead. Not a problem for me, I only have one glass of wine about once every six months. Even then, there's a change in night frequency.

I used an agent in CM for about 4 years. Charged me 7000 baht to hold my hand at Immigration. I realized I was doing all the grunt work in assembling the paper forms. I then did it myself in the ensuing years there and in Chiang Rai. No new non-O required. I don't understand your post, unless you are referring to agents who bribe the IO to look the other way, when it comes to the origin and age of the 800K deposit.

Alcohol is a diuretic. I usually get up to pee 2-3 times a night. If I have a couple of glasses of wine, it will be 5-6 times.

My defacto in Australia was 3 years younger than me. OK at first, increasingly got on my wick. Lazy, I did most of the cooking and washing. The final straw was getting a virulent UTI from her. My Thai GF is 23 years younger than me. She does all the cooking, washing, and cleaning, and never has a headache if I am feeling frisky. She is also a lot easier on the eye than my former defacto. I did read somewhere Western couples in Thailand have a divorce rate 50% higher than in their home country.

Endoscopy seems to be a catch-all term in Thailand for anything using a camera. Gastroscopy = inspection of esophagus and stomach. Colonoscopy = inspection of rectum and bowel. Cystoscopy = inspection of prostate and bladder.

"Mixing your melons" is a new metaphor for me. Not all that polite, I like to think I post coherently. I find cash the most convenient payment method in Thailand for me. If they had pay-wave with cards here, like they do in OZ, i would be all over it like a cheap suit. Takes seconds to do. I can't remember the last time I paid cash for anything in Australia. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, let me suggest phone sellers and service providers have a vested interest in promoting phone payment over a simple pay-wave system. The strange thing about my internet freezes is they always occur in the mornings - never afternoons or evenings. Permit me to doubt that's a router malfunction.

You seem to be under the impression every human on the planet has exactly the same DNA, which would enable cancer to be prevented. Everyone is different, that's why DNA testing is a gold standard for establishing guilt or innocence in courts. When you say scientists are dumb, you're including me in that insult to the profession. May I remind you that an uneducated Thai woman took all your money, how dumb was that?

Once or twice a day, my service provider of the internet connection to my laptop I am typing this response on freezes. According to the wireless connection, it's fine. Green lights all over the router I use. I then have to disconnect power from the router, and reconnect after a minute to reset the system. So yes, I have multiple experiences of internet failures, and it's not my imagination.

I have back problems. Standing in line at a checkout causes increasing pain, which is only relieved by being able to sit down. That's why I find waiting for imbeciles so inconvenient, and reject your assertion people with phones don't fumble. My experience says otherwise.

I am wondering how many Ayn Rand disciples are on this thread.

I love anatomy, especially that of women.

Small shops don't.

Nice of you to convert my adequate motor skills to superior ones. Twist other people's posts much? So to satisfy all you advanced technological wizards, I am supposed to fumble out my glasses to read the screen, select the app with over-sized fingers, and wait for my service provider to boot up a system that has more holes than Swiss cheese for any hacker or skimmer. Why do people like you want to foist an inconvenient and unwanted technology on others? As far as record-keeping goes, I can tell you how many baht I have spent each month for the past 7 years. I start with a cash amount on the first day, count the cash I have left on the last day. It's not rocket science. Your post does nothing to resolve my problem of incompetents paying with phones.

We all hope that, but don't get much choice in the matter. Except for psychiatrists, where attendance is optional.

A countervailing effect in Greenland and Antarctica is albedo. Being white, ice reflects solar radiation. Black rock exposed by ice melting absorbs it. Between 2002 and 2023, the Greenland ice cap lost 270 billion metric tons of ice every year. Greenland is currently 20% exposed bedrock. It's another tipping point.

I have two debit cards, Australian and Thai banks, as a last resort. I am sufficiently organized to never run out of cash in one day. My motor skills are good enough to hand a checkout chick the required amount in cash in a few seconds, which is why morons with phones irritate me. I live in hope a hacker will breach banking phone apps, so I can enjoy the subsequent wailing Greek chorus on ASEAN.

My urologist in Australia has the qualifications FRCS, FRACS. That's as high up the medical tree as one can get. He's also one of the nicest people I have ever met, Malaysian Chinese. Every time he performs a cystoscopy on me, "obstructive prostate" appears on the post-op report. I have been on finasteride or dutasteride for about 8 years, for BPH. I pee about 2-3 times a night. I asked him if having a TURP would be a preferred option. He said in his experience, 90% of TURP patients develop one or more complications. It did not matter what ablation procedure was used. His advice was to stick with the medication for as long as possible, and regard surgery as a last resort. This is a surgeon who makes over a quarter of a million dollars a year from surgery. My only annoying side effect of finasteride/dutasteride is a significant reduction in libido.

My oncologist sits in a chair all day talking too. I would probably be dead without the medical science she used.

Quite true, scientists are usually not well paid. One has to enjoy the work one does. I did it well enough to get paid above the odds, after saving the company I worked for a lot of money. I made myself quite unpopular with several engineers and one purchasing manager, when my findings conflicted with what they had down as holy writ.

If that's what you learned, you did not become a scientist. You became a PR guy.