tingtongfarang

I think they keep talking this <deleted> to remind the rest if the world it legalised

Do carry my passport? Not on your nelly, i even travelled by car to south thailand from bkk and never thought to take my passport, i check into resorts and hotels with just my driving licence, i did get asked one resort in samui for my passport but they accepted my DL in the end.

2 hours ago, skatewash said:

The IDP is of no value without the underlying valid home driving license.  It is a derivative of your home driving license; it doesn't stand on its own.

thats obvious but with my friend when they seen the picture of a moped on his home car licence they assumed it meant he was licenced to ride a motorbike when in reality it only allows a 50cc moped,

when we arrived home my friend asked...what does this motorbike licence allow me to do?

I said it mean you can go and buy a 1000cc motorbike today and ride legally, he replied but i have never ridden anything with 2 wheels apart from a bicycle.

2 hours ago, skatewash said:

This is supposed to be why the International Driving Permit is needed, to unambiguously show which vehicles an applicant's home license allows them to legally drive.  In this case, the IDP would not have shown that the driver was qualified for motorcycle driver's license.

But for some reason they also require the original licence along with the IDP which shows a picture of a moped.

Took a friend to get his thai licence in bkk, he had an international from the uk, when i seen a lady at one counter talking to him i thought maybe he had forgotten something, when i asked he said she asked why he did,nt get his motorcycle licence also, he came away with a thai car and motorcycle licence and told me he had never ridden anything with two wheels apart from a bicycle before,

it seems they seen the small picture of a moped on his uk licence saying he would be allowed to ride a moped with 50cc  and assumed it meant motorcycle.

4 hours ago, eisfeld said:

Hehe. Tesla's autopilot is fake anyways. You also have to be there and nudge the steering wheel from time to time or it'll disengage and stop the car.

 

My mom drove all her life manually geared cars. She tried to resist quite a lot when I told her to go for an automatic for the new car a couple years ago. She thought it would be complicated, not work well and use more gasoline. She picked up all kinds of nonsense FUD from the internet. I insisted and a couple months later she said she couldn't be more happy. It's so much easier and uses less gasoline around town. Point of the story is people naturally will resist change for no good reason if they are used to their ways for many years.

 

I love manuals on bikes but I really don't like them in cars.

Regarding fuel consumption i have a manual vios and always used it for fishing trips-a friend had exactly the same car but automatic - we often travelled the same route together, his auto used quite a bit more fuel than my manual.

My answer was gears and clutch as i bought a new triumph bonneville just a few days ago...dont think they do automatics but i have a honda pcx automatic which gets used for 7/11 and the market, my car (toyota vios) also manual-clutch and gears is 17 years old had it from new and runs-drives same as new, i have had automatic cars in europe-jags and mercs - i like automatics in big cars only,

In my experience automatic cars at least use more fuel than manual.

On 10/24/2022 at 11:13 AM, ThailandRyan said:

Thai style house for that price. Looking at plenty of rentals down there through the past 3 years and the cheapest was 25k a month for a 3 bed 3 bath townhouse in Huai Kwang.  Everything else, house wise is above 50k and then you have the single story Thai style house 1bed 1 bath which has barely any furniture and really no kitchen for between 6k-8k Thb. Found this one for 12k, but you need to add all of your own furnishings.  Not doubting you as anything is possible yet I find it very hard to believe.  Now a 25sqm condo, oh hell yes it is doable, but I have never seen a house at the prices you list unless it is total Thai style.

 

https://www.hipflat.co.th/en/ads/a1l7lcul18cuehcn4l280t3093c9n318.

 

To rent a house of any standard with furniture will run you more than your indicating, and then I would not live anywhere near where the house I listed is........

 

This one would need you to add furniture and misc. and is 35 K a month.

https://www.hipflat.co.th/en/listings/bangkok-house-todrfpxs

 

I believe you are trolling.

i,m talking unfurnished, waste of time looking on the internet, just find a property advertised with a sign or ask the local noodle shop then speak to the owner, 

first house i rented was in prawet.. brand new 2 bedroom 5k per month... i enjoy moving every 3-4 years,

I need a garden because i own a dog.

On 10/23/2022 at 3:37 AM, Northwest87 said:

An easy-to-find 3-bedroom bungalow at that price-range in Bangkok, that means you must be in the boondocks of the city.

bangkapi

i would advise not to buy any condo or property here when rents are so cheap, i rent a 3 bedroom bungalow for 7000 per month, the previous house rental was 6000 for a 2 bedroom bungalow.... this is in bkk and they are so easy to find.

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Sounds like a nice experience, was it because you couldn't or wouldn't pay the full fee? which hospital?

i was paying the full price.. thy just wanted paying every 2 days or hand over my card and pin number that was nono 100%

i spent a week in hospital after heart failure and never seen a single doctor, only nurses who would lift me onto a gurney and wheel me to the atm every 2 days, had to sign myself out, gf came and wheeled me out to a taxi, i was in a realy bad condition.

renewed mine today, mine finished on the 24th of march, when you make an appointment they give you a paper to show the cops should you get stopped,

i still find the system there a shambles though and many people had copies when they needed originals.

dog and a golf bat

If they only plan on making the leaf legal i cant understand why anyone would be interested

2 hours ago, FalangKino said:

Exactly. Were Americans treated or discriminated against for any of the many wars and disgusting crimes their government is responsible for at any point over the last 50 years?

in greece american tourists were sewing on canadian maple leaf badges trying to diguise themselves so not to get stones and such thrown at them

2 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Nah, Taylors Extra Strong Yorkshire stuff.................and I am a Lancashire lad!

And as for Earl Grey......I would rather drink a cup of Old Spice aftershave, or Brut!   LOL

No matter so long as its crushed cockroaches... the stuff the empire was built on