Sid Bream

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Thieves and criminals. Identify them and shame them, make them pay the bill, throw them in jail for 7 days and then cancel their entry to Thailand for 5 years and deport them.

Why do people not understand about wild mammals? Whilst I feel sorry for the woman, surely her friends should have warned her not to do such a thing, it's braindead and mindless.

Cowards.

An election was not being referred to.

Polls prove absolutely nothing.

Leftists are pompous and condescending, the quoted comment is proof of same. There is zero evidence to support this preposterous claim that "most of the rest of the world despises Trump".

The left will never understand how pretentious, pompous, and condescending they are. Most of them are fans of BBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The View, the NYTimes, WashPost etc, that is where they take their 'educated' views on politics from. It's absolutely hilarious that despite the apparatus of the cohort and cabal of the left wing propagandist legacy media that Harris, Obama, Oprah, Streisand, Middler, De Niro, Ford, Cardi B, Taylor Swift, Springsteen et al and Harris' lefty cohorts were handed a thumping loss.😂

It isn't a fact. If you scroll up the page you can verify that it is not the case at all, there are even links to a company in this specific 'industry' posted.

It's actually a privilege. Many people in the world never get to go outside their own countries, many can't even afford a passport. However, YOU can pay for the 'transportation', just not everyone, and when some do pay for a ticket to travel they behave like imbeciles or disrespect the country where they have travelled to.

Just ban him from Thailand for 5 years. Pillocks and dickheads should be excluded from travelling to Thailand if they behave badly, the same goes for any other destination. Travelling is a privilege, not a right.

It's always best if you read the whole thread. WU have improved their exchange rates and fees.

Have you asked for an explanation on why there is a limit, and who is making that 'restriction'. Is that Wise or KTB?

An interesting discussion. Why would it take a week, did you only just open your account with Wise? It appears that Western Union has improved their exchange rates and are not shaving the rates as much as they used to for their commission. The only thing with Wise is that they have an option of sending different currencies as opposed to Western Union which I do not believe have that option of a foreign currency account.

Milk comes from cows, there is no such thing as "soy milk", that is fraud perpetrated by the manufacturers of that 'drink' made from soy.

SB coffee is rubbish, the prices are rubbish as well. I wouldn't drink it if I was paid.

I was referring specifically to matches. Of course they are training nearly every day at the higher levels, but not 3 matches per week. For sure, recovery from any physical activity as you age is much more difficult.

Even professionals do not play 3 times a week. Furthermore, you can be injured by dirty butchers playing football at anytime. eg. I had my leg broken purposely by an aforementioned butcher because I scored a goal and it was a big final. Some injuries you don't recover from, you're just functional but not the same.

Then instead of making incendiary remarks, explain why you believe that to be the case. If you can't, then maybe it's you that's the contortionist.

Marine 1 and Marine 2 used to be good fun. I also had good fun at the old Insomnia that was not in Walking st, it was up the stairs at the back of Walking St. Anyway, I suppose that's it if Marine isn't coming back or has been taken over by others, they used to play some good tracks, especially Marine 2, and I loved the space/roominess at Marine 2. There's no way I am paying 340 for a beer or 490 for a mixer, I'm not cheap Charlie, I just use common sense.

I asked about a specific travel company and office that appears to have closed. I was wondering about their whereabouts and if they still existed, as they provided excellent service for visa runs to Cambodia, and I had used them several times in the past, they used to be close to the beach entry in Soi Post Office, the post was deleted asserting it was "off topic".

I didn't assert anywhere that because they're a member of SWIFT that it "makes it an international bank". However, since you want to debate whether they are or they are not an international bank and you've been rude about it, any person with an iota of common sense would ask themselves these basic questions. Does this bank have capacity to receive inward remittances from overseas banks? Yes Does this bank have capacity to send outward remittances in foreign currency? Yes. Do they allow foreigners to establish a bank account or facilities with them? Yes. Do they trade in global markets? Yes Do they offer an international guarantee? Yes Do they trade in foreign currencies? Yes Do they offer international L/C's? Yes Yet here you are arguing whether they are an international bank or not. You are obviously clueless on what a bank is, what their operations are, what their compliance rules are etc. I doubt you have worked in the financial industry, hence your complete ignorance on the subject. I really love it when people like you try and assert their knowledge on something they know nothing about, then they use emojis as some sort of slur as you have done to show that you know nothing on the subject. One would also wonder why Krung Thai Bank have offices in Singapore, Mumbai, China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Cayman Islands, since according to you they are "not factually an international bank". I suggest you look into how banks can be sanctioned when they are operating in foreign countries when they don't comply with laws in regard to money laundering, KYC, etc Better not though, since you're clueless about SOP in banking. Last but not least, according to you "they're not an international bank", one would wonder why they offer the following products, international trade financing services. What would be their purpose of offering international trade finance, since according to you "they're not an international bank".

What makes me know for a fact, not "think" that they are an "international bank" is that I sent money directly there via SWIFT, which is via an MT103 which is an authenticated payment message. So factually yes, they are an international bank with which I've factually received money from one country into another country being Thailand on many occasions. They can also send monies via outward remittance in over 150 currencies. I hope that settles the matter for you. I find it ironic that you used a laughing face when I posted about this.

It is bigoted and discriminatory to assert that a man or a woman should not be driving based on their age. No one knows their state of health and ability to drive. If they still have decent vision and can depress the brake properly they should not be banned just because they're in a certain age bracket.

Just wondering if KTB fall into your above grouping, because I've never had any issues with them so far.