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2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Yes, and long may that service work so well.

I actually do know what a TM30 looks like, as I had a guest at my gaff. 

Have had several guests from the UK staying at mine over the years. Never reported them and haven't had any comebacks.

1 minute ago, onera1961 said:

How that will be easier than agent? I just take pics of my departure card and IO stamp and send it to my agent's line address. Within one week I get my TM30 receipt in mail. How online system is easier than this? Please elaborate. 

My system is easier. I always return to the same address, which is already registered with Jomtien immigration. In all the years I've been here I've never needed to report my return to immigration. Wouldn't know what a TM30 looks like.

59 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

How many of you foreigners in relation have been ask to be 100% Thai, first time I was asked this I was thinking what the hell does that mean. I asked a Thai man he couldn't answer and I speak enough Thai to more than get by whenever the opportunity came I even asked a number of Thai doctors who lived in the West and they just smiled and went silent. Today, I keep it inside but the last thing I ever want to be is Thai

Assuming that you are Thai with the phrase "you foreigners".

If not, "Today, I keep it inside but the last thing I ever want to be is Thai". Don't blame you mate. I presume the Thai doctors told you that it involves having your penis shortened by 50%.

1 minute ago, Peterw42 said:

I registered the other day, its pretty straight foward, can be done in English (passport) or Thai (ID card), although easier with a thai person helping, attach copy blue book etc, a week later was emailed username and password.

Which IO?

20 minutes ago, onera1961 said:

If it were that easy doing online everybody would be doing it. Even 90-day online is a hit and miss. And how they can verify that the address you put is the right one? Anybody can put any address, if it were that easy. People would not have been fined otherwise.

Sent from my JKM-LX2 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

The act of informing Immigration of your movements on line is simple.

Registering to be able to use that facility is far from simple. I know of a couple of people (Thais), who have tried to register themselves so that they can report a farang's whereabouts (tenants and husband) and failed. Even more difficult for a farang to register.

3 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

It's actually Vice Versa. 

Really? Not IME.

1 minute ago, steve73 said:

The main aim of CPR is deep "massage" of the chest to manually pump the heart to keep the blood moving around the body - principally to the brain..  Resupplying the oxygen to the blood by re-inflating the lungs occasionally is of secondary importance...  Anyone with basic first aid training should know this.

The latest teaching, in the UK, is that inflating the lungs is no longer deemed necessary during CPR (or should it now be referred to as CR?). Just keep pumping.

1 minute ago, marcusarelus said:

I think that's what the OP was trying to accomplish.  However the dissemination of information that decent wines are available for the 4 to 500 baht range has far outweighed your and his attempt to harm the Thai wine retail industry.  

The overpriced SH1T I was talking about was Jacobs Creek. Nothing to do with the Thai wine industry.

When will you start to believe the number of posters that have informed you that you are talking drivel on this subject (and most others)?

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Bad luck, pointless staying with a woman once she's told you to go, there's no way back from that request IMHO.

All women really are like that .... AWALT.

 

Personal question, feel free to ignore, how frequent was the sex?

1x week, 1x month ........... just a little survey on the value of BGs Vs virgins.

In a survey of Thai women, I find it more revealing to ask BJ or no BJ. My own personal survey shows, Non bargirls = no BJ. Bargirls = BJ.

2 hours ago, justin case said:

wine, cars.... you buy local SHIT or you have money for import...

I buy local whenever possible. My car was made in Thailand. However, i don't buy wine in Thailand as I object to paying for vastly overpriced shit.

2 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Jacob's Creek Shiraz Cabernet £7.49

https://homedeliverywine.com/

I believe I paid 500 for it at Makro. 

 

Over the last few years we’ve seen Jacobs Creek’s ‘Reserve’ range of regional wines become a discount favourite, often used by retailers as a loss leader to bring people through the door. I don’t blame them really, the range is reliably good (particularly the Chardonnay) and customers love ’em. But what it has done is drag the ‘real’ price of the JC Reserve range down from the $19 RRP to circa $11.99/bottle, with the expectation then that retailers will also pay less for the wines.

 

https://www.ozwinereview.com/2015/12/jacobs-creek-reserve-barossa-signature.html

 

I drink a bottle a week for medicinal purposes - one glass per day and my budget it 1000 baht per bottle because after the first glass it goes into the refrigerator and I can't see spending more than that on a wine that has been open 3 days in the fridge.  

The website you quoted is expensive. £6 -£6.50 in my local supermarket. I have looked for wine in Makro on a number of occasions, (every time I go in). Never seen any bottle of Jacobs Creek for less than 750 baht.

Your Makro must be different. Very different.

Admittedly I'm not a wine buff but I know what I like. I only really drink a good 10 year old Rioja by choice, normally £10 (400 baht) in the UK. Saw one in Freshfoods, my local supermarket, for 1000 baht, looked long and lovingly at it but didn't buy. Probably would have been corked anyway.

The only reason that I would buy any Jacobs Creek wine is for my wife to have a small glass and for me to cook with.

13 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

What is correct? 

In the UK a bottle of Jacobs Creek retails for £6 (240 baht). In Thailand a similar bottle retails for 7-800 baht.

2 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

I think we should tell the OP wine is not banned in Thailand and two what price is stupid?  Is an extra 200 baht (for me once a week) stupid?  Hardly when I save 50,000 baht per month on rent.  Seems like a smart trade.  However, since I imagine you don't live in Thailand or have not been here more than a few months - stupid may be different for you.  

Roughly 400 baht difference between a bottle of Jacob's Creek in Thailand and the same in the UK (double).

Not acceptable to me.

Came through Dubai a couple of nights ago and thought I would treat myself and my wife to a cheap bottle of drinkable wine. Asked the guy in duty free for a cheap, drinkable, reasonably sweet bottle of white wine.

Offered me a brand I'd never heard of for 30 USD. He said that it was the cheapest. Told him that he was having a laugh and walked.

2 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Left Aussie 2 on right Chili. 

Have drunk Jacob's Creek many times, quaffable (particularly the 2nd bottle), if not exceptional.

6 minutes ago, dick dasterdly said:

Agree, apart from the following:-

 

"Science has all the answers you require"

Ask a question and I will let science answer it.

2 minutes ago, JWRC said:

I do believe there is a higher being, and for the sake of the exercise I will call him God, 

Many years ago my son was very ill and all the hospitals and doctors we had seen over a 12 month period couldn't find what was wrong.  He just kept getting worse and worse to the point he was hospitalised and we were told he probably wouldn't live to the morning and to prepare ourselves. Being bought up a Christian and married at that time to an atheist my son had not been baptised due to my partners objections, but I felt if my son was going to die, he should be baptised immediately. The hospital arranged a priest to come and my son was baptised in his hospital bed, my partner had left the room in disgust. The hospital suggested we go home and get a few hours sleep, when we got back 5 hours later my sons bed was empty, I thought we had lost him. A small miracle, after all the months a visiting specialist had been asked to see him and he realised what the problem was and they rushed my son to theatre, that's why he wasn't in his bed. He has never looked back, was it a minor miracle or a coincidence? we will never know.

 

My second experience was a very nasty ghost who moved houses with my family, the ghost became very jealous of my grandson and would appear to him as a big Teddy Bear, after several months this teddy bear would attack my grandson while he was sleeping and bite him. Now I don't or didn't believe in ghosts until all this happened, my grandson who was only 4 at the time would not go to bed on his own because of the "Teddy Bear". My Thai partner was unperturbed at all this and we visited the local Monks together with my grandson, they were told of the situation and did their chanting over my grandson, they then gave me some "blessed water" and told me to sprinkle it all over the house and tell the ghost that we never had a problem with it, but would it please leave the house. Here's me thinking "what a load of twaddle" but game to try anything I  got some reeds and sprayed the water all over the house, not forgetting a particular wardrobe where the ghost lived. I have never felt like such a prawn in all my life doing this and telling the ghost that we didn't want a problem with it and that it was ok for him/her to move on and would it please go and live elsewhere. That night was the first peaceful night for months and we never never heard from the ghost again.

 

So the first experience, was it a miracle or a coincidence

The second experience - well what can you call it, I don't know.

 

 

 

My father was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He had surgery to remove half of his stomach.

After the surgery, the surgeon, an Irishman and a Catholic, came to talk to my mother, also a Catholic. His first words to my mother were, "It's a miracle Mrs X. When I operated, there was no sign of the cancer, it had gone". He still removed half of my father's stomach though.

A miracle? No, an excuse, by the surgeon for misdiagnosis/medical malpractice.

As for getting rid of ghosts, you can't get rid of what doesn't exist. however, you can remove something from a person's mind by the power of suggestion. Did you make it clear to your son what you were doing and why?

2 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

I think that there is a force who keeps the planets orbiting around the sun, the same force keeping the electrons orbiting around the nucleus of every atom.

According to the Hindus, there are basically three forces, creation, preservation and destruction ( who is creation itself )

Without any of those three, there would be no "world" as we see it.

The concept of "omnipotent" supreme being comes from Christianity i think, that appears to be hard to prove.

The force you refer to is gravity. Isaac Newton knew a thing or two about that.

There is only one force, Force= mass x acceleration. Acceleration being equal to gravity for objects at rest on earth (9.81m/s/s). Science has all the answers you require, no need to ask a Hindu.

Pretty sure that the Jews had a supreme being, Jehova, long before the Christians.

6 minutes ago, Oztruckie said:

 Got my yellow book and pink id card early this year at pattaya city hall, not too difficult if you all the appropriate docs. 

 1. Get certified copy of pport from yr embassy, go MFA 2nd flr, have certified copy pport translated, about 20 minutes, go 3rd flr hand in yr docs, I asked them to send me MFA certified docs, received 2 days later. 

 2. Then go pattaya city hall with MFA certified docs, pport, blue house book, copy chanote and 2 Thai witnesses, lady does interview with you, you and yr witness sign heap of paperwork, 2 weeks later go collect book and ID card

I didn't answer any questions, only took my passport, a witness and my wife (she had some documents but I'm not sure what), whole thing took 20 minutes and had my yellow book a week later. All at Nongprue tessabahn.

Pink card obtained at Naklua ampur. Even less hassle.

1 minute ago, 55Jay said:

Where and when did you get this idea about spirits and souls?  Released to where?  Understand what?  The moment after you die is not so scary.  You won't even notice.  Cuz ur dead.

I found it quite scary. I saw a long black tunnel with a purple horseman on a purple horse at the end of it. Apparently, a common phenomenon related to the brain being starved of oxygen. After that nothing, nada, zilch, carked.