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15 hours ago, BritTim said:

If you are aware of the basic pay for immigration officials, you might be less judgmental about mandatory unofficial tipping for certain services by officials in Thailand. 

Then you should be grandly tipping the honest Thais who make even less for doing harder work for you - cleaning your building, cooking your food ... from the minute you wake 'til the minute you drop.  

Gotta laugh how people can string together non-sensical, though convenient, rationalizations.  Pathetic, actually.

14 minutes ago, Stocky said:

I see the UK's Air Passenger Duty for flights departing the UK will, from 1st April 2023, be £200 for the new Band C, that's flights over 5,500 miles.

 

Now that IS a big deal.

Maybe for some.  And anyway, the UK was lost years ago.  We still have hope for Thailand.

Sometimes it's just easier to justify paying than to admit to yourself what a coward you are.

The Chinese will likely/hopefully be particularly averse to this.  They're pretty sharp when it comes to money.  

4 hours ago, brianthainess said:

again More Puke-et Express bad reporting.

Good enough to get people reading the article.  Clicks are what count.

"Beast Of Burden"
 

2 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

So he meant that the descendant of an immigrant and a true canadian is half bad people ?

Think he meant the designation "Canadian" means almost nothing anymore.  And hasn't for many years.

Where's the Laughing Reaction icon?

Seems we are not permitted to laugh in reaction to a post ..

Are we allowed to write something funny?

1 hour ago, Aussieroaming said:

RIP, a senseless death

Unlike all the sensible ones.

Have you thought of identifying as 100 kg of African-American muscle?

What about the paperwork involved in making a private sale?  What if the vehicle is for sale in a province other than where it was purchased/licensed?  Is it difficult to deal with Thai government offices for the transfer of ownership?  

Nobody here's solved the colonel's problem yet.

Might be time to ask ChatGPT?

5 hours ago, theoldgit said:

A lawyer friend of mine says that this book should be required reading for all men of a certain age relocating to Thailand to meet up with their true love, or search for it.

Received that book and was reading it my first months in Thailand - while the drama described in it was knocking on my door in real life.  Read similar excellent books at the time, too.  For these books I've been forever grateful to British Ken.  (Though Scot blood would probably have sufficed to protect my money in any event.)

Don't explain

Don't complain

Don't give advice

and don't say anything that will hurt someone.

Gonna need some new forums ...

So maybe it's not really the dual pricing in itself that's so very terrible.  It's Thailand's other 999 cuts to the death in addition to the dual pricing that add up and can occasionally cause one to, let's say, balk.

"Death by 1,000 Cuts in Thailand: Here's The List!" 

Someone wanna start that thread?   

3 hours ago, sidjameson said:

Who paid for your schooling to 18?

Health care to 18?

 

Precisely.  Not "free".  Somebody paid.  The same way I have pitifully paid taxes and respected the law all my adult life - both for myself and for the moribund community of which I was a part.

I know what you meant when you used the word "free".  But, really, there ain't no free lunch.  Unless you're an illegal migrant to the West - then everything is free.  But we won't go there.

16 hours ago, Xanthe said:

Should have thought about that before abandoning your home country and settle in Thailand. Thailand has provided you with a wife, and a life, and in return they are asking for some extra money. 

Thailand gives out free wives and lives and you don't pay at all!

Don't forget to add "we are all guests here" ....  

Have met quite a few remarkably intelligent Russians in my travels.  Politically sophisticated and considerate.  But almost any nationality or ethnicity will have these. 

A few days late and geographically-challenged.  It's the whole country except for the south.  By far the worst I've seen it, over many years.