Pedrogaz

2 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

How can you call it a 'plan'? There is no plan, just an empty statement of lies about intent. How can you clean up Pattaya without cleaning up the police? Or the army? Or the government there?

I don't have a great deal good to say about this company. Their vans scream all over the place weaving in and out in small soil. One thing they do is call multiple times to check the address and we live on a main road through the village.

I always order COD. We have had many things wrong from the internet company eg replacement electric toothbrushes that show the item then send another type of brush....trying to rectify such issues is more than I can stand to do. I was a big Amazon user before I came here, you never get this nonsense with them.

I/Os have a pathological hatred fro trees.

I do not use credit here. The wife is a bankrupt and so cannot get credit and I am in the fortunate position to be able to pay cash for everything including house, car, and groceries.

I don't see COVID going away in 3 months.....maybe 15 months

China could use Mekong water as a tool to get the US out of SEA. Cut off water to Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos to stop them cosying up to the yanks.

I used to hedge with a UK company called World First the biggest currency traders in the world. I have small assets in the UK, but a lot in the US and when I retired a lot in Japan. For the few years before retiring I would buy other currencies eg Swiss franc, Canadian Loonie, Aussie dollar on the theory that not all currencies go down together. I was not trying to make money understand, but just to hedge and preserve purchasing power. It worked very well for a period until my account was moved from Britain to Australia where World First is not a deposit taking institution. I had to get rid of the money with in a month. Basically I changed it all into baht (which was the currency I was spending in). At the time the US dollar was 33 to the baht and is now 30. Other currencies were similar.....I built my house with Japanese yen that I earned at 120 to the $, it was about 80 to the dollar when I paid for the house. My advice is not the speculate but to try to conserve your purchasing power.

What on earth are we allowing illegal migrants in to do manual work when Tghais are selling their body parts on line. The greed of the elite is insatiable and disgusting.

I hope it comes through.....presumably this is in addition to the recent increase for cost of living. Joe Biden he's the man....but pity our grandchildren who will have to pay Trump's lavish spending and now Biden's. Of course spending $200 on me isn't lavish

20 hours ago, Brewster67 said:

A non-imm O visa based on marriage to a Thai from the UK for 60 or 90 days depending what you can get...

 

Get here, and put 400K into a bank account. Wait 60 days, then go to local immigration and ask for a list of everything else you need, such as house book, photos inside home, and with neighbours etc.. They have a pre-printed list of you can get from their website.

 

Fill everything in and get a letter from the bank saying this is a accurate bank statement. 

 

Immigration will give you a 60 day extension and tell you to come back after that and your visa will be ready, extendable after 12 months.

 

DONE

Is that a Mk 3 Cortina in your pic?

2 hours ago, djayz said:

We are only "dirty farang" if we take such comments to heart. See it for what it really is: an ignorant comment made by an ignorant human (this guy, not the general population) who only has his position thanks to family connections. If he didn't have those, he'd be driving a tuktuk.

Once you understand that, you can take everything he says with a pinch of salt. A little like not taking the likes of Trump seriously. 

A good philosophy.

As usual owners get away scot free.

The 50% number is from front line medical workers and might not be so bad. The data in reduction in hospitalisations and preventing severe infections is much more impressive. I don't much care to get asymptomatic disease.....but as a vulnerable, I don't want severe disease or the costs of hospitalisation.

I'm getting tired of reading this sort of stuff. If you are going to let hundreds of thousands of migrants in to inflate the profits of the hisos; the bribes for the police and army who valiantly protect our borders; then at least lets say who is responsible......ie Prayut el at but number one crook is Prawit.

No prostitution, no gambling dens, no police involvement in people smuggling, now no army involvement in people smuggling.....yadda,yadda,yadda

I see we are being refocussed away from slave labour from Myanmar organised by the police and towards gambling dens (coincidentally also organised by the police).

15 hours ago, Greenhill said:

Presumably, they are flying on a domestic flight and quarantine is not an issue?

Why? Is Swampoy closed to international air traffic? My partner is returning late next week on a Thai repatriation flight....

An outrage. He skipped bail for the Swedish trumped up charges not for the US allegations.