ThaiBunny

2 minutes ago, Wake Up said:

Rome has fallen again as history repeats itself. IMO.

So it's America's turn next?

1 minute ago, Huckenfell said:

About time the government stopped giving the job of managing Thai Air to cronies such as ex Air Force generals ...

Why are you trying to penalise Thai Airways? Giving jobs to cronies is Business As Usual here

I'm a great believer in buying up any old tat and passing it off as "organic"

For all those suckers who believe that the principles of homeopathy apply equally to agriculture (both are equally ineffective)

19 hours ago, bowerboy said:

However (and this is gold) there is a little known point in the rules whereby if you meet certain criteria in your relationship (can’t temember the exact criteria but essentially shows you are obviously in a genuine and long term committed relationship) then you skip the Spouse Visa part and go directly to PR.

I think we'd all be fascinated by further details. How, for example, did you stumble across something even your visit agent didn't know?

On 7/30/2019 at 4:16 PM, Lacessit said:

forgo the pension to which I have contributed with taxes all my working life, spanning 45 years.

How exactly have you contributed to the pension all your working life? During those 45 years you paid for other people's pensions; the social security system is not a savings scheme. The only way you can get a "pension" via savings is through superannuation. If you've had a wife and kids then the tax system has been supporting you for most of that time - free Medicare (kids don't pay the Medicare levy), free education ($8,000 - $10,000 per kid, each and every year), family cash benefits. It's an unending list of tax bludging by breeders who over their lifetimes are sucking at the teat of the tax system

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-finder/join-family

20 minutes ago, Pancho said:

let your country look after you. You paid for it

How exactly?

She has to get residence in Australia and having lived there then, and only then, can she become a citizen and get an Australian passport. A multi-year exercise mostly spent in Australia. Plenty of information on the Australian government immigration web site. By way of example because of the processing backlog a friend of mine gained permanent residence using a "spouse" visa after four years. I think it's a minimum two year wait before the citizenship application, which then faces a further processing backlog

2 minutes ago, Phulublub said:

If you bothered to look at when it was published, you would have seen it was a forecast.

That is why all the better forecasts (which are not promises, mind) include a probability that the event will happen

1 minute ago, Opl said:

Naming things what they are is the first move to fighting them. Get it?  

Trump's tweets are a masterclass in that very technique - label something, keep on labeling it, and people will believe you

4 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

This isn't Agincourt

I was put in mind immediately of the Spanish Inquisition sketch in Monty Python

2 minutes ago, transam said:

They keep sending them to me, dunno why, I was a choir boy too....????

Did you ever toy with the priesthood?

1 minute ago, natway09 said:

To extradite her back to Thailand & put her in jail would be the stupidist move on behalf of the Government.

Surely that was the whole point of letting her flee a couple of years ago?

I'm guessing he wants to stick his overseas debit card into a Thai ATM and deposit funds into a Thai bank account electronically rather than withdrawing cash and depositing it into an account

Just now, lensta said:

Maybe just crash the system. All expats in every area turn up to their immigration office at one time to file a report that they left the province for 24 hours. Watch the chaos then.

Are you volunteering to organise it?

4 hours ago, legend49 said:

Just proves most useless politicians involve themselves in non important distractions instead of governing the country for ALL the people.

No country can be governed for all the people. There will be winners and losers whatever decisions are made. That's why politics exist

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

just another blame it on mental illness case

You think he's just as sane as you?

8 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

Thailand would look a whole lot more beautiful if they would simply pick up the garbage littered everywhere.

That's why it's known as Amazing Thailand

3 minutes ago, nomad2019 said:

GBP is going to go to sh*t after brexit

What's the size of the bet you have made on this certainty?

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

OK. A gaffe that was NOT in the speech that is the topic here. Yes, we know Biden is prone to gaffes. Seems much more preferable than a president that tells many lies daily as if lying is going out of style. 

I work on the assumption that all politicians are pathological liars and simply regard Trump, Biden, Corbyn, Boris etc in the spirit of "send in the clowns"

1 minute ago, Cyclenshaven said:

I live in Thailand officially

What does that mean?