Shocked farang

1 hour ago, BusNo8 said:

 

Depends if Thais are allowed into casinos

The way things are in LOS it's more possible that Thais will enter casinos without paying and farangs will have 

to pay a 500Bh fee, just for being a farang.

On 6/13/2024 at 9:23 PM, ravip said:

Foolishness has no boundaries.

Stop being a fool in Asia, but go home and be normal (fool)?

I didn't say that, go home and start doing your homework on managing a budget. Travelling always involve a budget, if you can't afford it, then don't leave home. Normal or abnormal isn't the question here. Be abnormal

if you want but don't become a beggar. That's not cool to place your survival on the hands of the host society that kindly accepted your deceptive promisse that you would be a tourist!

10 minutes ago, Celsius said:

I was once a beggar too back in my country.

 

Begging every day for sex.

Now in Pattaya, the bar girls beg you for sex all day long... 

32 minutes ago, RamblingOn said:

Explain

I guess that what he meant are some programs that help poor immigrants in the US, where they receive a hotel room and some money. It's mostly in big cities such as New York. 

3 hours ago, kevozman1 said:

 

For international arrivals I don't think anything is changing, which is the real problem. Worst I have queued for departure is maybe 30 minutes. Worst queue on arrivals over an hour in a cattle grid after a long flight to be 'welcomed' by a grumpy member of staff at passport control who will barely acknowledge my existence. A far cry from arriving all those years ago in Don Mueang (when it was the main international airport) and being greeted by happy smiling staff at passport control after queuing for 30 seconds.. I can't help but be nostalgic on a regular basis thesedays. 

Times have changed, I guess...

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

 

The PM says there is a shortage of Thai pilots. The association says there is not and pilots are unable to get work as there are less planes flying. So which is it? Between the pilot's association and the PM, I'd pick the former, who are qualified in what they are doing. The latter is not. He's a real estate mogul.

Next time you go to Suvarnabhumi airport take the time to check out the incredible number of Thai Airways planes completely inactive, in need of maintenance perhaps, that's still consequence of the Covid times. 

2 hours ago, watchcat said:

 Well I wouldn't fly with a student thats for sure.

How would you know that the pilot in your flight is a student or not? 

2 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Nothing to do with foreigners, they care after rich Thais. 

They can't touch my foreign income if I don't bring it into Thailand. 

That's were you go wrong, their idea is through information sharing, get their hands on your foreign income, even if it doesn't get to Thailand. Whether they will be able to enforce it, that's a different story. 

2 minutes ago, thesetat said:

I am still curious about how this country can tax income that is earned and deposited overseas? If it is earned in another country then their respective banks would be reporting it to the local tax. But they can only do that because you signed releases to allow it when opening the account. Thailand banks may have new rules to make you sign a release so they can gain this information. But what about older accounts? Would anyone actually sign something new to allow them this authorization? None of my Thailand banks have my tax or income information other than receiving wire transfers from another country. If they request blanket permission to access my banks private information I would refuse and take my money from their bank. If they request access to my tax information from abroad I would not be able to give it since I never file taxes there. Un-taxable income is not required to file a tax return. So there is no record for them to check anyway. 

Given the really bad security issues dealing with banks leaking your personal information make me think it is not a good idea to provide banks with data from my country. 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2425127/police-nab-state-officials-selling-user-information-to-scammers

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thai-bank-officer-nabbed-for-selling-customer-data-in-nonthaburi

Does anyone else feel there may be risks in giving more information to the banks in Thailand than is absolutely necessary or to the government about the money we have or make outside of Thailand? 

This whole thing only shows that they live in a state of complete delusion. They have no means of enforcement of this new foreign tax regime. The only country on the planet that can do this is the US, due to the fact that the USD is the reference global currency, if a bank decides not to comply they just cut it off from USD transfer, all USD bank transfers have to go through the US. 

13 hours ago, beammeup said:

But she says "This principle taxes individuals based on their residency within the country, irrespective of whether the income is sourced domestically or internationally". So I am a little confused. Will this affect individuals or just platform(whatever that is)?

Thailand is trying to imitate the US that taxes its tax residents globally, the only countries that do that are the US and Eritrea. Only the US actually has the means to enforce it. Another gimmick from this government to waste people's time and attention! 

22 hours ago, khunjeff said:

He wasn't "posing" as a tour guide and running a "scheme", he was an actual tour guide, running tours. He was violating employment laws, but it doesn't sound like he was defrauding his customers.

His high prices sound like a rip off to me! 

6 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

 

This is incorrect, visa on arrival is not a visa purchased in advance from an embassy. VOA are typically non extendable and valid for just 15 days. 

I did say it's purchased in advance from an embassy. I said the first step on arrival is to purchase the Visa and then you get your stay stamped 

27 minutes ago, ravip said:

Visa Exemption and Visa On Arrival (VOA)

 

Can someone please explain the above, in detail?

Visa exemption = No visa is necessary?

Visa On Arrival = Visa will be stamped on the passport on arrival at a TH airport?

Visa exemption means that they will stamp the entry on your passport stating the maximum duration of your stay. 

Visa on arrival means that first of all, you must buy a Visa, that is an authorization to travel to Thailand, once you have that Visa then they will stamp your entry with the maximum stay. 

Just now, natway09 said:

Up where I am the law change will not make any difference.

Been available openly at a 40 Bht g before & still will be after.

I just gotta be careful growing the female plants

Sorry to say but it will make a difference for people who really smoke it. I am not a smoker but I have smoked many times and know the difference of the crap that used to be sold as cannabis and the high concentration THC that is sold now. I went into a cannabis store today to buy some CBD oil and was mind blowed by the smell and quality of their strains. I don't smoke but know how to differenciate between crap and good stuff.

8 minutes ago, CanadaSam said:

Forgive my ignorance, but my experience with marijuana is limited to smoking joints offered to me at parties.....

 

First I heard they want to criminalize "buds" then I heard they want to criminalize "flowers", whenever I see marijuana plants on TV etc., all I see is those distinctive leaves, that I presume we all smoke, or am I wrong?

 

And what exactly is a bud, or a flower (never seen one on a marijuana plant!).

 

Thanks in advance for the lesson in ganja!

Well, the flower and the bud are the part of the plant where the most concentration of THC happens. So the best weed is always from the flowers and bud. Before it become ilegal and is driven underground you should have a look at a cannabis plant with flowers and buds. Many shops in Thailand now have the plant for display. It's something really interesting to see.

1 minute ago, bradiston said:

Quite agree. Where's the evidence of

 

"an alarming rise in psychiatric cases linked to the drug’s recreational use."

 

Complete fabrication. It's the medical professionals who are exhibiting profoundly paranoid symptoms. Delusional, imaginary demons attacking them. They can't deal with the effects of a drug so they ban it for everyone. And just what is medical use? Getting stoned under the supervision of some weirdo in charge of tightening the straps on your straight jacket?

In my humble opinion, medical use of cannabis is more about CBD than THC. CBD has no psychoactive effects and it has many positive properties. The main problem with THC isn't even that it has psychoactive effects but rather that it's almost impossible to know in advance what kind of effects a certain strain of cannabis will have on a certain individual.

8 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

 

How would you prefer I refer to them?  It's a description much like Farang refers to white caucasian people.

 

 

Stoner, Pothead definetly have a negative conotation. Just say weed smokers, or cannabis users as there are many people who prefer edibles or even THC oil.

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's also believed that the deceased passenger might have sustained fatal injuries due to not buckling the seatbelt during landing." 

Needless to comment on this, but I try to keep my seat belt bucked for most of the flight, no matter what the lights indicate. 

I'm so glad that my stock of KN 95 masks is full. Soon they will disappear from the stores. 

13 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

I'd rather be executed than go through that hell. IMO it was a fate worse than death, and she did well to survive it. She a lot tougher than all of the people commenting here.

Not tough I would say, but definetly resilient. She looks quite Ok now.