JackGats

I was in Jakarta when the 2004 tsunami killed 170000 people in Indonesia. The streets filled with all kinds of fake donations collectors. On the flippant side, a blue-coloured exstasy tablet named "tsunami" came on the market.

Ok thanks, so any detrimental feedback would be one step removed from my foreign bank, thank God. P.S. I just had a chat with ChatGPT about this and this is ChatGPT's conclusion in the case of the foreign bank account being a German one: Officially, CRS does not include an automatic feedback mechanism where a receiving country (Thailand) directly informs the sending country (Germany) that a person is not actually tax resident. However, tax authorities may conduct further inquiries or bilateral exchanges. If Thailand finds your residency status questionable, they could raise the issue through spontaneous exchange of information (EOI) or upon request by Germany. So my question would then become "would Thailand embark upon a spontaneous EOI ?". The question is rather rethorical at this stage of course, especially since Thailand already have their work cut out for them with their recent taxation shake-up.

What I'm wondering about is what happens if a Western bank sends the CRS statements based on your Thai TIN to Thailand, and you happen not to have lived in Thailand for the required 180 days. Does Thailand send a feedback saying "this guy is not a tax resident here". If the foreign bank receives such a feedback from Thailand, the foreign bank would be tempted to cancel your account immediately because you provided it with a fake tax residence. That's where the <deleted> could hit the fan. Any ideas whether Thailand is that advanced in its handling of CRS?

Tell her you'll give her money when you meet again and in exchange for the same services. In that way you get off the hook and don't really lose her unless she wants to.

This is from the leaflet of an "AIS Lucky Tourist SIM". I have no idea whether my AIS number belongs to this caterogy. Anyway, it seems people needing to call a German landline have little to worry about. Calls to the US are 2.5/minutes for both landline and mobile. Calls to the UK (5/minute) are on the expensive side. P.S. I now realize AIS have made it impossible to find out online how much such a call will cost with the particular SIM I happen to own. I'm in for another queuing session at the overcrowded AIS shop.

Airports should be equipped with charging facilities that work. That would take away much of the need for powerbanks.

Tell me then how calling my airline's or my foreign bank's customer service is "decided and solved" already. I'll now have to place expensive SIM card calls to customer services that claim "all our phone lines are unusually busy" all day every day. Of course such customer services are themselves part of the problem, but up to now the waiting game could be taken care of by Skype.

As long as I'm born a handsome boy or a pretty girl, I'm fine, never mind the country.

Good attitude. Then next time let the Europeans buy cheap Russian gas and not your gas, and refrain from blowing up the gas pipeline of another NATO country.

Alas, you can now replace "white woman" with "Thai woman" and the above sentence holds.

Difficult to be unbiased. Men will rationalize every shytehole in which they can get laid.

You can't go back to Western girls if no Western girl will give you the time of day, can you?

The US, not the EU, wanted this war. The EU had everything to lose, starting with cheap gas. The US got this war started, then walked out in the middle of it. If it can be proven the Ukranians were behind the blowing up of the German pipeline, the EU should let Ukraine fall IMO. It is not impossible however for the US to have been the instigator (even if some Ukranians planted the explosives).

Buffet is well-known in the investing community outside the US. No later than today morning I had a buffet breakfast at the hotel.

It's not a good idea to antagonize people who prepare your food. They might take revenge by spitting in it.

That's the "people's party" for you. Campaigning against sex, with a bit of racism ("black women") and discrimination ("foreign ownership") thrown in.

"I can't stand the smell/smoke" sure sounds less bigoted than "I can't stand people getting high".

When I read the title I thought you needed a plastic surgeon to remove some breast implants gone bad.

Let's see if the Trump administration wants Saudi Arabia's King to wear a suit when he visits.

As someone said: "Ronald Reagan must be turning in his grave".

Loads of new useless apps out there and counting, and one of the really essential ones is going to disappear. I'm beginning to think the purpose of new "technologies" is to screw people. I was relying on Skype to call the helpdesk of airlines in case of rebooking etc. Now I'll have to waste a fortune calling with my regular phone number, listening to "all our lines are busy at the moment ..." for minutes on end. This is what ChatGPT tells me about calling with an AIS number: "AIS 003 Service: This premium-quality service offers rates starting at 3 Baht per minute for calls to over 230 destinations. To use this service, dial 003 followed by the country code, area code, and the destination number" I don't like the phrase "starting at".

You're not so big, so I assume you is small too.

Is a dry herb vaporizer a vaping instrument? Is this about the cartriges or about the tools? I had a good mind to buy a "dry herb vaporizer" next week in Pattaya as I don't trust what they put into the disposable vaping pens.

Quote: "regular methamphetamine laced with crystal meth". Really? Crystal meth IS methamphetamine. So the new threatening drug is meth laced with itself. Great news here.

Indeed they're going to be ousted, until the election after the next that is. Right-left-right-left-right ... The binary trap.