JackGats

Why did you arrange the blowing up of the German then if it's not your war?

Why limit then?

Congratulations for coming up with a title that suggests exactly the opposite of what the "link" is about. The "link" is between uncorrected hearing loss and dementia, not between hearing aids and dementia.

One thing you should do asap is print out backup codes (TANs) in case you get locked out in the future.

Only if you ever learnt any.

There we go again. Recriminalize all drugs. Then there will be calls to reinstate the death penalty for drugs, mark my words. Full throttle back to the dark ages. Of course there is "misuse". Use = misuse. If those things were depenalized it was for them to be "used", otherwise what was the point?

Yes, the "fatally flawed story" alluded to above is the fem's bone of contention. The female character ends up not raising the flag of female victimhood. Enough of a spoiler.

Definitely Passengers. Absolutely thought-provoking in a way I had forgotten movies can be. The film was criticized by the woke fem brigades and the main female actress lamely and predictably "regretted" having played the role.

Ok, what I meant is when I do a simulation for a transfer of 12k euros from Europe to Thailand with Wise I come up with a fee of nearly 100 euros. While a SWIFT transfer would have a fixed fee of 22 euros whatever the amount.

It doesn't matter as long as there's no sex. Coz children can't consent etc.

I didn't get any certificate because TRD said the witholding tax they owed me and the income tax I owed them cancelled out. They made me a favour by making it into a zero sum (though I'd have preferred to pay a few hundred euro worth of tax in order to get a tax residency certificate, not a tax clearance certificate). The tax residency certificate is form RO 22 ("การขอหนังสือรับรองการมีถิ่นที่อยู่ภาษี"). It gets issued in English and is to be used outside Thailand. When you apply for it you need to specify for which country you'll be using it. It can be invaluablel IMO if the taxman or a bank outside Thailand start asking questions. You go first to immigration to get certified as having stayed over 180 days during the tax year, then you go to the regional/provincial (not the local) TRD with the receipt showing you paid taxes. This Thai guy living or working in Singapore explains how he got an RO22 to placate Singapore authorities:

You mean you have a type of visa with "no tax on foreign income" printed all over it, and you prefer to lie low without filing taxes as you are supposed to do according to the letter of the law? Doesn't make sense to me, but I agree this seems to be the course of action (or rather of inaction) taken by most LTR visa holders.

My main purpose was to get a refund on the witholding tax I'd paid on my Thai dividends, together with getting some sort of tax residence certificate. Note that if the LTR visa confers a tax exemption upon its holder, said tax exemption should not be based on the LTR holder's staying under the radar.

I also have a scrawl at the bottom of the stamp, not sure if digits or letters, but I think it's a signature because next it says (Signed) ..... However, right at the top left corner of the stamp there's a number. I won't write the number here but since it's a number between 1500 and 2000 I gather it could be the serial number of the LTR visa. I'll write down that number in my TDAC. To the right of that number stands a "66" which should be the buddhist year when the visa was issued.

As I explained in a post some 6 months ago, I couldn't get TRD to consider my LTR for tax exemption. Same year or year before didn't matter since they ignored my LTR visa altogether. Lucky for me I had only a single remittance during the tax year (2024). This year (2025) I am spending less than 180 days in Thailand. I have a WP LTR. I would no longer recommend getting an LTR visa if the tax exemption is the only or main reason for getting one. I hope some day other LTR holders will report on their personal experience with the Thai taxman.

Should never have been banned in the first place, in Thailand or elsewhere. Nothing that grows in the soil should ever be banned.

Interesting you should say that about the fees. Surely that holds for modest amounts (like 1000 euros). On a 8000 euros transfer my Wise bank fee would already be above 50 euros. A SWIFT transfer (which can be as high as 12k euros) will set me back 22 euros with my EU bank.

All those strangers are not passing around my passport out of my sight.

I use my driving licence when I got to my usual (private) hospital. I don't feel comfortable with my passport circulating out of my sight between nurses and staff.

Isn't it obvious that you should compensate her for the money she was making when "working"? Men often mistakenly assume such a girl will gladly stop working if they can make half the same money not working. This is a case where female victimhood ("poor girl forced to prostitute") leads men astray. Many girls love that kind of life and will not even stop for the same amount of money.

"Heal" can be used as a transitive verb. When transitive the verb "to heal" means "to cure".

The female vote is a disaster. No civilization can survive it for long.

Yes, a man would have got 4 years with 2 years unsuspended.

This sort of hype is the modern (lay) version of "Life after Death". It will not come to pass. People have stopped dying massively of heart attacks, only to die of malignancies a few years later. Those who escape malignancies awaits Alzheimer's. Modern medecine is very good at prolonging but very poor at healing.

I assume the dengue vaccine is to be prioritized over the Chikungunya vaccine? I'll give Qdenga another year before I get it if its track record remains good.