JackGats

Wouldn't they simply ask about the earliest applicable tax year? Like if a revenue service requires you to prove you were 183 days in Thailand, this would apply to the already completed calendar year, obviously not to the year not yet ended.

I would assume we have already petitioned our own governments. Not only about cannabis but also about "a balanced approach" to prostitution? Or do we, like many expats, hold Thailand to higher standards than we do our own countries?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13463493/Horrifying-moment-two-British-tourists-viciously-beaten-gang-bouncers-arguing-bill-bar-Thailands-notorious-Pattaya-red-light-city-district.html Quote: " Speaking today, Sergeant Major Arthon from the Pattaya City police station, said that the three security guards have since been warned about their conduct but they have not been arrested or charged. He said: 'The tourist in the video who was attacked has not filed a police report, so we cannot assign an investigating officer. There's no case open until they complain. We've had a look around but can't find them. 'Yes, we're still checking CCTV to see what happened to them. There are rumours that he is in intensive care but we haven't heard anything from hospitals.'"

Imagine the police or security guard doing this to a black man in the US. The whole country would be in turmoil for weeks.

I assume you no longer have your old passport to show the bank. Does your new passport not have an immigration stamp transferred from the old passport where it states the number of the old passport? If the bank takes a look at it, putting 2 and 2 together regarding your driving license should not be difficult.

Replying to my own post in order to include a font page that works even better than the previous one. Here all the fonts seem to be downloadable for free: https://thaifonts.org

So the young are at risk from cannabis. 10 million young Thais riding motorbikes without a helmet or a driving license is ok though.

At 59 minutes, there's a discussion about a so-called mistranslation in the English version of the tax agreement. Now any tax agreement between France and Thailand will be signed in French and Thai only. Only the French and the Thai will be valid. Any translation in any other language will be for information purposes only.

One of the most difficult steps in Thai is getting your head around the many fonts. Thai fonts are not optimized for legibility to say the least. The only way is to open texts in a word processor and apply different fonts. I have had success downloading fonts from the page below. Once you've downloaded the fonts you need to transfer them to the font registry on your device. I use Pages on a MacBook and the whole procedure was not too much of a hassle. https://thaifaces.com/?page=5

I think Thailand should only allow alcohol in public hospitals for medical purposes (wound disinfection).

The sexual trade-union of femihags (who in the EU decide about visa policy) still see Thai women as a threat, although Thai women have long ceased to want to ply their trade in the EU.

That hotel may have been a literary one: the food was a farce and the drowning a tragedy.

This is positively false. Universal income tax is precisely what the Thais haven't instituted. They've made this perfectly clear.

I thought the LTR visa already catered to the same group.

The problem is, the US apparently only recognizes the one-year IDP (Geneva). So if you get it in Thailand it will only be valid one year anyway. Good news if the US allows you to drive with the Thai driving license only, which makes sense since all the info on it is in English. In Europe some countries like Belgium will recognize the Thai driving license because it is in English, other countries (France, Germany) will want you to carry a certified translation in the national language. Of course in Europe they accept the 3-years Vienna convention IDP, which makes getting a IDP in Thailand for Europe less of a waste of time than getting a one-year IDP eg for the US or Japan. I got the IDP for driving in Europe even where my Thai driving license in English is officially accepted. It's not so much the police I was afraid of as of an overzealous car rental employee.

Alas Google has given up improving its Thai-English module, as it has other language pairs I think. The hype is now AI, no longer machine translation. In my view this is a mistake, for language translation is a part of AI. In fact correct translation between languages is a hallmark of intelligence, whether artificial or human. I also think stopping R&D in the field of machine translation is a bad idea economically because the demand for accurate translations in everyday life and in business remains huge.

Indeed newer pools are shallow. Because they're not built on bedrock. They're built somewhere higher where too much mass poses an engineering problem. To me a proper pool should be neck deep in order to enable aerobics (and swimming without scraping the bottom when turning around).

Infinity pool = small and shallow. A joke for a swimming pool. It has to be small and shallow of course, otherwise the strain on the structure would not be tenable.

There would be freedom of movement of individuals they said. Then came the compliance/money laundering charade, and individuals got denied bank accounts except in their homeland, and then only provided they stayed to reside there. Soon we will have as much liberty of movement as the people in the UDSSR during the cold war. This will be achieved through the denial of banking services.

Except It should not be for any "people" to decide what herb I grow and smoke and cook with. Governments should stay out of what people decide to take into their bodies. The debate about drugs - and the war on them - should never have existed.

I tried several such apps over the past few years. Some apps (like "SayHi") worked well for some time, then the script kids couldn't leave well enough alone and ruined it. In the end I always fell back on Google Translate as it has been the app yielding the most consistent results. This is not to say the script kids are not trying to ruin Google Translate. For instance in the past Google Translate could capture a written sentence in Thai and send it (in Thai) to the translator page. Now no more. It only captures the English translation (which I need not capture since "seeing" it is more than enough). To summarize: Google Translate is the app with the least poor results.

Rice use too apparently.

One thing we can all do is refuse to board if we don't have our own life jacket.

I thought gender was a social construct.

50 Thai beaches would make it to the top 100 if it were not for plastic.