JackGats

The problem is that the water-throwing synergises with the worst aspects of Thai Society, like willingness to accept any degree of road carnage. Make no mistake about it, when they throw water at scooters, they don't mind at all, indeed hope, to throw the driver off balance.

1 hour ago, eumenades said:

 

Sixty years ago, I took a little yellow amphetamine for a technical drawing exam. I finished 45 minutes before anybody else and got a pass with honours. Some say it is the same for maths, but with English it can make you too confident. (Just passing through, folks.)

Indeed. I remember taking Modafinil  for physics exams. I felt focused like never before and got better results. However if I studied for my exam under Modafinil the learning was poor. Good for taking the exam, bad for learning towards the exam.

On 4/12/2024 at 4:22 AM, bubblegum said:

Don't even know what it is and does.

Then you're the ideal person to rant against it on Aseannow and elsewhere.

1 minute ago, Mika78 said:

 I don't use any password to unlock it. If someone stole my phone or i lose it, everyone has free access to it.

Sorry but it's hard to believe someone can be so careless.

All the same, they didn't force you to unlock your phone, so it's not so bad after all. I read US customs could keep passengers under arrest as long as they didn't unlock some password-protected drives on their laptops. That is really bad.

Someone once recommended to "clean" my smartphone before traveling to Malaysia. I guess the same recommendation would apply eg to Indonesia and many African destination.

I read it was especially recommended if you didn't have much meat in your diet.

Did they ask you to unlock your phone and hand it over to them for checking the content?

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

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   This is a great excuse to Israel to bomb Irans nuclear facility 

Difficult. Israelis now no longer allowed to fly over Saudi Arabia (or Irak) I think. They would need to use missiles. I've read the Iranians had scattered their "nuclear facilities", especially whichever nuclear warheads they may already have produced. So no easy option apart from armageddon.

They write "pause". Semantics may not be their forte. Maybe it meant "abolished". The TM6 serves no purpose, apart from being able to fine those who lose it.

Can someone tell me if there's water throwing early in the morning at breakfast time? Like before 9am.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Please cite crimes and violence committed under the influence of a couple of double shot espressos.

Murderers wait for the effect of their coffee to die down before they kill someone, it's a well-know fact. 

3 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Highlighting a comparison between Coffee and Methamphetamine highlights a major logic imbalance... such that the the above comment is out there in 'complete nut-job territory' !!!....

Coffeine is short-acting meth.

4 hours ago, jvs said:

How many people commit crimes because of drinking coffee?

Young men asking for coffee money and because grandma is not giving it ,he kills her?

No,i do not believe coffee is a major threat to Thai society.

Of course not coz it's legal.

Note how in Thailand an additional layer of damaging crap, ie caffeine, is added to the methamphetamine. As though methamphetamine were not sympathomimetic enough on its own. As far as I know the meth/speed consumed in other countries only contains methamphetamine as the active ingredient.

Besides, if methamphetamine is a social evil in Thailand, what about caffeine? If you die of a heart attack from Yaba, do you die from the methamphetamine or from the caffeine? What about the coffee shops sprouting up everywhere in Thailand? What about caffeinated drinks that hook people by combining two addictive substances: sugar and caffeine? The yaba epidemics is bad but I guess the caffeine epidemics is no longer an epidemics as 90% of the population are hooked on it anyway.

If you want to rant against drugs you need to wear a good pair of blinders/blinkers.

Duplicate. Tricked again.

3 minutes ago, topt said:

My understanding is that they are definitely exempt from paying so if they do not file there can be no penalty as they owe nothing. Not sure why you think it is an outstanding question?

Filing taxes and paying taxes are 2 different things. It might be useful to be able to show the taxman back home you filed taxes in Thailand.

14 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Can anyone on this forum answer a very simple question with a yes/no response?

"If a person does not owe any taxes to the Thai Government does that person have to make a tax return?"

This is a question owners of an LTR visa will love to get an answer to by the beginning of next year.

4 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

I reckon you are right, but do I need a TIN, as I have a PIN? My wife has a TIN and it shows the same number as her PIN..

I don't know what a PIN is. Is it the swiss taxpayer's number? The TIN is the internationaly recognized format. National taxpayer's numbers have digits that overlap with the TIN. The Thai TIN has 13 digits I think.

3 hours ago, Yumthai said:

Why would they close your account if you are legally exempted from tax and not required to have a TIN?

 

Because a TIN is for the CRS or FACTA. Bank data can be exchanged regardless of whether you pay tax.

Some banks in Europe seem to make offshore resident status conditional on showing a TIN from the country you say you reside in.

A TIN is also required on any W-8BEN form, in case you own US shares.

3 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Today I have received a letter from UBS requesting a [Thai] TIN.

 

I was about to send them my PIN but got second thoughts. Since I have the so called LTR/WP visa, can I tell them that not of money transiting through UBS is assessable in Thailand and that therefore I have no TIN to provide? 

 

I am not sure I want to do that, because I wouldn't like it if they closed my accounts. But their letter was threatening at all, a reminder might be though..

I think UBS couldn't care less about your LTR visa or the tax exemption that goes with it. Go and get a Thai TIN asap. It will be useful not just this time with UBS.

P.S. Show the Thais the letter you got from UBS. They'll understand you need a TIN and will give you one. I got one after I said I needed one to open an account in Europe. I got one on the spot. It took 20 minutes.

7 hours ago, chang50 said:

Very few I suspect including sections of the revenue department.I went to Jomtien tax office this morning after following the simple tax guide to get a tin number as per the law and came away empty handed.They told my wife and I to come back next year with a bank statement.This will be way past the mandated 60 days deadline for bringing assessable income into Thailand and my residence cert. might be expired after 30 days.A total waste of time and money!

You should have told them you needed a TIN to open a bank account in Germany (or Spain or Croatia or ...). I bet they'd have issued you with one there and then.

I cut down on baked beans after seeing on the label how much SUGAR they contained. 

All the same, food in Thailand is not that great. With less Farangs compared to Asians coming to Thailand, the availability of Western food has tended to worsen. Baked beans and bacon are rare in hotel breakfasts these days.

Why should they be? Thai men knock-up Thai teenage women, then let foreigners give those women a soft landing and take care of their children when they near menopause.