JackGats

Lol. Feminists wanted sex to be just a social construct. Well done ladies, now enjoy the consequences!

162 people killed, 1,279 injured within 4 days? No big deal. Cannabis is the national catastrophe: 162 people with anxiety and 1,279 with reduced motivation.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

A decade and a half ago Jimmy Carter said Israel had about 123 nuclear warheads in its arsenal. Best thing for Israel could be to nuke Iran before it's too late. A small country like Israel can only have a first-strike nuclear doctrine unless it equips itself with a submarine deterrent.

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.

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

Coffeine is short-acting meth.

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.

Why can't the Burmese manufacture xstasy instead? Xstasy: there, at least, is a drug that has something to it. Yaba is zero euphoria. Sky-high blood-pressure. Sleeplessnes. Meth dick. Of course xstasy has low addiction potential. One consequence of the war on drugs is that the lousier a drug, the more widespread it gets.

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.

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

Ok then I think PIN = TIN. Give your PIN to UBS saying it's your Thai TIN. I heard a similar story but the reverse, namely it could work to use one's Thai TIN instead of the Pink Card number, in case one had a TIN but no Pink Card.

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.

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.

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.

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.