JackGats

Really? What about holding him down and calling the police?

Didn't know the UK still had blasphemy down as a crime. Maybe they invented it ad hoc, like they did eg "grooming".

Importing OECD brown stuff (like taxation of world-wide income) will surely do nothing to attract well-to-do expats.

I wonder if such influencers didn't "get into trouble" in order to draw attention to themselves and gain more followers. Germany is not going to put her in jail for long because of cannabis. Anyways, if I'm ready to go to jail too if I can share the same prison cell as she.

Got some at Boots, just keep asking around. I recently found out that aspiring turned out surprisingly efficient against headaches that didn''t respond well to other meds (like Tramadol, Ibuprofen). I assume this was because I hadn't taken aspirin for a long time so my tolerance was down to nil again. P.S. I correct the above, I got the aspirins in Jakarta, not in Thailand. So it may prove difficult to get them in Thailand after all.

Exactly for that reason: the billions who matter (Chinese, Indians, ...) don't give a rat's ass about climate change (never mind whether it's real or not). There's nothing more pathetic (and pretentious) than puny 80 millions Germans "saving the climate" single-handed, ie driving their own people into poverty while the billions don't care and will do nothing.

Tax return not essential. I got my LTR on the strength of my pension slips alone. I explained though why my pension was paid free of withholding tax and why I had no tax return to show.

Worth trying: get a Thai TIN so that you have something to show to the bank on top of your visa. In order to get your TIN, tell TRD you need it to open a bank account eg in Singapore or Spain.

My own initiative as I wanted to get this out of the way before I'd be out of TH for a few months.

Over a decade ago tests in the German Parliament (Bundestag) also turned out positive for cocaine. I think they tested the washbasins in the men's room. Note that with test nowadays being very sensitive, it doesn't take many cocaine users to leave traces.

Two months ago I went to my Bangkok Bank branch in order to fill in the CRS/FACTA form (I'd filled it with my broker (Bualuang) but not with the bank proper). At Bankgok Bank they left me wait for ages on a chair in front of an unmanned desk. Eventually I managed to catch someone's attention and showed them a scan of the CRS form on my smartphone. They went "are you a US citizen?". I said "no" and left, thinking it was better to leave things as they were. Note that if the bank has an up-to-date copy of your passport, they'll know what type of visa you have (or don't have). If you have a long term visa, it could be a good idea to update your passport copy with the bank. The thing with the Russians may have to do with OCDE, sanctions against Russia etc. It is depressing to see that soon we'll risk having both our accounts "back home" and our accounts in TH terminated.

Yes but if I stick to the letter of the law, in order to bring money tax free into Malaysia I'd have to go and ask the "jurisdiction of origin" to first tax it. That's not what I understand as "tax free".

If some people die in your community, and you and your dog are still alive, it means there's life after death.

Quote: "provided that the income has been subjected to tax in the jurisdiction of origin". I don't see this as an exemption of foreign assets from tax on world-wide income!

You are funding child-labour, miner's deaths, cancer-causing chemicals, work-related illnesses, the destruction of Earth's ecosystems which support life ... The rest of your money you are paying in taxes to governments who fund weapons used to kill people ("innocent children", to use social warrior language).

Doing drugs is a choice. By your same twisted logic, many things you use/buy on a regular basis can be construed to fund "criminals".

To lefties anything not demonstrably left is "far-right". What about near-right? Apparently there isn't such a thing. It has to be "far" or "extreme". I don't consider a country that cripples its finances to give big cash hand-outs to all its citizens a "far-right" country. Neither is a country where medical expenses are free for all its citizens. Many policies in present-day Thailand reek of left-wing populism.

Covid lockdowns and covid paranoia dictatorship are one thing. Vaccines are quite another thing. Plus, not all vaccines are equal. Yes, some vaccines - just like other medications - may eventually turn out to do as much harm as they do good. But overall vaccines belong to what's best in modern medicine. They're the reason why we have ageing populations the World over. To the grow men out there who fight a rearguard battle against vaccines, why don't you fight for something worth it? What about fighting for your sexual rights in your own country, instead of signing them away to fly half way around the world in order to get laid in mosquito-ridden countries where you can't stomach the food? How about that for a change?

No it isn't biz. It's government killing business.

I guess because it's imported. Count yourself lucky milk is needed by Thai babies as well, otherwise it would be the price of Yogurt.

If there were life after death, death wouldn't be called death.

Why "because of Trump"? Because he's the first head of State to have the guts and wisdom to confront the Red Chinese?

For most normies these days, any man attracted to teenage girls is a pedophile. Some men (not many) have guts though. For instance Eivind Berge (at Evind Berge's blogg). The guy trumpeted: "Since men attracted to teenage girls are considered pedophiles, I declare myself a proud pedophile". Not bad as he's blogging with his real pic and under his real name. Note that you can get called a pedophile just by dating a female younger than yourself. https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahmarder/adult-famous-men-who-dated-teens-1

South Africa was black Africa's success story. Now it seems to be intent on becoming a basket case too: https://www.amazon.de/Fall-University-Cape-Town-university-ebook/dp/B09L96NJRK Quote: "Destructive forces have been eroding the University of Cape Town, Africa’s leading university. This book tells the sad, true tale of what has been transpiring. It is a saga of lunacy, criminality, pandering, and identity politics. The mad and the bad – the deranged, deluded, the depraved – have been granted endless latitude in bullying and abusing others." Racial identity catharsis is contraproductive enough in Western countries, it's even worse when it's fueled by a country's racial majority.

BBC = British Bullshyting Corporation. Hornet's nest of feminist, woke, third-worldist, misandric, climate-change alarmist agitprop. This is a pity because it used to be good. In what seems so long ago I used to spend endless hours listening to Radio 4 on long waves (and to the World Service on short waves).