JackGats

"Negative income tax". Is that meant to be English? If it is wouldn't it mean you get money back from the tax man?

Especially since snipers, bodyguards, spies, bank robbers etc. are precisely what women ARE NOT in real life. I stopped watching Star Trek when women started to captain spaceships and starfleets.

I take it "regardless of whether they are resident" should be interpreted as "regardless of whether they were resident".

One thing I find reassuring in this whole story: Thailand has made it repeatedly clear one is not a tax resident in TH if one stays less than 180 days in Thailand. Few countries are so black-and-white about tax residency status.

I know what you're talking about. I book window seats too, in order to be able to sleep (at the cost of it being a hassle to go to the john). It is then infuriating to find a stupid gap wherethrough your pillow will slip 2 hours into your night's sleep. Before you book a seat you may want to take a look at seat guru websites. They have seat maps for each particular flight. They may have warnings about "bad seats", without specifying the cause (gaps, seat non reclinable etc.). Of course if the airline switches planes at the last minute it will all have been to no avail. You may find yourself having wasted money on a seat for nothing. Not so long ago I had another mishap with a window seat: cold, coming from the window side. It would've taken a padded jacket and triple pairs of trousers to feel in any way comfortable. If that happens again I'll reconsider booking window seats at all.

Well, maybe I am ADHD too, that's why.

But the Singapore bank can be a pain in the neck. It will want utility bills (not always easy to get in Thailand). It will demand copies of your passport at regular intervals, to be certified at the Singapore embassy in Bangkok.

Well what are you waiting for then? Get a Thai TIN asap! Then feed the Thai TIN to your UK bank. Do you prefer to risk losing your UK bank accounts just for the sake of not wasting 25 minutes at a Thai RD office in order to get a Thai TIN? As has been said before, having a Thai TIN is no game-changer as fare a taxation by Thailand is concerned. You can have a Thai TIN and not stay 180 days in Thailand.

How easy is it to get this kind of kiddie coke prescribed in Thailand?

Tolerance to weed is not that much of a problem since weed is relatively harmless. You can just increase the dosage to keep up with tolerance.

In many countries having a wife who has a job can save you a lot of alimony money after a divorce. Dunno about Thailand.

Indeed that is the fear of any LTR holder right now. Until further notice though, it feels good to have landed an LTR visa.

It's a no-brainer. Your remittances are tax-free under the LTR if your are a tax resident in TH.

What would be worth it is for members of this forum to be able to know what your topic is about.

Youtube has quite a few classic cult movies you can watch for free, like The Great Combo, Sunset Boulevard, The Red House etc. For some reason these free movies never have original sub-titles. Running auto-generated sub-titles (in the original English) shows what a dog's breakfast auto-generated sub-titles make of the actors' lines. For intermediate-advanced learners, some teachers of Thai include their own 100% word-for-word sub-titles, like this teacher: Note that VOA Thai include their own sub-titles if you want to practise on the news, provided you put up with the political bias! If you want to rely on (Thai not English!) sub-titles there are quite a few options out there, not as many as we would like but enough to make headway in our study. Another online teacher I recommend is the lovely June (who hasn't been posting for 3 years now, sob-sob, did she get, as we men say, scooped up?):

Alas, in order to arrest some youth smoking a joint down an alley, police will not wonder at having first to step over a pregnant tramp drinking wine from the bottle.

The real issue is not discussed, ie whether police in any country should get paid to go after cannabis (by smell or otherwise).

The gap between what kind of woman I can get for short time and what kind of woman I could get as a 24/7 companion is so huge that I have no other alternative than to live in Thailand where short time is available. By the very sexual emphasis of my life in Thailand, I am trapped where the night-life is. It would have been different had I lived in Thailand in the good old days where any hottie was keen to share the farang's life anywhere in Thailand in exchange for modest amounts of cash.

What I resent in ChatGPT is that if you ask ChatGPT to read the Thai, what you get is Thai read with a noticeable US accent. At present I wouldn't recommend using ChatGPT to practise listening and speaking Thai.

Auto-generated subtitles are not much use for learning a language because they contain many mistakes. They have even become a nuisance as Youtube seems to have the feature on by default everytime you open Youtube.

Well, there is at least one Australian restaurant I know of. In Jomtien, called Tinnies. Good restaurant. There may be others.

Protectionism. Thailand protects its own agriculture and food industry by imposing punitive custom duties on imports.

Oh sorry then. I thought you did suggest something about tranferring a stock portfolio.

All those women who tripped over themselves to repeatedly attend the guy's parties now decide that after all they were "raped". And the women who'd have given an eye and a leg back then to attend but were spurned are joining in the chorus. The staggering hypocrisy of it all (and of all of them)!

<deleted>! You don't transfer a stock portfolio by bank transfer. You have never owned a stock portfolio obviously.