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Did she say 500 and time limit is 1 minute?

Hope we see some details, could be interesting.

A little oversensitive.

Always surprises me when I read negative reports / comments about bum gun / sprays. So easy, so quick, achieves good level of cleanliness, no paper to dispose of. Years back my oil refining employer at Map Ta phut brought in 20 specialised western engineers, all on 2 - 3 year contract, all provides with close to new 3 - 4 western bedroom style houses all with several bathrooms. All new engineers arrived within about 2 days, taken straight to their houses then taken to Foodland in Pattaya for a big shop up all paid for by the company. All bought several giant packs of toilet rolls. Within 48 hrs a big deputation of wives of the new engineers arrived at the company HO at Map TA phut. Their demand was that all the disgusting spray contraptions be immediately removed and taken away. All attempts by the longer-term western staff to explain that the bum sprays weren't disgusting and were in fact very practical, easy to use and produced very clean bottoms totally not accepted by the new wives protest group. A Thai English speaking engineer joined the discussion and mentioned that 99% of the houses, condos, apartments owned / occupied by Thai people across all of Thailand had these bum sprays and Thai people saw them as useful and produced good cleanliness. His comments not accepted. Another Thai employee then suggested that the company quickly create a team of people to very quickly replace all the sprays with new, also not accepted. Thai manager then mentioned that the company didn't own the houses involved and the rental contracts mentioned that house occupants / the company paying the rents were prohibited from making any type of alterations to plumbing or anything else. Thai engineer then suggested the company buy a large quantity of black plastic bags the right size and put each hose and spray into a black bag and tie it to the existing wall plumbing fittings so as to as much as possible put the black bags out of sight. This was agreed. But it was discovered later that some of the farang wives had demanded that their husbands remove the hose and spray, and they did.

Actually quite easy to remove the spray head and the hose, just a solid twist and in many cases not that tightly fitted.

So what are his measurements?

Because customers steal the bum gun spray and/or the bum gun spray and the hose.

Regional workers (Myanmar, laos, Cambodia, Vietnam) work under different WP rules, and many do have work permits specific to their nationality / jobs etc. Cannot compare to work permits for EU, US, German, Australian and similar foreigners.

Tax on state pensions transferred to Thailand, and the only income of the foreigner seems to be the area where there's very few / zero answers. It surprises me that none of the new 'gurus' have addressed this specific scenario. But I'm guessing these new 'gurus' can't see any potential fees / commissions etc., for themselves in this scenario (Tax on state pensions transferred to Thailand, and the only income of the foreigner) so seems to be the area where there's very few / zero answers. No fees available for the gurus, so it gets ignored.

I'm wondering why there's safety incidents. The vast highly successful, fast, cheap monorail system in Kuala Lumpur (started at least 2+ decades ago) has an excellent safety / service record and is very popular.

"I know a lot of foreigners working in the nightlife industry, the majority of the cases they would love to become legal, but the company they work for does everything to avoid and delay sponsoring their visas." What actual jobs do they do? Are they barmen, waiters, or ???? I'm wondering if you believe that management / owners can support work permit applications for any job. That's not true, there's a long list of jobs / professions which can only be performed by Thai nationals.

I'll add another point. I've heard PR holders say that 1 day over the 5 year requirement to update the Red Police book will bring cancellation of PR / will mean the local police cancel your PR status. This is not correct. PR status is 'controlled' by a special team within the RTP - the Thai Immigration Bureau. Other police (e.g. local police including a policeman who does the red book update at selected police stations) do not have the authority or responsibility to cancel PR. Also the local police including a policeman who does the red book update at selected police stations doesn't have any official line of communication with the Thai Immigration Bureau. I asked about this when I returned to LOS well over he 5 year period after the Covid- 19 situation had reduced and travel in and out had become much easier. The local police guy indicated clearly that late update of the red book (regardless of Covid- 19) was not reported to the Thai Immigration Bureau and there is no process to do that. As already mentioned he also told me and my adult Thai son that the police who handle the red book update are well aware that there's several very old farang who are always very late to do the update and/or haven't done the 5 year update for many years. He said clearly, 'this is not a problem, we don't follow up on these cases, they could be fined (very small fine) but I (police guy) have never done that, and it has no affect on the PR status of the foreigner. He did also mention that he was aware that foreigners must get an exit and r-entry stamp in their passport before they travel abroad but that was an Immigration office function and not a police matter.

Are you talking about getting Thai work permits or the specific visa which is issued after the foreigner has received a Thai work permit? And are you aware of the requirements to gain a Thai work permit?

Just your opinion, nothing more.

Is her weight gain worrying her or worrying you?

and early morning...

Same in every country.

Seems to have been forgotten that dowry is common in many countries and has been for centuries. - In some countries the groom / groom's family pays the dowry. - In some countries the bride / brides family pays the dowry. Ultimately these activities are standard, But if one person doesn't like the idea then that's their personal attitude / choice. Ultimately these things are cultural.

Just like you.

So 'he' is claiming Thai PR on the basis of: - because married to a Thai citizen for 15 years, he brings in and spends more money than the average Joe and he speaks Thai reasonably well. Nothing mentioned about having worked in Thailand for at least 3 consecutive years with a Thai work permit (WP) and that WP still valid, and proof or having submitted a Thai personal tax return for same period and proof that any tax payable had been paid. Everything in my para immediately above is very relevant and is the normal core requirement to gain Thai PR. It's been mentioned before there's a very small number of cases where other circumstances have also taken into consideration, but not 'I spend big every month'... No doubt 'he' will be back with a full report of the meeting with the police committee.

Some would be interested re this activity taking away jobs that Thai folks should have.

That can happen, there's lazy folks everywhere. I am aware that at least 2 major supermarket operators in Thailand have policy that older stock must be at the front. There's a number of points with this: - Shops want to recoup their total costs of selling and they want to do this quickly so they want their ongoing auto. sales / stock analysis* to reveal that older stock leaves the shelf first, and their auto. analysis does auto. flag if the sequence is out of order. And there will be some investigation 'what's going on here?' * supermarkets, department stores, all selling / business activity is analysed to death nowadays and that analysis reveals many interesting points, all valuable in operating successful business. - Shops don't want to risk stock being 'past use by date' which brings more selling administration which costs money. -And there's more...

This reply to my 4 line comment above using a 'confused' emoji. Nothing confusing whatever about my comment which is 100% fact reported hundreds of times in the international media. Do some reading, educate yourself.

So Israel has a right to wipe out a country, while at the same time Israel, for many decades has been severely punishing that country and stealing their land / pushing the rightful owners off that land / controlling the movement and daily life of the people on that land?

Are you saying that supermarket staff / shelf repackers are not polite? And don't allow access to shoppers? Both items are untrue. Yes at one wholesale supermarket occasionally an aisle is taped off and there's a forklift in operation. And the forklift will disappear as quickly as it appeared. Life ain't perfect.