Trip Hop

Someone from my locality who I knew very vaguely, went on the run in Thailand several years ago after teaching a nightclub bouncer a lesson after he tried picking on him. I haven’t seen him around since pre-Covid days but he was at large for several years (and still maybe), despite having an interpol red notice on him. Had a Thai wife and a couple of kids too.

The pool at the bottom of Hin Lad is barely deep enough to swim in and in order to jump off you’d have to be able to accelerate like Yousain Bolt to clear the rocks on the way down. Most probably either hurt herself on the 30 minute hike through the jungle to get there or a slip on the rocks of the stream that flows to the waterfall? I’ve had many a travel insurance policy over the years and often paid extra for other hazardous activities. However I cannot recall walking up a mountain ever being classed as such!

Sounds like it may be a similar scam to where sometimes if you get a trial version of a software or app, they still ask for your debit card details? What they don't tell you clearly though is that they sign you up for automatic renewal every month unless you cancel. Got caught very similarly a couple of months ago by an online merchant website that I bought something from whereby they automatically signed me up for their discount club and starting debiting about £8/month from my account. By the time that I had noticed it, they'd already taken 3 months but luckily I had the original invoice for my purchase which clearly stated that membership to their discount club was free and therefore everything was refunded immediately by my bank.

Give it up will you? You have no experience whatsoever of dealing with this local authority yourself yet you talk as if you are the Oracle? OT at this authority couldn't even organise getting the small adaptions required for my mother during the latter stages of her Alzheimer's so we ended up paying ourselves, let alone something like this? It was the same for a close friend who was at risk of falling due to a back condition causing her to lose feeling in her one leg. One of my closest and oldest friends in this world has not long recently left her job of 14 years as Policy Manager for a well known charity that supports people like this because she couldn't take the stress anymore of seeing people who genuinely deserved help but were constantly being let down by this authority amongst others. Such was her knowledge on the laws regarding this subject that she even used to attend the Senedd and advise the Welsh Ministers on any policy changes they were proposing. Yet apparently you know more than all of us?

Have personal experience of dealing with Taff Ely CBC regarding disability adaptations have we? I have as I'm originally from not far from this guy and whilst in theory what you say is correct, the reality is far from it, especially if you want to remain in your own home. Due to the time that it takes to get everything approved and budget allocated, people often end up paying for it themselves. Keep your nasty comments and bull***t to yourself until you know what you're talking about!

The Click 155i/160i were made in response to the loss of sales to the more powerful Yamaha Aerox. 5Kg should be negligible to a rider especially with it being slung so low in the frame?

Take a look at the appearance of say Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Harold Shipman, et al? Judge a person just by their looks? A self-righteous, bigoted opinion if ever I have heard one!

Something I’ve never been able to understand myself. Even the Mrs rants that they done nothing when Covid was around and nothing in low season. Come high season they’re digging up everywhere without a care on how it portrays the place to visitors but expects them to not only come back but also increase in ridiculous numbers? If Pattaya had a real rainy season like other parts of the country then I could understand but it doesn’t except for the very occasional flooding?

Let's put a bit of common sense in your argument? Thailand wants investment, period. In the case of an individual wanting to buy say a condo, under your rhetoric they'd have to remit say 20% over the purchase price to cover the withholding tax on the chance that they may get it back at the end of the year or possibly several months after that? Need I say any more?

Not always but these 2 just happened to mention where they were from when they were trying to coax a couple of bar girls out of the bar without paying the bar fine. The use of the word DUDE and similar others are a dead giveaway though! 😘 Nothing against Yanks or Canadians and got quite a few decent friends from both countries. Just making a point to the OP that it's not just the Brits walking around shirtless. You sound like you need some anger management counselling?

Funny you should say that? Seen a couple of shirtless yanks with goldie looking chains, strutting their stuff up Beach Road early yesterday evening. Spotted them again still with shirts off long after the sun had gone down in Buakhao They looked like they fitted carpets for a living?

Because my other half thinks exactly the same as the dog and she’s a very street wise Bangkok girl. I’d trust both of them with my life. Stop being so pedantic just to sound smart as who mentioned anything about snarling dogs? As stated in my original post, unless you’re a shady looking person you wouldn’t have a problem!

We have a 3 legged Thai Ridgeback that is soppy as anything but is exactly the same. If anyone pulls up at our restaurant in a car or on a motorbike, he greets them with his tail wagging and a big smile. Anyone shady looking walks by and he shows them his teeth, just so they know the score if they should come around visiting one night. It's strange how they know who most probably won't be trouble and who possibly might?

I came in last Saturday afternoon and the 1st immigration queue was down to the bottom of the ramp. Went to the 2nd and that was at the bottom of the ramp too but didn’t have the zig zag lines. Friends came in exactly the same time this Thursday and it was exactly the same.

Nope, not at all. I was expecting it to ask on the application but it didn’t. I don’t even have physical statements so would have to print one to pdf if I did. Even thought about it after and considered whether I had missed it on the application and expected it to be rejected but it wasn’t. From your unfounded accusations I’m obviously a better person than you, perhaps the visa office seen that too?

Sorry for the late reply but only just seen this due to the site being down. Standard 60 day SETV applied for online from the UK. Hope you’ve got yours sorted by now?

Strange? Just done a standard 60 day TV, no bank or employer details required and only showed accommodation for the first week. Approved in 2-3 days.

I’m not sure what you are complaining about here? My e-visa just took 2 days to be approved. Are you telling me that you want to leave booking your flight until the last week? No need to book all your accommodation either, as a week will be enough. You could even book somewhere with free cancellation and change it after your visa is issued?

Nope, not any criminal. In fact it was far easier years ago. Believe it or not, a lot of criminals shy away from them due to the increases in the sentencing just for possession and hence most probably the reduction in incidents over the last decade or so as stated by johnnybangkok? Back in the 70s/80s, sawn off shotguns were common place but you rarely see them these days.

Not my personal experience from my last 2 trips in April and August. Qatar was £200 more expensive for a one-stop with not exactly great transit times when compared to a direct with Thai but most probably due to them sharing with BA? Both Emirates and Etihad were roughly the same price or marginally under Thai but again with not exactly great transit times and the Emirates flight took off from Heathrow and returned to Gatwick. ????

The GF has always maintained since the start of the debacle that is was solely for Prayut to escape!

You have to laugh at their audacity though! Willing to get into bed with nearly every nation the west despises but then expects the west to supply them with their best tech? Do they think that just because it is Germany instead of the US they will get any different outcome to that of the F-35A's?

I stand to be corrected but I'm pretty sure that the occupations reserved for Thais only apply to employees. When I briefly looked into it years ago regarding my industry, I couldn't work unless it was for a foreign company carrying out a major contract in Thailand and I was classed as a key worker, which they would only allow a few. I could on the other hand though, open up a company in my industry as long as I only employed Thais and a minimum of 4 in order to get a work permit for myself?

I can't see it myself? They know that most Thailand newbies or non-regulars from the west are already catered for enough under the 30 day visa free arrival. Free visas to the remaining long stayers or regulars won't make much difference as they are already used to the current system. I will say though that the increase to 45 days visa free last year did entice me to change my normal 30 day trip to 6 weeks?

I think that the fact that the UK are no longer offering shots to those under 65 unless you are high risk, says a lot about this? I've had it 3 times personally and even the first time I was well enough to continue to work from home. A close friend, the Covid Queen as we call her has had it about 6 times. On the other hand though I have another friend who had it when it first surfaced, spent a few days in an induced coma and still suffers from long Covid, so I think it affects different people in different ways?