mikebike

Pain in the behind for you, but a very good way to root out human child traffickers. Suck it up and move on. 

2 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

 

How can one demonstrate an objection to the actions of the Israeli government without being branded an anti Semite?

Simple. The answer is in your question. You direct your vitriol at THE GOVERNMENT not "the jews". It is an obvious distinction. 

An elderly man rear-ended a guy driving an expensive European sports car…

Enraged, the guy hops out and confronts the old man.

He yells, "Look what you did to my car…!!!”
"You're going to give me $10,000 right now or I'm going to beat you to a pulp!"

"Oh my…" the old man said nervously, "I don't have that kind of money.”

“Let me call my son…,” he said with hope, 
“he trains dolphins and he will know what to do."

"Dolphins..!?!?!" the other driver huffed, while rolling his eyes.

The old man pulled out his phone, dialed his son, and just as his son answered, the irate man snatched the phone away from the old man.

"So, YOU'RE a dolphin trainer, huh..?!?!” The irate man yelled, “Well, your old man here just rear-ended my car and I need TEN GRAND right now, or I'm going to beat you AND your old man to a pulp…!!"

"I'll be there in 10 minutes," says the voice calmly on the other end.

Exactly 10 minutes later, a Jeep pulls up and a guy hops out and proceeds to pulverize the bully, leaving him in a heap on the side of the road.

When he finished, he walked over to his father and said….

"For the last time dad, I train Seals… 
Navy Seals.”

“NOT dolphins..!!”

11 minutes ago, frankstraube said:

"I have obscured everything but my name and the pertinent info on foreign bank statements"

Do the pertinent infos include the full account number ?

No. 

I have obscured everything but my name and the pertinent info on foreign bank statements. It has never been an issue.

4 hours ago, GarryP said:

For someone who has been working their whole life, retirement can be difficult regardless of where you live. My dad retired at 60 many years ago and within 1 year he was suffering terribly from boredom (there is only so much gardening and fishing you can do) so he ended up getting a part-time job just to give him something to do. For someone to hit retirement, up their sticks and move to Thailand, after a few months when the novelty wears off, they may start getting bored here too.    

To each his/her own... We retired here in our early 40s and not bored yet!!

21 hours ago, impulse said:

Even the most progressive dotcoms seem to be snapping to the fact that they're just not getting the productivity out of their remote workers and are increasing the hours... 

 

https://fitsmallbusiness.com/employee-productivity-statistics/

Stats from 2023...

Just now, georgegeorgia said:

Loved that story , yes Gen Z are in for a rude shock in life !!

That's what u got out of the story? I read it as her wondering why in God's name anyone would willing choose a 9 to 5 in 2023...

16 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

Just worry about what is going to happen once they reach retirement age. I have know many boomers saying: I'll pay off my house and save a bit so the state pension will  be enough. 30 years later, after a divorce they were left with their meager pension and went to Thighland. Zeers won't have that choice.

Seems like they are smart enough to understand that, as things seem to be heading, there ain't no pension panacea at the end of their career gigs. 

21 minutes ago, skatewash said:

It is withheld, meaning it is withdrawn from your account.  Having a valid Thai Tax ID registered with the account allows this withdrawal of tax on interest earned to be waived, meaning it is not withdrawn from your account.  You may or may not be liable to report your interest earned in your Thai Income Tax return (depending on whether thresholds are exceeded), but it does not get automatically withdrawn from your account.  This is the case for regular interest-bearing savings accounts.  It is automatically withheld on fixed deposit accounts regardless of whether you have registered your Thai Tax ID with the account and cannot be waived.

Interest? What IS that? My $ stay in my home country and are only spent here. My account earns NO interest 🤣🤣🤣

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

When were you able to do that...recently and which branch?   I tried about 12 months ago on a Non O in the Asoke/Sukhumvit area and could only get the account if I provided "a letter from your embassy" in addition to ID, lease, utility bills, etc. (and a promise to transfer my banking from BBL) that I provided.  The branch staff could not tell me what information they required to be included in the letter from the embassy.

I did it in May in Khanom NST. 

8 hours ago, connda said:

Yeah, I was thinking, "I never had any issues opening an account at SCB," but then again, I had a drivers license and pink government issued id in my wallet.  Had my wife in tow as well.  Never got asked for proof of address.  But had they, it would have been a trip back home to get the Yellow Book.
Like immigration, different branches have their own unique complications I guess.

I have none of that except drivers license and my wife is a farang as well. Still as easy as pie. 

8 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

You were lucky.

I have an account with SCB and I wanted to open a new fixed deposit account.

I showed my passport, driving licence, work permit and house book.

"Must have proof of address form from immigration"  I explained that immigration here on Samui do not do this any more.

I showed them that my address was on the driving licence, work permit and house book.

"Must have proof of address form from immigration".

Goodbye SCB. I then transferred most of my money to Krungsri.

Too bad 4 u. Just on the mainland off Samui and it was simps 😁 Did u consider getting a confirmation of address from Suratthani immigration rather than Samui, they still issue them... 

22 hours ago, asiaexpat said:

Without a work permit it will be difficult to open an SCB account. OP can try once the work permit is available. but there are better options.

Again, this must depend on where u r. Non-O, retirement. Couldn't have been easier. 

On 10/27/2023 at 3:18 PM, circa02 said:

SCB are very strict now for account opening. They have big silly book of what acceptable ID looks like, and zero ability to reason beyond what the big book of A, B,Cs say. For example even though I'm married and staying on extension, they wanted to see the NON-IMM O full page visa affixed to the passport as indicated in the big book of A, B, Cs, no amount of explaining extensions and arriving on e-visas would be accepted, the big book of A, B, Cs doesn't cover e-visas and/or extensions of stay. I argued the toss with them until the manager said I can apply for an exemption from head office and if they say what you have is okay I can open an account, will take 2-3 days, at the point it felt like a small victory, so said cheers, but nah, and walked across the road and opened a KBank account in literally less than 20mins.

You can always give it a try, but I suspect based on the big book you'll have to wait until you have your non-imm B affixed to your passport and/or work permit.

I guess it depends where you are. Opening SBC account in Khanom was almost too easy 🤣🤣🤣

6 minutes ago, MrMojoRisin said:

Where’d you go Mikebike?

🤣🤣🤣

Right here. My mistake 🥴

Just now, MrMojoRisin said:

A Jewish history book?

That is NOT what you said tho, is it? 

1 hour ago, MrMojoRisin said:

and has been translated into more languages than any other Jewish history book.

Are you high by any chance? You DO realize that the old Testament is a "Jewish book", right? 

1 hour ago, Hanaguma said:

Well educated and well informed are not the same thing. Just look at the drek and idiocy going on in the US on so many so-called elite university campuses.  And the uninformed hatred being spewed by the professors.  

Well educated is objective. Well informed is subjective. I do not agree with your subjective assessment. 

19 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

She is the typical belligerently uninformed celebrity type, who often get too much time on tv to spread their nonsense.  

Or she is a reasonably well educated human who has an opinion... Shocking, eh? 

"Rania received a degree in business administration from the American University in Cairo. Upon her graduation, she worked briefly in marketing for Citibank, followed by a job with Apple Inc. in Amman, Jordan."

Khanom NST. 

There is none. 

No. 

On 10/12/2023 at 5:47 PM, Gecko123 said:

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I would just like to say that many people misinterpret the risk management process of identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, treating and monitoring risk as being "negative", "pessimistic" or as you put it, being a "curmudgeon," when in truth it is nothing of the sort. The identification of potential risk can be viewed as a joyful and positive process, as once the risk has been identified that becomes the first step towards better managing it. It has been my experience that it is most often people who have never been exposed to risk management tools who are most apt to misinterpret the thought process.

OMG... like a freaking broken record. 

Do you not realize that there are those, especially on the youthful side of life, who embrace risk, who crave a challenge, look forward to, and thrive on conquering new frontiers. This is a life embraced and romanticized in historical frontier and colonial literature and movies. Yet you can only apply accountant-like analysis when you look at life. Quite sad. ????