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Funny how kreng jai เกรงใจ doesn't seem to apply to relationships with foreigners sometimes. Quite the opposite often applies. I hate to say it, but I guess some folks don't see foreigners as deserving the same considerations as Thais.

That's great! Thais have a natural talent for writing those instructions.

Here come the Mongoloids!!

7 hours ago, itsari said:

Please inform us of the countries that rely on tourism are thriving .

The Thai government can not be blamed for how the world situation is .

Covid , Russian attack on the Ukraine resulting in higher energy prices  are situations the Thai government can not be blamed for .

 

 

But they can be blamed for creating and perpetuating a confusing and restrictive entry policy while they are experiencing an acute need for foreign currencies.

Geez. Somebody probably put a new picture of their favorite pop star on Facebook. That drew complaints?!? and now these guys are going to interrogate the fan(s)? Let's pull the 16-year old pimple puss in for an inquest!

On 3/13/2022 at 5:19 PM, AlexRRR said:

[email protected]

 

Received this today, applied for the pass around mid week last week....when i replied you must be kidding me all relevant information is at least on copy of my passport another email came instantly with a link requisition that it should be opened on a pc not a phone.

 

 

update attachment 
There is a problem related to the request, please download the attachment and update the information 

Please prepare your documents for submission at the check-in desk and relevant agencies 
Passport with visa (if required) 
Thailand pass QR code (on mobile device or hard copy) 

Please submit your documents and QR Code to immigration and disease control officials. 


Download Document 

https://t2m.io/Document-Required 

important note. You must open the document from a PC and not from the phone 

ReplyReply AllForwardEdit as newShare Email

 

 

Wow, you put the live link to the malicious server in your post.

6 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Okay. If I spend five minutes looking for reports like this in Thailand I'll find a bunch. Now, if you did that for whatever country you come from how many will you find? If anyone has their head in the sand it's you. Perhaps you never read the news here. 

Despite the cool quote from Kilgore Trout, I must disagree.

In the region that I live in, I can tell you of two women and one cop that were killed by crazed exs. And this is just the stuff that is big in the local news and I read about. In addition, a coworker's daughter was murdered by an ex in FLorida. The US is a big place and I am in a pretty limited region. I would think that this is far more common in big cities.

6 hours ago, giddyup said:

Are you reading local news from the US, the UK or any other countries that report on people killed by spouses or boyfriend's? Of course you haven't, you are just spouting opinion, not facts.

I live in the states and this frequent. Usually it is the wife/girlfriend who ends up dead, but we had one here not too long ago in which a police officer who was called to deal with the violent ex was ambushed and killed.

7 hours ago, giddyup said:

I suppose it's unheard of for Western ex husbands, boyfriends etc to kill their ex after being rejected?

It happens often. Marriage not a necessary condition for it.

Part of it is being spurned, part of it is not being able to cope with her being with someone else.

15 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Airbags only deploy if the frontal impact is high enough. Heavy car hitting light motorcycle obviously didn't generate sufficient 'G' force.

From the looks of the windshield, I'd say the impact of the guy's body generated some Gs.

11 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

So the flying insects murdered him?

No, but they were a bad influence.

"probelems in the documents that you submitted to the embassy." Embassies don't receive these documents.

16 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 23,557 official new infections. 38 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 22,240 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 45,797

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

 

Rolling 7 day average chart from 22nd Feb

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

 

Are we sure tha the PCR postive and ATK postive numbers are exclusive of one another? I had read the plan was to verify the ATK results with PCR tests. So I am wondering if there is not at least a partial overlap between the ATK and PCR results. Similarly, if there is a delay, say today's ATK results are confirmed by tomorrow's PCR results - is it really possible to add the two number together and say that the real official finding is a reliable daily sum? Just wondering.

Aren't attendance requirments quite strict for these visas IIRC it looked like you had to be there everyday of classes. There was little flexbility, meaning the only time you could travel was during school holidays. Maybe the let you do something if there is an intersession break between course enrollments. It looked quite serious and not something for students with tourist leanings.

6 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Which begs the question why even require the test in the first place. If a tourist tests positive, are they to self report somewhere for quarantine isolation? 

When it was an ATK test previously on day 5, nobody knew what to do with the test. Some hotels didnt' want to hear about it, others said send a picture of the test. Far from ironclad proof that you are Covid-free. I think this is just a face-saver or window dressing to make it look like they are not being soft on Farang.
 

I read of at least one oppostion politician attacking the Prayut government for being too lax with foreign visitors. Wow, somebody even more xenophobic than the current lot. However, that person has nothing to lose for saying stuff like that because they are not responsible for the effects of tighter Covid restrictions. Just raising a rabble with heavy Thai nationalists.

16 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

The problem of pedophilia continues to be widespread in Thailand, but as so many other things is still swept under the carpet.

 

I vividly recall hooking up with a cute waitress during my early years in Thailand, who hailed from Nakhon Sawan. She was 24 years old at the time according to her ID card. One day soon thereafter she introduced 2 young children to me, a boy aged 10 and a girl aged 8, whom she claimed to be her own offspring. I was shaken to the bone! To make matters worse, she revealed that the girl's father allegedly was her own stepdad! That guy, in his late 40s, was married to her mom... who was only 40 at the time and who had given birth to my waitress girlfriend when she had just turned 15. Needless to say that my relationship with that waitress didn't last long. I just couldn't handle it.

 

This wasn't an isolated case. In the ensuing years I frequently came across young women who had had their first child in their mid-teens. Very often they even had several offspring -- each one of them from a different father.

 

In the 80s and 90s it was very common to stumble across very young girls in go-go bars and hostess lounges even in Bangkok. They usually would show you fake IDs, of course, that "made them" of legal age when in fact they were only 15 or 16, the girls' exceptionally young looks betraying them. In the countryside the situation was even worse, with girls in local brothels frequently being as young as 12 or 13. An "English teacher" once took me along on one of his regular weekend sojourns to Kanchanaburi, where he happily "partook in local customs" as he cynically called it -- at 20 baht a "pop". I literally fled the scene in horror and broke off contact with the "English teacher".

 

My kudos to "Big Joke" for wanting to do something against this disgusting trade. But I think it's going to be an uphill battle. The practice is just too deeply ingrained. Many local males see it as their "manly privilege" to <deleted> just about any female they can lay their hands on - and no matter what their victim's age is. "A doctor, a soldier, and a politician's son"... do you need to know more?     

I lived in thailand in the late 80's. My feeling was that aw-aw's (wish I knew how to spell that in Thai) were rather common. Even a woman that I worked with at the university knew the term. I would see mamasan with obviously young girls sitting in the coffee shop of the Grace Hotel late in the evenings, and I know some shortime hotels specialized in aw-aw. At that time it was widespread and tolerated like any other prostitution enterprise.

Hopefully they don't just get a bigger net.

They did their best to scare the hell out of everybody, and now they regret it because they need to get the economy going again.
 

Meanwhile, I am hearing ancedotes that indicate that there is far more Covid around than they are letting on anyway. I have a friend who works in a factory in Lamphun - her company is reporting more Covid than ever and her close friend and her family have it now. Their village in Lampang is a cluster and access is to be closed off. Lampang?!? You can bet it is everywhere. Bad timing for the Junta - the Covid measures are unsustainable so they are going to liberalize right in the middle of what may be the worst outbreak yet in terms of the number of cases.

On 2/8/2022 at 10:51 AM, Tropicalevo said:

I was under the impression that the government were 'adjusting' the figures on a regular basis in order to suit its agenda on the day.

Take this as confirmation of that. They just decided to be "transparent" about their opacity.

On 2/7/2022 at 11:03 AM, Sticky Rice Balls said:

I went to a patient first kind of place--they said they sent the tests out of state!!!

 

Guy from labcorp comes daily to get them--then they fly! them out of state and back!!!???

 

Got mine within 2 days and then in LAX the guy form singapore air didnt want to let me board sayiing my testing was over 72 hrs-----i went in on 14th and was in LAX on 17th....mere hours difference...

and i made SURE my test said RT-PCR..........never again singapore air...I did get on after a "debate"

Yeah, that is what I would be worried about, the staff at the departure gates. There have been stories of them following out of date guidelines and struggling with things like this. Some folks, like yourself, have had a very unpleasant experience with them at least, and some have been denied boarding.

15 hours ago, TaoNow said:

While many of these examples are frivolous, there are some scenarios that could cause trouble.

 

For example, let's say you are a retired expat who is a fluent English language speaker. 

 

You might think it would be nice to invite some of the local high school students to your house at certain times outside of school to let them practice English conversation with you.  At no charge.

 

Now, if those students had been paying the local Thai English teacher for tutoring after class or on weekends...well, there might be an anonymous tip sent somewhere.

 

Word to the wise...

I sometimes wonder if you can get in trouble for volunteering without a permit. I was an ESL/EFL teacher by profession (Masters degree). I would love to teach at a temple school, but I think I can get in big trouble without a permit, even if there is no payment involved.

On 2/7/2022 at 8:08 AM, Peterw42 said:

Any of these stories' about cant wash your own car etc, are rubbish. They are always told 3rd hand, and there always ends up being more to the story, ie: the guy had an actual car wash business and was washing 20 cars a day etc.

 

Someone will pop on with a story of a guy they know, who knows a guy, who knows a guy who got arrested for making a cup of coffee. The real story will be the guy was working in a restaurant, serving, cooking, waiting etc, and got caught.

Then the guy said he was only making a cup of coffee for himself.

 

Nobody has ever been arrested for washing the car, mowing the lawns etc

 

I think it all goes back to that guy that who supposedly got deported for helping his wife sell food. I remember seeing articles about that, but sort of story takes on a life of its own (obviously) and becomes distored with the retelling as you have observed.

You can apply up to 60 days in advance. I would definitely not wait until a week before travel.

soft power = impotent force