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Australian Work Permit for Thai Wife
isaanistical replied to happyaussie's topic in Visas and migration to other countries
In my experience in AU, they all seemed to be Vietnamese or Indian (origin, though of course now AU citizens) and maybe making it as difficult as possible per their own experience. Used to be the same when UK still had an embassy in BKK - staffed by Indians who would be obstructive for the sake of it (revenge for the Raj?). -
Worst Joke Ever 2024
isaanistical replied to warfie's topic in Jokes - Puzzles and Riddles - Make My Day!
Attendance at a China zoo has boomed since rumours started that the animals in its bears enclosure were actually humans in disguise. Tottenham are expected to copy this in the new season. -
Worst Joke Ever 2024
isaanistical replied to warfie's topic in Jokes - Puzzles and Riddles - Make My Day!
not off a stack made at 10am and maybe still around at 3pm on a slow day. You tried to avoid the soggy egg-and-mayo. All placed in a brown paper bag for eating in a nearby park if it wasn't snowing. -
Worst Joke Ever 2024
isaanistical replied to warfie's topic in Jokes - Puzzles and Riddles - Make My Day!
Thannks from here too. Wonderful stuff, some of it evocative of the superb Heath Robinson, but some is muchmore "feasible". Related: on the same website I saw this. What a memory-jerker this is: "Sandwiches. London 1972" -
Long holiday sees spike in road accidents, authorities urge caution
isaanistical replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Exactly. OP headline is completely wrong. WHO numbers - 2016 is their most recent easily accessible year - showed 22,491 deaths, or average 61.6/day. Around 80 percent motorcycles. -
Worst Joke Ever 2024
isaanistical replied to warfie's topic in Jokes - Puzzles and Riddles - Make My Day!
haven't seen this on here for at least a week.............. -
Ah, the good old days – takes me back. I remember once taking the pink slip for collecting the new one and shouting to the girl behind the grille (whom I happened to know a little) “I demand you give me a passport”. Should have seen the looks on the faces of all the asylum seekers in the room! Of course, that was when UK had an embassy here……..
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Bangkok transport’s long and bumpy journey to a common ticket system
isaanistical replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Fog lifting, but Green, Pink and Yellow are operated by BTSC (as BTS, NBM and EBM) - Rabbit so how come the Yellow jobbie is clearly signed all over it "MRT"? Or in this case were you solely talking about the ticketing? [Blackadder: "I have always been content to wear cotton, without bothering to know how it works"............] -
Bangkok transport’s long and bumpy journey to a common ticket system
isaanistical replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Enlighten us? (I have only been here 28 years). If youre right and my wife is wrong (which has never happened before), how come Rabbit works on Yellow, which is an MRT line not a BTS one? Even the lack of logic is wrong! -
Bangkok transport’s long and bumpy journey to a common ticket system
isaanistical replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Not calling you a liar, but my wife told me today she uses the same Rabbit card on Blue MRT and BTS. Certainly it works on the useless Yellow Line, and I have never heard of a Red one. -
Bangkok transport’s long and bumpy journey to a common ticket system
isaanistical replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
It's a nuisance if you're just an occasional user of one or the other. Can take ages at, say, Asoke or Silom to get a single ticket. However, I understand a Rabbit card will work on both MRT and BTS, so for those of us who live here, surely that IS a single system? -
Why Thais backed a military-backed constitution
isaanistical replied to Denim's topic in General Topics
Agreed. In fact having been out of UK for so long, I am denied a vote there should I ever wish to, which is ironic. My wife, who is Thai, used to be totally apathetic about what happens here - fatalistic, more like, same as many millions of her compatriots. This time she has become really angry about the way they are being s()at on, not least because she is better informed - largely through foreign media that are not always accurate, partly because they usually omit the real source of the whole problem, which of course none of us here dare mention. It was the disclosure some years ago about the truth of that problem that started getting my wife (and her peers) angry, and that will never be healed until there is action. BUT: it is clear that serious protest action would be bloody and costly in terms of lives, and it is not difficult to see why so few Thais are prepared to go to those lengths. I for one don't wish to see my wife killed by Men in Black............. -
Worst Joke Ever 2024
isaanistical replied to warfie's topic in Jokes - Puzzles and Riddles - Make My Day!
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Best ways to pull yourself out of a slump?
isaanistical replied to bob smith's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
well, no. I haven't got a tuk-tuk......... -
Updated info on good hospitals in Bangkok
isaanistical replied to TheLaughingMan's topic in Health and Medicine
with the local libel laws in mind, I would like to assure everyone that Sikarin hospital (Srinakarin) is an absolute paragon, the perfect exemplar of patient handling and administrative excellence. Just as well, too, because medically they are quite good……….. I can't wait to get sick again just to go there. -
Updated info on good hospitals in Bangkok
isaanistical replied to TheLaughingMan's topic in Health and Medicine
Sheryl is right (as in ALWAYS right!). But consider Camillian, up the top of Thonglor. I/my family have had a number of generally quite good experiences there over the years with bills that are -relatively - not so dangerous. It lacks the 6-star hotel ambience of some other BKK establishments, which is another very good reason to use it! -
Best ways to pull yourself out of a slump?
isaanistical replied to bob smith's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Have to be careful here but OP posts as "female". If that is true, it probably explains the whole thing, but there is always the outside possibility that women might be the answer. -
Best ways to pull yourself out of a slump?
isaanistical replied to bob smith's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Indeed, do it every day for a year and you will be nearly a thousand km further away...... and we will al feel better. -
Best ways to pull yourself out of a slump?
isaanistical replied to bob smith's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Beat me to it. I always find a few facetious posts to websites does the trick.