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I have just checked ebay.com and ebay.co.uk. Both worked as normal. Trouble is I spotted a new Canon at a nice price so your OP may cost me money.

I have just got these results

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What I consider more important, as I really have no idea on the accuracy of these adsl speedtests, is the length of time it takes to download a movie or whether streaming video works well. I use 3BB, pay for 16 gown, 1 up.

Isuzu let me finance a pickup using my house as a guarantee. No problem.

If you use your wife as guarantor she is only guaranteeing the loan. It won't be put into anyone's name until the loan is paid off. It will stay in the dealer's name. When the final payment is made the dealer will arrange transfer at the Land Transport office.

thai price i presume and a multitude for the tourists ?

What do you mean? It's 199 baht for the ticket for everyone, it's in the article. Not even sure what multitude means in the context of your sentence.

I guess that he means will a multiple of 199 will be charged for foreigners. Dual Pricing?

A really useful topic. It would make a nice few days out next time I have a reason to go to Bangkok. Thanks OP.

This reminds me of the time I was buying a new mobile phone in Tuk Com, Sri Racha. The vendor, named Oil, wouldn't tell me the price because she was selling the same model to a Thai customer. She looked at me and pressed a finger to her lips to tell me to keep quiet. When the Thai customer had paid for the phone and left she charged me a few hundred Bt less. I must add that I have known her for several years, bought several phones and taken friends there as well.

Buy several boxes of matches. Open them all and place them in a pile on a metal tray (or something similar). Close the wibdows and doors. Then light them. The smell of paint is gone.

I had both my UK driving license and IDP, a couple of weeks back here in Pattaya. The Tourist Police took my IDP away and said that I should go and pay the 400THB fine if I wanted to see it again... Obviously, that was useless and insulting advice seen as they were at their mobile checkpoint most of the day and attending the station would be pointless due to the French guy clearly stuffing it in his pocket. Before the day was over, the Thai's from a different spot took my UK license away and said that I should go to the station to pay my fine, because I didn't have an IDP. But I don't mind, because these are the 'good guys'. F*cking theft!

I am guessing, as it is not clear from your post, that you were stopped and because you had committed an offence were told to pay the fine at the Police Station in Soi 9. There you would have been given a receipt for the payment of said fine. Then you would have been able to go back to recover your IDP. That is standard practice.

If you were stopped later the same day at a mobile checkpoint and fined then they were correct. You didn;t have an IDP nor a Thai licence so they were correct in fining you. If you had paid your fine earlier and retreived your IDP you wouldn't have been fined.

Wow! Sensible answers to a serious question, for a change.

To the OP, I doubt that you will have a problem, especially if you follow the advice given. At her age the girl can also vouch for you. Well done for thinking ahead as prevention is always better than cure.

Hello again

My 3BB onternet has just come back on again. Things are getting sorted.

There was a big bang early evening and a massive bunch of cables are being repaired right now. Just have to be patient.

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Simple answer. Next month renew ypur marriage extension. That will last until next July. Get a divorce. Next July apply for an extension based on retirement.

To teach a language, does 1 need to be a native speaker ?

In my old Grammar School I had an Englishman teaching me French, another Englishman teaching me Latin, another teaching me Ancient Greek.............and a German teaching English.

Motorbike taxi picked me up at 1am. Lots of other people on the roads at that time, and several bars open.

This reminds me of the old adage

"How do you make a small fortune in Thailand? Start with a big one..............."

Sometimes I wonder if posts like this are just there to boost TV traffic.

I have just done a very quick search. Loads of results from the UK and the US about toddlers drowning while mothers slept or wrote on Facebook, used PCP or smoked Cannabis.

My point is, this happens everywhere, criticise the mother but avoid trying to make it a Thai trait.

My sympathy goes to her as well. She has lost a daughter and will live with that for the rest of her life.

I wonder how many tourists and some expats know that their travel insurance could be void, due to the coup.

How would an expat have travel insurance?

When I used to come here as a tourist years ago I just booked flights and never had insurance. I can't be the only one.

The mom & pop shop opposite my house did a roaring trade in beer as people bought it on their way home. I sat there until midnight with sevral other people.

How far ahead of time can you make the 90 days report - is it 15days before? It would be at Jomtien Immigration.

I beleive that you can file a 90 Day report up to one week early or one week late. I personally have never been one day late so I have no experience of doing it late.

I doubt that you will be allowed to do any practical farming work. It is probably a protected occupation.

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Good. I hope the scarcity of transport on the Malaysia side spurs a little hotter trade in busses.

First time I wandered across that bridge beyond Hat Yai was quite a shock- no vans, busses, taxis or hotels.

Dark, raining, alone, and with no available transpoirtation. Makes for a good travel story- ecoomics, not so much.

You know, I have been coming to Hatyai since 1990, and have yet to see that 45km long bridge to Malaysia.

There wasn't a bridge there last year when I last went to Hat Yai. Wouldn't want to cross it if there was.

I used an ATM inside Tesco Lotus. No moey came out. I assumed it was an ATM problem. Within an hour I checked online and saw that 200 GBP and 1oo GBP hade been taken out of my account. One withdrawal in Moscow, the other in Kiev. The bank refunded my money. Mind you, I did laugh when the person I spoke to in my bank asked if I had been to Russia and forgotten.