Captain Monday

On 4/28/2024 at 5:56 PM, Robert Paulson said:

I once ran into the bloke who cooks the dish I buy often at the market. He was shopping for the chicken he uses in his recipe. I forget the name of the dish I guess it’s just khao man gui but it has yellow rice with cinnamon. The reason I mention I saw him at the market was he was buying the stuff he makes fresh everyday, and I got to have a look at it all. And he was heading home to cook it all for that evenings sale.

 

40 baht for the dish. I’ve eaten it a hundred times never as much as an upset stomach (wish I could say that for my own cooking).

 

I guess that’s my long way of saying I don’t think you necessarily get more quality the more money you spend on food. Although of course that can be the case.

For 40 baht I guess one of god-damn eggs is 5 baht extra.
 

I buck the trend and do not  want to have food with an egg on it. 

28 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

This is a FACT. A moldy ham sandwich would beat Biden right now. Poll after poll shows this, little variance. It is the stubborn MAGA cult behavior that is shooting themselves in the foot. They're making their bed.

 

How do they say ity in Thailand? Oh yeah - sum num na.

Glad you believe that

If you are eligible to vote a swing state don’t bother then 

5 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

They mostly do if you bother to tell them how many people your party contains.

I personally detest people, who are on their own, spend next to nothing but want to occupy a table for 6.

Why don’t you sit where the receptionist guides you to then? 

47 minutes ago, frankstraube said:

Exactly...i believe this 60 days on arrival will simply replace the 30 days + 30 days extension that everybody does and gives a lot of work to immigration officier for no reason. So your hope of 60 days+30 days extension could be wrong...just wait and see. 

In that case the 60 days tourist visa with 30 days extension would still be relevant.

No reason? You forgot the 1900 baht

Thailand does not really do reception properly

1 hour ago, Robert Paulson said:

Sounds like they want the tax money. So can we just say we’re digital nomads. Someone explain to me why a digital nomad is going to get 180 days while a married expat has to jump through all kinds of hoops and report every90

Because so many ”married expats” appear to be skels?

Who were allowed into Thailand  without police checks and are likely to re-offend?

Perhaps think before one acts?

Proven once again, one blow can kill.

Wonderful. Can’t wait until cash is permanently banned in Thailand. 

On 5/26/2024 at 6:43 AM, save the frogs said:

 

This guy is a lawyer and demonstrates the flat earth with the trajectory of a plane !!

The plane needs to keep dipping its nose DOWN in order to maintain the same altitude.

But what happens when it goes from the North Pole to the South Pole?

 

 

What a rediculous video. And repetive of dozens of others. No, he is a fool.  Or a liar.

• "Dipping the nose down" , or more accurtely pitch attitude relation to altimetry  is complete nonsense. More of a strawman as altimetry in aviation has nothing to do except in limited circumstances, with geometry/ maintining an absolute height above a surface, it is about maintaining a reference pressure altitude. This would be true even if the world is flat. Even flat earthers dont deny that an atmosphere exists do they? 
• There is nothing such as "upside down" on a planetary scale.

Driving wasted then getting aggressive with petrol station attendants. How common.

3 hours ago, swissie said:

In Pattaya, every 300 meters there is a Gold shop. How do you tell a "reputed" dealer from a "non reputed dealer"? The Thai community in my home country prefer to buy Gold here and not in Pattaya. Among other considerations, a Kruegerrand coin is marketable globally as opposed to some mysterious "Thai-Gold".

Yeah I wouln’t usually buy in Thailand either but I would like to hoard one of those lumps

I offered a Maple Leaf in Chiang Mai in a main shop near warrorot market just to see what would come back with. They said not interested as if “farang”  gold is not wanted. 

Where can I purchase Gold like this.

"Reputed dealers Only"

What side will India choose? No need to.

Whatever happens, by straddling the fence Thailand will prove to have been a strong ally to whatever "side" prevails. 

27 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Bye who's law? He has a British passport you made all that up on your own? 

Hardly. And I don't reference UK passport any  any dual citizenship, at all, so why bring it up?

When a woman marries an Iranian citizen Iran citizenship is automatically bestowed.

According to Article 987 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran: "Nationality is imposed by marriage upon the wife."   https://en.mfa.ir/portal/viewpage/4008/citizenship

https://www.ecoi.net/de/dokument/1025589.html

https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/68415/RSCAS_GLOBALCIT_CR_2020_13[2].pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

2 minutes ago, Yorkshire Tea said:

Fair enough, but what about when walking around the cabin?

Unavoidable for the crew and pax when using the lavatories.

Godspeed.

On 5/20/2024 at 5:20 PM, ChipButty said:

My son in law is Iranian I'll speak to him later, he is in the UK, 

If he is an Iranian citizen your daughter is one too autimatically by law. So why not ask her she should know the reason for the crash. Probably no more suspicious than the Kobe Bryant crash. 

3 minutes ago, Georgealbert said:

Yes fully agree, but surely the crew must’ve been aware they were flying into a storm, and the seat beat sign was on.

 

Very little details available yet.

No detail but in these mass casualty events seated passengers who have belts secured are not usually harmed

So why do many people feel  seatbelts are "unconfortable", I never noticed myself?

Is the Thai LTR visa some kind of advantage you may seek? Other than maybe get a newer condo I won’t be be “investing” here but…“Wealthy  Global person” option available if you meet all the qualifications including  $500k USD equivalent  in Thai govt bonds or real estate.  I’m more interested in another country now. 
 

11 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

Curiously it's actually cheaper than you think, or I thought.

 

I always thought it would be ridiculous. Now I can't can't comment on an international repatriation, never done one

 

But last year I accepted an HR (Human Remains in airline jargon) being sent domestically, to Atlanta I think I recall, but the air freight charge was $450!. No idea how much the casket and undertaker costs, but definitely cheaper than I thought.

Maybe the airlines take pity on the dead

Never priced it myself

Used to fly some em out from the islands on a stretcher for medical care. Many came back as HR. Some paid for by Uncle Sam. The Marshallese. We poised ‘em with radiation from atmospheric testing.