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You are right, there are notable exceptions. I have met bargirls who own farms and homes in the provinces. This in contrast with folks who are taken by surprise when the rent comes due each month.

thought I was in the wrong thread with some preceding posts. Anyway I was wondering it this is a stand up pinball machine or a video game type replica? Cool either way and an original gift idea Thanks for sharing

This was some years ago. I overstayed because I counted the days wrong, I was one day overstay. The officer in the kiosk directed me to a supervisor who was standing behind the row of kiosks. She asked me why I overstayed and I said it was an error in counting the days. She just handed me my passport and said "Safe travels", no scolding, no warning. YMMV, but i think they are not trying to penalize 1 day overstays.

Didn't mean any disrespect, but 8000 THB is over $200 USD. And I can't imagine not even making a phone call or writing an email to try and recover it. I'm not poor but as I said for $200 I would make some effort though not unlimited.

In my experience the prices are comparable to meter taxis. In my experience the big benefit of Grab is the drivers use GPS so can find your pickup and destination. Sometimes the taxi service my condo service people call gets lost on the way to pick me up.

I wouldn't take too much solace from being better than the US at cricket. The US has almost no consciousness of the existence of cricket. How there are enough US cricketers to 22nd or 17th in anything cricket related is a mystery. T20, ODI, Test? No idea what those mean. I thought this was a thread about World Cup football which has significant participation in the US.

Never had a girlfriend before. Socially challenged. and obviously, not the brightest star in the Milky Way.

" From some regions of Thailand parents have not taught them how to plan, save, budget " Even Thai acquaintances have told me this about Thai people. "Thai people don't save." And have observed the same with my Thai acquaintances by and large.

Power WC is a great idea. Not hard to operate unless a person has major cognitive issues and it sounds like your acquaintance doesn't have such issues.

I worked with people after their return home from hospitalization and often they experienced an irreversible decline in function. I observed, and this was confirmation of academic contention, that after an adjustment period what QuantumQuandary says is true. After a period of adjustment people's self-report of their satisfaction with life was about the same as it had been previously. This is of course a YMMV situation but chances are an intelligent guy without economic troubles should be able to adjust. Social contacts can be important, hope he gets out and about. I think that the fact that most people he knows will treat him the same as they have done before gives him some continuity and the sense that he is still the person he always was. Best wishes to your friend.

Not to be disrespectful but every time I hear or see the words "King Charles" I expect the next word to be "Spaniel". I guess I'll get used to it with time.

"Personally I wouldn't bother about 8000, it's simply not significant to me" You would just blow off 8000 baht? You must be doing alright. I wouldn't go to court over it but I would definitely pickup the phone, go to the branch, send an email.

Just placed an order with medisafepharma.com for delivery tomorrow. Chat on FB messenger was very helpful with everything. Multiple options for payment and delivery. Very pleased with selection and service so far. If delivery tomorrow then everything good.

I do have an offer in hand. Maybe that is enough. I will ask what branch they use. I am using cash for a lot of things now that would be easier with the bank app.

I was thinking the same, you never see "Gently stabbed 6 times" Possibly a live by the sword kinda death.

How about this then @$$hole. Go forth and multiply with yourself. Not wishy washy about you.

Figures. If you forget about "they" and "us" and look at individual Thais and ourselves, it becomes clearer. Some like me, some don't. Same as farangs. Calls to mind the Bruce Lee quote when asked if he thought of himself as Asian or Western, "I like to think of myself as a human being". I know for some here that might be a stretch, both for them and for others. In the case of the OP I would ask: have you a bit of a resentment against Thai people? Because when people post questions like this it usually means they have a bug up their rear about something, and aren't just curious about what people think.

my experience is different. I moved to an area that is far from any MRT/BTS stations a couple of months ago. I now take several taxi rides almost every day. My experience is that most Taxi drivers are good-natured and helpful. Some of them seem not to be very knowledgeable about Bangkok geography but most aren't too bad about that either.

Yes, I worked with a guy for a couple years, he always wore a ball cap i guess. One day it was very hot and on break he took off the ball cap and I was surprised to see he was mostly bald.

Or ... He's better looking when he stands next to his money.

"Now almost every post degrades into pages of off topic bickering. Name calling rude posters." Mostly true. Even just a post asking for help or information can become a source of hatefulness. I have tried to adjust in one way by approaching posts as follows: "Nothing that is said is completely useless, it can always serve as a bad example." I mean this sincerely, sometimes I see bitter nasty comments and I remind myself I don't want to be like that. Also, I find more often that I stop myself and think "Does this really need to be said?'. I do like to make jokes and tease people about their posts, but I try to keep it good natured. Most of all this forum still has knowledgable posters so when I ask a practical question I get the benefit of their knowledge.

Is this 15% on interest earned?

Doesn't sound encouraging but I will give SCB a shot for my deposits from work I guess. I was thinking of going to the Central Chitlom branch, but that is the one I phoned and they didn't seem encouraging. Will wait until I have non-B but my employer is talking about me working part time after the application is made. Oh well, one thing at a time, if they insist on me getting an SCB account I hope they can provide the documents to facilitate it.

I think in this case it's like Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day "I'm a god, not The God, just a god".

When pork is outlawed only outlaws will have pork.