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46 minutes ago, timoti said:

I assume most probably barely break but the most busy ones must be raking in serious money for example the one in Chaeng Wattana immigration complex. 10M thb per month?

 

I doubt CW is open 24/7 so the 7-11 there will be closed for 12 hours(?) each day. Meanwhile the aircon and refridgeraters must be permanently on running up the overheads. 

Maybe he was just checking his eyelids for holes.

On 6/29/2023 at 3:59 PM, eisfeld said:

They drove from Albino in northern Italy through Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway to the North Cape. It got a 108 liter tank

Well Duhh!! If they went from North Cape to Albino they would've got better mileage. Looking at my globe of the world the drive would've been downhill all the way. 

2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Arms too wearing a string vest also shave their head and buy a Rottweiler dog. ????

Probably would also put bumper stickers on a Bentley. 

2 hours ago, 2baht said:

I saw him at Lotus's yesterday!

I went there yesterday but Elvis must have already left the building.

I did see Lord Lucan though.

I reckon we should all get out our buckets, sponges and waxes and give our cars and motorbikes a jolly good washing, rinse, and a good dollop of wax buffed to an eye-squinting shine to the paintwork. Then go out for a run somewhere and watch how the Rain Gods unleash their fury onto us mere mortals.

Works every time.  

11 hours ago, kaleyho said:

I thought of calling police and reporting... but I didn't because, I had an early flight next morning and I felt it was not worth fighting for 3K Baht.

Shouldn't tell any 'fun-time girl' you are leaving the next day.

I've known 2 guys years ago who had their final bit of fun the night before they had to depart for home. They each got 2 girls each for the night. They had their flings and the next day in the morning realised some belongings were missing. One guy had a camera stolen, I can't recall what the other guy lost.

Both didn't have enough time to make a police report or to track them down. But both learned their lesson on their next visits here.  

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Long time ago now , used an agent who used to send the passport down

to Malaysia border ,stamp it out ,and send it to Hawaii  or Australia to

Thai Embassy there and get 12 months Visa ,return it. . . . . . . . . .

Was the same in the 90's but after stamping out at the Malaysian border the PP would go to Penang's Thai consulate for the visas. I think it was 13,000Baht all in for a multi non-imm O. That was the service at Nana Plaza where you would hand over your PP to a high-level cop's daughter.

2 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

There is a reason, why I personally still advocate for the death penalty for all those paedophiles, rapists and drug dealers.  

So a death penalty for paedophiles and rapists is the way to go is it? What about their victims and what would go through their minds knowing that while they're being abused/raped, that they'll more than likely will be killed afterwards, with whatever might be at hand at the time, because they're the only witness to the crime. The offender will have more chance of evading capture and justice if there's no-one to report their crime or to come forward years later.

I knew a Thai woman who was raped by two of her brother's friends and survived getting her head bashed in with a rock and left for dead. She lives what appears to be a normal life with her children.   

5 hours ago, Eleftheros said:

It's a pity he never made Fawlty Towers the Movie - he had some typically Cleese humorous ideas for how it would go, but for some reason it never got made.

Think of all the sketches that he was involved in that never go to be seen. Like the one below that he recalls.

5 hours ago, Social Media said:

On average, men who live in Ecuador and Cameroon have the biggest members,

Honey!!! Get packing. We're going to Ecuador or Cameroon to live. Must be something in the air there.

4 hours ago, Jai Dee said:

Brilliant film... plenty of action and blood and guts (and other body parts) but a bit predictable.

It is an over-the-top Nazi killing gorefest that will appeal to the John Wick audiences of the world.

My missus and I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it too. It's nice to get away from Hollywood movies now and then.

8 hours ago, Frankie baby said:

Cant believe their was just one from Myanmar. I can take a walk round the back of the apartment and nab a dozen. 

Possibly not worth the hassle nabbing a dozen Burmese unless it was a specific order. I assume nabbed nationals from adjoining countries get processed quickly and sent by paddy wagon to their respective borders.

I would imagine Immigration would prefer sending all other 'illegals' by air to their homelands charging them 3x the airfare (immigration administrative costs inc.).

Plus, fees gained from inmates paying for better food and/or a fanned and less crowded cell.

2 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

I am not a particular believer but have found some of them quite credible - 2-3 of them shown in the tail end of a Netflix doc.

I remember seeing one account of a guy who reckoned he was a soldier in the American civil war. He gave some details and descriptions of his time during the period but when he was placed under hypnosis, it turned out that he'd recently been to a library and just flicked through the pages of a book about the civil war where all his past-life info was found in the text and photos within the pages.

Apparently he was unaware that his sub-conscious had picked out segments and details and stored the information.

I'm still sitting on the fence about anything related to reincarnation, paranormal, supernatural, conspiracies etc.

I hope before I pop my clogs that I can get some definitive answers to life's great mysteries.

Is Mae Sot/Myawaddy open? Is there still a flight to there, or maybe perhaps to Tak?

Good thing is you would only get 4 exit and entry stamps. Getting full page visas for elsewhere can quickly fill your PP in no time.

Big C opposite Zeer Rangsit has lost a Kasikorn ATM plus their mini branch along with 2 other bank branches (I think BB and SCB).

The Big C superstore used to be thriving years ago but one day last week I saw perhaps 10 shoppers and an Indian family of 4 eating at the inside-KFC branch there. I guess the closed banks aren't helping anymore to attract customers.

A newly placed Kasikorn ATM appeared a few days ago at the local market. Maybe some are being relocated to busier locations.

3 hours ago, nikmar said:

2 hrs wandering tesco lotus is no fun!!

Or waiting 2 hrs for her to get ready just to go to Tesco Lotus is no fun.

Coming Soon. . . . . . . . . .actually 17th November 2023 to be exact.

If you can't wait that long then perhaps the documentary that it is based around might suffice.

On fmovies in SD.

On 5/10/2023 at 7:52 AM, Will27 said:

Guy Ritchie's movies are usually pretty good.

 

Summary: During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of gruelling terrain.

Too Cheezy-chinesey for me. Like in Chinese movies the enemy liked to stand out in the open or lined up atop a mountain ridge's sky line just waiting to be shot at.

Being based on some true events kept me to the ending credits. Not quite good enough for my 'Keep File'.

Subtitles needed for the non-English dialogues.