Excel

3 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

Also - Siamburi's has excellent prices on cheese and a decent selection of them. Maybe they could do a "90 Day Report Whine" promotion. Show up with your new 90 Day report notice and get a discount on their cheapest cheese (and wine) for your whine !

This must win the funniest award of the day so far in response to an off topic deflective post. Well done sir.

9 hours ago, Maybole said:

I have made two requests to UK embassy asking for a letter of "authorisation" to transfer stamps. they have not replied to either.

Think they may be too busy going to functions or putting on FB this week important issue regarding sanatory towels , give them time.

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

Ei hought that was exactly the plan to get more quality tourists?

That was and still is the plan I suspect as opposed to thousands of potheads in ill fitting T-shirts who do anything to improve the reputation of the country, quite the reverse.

2 hours ago, Baron Samedi said:

Young Thai girls can be incredibly attractive but are also very immature and pretty much uneducated most of the time. I don't really understand how a 70 yo farang could ever be fulfilled by such women. I would die intellectually after a few months even if the sex is great and the smiles lovely.

Considering that generalised reply it appears you are suffering some sort of intellectual immaturity yourself.  Young Thai girls pretty much uneducated ? Pathetic comment - do you know how many are attending Universities  here ? Of course many Thais do not have the level of education as others, same as other countries, but clearly you yourself are insufficiently educated with that knowledge to make such stupid and inaccurate generalised statements. 

4 minutes ago, Baron Samedi said:

Anyway. He should have taken the first mini van out of the kingdom. Even if he avoids prison, the fine is gonna be hefty $$$$

He'll just have to cut down on his steroid dosing to compensate for the fine ????

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

About the size of a small shipping container I would think! What an lowlife idiot. 

Somebody on here mentioned a mule so it must have been a reasonable size container ????

2 hours ago, Dont confuse me said:

Agree but I wouldn't be surprised if the 'shot' was discharged mm away rather than meters. In any event the right result!

In the report it say the pickup failed to stop and as he was attempting to flee the police opened fire.

1 hour ago, proton said:

Is it worth being married though just to save 400k in the bank ???? Always seemed odd that 2 people need half as much as a single person

Not really as the assumption is you are living as a family. Whereas on retirement it is assumed you are galivanting a round wining and dining etc so hence will need much more of an income.

5 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

They use different phone number

scam most definitely

19 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

farangs  in issan who died had  nothing declared so the famiiy could go on claiming the pension for as long as possible

There maybe one or two dead ones then that are about to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the oldest person in the UK ????

2 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

yes they do.

As i did all this a few weeks back.

it was given with the new passport when it was collected in BKK.

 

 

So if you renew your passport here, going through VFS, then you also need the embassy letter so that the extension can be transferred,  But it will not have an entry stamp so what happens when you try to leave or renew your extension ?

but

I you get it renewed in the UK, you will receive an entry stamp on arrival and no letter will be required to transfer the extension   - is that correct ?

Just now, Orinoco said:

yes they do.

As i did all this a few weeks back.

So what does it have to say pls ?

1 minute ago, Orinoco said:

What's the point in this embassy letter, is it just to prove the new passport is not a fake bought in Thailand ? i can see no other reason for it.

anyone ?

 

 

 

That's a good point and I wonder what it has to say ? More to the point, does the British Embassy actually issue it anymore as they don't seem to do anything these days ?

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

Judging by the daily dose of doom and gloom on Sky News who would want to. Highest inflation in the G7, and 87 year olds in mobility scooters being stabbed to death!

And today they are discussing the possibility of a general strike due to the hopelessness of the government. 46 million being quoted as potentially entering fuel poverty this winter plus another jump in interest rates next month. Months ago I predicted the UK will become a basket case, similar to Greece. That should be sufficient for no one to choose to live in the UK.

58 minutes ago, Excel said:

Perhaps you should familiarise yourself with some of the Thai news media, you may be surprised as to how often Thais are caught and punished 

Here's a recent one for you, from an expat comic where a Thai man faces up to ten years in jail after being arrested for selling coral online, a potential 10 year jail sentence being reported here,

Thai man faces prison for growing & selling corals online | Thaiger (thethaiger.com)

Just now, mikeymike100 said:

I am not saying that Thais are not caught and punished, they are every day! What I am suggesting is that the punishment a Thai would get and the punishment a non Thai would get for the exact same offense in general are different.

In this case if a Thai was caught killing a few fish, do you think the same news coverage and talk of 5 years imprisonment would occur?

Yes I do when any report lists the offence that someone is accused of and then go on to explain the penalties that could be imposed for committing such offence. It happens often. Its just that perhaps Thais have not been caught spearing protected species in a national park, as perhaps they have more sense then to put it on tiktok unlike this chappie.

2 minutes ago, userabcd said:

You mean the justice system should just be done away with and extrajudicial processes are OK?

Where did I say that ? think your imagination is on overload.

2 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

They do make examples sometimes, like the cop who got 25 years for shooting the noodle seller. They are high profile cases. However they are exceptions, in general sadly its as I said before!!

How many times have you seen on this forum, lady-boys assaulting and or stealing from tourists and getting a 500 baht fine?

Perhaps you should familiarise yourself with some of the Thai news media, you may be surprised as to how often Thais are caught and punished 

Would any of those arrested parents be non white by any chance, does anyone know  ?