Drew3223

Hi.

My tourist visa expires on the 5th and I am taking a domestic flight with Bangkok Air on the 6th to Bangkok, and my international flight is that same night.

Will the expiry even be looked at for boarding the domestic flight, and will it be okay if I show my onwards ticket out of the country?

On 4/28/2022 at 3:31 PM, allane said:

You can put it in a postbox.

Where can I find the postboxes? Sorry to ask lol never seen one.

I meant postbox. Been away from the UK too long 

Hi all.

I have a one page letter, ready to go in an envelope, with appropriate postage stamps - can I put in a letterbox? Or must I visit a post office?

Hi all,

Anyone have experience of how long it generally takes?

International letter AIR costs 49 Baht

EMS is 1550 Baht

On the phone they told me generally 1 week for EMS, 2 weeks for the cheaper service.

Wanted ot find out what people own experiences were?

FYI: Called the hospital on Phangan today, where I got my booster shot.

The reason it was not showing on Mor Prom app was because, as I got the two original shots on Koh Tao, and then the booster on Phangan, they assigned a different 13 digit ID number.

After calling and giving the vaccine dept. my original ID number, they had it added to Mor Prom in an hour ????

My booster still did not appear on the Mor Prom app, three weeks after getting it at Phangan hospital.  

Anyone have a lead on how to contact someone about it?

Hey all,

Got the booster on Phangan last Thursday, was told to check the app in a couple of days to confirm it was added to my vaccine record.

No sing of it as of today.

Anyone have advice? any experience of seeing their own booster recorded there?

Anyone know whether they update the Yellow international travel vaccine book when you get the booster?

Anyone know how the yellow book is meant to be updated when you get the booster?

Calm down. You will make mistakes when you worry. a day can last a long time when you apply reason and logic. 

So buy Baht now before too late?

@Dick Z do you mean a mostly green screen which says Covid 19 Vaccine and test result certificate, and some red Thai writing in a white box?

Does anyone know if this is the equivalent of what we see in Mor Prom app? I cannot seem to register...

hahaha Vinnie Jones? What are you smoking?

Denzel Washington. Tom Hanks. Benicio Del Toro. Philip Seymour Hoffman. Joaquin Phoenix. Leonardo De Caprio. Brad Pitt. Daniel Craig. Tom Hardy. Bill Murray. Clive Owen. Michael Fassbender. 

But for my money, Jake Gyllenhaal, and because of one film in particular - Nightcrawler.

What are they good for? Got About 800.

Can I spend them like cash in 711?

7 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Always a lack of info in these stories. Did she have pre existing conditions other than Migraines. Had she had seizures before

She had migraine medication at the ready, so you're on to something...

6 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Agreed.... its a lovely island, plenty to do nice people, laid back and relaxed....

 

BUT.. it also has a reputation and a very clouded past. People have disappeared there, been murdered there. 

 

It has garnered attention due to a couple of high profile murders and when scratching the surface there have been other murders and disappearances there which add up.

 

Perhaps Koh Tao is the just as risky as elsewhere, or perhaps the reputation is valid and the island is disproportionately less safe than other islands and tourist area’s of Thailand.

 

The Island clearly has a very dark and somewhat machiavellian underbelly which if crossed the consequences can be dire, but that can be said of many area’s in many countries. 

 

 

There are enough stories coming from this island which suggest an an untouchable yet murderous element running things....   the message seems clear, enjoy the island but stay on your best behaviour, don’t cross anyone and stay in safe groups at night - that advices would be wise for visitors anywhere, but seems more so for Koh Tao.

 

 

 

 

 

Yep.

*Deleted*  around and find out.

Just now, Sametboy2019 said:

 what agenda? 

Regulatory framework. How and when and where.

4 minutes ago, Sametboy2019 said:

The issues is with sales of XRP in its start up. When it quite clearly was a security (as was Eurethem and there is a interview with the founder admitting it but they seem to of got a pass).

When you look at XRP there imho it is quite clearly a currency with great utility. The ability to bridge currencies almost instantly and a ridiculously small fee.  

Although other crypto can do this it seems at the moment Ripple are in front as they have already secured contracts. 

I believe it will be settled but who knows when.

On another note now is the best time to invest in Crypto after that crash a couple of days ago.

Hence the recent success in securing internal comms on why SEC are not pursuing BC and ETH in the same way.

Settlement seems likely, and I like the idea that XRP will lead the way on regulation of crypto. Was always going to happen, so why not be first in line, setting the agenda as much as you can?

16 minutes ago, allanos said:

"There is a subtle hilarity to (figuratively) the career welder from Blackpool, the warehouse manager from Darwin, and the goat herder from Waikato coming onto Thai Visa, confidently airing their takes on the direction of financial innovation, and then congratulating each other for it"

 

The post above is very elitist, and is sure to ruffle a few feathers. If the cap fits, and all of that . . . 

 

But behind the sarcasm is a lot of truth. The majority of the members making ribald or facetious comments about Bitcoin do not have a jot of understanding about it.  But worse, they have little or no understanding of economics, and what makes the money world tick! 

 

On a good day, fiat money is losing value (purchasing power) at around 1% per month. For those poor at math, that is, give or take, 12% per year. Do not believe the inflation figures your government feeds you with. They are massaged!

 

If you don't believe this statement, look at the prices of your regularly-purchased items on the supermarket shelves, and compare them to a year ago. Better still, go online and check what USD $100 bought ten or twenty years ago, compared to today.  It is quite a shock!

 

What am I saying?  The Fed, because of fiscal and monetary policy of the US Government, is printing money like never before; a 26% increase in one year, over that printed for around the last 100 years.  It is eroding the value of your hard-earned money; in effect, it is a tax on you, but done silently, surreptitiously! US debt is around $28 trillion, and counting. Go online and check the debt clock if you don't believe me.

 

But you may say, "Ah! Hold on chum, I am from the UK, France, Japan etc.

what has it got to do with me"? The answer is lots, and none of us is immune.  All of the governments are also inflating money supply, for domestic reasons and to maintain currency parity with the US Dollar.

 

So, when the US, Europe, the UK, start to issue digital currency, which many on hear believe will be the death of Bitcoin and other crypto, it is still fiat, and will operate alongside paper notes and all other fiat-based assets, like bonds, property etc. So, no difference, then. Inflation will be no different than today, although, very likely, it will be higher due to monetary policy; running riot even!

 

Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Fed, has recently stated that Bitcoin is an asset and not currency. He is simply reinforcing what Bitcoin investors have believed all the while, that Bitcoin is digital gold.

 

Ponzi scheme? For those who call Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme, they neither know how a Ponzi scheme works, nor how Bitcoin works.  In fact, the Bitcoin code has a 4-yearly halving written into it, an inverse arrangement to how Ponzi's work, so I would say to these people, wake up!

 

When I was in high school, one teacher (who, at the time, was considered a bit of an old duffer), imbued us with the principles behind the following quotation: "It is better to say nothing, and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".

 

I commend this adage to those bleating about Bitcoin and other crypto, who simply have no meaningful knowledge of it.

Hear hear.

Any thoughts on the XRP SEC case? 

They say it's a security. XRP say it's an asset. 

It's very obviously an asset, but some people think SEC are trying to use the case to regulate and to push XRP into becoming the digital currency of the QFS.

I'm all in on XRP. 

On 5/15/2021 at 8:20 PM, RobMuir said:

Once you understand the way it works you can really exploit it. Being a foreigner it's easy to pretend you don't get it.

 

Use it to get people to do what you want.

Use it to humiliate people who deserve it.

Use it to get the very best service.

 

Use it with very polite and "soft" Thai language, always use their name and along with the appropriate facial expressions.

 

One of the many fun things about life in Thailand. Too easy.

hi @RobMuir

Great comment.

Would be grateful if you might briefly expand on the three benefits, as you sound like you know your stuff.