ryandb

didn't say that at all, EU drivers licenses generally cover the use of Scooters and yet most have never used one as one example... If you seek to rent something you can not safely operate that's your responsibility

I'll go ask the rental shop down the road how often they have to show the people they rent how to actually use the bike, every one I see pull out is usually an accident waiting to happen

Na but I'd still argue he's in more control than the majority of people we get visiting Samui who wobble all over the place, bloody worse than the cement trucks for accidents

If he can do that, then he's safer to others on the road than 99% of the tourists who have never been on a bike or scooter and suddenly think they can control one

Thank you!

Damn that's good do you need to apply while in your home country? I pay $40 a month, not needed it but been meaning to drop into the bank for a few months now to see if I can get a better local one

Bangkok nightclub to Chonburi.. Strange Blackout drunk, got on Tinder matched and went to meet someone and fell? or something more sinister We probably will never know

It's not obtuse, it's plain, simple logic, is it worth an employee risking their employment by looking out for their employer's interest over 1k baht for themselves? And if the person is only a few days over then it's not even worth the IO offering the reward....

Wheres the 20k baht from? That's the current max fine, you think the IO is handing it all over? If they lifted the max limit on the fine then it might make sense

more than their nightly fee? 500 baht a day to the IO, even if they offered 50% to the hotel can't imagine it would be profitable over letting them pay for the room

I'm on a DTV, literally went to apply in Cambodia, came back in on a 60-day, and they contacted me when it was done got my e-visa and bounced to activate it. Of course, I did have an agent help me do this. I couldn't just go for a random period of time they couldn't confirm due to dogs and needing secure connections for my job.

Amazing that this has to be explained to someone

"Visiting her Mother" sounds a little suspect, like possible trafficking. I've never been to Pattaya, but isn't the usual that the grandparents keep them up in the village while the mother works, then they go home to visit the child every once in a while not send them down for a visit? Anyways, sounds like the accused is in for a long stint in one of Thailand's finest hotels.

oh no, this one doesn't sound like it's going to finish with a happy ending

Personally I think it's because the option to come earlier in life was not available to them, every older chap I've met who built successful businesses over here like there's more expats who still earn a western wage (to sell their services to I imagine) and these are the guys who generally came over in their 30s and 40s. I think it's the ones who came once the pension hit are a little resentful seeing the younger men arrive competing for the same apartments/villas and women.

DTV is a proper visa.... I already have a bank here anyway but what exactly is your issue with digital nomads getting a bank anyways?

I don't think anyone applied for a DTV just for a Thai bank account, I certainly didn't.

Non story, there are no Thai prostitutes I've been informed of this many times. Vietnamese just offering a service Thai's have never provided.

you got evidence he's doing it out of love for Elephants? Bet you fall for the I'm different from other bar girls lines too

It's a great way to scam money from good hearted people donating, like most animal charities/sanctuaries these days, massive villa on the beach in Phuket is a testament of this

I left school in the 2000s and grew up on a council estate. I know quite a few women from my high school who have never had a job, and the same goes for their parents. My mum was a single parent. She worked full-time from the moment I started school, and before that, she worked part-time while I was in nursery. Yes, we received child benefits top-ups and lived in subsidised social housing, but I was still raised seeing someone get up and go to work every day. That made a difference.

Not saying this isn't true to a degree but single mothers on welfare in the west have been jumping on OF at a massive rate, lots of people are greedy and want more. Welfare generally becomes the family business, pump out kids every few years to ensure the money keeps flowing and you don't have to interview at the benefits office. Where is Thailand going to get this money from? It seems like barely anyone pays taxes over here, so join the mass debt spiral of the west by being in huge deficits every year? Now you could say the government could do more to enforce that Fathers pay their way if they leave

This is what I don't get, like fly into the EU, at least if you are caught you'll get a nice cell, an education and meals etc

Then Thailand would jail her, dealing with the court case, the British Embassy, etc. It would be easier to let them get caught on arrival. If I was in charge it's what I'd do, nice export deal.

Also she was a former air hostess for TUI, the phrasing makes it sound like she was a British Air (ways) hostess, she's still British but a former air hostess