CaptainCarrot

On 5/10/2020 at 6:53 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

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In case you hadn't noticed the OP is in LOS. It's not a western country. Farang's problems are usually because they behave like they are married to a western woman. For sure that was my mistake.

I certainly follow the traditional western approach.

Apparently there is some sort of virus going around.

2 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

I wish they'd stop all this blurring of the pic's .. Top shot is that a very emaciated bird in the bottom right or a cushion with a very emaciated bird printed on it .. My mince pies can't make it out .. 

It's a screen.
Actually I could do with an extra display on my desk; where do you think they will be sold off?

On 5/20/2020 at 10:38 AM, Phil McCaverty said:

"Which one is the better option?"

 

just sayin' 555

Then 'which is the better option' would be the better option ????

12 hours ago, SantiSuk said:

That plus the fact that Thailand is largely a rural and smaller town nation compared with the larger European countries and the US.

 

This Zipf plot would show otherwise. Apart from the large city of Bangkok which produces the outlier to the right, Thailand's population distribution is very similar to Germany's. (Populations 70m and 83m respectively)

On 5/17/2020 at 6:29 PM, tomazbodner said:

About 20 years ago, Chaleena Hotel in Ramkhamhaeng had so wonderfully failing sign, even half failed letter... to read out "HALF  A HOTEL"

Shodlick Palace Tashkent. I couldn't resist an evening with Photoshop

12 hours ago, Caine said:

Dementia is not hereditary, educate yourself.

Dementia is generally not hereditary. There, fixed it.

17 minutes ago, Almer said:

 

It is no good relying on a temp check at arrival, there are no reported cases in Pattaya because nobody is being tested, i am in the sticks in Issan and nobody know's anybody who has or had but its the asymmetric souls that are the problem 

I've just checked in the mirror and I have to say I AM looking a bit asymmetric (I've got a face on only one side of me head for g*dssake), but my soul is looking very rounded????

3 hours ago, n00dle said:

every condo i know of the pool remains full and filtration continues, none of them have drained the pools and pools are still maintained.

so where is the savings in that?

 

My condo management claim that they are instructed NOT to service the pool. Go figure.

OK signs are in various languages but not in woof: surely the dogs roaming the beach are a concern.

[Opportunity for joke;

Dog goes into a telegraph office and asks to send a message. Operator says "certainly sir, what do you wish to say?" Dog writes down the message 'woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof' and gives to the Operator. Operator says "Thank you sir, but that is only nine words; you can have one more woof for the standard price!'. And the dog says:

"Don't be ridiculous; that would not make any sense."

Oh I am bored .... so bored

Mayhem at Central Festival at 1120 this morning - two trolleys in front of me in the queue!

One detail: electrical socket outlets. Many hotels are now fitting multi-type outlets which accept US/Europe/UK/Aus/plugs. I don't know whether they would comply with code here, so you may need to retrofit later if there is a completion inspection. I am slowly replacing all the old plugs in my house with them. Schneider make a selection.

There are suggestions to use voltage stabilisers, but if you install a backup generator that system should include a serious voltage stabiliser, and be designed to link in to the lightning protection.

Also you may want to import plumbing fittings : shower head, pipe bidet etc as in my experience local stuff in Asia is not of high quality (and that goes for door furniture as well), though maybe there are importers of better stuff.

I'd want a carp pond too.

Oh and the last apartment I rented had a urinal in the shower! Much better to have it in the master bedroom as you plan. Like Rab Nesbitt: a touch of style for the ensuite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYaq0nXzIxo

I learned to ride a motorbike (manual) in my youth on the wet cobbles of the back streets of Birkenhead. In those days the tyre compounds weren't as forgiving as today either; there were three types of tyre: hard, very hard and "where am I nurse?"

When I went to Jomtien Immigration to extend my visa I was barred from entering the building, and told to go back out and wait five minutes (she rightly guessed I had been out in the sun). I put it to her that I should actually wait INSIDE the building, specifically under the aircon just inside the door where I was standing. By the time we had finished discussing it I was back in an acceptable range ????

Thanks Doc. great diagnosis. I've already read up: 10 documents (2 copies) required (see Richard Barrow Facebook page), and decided I need an agent, because too many cases of long queuing followed by rejection. As others have said, the exemption appears to be for those who have already received an extension. Also the exemption was announced yesterday by Immigration and subject to cabinet approval, but Cabinet announced it last week, so they are batting it backwards and forwards so no clarity on when this will be accepted.

And the 30-day stamp in my passport has a "Visa Class" entry in it (illegible squiggle) so I call that a visa.

Disappointing that there are no recommended visa agents out there. I guess I'll have to take my chances.

is it possible to get an agent to hlp me get extension to my 30-day visa expiring in a week (Jomtien)?

I'm not intending to spend a whole day queuing and finding I've not got the right documents.

Any recommended agents?