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Your essential guide to Thailand’s new driving license points system
Kwaibill replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
This presupposes that everybody has a driver's license, which according to my reading is possibly rare but not discovered until after the accident. I do have one, but the wife doesn't let me drive; smart girl.???? -
Indian tourist get BIG surprise on Beach road.
Kwaibill replied to Social Media's topic in Pattaya News
But it may well have come to Thailand via India, much as Buddhism did. At least that was my impression. -
The "Reefer Madness" types are well represented in both this forum and the government, it seems. I don't, and haven't for years, indulged; COPD and other ailments. Millions of pot smokers NOT dying would seem to contradict the apparently unsupported opinions of these "top physicians". Blood assays on these supposed cannabis ER admissions? E.g., the woman who claimed to be incapacitated by a single leaf in her soup, horse puckey!
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Convert O-A to O at Jomtien. MAJOR GLITCH
Kwaibill replied to Lichiyado's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Yep. That's when I started doing border bounces every ninety days instead of dealing with Jomtien. Now I am married and living in Samut Prakan. I had been under the impression since US embassy stopped issuing affidavits re: social security, pensions, etc. that bank book and statement showing the requisite monthly income was sufficient. and was told last year when asking that specifically that it was so. Skip forward a year (today) and it is not accepted at Samut Prakan immigration. The IO showed me the printout of the regs requiring an embassy affidavit, which is no longer available. I do have a work around involving a 60-day extension to my current "permission to stay" which will allow two months seasoning of our 400,000 account, which I screwed up by mistakenly drawing it down under 400,000 for a week. I would be good by 18 Dec., but already scheduled for surgery during that time slot. Another peculiarity is that the extension as stamped in my passport goes to Feb. 18, but they told me I must return a month earlier. My wife tried to explain the reason, but it made no sense to me. No matter, as I am perfectly fine with doing it in January, but I like to understand stuff. Any suggestions? Finally, can I manage future marriage extensions at Savannakhét with less hassle about financial evidence? I miss my fave pizza restaurant and Lao Dark beer.???? -
The "concern" is about it being unknowingly added to food purchases. I misdoubt that the quantity ingested to remain unnoticed to the consumer would show up in a urine test. That said, if sufficient weed were ingested and the associated euphoria passed off as a natural response to being in LOS, the detection of THC metabolites can persist for weeks. Get an extension on your visa and only eat from 7-11 pre packaged meals if you think you were slipped a "Maryjane Mickey" in your pad thai?
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A good friend smoked his way through a PHD in analytical chemistry, one of the most intellectualy rigorous disciplines on the planet. (Too much work! I went for philosophy.????) Personaly I managed to score 145 on the Wechsler Inventory (IQ test) at the height of my "experimental" period. I must have been over 200 without it, according to the "Reefer Madness" acolytes.????
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Many provincial hospitals are not equipped to do anything major for any body, not just farangs. I wound up at Thaksin hospital because the first one did not have the imaging tech neccesary. Wait times can be long, but I'm retired and have more open time than money.???? Gallbladder, btw, can be excruciating. I thought I was having another heart attack!
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Thai government defends foreign land ownership plan
Kwaibill replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The concept of land ownership is relatively new in Thailand. The Land Promulgating Act was only established in 1954. Still not easy to get a mortgage, yet many Thais will go into comparable debt to own a new car. I would at this stage happily trade my 75 rai farm in AZ for one rai of land in my wife's name... she gets it all anyway when I "move on". -
Anybody with recent experience at Samut Prakan immigration? Due to extend my marriage stay. I have two+ years of 40,000 Tbh monthly foreign transfers to show in my bank book. Good to go? I screwed up and took 5,000 out of the wrong account, bringing it below 400,000 for a week or so in that account. It is ok re: two months on the last day of my current extension. Do you need an updated koh rohr ,or is the previous one ok? Thanks for any guidance.