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22 hours ago, sungod said:

 

Long COVID, the new bad back syndrome......

It's a great excuse for nearly every performance issue people might have.

On 5/29/2024 at 4:08 PM, georgegeorgia said:

I think that's New Zealand sweetie we don't have sheep in Sydney ,get off the grog ,your a unfit old fart (your words not mine) who refuses to go to the gym or achieving goals !!!!

You have done nothing but sit by that bloody pool and turn ho back to your small 21sqm room and watch A touch of Frost !

Get a life !

Let's try stimulating your brain, which you claim needs some stimulus.

New Zealand is a country, and Sydney is a city, so there are no more sheep in Auckland or any other city in NZ than in Sydney. The sheep population of Australia is more than double that of NZ.

When you return to Sydney, you can find some sheep if you drive out of city limits.

2 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:

Ok,then maybe you can join in when you have something interesting to say.

I've said more than enough. Have a nice day!

3 hours ago, yankee99 said:

The good news is you dont have to go to the post office anymore to pay the tax. You can pay online via qr code then they will deliver to your address 

The last shipment I received was earlier this year, and it came with a scrap of paper indicating where I had to make the payment. There was no QR code or a QR code on the Post Office tracking site. When did this "good news" begin? It's an option I would like to use in future.

5 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

All packages retained for duty/VAT in Bangkok are held at the local post offices that cover the delivery area of the addressee.

Perhaps you live near a major distribution hub (mail centre). Such is not the case in Pattaya; my local post offices do not handle duty/VAT payments.

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I know the existing process also, items are held at the local post office for my delivery area in Bangkok, not a "Mail Centre", whatever that is.

I'm in Pattaya, and if I need to pick up imported packages to pay duty, they are held at the Mail Center, near the floating market, past Jomtien, about 8km south of Walking Street. That is the ONLY place I can pick up my overseas mail. It is NOT a local post office. My local post offices are in Jomtien Soi 5 and in Pattaya on Soi Post Office.

I'm surprised you're ignorant about Mail Centers. The main one in Bangkok is in Laksi. You'll see this listed in parcel tracking. They are the major distribution points.

Just now, Liverpool Lou said:

No, it will not, the policy already exists for B1500+ items, and items are held, and charges paid, at the local post offices for the delivery area.

What will not? You're confused. I know the current process for items over 1500 - you go to the Mail Center to pay your duty/VAT.

When/if the new policy is implemented...

You will need to go to a mail centre to pay the VAT on items under 1500 baht, which currently you don't have to pay.

Where else would you expect to pay it? To the mailman?

7 hours ago, Moti24 said:

I used to import a few things from China.  No charges for items under 1500B including shipping.  Three or 4 times, I had to pick-up the package from EMS, and pay the VAT, even though the total price including shipping was only 1200-1300B.  When I queried it, I was told that they could send it back to Bangkok, but it probably wouldn't come back.

 

Yes, it was Pattaya!  Where else!

Come on, that's a feeble excuse to bash Pattaya... Customs processing is not done in Pattaya.

I've been importing iHerb for over 10 years (to my address in Pattaya), and only twice had to pay import duties and tax (for packages over 1500), and I often get packages with values over 2000 baht. I've imported more than 50 times over the years. Customs have been very generous as some shipments were over $80 US.

This new policy will be a real nuisance as people will need to travel to Mail Centers to pay 100 baht or less VAT on packages under 1500. I can't see many overseas exporters wanting to become tax collectors for Thailand. That's a 16km round trip for me.

On 5/28/2024 at 6:05 PM, norbra said:

I do not have a problem with their plan 

My post ras a response to @Beerzy65

(feel free to ignore this response - if you need to chat with someone and don't like others to respond, you can DM them)

 I was responding to your suggestion that this new policy affects your mobile banking, which it does not. It's quite obvious this new process has not started yet.

I don't know what all the fuss is about. Why would anyone need their banking apps to be on someone else's SIM? All SIMS need to be registered with ID now, so this is much ado about nothing.

The bank can easily ensure that only your registered SIM phone can use their banking app... by sending messages to the phone number registered to your bank account and requiring a response to an SMS from that SIM. Some banks abroad already do this.

9 hours ago, norbra said:

For a while now when using the Kasicorn bank app they have been asking me to change my phone number.

I have my "call"number registered but they are detecting my data sim when I connect and they ask if I want to change to this number.

This can't have anything to do with the new policy as it has not yet been implemented. It might never happen, but what's the problem? Most people have their banking apps on their registered sim.

Your situation is probably that your banking app is registered to a different number than is listed on your banking profile.

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Thanks for your reply.

 

Are people "a minute or two away from arriving at their reserved seat"? Or are there maybe some of them who made their reservation early, let's say before 11:00, and then they come for lunch sometime after 12. After all, they reserved a table. I don't know the answer to this. But I would be surprised if all people would arrive within a minute or two after they reserved that table.

 

Like others in this thread pointed out, there are a certain amount of people and a certain number of tables (or make it seats for an easier calculation).

If 100 people buy food and they have 100 seats available, then that works fine.

If 100 people buy food and they have only 80 seats because the other 20 tables are reserved, then the system doesn't work anymore.

Should the food court management add 20 more seats so that there are enough seats for the 100 people and 20 packs of tissues?

Or would it be better if people just realize that it's egoistic if they reserve tables which could be used for other to eat. If they find a table right away, then maybe they eat and leave right after that and then there is enough space for everybody.

 

I think it's not really so difficult to understand this logic.

When people want to make sure they have a table, and others can't use that table, that is egoistic.

I know, being egoistic is not illegal, but IMHO it is not nice. 

 

 

We'll have to agree to disagree... The table reservation system in busy food courts works better than any other system. It's a system based on courtesy. I much prefer the inconvenience of reserved tables to those people walking around for 10 - 20 minutes looking for tables, while holding their trays full of hot food. It is easy for food to fall off these trays. I've nearly had a bowl of hot soup fall off my tray.

What I find strange about this whole conversation - I've been living in Thailand and visiting busy food courts (specifically Terminal 21, which I like) for many years, and have never had a problem with people reserving tables. I've never even given it a thought. I don't reserve tables like this because, with so many foreigners/tourists in Pattaya, many people wouldn't respect my reservation and barge in, as you do, and move my stuff. At least I'm not causing you any grief LOL. I've never had too much problem finding a place if I'm alone as they have the single diner chairs in the back window area, and if with a partner, I sit while my partner gets her food first.

I live in Pattaya precisely for the reason that I blend in with tourists, so from a Thai person's perspective, I'm just a tourist, and that's the way I like it.

It's a great way to enjoy living in Thailand without sticking out in a crowd.

12 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

 

It seems there are different opinions about the education level...

To be clear, I was referring to foreigners who are educated in how things are done in Thailand. You of all people should be in that category as you've been around for quite some time.

Let's take a commonsense approach to the logistics of ordering food at the Terminal 21 Food Court at lunchtime. Would you prefer that the people who reserved a table by placing a personal item upon it should walk around for 20 minutes with a tray of hot food, usually including soup, hoping they can find a table? I made that mistake once at Paragon and I regretted ordering the food. A bottle of water or a drink is usually sufficient to reserve a place as the Thais respect the process.

The people who reserve a seat are customers who have already purchased their card and are looking for or waiting for their food, and in many cases, a minute or two away from arriving at their reserved seat. If the food court is jam-packed and you cannot find a chair, Thais will probably not get upset if you politely ask to share a table.

13 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

And why did you think you have the right to reserve that table for you? 

Everyone has a right to reserve a table before they order their food. It's the done thing in food courts when it is busy. Thai customers and educated foreigners respect this system, and so should you. They are booking their table to ensure they have somewhere to eat their food, yet you complain they have no right to do this. You are the problem.

21 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

No it doesn't. For every time someone quotes the law someone will publish another variant. In Thailand everything is open to interpretation.

You're confusing Immigration policy with Thai law.

English translations of Thai law are rarely official (there are some rare "official translations" published by the Office of the Council of State), but for informational purposes only. The only official law in Thailand is in the Thai language, which is not open to interpretation. English translations will always vary slightly, but not enough to change the meaning.

Passport translations were not necessary at the Laksi District Office. I used an agent and it took less than an hour.

8 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Easy answer is to regulate. Does the government not have the brains to do this? Yeh! Silly question I know but a $1.2 billion dollar so around Bt45 billion baht will now be binned and black market money will go back to the criminals in the drug industry so the drug kingpins, generals, BIB, smugglers and dearlers. Yep! This seems like a rational thing to do.

Consider also that the black market will be more extensive and lucrative than ever before as more people have become recreational users during the 2-year free-for-all. Users will forgo healthy eating to save money for weed, which will be much more expensive on the black market.

3 hours ago, AreYouGerman said:

 

Yes. Laws. Let's start with laws against pornography, fornication, adultery and especially that 18 yo girls going online and become prostitutes. Oh, right, that's not an issue for you. Great moral compass you have.

 

Also, it seems you don't know about international laws. So, it seems 14 would be okay in many country, including Germany. As you are about laws and not about moral, lets follow the laws then.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent

 

Instead of trying to frame me as being upset, try to explain yourself why you are against a society led by morals. Why would it be wrong marrying a virgin (at the age according to laws) instead of a single mother in her 30s?

 

 

Yes, laws. It's better to have laws than none at all. I'm sure you have a decent life in Germany/Thailand/Philippines or wherever you live under the laws of those countries. There's no point dreaming about a utopian society that can't exist in the real world. Despite all their complaining, people are living quite well in many countries these days. Transport back a few hundred years to appreciate the difference.

BTW, if you find a deep province somewhere in the Philippines, you can live in a society that practices a version of "led by morals". The NPA take care of business without any help from the law. If you're mistreating your wife or kid, they will punish you according to the severity of the abuse.

1 minute ago, BangkokReady said:

 

I simply asked you to support your claim. No hijacking here.

 

 

Wow. Real mature. If you can support your claim, why don't you just do it?

 

 

You said you didn't believe it was in the rules, so I showed you the rules.

 

Like I said, I understand that the onus is on me to back up a factual claim.

 

Stop being butthurt just because you've been proven wrong.

 

 

Or reply to your comments? Sure!

Get a grip! If you don't believe something, prove it wrong - how simple is that? Instead, you want to blab on about it in 50 posts, begging for me to prove I'm right.

I'll give you a clue. Look up the laws on Sex Tourism in your home country. You must be planning on under 18 dating, so it is best you familiarize yourself with the laws in your country. You might be ok, you might not be - I don't care.

2 hours ago, AreYouGerman said:

Is it better to marry off a 16 yo girl into a marriage which lasts forever (very common until, let's say 1960) or cheering her on that once she's 18 she will post her first gangbang video on OnlyFans because that's what a liberated woman is doing?

 

Age of consent is ridiculous. A 18 yo girl is consenting to getting gangbanged on livestream and cheered on while a post puberty girl cannot consent to getting married to an older man. That's a sick society.

 

Oh, and all the cases of 18+ yo girls getting into a man's home and 20 years later she decided she didn't consent anyway and the current society agrees to that. I would advocate women should not be able to vote if they are not able to consent to intercourse regardless the age anyway.

 

Age of consent is ridicolous, it needs to be replaced with a high morale society, where the father is able to decide if a girl is getting married and when the marriage is consummated.

 

Saying men are pedophiles for having sexual interest in post puberty girls is a hoax by a female controlled society. Not to forget, news headlines about 'Pedophile imprisoned' and then reading about a 30 yo old man and a 16 yo old girl is only diluting the cases where it's a homosexual raping a 5 yo old boy because the word 'pedophile' lost it's meaning.

 

Unfortunately, it is necessary to have laws and set boundaries. If not, we'd be back in the Wild West where anything goes. Did the Romans have it right? They start having children as soon as they start menstruating. My wife's sister started at age 11. Are you upset about this subject because you plan to find a young virgin in the Philippines and you want to avoid any moral judgement?

24 minutes ago, susanlea said:

What a total over reaction. You must be scared of something.

Yes, it was an incredible overreaction. He has difficulty finding the laws on Sex Tourism in whatever country he comes from. It wasn't very challenging... and anyway, who is interested in visiting foreign countries to "date" under 18s? Why is it even a debate?

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   I am quite sure that some posters have been through tougher situations, rather than just sitting in jail all day .

   Tougher things like working for seven years , rather than just sitting there in a cell 

I can't believe you're serious. You just don't want to admit she's as tough as nails, getting through that.