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Limited sympathy from me, unless he makes good on settling the hospital bill. From September this year all those on OA retirement visas will see their health insurance requirement rise from 400,000 baht to 3 million ostensibly because of defaulters. So those who abide by the rules, valid visa, valid health insurance are penalised while those who ignore the rules are subsidised.

This article has some general information on the process here https://mahanakornpartners.com/ debt-recovery-practices-in-thailand/ As you acknowledge you have two issues to resolve: The current debt and the possibility of a repeat situation.

Operation Save Big Dog finally gets put down. After months and months of defending the indefensible even this bunch of amoral sycophants could stomach the blustering, narcissistic, lying, inept charlatan no more.

It's the word "again" in the headline that's got me.

According to my wife (the fount of all knowledge ????) yabba can now be bought for 20 baht a tablet in our local village. Apparently the dealers have been forced to cut the price to remain competitive with the ready availability of ganga. I dread to think what they use to cut the methamphetamine. It's a downside to the liberalisation of cannabis that I don't imagine was conceived when the relaxation was enacted.

Yes, once set up, you can forget about it*. No worries about failing to make a payment on time. * Useful for an oldie like me as, according to some of the younger posters on here, I am by now in the grips of dementia. ????

I had to set it up as a direct debit with Bangkok Bank and the PEA. If I remember rightly, initially I got a form from the PEA to complete, then present to my bank and then return to the PEA. Longwinded but it worked. ????

I invariably buy 5 x double tickets for each draw. Over the last year I have won on two numbers 4 times and on three numbers just once. Has it changed my life? .............. No!............ I continue to buy tickets for each draw and I remain out of pocket. ????

I wonder how old it is? Anyone importing meat illegally isn't going to be worried about such niceties.

"What happens to it?" The RTP are now rolling the world's biggest spliff. Have fun boys.

Good to see no sweeping generalisations there.

Nothing's changed. Bar girls are still immeasurably more beautiful than their clients.

Tourists beware. Given that the fuzz is slang for the police I find this whole headline deeply disturbing.

I'd probably throw a party rather than a rock. Everyone to their own, I guess.

I tip where and when appropriate. I have never experienced a tip declined nor an indication that it was considered insufficient.

I would respond but I'm just about to attend a job interview in an adjacent province for the position of cigarette smuggler to Bangkok.

Keeping your air-con on is reasonably effective. Of course, that comes at a price though. I find when I return home from a few days away I invariably have to deal with an infestation of ants. That said, I'm in a rural setting.

Furthermore, it is a hell of lot easier just to attach a new cable than attempt to unravel the existing lines and remove those being replaced or superceded. It is a nationwide problem. I can't see it changing anytime soon, though resolving it would present a tremendous business opportunity for some enterprising company .

Irrespective on one's opinions on GMOs, if nothing else this looks absolutely hideous. Who the ***k wants to eat a pineapple the colour of dyed ham?

It is no surprise that feelings are boiling over but why do they do these re-enactments here. Do they really gain any fresh evidence or insight from them? If the suspect has already confessed what's the point and if the suspect is innocent how can they re-enact something they weren't involved in ?

Why spoil a perfecty good beer?

Aren't the visa requirements more stringent than here?

I didn't really have much of a take on this, one way or the other but whatever my original thoughts on Harley's might have been this thread has very firmly driven me into the pro Harley camp. So many hackneyed clichés - "penis substitute - can only get sex from prostitutes - not genuine bikers - poor bike handling skills - gay (???<deleted>?) - wearing silly outfits - small dicks - the old trying to look young - attention seeking masturbators." Perhaps, some Harley owners do incorporate some of these traits but it's a fair bet the vast majority don't.

I'm very relieved to hear it is that way round.

Eminently sensible, a good use of public funding. This way they will be able to contain the next outbreak of covid-19 instead of allowing it to radiate out from Thong Lo.