Hi Tea

16 hours ago, elliss said:

 

Thx .

   Just as i was considering being a  White Monk . 

   Surely ,  if i turned up @ immigration wearing the gear,  orange Robe , etc .

   I would be treated , with due respect,  not  as a your average farang ...

 

What?

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

20 hours ago, Hi Tea said:

As you well know, as a result of many threads on Thaivisa relating to falangs doing the same thing, not everyone with a tourist visa is actually a tourist.

And with 10M readies in the safe not all businessmen are straight.

And even with 10M readies in the safe not all businessmen are bent.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

She lives on the ninth storey in an apartment with 13 rooms,  painted with faeces of dogs, which keep barking constantly.

A 13-room condo in Ek Thani Condo Town?  I suspect that there may be a tiny bit of exaggeration in this story.

36 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

Something here does not sound right. The laws of physics absolutely rule that if the rider was propelled through the air following the collision, so also would the pillion passenger, and at the same velocity ! Yet she appears without scratch or injury ?

Even if she had been a pillion passenger, which she wasn't, what probably killed the rider was being run over and dragged by a transporter.  The laws of physics do not state that what happens to one object as a result of kinetic energy also happens to another in exactly the same way.

36 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Why would a Chinese "tourist" be bringing 10 million baht to Pattaya? The mind boggles!

As you well know, as a result of many threads on Thaivisa relating to falangs doing the same thing, not everyone with a tourist visa is actually a tourist.

1 hour ago, jlwilliamsjr18 said:

Wait...there are no Chinese tourist in Thailand....are there? 

Why not, there are many tourists of other nationalities still here as a result of the Covid-19 issues, why shouldn't there be any Chinese?

3 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

4 hours ago, webfact said:

But they said that the Chinese man was a "tourist" and that five men had held him up at gunpoint and stolen more than 10 million baht from a safe. 

how did he get past customs with 10 million baht cash ?

Where did it say that it was brought into the country in cash?  Many countries have banking systems now, you know.

54 minutes ago, 2long said:

I would say that all murders have mental health issues.

A (allegedly drunk) monk driving a car, crashing, killing an elderly woman and trying to start road rage would suggest he shouldn't be outside of a hospital or prison cell for a while.

"I would say that all murders have mental health issues".

He didn't murder anyone.

"A (allegedly drunk) monk driving a car..."

He wasn't drunk neither was he alleged to be drunk by police. 

13 minutes ago, Saltire said:

For my documents the witness is supposed to actuallly witness the original and copy so a meeting would be needed. Not so much for the life certificate.

The witness for the LC does have to see your original ID document also, that's in the declaration that he signs.  In theory.

5 minutes ago, Saltire said:

20 minutes ago, Hi Tea said:

It's not necessary to know the lawyer at all, never mind personally.   Just curious, though, which area do you live in that is 3 hours away from the nearest lawyer?

2 hours from Sangkhla buri, 3 from Kanchanaburi. Closest 'town' 1 hour, just a market supply town.

Sorry, but what's the name of the area that you live in (I'm not asking you to give your address!).  That's what I meant, not how far away are you from places that you don't live in.  I just find it hard to imagine how anywhere can be a minimum of a 3 hour drive from a lawyer.

16 hours ago, TimBKK said:

23 hours ago, Hi Tea said:

You're exaggerating ever so slightly here, two states in the entire US allow the legal sale of marijuana, that's all.

I suppose it depends what you mean by “legal sale” (and marijuana laws vary so much state to state) but it can be legally purchased for recreational use in 11 U.S. states.

The subject is "legal sale on organised premises", not "legal purchase".  There's a difference.

11 minutes ago, Saltire said:

Of course there are lawyers. The only one I know personally is a 5 hour drive away in Ayuthaya, and the closest law practice a 3 hour drive to Kanchanaburi.

It's not necessary to know the lawyer at all, never mind personally.   Just curious, though, which area do you live in that is 3 hours away from the nearest lawyer?

31 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

35 minutes ago, Hi Tea said:

The witness does not have to be Thai so why did you post false nonsense?

Never said that I answered someone saying Thais could not sign life forms, kapese. 

"Kapese"

What? 

This is what you said and what I responded to...

"I've had 5 life forms in 8 years 2 this year and a Thai person has witness them so why are you posted false nonsense".  

That phrase, "and a Thai person has witness them" does not make sense as posted and I simply interpreted it as your meaning that "a Thai person "has TO witness them".  If you meant to say that "a Thai person has witnessED them" perhaps you should have said that.

Capiche?

3 hours ago, Saltire said:

I am already dealing with the IPC to apply for my UK pension and am already asking for alternatiives to posting my original birth and (Thai language) marriage certificates to them. If I send copies they too have to be notarised in the same way as the life certificate.

It will be interesting to hear how you get on with asking the DWP to ignore their ID requirements just because you don't want to find somewhere to get them notarised.  Don't lawyers exist in your part of Thailand?

5 hours ago, simon43 said:

I detest the fact that the DWP consider 'snail mail' as the only efficient and secure way to contact me, unless I am proactive and telephone them to ask if they are trying to contact me.  I live in north Laos, and am trying to sort out top-up NI payments for my pension that's due in a few years from now.

 

To date, not one letter that they claim to have sent to me has arrived.  This hardly surprises me at all, since postal theft and gross inefficiencies in the postal service seem the norm over here.  (I always send documents by DHL).  I've asked them to use email for their messages to me, but they refuse, saying that it's not secure.  Well, snail mail is not secure either!

It's your choice to live in wonderful northern Laos, thievery and inefficiency there is not the DWP's problem and it's certainly no reason for them to change their procedures just for you.

15 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

I've had 5 life forms in 8 years 2 this year and a Thai person has witness them so why are you posted false nonsense.  

The witness does not have to be Thai so why did you post false nonsense?

17 hours ago, OJAS said:

20 hours ago, Hi Tea said:

Why should the DWP provide a Thai (and, therefore, every other language) translation? 

And why on earth should they not? IMHO they should give us all the tools needed to do the job properly, which, quite clearly, they aren't. Why should we have to stump up the cost of a translation merely because DWP are too lazy to provide one themselves?

No one has to stump up the cost of a translation but some people posting here seem to have so much difficulty getting it witnessed (that the majority don't have) that someone here suggested a translation from the DWP.  Laziness on the part of the DWP doesn't come into it.

18 hours ago, Max69xl said:

You do know that any Thai are not allowed to sign the 'proof of life' form? 

Nonsense.

4 hours ago, PaDavid said:

It appears a batch were sent out dated 2nd or 3rd August. Most received end of August. But, check the postmark- sent from Laksi, Bangkok. So, for whatever reason, there is a 3-4 week discrepancy between dating the letter and posting it. 

The LC are not sent from Laksi!  They are sent from the DWP using a Netherlands agent, Spring Global Mail and come through Laksi as per normal international post into Thailand.

5 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

19 hours ago, Hi Tea said:

Why?  If you're already in the Post Office why not register/track it?  That way you don't have to scan anything to them.

Why bother.

Unnecessary cost and tracking only shows arrival in the UK. Doesn't evidence receipt by Wolverhampton - or processing by DWP staff.

Airmail is just as likely to get there and costs peanuts.

I prefer to have the evidence of posting the LC back which you get with registered mail, and that costs peanuts also.  Normal mail doesn't give you that back up, if you ever needed it.

2 hours ago, Pilotman said:

Not sure what you mean there.  When I hired a car in the UK a few years back, I used my Taiwan DL not my valid UK one. No issue at all. I had forgotten to take my UK DL but had my Taiwan DL with me, so I had no option, but I was never asked.  Just had to produce my UK passport with it at the rental desk.  

I'm referring to the legal aspect of driving on UK roads, not to the rental company's legal aspect of renting to you.

If you're a UK resident (and, officially, you must be for a UK DL to be valid) and you have a UK driving licence you should be driving on the UK one, not a foreign one.  The only time it'd be a problem, though, is if the police stop you and check.  If you produce a foreign licence to them and they find that you are a UK licence holder there could be a problem.

1 minute ago, jesimps said:

1 hour ago, Hi Tea said:

That's the easy, most logical way but some posters like to make things seem as difficult as possible!

Are you on a retainer from the DWP?

No.  I just say what I see as reasonable and rational.  It's not compulsory to bash UK government departments and everything that they do is not nonsense.  On the other hand some posters....never mind.

1 minute ago, jesimps said:

Strange that, I tried several Thais of high social standing, including my doctor who knows me well and they refused to sign. They can't seem to get their head around the fact that they're only witnessing your signature, not vouching for the contents of the form. The owner of the school where my wife teaches signed my last one over the school's chop.

They're not only witnessing the signature, they're also vouching for having seen the original of one of your ID verifications from the list on the back of the form.