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Not a good idea at all. Thais see you whacking dogs with metal pipes and you're a black-hearted foreigner, Thais will love the soi dog more than you, and will probably come and whack you, or call the cops.

Looks like he was just unlucky, probably got thrown off and broke his neck. Anyway RIP.

So it's not just grumpy old expats who get pee'd off with Songkran revelers, Thais get sick of it too. 😂

OK thanks for that, I'll play around with it and see what happens.

I believe you can but I don't have any code, I'm not clued up on such things. If someone had some code I'd be happy to try it.

Yep, if it's family/friends ask them to get WhatsApp, Line, or FB Messenger and can phone free. If it's a business or gov, then you'll be chewing up phone credits. Some businesses/banks will call you if you request. For example I chewed up a bunch of my mobile credit calling CBA from Thailand and they told me I could have gone onto their FB page and sent them a private message and they will call me from Oz. I later did just that and saved using heaps of my phone credit. Most business & people in Oz have free OS calls in their plans, so having them call you is better.

Hopefully there's a code wizard (HTML/JavaScript) who has a solution for me. I have a Blogger blog and I recently started a Page via the Blogger Pages Gadget. This page has grown rather long and I'd like to get pagination to make it easy to navigate. As far as I can tell Blogger has no way to get pagination onto pages. Do any of you people know of a widget or have a code that I can add that will put pagination onto a Blogger Page? Please be aware I'm not asking about pagination for a Blogger blog, I already have pagination on my blog. I'm only concerned about getting pagination onto Blogger Pages.

My hunch is it'll come, either this taxing foreign pensions idea will just fade away as it'll be too confusing for them to deal with; or it'll be strictly implemented. And if the latter then don't be surprised if Immigration start asking for a current tax receipt as a requirement for extensions.

I'm at Korat and every year I pop in approx 2 weeks prior to renewing my Ret' Ext'. There's very helpful staff at the information counter and they give a check list and the required forms. If I need to update TM30 then they tell me then. I fill the forms in at home and gather the required photocopies. On the day as my bank opens its door I'm the first person in, an hour later I'm at Korat Imm with the bank statements, and about 30 minutes later we're shopping at Makro.

This is just the beginning, there will be so much more to come with people creating AI porn and plastering the images all over social media.

Interesting post, I never thought about all this before. I was previously spending most of my time in Thailand, but now I'm swinging more towards a 50-50 situation. Fortunately for me my retirement ext date is 31 July each year and that's right in the middle of the Aussie winter when I'm certain to be in Thailand.

The big plus factors they're looking at are a long term stable relationship, plenty of money in bank accounts, accommodation for the applicant, and reasons for the applicant to return and not want to stay on in Oz. If you tick all these boxes there's no need to go with an agent. The online process is easy to follow, step by step, and it works fast. We're currently in Perth now. And my TGF will squeeze in another visit in Dec before her visa expiry date.

Very sad news, I certainly hope for the best outcome for her.

In all my years in Thailand the only Thai males I've really liked and gotten along well with are the musicians. Those guys don't have the usual anti-farang bias found in most Thai men, as the Thai musos greatly admire farang musicians and musical genres. In general I've found them to be very friendly guys and we have a common interest in music, whereas I have zero in common with the rest of Thai males.

There's been a recent surge of farang attacking Thais, and this one just about takes the cake, what concerns me most is if this trend continues are all of us going to be tarred with the same brush? We all know if you get into a fight with a Thai, then other Thais take it as an attack on all of them and seek revenge. It's not going to be much fun for any of us if we start becoming targets for revenge.

agree, probably the only cities in the South worth living in for an expat are HatYai & Phuket.

Cheers, I agree with you. I'll be looking into and see. It is definitely better to have your own vehicle. Thanks again.

Peter Green was another, totally fried his brain with too much acid and ruined his career and his life. But so much seems to depend on the individual. Both Morrison and Hendrix did copious amounts of acid, even performing while on acid, and it worked for them.

In Australia in the 1970s I personally knew several people who had totally fried their brains from doing acid. No way could they function in the so called normal world any longer and hold down a job, all they could do was live in communes or join the Hare Krisnas. The singer Wendy Saddington was a prime example, she was a secretary but cooked her brain with acid and spent the remainder of her life in some communal sect.

A few useless pricks like these are going to stuff things up for the rest of us if this kind of behavior continues any further.

This isn't news. This is just normal everyday Thai life, especially for Thai police. You read this and think so what? A Thai cop has a young mea-noi. It's about as important piece of news as telling us a Thai cop parked his car and sat down and had a bowl of noodles.

Cheers mate. Yes a friend of mine does the same thing. Anyway, I'm starting to go off the idea now, it seems like a lot of stuffing around just for 1 week. I can leave my car securely in Ubon city, so I'm swinging towards that now.

Also remember what Einstein said: “if World War III is fought with nuclear weapons, then World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Insurance is not compulsory for Cambodia, I never had it for any of the trips I made. Whether it's available at the border as an option I don't know. Maybe someone else will know and give you the info. BTW: after discussing taking a car into Lao with my wife I'm starting to go off the idea, it seems excessive rigmarole just for a one week trip, and it would be a one time only event, not something I'd be doing frequently. I do have a contact at Ubon city where I can safely leave my car for a few days, and we have done that in the past. So I think we'll just do that, then take the usual cross-border bus to Pakse. Pakse is small enough that you don't really need own transport to get about, and when we go to 4000 Is, there are organized travel/tour agents at Pakse, plus if there will be 4 of us we could look into booking a van just for ourselves.

Just remember the true story of the man in Europe who was wondering the very same thing prior to the outbreak of WW2. He could see that a full on world war was coming so he carefully studied a map of the world, and after considering all the factors he selected a tiny remote island far away in the South Pacific where he could safely live a self-sufficient lifestyle. So a couple of weeks before Hitler invaded Poland, this man departed Europe and relocated to safely wait out the approaching war on the island of Guadalcanal.