Liverpool Lou

Opening a bank account is illegal without a Non-O visa? Are you sure that it is just not the banks requirements, not laws?

Most AN posters think that's a forum rule!

No one has compelled anyone to do that and no one been compelled to have do that

The thing is that is not "a fact", no one was harassed, they were asked politely to show their passports.

And they'll all go home and tell their family and friends how they were harassed and passports demanded while having a quiet drink in a <deleted> bar! "...harassed and passports demanded..." Is asking for a copy or photo of their passport "harassing and demanding"?

Me neither, in 29 years.

In your words of wisdom, who was "shaken down" and for how much?

Did anyone have to produce their physical passport?

"Pattaya Police and immigration launched a city-wide search yesterday targeting foreigners on overstay or who might have been involved in illegal activities." An orgnisation called the RTP and the Immigration Bureau...they were doing their job.

American google translate not working? : ) No idea, I don't need anything to "translate" English into English.

Offence. There, fixed for you.

My experience was five minutes before posting on this thread... "...both Lloyds Bank's contact numbers that do connect from here, I just got through on both of them". Using "004". "When I redial with the normal 01 intl code I always get through (but about 14 baht/min)" Maybe that explains it, then, the standard internaitonal code from Thailand is "001". not "01".

Why do you worry so much about emojis, which only represent someone's opinion of your comment, that you rate them? Which is the "best" one?

Try a different optician. Maybe the first one didn't understand how glasses that aren't broken need fixing.

Use an agent, ask a visa agent.

It's mainly only UK, US, Canada and EU that have imposed sanctions on Russia, not the entire planet.

In actual fact, nothing at all like that.

No, it's because there was no Buddhist statue involved.

"Bangkok airport taxi scammers" You were told how much they wanted to charge (albeit illegally) and you had the opportunity to reject their offers so there was no "scam".

"I'm sure the Ministry guy had a plausible excuse that 'satisfied' the investigators". Hardly, he was jailed and had assets worth B65m confiscated.

Where was that reported?

It was a bar, the sole purpose of which was to sell alcohol for customers to consume, what do you expect, a bar full of sober people?! By definition, anyone who drinks any amount of alcohol is intoxicated to some degree.

It does for some.

I never knocked about with 16 year old girls. Boys, then, whatever floats your boat. Or were you just a late starter as a lad?

"the operators are requesting to be allowed use the beach to make a living". The illegal operators are requesting permission to obstruct public beaches so that they can charge the public for using the beach that the public are entitled to use free of charge, by law. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.