Liverpool Lou

Retail banking does not have a reputation for being particularly well-paid and hence no expectation of a particularly high pension.

What gets me is that those people voluntarily chose to move to a frozen pension country despite all the warning information available and then whinge about it! Said as a frozen pension victim who made the choice.

Apparently, he has been getting his state pension, hence the OP.

Is the "officer" in the OP being given that leeway without consequences?

its a joke sour puss! Jokes usually have an element of humour about them, I didn't see any, my deepest apologies.

So you think that it is amazing to be able to afford a, likely, B250k car?

Don't need much of a pension to have a B250/350k Merc.

You have no idea whether that is the case.

Possibly related to your perceived negative input to that person.

I think you missed the point of most discussions about Thai Immigration. No, I did not, the point of most whinging about IOs is just that, Thai-bashing and whinging, when all that is going on is IOs doing their job of making sure those trying to enter Thailand are legitimate.

No, it was not.

As pointed out in the OP, there was no room for the traffic to part like the Red Sea.

You wouldn't like that, he'd be acquitted of that charge.

"Children deported" False and misleading title, no children were deported.

Because the child's mother did not want that, she wanted her child to stay with her, compassionate dispensation does not come into it when the mother did not want the child to remain in the US. Stage 4 cancer would not be helped by the child remaining in the US as there is no Stage 5.

He was not "blustering try to justify the action", he coherently explained what actually happened. The children were not deported (they could not be, they are US citizens), their illegal immigrant mothers requested that the children stayed with them and the US accommodated that desire.

What? I'm sure that it would be feverishly reported by all the western rags.

Indeed.

"I enter the pharmacy at the same time as Thais ... I had to wait until the Thais were done..." If you entered at the same time as the Thai customers why should you be served first or why should they not be served ahead of you?

Ah no. She checked every page of the passport even after I pointed to where the Re Entry permit was. In my case the relevaant documents wereL 1) The passport 2) The Re Entry Permit 3) OA Visa Health Insurance 4) Boarding Pass. All were presented when I arrived at the check in counter. In the past this process took about 2 minutes. This time it took 10 minutes. Is this enough of an explanation to you? All that it explains is that your passport/documents were checked as is normal and required and you were stamped in without an issue.

Do you read this forum regularly? IOs have literally waived-away those trying to present their list of the required items - money, etc. They say, "You come too much" - then they break their own laws, by stamping a LIE reason in the passport for why they denied entry - "not having funds" - after refusing to look at the person trying to present the required funds. Do "they"? Yet you can not refer to one single specific case from your "knowledge" of the "many"? "IOs have literally waived-away those trying to present their list of the required items - money, etc." "Waived-away [sic]"? You mean waived the requirements? That doesn't bolster your argument at all. An example would be a good idea.

You are the one who seems to defend them while you clearly not travel much, if you saw how they were treating people you would not state this. How about some evidence, then, about how they were treated...and why, of course?

Want to quote some of those "very few" numbers?

They are doing you a favour; as a foreigner you do not have the right to be here, you chose to come here knowing all the rules with which we all have to comply, no one forced you. What ducking "benefits handouts and support" are you expecting?

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