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4 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

You can get monthly extensions with a letter from your embassy based on the war situation.

Just a thought, I could be wrong; If OP is a young able-bodied guy, I doubt the Ukraine embassy will be sympathetic to him sitting out the war here with a diplomatic "hall pass". 

I just remembered, I own two Sporrans as well. But they're bloody useless as totes, beyond keeping my girlfriend's lipstick in for when she's finished under the kilt. 

3 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

Why were you looking down there?

Kinda beachy

The government tried to split hairs, so Pita chose to split heirs. 

Woot!

I'm here every sometimes. 

Imagine still enforcing religious tradition on  everyone on pain of criminalisation and imprisonment. 

The people, who for whatever deep and very dark reasons (they say it's "respect") are fine with kowtowing to a concept, not a even a person, not even an idol, but a concept, are fasci... nating individuals indeed! 

I wonder about that invisible energy that visibly departs every creature, when the eyes dull at the moment of death, something in there just stops "broadcasting" and it's tangible in the passing instant. 

I don't imagine we actually reunite with anyone or anything elsewhere. 

I think what many call the "soul" that energy, hangs around aimlessly for a while, then it quickly "forgets" who we were, what it, itself was, represented through our physical being.

Then it just folds into itself, and into the unknowable spectrums of energy and particulae that thrum in the atmosphere around us, and  we cease to exist beyond even atoms on any plane.

I see this state not so much as being dead, as being energy  yet unassembled and unborn. And no I don't mean reincarnation, I mean "unborn" we don't exist at all in any state in any form.

In my imagination this is what this condition of ceasing to exist entails.   

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I heard he'd bought a Lamborghini here with a 50% upfront part-payment. 

It cost an arm and a leg.

54 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Without the need of a so called "man bag"!

I call them "pockets"!

Yeah but you're walking about with nether regions that look like a Hamster with his cheeks stuffed with walnuts! ????

I use a modified tactical small-arms chest pack. It can carry about a third of a small day pack in volume. It's perfect for anti pickpocket wear, or slung over one shoulder, or slung over one knee when seated. 

THB 300+ at local police outfitters in olive, sand, or black. 

Then I have a fancy "tux" accessory shoulder bag I got in Osaka. 

One night I was wearing the fancy one across my chest barhopping in a sweaty T-shirt near Thermae. A random streetwalker was grooming a random gent up ahead.

As I approached,  the old gent glanced up, pointed at the bag, and said "Ask him, he look like he has loads of money!" ????

3 hours ago, Felton Jarvis said:

I had a similar problem at Jomtien Immigration. I came in on a tourist visa and had about two weeks left on it when I applied. The woman who is in charge of. the procedure threw a fit and told me two weeks was “not enough time”.  I had to go to Laos and get my “O Visa” there. Totally unnecessary because they can’t even pick their noses in a two week period. Unbelievable incompetence. 

Any Embassy would have something to say about that timeframe. I'm not defending the RTP here, it's just how Government types roll worldwide. 

Go and look at your home country requirements for residential visas, regardless of which nation, you hail from, the fees and timeframes will make your nose bleed. Six months wait is a great result in most cases. 

6 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

That was for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa for reason of RETIREMENT. 

A friend of mine after having 'killed' his Non Imm O-A Visa based Permit to stay by doing a border-run and returning VisaExempt < just like the 2 members quoted higher > did apply last week for his 90-day Non Imm O Visa (retirement) at the SriRacha (Chonburi) Imm Office and was successful in doing so.

But interestingly, the SriRacha Imm Officer also wanted pictures of him at the house of his girlfriend where he is staying, and pictures of him in the living room and bed-room. 

And on top of that the SriRacha kept his Passport, which he would only be able to get hold of again after the Divisional approval of his application.  So he will be 2-4 weeks without his Passport!  Is this even legal for Imm Offices to keep your Passport?

 

Of course they can keep your passport. It's an acceptable standard when applying for any visas with consideration or extensive background checks worldwide. 

The US Embassy do it in Australia. 

Anyone who even bothers to engage with the debate around  this Pattaya News manufactured controversy needs a better hobby.  

12 minutes ago, Chicksaw said:

Yep, gotta learn the local lingo. Thai is hard. Spanish much easier. I studied it in the US and was actually holding my own in conversations on trips to Central America.

 

I understand Portuguese is a not too distant cousin of Spanish. Should be a fun project to try and learn it and then head over to Brazil, even if only for a vacation.

 

Btw, when you say South Brazil which towns in particular?

I lived in Portugal, Portuguese is not easy, even though the Spanish and Pr. can understand each other more or less. Brasilian Portuguese is likely even more difficult being loaded with Creole. 

I tried out Mexico, Aguascalientes is as safe as it gets, and every brand is American, and cheap.

Fun fact: A German neighbour working at the vast VW plant there had a Thai wife! 

Anyway, I enjoyed the Philippines more than Mexico, but Thailand beats the Philippines  for safety, medical, and infrastructure, especially infrastructure. Burning trash every night makes the suburbs there smell like a war zone. 

And the stench from the trash they do collect would waft from Cebu City over the water to Mactan Yacht Club.

Why can't they even get the basics working right? 

Corruption may be a big issue in Thailand, but it's on a while other level over there. And the reason it's a basket case, even with its own oil and gas reserves! The common wealth is all stolen. 

17 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

Maybe because Western men can provide a better standard of living, not because they think the Western culture is superior. 

 

Where girls really think Western men are superior is the Philippines. 

It's amazing that you fail to see the contradiction in your statement.

When wealthy filipinas start choosing wealthy westerners over wealthy Filipino men, is when hell freezes over. 

Final proof the death penalty is really the easy way out. These lunatics should suffer and contemplate the consequences of being dicks for their entire long hard lives in jail. 

Helmets off! 

Masks up!

Bring it onnn!

Weed makes everything awesome. 

14 hours ago, BenStark said:

I don't think any rules need to be bent, it is more a case of not making up their own rules on the spot.

 

As far as I'm aware, and that hasn't changed recently, there is no need for a work permit to open an account.

 

I'm here many years, with pink card and yellow book, and recently I also got the same issues at a few banks where I was refused to open accounts............................that is until I got the head office involved, after which they were very cooperating.

It's called racism back home. 

On 6/2/2023 at 11:45 AM, tomacht8 said:

The majority of the Thai people want a new government and voted accordingly. The old country leadership has in fact been voted out, but they have difficulties in understanding and accepting this democratic process. On the contrary. Now all sorts of tricks are being used to sabotage the will of the majority of the population.

This is not 1976, something the fossils cannot accept. 

However, it could end very badly for them. 

The entire greater Bangkok voted orange, they have no idea what they are up against this time. 

The people are dialled in, unlike the past, when the establishment controlled the media totally. The voters are not going to stand by and let the establishment steal their own nation from them any longer.  

Prepare for the worst.

Wissanu addressing anything illegal, much less this farce of an excuse, is rich indeed!

The ultimate gladhander, he was even once on the redshirt side.

I don't believe in karma, but it looks like he's one lucky suspect to have even made it home, and it's still not over.

He's probably bankrupt too, a good fake passport would not be cheap. 

Old pilots wisdom: Never fly the model A of anything.