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Where was Mustafa when that tobacco-junkie overweight farang bell-end with a PVC pipe water gun (supposedly illegal) hit me from behind, after dark, right in the ear in 2017 causing an infection that took a year to clear up.

But that's the reason for pointless 90 day reports and the other beloved annual tradition of the great paper chase aka non-o extension day. These heartwarming traditions ensure the bad guys don't need to be caught at check in. Nope, they will be caught x years later, on overstay. They're not respecting Immigrations traditional photocopy tyranny at all.

Are your pronouns Anutin Charvinakul?

Take a dump in the pool. They s- on you... only seems fair.

Lonely? Issan would not be my pick for a single OLDER guy moving to Thailand. I'd pick Chiang Mai, take burning season jaunts to the coast. Or Hua Hin, maybe the higher cost there is offset by having to flee CM annually, the air over South East Asia is unlikely to improve in our lifetimes. Pattaya paradoxically, is not recommended if you like that sort of thing unless you have serious money, you'll just destroy yourself there, a case of too much of a bad thing, it's a trap for elderly dreamers. Chiang Mai has plenty enough action for an old guy. And the food options are far better, Pattaya farang food is mostly guys hoping to get rich quick with high turnover meaning mediocre food will always have dumb tourists paying too much. You can extrapolate all those issues to the islands to various degrees. Bangkok is for young guys with plenty money and swollen nuts.

Just go to www.numbeo.com Job done.

What's the average cost please? I've heard these jabs are extremely expensive in Australia. Everything is expensive there of course, but how about locally? Thanks.

Did you know Xi (a Greek alphabet symbol) was the original name for Omicron? But the wet-wipes at the WHO were scared of hurting Winnie the Flu's feelings.

Here we go again... If this insanity continues, we will all eventually either go mad go broke, or starve trying to dodge Covid. Our Governments should spend the cash and energy to blockade, not sanction, but physically a Navy blockade of CCP until they pay the UN trillions in reparations. Not for causing Covid (tho the jury is still out) but for responding in such a way that made it become a multi-year pandemic.

No we're obviously sitting here bickering over nothing, in reference to just about everything, because it's free, and a lot more interesting than telling a bar-girl with broken English where my name, what I'm from, when I do, which I go. And how mutt you pay.

If you import bulk medicines for a chronic condition you should know that since February, your shipment will be held until the local equivalent of the FDA verify it is legit, and not fake! A Dr script is still required. After the usual endless runaround we discovered the Cancer medicine we ordered from India for a 90 year old in Korat was shipped to some customs office in the middle of nowhere, I forget the city, but it's the customs service "hub" for Korat Province, and we have to now drive about 5 hours to get there and presumably sign and pay whatever they ask, do whatever they want, to get the meds released, even though it's their rules and really their problem, not ours! And why can't we do it by wire? Well what a stupid question in 2023 Thailand with a world beating internet, eh? Don't you know the internet is only for play-play time? Stupid farang. Nobody here ever bothers to communicate these important changes unless, it's them cracking the whip over the public, even the Dr was left to find out the law had changed. Now the old chap is unmedicated, as chasing this mystery delay took weeks to get the full story, even though we ordered ahead. Just be aware, and good luck!

Okay, one more stab at this. If you were last stamped in at Chiang Mai as a tourist, what does the used volunteer stamp in the old passport (tho in one post you said it was in the new passport!) have to do with anything? If you last arrived in CNX then they are the ones to go to for the next steps whatever you are trying to achieve.

And he's not a dual citizen. He's talking about a cancelled passport. That was my bad. Apologies. I still think the transfer in Chiang Mai will be refused, that's just how the boys and girls roll. I was refused TM30 and 30 day exemption in Cheangwattna, even though I arrived in Bangkok, because they saw all my old retirement extensions from Chiang Mai. But maybe best to get a Thai speaker to call CM and ask!

I am in error, I misunderstood the initial request.

He has a volunteer visa in the New passport? Very confusing. Also, I incorrectly thought he was a dual national, not referring to a cancelled passport.

I just realised he's talking about a cancelled passport, not a dual citizen. I'm a dual citizen. So my advice is not relevant. Apologies.

His whole life of abusing and terrorising the person he professed to love. Quite the take from you, Steven. Let your eulogy for a sick sadistic bloodthirsty spoiled little s-stain speak for itself.

Just for laughs, here is the resume of General Prayuth's British counterpart. Chief of the General Staff, General P N Y M Sanders KCB CBE DSO ADC GEN Born in Tidworth Garrison military hospital and raised in Norway, Gibraltar and Iraq, General Sir Patrick Sanders was commissioned in 1986 and spent his early service as an Infantry Officer in The Royal Green Jackets in Germany, Norway and the UK. He has commanded on operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. His staff appointments have been in operational and strategic roles. He has been a member of the Directing Staff at the Joint Staff College, Pol/Mil adviser for the Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq in 2003-4, Colonel Army Strategy, Chief of Defence Staff’s Liaison Officer to the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) in the MOD. His higher command appointments were 20 Armoured Brigade, the 3rd (UK) Division and the Field Army. He was promoted to General in May 2019 and commanded UK Strategic Command until May 2022. He became Chief of the General Staff in June 2022. He is Colonel Commandant of The Rifles and the Honourable Artillery Company, and President of the Armed Forces Winter Sports Association. He speaks French and Norwegian, colloquial Spanish and can tell when he is being insulted in Arabic, Pashtun, Dari, Albanian and Serbo-Croat. Married to Fiona Bullen, a successful author, they have made their home in a small Wiltshire village. (And he probably has less medals and money than Prayuth!)????

Not a valid comparison for anyone other than yourself with energy bills in both places. Almost everything driving those price differentials are unique to each nations economy and energy supply/demand frameworks.

I never tire of reminding everyone how wrecked China is at present. Forget the fudged Q1 report in the MSM plenty of very capable China observers, including tapes leaked from China weekly with Citizens in utter despair. Unfinished condos they are forced to pay for without jobs. And that's just one of the many issues they face. Few average Zhou's are thinking about the beach in Thailand right now. Only the cadres, and their families can afford trips now. The non CCP aligned middle class are scheming and saving to get the hell out, permanently, at the earliest opportunity, and no to Thailand, to the West! Not every Chinese person we see is from the Mainland. There's Malaysian, Singaporean, Taiwanese, and everyone else from everywhere else.

Well that's a first! Musta been trying to muscle in on the incumbent Taxi mafi. They're untouchable.

Absolutely doublespeak. I seriously wonder what level of education the PM "graduated" with because he comes across like a dull nine year old. Sweden's timber exports have nothing to do with ASEAN recalcitrance ignoring the fires and pollution. ASEAN all want to stop their BS blaming the little guy, and start taxing the insane billions in USD profits their cronies rake in from the food industry, to buy Ag machinery and put farmers through Ag college. Problem solved.

Another Darwin awardee who got lucky this time. At least there's no go fund me ending.

If the excuse is to pay farang hospital bills, then I want to be definitively covered for accidents. All New Zealand's visitors automatically get free emergency medical including dental. I'm not happy paying this on behalf of clowns who get on a bike and void their travel insurance. If this is to cover them, then I want cover too.

You'll only find transparency in the outfits worn at Nana and Cowboy.