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I won't ever fly them again if there is a option. An airline so riddled with corruption that it can't fly right in boom times is a life-hazard. But what's really unforgivable? No wine in domestic business class. Not even the cheap but drinkable 185ml Aussie plonk served in plastic bottles in international steerage, and no, it was a codeshare freebie, so I'm not grandstanding, but business should be worth it. Also, the telly was not powered up. I was the only customer up front and it was 2016.. I wonder why? Not.

Didn't bother to read anything but the headline, however if you think you have rabies, and you're pissing about asking for a freebie? 555. They're warming the temple furnace as we speak. Also, you better look into tetanus shots, oh, it just got dearer, but what value do you put on living?

Nobody who supports the abolition of prohibition supports a free-for-all, on the contrary, the insanity of prohibition makes drugs a vast global criminal problem not a mangeable health problem, like alcohol. Any reasonable person can understand that prohibition of anything that most people want to experiment with, is a fools errand. As the prohibition on the drug ethanol (booze) proved. It's a deadly highly addictive drug, and their moral BS failed utterly to end it. You can gussy it up in 18 yo malts and fine wines (which I love) but dont kid yourselves. And booze scientifically and medically matches -and in social discord, far exceeds- the harms of Meth (yaba) refer to the Lancet if in any doubt. Time to legalise the drugs and criminalise the anti-social behaviour. Drugs are drugs, alcohol is a deadly and highly addictive drug. So why are we not all alcohol addicts? There is no difference in the addiction ratios between opium or meth, or alcohol, it's all confected geo-political fear driven garbage, not science. Singapore allowed Opium dens until that generation (my ex-wifes' grandfather) died out, then hung people the next day. Utter chicken-little <deleted>.

Geez, you'd only need to be a third form kid in the west (15 year old) to figure that out by reading the JH and WHO sites. Proving teenage biology dodgers could do a better job than these self-installed self-enriching, self-glorifying nimmeranjees.

Okay I'm on board with one condition... Lets try it out on the elites first! I mean, it works right? Why so serious?

Dude is one latin letter away from being an 'Anus'. Nothing more need be said.

Intravenous alcohol with a massage to ease bladder congestion should be a miracle cure. When the victims die, who cares? They laid down their baht for the financial freedom of all slimkind.

I had to "clear editor" on this one. Too many beers. But tomorrow when I'm sober, any mutt that looks me in the eye for more than 4 seconds, gets a gift from messrs. Smith & Wesson, and the bolshie aggrieved <deleted>-machine owners better steer clear too. The end.

He should have dealt drugs to filthy farang countries as a member of the armed forces, he would be a "good boy" then and got off scot free, with extra rations of Pedigree Chum..

Dude, the guy at the lectern in the suave silken tunics can't even pronounce the vaccine names right, so we can forget Latin. Modern Rome learned their Covid lesson the hard way, these twerps are still trying to finagle the profit angle -no matter how dire it gets, they deserve total obliteration.

Well i'll be dipped in kee khwai! It only took a global catastrophe for these shiny-bums to create an email conversation! If they keep up their dad's army obsession of partying like it's 1921 This place is dooooomed.

This is a very bad. It makes the recipient a criminal stealing from a bank for any withdrawals after the date of death. You must create a Thai will for any hard assets in Thailand. I had a farang friend who died without a Thai will and even his legal Thai wife could not recover the money in the Thai bank accounts registered only in his name. There may be a process for it - but she gave up after a couple of years trying. Nonsense. You have freely given the person your card and your pin and permission to withdraw funds. Nothing criminal about it, and many folks have done just that. There's an open topic on exactly this elsewhere (Chiang Mai forum) and from what I have been told, this is illegal after the individual dies.. However this is also Thailand. So my personal takeaway is: cover all the bases, legal, overseas, and otherwise. That may mean having corresponding wills at home and wills here. My (limited) understanding is that anyone assuming control of a deceased persons Thai assets after their death, but before probate occurs, will create a world of hurt for the beneficiary, as in any other country.

This is interesting! I resent the new (2018) rules which effectively hold us hostage financially, so I was contemplating marriage to reduce my financial requirements to B400K but the intrusiveness of the marriage visa really pisses me off! I am close to finding an agent who will be able to pull levers, it's still a LOT of money for an agent, but screw these gummint shiny bums and their BS hand-drawn maps and lovey-dovey photos and worst of all, their home visits! The other upside of being married without their rent-seeking police coming around to drink my beer is that I'm still taking B400,000 a year out of their vile clutches! Thanks, Kramer.

Yes, we have all heard the stories, and I have friends who have fallen for the "moneymaker malaise", but this is a relationship with an elderly Thai woman, where I have always felt i could take or leave, it is her character (and my own flaws) that made me realise i may have a special individual on my hands. Also, please note I am trying to protect myself which is the entire reason I am laying out my complicated private life in public!

Its a condo in an older building on Soi 15 larqe but needs some serious renovating.

We've been together since 2013 and I did leave her high and dry midway thru that to go adventuring overseas, I was a bit of a jerk then, no doubt, but she never gave up on me even after seeing my new "friends" on social media, and while she has two "husbands" -she told me about him from day one- it's clear that she does hold a torch for me, and of course, why should she not look out for herself knowing the old boy is not long for this earth and she herself is no hot young catch anymore? Her caring behavior toward him, even though he is a generous, but seriously difficult personality, is testimony to her character. She could have cut and run at any point after his first gifts to her.

So, here's the back-story. My missus has an historical "mea noi" relationship with an elderly (89) Thai gent. I myself am past 60 and she's in her early 50's He has been extraordinarily generous to her, she has already been given a large mcmansion and a car, and she has sworn in turn, to care for him until his last day. She is now currently looking after him on a daily basis, and because of Covid, and of course his vulture family, who want nothing to do with him in his hour of need, but are very keen on his assets, we have all decided to team up as a three way alliance, so that if any one of us die there are still two against the vultures. So we are about to reassign ownership at the land office to the three of us in a Sukhumvit property. By way of my own proof of commitment, I have agreed to foot the bill for the ownership transfer costs, including legal oversight. Because the property was recently surrendered by his elderly ex who insisted it transfer only to his name, as they are clearly resentful, and want us to pay the max to gain shared ownership, she, the ex, refused to sign if it was any other way. Also, they know they can rush in and contest the will with a solo ownership, and we have no illusions they will not do so! Naturally, they are the disgusting excessively wealthy and nepotic types that are the cause of this nations woes, and I want to make sure my humble good-hearted missus gets one over on these lizards, and has a decent independent income when I pass on too, just in case my family cause problems at that point! I should add for total clarity, that of her other assets, this BKK property would be mine to dispose of should she pre-decease me, and her own extended family get the other spoils she already owns. We will also legally agree the old boy will be put into a decent home with the property being sold to help finance this, should it occur, as he was rather too generous in his lifetime, and I also currently help supplement his meagre foreign pension- he spent most of his life in the US and is a US/Thai citizen. I don't own property here, so what should I be aware of, and is there a decent legal team out there who have handled this sort of thing for any of you prior? Thanks.

I cannot locate the poster who suggested donating a body to "science", I can't speak for Thai procedures, but I do know that in the UK this has to be arranged by the deceased themselves, well in advance of death. We thought it would be a cheap and easy way to dispose of a not particularly popular relative in bonnie Scotland, and we were advised that, unlike the bad old days, cadaver trafficking (including the hope that a worn out old organ is going to be much use to anyone) is not all that profitable these days. Teaching hospitals apparently have waiting lists even for people who just want a free funereal in exchange for being dissected like frogs. I would add that these institutions usually have a respectful service for the donors that the students who chop them up do attend.

You might want to make a video of that instruction and save it in three virtual places to protect your missus, because if I was a copper, it would look very suss to me, especially if your death was sudden or in any way unusual, ie not a long decline from disease. People make all sorts of lazy assumptions or don't think things thru when prepping for their departure, and one single omission in a will can lead to families being torn apart, and nobody but the lawyers benefitting.

Sorry to hear that, no parent should have to bury their children. Young males die young a lot more than they like to think! A friend was murdered in a robbery when he resisted, age 43.

Aotearoa must be really horrible if you're willing to pay that much to rush back into Covid central.

Maybe the TAT should just call it a day, and grow roses kratom. Would you trust this mob to reimburse you after you've been and gone and spent your cash in Kalaland? I wouldn't!

Unless they get EXTREMELY efficient in terms of processing visitors post-pandemic, they do not have a snowballs chance in hell. The vast economic tourism fallout now underway will lead to more unrest, and more unrest will lead to more bad press, on top of the bureaucratic tourist nightmare they created to pointlessly "stop the plague". I think many tourists will opt for Kabul or Beirut over Pattaya as the next happening hotspot.

Bubble my buboe! If the Kiwis and Aussies could not do it with their formerly miniscule numbers, what chance Korea, Thailand (with its walk-in land borders) and China (ditto). More fantasy. No wonder they're so against drugs, the nimmeranjies cannot think straight stone cold sober!

Not with those idiotic hoops they expect people to jump thru before they even get on a plane -they are dreaming.