Lorry

(I found a thread from 2018.) Where do I dispose of old mobile phones? They do have all the apps loaded, including banking apps. They cannot be started anymore (they are bricked), so it is not possible to delete any data.

Right now, as the Chinese don't come as much as they used to and the Indians are a bit frugal, the Thai government wants more Europeans again, as they spend more (and there are no zero-dollar tours from Germany, neither Danish tour guides).

Yes and yes

This is wrong. The guy who explained it many times was @ukrules, I think. Others explained it too, including the TRD (in their Q&A, and in talks with the Big4 reported here). It really should be common knowledge by now

Chinese like CM a lot, and they do come at Chinese New Year (January/February). Never heard them complain about the air. (Maybe when breathing they feel right at home.)

Rumour has it that the US-Thai trade negotiations have been postponed indefinitely because Thailand doesn't do much in order not to be a front for Chinese exports. (BP today, opinion section)

I know this is the theory. In practice, I don't know anybody (myself included) who felt any effect from 3mg. But I know some people who sleep with 10mg. ???

If visual inspection by a dermatologist shows it's a seborrheic keratosis aka old-age warts (doesn't look like it to me, but they are extremely common and it's impossible to tell from a picture) therapy of choice is curettage, followed by hisopathological examination if deemed necessary. BTW they usually come back.

Almost correct, but it's 179 days in the year you made this money, not the year you transfer it. It won't hurt if you are here less than 180 days in the year you transfer the money, but the important one is the year you got the money. Anyway, inheritance is tax free (up to 100MB iirc, better check this amount).

40000 B iis expensive in Thailand, esp. In CM, but not unheard of. @impulseis about right about his price at Bumrungrad, and that's probably the most expensive you can get here. Those 7k of @CharlieH - are those baht or dollars? 7000 B is hard to believe. I have never known a place cheap like that, and I do know some fairly cheap places.

Prisons are full of them

My bank told me that my bank account information and the information for my SIM were not identical. Less than 20 hours after updating my profile with AIS i called the bank and was told that everything is ok. That looks like an automated exchange of information between banks and phone companies. It certainly doesn't look like the government is sending around some lists. BTW the bank told me casually on the phone that my information didn't match when I called them regarding another matter. They never sent me any notification through their app or whatever.

Because it's aimed against scammers. And "Thais would never do this", as a well known person in authority once said.

Most branches of AIS in Bangkok are very reluctant to so this. Some outright refuse to do it.

Like everything digital in Thailand, things went really smooth. The AIS shop refused to register my SIM. In a second AIS shop, a very helpful girl registered my SIM. In the process, she broke my phone. Samsung Service Center told me, it couldn't be fixed, so did a no-name repair shop. Must buy a new phone. So, now I have a brandnew phone! Isn't life beautiful?

All Americans I know in Thailand. And they all like Trump. The Americans I know in the US, thats a mixed bag. BTW The people who now paint pre-Trump America in glowing colours should read (and remember) what Stephen Hahn writes about Illiberal America. (No need to read the whole book, he has wwritten a few articles) This is how America is, and its neighbors in Latin America have always known it. Nearer to Thailand: anybody remember Vietnam? Anybody remember Indonesia 1965?

Plenty of instructions how to build a DIY air purifier on the net, even on AN. I couldn't be bothered for 3-4000 B, but when I opened my Hatari I really thought "hm, I could do this myself". I also use Filtrate on my a/c, gf says it doesn't help at all (I cant tell you, I wasn't here the last smog season), see @Peterw42

I went to my 7 yesterday. I inserted my All-Member number into their machine. I then still got a nice printed receipt. Plus an extra piece of paper, dunno for what. They did remove the trash bin for the receipts, though. But they have a new staff: the most beautiful girl I have seen in years.

I can tell you quite a few countries in Europe or Asia where it's not easy for foreigners (who aren't working there) to open a bank account. Things have changed over the last 20 years. And in the US, even many Americans can't get a bank account. A friend once went to Germany as an exchange student for a year. Deutsche opened an account for her (necessary for her visa) and at the same time made her sign a building savings agreement (10 years). The privilege of having a EU bank account cost another friend 4000$. Thailand is cheap in comparison.

Quite the opposite. If an ordinary looking farang wants "to open an account" or an ordinary looking Thai ต้องการเปิดบัญชี, what they get is a savings account. Most Thais and farang don't even know what a current account is (nor do they know what a cheque is, sorry, my American friends) - as demonstrated by @Alexjkr Now, what happens if a master like Puccini with his gold plated Fellali drives up and enters the branch with his entourage, I don't know...

I have had Xiaomi for years and just bought their latest model for a new place. Very satsfied. They are much quieter than my (rather quiet, new Mitsu) a/c. I also have the standard Hatari, but they are much more noisy.

I don't know whether this is funny or ridiculous. So the letters "tip" in American English translate into "that part of the price that we don't write on the menu (but that you have to pay, of course, because it's part of our price)" They should correct the dictionaries accordingly.

And with a permission to stay of only 6 months, that's stamped in your passport and the bank won't like it, a bit short

Good point. This is something farang don't understand. For a Thai, it means: tipping is not routinely expected, not at all. And it is not these ridiculous amounts (20 Baht, 40 Baht - for heavens sake) farangs discuss endlessly about. Thais tip, if they are really happy, and I mean really happy. And then, they may tip a lot. Examples: hairdresser quoted 100B, customer gave 200. 2 nurse helpers who treated a well-off patient over months got 100,000 B each (they saved his leg) (in my home country, we would give 20$, 50$ would be considered a lot). Normally, Thais don't tip at all.

Rates have doubled. Flagfall didn't change.