Lorry

I just received the approval email. On a holiday at 6pm, immigration seems to be working really hard :)

Did you test this? Or you just assume it? And would you still assume it if it were Americans, not British?

Passport doesn't necessarily show country of departure, but boarding pass does. Immi at arrival wants to see it. But if you get your e-visa 8 weeks in advance, you are free to travel around SEA or wherever for 8 weeks before coming to Thailand. You don't have to come directly from home-country to Thailand. As long as you didn't get the e-Visa when you were staying in Thailand, immi would have to check foreign stamps to figure out retrospectively were you were at time of application. As for the flight ticket that you have to show to get the visa, there are plenty of fully refundable tickets. Not cheap, though, reckon thousands of dollars.

Are you sure???

Dr Umaporn (also on this list) She works at Sukhumvit Hospital every Saturday about 8.30 (she leaves when there are no more patients, around 10.00), she also works at Bumrungrad (not mentioned on the list) She can do culture from prostate massage, and is knowledgeable about antibiotics. I have seen many other urologists and infectious disease specialists in Bangkok - all exactly like in your OP.

Exactly. The thread title really made me laugh. Do Americans know much about history outside of the USA?

So, 5 days after the due date, didn't you get a bit nervous? We are supposed to report no later than 7 days after the due date.

Update from OP: I did it by mail yesterday as recommended by the first 2 posters. Online still "pending", 3 days now. My friend whom I mentioned never got a reaction online, he tried twice. Because of the upcoming holiday, today is his last day of the grace period. So he is spending another day at CW right now.

Thx to both of you. I will do it by mail right now.

A friends application was pending for 7 days. Then he applied again, pending 4 or 5 days now. (It did work for him in the past) My own application has been pending for 2 days only, but it has never worked for me. Hotline doesn't pick up the phone. BTW Notification by mail must be made at least 15 days before the due date. Notification online can only be done 14 days before the due date. So, I have to decide early on whether to do it by mail (which works) or online (would be easier if it works). If I try online and it doesn't work, the only option is to go to CW, mail isn't possible any more. Is this correct?

Do you know all these languages well enough? I know only 3 of them, and beg to differ. Yes. Sounds very stilted, even fake, though. Like I don't know any native speaker of English who uses RP in daily life.

What native speakers of English use in daily life is not how a newscaster speaks.

No, every language I know works like this. I gave you an example for English. Another example: "you" according to a dictionary is pronounced "yoo". That's the pronunciation in isolation. In context, in actual speech, it is usually pronounced very different. Dictionary: pronunciation in isolation, in addition to this, often quite bookish Conversation: the word may not be stressed, may be shortened, sounds may assimilate to neighbouring sounds (you observed ian > ien, an > en), complicated sounds may be simplified (you observed tch > sh which you erroneously describe as s; a rolling r may become a single tap which for foreigners may be indistinguishable from l) This is still standard Thai, it's not dialect or slang.

Google: no Paiboon: I only know their dictionary and their course for beginners, the answer for both is no I don't know Thaipod

The examples you gave are none of the above. These are regular changes in pronunciation when you change from dictionary pronunciation to normal conversational speech. In English, a poor foreigner may look up the pronunciation of the words "I", "do", "not", "know" in a dictionary. But this is not how the sentence "I don't know" is normally pronounced in a conversation.

This is how things are seen in Taiwan. The decision of TSMC to build a fab in Arizona has drawn a lot of criticism in Taiwan.

I don't understand what you write. "to the country" means to the tax authority of that country, not the embassy Yes, Thailand will receive information, too. If you are a tax resident of Thailand and you have a bank account in Singapore, the Singapore bank will send information about this account to the Thai tax authorities. How does the Singapore bank know you are a tax resident in Thailand? They will ask you (FATCA works like this). And if you used a Thai passport when you opened the account, they have every reason to ask where you are a tax resident.

ATK of a close friend positive today. Yesterday sore throat, I insisted on ATK before going out, negative. Today cough, he wanted to go out again, ATK positive. This friend has recently started to not wear a mask anymore. <deleted> happens.

CRS requires the Thai bank to report the account if the holder of the account is a tax resident in another country. This may or may not be the country of his passport. In theory, only this matters, and nationality is not important. They should report to the country where he is a tax resident. In practice, SHERRING (link see above) thinks Thai banks will just report to the country of the nationality of the account holder. Much easier.

Listen to it in .5 speed and you hear, that the speaker isn't ever saying l for ร, there is a thrill. This influences the preceding ng: The sibillant ng, which takes time, becomes a fast plosive at the same position, ie a g. Yes, it's very different from Paiboon.

Its not TS and its not S. ช is never CH like an English "ch". It is an initial t melting immediately into an alveolo-palatal fricative like in Mandarin xiao (as in Xiaomi), IPA [ɕiɑu˨˩˦] It's also aspirated, meaning it's followed by a weak h- sound. The initial t is often gone, that's why its Shinawatra instead of Chinawatra. ช is often used in Thai for an English sh. But actually the resulting sound [ɕ] (which is heard in the example sentence) may sound more like s (especially like a Spanish s) than like sh.

My bank told me that the relevant law has just been published in March. They are still waiting for the regulations of the BoT how to handle this. (I suspect it will be similar to FATCA) They don't expect to hear from BoT before the election.

About 10 years ago, a farang was attacked with a machete and mugged at BTS Phrakhanong at 11pm. At that time (before covid), 11pm would not be considered late at night in Bangkok. I often walked deserted walkways along our Khlong at 2 am or 3am. GF was not happy that I did that. I am a bit more careful nowadays. I would not walk 500m to my condo at night at BTS Bearing, Samrong and so on. Not a safe neighborhood. For young women walking in the sois, Bangkok has never been safe. They are mugged regularly, even at daylight (5am, 6am when going to work)

That's correct. Healthy people over 45 - 50 should have a colonoscopy every 10 years. More often if at risk for colon cancer, which most people aren't. See various guidelines. But somewhere between 70 and 80 (maybe 85) people should stop doing regular colonoscopies. Guidelines vary, some say 72 or 75. That would be quite a few of AN members. An example for guidelines: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/acs-recommendations.html

Hip has arthrosis. Range of movement limited. There also is a small disk herniation L1/2. Both conditions may explain my symptoms. When he moved my leg, he could provoke the typical symptoms of hip arthrosis (like pain, limited ROM) but not those of disk herniation (like numbness or Lasegue). So he thinks the symptoms probably stem mostly from the hip. He suggested a steroid injection into the hip to see, how much of an improvement this will bring.