Doctor Tom

3 hours ago, sandyf said:

I used to hate going to Bangkok but recent years has been a bit easier, i think due to better transport services.

From Pattaya you could get the bus to the airport and then the train to Makkasan.  VFS is not far away, within walking distance or a couple of stops on the MRT.

I'd rather just stay around Sattahip and pay an agent 

24 minutes ago, tubber said:

I have used KeyVisa a few times for second passport renewals both before and after Darren's passing. Always the same good service. Drop them a line and they will walk you through it, very helpful. I send everything down by EMS and they return by EMS.

They have been my agent for the past 8 years.  My only criticism is that they tend to be at the upper end of expensive. 

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

After all, human's time on planet Earth will be less than a blink of a cosmic eye. Took us about 50,000 years to progress from beating Og's head in with a rock on a stick to laser guided bombs ( not forgetting the atomic bomb ), and I doubt we'll be around for another 50,000. We are just far too good at killing each other for our own survival. Somewhat ironic that a bunch of dumb dinosaurs with a brain the size of a pea will have lasted longer than us.

When I was in the Military LGBT meant 'Laser Guided Bomb Technology' 

22 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Far from being destroyed, once we are gone the planet will get along just fine

And that is what gives me comfort in the limited future, in cosmological terms,  of the known Universe 

4 minutes ago, retarius said:

Wonderful stuff. You know they will never do anything to hurt or inconvenience business polluters or lifestyle polluters ie voters. But let's face it science has little credibility today with thinking people, hence the response from citizens to the whole global warming giant scam, as they see it.

Science is a group think driven business where data that doesn't fit the narrative is discarded and promotions and grants are given to faithfuls servant of the Scientific Narrative.

Today it was announced that Scientific American has an article saying that there are way more that two sexes....not genders mind you, more than two sexes. Good God, Galileo would be put to death by the scientists today (alliteration). 

My specialty is particle physics, allied to cosmology.  That's where I find 'the truth' if indeed there is such a concept, I do not find it in any human construct or wild theories, with no real basis in known science or mathematics. The more I know, the less I know that I know. 

2 hours ago, johng said:

It will fix it's self after after us humans are extinct..

The sooner the better for me.  The human species has no right to a long term future, the species is far too destructive, savage, unpredictable, gruel and vicious, far more than any other on the planet. 

18 hours ago, Roo Island said:

It's called climate change.

Its called 'weather' and its been going on for 4 Billion years.  People need to calm the fxxx down. 

oh dear, what a shame, never mind 

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

They were however in an Iranian Consulate.

 

So the attack was a direct attack on Iran.

and of what relevance is that? 

35 minutes ago, billd766 said:

They retaliated in a minor way and said as far as they were concerned, that was the end of it. So now you attack them a second time.

300 missiles, yep, really minor 

1 hour ago, Seppius said:

This could escalate very quickly

Hopefully.  Iran needs to be dealt with, sooner or later.  I vote for sooner. 

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

If they were there, if that’s who they were, if that’s what they were responsible for.

 

I suspect both sides are using propaganda and misinformation.

 

However, the fact Israel bombed the consulate is not in dispute. Not is the fact Iran responded.

Timings!!

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Is Iran’s nuclear program ‘Illegal’?

 

My understanding it was being limited and monitored under a treaty that a U.S. President ripped up. 
 

In the absence of that treaty why is the program ‘illegal’?

 

 

If you think that, then think again.  The sole reason for the programme is to develop nuclear weapons, and yes, that is illegal.  They were helped by both the French and the Pakistanis, no surprise there. Yes, you are right, in that the totally inadequate treaty was quite rightly torn up by the US, so there are insufficient to no checks going on. 

The biggest disappointment in this report is that the strike appears to be at a low level and did not target Iran's illegal nuclear programme.  That is just putting off the inevitable. 

13 minutes ago, pj123 said:

And most Thais choose black.

Because they are as thick as a brick.  Hotter and harder to keep clean, but they all want to look, like gangsters, hence the illegal heavy tinting.  Pathetic. 

4 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

I can not believe an adult Thai dies not know how to get a new ID card, or have no friend she could ask.

Believe me, the general Thai population are as clueless about the workings of government agencies as we farangs. They dispise them as much as we do. and suffer the same frustrations and inconsistences as we do. A Thai friend of mine, an academic, told me that civil servants here are the bottom of the food chain, lower even than farmers. 

Any Amphur, any where can issue a new ID. Beware though, my g/f also expired ID and her Mother had to pitch up with her, and her Birth Certificate,  before they would issue a new one, because for some reason, the thumb print ID didn't work. Apparently, if you are legally married, the husband can vouge for the wife, on production of the M cert. It was not at her Blue Book Amphur, but one in another City entirely.