it is what it is

decent advice, switch off the water too.

a year or so after opening my bank account, and all the copying and stamping of forms that involved, i went to the bank with a query, they produced my huge ream of paperwork within minutes, pretty impressive i thought. no idea where they were keeping it. but the system seems to work.

And just yesterday I couldn't get onto the BBC iPlayer with it (first time this has happened) so I thought I would switch back to Nord VPN, because I've still got a few months of subscription left, to watch Match of the Day, so I did that and all was fine, HOWEVER when I tried to switch to another program on iPlayer, I got the usual dreaded message about this content not being available in my part of the world (or similar). yes, can happen occasionally with Nord (i've used Nord for a couple of years) however just switch servers and you'll get access again, or switch browsers, i've never not been able to use iplayer or any other uk channel with Nord plus i got a deal with them, 36 months for around 60GBP. bargain.

this thread seems, sadly, to have died a death... here's a few photos from a cosplay event i chanced upon

bet she didn't see that coming.

she can do house arrest at my place. just sayin...

nonsense, he'd have the money no matter where he put it.

india india dunno dunno

lived and worked in many countries, traveled to over 60 countries, have never needed anyone to help me with visas. visa processes for thailand are relatively straight forward, there is a lot of information/advice out there, IOs are, in my experience, generally professional, polite, helpful. i have found sorting my visas here easy, possibly it helps to have common sense and to legally comply with all relevant criteria. it really is not that difficult.

i;ve had no problems with a monthly contract.

saw this when i was traveling in iran too.

wasn't it safety tested before being opened to the public? if so, who signed the safety certificate?

or sit on the walkway...

went with my mate to expend his tourist visa, a quick report. delayed by traffic so arrived at 8, joined the no number queue. 8.20 opened and queue started moving smoothly until people with numbers who had wandered off returned ad realised they had missed their place, began to hassle the IO, who remained calm and polite and sorted them out. one rude, with attitude, westerner tried to queue jump and was evicted by a calm and polite IO. cool. didn't take long to join the end of the queue, when we got to J section with number 8, the number 7 lady had arrived an hour earlier! she didn't have money or the form so was sent back, we were done and dusted by 9am and headed home. saw one foreigner getting stressed and having an argument, in awful pidgin english, with his gf. embarrassing, couldn't understand why her brought her... overall, it was well organised, the only dis-organisation was caused by the customers' behaviour and attitude - it would be easy to see how an IO could get pissed off. all the IO's i saw were all calm, polite, helpful and had decent english. not sure it's worth coming really early and hanging around before the place opens. unless your partner has to attend, come alone.

that's a great idea, but will it return regularly? i had a quick look at the e-extension website, it's a bit of a mess. too much colour and cartoons, why can't they design a simple, easy to navigate site such as the uk or canadian government sites?

they need to focus on infrastructure integration, not get bogged down in minutiae. i've never been in a city where different lines require different travel cards, it's unnecessarily inconvenient. one travel card for all public transport within bangkok, how hard can it be? other cities manage it.

was it taksin had the idea of closing pertrol station in bangkok at 6pm(?) to reduce traffic congestion, or was it a dream...?

What does someone do when they do not have a life? join aseannow.com?

given the nonsense generated by thai to english online translators i'd get one of my thai friends to translate. if you don't have an educated thai friend proficient in english then pay for a professional translator.

doesn't sound like you were there. sorry to generalise, but thai's aren't know for their acceptance of responsibility. do you have any independent evidence of what actually happened, dash cam for example?

you havne't finished the story... have you bought the land from the moneylenders?

land is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.

nothing like a xenophobe on a friday morning. anyway, quite a generalised comment, care to provide evidence to support your claim? thought not. next...

why only reduce at new year, what not all year round? are accidents at other times of year acceptable? bizarre logic.

oh boy, if that's your experience then you know nothing about thailand, you have missed out on soooo much