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  1. nonsense, he'd have the money no matter where he put it.
  2. 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.
  3. saw this when i was traveling in iran too.
  4. wasn't it safety tested before being opened to the public? if so, who signed the safety certificate?
  5. 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.
  6. 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?
  7. 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.
  8. was it taksin had the idea of closing pertrol station in bangkok at 6pm(?) to reduce traffic congestion, or was it a dream...?
  9. What does someone do when they do not have a life? join aseannow.com?
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. you havne't finished the story... have you bought the land from the moneylenders?
  13. land is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.
  14. nothing like a xenophobe on a friday morning. anyway, quite a generalised comment, care to provide evidence to support your claim? thought not. next...
  15. why only reduce at new year, what not all year round? are accidents at other times of year acceptable? bizarre logic.
  16. oh boy, if that's your experience then you know nothing about thailand, you have missed out on soooo much
  17. oh, come on... it's not difficult to sort out your own visa.
  18. i'm a foreigner and never had to pay for sex here, or anywhere else, so i guess the price is what you want to pay
  19. you didn't read much of the article did you...
  20. at least they are being clear about their discriminatory practices. in the land of up to you, it is indeed, up to you.
  21. this comment is in bad taste and should be removed
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