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As long as the maintenance "engineer" ???? took a pic of the travelator on his morning "maintenance check" as per Thai S.O.P. for every job that requires an employee to actually get off their azz and walk around for more than 10 meters as part of his/her job, everything is just fine. All systems nominal. It's like walking in to a doctor's office, doc looks at you for 3 seconds and declares "all good, I don't see no HIV."

Awwww how cute. Someone has a crush on Anders.

Yes but the online process may require a scan of the police report? I don't see how they would just drop that requirement just because an application is being made online (specifically talking about stolen/lost pps although not really relevant in the OP's case). Australia is of course free to do whatever they want in regard to requiring a popo report or not, I'm just saying that this is an almost universal requirement at any country's embassy/consulate so I'm almost shocked they would deviate from that. Anyway, not really relevant to the specific case I suppose.

https://ireland.embassy.gov.au/dubl/PptLT.html https://india.highcommission.gov.au/ndli/cslr5.html https://mumbai.consulate.gov.au/mbai/Lost_and_Stolen_Passports.html

Reading comprehension 101. Which part of "unintended function" did you not understand? As far as your goofy attempt at psychoanalyzing, nice try but as I stated - I don't like most people (and idiotic comments like yours once again validate why) so it's not about being scared to talk to anyone. I just do not care to talk to random strangers. I leave that up to needy Golden retriever personality types people like you.

I stopped having any. Now it feels like X-mas multiple times every day. Like when I order a Coke, and the waitress actually brings a Coke (instead of a Coke Zero, I know I'm a fat ugly falang but if I wanna drink a Coke I'll friggin' drink a Coke thank you) - BOOM! Xmas!

I like a chick/ho with nice ink, but they look horrible once the ink fades/spreads with time, especially sak yant (poke method) tats. As for my own (12)......some of them are personal/meaningful, some just designs I like, and there's one small sized one I regret. I'm a pretty big boned guy, face like a Mexican cartel thug, socially more of a lone wolf and don't like the majority of people I meet so the tats have an added unintended function of often acting as a force field that repels most. I couldn't hurt a fly and am (now) a total pacifist, but I honestly don't mind the "bad guy" image it projects.

It is the norm for most embassies to require this but if Australia is a rare exception then I stand corrected. Doesn't change the remaining facts of the discussion.

The most important question here is did they renounce their Thai citizenship, or are they still Thai citizens but just haven't renewed passports/IDs in long time? Citizenship only disappears when it is renounced or revoked. A passport is simply a travel document, not citizenship in itself. Once the person is in country and gets Thai pp and ID back, there is basically f-all than can happen to them. Thai nationality (the fact that they don't currently have a pp doesn't matter, they are still registered as being a citizen) trumps everything. Ideally of course get that done within the first 30 days.

Still requires either the physical mailing of the old (the one to be replaced) pp to the embassy/issuing authority, the police "loss" report. As mentioned previously, there is a huge difference (in terms of what a Thai immi pp reader machine and the home country border control's officer will see on their screens. The exact wording in regard to discussing this particular case is therefore important. The OP's pp has not been "cancelled" as far as an overseas immi officer is concerned. Revocation - generally done due to ongoing criminal procedures - usually distributed to partnering global immi watch lists and law enforcement agencies. Cancellation - slightly less serious, may or may not be released. Expiration, invalidation/voiding of an expired pp - zero release. All an overseas immi officer will see on the screen is that it is an authentic pp, with the biometric data, and the persons entry/exit history into the respective country.

If you entered the country visa exempt on your old passport on this current trip (i.e. in the last 30 days), and it has not been physically invalidated by the issuing authority either cutting off of the edge+void stamped, then technically immi will likely give you an extension, and you should be able to exit on it provided you adhere to the additional 30 day limit. When airport immi scans a passport, the machine checks only if it is an authentic passport (not a counterfeit) as well as cross checks with the info on their entry/exit database as well as specific wanted/banned lists, and not if it has been invalidated/voided which is left to the actual human operator's physical inspection of the document. It is a slightly different (technical) matter when a country revokes/cancels the passport of one of its citizens due to a criminal matter etc. Having said that, why/how the hell did the issuing authority (assume embassy or consulate here) not invalidate/void it? It's one of the most basic jobs of a consular official that I would think would never be overlooked in the issuance process for a new one. The only exception would be a lost pp. In this case your old one will come up on the system at the point of entry of your home country if you try to get in using it (obviously it's better just switch to the new one upon arrival, otherwise it might end up being a 15 minute holdup until they're cleared you and confiscated the expired one). Essentially, you currently have 2 valid passports until one expires in a few months. And unless you report the 2nd (new) pp to Thai immi, as far as they are concerned you are officially and legally on the old one. Actually not an entirely rare situation, many folks have two pps for various reasons. You just happen to have yours by accident/mistake on the part of your embassy/consulate. Not your problem/responsibility.

My honeymoon with Thailand ended years ago and I share your sentiments. For me, it's just one of many halfway decent pretty spots on earth to live and comfortably within my budget to maintain a Western quality lifestyle. If I had "real' money I'd live in a $10m secluded beach mansion in the Bahamas or Hawaii and swim in clear blue waters with sea turtles every day. Having said that, every time I got back to West to my "home countries" (US & Germany) for a few weeks I realize I generally dislike the general populous there way more, and for different, in my mind more valid reasons. So I truck on and apart from two fantastic close falang friends I drink with a few times a week, avoid most people altogether. Interaction with locals is limited to me handing over money for product or service, and friendly usually reciprocated quick smiles here and there, nothing beyond that. Works for me (and frankly, I think them too), I really don't give it another thought, and the dog gets lots of belly rubs. Doesn't make me an a-hole IMO. The trick is to have loads of hobbies that don't involve other humans.

Confusing. So what was the actual date on the permission to stay stamp in their actual passports? 31/7/23 or 24/7/23 i.e. where did the airport immi officer get the 27/7/23 from?

Wash plate in sink after you've made yourself and your wife a burger in your own kitchen - OK. Wash dishes in your wife's resort's kitchen after you've made the same burgers - NOT OK. Welcoming guests in the lobby of your wife's resort saying "Welcome to my wife's resort, hope you have a great stay. If you need me to help you with any language-related problem (can't read a sign, don't understand what housekeeping lady is saying, need directions into town, etc.), feel free to ask me if you see me in the lobby or run into me in any of the common/public areas doing nothing.": OK Welcoming guests in the lobby and then taking them up to the room, going inside and showing them how a light switch works: NOT OK Cutting the grass on your own residential property: basically OK but I would personally only do it if I have a good relationship with neighbors/people who can see me doing this. Cutting the grass at your wife's resort: might as well just cut up your passport and the visa in it. Ya dig? ????

I live in Phuket and the vehicle would leave the island maybe once a year for a road trip to Ao Nang. I pretty much hate everyone in my social circle (they just don't know it 555) and don't want to be asked to give people rides, don't have any little breeder trophies nor a wife/gf, only "date" hookers who come and go on motobike taxis. I like to sit/drive high for field of vision reasons. SUVs are an option as well but tend to cost more than pickups. So basically, a single cab (no rear seats) is fine with me as long as I can sit fairly comfortably (187cm) and my giant goofy fatazz Saint Bernard can ride shotgun and attract the lay-deeeeees (I figure the ones we catch can ride back to the crib with us in/on the tray.

A pathetic saga of TiT/Euro-retard-pol Flintstone law enforcement. And now he's safely back home in Norway, the country that has the audacity to give contemporary history's biggest single incident mass murderers (Anders Breivig, body count 77 people) a goddamn parole hearing after serving a whopping 10 years in a three-room cell, playing video games, exercising, watching TV and taking university-level courses in mathematics and business.

If I had a dime for every time I fingered a starfish.....????

As the title suggests, I'm a total cheapass when it comes to spending any money on add-ons I don't need. My only non-negotiable is A/T. I need it to last fairly reliably (at least in terms of drivetrain) for about 5 years, and I don't care about any resale value as I'll probably end up having it officially scrapped to legally/conveniently/efficiently get it out of my name. So, which make/model pickup/UTE would you guys go for? I prefer buying new, but a low km (less than 50k), max 2 year old vehicle would be considered as well provided no accidents and still under factory warranty. Am I right in thinking that the MG Extender is the cheapest in this respect? Toyota Hilux....? Mitsu Triton? Mazda? I'm not interested in any of the Fix Or Repair Daily models.

After reading just the thread title, I immediately grabbed my phone and frantically called all 5 Brit friends I have here to check if it was one of them. Is it time to move, or should I just look for other members of less errrrr..... mentally volatile nationalities to make friends with?

Re-naming a company (2019) after a "cool" Marvel entity (even semi-copying the logo) shows a level of infantile that is scary even for Thailand. Thailand's SBF. Wish I was 10 years younger, back then I would've had the nuts (and foresight) to short the living crap out of this goldmine of delusional dreams in a timely manner.

There's one living in the Seychelles that was born when Andrew Jackson was elected US prez. And even more impressive, there are some Greenland sharks alive when DaVinci painted the Mona Lisa. Some POS degenerate loser drinking in public at 9am doesn't really bother me, but being in the same species is a bit embarrassing in comparison.

Generally the same type of losers who are emotionally vested in professional sports teams. Luckily, they're a minority.

The world's biggest sick water buffalo hospital. 50% ROI courtesy of Western simps.

Pffft.....if it's not a proper kerrrsplat, it's just the nothingburger of the day.

Shouldda gone up with Bezos instead.