rose33

Looking at the DLT vehicle ownership transfer form right now. There is a blank space marked 'บาท' for entering the baht amount. No mention of market value equivalents... USD, cowrie shells, etc.

It would be much appreciated if someone knowledgeable & constructive could chime in, please ????

1 hour ago, PJ71 said:

hahhahahhahahahhahahhahhahahha

Do you prefer the word 'recorded' to 'approved'? I'm talking about DLT updating the blue book ????.

30 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Did you even read the OP,

The guy is going on a holiday for ONE month and driving a car and on an island. 

 

Madness to even consider not traveling with his passport. 

 

Surely this thread is a wind-up 

 

R U high? You're saying I'm saying things I'm not saying :-D

I didn't advise him to travel without passport, quite the contrary. 

HIstorically, there have been MANY incidents of passport theft in Thailand. So only hand it over when absolutely necessary. Have alternatives available to offer first. Often, it works.

Walk outside in fresh air and big drink of water?

5 minutes ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

Get into the Thai way of thinking. Worry about it when it happens. Worrying about things that may never happen will make you ill.  

This is 50% golden advice for Thailand... and 50% a bit too naive for Thailand. Use discretion, depends on situation.

8 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

What do you hand over in a hospital or bank 

Passport when necessary at bank/hosp/immi... Of course. But I avoid handing it over whenever possible.

By law, a foreigner in Thailand must carry passport on their person at all times.

In practice, when checking into hotels and am asked for "passport", I just hand over Thai driver licence and that has always been enuf.

18 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

Of course not. You can pay in whatever the seller agrees to accept. Remember barter?

 

I understand your point, but TIT ????. Logic and fairness play no predictable role here.

Madness and one-sided rules prevail here, especially for anything to do with farang and foreign currency.... ????. 

The transfer would only be legit if approved by Thailand's DLT; selling a car is not like selling a pushbike or a fridge. Hence the question. 

Is there any requirement in Thailand that car transfers be for Thai baht?

(Expats selling between them may prefer to deal in a different currency.)

Thanks.

On 3/4/2023 at 11:10 AM, LaosLover said:

I've been hearing about the imminent, oncoming disaster of porn-based mental illness my whole life.

 

For me, this is like the pot argument: Does it make you a loser, or do losers just really love pot?

 

-Signed, Guy Who Really Loves Pot (and who would watch more porn if it had a story line.)

 

 

Won't cause psychosis. Won't cause a sex crime rampage thru the streets. Won't cause pedophilia overnight. 

May contribute to a lot of divorces, failed relationships, and depression in the long term (for men and also for the women trying to have intimacy with them). 

Subtle downstream effects. 

Don't you think?

On 3/4/2023 at 6:49 AM, GinBoy2 said:

On a somewhat serious note, I do worry about the effect of pornography today, but not for men, more for boys.

 

I don't think it's a stretch to say that for many of us sex ed was rooting through Dad's sock draw for his porn stash.

 

Thing was back then it was a lot more vanilla and for a lot of it even the teenage male brain could tell it was staged.

 

Not so sure about that today, and I fear that what a lot of what those boys watch online gives them a very misleading idea of what is regular sex versus fantasy.

 

It's not that I would want to restrict porn, I think as an adult I can distinguish reality and fantasy, but not so sure a 15 year old boy can make that distinction

Hi, Thanks for your thoughtful reply. 

Scientific studies of the effects of pornography are rarely conducted. Why? Because early studies showed harm so clearly, that it became almost impossible for researchers to get ethics approval for more experiments.

Men have been propagandised to believe it is healthy & liberating for them (much like cigarette smoking was encouraged for many decades).

This is particularly so in the US, where people are taught that access to pornography should be defended as part of America's hard-won constitutional freedoms. But the First Amendment was never intended to protect speech that has no social merit, artistic quality, or political purpose. Most online pornography would not meet those standards, meaning that the Free Speech rationale for pornography has little merit or relevance today.

I agree with you that digital delivery is a completely different ballgame to the old school 20thC methods like videos, DVDs, magazines, movie theatres. Those required a bit more determination and forethought by the user! 2000 was the year it really got started (high speed internet became widely available in the home). Interesting for us to look back now, 23 years down the track.

I also agree with your very sensible observations about the effects on young men.

7 hours ago, Goat said:

Dont know about millions.

But certainly tens of thousands over the years.

 

Low self esteem.

No no no, get it straight, Goat. It's not a self esteem issue in the sexpats. As they all point out, it is all the fault of western women, for being universally mean, fat and ugly. These guys are elite connoisseurs of women and will not tolerate the West's inferior product. That's why they are here, enjoying sexual caviar daily. Because of their class.

Citizens have voting rights and non-citizens do not. It is the same everywhere. 

This is not news.

8 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Yeah I too could buy an out of province vehicle and do nothing and keep the same number plate, but then the book would not be in my name.

Iam one of these old fashioned types that believe if I own it then it must be in my name.

I have a feeling you could be right about this. 

For example, my car is registered to my correct address in Chiang Mai. I bought it from a dealer here in CM, second hand, with BKK white plates.

In the blue book, where it records my registration, DLT has allocated a Chiang Mai plate number. But I never received any physical plates from the dealer.

Have never had a problem getting Type 1 insurance (probably because Type 1 is profitable for the insurers hahaha), and never any problems with annual renewal at DLT.

One snafu -- tried to my buy my humble Por Ror Bor insurance from a Krungthai Vank branch and they wouldn't let me, because my plates don't match my blue book. 

On that basis I am guessing that, technically, our plates are meant to match the current province and plate number listed in the blue book.

It's just that 99% of the time, no one cares. 

Are we on the same page Ralf001?

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

sorry for sounding patronizing, but your attitude needs some work. 

they don't all hate all farangs. come on.

That's why I carefully specified 'majority'. Twice.

Sorry to sound patronising.

6 hours ago, swm59nj said:

Moved here about three years ago to Bangkok.  After I retired I wanted to experience living overseas. 
The only positive thing I can say.  Healthcare was good.  But I have very good insurance from my previous job in the states. 
Other than that it has become more annoying and inconvenient to live here.  I never adjusted.  Never found the majority of the locals friendly. Except if they wanted something of course. So moving back to the states in about two weeks. 

Agree.

How could the majority of them possibly be friendly? The majority are TAUGHT, FAMILY-PRESSURED and PEER-PRESSURED to hate us. Even their legal system treats us like dirt. It's institutionalised. 

6 hours ago, swm59nj said:

Moved here about three years ago to Bangkok.  After I retired I wanted to experience living overseas. 
The only positive thing I can say.  Healthcare was good.  But I have very good insurance from my previous job in the states. 
Other than that it has become more annoying and inconvenient to live here.  I never adjusted.  Never found the majority of the locals friendly. Except if they wanted something of course. So moving back to the states in about two weeks. 

What!!?? WHY don't you enjoy living in a cynical, racist, shallow, overpriced, unequal, hot, humid, smelly, polluted country that does not value education? WHY YOU NO LOVE THAILAND?????

On 11/13/2019 at 11:04 AM, canopy said:

Aside from this I completely agree with everything you said and I really enjoy and admire your upbeat attitude and incredible photos and inspiring experiences. To give you a comparison expats in my area tend to come from working class backgrounds, are overweight, in poor health, no fitness, poor diet, and their only care in the world seems to be saving a few baht at makro. They don't talk about air pollution and astonishingly I find many are in fact out there burning their plastic trash in their yards just like the thai's do. They don't have air purifiers or air monitors and they're bored to death if you bring the air up while drinking their cheap chang in front of them. I have yet to meet one expat that cares about the air pollution or even the environment. Thailand seems to attract a certain type of individual. I see there are a few concerned here at Thaivisa and that's good. But it's not a popular topic as clearly the lions share of expats are lamenting visa changes, TAT numbers, government competency, and those sorts of things which get more posts in a day than this subject will in a year.

 

And asking for clean air to breathe is not asking for perfection. It's asking the minority to stop being selfish and ruining the air everyone else is breathing and making innocent people sick and die for no good reason. It's just asking for the most basic courtesy and concern for others sharing the air, not perfection.

 

Finally, saying something just lops say the last 2 years off your life would indeed be ideal, but that's not how it works. You'll get ground down 2 years earlier. Everything goes bad 2 years before it should. You lose 2 good years, not 2 bad ones trimmed off the end. It can be difficult for some to accept part of short time we have on the earth being stolen by inconsiderate people whose habits would not be tolerated one bit where we come from and surely in the future, not in Thailand either.

 

Pardon my ignorance about the cause of smoky season.

What are you implying is the cause? 

- large numbers of people burning plastic rubbish in backyard?

- or, a small number of selfish people creating the smoky season (presumably through agricultural burnoff). 

Which?

Just now, rose33 said:

???? There is also a category of farang we could rightly describe as Thai Apologists...

Or we could call it Stockholm Syndrome ;-)

4 hours ago, bbbbooboo said:

Could you please  address us correctly please. We are Thai bashers not bashes

???? There is also a category of farang we could rightly describe as Thai Apologists...

It was the nation-building movement to create cohesive, modern, constitutional Thailand. Centralisation of political power in Bangkok under the (then) new parliamentary system. 

A very interesting question is whether their particular law is still on the books. I haven't been able to find an answer to that, so far. 

11 hours ago, grain said:

Happened to me countless times too, it's the Thai Rak Thai thing. I noticed it immediately when I arrive at the airport 2 weeks ago, I asked a question to a woman at a counter in the airport, my Thai wife was standing behind me, the woman at the counter totally ignored me and began talking to my wife. 

Thai Rak Thai goes deep... Here's  the 

ratthaniyom Number 2 (attached) from 1939. It's worthwhile for every farang to know about this.  

G'day,

Australia halted incoming seamail for about 7 weeks during October to November 2022. However, Oz has now resumed accepting seamail so there shouldn't be a problem any more. 

I asked at 2 Thailand Post outlets today (including an outlet at an international airport) and they said it's not possible to get mail to Australia by boat right now -- they said airmail is the only option. 

Thailand Post website English version is not informative on this point.

There's quite a difference in price between air and sea mail.

Can anyone please shed light? Do we have any solutions or workarounds, eg, other companies. Has anyone asked the Australian embassy? Thank you.