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Why do expats pile in here to find suitable mates? Stay home among the blue-haired land whales, guys!

Would You Send YOUR Child/Grandchild to a...School in China? Absolutely. If the purpose was to learn Mandarin Chinese.

The last "boobbender" was stripped of his powers when he was found bending for selfish reasons.

British obviously. House Slytherin.

That's the thing. I don't know. Are these actually legal businesses with city permits, or just dudes taking over space and paying off the cops for protection? So if the police arrested the foreign tourists, it was protection racket money well spent. You know, like the motorcycle taxi mafia that takes over parking spaces and portions of sidewalk preventing the rest of the public from using "their" space, or risk getting a tire iron upside the head. Or the street vendors that concrete in a permanent stall on the sidewalk forcing the public to walk in the roadway. Or the guys with hotels off the main road that bolt signs down blocking the entire sidewalk.........

I thought the beach was a public space. Do the beach chair mafia have a permit to set up? Did they rent the area from the municipality? Or do they just hand the cops a couple thousand a month to unlawfully take over public areas.

Easy-peasy. Send message to buyer. "Please return item in original shipping box with all original packing materials for full refund." Whether that includes shipping is up to you. If he opened the box and found the item damaged, he should have some photographic evidence. If the box was damaged, he must have taken a photo PRIOR to opening. That's standard practice for anyone purchasing mail order. Then the seller can negotiate with the shipping company for compensation. As he immediately noticed the damage, he certainly must have kept all the original packing materials to send back.

Don't you mean when Germany nationalized the Gazprom offices and seized assets and changed the laws to only impact Gazprom and refused to certify Nordstream-2 and Canada held the compressor turbines hostage and.................

Don't you mean.............. "Let's go Bankrupt!"

Sorry, but your Statista graph is out of date! The debt has increased $2,500,000,000,000 in the last 8 months, now standing at $34 trillion. https://www.usdebtclock.org/

You say that like it's a bad thing. Maybe then they could build a big, beautiful gas pipeline, and make Brandon pay for it.

C'mon, man! You gotta ride the train. How to visit Kanchanaburi & the Bridge on the River Kwai https://www.seat61.com/bridge-on-the-river-kwai.htm

****UPDATE**** Spent a fruitful evening on YouTube and have the matter sorted for the time being. Learned that the 2-liter accumulator (Hey, there's a new word!) can lose pressure over time. Videos from Myanmar and Indonesia show how to install a car-tire inflation valve to the end cap, but local models already have the re-pressuriser valve included. This morning removed and cleaned the accumulator. Tested (Stick a chopstick in it!) and found the diaphram was up against the top cap. It was serving no useful purpose at all. Used the bicycle floor pump to repressurize to 1 bar, and reinstalled. Seems to be working properly now. The ticking noise that I (cityboy with city tap water) thought was the pump pumping, was actually the pump switching on and off. Now maintaining pressure in the accumulator, pump switches on and hums, then switches off. And the water-hammer banging has ceased. We'll keep this one until the fall, then replace with a Hitachi or Mitsubishi constant pressure model without adding a separate pressure tank. This one will go out by the spare water tank and will set up piping to liquidate the fruit trees. If the accumulator leaks pressure, we can easily replace for around 200 baht. https://www.lazada.co.th//products/i4963400338-s20887836648.html Thanks to all posters for their comments and contributions.

Sure, but that doesn't answer the question. Is there some reason you don't want to arrive on an ED visa?

Have you checked the school website? Why not get the ED visa before you leave? Fewer worries.

True gives us fiber to the house, router included, with a phone SIM card for my cellphone for 400/month. Add another 100/month for honeybunny's TV box.

Okay, just another confusing article. The two ladies in Chiang Mai were sunbathing on temple grounds. The two in Bangkok were not. The only common denominators are sunbathing and intertubes outrage.

Are they sunbathing on the temple grounds, or a nearby athletic field?

That's like asking to meet his really for real girlfriend that attends another school. In Canada.

Would that be wise? The senior IO could then explain the fact that OP is not in compliance with his current extension, and if he continues to "insist" on special treatment, he could be fined, and possibly have his current extension immediately cancelled and then be deported for immigration violations. Seems like the IO is giving him a break for not imposing penalties, and simply letting him run out the clock on his soon-to-expire extension.

I blame Trump and the location of Chicago smack dab in the middle of "MAGA Country"!

This came up a few weeks ago. One poster recommended uBlock origin. I downloaded it as a firefox extension. It works, but you'll have to disable AdBlock on the YouTube address. Most ads don't appear. Sometimes when clicking on a video, the start screen for an ad will appear, but the ad will not run, and the video will start in a few seconds. Comments section sits below the video. There is a comment line, but that sends you to a log-in link. I prefer not to log in.

I would assume they are denying you because you did not fulfill the financial requirements of the extension you had already been granted. That means you are currently in violation of your obligations. In order to obtain a change to new extension status, you must provide sufficient evidence that you have been in compliance with your old extension status. That's my understanding, anyway. I could be wrong.

It's Chicago, man. Even the dead can vote.....early and often.

I was going to edit to add "not claiming this is safe and effective."