NanLaew

This will be a watershed election where Thailand's age-old excuse that democracy here is 'different' is finally laid to rest. A non-military adminstration will restart and continue the deep, fundamantal, political and societal changes inspired by the successive, popular, non-military adminstrations of 2001-14. There will be no more military coups and long after he has passed, Prayuth will be rightly recognized as the last 'army man' to usurp power but the first one who read the people right. On the other hand...

Nice tapering, great sphincter work there, thanks.

On a side note, for tax purposes, how would the Thai Revenue Department be able to determine when the money being transferred in from overseas was actually 'earned/paid'?

Those earthenware ongs are my backup solution for when city water and all my fancy pipe, tank and pump wizardry goes tits up.

It would be of greater relevance and importance to know about the British public's stance on the ongoing industrial action and strikes; they should be abolished, are not very important or not at all important.

Just like the Tories back in fair Albion, eh?

To qualify for a new Isle of Man or Channel Island bank account, you need to be resident there. I recall their residency criteria is the standard 180 days in a calendar year.

It wasn't fake. It came in, sat there for as long as was needed and then I had to send it back. I was a baht millionaire for about an hour and a half.

Yes it is hotter and more appliances are consuming more but do you understand the ins and outs of the mercurial "Ft" calculation and it's interaction with other banded discounts? ...and why EGAT is broke?

Christ on a bloody bike! Yet another invented 'surge' of Chinese tourists that won't bloody happen. The world. THE WORLD!!! Mayday!...Mayday!...Mayday!...

But it really IS his fault as PM and more importantly, Chairman of NERC, the regulatory authority that dictates what can be gouged from people's wallets. This to support an unsustainmable reach-around that EGAT has with his government. The heatwave only served to expose the fleecing by his government's accounts payable.

I was reading in The Guardian how only 9% of English people knew that it was St. George's day last Sunday.

Which branch? Sheesh...

And the branch was where? And his non-immigrant entitlement was what?

No Dudley, they don't want you.

We do.

Are we supposed to play at "Guess what bank" now? Sheesh...

The wife of a friend of mine got her degree at Monash in Melbourne but can't find Australia on a map. Regardless of this, the sun still rises.

Switch agents.... you’re dealing with fools !!... Or, try opening an account yourself - Get a letter of Residence from Immigration and that should see you fit... you may have to try a handful of Banks before you get lucky. You should consider that maybe it's the bank staff that are being 'fools' here. We already know that different people can get different answers from staff at different branches so maybe this is simply another branch 'winging it' when it comes to their documentary needs.

Talking from experience, the Dutch can be funny that way.

All the world sporting authorities disagree with you. It's so unfair to have a male (X & Y) competing against the females and rightly so. A bit of respect for the female athletes. ???? It seems that you're on your own here. She was dancing naked during Wan Lai, not competing at the bloody Olympics. It seems you've gone off topic here.

So the same high standard of professional care and conduct as was afforded Jeffrey Epstein at the Manhattan slammer? I see.

In my case, I'm trying to understand what it is about market and commercial structures in UK that make it 5 times as expensive to the end consumer than in Thailand when the fuels cost the same at source. I suspect profit and tax taken at every interface in the supply chain. The Thailand model seems massively more efficient - so worth trying to understand it. No? Feel free to start a thread dedicated to your search for truth back in the UK. There's a whole Home Country sub forum just waiting for your contribution. But here's a something to be going on with regarding the UK's higher energy prices. Old and inefficient power distribution networks, housing stock with inadequate insulation (hot and cold, old and new)... and +12 years of the Tory's willfully hosing their fellow man while being unable to agree on and develop a sustainable energy plan for the future.

China, China, China, China.... can't they get their heads around the fact that these masses of Chinese tourists are just a myth created by TAT? The myth is only being recycled in unproven claims made by similarly witless local tourism mouthpeices and regurgitated on local media.

If in doubt, make a second layer that's offset from (or orthogonal to) the original so the 'grid' is tighter. Now waiting for the Australian civil engineers to spit the dummy.