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What's tricky here? The OP is in possession of his ex- girlfriends car. "Sell their mother"? Try and keep your misguided conclusions to yourself.

I once saw a repo tow truck doing a collection in the parking garage at Suvarnabhumi. Two trolley jacks to get it out of the parking bay and "Gone in 20 minutes." OK, so how about grab the "owner"?

I just bought a couple of xiaomi branded 512Gb SD cards on lazada for about 250 baht each incl. shipping. One's in a tablet and the other's in the new laptop. Capacity is as advertised and I transferred some stuff to the one in tablet and that went fast enough. I understand that read/write cycles may be an issue going forward but so far, so good.

I prefer Branston baked beans to Heinz but the best substitute for the latter is Fiamma in a yellow can. I've bought them at Big C but pretty sure they can be found at makro and other places.

Who ate all the (Brooks) beans?

Noooooooo.......

Tried activation online in my smartphone via DTAC's own online registration. Accepted my passport photo but rejected my face shot 3 times with "didn't meet NBTC requirements." I guess I need to shave! I went to the DTAC emporium with my passport (and face) and the young lady there did it all in less than a minute using a tablet, her smartphone to take the pictures and scanning the barcode on my SIM packaging. Simples.

Thought the vaccine was only going to be available to foreigners? Once they get their hands on a supply of Pfizer's Covid-19 drug Paxlovid, that's supposed to go to all I believe. Just what I heard on the radio so no citation was offered. Their belated approval of mRNA vaccines does appear to have caveats but I hope it's the thin edge of the wedge. When the locals get disgruntled about quality foreign vaccines being imported only for the 'gweilo', maybe they'll protest again?

back to a euro girl these days But aren't cars more expensive over there?

Good tip on the full-speed day packages, thanks. My router arrived yesterday and the SIM will be here tomorrow. In the meantime, I have already slipped my smartphone DTAC SIM into the router for basic tests. I get 75% signal strength and with a couple of machines connected (one on LAN and the other on Wi-Fi), I'm just testing my usual stuff first. Looks fine so far.

Chill. China has started doling out Pfizer vaccines to their own population because they followed Xi's 'zero covid' down the CCP's rabbit hole about 14 months too long. Now their pharmacies and hospitals are completely out of the rubbish vaccines that they sold to the Third world. Xi's days are numbered.

Which only refers to a white westerner. ...and they're off!

Are you trying all this with the same judge/court/lawyer? The primary contact address and passport information is over 10 years old, people move and passports expire. It is pretty unrealistic to expect that the 'missing' person can easily be found, especially if that person may be making and extra effort NOT to be found. Have you typed his name and city of birth and/or last known residence into a broad Google search? Loads of info on how to search here If you have a local address in Germany, see if they have a local newspaper and post a 'legal' notice about an unclaimed inheritance. That'll shake the blighter out of the woodwork.

All registered marriages in Thailand are in a national database that can be accessed at any Amphur and not just the one where the marriage was registered. This database has been in place for at least twenty years. There is probably an address for the errant male marital partner on that registration.

No. You were suggesting that the OP's race was contributing to their difficulties at the bank. Yes, I would totally ignore the woman. Same as I chose to ignore the old Thai lady that got very upset and shouting rude, racist things about 'all farangs' when I wore my shoes inside the waiting room at the ophthalmologists. I had missed the signage to take off one's shoes in the hallway outside. I went back outside, removed my shoes and re-entered. I apologized to the two staff members and the five other people waiting but pointedly ignored the shouty old buzzard. After half-a-minute, she stormed out of the waiting room, still ranting and raving.

Commenting on corruption is moaning now is it, sounds like somebody has a dodgy extension And it sounds like someone's still moaning.

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I said overseas. It was a comment on good service from both AIS and DTAC roaming in case anyone else is interested.

I will be setting up my TP-Link Archer MR600 4G+ Cat6 AC1200 before the New Year. Looking on lazada, it appears that DTAC and (maybe) True are the only ones offering 30 Mb/100Gb SIM cards and AIS's best offering is 15 Mb/100Gb. I have both AIS and DTAC on my mobile phone. I use a ~90 baht/month data package on AIS as primary as well as a more expensive one (~300 baht/month?) on DTAC as backup. It used to be DTAC as primary until the AIS bargain came along. I use the data connections for internet and to stream UK radio via Bluetooth in the truck and in the office. I've never had major connection issues with either and the overseas roaming packages they both offer have worked well. I have an app that identifies and calculates the distance to the different cell towers as well as signal strength, etc.. The nearest one is AIS which is less than 500 meters away. There's a couple of DTAC towers, both around 1,800 meters away. The signal strength (dBm) difference is minimal. I am on the outskirts of Udon Thani so pretty much wide open spaces with no high rises and power lines, etc.. Looking at a related thread with the last comment about 6 months ago, when it comes to technicalities, it suggests that DTAC would be the best option. This will be a single-user (my office) with a maximum of three computers on the LAN. No gaming, no great demands for streaming Netflix or other media (but that may change if the quality exceeds my otherwise benign interest). So, bearing in mind that location, location, location is paramount, I will be going with DTAC's ~1700 baht offering. How is their activation process? Any other advice welcome.

Arrived at 06:30 with two haggis, one black pudding, a kg of unsmoked back bacon and a Black Bomber cheese. No beagles. Gutted.

LOL. Way too many of those and not enough staff.

Still moaning about agents and their clients I see. For everyone else, there are agents. Ask @proton

Timely reminder there @BigStar, have fun and don't drop your wallet until it's empty.

Love that race card don't you? It must be getting as worn out as your Thai ID card. As for getting into a race discussion with anonymous locals at the bank...

In my instance, after waiting the requisite 30 (or 60) days of public notices and efforts (by mail) to contact with no response, my lawyer advised we could proceed. I was out of the country at the time so he booked a court date for after my return. Unfortunately, in the interim, word got to my then wife who had apparently been overseas visiting her sister. She got a lawyer who contacted my lawyer and all parties agreed to show up. Court date #1: First time I had seen her in many months and she wants to contest. Judge says we both need to fully assess and agree on our conjugal property, each provide a character witness and attend his court again 30-days hence. After court, I advised my lawyer I had no assets in Thailand (true) and she had everything she was already entitled to. He worked on that with her lawyer. Court date #2: Her lawyer's there but she's a no-show. Judge goes ahead and hears my character witness, the Thai wife of a mutual friend who knew us both well. All I can say from her testimony was I learned a lot about my soon-to-be ex and it wasn't good! Judge advises that we must attend a third time and tells her lawyer to make sure she attends in person. Court date #3: Her lawyer's there but she's a no-show again. Her lawyer also advises that she hadn't paid him either. Judge rules that she's a time-waster (could have told him that already but I followed protocols) and proceeds to grant my divorce. The only bit of protocol I resisted was the gesture of giving a token sum to my ex-wife. It may be cultural or whatever but I still said no. The judge told my lawyer that it's only a gesture and even 1 satang would be seen as 'proper'. I still said no and the judge commented that's the first time he had ever had that rejected in his court. As I mentioned, this was last century when mobile phones were very few, email largely unused by locals and absolutely NO social media. Thus the efforts to contact were easy to fulfill; letter(s) to last known address(es) and public notices. Probably a bigger task these days with the different ways of finding people but with mobile phones and social media, it should be easier and not more difficult IMHO. Your judge is maybe being pedantic or your lawyer isn't trying hard enough and/or milking it. You can always get another one. Good luck.