NanLaew

Ha! Fool. I never even started.

If it was a local wedding ceremony with monks and family and no formal registration with any Amphur, there's no further action needed. In the eyes of the law, they were never married. If the marriage was in Thailand and registered with a local Amphur, it should be relatively easy to get a divorce on the grounds of separation but 'years ago' needs to be defined. I did it some time last century and I retained a lawyer since efforts were required to contact the respondent such as last known address plus a 30-day (or maybe it was 60-day) public notice, before going to court. In my case, there had been no contact for over 18 months. I don't recall how much I paid the lawyer but it was around the same price as a decent night out to celebrate the final, legal parting of the ways. I'm theorizing here but for an overseas-registered marriage, whatever formal and legal proceedings that are required by that 'home' country needs to be done first. The divorce papers issued would then need to be formalized either at the local Thai Embassy or Consulate in that 'home' country and/or translated and formalized at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bangkok. Good luck.

Along with a short bout on statins, I dropped fried food, all dairy and all alcohol from my diet. I also rode my bicycle around 40-50 km/week. Subsequent blood work showed that in less than 3 weeks, I had cut bad cholesterol in half. The doctor said that statins probably accounted for the bulk of that reduction. I maintain the healthy diet and exercise and plan on stopping the crutch of statins after 6 months. I'll have tests done at that point and repeat after 3 months.

Statins will drop your 'bad' lipids numbers pretty much overnight. Not sure how a pill can make you feel better since, in my experience, high lipids by themselves didn't make me feel bad. Are you exercising as well? Dietary changes? Popping pills is the lazy doctor's way of filling the pharmaceutical company's coffers while not doing much to keep you out of a premature coffin.

Better for what? For example, my tractor is great at ploughing and it has a fast-mode for highway use but I don't use it on the shopping runs.

Good point well made. This yellow-painted median commences about 2.5 km east of the accident scene and extends all the way to the outskirts of Ubon Ratchatani, some 15 km to the west. Using the 'imaginary boulevard' reasoning, traffic headed west would be prohibited from turning to/from the yellow-painted median until a cross-roads about 2 km outside Ubon Ratchatani. Unfortunately, there's also a third lane enabled U-turn less than 300 m west of where they were killed. I would apportion the bulk of any blame on the driver of the CR-V that rear-ended the Yaris. The pickup driver would be blameless as the still shot from cctv doesn't show if there was anything occupying his right-hand lane. Either way, having dashed lines, vehicles headed east are allowed to overtake whereas vehicles headed west, like the CR-V aren't.

It may be a cash cow at 34 k baht a pop but Hakparn's after the cash whale of half a million baht and beyond per customer. Context.

My ex-fiancee in the US asked me to help her buy a used car and I settled on a red Prelude. It was awesome and if I had a bit of spare cash, I would buy one here. It was a fun car to drive and she ended up using my pickup as I was always using her Prelude. That or a Volkswagen Karman Ghia.

Why do some members repeatedly conflate the agents and their ways for getting poor old farangs an extension with the several millions, maybe billions, of payments accepted by senior IO's to allow Chinese to become Thai and buy land? As I suggested in an earlier thread, they aren't in the least bit interested in broke old men squatting on the in-laws land in Isaan no matter how much you wish they were.

Following on from @SomchaiDIY's informative earlier post with the accident location, if you use Google Earth Street View and travel in the westerly direction the Yaris was taking, there's two lanes (in both directions), a 60 kmh speed limit sign, followed by a yellow school zone sign and then a 50 kmh limit sign, also painted on the road surface. There's no signage prohibiting left or right turns. The white dashes on the west-bound lane indicates that this is the side with the school and hence a solid white line is between both lanes. According to this version of the Thailand Highway Code YELLOW LINES: mark the center of a two-way road used for two-way traffic. You may pass on a two-way road if the yellow center line is broken. When a solid and a broken yellow line are together, you must not pass if you are driving next to the solid line. Two solid yellow lines mean no passing. Never drive to the left of these lines. https://thaidrivinglicense.wordpress.com/traffic-sign/ It's ambiguous in that they seem to be for preventing cars passing or overtaking other cars but doesn't use the word cross or crossing as in, "Two solid yellow lines mean no crossing. Never cross to the left of these lines." An earlier post suggested the pickup may have been partially to blame but looking at the picture below, taken from Google Earth Street View, the pickup would have been coming over a slight crest (heading east towards the street camera view). Also note in the picture that a car has just emerged from the right-side road (where the Yaris was turning into) and has crossed the solid yellow hatched zones do do this. In my experience in Isaan, these solid yellow lines are crossed every day, not overtaken on but by vehicles entering and exiting from side streets. They are not prohibited from doing so.

Why are you projecting so much?

The visa is in your passport that's over the border in Cambodia, no? The chances of an immigration bust may be more remote than me walking on the moon but how about something outwith your control? Being involved in an accident? Your hotel room broken into? A victim of theft or assault? The hotel catching fire? Thailand's immigration laws are pretty solid and just because some immigration officers exercise their right to be pedantic and ask for more paperwork than the next guy doesn't mean that being in Thailand without a passport will be similarly overlooked. No worries, you seem comfy with the idea but in my travels, being separated from my passport, even when the law of that land demanded it, didn't make me feel safe at all.

That would suggest that you read the DM 'countless times'. Why?

Isn't that about 20 shades of illegal? Convenient as all get go maybe but still illegal, no? Yes, I am aware of the notion of what's illegal in Thailand can be quite nuanced but in this instance, I am pretty sure that immigration laws are being broken in two countries. All this while you remain in one of them without any proof of your right to be there in the first place.

A lot of people and their friends and relatives aren't overly concerned about the sexual orientation of their friends and relatives or even total strangers. Right now, I imagine the friends and relatives of these victims are filled with grief and sadness and not the least bit embarrassed by the stuff that so obviously bothers you.

U turn? Where? Rear-ended by another speeding, tunnel-visioned, gap-shooting incompetent. RIP x 2

In our circumstances, we find that regular sweeping and housekeeping in the yard is the primary deterrent. With this cooler weather, rodents are looking for warmer spots as well. When I had my rat attack, the bro-in-law had dropped off a sack of corn for his chooks inside the front gate, burst a corner and the rats would grab a mouthful of kernels, cross the yard and climb aboard the pickup to eat. You could see their little footprints and <deleted> in the engine compartment. One got trapped in the recirculate vent and died which we 'discovered by nose' about 4 days later. That was a four hour job to properly clean and disinfect properly; took an extra hour for all the maggots to drop out of the duct work. The rats had previously gotten into a corner between the battery and nearside headlight and chewed on a few wires but nothing major and another DIY job to fix. I have since installed a couple of 'rat guards' for the openings in the scuttle below the windshield where Ford chose to leave a couple of large openings to the recirculation system. Got them on lazada. Before cleanliness became next to ratliness, a YouTube suggested mixing the napthalene mothballs with some regular tobacco in 'breathing' pouches or tubs in the engine compartment. I did that for a while but they were bit a faff to replace or replenish. Since the yardwork has improved, they've not been required. However, if we see the odd rat, I have a can of the regular deterrent and spray that around the truck's access points and in the engine bay, just in case.

Between 2014 and 2018: Pattaya. 2018 to Present: Udon Thani.

If me or Mrs NL do something inconsequential like the OP's missus, it's added to the half-a-dozen other inconsequential dings and scrapes and once a year, we turn it over to our favorite local panel and paint shop. Two or three days and 3000 to 5000 baht later, it's like a bought one (again). Our NCB is 50%.

The total of bribes agents fees paid across the nation is peanuts compared to the figures being bandied about here. Hakparn is chasing after hundreds of Chinese who have paid millions, maybe billions, to get an immigration status that allows them to sit behind a Thai proxy and acquire huge tracts of valuable land on Sukhumvit and Ratcahdapisek. Hakparn isn't about chasing the old farang who's dropped 20k so he can squat on his retired school teacher wife's mortgaged half-rai in Bahn Nawk for another year.

I used to do the cardio stress test as part of the annual checkup at Bangkok-Pattaya Hospital when I was in my 40's. Never any drama. Six months ago, I had to do one for a Malaysian Offshore and Remote Onshore Medical Cert. Having not done one for over 20 years, I was a bit nervous but after about nine minutes on the treadmill, the attending cardiologist ended the test saying I had surpassed expectations at around the six minute mark and everything was still tickety-boo. Quite stressless too.

Never heard of it so I did a Google search into Transient Elastography. As an oil and gas man, I find it very interesting to see shear-wave analysis in the health industry. For who is it being recommended and by whom?

Here's a typical day at U Tapao. Russian scheduled flights in the "Top routes" show 2 flights/week from Novosibirsk, and 1 flight/week each from Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Kemerovo. That Vladivostok flight is probably a charter flight? Here's the map of scheduled Russian destinations.

If you think @bubblegum , @Liverpool Lou or even @NanLaew is anonymous, you're not as sharp as I thought you were. The OP's openly offering to chit chat 'anonymously' with total strangers about this. Anyway, the OP's sour grapes notwithstanding, what ever happened to caveat emptor? Suck it up and move on.

There was an 'active' watch for pork products in arriving passengers checked baggage due to regional swine flu concerns. However, this latest blanket prohibition on imported food products is simply based on a tax (revenue) grab, that's all. Anyone quoting Australia and New Zealand's extremely strict border controls on plant and animal products as something that Thailand is simply following doesn't know their quokka from their koala. Place haggis in freezer for 72-hours before travel. Within 6 hours of check-in, wrap haggis in double-layers of aluminum foil and place that inside two 'ziplok' plastic bags. Place in the middle of your checked baggage. On arrival in BKK, scratch the beagles ears as he wanders aimlessly past your bag on the carousel (they like that).