NanLaew

I have had Revolut for well over a year but never used it. The setup and app didn't seem too user friendly back then either. I finally set up a Wise account last month and started testing both accounts in the past couple of weeks. The Revolut app is much better now. The first Wise and Revolut transfers of £500 each, both posted within a minute. However, a couple of subsequent Wise transfers, one of them £1000, have taken about 24-hours with a 'Sorry, this is taking longer than expected' message. I haven't re-tested Revolut yet.

Truly amazing. Maybe not the topic of the OP, but it has certainly fueled most of the 20-odd pages of opinions.

By your convoluted intervention and explanation, it is now.

Yes, even a short street watch from a bar stool on Soi Buakhao reveals loads of this sort of human detritus.

I don’t like men. I like boobs. If I can play with boobs for five minutes I am good. Try a fat man then.

Since the older adults this applies to most likely departed their homes in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia under duress of war, factionalism or government oppression. I think they call them economic migrants rather than refugees these days. You can use Google to find the dates for the major insurrections and social upheavals. Based on the numbers attending the Udon Thani immigration offices, there's also a lot of Vietnamese that prefer to live and work here. Their kids, born in Thailand, are totally stateless as they technically don't exist, either in their parent's homelands or here.

Not a chance. I am a happy British expat here. If I was going to get another citizenship, it would be for St. Kitts and Nevis, along with my wedge and hurricane insurance. https://www.gov.kn/apply-for-a-passport/

An expat, or expatriate, is someone who lives and works in a country other than their own. The term comes from the Latin words ex, meaning "out of", and patria, meaning "country". Oops, no specific mention of "retirement" here, but that's irrelevant anyway. The people this new Thai citizenship award is directed at are mostly from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia who forsook their home countries to live and work in Thailand. I am a happy British expat, thanks for asking. British politics had no influence on my decision to live here, and still doesn't. You must be mistaking me for someone else.

Foreign teachers maybe? Most foreign industry professionals command decent and competitive salaries.

What on earth do you mean by "we do not believe most things they say"? 90% of Thailand's farang squatters don't understand the local lingo. How can anyone hope to believe the things they can't even understand?

Plus, it garners the incumbent government and partners a handy few hundred thousand votes before the next rinse and repeat cycle election.

Can you name these "family friendly" countries? Do any of these "family friendly" countries have go-go bars?

Either sort would probably vote Reform if they were back home.

So? deal with it. Nobody invited you to pitch your tent here.

Enlighten us. What is your definition of expat?

The people from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia are stateless. What's your state?

...and in the room I got, the air conditioning was buggered due to Chinese tourists hanging their washing on it to dry. Yeah... real swanky.

What's with the pearl clutch? Tony Hinchcliffe roasts people, that's all he does. Even Jon Stewart thinks he's a hoot.

I'm not sure if any other guys were jealous when, at the ripe old age of 46, I started dating an 18 year-old who is now my wife of sixteen years. She looked young, of course, but she didn't look so young that I needed to check her ID. She said she was 18 and I believed her. I wasn't interested in obvious teenagers, never have been. BTW, she wasn't interested in me either. Back on topic, if a girl looks too young, then she probably is.

Some folks just don't deserve to have any internet. y'know what I'm saying?

...at some branches in Bangkok.

Oops, sorry. My bad. It was Stephen Miller that said it at MSG. You know Miller, the angry bald guy that lives in Trump's lower colon. 3:33 https://youtu.be/uMUq40wzfP4?si=dS_BWls9pvsV-7LE

That's very enlightening, thanks.

KLM changed the seat I had selected at online check-in the previous evening. They did it when they scanned the boarding pass for boarding at AMS, loud beep from the scanner, tore up the one I had and gave me a new seat, about six rows further forward. When I asked, I was told it was so they could seat a family. I had a look back there once the plane was full and doors closed ready for pushback and there was no family group there and the aisle seat was empty. The reason I asked for that particular window seat as that 777-200ER seat configuration angled slightly as the cabin tapered towards the rear so you got an extra couple of inches of legroom for free. Being 6'4", and KLM being my then preferred carrier, the A or K seats on this row were my automatic choices. I gurned at the Chief Purser about the relocation, but she told me I was wrong and, apart from exit rows, the seat pitch was the same from front to rear of coach. I asked her to go check, but she gave me the "I've flown hundreds of thousands of miles on a 777" argument, so I left her to her delusion. A few hours later, she came up to me and apologized as there was a seat-pitch change on that row on 777-200ER but not on the regular 777-200's, and she was unaware of it. So for compo, I got a couple of glasses of port from the Biz class section after dinner. On deplaning, she handed my a wallet with some discount vouchers that could be used for lounge access, duty-free purchases and discounts on tickets. KLM got worse after that.

Just get a small diameter nozzle bum gun, turn the pressure down and hose up for about 10 seconds max. Hold.... hold..... HOLD!!! And relax. My bum gun uses the same filtered and UV-treated water that we shower, brush teeth, wash vegetables in, cook with and drink. It's not about 'going deep' or colonic irrigation. It's about flushing the porch, not flooding the nave. Once a week.