SuperSilverHaze

2 minutes ago, MrMuddle said:

Haven't got a growing light, any recommendations for a good one, that I can use outdoors?

The sun

I'll show myself out...

What do I need for a certificate of residency at CW?

Thanks

5 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

ED visas (in some cases) 

 

I didn't mention these although you took the opportunity to point it out.

I didn't mention this class of visa because with all of the problems with the Chinese I expect this opportunity to be well shuttered. It's always been an extremely sketchy Visa and no one's done the least bit of studying on it.

1 minute ago, DrJack54 said:

or the last 15 years folk have been living in Thailand majority of time on various make shift options including the nonsense ones such as ED visas (in some cases) 

 

Indeed wake up....read daily threads. 

Folk have been living in Thailand

Yes, and seems not a day I open this site and another half dozen hapless cries of woe, worry and confusion. I really don't see your point

Read the dailies

I can barely stomach the woke, gay vibe now visiting as infrequently as I do. Some of us don't live our lives for TV nor aspire to have 60b hr jobs modding the board.

1 hour ago, DrJack54 said:

What if you are under 50. 

Buy the elite visa, teach perhaps or move on. This isn't twenty years ago - it's practically 2025. Anyone in their 40s and attempting to live here by chance gets exactly what they deserve. Seriously, wake up. The hassles have been firmly in place for well over 15 years. I remember getting hassled over a triple visa with the reason of visiting my gf - both of us were at the Thai embassy in DC. 2011. Serious attitude change, policy change around 2010. Been headaches since.

I think the lesson here as well as in so many similar posts is the days of living in Thailand on TRs and border hopping are pretty much over.

Problems go back to 2006 and fall of Taksin.

Get a retirement extension, visa. It's only 800k banked.

17 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

I don't mind, as long as this "rule" is publicised, as I'd rather spend 3 days in Malaysia than being robbed at the border. And I'd let the TAT know too, that 'I had to spend 3 days in expensive Malaysia, so that I need to cut back on my Thailand holiday budget'... 

Oh yes, let TAT know all about it ????????

6 hours ago, d4dang said:

a gf in Immi would be a good start

 

I've never been less attracted to a group of women in my life. The personalities are grim and outright off-putting.

Love Thai beaches and spent months, years camping on the best. Never been farther than Phuket bus station in my 30 years here. Stay well clear of Samui and Pipi as well. The question is why did you go there in the first place lol

So, now actively encouraging people with covid to enter the country. Genius.

37 minutes ago, kwilco said:

All drinkers say that - and then don't!

I was discussing non drinkers ability to stay clear of drinkers.

Haha you misinterpreted my point to prove your bias.

On 1/8/2023 at 10:54 AM, Hummin said:

married or not, with girls who chased foreigners to get a decent life. Non of us ask each other where we met, and we really do not care, but my guess, most of us met a girl who for sure have a history. Common for everyone, they speak decent english, know western culture and food, and very few have higher education. Not everyone is from Isaan, just to mention. 

This was not my experience at all.

My wife had no history in a bar, she didn't speak English since high school, she was born in Bangkok and to this day is not crazy about western food. University nothing spectacular but she paid it herself. Mediocre yet very fun job paying low 20s, benefits and 3.5 weeks paid holidays.

I'd say it's poss6but highly improbable you'll find a rose amongst the weeds in the Thai bar scene. At least the sex should be good

On 1/9/2023 at 5:15 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

Yes, right - but I am also getting older and don't do that so much anymore.

I don't know why you wrote above. I think it is perfectly ok to know intellectuals and talk with them about difficult questions and also enjoy the company of young girls who are not well educated and all in between. And the beauty of Thailand is that it is easily possible to find and interact with all kinds. 

I think the intellectuals in very short supply so I'm going to disagree. Even amongst teachers it's pretty much plod

On 1/8/2023 at 11:20 AM, BritManToo said:

Nearly every woman I ever had sex with I met in a bar.

1st time, met her in a Bar during a church youth club camping trip to Alderney.

1st wife met her in a University bar Bath.

1st Thai lover, met her in a ChiangMai bar.

 

 

Essentially, without bars I'd probably still be a virgin.

Someone many years ago told me that bars were the worst place to meet women. I said - wait a minute, I'm a quality person and I go to bars ... I can meet a quality person in a bar. He said - nope, doesn't work that way. Every romance come out of a bar is doomed. In retrospect, he was right.

I did not meet my wife in a bar and in fact she's alergic to alcohol

These windups always posters with < 3 posts

Outdoors yes? Outside light growing shorter a signal to the plant to go to seed. Was started much too late. Try again in March.

11 hours ago, kwilco said:

Be aware that globally , alcohol consumers are in the one third MINORITY. 

It is a characteristic of drinkers to see themselves ego-centrically, but their perspective is simply blinded by their choice of drug

Spoken like a defensive alcoholic.

I am a very moderate drinker yet have no problem wearing the label of "whiskey and beer consumer".

Maybe soy guzzlers ought to realize the lack of importance most alcohol consumers place on opinions of those that don't. None.

Unlike cigarettes drinking is very easy to stay well clear of and entirely personal choice.

Have a lactosoy and a run around the park with your apple watch and trendy water bottle. Worse, get your rental girlfriend to do same.

If you want a totally useless beverage that would be tea. How gay, flavored water.

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

Except for the ones who are in political prisons.

Lol

Everything is political with you.

No, I imagine being locked up there is very peaceful - probably too much so.

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

North Korea meets your stated criteria almost better than any other country. Maybe you could just name one.

I'm sure prk is peaceful.

The people living there might have little inner peace but I'm guessing it's quite tranquil

Greenland gotta be

1. Western rule of law. Probably law is not intrusive as well.

2. Very low population

Next guess would be some nation states in South Pacific with tiny population and Bhutan