sidneybear

Some people drive better when they're drunk: they're less aggressive and drive more slowly. Enhanced driving skills when drunk should be included in the driving test and noted on a diver's licence so that such 'safe when drunk' drivers can be excused.

As others have said here - visas are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and (according to my missus who works for them) no checks are made by embassies and consulates before visas are issued. One suggestions here is to buy an air ticket, then see if APIS rejects your passport, telling you to do it at the airport check in, when you try to register it and check in online, . You'd need to know which databases APIS checks to be sure of that though. Hard to get a definitive answer on that one, unless you know someone who works in the right part of immigration.

You keep believing what you read in the papers

So called conspiracy theories are being proven as fact, one after the other. A badge of honour, if ever there was one. Authoritarian lefties still cling on to the Covid narrative, but that ship has sailed and people aren't listening to them anymore.

Died of what? Of or with?

True, Covid is a huge and highly lucrative industry.

Very much so.

Why single out Covid? Flu can do that. I'll tell you why Covid is special: it has its own marketing department. Add Covid to your regular list of vaccinations if you need to, but there's no need to make a song and dance about it.

That western military equipment isn't doing too well in Ukraine. Thailand would be better off without it.

She can inspect my taxes personally any time she wants.

Britian's main political parties are a uniparty, like two cheeks of the same decrepit arse. There's nobody worth voting for and only a revolution stands a chance of changing the place.

Thailand is a sovereign country. The US has screwed up every foreign policy ininitiative since WW2, leaving nothing but blood, screams and misery in its wake. Thailand should tell the US to mind its own business, like other countries around the world are now doing.

I can't believe this still makes the news. Covid is a cold.

That's a good way of describing it.

A very low simmer. He made Thai citizenship easier to get for starters, and his government turned Thailand into a dope smoker's paradise.

Some of them are, but Thaksin's lot has a long history of shafting farangs. It's makes one wonder why so many deluded farangs support them against the totally benign to expat generals. Funny old world.... I thought that people only sided with governments that hated them in place's like the US and Britain.

I'm in Sydney at the moment, and there is Thai food everywhere. Job done.

More hot air.

It's just like a cold.

Tax laws. Visas more expensive. No more weed. Is anyone missing Prayuth yet? He was the most expat friendly PM Thailand ever had. Thailand survived perfectly well before there were dope shops on every street corner, and will do so again.

2% is still really low. Businesses lobbying the government for cheap money really don't care about inflation though.

Sooo.... it's much more prudent to get Austrac approval before you go, rather than risk an overzealous official at the border not being satisfied with your (foreign) evidence, and confiscating all your cash. It stands to reason that the best advice is to play it as safe as possible, when 10+ million Baht is involved .... I would, and I'm sure you would too.

OK. So you convert 10M THB to AUD and front up at the border without the prior approval from Austrac. Then what if they don't believe your story or need more proof of where the money came from? They seize it until they're satisfied. You're giving really bad advice, and I doubt you'd take the risk yourself.

You are wrong, because cash over AUD 10k does indeed need approval, because it needs to be declared to Austrac (Australia's anti money laundering agency, not ABF) prior to travel. Travellers must complete a form and provide evidence to show the money comes from a legitimate source. Follow the link in my previous post.

Fractional reserve banking. They create money out of thin air. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebanking.asp A legalised Ponzi scheme 🙂