lordgrinz

So "Permanent Residency" is based on working here, otherwise it's really a no go? I don't work in Thailand, or anywhere anymore, but today while doing my 8th annual marriage extension, the Immigration Officer was trying to convince my Thai wife that I should switch and apply for "Permanent Residency". Not really sure what it would help or hurt going forward, the marriage extension isn't very hard for us to deal with, we've become experts at getting everything ready fairly quickly and easily.

He's as big a fake as that mop of hair on his head.

Somebody needs to ask him where in the law it states they are allowed to spend extravagantly on themselves when working for the taxpayers.

Government jobs with luxury spending habits, just the tip of the iceberg.

Did my yearly Marriage Extension today, I felt like a rockstar, the slowest I have ever seen it in there, in-and-out in less than one hour! No appointment, just walked in before 10 am, out by 11am. Didnt even check all our copies against the original documents. I think I am going to go play the lottery today 🙃

So everyone should declare Zelensky King of Ukraine?

He built a massive bridge to connect Russia to Crimea, which wasn't ideal (and very costly), so you know he won't be going back to anything before 2014. So I also doubt he will give up his land bridge created via a costly body count to do so. He may or may not give some of the Eastern part back, but that land bridge is not going to be given back, and Crimea is completely off the table.

Putin is not going to give up his land bridge to Crimea that houses his Black Sea fleet, which he will never give back to Ukraine. So, any negotiations are going to have keep that in mind. Other than that, not sure where the negotiations go from there.

Hell with that, I've been on the planet far too long already, I'll be drinking several Mai Tai's at one of the highrise restaurants in downtown Bangkok while watching the fireworks. I'll raise a toast to all those silly people below running for their lives

I don't know, I have never seen so much hair dye used by men in my entire life until I came to Thailand, 70+ year old men with jet black hair is the norm here.

Then he should be very careful while travelling in their backyard.

Just out of curiosity, but what happens when the scammers get hold of large databases of all the biometrics stored in questionable vendors hands? No more need to even have a live person, they will have all biometrics they need to complete their scams with impunity.

I literally haven't stepped into a physical bank more than twice in the last 30 years, I much prefer the app or online for all my banking or investment accounts. I wasn't too thrilled with the online version of SCB's system, but the app works perfectly, does everything I want, easy to keep track of everything too.

You've never heard of a cellphone family share plan? Obviously one account with multiple SIM's attached to that account. Plus I am sure businesses do the same, how exactly do they handle that situation?

To the Chinese, Thailand with it's lack of law enforcement, and overly corrupt RTP is just too much of a temptation.