TroubleandGrumpy

That is the time to take your medications - ideally with a glass of warm milk. IMO dDont take any medications after 2/3pm - at breakfast is best. My advice to all is to only have a small breakfast, big lunch, small dinner - and no snacks or alcohol after 6pm. Only eat when you are hungry - if you aint hungry, dont eat and drink water - and a desire for food is not hunger. Your body aint 40 anymore - it struggles to 'manage' things when you overload it with food and/or alcohol - especially during sleep. Yes alcohol will shut you down so to speak, but you will not sleep well.

Both Trump and Biden are idiots. But Trump is a very seasoned businessman who has the ability to cut through to the chase and solve issues - what he lacked before was political nous - he now has that and will be making big changes. Yes you are right -= 4 years is not enough. But it will not be Trump that changes things - it will (hopefully) be the Democrat Party that changes following what happens to them at the election. Trump will hopefully win in a landslide and Democrats will be voted out of Office in many States (hopefully). The outcome of that would be a complete restructuring within the Democrat Party to become a majority and leadership that is more central and not far left. While they are winning they will not change, and therefore the people that follow their narrative will not change either.

Thanks - but falling mainly on deaf woke ears I am afraid - but I dont care - what is right is right - right?

So the far left say - and the woke believe it as a means of denying the truth. Take a look around (outside your bubble) the woke world is falling apart - the People are rejecting it more and more.

There is that cognitive bias again - if you read the article 'openly' Trump denies saying that. But you publicly state it as a fact because of that bias and compare Trump to Hitler. Very Woke and Very TDS. Mate - that is political insults and BS being thrown around by both sides - the operative word being BOTH. Trump stated publicly in response the words below- and as you know he has said a lot of things very negative about political adversaries and opponents - most of that was BS too. “The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution. This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of their other HOAXES & SCAMS”

And the same to the bast**** that taught them 'soft power'.

You are, like the other guy, failing to see my point - it is not about woke progressives being right or wrong in mine or your opinions - it is about what the majority of voters of USA believe. My mentioning of those matters (documents, clinton emails, etc) was meant to show issues that the US people see as duplicitous and one rule for the left and one rule for the right - here is another one - Biden's mental health. Trump is/was attacked mercilessly abouyt that issue, but Biden has been given a 'free pass' - in fact a ruling/claim was made that he is too mentally frial to face charges - mentioned under impeachment proceedings I believe. I will say this - you confuse political outcomes with political personality. Trump might be an idiot, buit the truth is that most politicians are idiots - he just 'shows' it more than most. Plus he has a personality that is not really condusive to politics - where the highes form of the art is smiling in someone's face while you stab them in the back - as per the master Obama. The outcomes that Trump can and probably will achieve are the restoration of balance away from the left - that power is evident when you state something like this "the party is a diverse, socially progressive that support civil rights legislation, protection for women, people of color, LGNTQ, disable, climate change and nayive American tribes". You made that statement is the utter belief that those are not woke progressive issues - when the truth is that they are - very much so. Let me give you an example - University students were interviewed about how little taxes the wealthy pay in USA. Every signle one of them agreed it was wrong and wanted them to pay much more. They were then advised that the top 1% of earners in USA pay 40% of the total taxes. They were also told that the top 20% of earners pay almost 100% of the taxes. They did not know - that is the power of the far left - they have convinced people that the rich dont pay enough taxes. They are the same ones who say Trump is bad because he is rich - and the problem in USA (and world) nowadays is that their 'message' is far too easily believed. Their power of manipulation and persuasion has become far too great - and that (plus other related things) need to be torn down - and Trump will do that if.when the people of USA vote for him in 2024. The Democrats and their allies are extremely scared - they are throwing everything they can at him to stop him running - but all they are dopng is giving him more ammunition to show that they have too much power and need to be torn down.

I agree about 2020 because it is ridiculous to expect that an election that has been certified can be over-turned - the only way to do that would be to have every single person state exactly who they voted for and then add them up. Trump should have accepted the result, but stated clearly he had serious doubts about its integrity, and then moved on to winning the next election with a promise of massive national voting process regulation changes (which he will implement IMO). What you are missing with that question about woke stuff, is that the reason people voted for Trump was because of the woke stuff - which has gotten even worse. It is not a matetr of whther the woke stuff is right or not, or whether it is a major problem or not. The issue is the US people voted against it - just like people have all over the world recently. I could name woke things that the Biden admin has done, like all the diversity hires, and shutting down oil production, and the teaching of gay sex in schools, and many others besides the border as you recognise, but the issue is broader than just the Biden admin. The issue is the spread of the woke progressive policies across the globe since the 80s, which the US people voted against because of what they see it has done to their values and morals and economy. People did not all vote for Trump - IMO the majority voted against what the Democrats supported happenning. This thinly disguised attempt by the Democrats to back down on the border now is being seen by the US people as merely political expediency trying to save their rear ends. Trump predicted they would do it if he lost (and many other things) and the Democrats did it (and many other things Trump predicted they would do). The same thing will happen in 2024 IMO - the US people have had enough of the woke progressive globalists and those taking advantage of it all (the swamp).

FIXED YOUR MISTAKE - Trump is a Nazi is a political term created by the far left to fire up the masses. A dog whistle. But I cannot fix the cognitive bias.

You too strong in the woke

The woke is strong in this one.

I read a book (ebook on IPad) for about 30mins to an hour and off I go. 4-6 hours usually - sometimes an additional 2-3. The Thai wife nods off immediately and sleeps forever - I swear she could sleep on a rock in a storm - jealous I am.

Do you ever answer questions - or do you only ever see the opportunity to attack and criticise. Your posts on this thread and your ranting about people who (illegally) use agents on another, clearly show me you are not into talking about things, but are into just criticising and arguing. Have a great life - without me in it ever again - blocked.

Relative or Friend back home? Use their address?

Can you transfer money in your bank account into your Wise account and leave it there for days/weeks - and how long does that take. In Australia I can and it is very quick - every time - rules of banking in Australia. What happens to you does not mean it always happens to others, or what others are saying is wrong.

@bamnutsak Looks like you were right - clearly the OP has an issue with other people using an agent. I agree with that statement - 'why do some blokes have the need to attack and criticise what other people do'. Me thinks there are far too many Expats in Thailand that have far too many bees in their bonnet. That is why we mostly avoid Expat strangers in public, because you talk to them and only then do you find they are one the 'them' - and they are hard to get away from.

Seems you are maybe talking about something that is different to the Wise bank/exchange service in Australia, and perhaps others are also talking about something different. In Australia Wise has a banking licence - they are a bank in Aust. I transfer money to my Wise account when the rates are good and I am ready to transfer it to Thailand - that is instantaneous in Australia. Then if/when I am happy with the THB rates I transfer whatever amount in the Wise account to the BKK bank account.

That is exactly the point. Every single tranfer I have done for years using Wise to the Bangkok Bank has happened within an hour or two - often within a few minutes. What Thai bank matters.

If you truly believe that you are being rational then you should fall in behind Kennedy and other Democrats that are trying hard to push back against the radical far left that has taken hold over the Party. Your reasonable points alude to being a rational leftie, and it is you guys that need to get your Party back to the middle. As Elon so clearly conveyed, your Party has gone far left. Another example - Invading the house of the ex President to recover documents allegedly stolen, only to have nothing happen as an outcome because nothing was 'stolen' or of a 'national security' level to warrant charges etc. And to then have nothing happen to the sitting President, when it was ascertained he had similar documents stored in his garage, speaks volumes about what the Democrat Party has become. If you want more, just look at the attempts being made by Democrat Judges to have Trump removed from the ballots for an allegation (insurrection) that has not been proven in a Court, but what is merely political rhetoric by the Democrats. The onyl reason Trump has not been charged with issurection is because that would give Trump the opportunity to prove that the claims fo an insurrection are compltete political fabrication. And meanwhile there are Americans still being held in jail for allegedly attempting an unarmned insurrection, when in fact all they did was tresspass and protest a political matter - something that radical Democrats have done themselves in the past. Yes Trump is an idiot and a political incompetent and is extremely brash and rude at times. But the reason so many Americans voted for him, and will again, is because he speaks out against the Democrat Party and how it is trearing down the American values and all the PC rubbish they hate. The biggest reason he won in 2016 was because Clinton was clearly guilty of breaking several laws and she got away with it right in front of the American people - they had enough of that going on and turned to Trump as a change. Now it is even worse, as shown by the evidence that is becomming evident that the 2020 election was less than 'pure and honest'. Yes Trump should have done what Al Gore did when he lost due to some clear 'anomolies' in the results in Florida, but as I said he is an idiot and he is very politically 'unaware'. But to only see Trump's faults (and there are many), and to see no faults in the Biden administration, and to only believe the Democrat and media mates driven fabrications like Russiagate and an Insurrection etc etc etc, has resulted in a complete breakdown in by-partisanship in American politics. Hopefully Trump wins, tears down the far left swamp and all the PC rubbish, and then after 4 years the American people become more 'moderate' and elect a more 'central' POTUS that hopefully both the Democrats and Republicans will nominate. Trump will then become a part of American history - and seen as a response to the far left woke progressive lunacy that had taken over US politics, but not something that they want to see continue after he had done the job he was elected to do.

Then I would suggest it is probabley your Thai bank slowing things down. Which one?

I agree. What I do is tranbsfer money into my Wise account and then wait until the exchange rate has reached my desired level (23.5 at the moment). When I transfer with Wise that is the guaranteed exchange rate used for the transfer. Sometimes it goes up the next day and sometimes it goes down - I take the view that my desired rate is available and I take it. Hopefully the Baht will soon drop a bit more (the PM certainly wants that, but BOT resisting). If that occurs I will adjust my desired exchange rate. Dont see it getting back to 30 again - but a more reasonable level would be 26-28 IMO.

The only time that is not the case with Wise (it does arrive very quickly) is if you send it on a Friday afternoon. I found that out when they advised the transfer would complete on Monday. I decided rates might go down over the weekend (had been going up) so I held it as it was (could have cancelled the transfer). Money arrived Monday morning at the rate committed to on Friday, and the exchange rate had gone down over the weekend (a rare win).

Yeh - maybe he does - lets see where it goes and how he responds.

Thanks - I understand that but does that not mean the Bangkok bank immediately does the exchange to THB? Every time I have compared the Wise exchanbge rate to THB versus the BKK exchanbge rate, Wiuse is better (as below). Am I missing something?

Ok OK - clearly paying for and using an agent is what some people like, and doing it themselves (like me) is what others like to do. I think the OP is being 'defensive' and did not realise that the title of his post and the words he used came across to some as an attack on those who use agents. Maybe a more appropriate title would have been ' Extension done quickly in Jomtien' and then details on how things progressed.