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Hopefully, your loss if you don't, many of you already know of the incredibly fabulous musical stylings of Randy Rainbow. Well, now another presidential election season is hotting up in the U.S. and no doubt Randy will be on it. In this election, as usual, LGBT civil rights will be on the line, particularly trans rights which the maga republicans are targeting viciously. Sadly I see Randy is now including sponsorship ads. Good that he is making money but it degrades the viewing.

As I already said I would be happy to eat the 300 baht IF it actually fixed things. But no evidence that it would.

Yes its a tad FUBAR. To add insult to injury I was getting free delivery on my plan with cashless but now fully charged.

As explained before there is more than one problem. The false payment demand of course but also complete blockage fronl help at live chat, app calls, and even reporting mundane comments problems like missing items in future.

Hi there. The problem order was a cashless debit card order. Its fair to assume the driver knew it was prepaid. But now their system is demanding that I pay again. They will still.send cash orders but have blocked cashless orders until I pay.

No need to insult me prig. No I haven't made the demanded payment yet. The text on the double payment report form is nothing like my situation.

It's an Andriod app on my phone.

I think there is a range of the transactional factor for ALL kinds of human relationships but I also think because of the tourism / foreigners seen as walking ATMS culture in Thailand, there are more challenges in tempering that than in most other countries. We have some people posting here that either didn't feel that it was such a challenge and/or overcame the challenges and that's great, but I am speaking in generalities (which may or may not be true). I remember before I had a car (which I had at age 16) that I had friends who had cars and they could be real good friends but the fact that they had a car made them more desirable and that fact couldn't be denied so feelings of maybe using or being used were at least under the surface.

Last resort option.

I use it too but there are some restaurants I love only on Grab.

It's subjective and I've only been there as a tourist but I felt Amsterdam was even more gay friendly.

Different issue but it is finally a form I can fill out and explain the issue plus they say they will email back. So I will try. Thanks.

I see your point but look how both Target and Bud caved when pressured by the anti LGBT right wing.

Another funny thing. I'm a big spender on Grab. The drivers all know me and happy to see me and my tips. I'm on upgraded status with them. Yet such a problem. Oh, the humanity!

OK My Grab software situation is even worse than I thought! Not only can't I contact them over this error payment demand but I'm finding that the usual forms needed for reporting any future problem like missing items etc. are also blanked out. It's insane that they no longer have a contact option outside the app. So I give up. I will pay the false charge and hope I don't have many such similar problems in the future. Even if I had to "eat" 300 Baht a month because of this stupid software problem it would be worth it to me. 3000 a month probably not Also maybe the missing stuff will be restored if I pay the false charge but that seems doubtful. BTW yes I did remove and reinstall the app. No luck.

No won't starve. The apps have restaurants with dishes that I want not available nearby at places I wouldn't travel to either. far away or not on baht bus routes, etc. Plus the apps particularly Grab have amazing promotions especially if you pay for upgraded status. I also use Panda and rarely Lineman but all the apps have exclusive restaurant listing meaning if you want that place on an app it must be on that one app.

Any different? I've never been a straight person in Thailand or anywhere so ... Maybe bi people can have an informed opinion on that question. But the topic isn't about that but people seem to want to push it in that direction. I can think of similarities and differences but again that isn't the topic. As stated this topic occurred to me after watching a video by a gay man talking about good places for gays specifically to move abroad. He made negative comments about Thailand as detailed before. I have often seen Thailand marketed as a gay paradise specifically a gay paradise. Obviously no place on earth is really a paradise gay or not but still, people will understandably be attracted to such promoted places regardless.

None of the above. I'm here, I'm queer, and Thailand is my "home" (pending current extension stamps). But enough about me. I think the gist of this topic is that it's hard to refute that Thailand is a truly incredible destination for gay tourists. But when those gay tourists become gay expats, sooner or later, it becomes questionable if Thalland is highly recommendable to gay foreigners for the long haul. ▷ Gays in Thailand 🏳️‍🌈 Is it a LGBT paradise? [2024]

If I wanted pablum I would cook some oatmeal.

Gave me the idea to update the app. Sometimes that's magical. Nope. Same stuff missing.

Yes I've been to that page multiple times. I'm looking at it now. It's the same EXCEPT there is no Need more help section, no chat now button, and no Call us thingie. Are they trying to drive me insane?

OK, I'm a regular user of Grab restaurant food delivery service. I use Bolt for rides, ha ha. Anyway I pay by debit card. Today making a new order I am ordered to pay (by debit) for an order that I placed and paid for yesterday (by debit card). If not I am blocked from cashless ordering and must always pay cash. Presumably there might be more consequences if I don't pay the false charge. Well I could just switch to cash but that is often inconvenient AND I pay for premium status by debit which gives extra discounts so I really need to fix the blockage. So I spend about an hour going into every rabbit hole I can find to try to report this problem. I don't want to pay twice. There is no help topic covering my problem, nothing even close. So I search online for a way to do an online chat with a person or god forbid talk to someone about the problem and I can't find anything. It's about 300 baht. The bank shows it entered and paid! I don't want to spend eight hours searching for a way to contact them that I'll probably never find over 300 baht. So unless someone here has some kind of secret trick for me to contact them. I'll be forced to just pay it. But then how many times is this going to happen?

As usual, he nails it. Jon Stewart: 'Stop pretending' corporations support Pride (advocate.com)

It's a reasonable hope. Me too. But don't make assumptions. The immigration implications of marriage equality here haven't even been mentioned in the press.

I'm not convinced same sex marriage whenever it comes here will actually have any immigration implications. It seems to me the immigration part requires separate legislation and gay foreigners rights aren't exactly big concerns with the Thai public. We'll see.