Prubangboy

19 minutes ago, RetiredThailand said:

Hello Everyone,

 

Im a newbie here 🙂

 

I'm seeking advice on the most favorable FX rate for transferring funds to Thailand for a home construction project.

 

Option 1) Withdrawing cash from an ATM using my Schwab account daily. 

Option 2) Withdrawing cash using my Schwab card inside the bank with a teller.
Option 3) Transferring funds from my Schwab account to Bangkok Bank. Also would I receive a more favorable rate if I ask Schwab to convert USD to THB before transferring to Bangkok Bank?

 

Many thanks!

 

Lifetime Schwab Lover here. My experience:

1) Yes, you can use the ATM, subject to a daily withdrawal limit. Mine's $1,000, but fraud protection kicks in early. It's a pain, but it's worth calling them if you'll be dropping a lot of cash at a specific vendor.

2) Haven't done it, but I think they'll just send you back to the ATM. I use Bank of Bangkok (good experience) and even a large withdrawal from that account in-person is a process of signing a lot passport copies.

3) Have transferred both ways, the exchange rate was very similar, with Bank of Bangkok being just very slightly better. Def get the Schwab phone app. You need to take a pic of your wire request, sign it, and send it to them via that app. A hand-written note is fine.

-Call 'em (noting the time diff). They'll answer all your questions to death. 

Was just reading on Slate about Repub plans to restrict birth control.

The dopiest piece of TrumpTrash here doesn't endorse that. What motivates them?

My last remaining theory is a kind of emotional coprophagia. How long before they inevitably transition to the physical kind?

On their behalf, I promise to eat more fiber.

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I was just listening to one of your songs

"Pony tail. Pony tail. John Lennon had a pony tail I think -in my fevered low IQ- attempt at a baffling diss- that you might have a pony tail. I don't know why".

-Dustin Hoffman called and wants his RainMan act back.

All hail the algorithm. I'm done with talking heads milking their futile outrage.  And I pity the OCD scab-pickers here who want more of it.

But to surf from Otis Redding wailing Paiiiin In My Heart to Tom Jones and Janis Joplin barn-burning through Raise Your Hand, to a Haiti docu means that stupid Netflix will have to look elsewhere for their fifteen bucks.

And as Springsteen-er, a search for Bruce -new video's gets a half an hour a week. He's still working hard, not coasting, and is an inspiration to me.

Of course, I'm really looking for new old video's and that barrel is well-scraped by now. The No Nukes Show remains a twice a year fist pumping affirmation.

"It aint no sin to be glad you're alive".

Wish they had a category for "Actually Likes Thailand".

I also wish I could be a sexpat. But the starfish sex factor is really for failed at home thirstmongers to the nth degree.

I'll just do myself. At least I'm into me.

Time to read a book that will really help you, clarity-wise:

Maybe They're Just Not That Into You.

Skipping right to the end of this no doubt pedantic snooze-fest to share that I was indeed whacked with a 3,000 baht fine for lighting up in a hotel room. 'Won't name the venue due to Thai getting sued madness.

Their business, their biz. Fair enough.

I peeled off the notes and apologized. Said the desk clerk, "normally we have to threaten to call the police". I asked if that ever actually happened. She shook her head.

But at least she had a single scalp to brag to her boss about. Or maybe I just bought the staff a seafood fiesta that night.

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I make my own videos for YouTube, as a hobby.

I'm not going to post them here, though. Too many haters.

I have had the privilege of watching a couple. 'Learned a thing or two.

Too right, not for this short-bus venue.

2 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

With due respect  

 

With due respect, you're butt hurt that I laughed at you in the other thread and are now reduced to humping my disinterested leg like a golden retriever. 

Why can't you be the kind of retard who's in the special olympics of something? No one like a grouchy retard.

4 minutes ago, Dolf said:

The best seem to have a 5 to 10 year period of greatness if they are lucky. After that it's family films or reruns.

Comedy now is terrible. It's like, "I'm a Korean Lesbian. Let's beat that straight into the ground and milk every last paltry aspect of that to death".

Funniness requires a bit of mean-ness. And whether you're on the left or the right, people are just too sissy-sensitive. I see this here every day of the week.

In a sense, Richard Pryor was lucky to die early. If anyone deserves the title of GodFather, it's him.

But he was already edging into family comedy films and cutting back on the number of MF's per act. You start out a bomb thrower and end up as a brand.

Just now, Dolf said:

 uses a "laugh now" sign in the audience. 

Problem: When you get older, you get less funny. Bill Maher is the worst and most obvious example of this I can think of.

Chris Rock -a god to me- should have retired 2 Netflix special's ago. Chappele and Ricky Gervais are edging into this category.

Brit Jimmy Carr still seems to be dodging this bullet.

'Saw him in Bangkok a decade ago. He killed, and dragged many a whoremonger straight through the mud -to the delight of all.

Love Mark Weins food video's even tho I find him a bit unbearable to watch with his eye-popping oohing and ahhing about every bite.

But he has the deets. Just went out to his reviewed place in the Mararekash Night Market and it was truly 5* at 3* prices. And of course, the restaurant owner never heard of Mark Weins. His chicken and cashews recco in Ubon (his wife is from Issan) had me going back twice.

One for the Red Piller/manosphere types: The irrepressible Sh0eonhead. She shovels it back hard against both the feminazi's And the bro's with great wit and empathy. I never don't laugh out loud. The only internet person to ever coax a fiver out of me for her Patron account.

In a similar vein, the Dating Delusions channel, in which super-unrealistic (means: fat) women's dating profiles are disected with fierce scorn is a frequent dinner time watch for me and my wife. It does get repetitive after you watch a couple of dozen, tho.

For a more brutal and black-oriented variation, the epic work of Kevin Samuels is peak Red Pill. In the Manosphere, when people talk about The Godfather, there's absolutely no doubt about who's being referenced. He requires a little patience, but his slow cornering of uneducated single moms demanding millionaire boyfriends is a joy to behold.

Aba and Preach also cover this ground. A bit too much padding in the reaction parts, but likewise ruthlessly funny.

Used to love Bill Maher, but any non-supporter of Biden is now off my list for all time. His cranky fake contrarian bit got old. He was my hero, now he's an example of why I'm embarrassed to be a Boomer.

On 3/15/2024 at 10:56 PM, georgegeorgia said:

And Prubang BOY what makes you think I identify as "white" ?

 

 

 

"I'm a racist dimwit who does a job that literally, a monkey could be trained to do better".

I'm an affluent white male. So basically the absolute apex of the pyramid.

As is practically everyone here. Even if they were broke in the west, they're Mick Jagger without the headaches here.

Please give your pretend-support to your Filipino co-floor moppers whom you so racist-ly disparage.

That really turned me off you for good.

8 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

 

 

Tried the Captain Morgan Gold from 7-11 a few days ago.   Bitch piss.   

Agreed. Captain Morgan is actually a big step down from Bacardi. Spiced rum is always terrible.

Phraya, the local upsell option is good, but hardly worth 900 baht, and that goes double for the 1,500 baht version.

We like Havana Club 7 year old brown (900 baht at Rimping). There's a no-name brand called simply Guyana Rum with a ship on the label for 700 baht (70 ml) available at a single store in Nimman, and it's very smooth indeed.

If Bob ever makes it to Chiang Mai, I'd love to kill a bottle of it with him.

I have been sipping Havana Club Rum (Blue Label, $45) here in Morocco, in direct violation of Ramadan rules. So we're drinking in our room. If Bob found 200 baht Pad Thai well, well beyond the pale, how much will pricey rum rock his world?

Bob, do you ever enjoy premium spirits, and if someone else were paying, what would you have?

Rum and Coke (just a splash) is the most irresistible of mixers. Bob, what possesses you to pour Coke in Whiskey and what hobo swill do you normally do this with?

5 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Ill debate you anytime lil fella

I no longer engage with TrumpTrash except to mock them. And that mini-urge is on a steep fade.

The greatest poster of all time here, ThaiBeachLover, is the reason why. Maybe I'll get into it, maybe I won't.

But a lightweight you aint fit to kiss his you know what. 

On 3/10/2024 at 7:05 AM, Keep Right said:

$500," Most likely a 28 sqm dump on Soi Buakhao.

 

 

You inexplicably seem to think that that is a bad thing.

Who hurt you?

6 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

 

 

 

 

1) What happened between you and your then wife to split up ?

 

2) Have you ever made contact with her again ?

 

3) Do your children who obviously would be if adult age ever forgive you ?

4) Do they still make contact knowing you left them and the mother behind ?

 

5) Does she know where you are nowadays 

1) She just flat out got sick of me. At one point, while I was railing her (which proceeded a 2 year drought, then the end), she actually said, "please finish" -shades of Soi Bukow.

2) Contact? Again? That's gonna be a hard no from me, Dawg. I had Facebook for about an hour and a half. 4 old GF's crawled right out of the woodwork. So, that was the end of Facebook for me. For all time.

3) When you get divorced AND leave the hemisphere, the "adult age" children would have to try hard to remember you to forgive you.

4) See above. They knew what was up when another boyfriend soon moved in after my ultra-tactful exit. Or maybe they didn't. Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

5) Uh, no. She thinks I'm dead. Funny story as to how I set that up.

This GG post is even more mega-cringe then the ones where he goes on and on (and on) about his brief chat with the guy who's selling dog-eared Tom Clancy's in a bookstore in Pattaya.

Assuming that long-suffering book store guy actually exists and that torturous chat happened, I feel bad for that guy. I hope someday I can love a woman as much as this mope loved that guy.

1 hour ago, Dolf said:

Thanks for the tips

 

Shoshana restaurant is the Israeli one
 

Uh-huh.

Gotta be 12+ very satisfying meals for me there over the years. Very amusing older Thai women staff who are very fluent in hummus-ology. That whole alley is good; a 4* Indian outdoors place is right across from it.

And the Chabad Israeli community house restaurant around the corner for hummus-comparison purposes. Burger King is on the same corner for the likes of you-know-who.

Used book-wise, KSR is a shadow of years gone by. But I picked up 5 Gammaglobule-level modern novels and 4 useful, regional old Lonely Planets last year with change back from 2,000 baht.  I bought a large art book about the Bon (animist) religion of Tibet for 500 baht. That's a $300 book on Amazon.

Also: easy access to the very convenient ferry and the strip of modern fusion-ish Thai restaurants adjacent to it, a few of which are recco'd in The Time Out Guide. That whole area is turning into a restaurant row. Tourist $$$ and middle class Thai people add up to creative dining options.

5 minutes in a cab brings you to various historic buildings, forts, royal homes, major museums, top 10 Wats, and the canal boat.

You gotta be a saddo, drunken, Johnny No-mates desolutely staring into the bottom of a Chang Beer glass to have a bad time there.

Does any specific name fitting that bill come readily to mind?

I mostly post there to laugh at angsty, cancel culture poseur crybabies huffily complaining that this 100%-free, small potato's pleasure is not a 100% to their liking at all times.

And then to hear Patience of Job-MikeLister politely tell them to go and pound sand.

And also if I have a borderline joke that's not fit for a family audience, but still needs to be set free in the internet ether.