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I thought this has been in effect for years, I do remember it said No Smoking in public. Just throw it on top of the pile of laws NOT enforced.

Why can't we all just get along? As long as your a law abiding person, spend your income/ retirement benefits here, have many friends among the Thai's, does having 800,000 baht in a Thai bank make you a better person, of course NOT. Why do you have to be judged by your financial status any where on earth (except your home country of course) in order to retire/stay there? Just because someone has 800,000 baht in a bank account means they spend more here, than someone who has half that amount or less. Correct, the entire planet system is corrupt & rigged against us by the evil within.

I would love to speak Thai better, I even went to a language school, BUT I have always had a poor short & long term memory which has plagued me all my life. Compared to English it's like the Thai language is backwards like: instead of saying "Go Here", they say "Here Go", which is quite confusing for me.???? 

Just another stupid fad, kissing men with beards is a itchy situation.????

I don't get it? Does Bangkok Bank make more from Mastercard than Visa card or what? ????

My how times have changed, when I was growing up in the 50's, military, Hells Angles and an occasional dumb kid had some. Now it's like a plague, including metal piercing and everyone and his brother has a beard. The tattoo, body piercing pain thing is beyond me?????

My Thai foster daughter is the extreme exception who I started teaching English to when she was 3 years old & now she's 17, ranked as the top English student among 150 students in M3 at the Kajonkiet International school in Kathu, Phuket! I met her when I was a English teacher at Kajonkiet in 2002. She has a promising future indeed! In the final 1st term English test this year, she got 48 out of 48 correct, 100%, A+!!!!!!!!!

30,000 baht in wages per month for a Thai citizen is a really good middle class living, which would certainly be adequate enough for a foreigner here, BUT like many countries, GREED & WEALTH is the name of the game concerning us Farangs.

Putting 65,000 baht in a Thai bank account  each month is much easier than taking a chance of having 800,000 setting in an account, being you never know what some bank person might do with your account. ????

No secret that Thai's discriminate against dark skinned African people, so saying dark skin only is just another way of hiding the truth. 

My Burmese house keepers husband had hernia repair her in Phuket at the government hospital, she said was 30,000baht and after 2 months, he's still laid up.

Jail them for at least 30 days before being deported and fined, just to give them a taste of the Bangkok Hilton. Total trash from the UK, look at his shirt, enough said.

If you know the right people, it's easy to come by!

Apparently he hasn't been informed that a copy of his passport/visa will do. And talking to loud to officers is bad manners.

The car driver could of thought the motorcycle was following to close?

SHA-ZAMMM, mental break down, YIPES!

Freaking out during low season, NORMAL!

Blind spot, you've got to be joking. Most use the basket on the motorcycle to put the helmet, and when it's on their head the strap isn't tightened, just hangs there. And 99% believe seat belts are dangerous. I usually drive my car between 40-50 in the slow lane as they scream by me usually going over 80, cutting others off, most never using turn signals. Get use to it, this is normal for Thailand.

I'm sure the maker of these shoes did not in anyway choose these colors because of the Thai flag.

Why would your home country government care about you? You left and retired in Thailand, so most of your pension is being spent in Thailand not your home country. This is just another way of the UK officials turning their back on you and giving you zero support from the UK embassy here. 

I have experience just how unsupportive the US embassy is here, as they wanted to throw me out of Thailand early on over a minor infraction in my visa, even though Thai immigration said it was an easy fix, just to get a document paper from the US embassy, fill it out and have the problem fixed, which the US embassy tried to say I stole a copy of the document a high Thai officer gave me, to show to get one from US embassy. It cost me $30 in all and the US embassy dudes wouldn't apologize for being dead wrong.