flaming dragon

OK, I found a thread on the income affadavit subject. Thanks, investment account transfer it is.

Thanks. That is recent. They didn't issue the document, just notarized the income letters from our pension plans.

They do, unless it has changed very, very recently.

The subject is so out of place that the headline grabbed me. Who cares about this crap? For those who do, what are you going to do to rectify the situation?

Canadian. The agent said the Immigration office sets those policies to drive people like me into the arms of agents. I hope this hits the IOs hard and they'll have to pay for their inflated lifestyles on their 20k baht salaries.

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Jomtien refused to accept my affidavit. My embassy still does them. I wanted to do things by the book when I first arrived and that was one of my first interactions with the 'system' here.

Thanks for the well thought out reply. I checked the health insurance and found prices to be comparable to the agent's fees, with the added bonus of actually getting something for the money and starving the corrupt officials.

Even a high school student knows that for a virus to be successful it must be more virulent and less deadly. That's why Ebola doesn't spread very far, because it kills the host too quickly. The people who died with covid were dead meat anyways. 4 or more comorbidities and one foot in the grave, unlike the poor kids who got myocarditis from the 'cure'. These proclamations about viruses should state the testing method used and the cycle threshold number if they're using that test that wasn't designed to diagnose anything.

I can use my income letters that the corrupt offices here won't accept. Barring that, I'll transfer the money from my investment account to my savings account to satisfy the requirement, then transfer it back. I don't trust the institutions here in Thailand. I'm only here for half of the year. The funny part is that the cost of the (high deductible) health insurance is almost identical to the cost of using an agent.

I've used an agent for 3 extensions. It's clear that this method is coming to an end very soon. I'm considering letting this extension lapse and applying for a Non O-A from my home country. - would the Non O-A be sullied by having used agents in the past? - is it possible to have a Non O-A without a Thai bank account? I've got an account now, but that would be shut down as soon as the Non O expires. I'm not keen on opening another bank account until the institutions here get their act together. My faith in the Thai banking system diminishes every time I visit this board and read about the number of expats who are having problems with the banking system. My belief is that it's about something other than 'Chinese mule accounts' but that's a discussion for a different thread.

I've used an agent. Bangkok Bank, which I've just been informed no longer handles the agent deposits. I'm going to start a thread about switching to a Non O-A.

I've spoken to 3 Pattaya agents in the last week, and strange things are afoot. All three said that people who are here on tourist visas won't be able to get bank accounts. 2 of the 3 no longer provide bank account procurement services. An English native speaker said it's temporary whilst the Thai agents see the visa situation as serious and longer term. Sorry to be so cryptic. My extension is up in a few months and I'm trying to get the new lay of the land.

Same as it ever was. We're being played.

The mentality of the average North American (I'm including Canadians) is what dooms 'health' care. People stuff pills down their gullets like kids with Halloween candy. It's much easier than taking personal responsibility for one's health and getting a handle on their worst excesses.

The problem is that they weren't conspiracy theories. The lab leak is now accepted as fact. Vaccine injuries are finally allowed to be reported on and discussed. Astrazenica and J&J caused enough strokes to be banned, so were neither safe nor effective. Fauci admitted to Congress that their social distancing rules were pulled out of thin air and not based on research. I share your desire to get straight information but it isn't going to happen. We will have to sift through a mountain of trash and weigh every statement. Both sides are full of excrement these days. People are being pitted against each other and driven towards a precipice over things that have little or no effect on our daily lives - unless we let them. I haven't met anyone like that in ages. I've always been conservative yet some of my dearest friends were the children and wife of a Liberal Senator (Canadian). We argued, laughed and joked about our differences but never attacked each other for holding those beliefs. We were all good people, and I believe most still are today.

I get a cake from SP at Tukcom every year for a friend of mine. They write on it and include candles. Any small restaurant or bar would be happy for the custom as it's been dead quiet for months. You could rent a karaoke room if you're into the stage/microphone thing.

Spare the rod and spoil the wife. Women are lost without a firm, hairy hand to keep them in line. It needn't be a closed hand as depicted in the picture.

The Thai live music club at Soi Excite went until 0416 last night.

Do Thai boomers lecture them about avocado toast and streaming subscriptions?

Butt do they want to? Remember when the poor flight attendant was forced to wipe this stud's a ss? He kept moaning, saying "deeper, you've got to go deeper". It should be part of the training for all female flight attendants (the males are probably experts already).

I had clavicle (collar bone) surgery after a motorbike accident in high school over 50 years ago. I was discharged as soon as the effects of the anesthesia wore off. The surgeon said that he hadn't had to operate on a clavicle in 23 years.

I am a single guy in Pattaya and don't spend on either, nor am I a homo. Totally agree with the exchange rate problem. Being here on 30 or 40k would be tight. I'm not sure I'd want to prolong that existence if I was old, sick or disabled. It's fine for anyone in good health who can find meaning in things other than consumption.

Treating the symptoms whilst nurturing the cause. Do you want to end your life as one who depends on drugs? What a shameful thing at the end of a clean life. You're going to piss away your savings and still have to give up the health insurance anyways. Why leave your disabled widow destitute? Drop the coverage and accept your mortality, and end your life clean and sober.

An imaginary country and subject of the movie. Sonia Braga is Brazilian, Raul Julia was Puerto Rican, and Richard Dreyfus is an American Jew.