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21 minutes ago, colinneil said:
You have no idea what the poor man was going through to make him kill himself, so please stop with the uncaring/ nasty comments.
Maybe 1 day you could find yourself in a similar situation, you wouldnt be making nasty comments then.
And I doubt anyone else would so heartless to make such sick nasty comments.....unbelievable!
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Big Joke was not involved in the bust......strange??
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Geez I would love to see a copy of this guys job description. Its like the old superman movies "He's everywhere, he's everywhere"!!
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Will this be like the law demanding people on motor bikes wear helmets or no riding in the back of pick-ups?
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I may be being paranoid (and I am sure some here will agree) but I wonder if this move by Thai Immigration is related to the survey done a few months ago where the results showed that most expats surveyed were living here on (or less than?) 45,000 baht a month. Maybe someone from Big Brother reads these surveys (and everything on Thaivisa, Facebook etc) and wonders how there are so many on retirement visas here when most only have an income of approx. 45,000 per month, not 65,000 as required. Sure there are many with the 800k or 400k in the bank like myself but there are also a lot who believe I am an idiot for tying up these funds.
This result may also worry some in Govt that many expats may not have the funds to cover themselves in the event of a serious accident or illness. It seems to me that every time I complete a survey it comes back to bite me, so now I refuse to partake. What do you think?
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14 hours ago, Thaifish said:
Bit of a panic with application. Told expect up to 22 days for processing. I put application in a week ago and really need Visa for partner confirmed before 7/10/18. They have been given a total 19 days to process before we plan to fly out. Is there a way of fast tracking application even though it has been lodged. I have no issue that my partner will be granted her 4th Tourist Visa given documentation supplied. I just need it in a hurry. Is there some sort of contact you can make to hurry the process up.
With questions about biometrics all I know it is part of the application. My partner had to provide it with last application and also with this application.
Cant say for sure but in my experience, albeit a few years ago, they are quite rigid with their rules and they do point out in several of their articles online that you are not to book airfares before visas are granted.......but I always have.
ps was your application online, post, or in person?
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5 hours ago, Minko said:
You don't need certified copies for a tourist visa.
If she doesnt have an account just explain it succinctly in her application letter.
Im sure there are more correct ways of doing things but I like to wing it ???? so if you really dont want to translate the marriage cert I think it will be fine just submit the thai version and based on all your other factors I dont see why they would deny it. Just make sure you dont do the minimum, you both should be explaining your relationship, funds, previous short stays in Aus. Provide evidence to back all this up - flights, visa's etc etc etc.
You should be golden, I just got a girl I met this year a 12 month multi entry TV first try.
Thank you very much Minko. One more question if I may re the bio data. We live way out in Isaan so a long way from either office ie Chiang Mai or Bangkok. Is the bio data required before visa granted or before travel. Im wondering if its before she can travel can we get it in Bangkok a day or so before we fly out. It would save us doing 2 trips to Bangkok as I am hoping to do the application online or by post.
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2 hours ago, bangkoken said:Strange that the article on two dead detainees is on the same page as an invitation to come to Thailand. Maybe they could use the catch phrase “A great place die”
Yes I thought the same thing. I also thought what sad lives these two old guys must have lived through considering their ages as the Cambodian probably lived through the Khmer Rouge massacre and the Vietnamese through the US massacre.
RIP you poor souls.
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I have read about half of the most recent posts but admit I havnt read all because things have changed. I may have to go back to Australia in the next couple of months but only for a couple of weeks. I want to bring my wife with me. She has been successful in getting tourist visas in the past but a few years ago now. Three things I am concerned about that didnt arise before:
1. Certified copies. What documents need to be certified? and by whom?
2. I support my wife but she doesnt have a bank account recently. I usually just give her cash every month. I have sufficient funds in the bank both here and in Australia plus I have two rental properties ...one that I can prove through agents rent reports and the other through years of monthly deposits on bank statements. Is her having a bank account all that necessary?
3. Do I really need to get our Thai marrige certificate translated to English. I can show 5 years of visa extensions based on Thai wife?
As a bit of background we have been living together for approx 14 years and have been legally married for 6 years.
Any recent experience would be appreciated.
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On 10/21/2018 at 3:12 PM, sirmud63 said:if it wasnt for american troops you would be speaking german now , but it dosnt really matter very soon you will be speaking arabic.
Hey I have a birthday party coming up soon and looking for a stand up comedian......interested?
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I could be wrong but looks like initial indicator of herpes complex settling in.
Joking aside I think it looks like a mosquto bite Ive had before. Some bite with no consequences at all and then sometimes I get one that comes up just like that....think it depends on the kind of water they come from.
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Anything but a Ford! But seriously I dont think you can better the Toyota. "When you are on a good thing.....stick to it!"
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Eyebrows and eyelashes sounds like scabies. Either way try kerosene. years ago I camped in a really nice protected area among bushes in sand dunes on a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to me the kangaroos must have thought it was a comfy place too because once it got dark, my mates and I discovered we were covered in kangaroo ticks. A stop at a pharmacy on the way home we acquired some kerosene based shampoo which worked wonders. You need to only wet yourself under the shower then cover yourself completely with the shampoo from head to foot and wait 10-15 minutes before rinsing. The trick is that kerosene is a light oil and as such it suffocates the ticks who breath through their bodies. It will also cause them to remove their barbed proboscis? from your skin which they use for sucking your blood. Do not try to pull them out as you will nearly always find the barbed point will break off and remain in your skin causing an infection. Ive heard of some bushies using vaseline with success but unless you are covering your entire body, hair etc you need to be sure you detect every tick and treat it. I believe its a punishable offense in the Australian army to remove them yourself because of the threat of infection. A particular green tick in Australia can even paralyse its victims....be careful!!
If you cant get any Kerosene based shampoo anywhere then try straight kerosene. You will need to repeat the treatment after a few days to rid yourself of any new hatch-lings.
see also Monty Python's "After the Great Kerosine Flood".
Oh and make sure you fumigate all your bedding etc where they will hide when full of blood.
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Well yeah I can see the connection....lately its been a bit of a gamble as to whether I will get it up or not!
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Transferred to an inactive post??
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This "top" lawyer seems to have a lot of time on his hands??!!
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Problem is the cost of feed/pellets. In barrels you will need to do constant water changes as well. When the water gets dirty (3 or 4 days) they eat less so grow slower. We gave up and now only do pla nin (tilapia) in small concrete pond and tanks (3 x 2 mt) with pumps and filters etc. We dont make any money with power/feed costs but it puts fish on the table once a week and some for friends etc. I think you have to go big to make any money.
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Many moons ago I was involved in the West Australian crayfishing (lobster) industry and it was not uncommon that guys were seriously hurt or killed attending to engine problems. Below decks is a very confined area with belts and pulleys running everywhere to drive things such as winches and bilge pumps etc. The usual cause was loose flapping wet weather gear or aprons getting caught up somewhere and the victim pulled in. And ,as someone else mentioned earlier, it is often difficult to find a fault with the engine turned off.
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One day my Thai coordinator approached me and asked me to edit a speech she had prepared for an upcoming Parents Day at school, which I did. Two weeks later she approached me again with the same speech and asked me would I be the MC and present it on the day. As she handed it back she looked at me sheepishly and told me to check it again. When I read it this time it was all wrong again....a veritable dogs dinner?? She then informed me that the school director, who could barely pronounce "good morning", had also read it, said I was wrong, and rewrote it herself!! And I am a native speaker!
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Great news.....a lot less flying pigs getting hurt hitting the wires!
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1 hour ago, smotherb said:Jealousy now is it? Yeah, you bet, I am jealous of someone who has so little money that they have to beg rides. If you call that freedom, you have no idea of the word.
I traveled around the US and Canada at 18. I had worked since I was ten--cutting grass, folding clothes at a laundry, working in a carnival, even drove a school bus at 17. So I bought an old car and with two buddies we traveled and paid our way. When we ran out of money, we worked--washed cars, washed dishes, did odd jobs, even fought forest fires. We didn't ask anybody for anything, except a job. Then I went to college full-time and worked full-time to pay for it; didn't ask for anything I didn't work for. At 22, I traveled the world--airfare, hotels, ground transport, housing paid for by the company, because I worked for it. Sorry, if I don't admire what you did. You say they were more than happy to help you, eh? Or did they feel sorry for you?
I want to do what I want to do when I want to do it. I've found I can do that, if it isn't illegal, and all I have to do is work for it. I have no respect for anyone who doesn't. That is my opinion.
As I said, I don't blame Thailand, or any country, for not wanting foreigners who do not have the funds the government deems necessary. It is their country.
You seem to be completely missing the point every time? Have you been reading the other posts on here to get an idea of what most other people are saying. Its not because they dont have money that most hitch-hike (or used to). I repeat what I and others have already said many times and I will try to keep it simple. People hitch-hike:
1. for the adventure and freedom,
2. in order to meet other interesting people,
3. with the knowledge that the more they save the more places they can see or things they can do/buy.
And how do you know these people havnt worked for years to get to another country? Ok some people work to have a holiday in another country but stay in a flash hotel and travel by taxi etc but they dont see the real people. Others, like hitch-hikers/backpackers also work to go for a holiday but they travel the back streets and meet the real people and manage to see 3 countries AND the real people/culture etc.
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3 minutes ago, smotherb said:You pity me? Gee thanks, then give me some money. So, I don't have to work for it and can beg my way through life.
Oh now I see...its jealousy. You seem to not like the idea of having to work when someone else isnt. And maybe you didnt have the intestinal fortitude when you were younger to venture out into the world like these guys.
I have hitchhiked all around Australia, Southern Africa, New Zealand, Europe etc when I was younger and it certainly was not because I didnt have the money nor ever wished for someone else to pay my way. I worked on the premise that the more money I saved by hitch-hiking the more places I could see. When I could find work I would work....from farm work to bar tending, and then back on the road. Hitch-hiking is also the purest form of travel because you are really meeting the true locals who were often very willing to pick me up for some company on their long lonesome drive. I never asked for any money from anybody, I just took up an empty seat in a car going my way. I certainly was not ever called a bum, derelick, tramp or smelly. Most people admired what I was doing and thus were more than happy to help me on my way.
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On 9/9/2018 at 10:40 AM, GinBoy2 said:
Now you can pull the wool aggressively over your eyes and deny that, but basically you're doing an 'Elon Musk', and smoking something delusional
Yeah but he didnt inhale!
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23 hours ago, Juan B Tong said:
Ut ultrices vestibulum magistratus
Quite common in Thailand
Theres no need to get all religious with us...OP was merely asking a question'??!!
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Norwegian Found Hanged In Full View In Pattaya
in Pattaya News
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Seems he had prostrate cancer and left a will according to a previous post/news link.