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The cable and satellite channels charging a small fortune to watch this act of barbarity claimed as sport.

Give Darren a ring at Key Visa ( opposite Big C.  Been going for years and will take the back ache out of the process for you , at a price of course.  

12 hours ago, jeab1980 said:

Official dont know mrs is reading about it in thai social media. She also looked on lotto web site and she says ots 6 mill same as befire but just one ticket. Its being done to stop counterfeiting of tickets and to save money on printing tickets apparently. Will be interesting to see if the double tickets are still touted for 1st sept and if so will they be legal?

Some old style tickets we saw being sold yesterday.  My wife went up to them and asked why and got an extremely rude response. As they were always extremely large vendors of tickets, so she now thinks that perhaps they are peddling forgeries to the unwary.  So be careful. Today we are going past to see if the old double tickets are removed or not from sale.

2 minutes ago, jeab1980 said:

Its 6 mill same as the old two tickets definatley

I keep asking this but where is the official confirmation that this is the case ?

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/997429-new-lottery-tickets-for-september-1-draw/

and where does that confirm the top prize will be 6 million ( for the new 1 ticket ) ?

New lottery tickets from Sept. 1st will be a single ticket only.  no confirmation found from official source yet that it means 1st prize will be 6 million ( rather than 3 million x 2 tickets as now)

most definitely "up to you" the most common  English language phrase spoken by Thais.

1 minute ago, Kwasaki said:

I don't Thais are as stupid as others.

That is a nonsense statement. Do you mean I don't know but think Thais are as stupid as others ?   In any event the Junta will go to whatever lengths to ensure contracts are signed, for whatever, in order that they get their 30% skim of the contract into their offshore bank accounts.  Whilst time may be running out for them I don't think even the Junta would press for nuclear weapons as they know , or should know that due to the timescales involved  they will have been cast aside  long before contract signing  so hence no skimming  for them.  As an example the PM has been pushing pushing pushing for the Chinese financial agreement for the railway upgrades as he knows time is running out for him in power and by association the potential possibility of the offshore account balance upgrade to not succeed.

1 hour ago, jeab1980 said:

Yes we get ours live so not to sure what you mean. You log into sky itself and stream is that what your saying

correct

1 minute ago, jeab1980 said:

I use 2 IPTV streams no problem with sky news or any news channels

Well the issue is one where we are getting the internet feed from Sky news.com/live

started last evening.  Thought maybe it was the Junta trying to cut out outside media but can not get it through a UK VPN either so seems to be a Sky issue perhaps ?

6 hours ago, Ahab said:

800,000 baht for the retirement extension (400,000 baht is for the extension based on marriage)

based on marriage to a Thai national !!

have you asked security guys in your present condo ? they always know somebody who knows somebody

thanks to all replies but also told elsewhere easier and simpler to go for retirement visa first and marriage visa next year's renewal - anybody could comment on that much appreciated

1. 12 Month Extension based on Retirement.

800,000 Baht in the bank. OR 65,000 monthly income. OR a combination of both.

2. 12 Month Extension based on Marriage.

400,000 Baht in the bank or 40,000 monthly income.

3. Multi Entry Non Imm O Visa from Savanakhet Laos.

This would give you almost 15 months but means leaving the country every 90 days.

You can get a 60 day extension at Immigration which would give you a bit more time to sort things out.

So what do I need to do . Are the forms available on line or where can I get them from please ? Also for extension based on marriage can it be a combination of income and money in the bank ?

Currently I have a non imm B visa with extension based on work. Will that be cancelled and I have to apply for a new VISA outside of Thailand or can I get an extension to that visa category based on marriage ?

Well it is finally happened. After working here for a long time today I got made redundant effective tomorrow. The issue is I have a Thai wife, Thai school age children but not a lot of money in the bank. I am over 50 so I would like some serious and urgent advice as to what visa I should get to enable me to stay with my family and the best way to go about it.

I am currently living in Pattaya I work in Chonburi but could also live in Udon Thani if it makes any differance

Mods please move this if I have posted in the wrong forum

Pinned. Flood information only please. No politics.

And no trolling I might be so presumptuous to add.

Thankfully dry in Don Muang ..

Warpspeed, where are you in Don Muang. I am in Dechatungha ( the road that runs West for Don Muang police station) and still dry as a bone but noticed yesterday that they had sandbagged the army barrack entrance but by lunchtime today still no sandbags at the Royal Thai Airforce at the other end end of the road, so someone is right I guess, hopefully the airforce !

You too are near me. I'm in Thaninton village.

Go along your road, turn left at Don Muang police station, go past Grand Canal, and you'll approach the back entrance to my village. The main entrance (off Wiphavadi Rangsit) is half-way between the airport and Zeer.

Lots of concrete flood walls and sandbags being put up around here today!

just the panic syndrome I suspect, one do they all do. Still dry in Dechatungha and nearby

Let's do a few sums. Apparently there is around 6000 billion cu. mtrs of water approaching. Never mind who made this calc but lets just take it as fact for now. Assuming it is moving at 5 KMH and is spread over a front of approximately 50 km by around 100 KM long (and we assume it is the Engilish billion, not the American one ) then what depth could the water be excluding any surge factors ?

so:- per hour the equivalent of 5000 x 100000 x 50000 = 25 billion sq. mtrs of water movement. So if 6000 billion cu. mtrs is approaching then we are either going to be under 240 mtrs of water or perhaps their figures are wrong ? - or my maths.

It is not your maths that is wrong, it is your assumption that speed is involved. They are talking about a volume of water which is , as far as a simple rectangle shape is involved, is length x width x height which = Volume. So Height = Volume/ width x length So we have 6000,000,000/50,000 x 100,000 which equals 1.2 metres in height. Hope that helpsclear it up.Unfortunately, as you point out, that does not take into account surges and man made blockages..

Of course you are right, it must be too much wine on my part. I am having to drink as much as possible in order to build a raft out of the empties.

Let's do a few sums. Apparently there is around 6000 billion cu. mtrs of water approaching. Never mind who made this calc but lets just take it as fact for now. Assuming it is moving at 5 KMH and is spread over a front of approximately 50 km by around 100 KM long (and we assume it is the Engilish billion, not the American one ) then what depth could the water be excluding any surge factors ?

so:- per hour the equivalent of 5000 x 100000 x 50000 = 25 billion sq. mtrs of water movement. So if 6000 billion cu. mtrs is approaching then we are either going to be under 240 mtrs of water or perhaps their figures are wrong ? - or my maths.

I just saw Khun Yingluck's iPhone while she was on TV.

I wonder if she has the new iPhone 4s yet?

Maybe that new speaking voice (Siri?) is advising her.

FYI No as she couldn't get it unlocked at MBK so it won't work in Dubai.

They were warned this would happen 30 years ago,building on flood plains,stealing the timber , and too many Dams, but BKK Rich got their Money , now they get their Guchi Loafers Wet.

The rich never get there feet wet unless for photos. No differant the world over. They will be long gone only to return to benefit again. Anyway Dubai is dry.

Bangkok residents could in the meantime move their belongings to uipper floors or move up power sockets, he said. If not for this year, this might be useful in the future, who knows," he said.

Is that the best they can do???

I'd be fuming as many of you are. I feel for you I really do. I'm living a stress free life in Phnom Penh, not missing LOS too much at the moment. IMO, BKK has passed it's 'use by' date, just a dirty polluted mess, and that's without the floods.

And the Thai politics, is it all worth it? Surely some of you must be considering your options!

My advice; sell up and ship out!!!

Probably good advice for some but not so easy if you have a family and/or business here. Mind you it could get worse and the politicians evacute BKK for Pataya !!

"The problem now is now bigger than before, please don't panic"

Well that must be the understatment of the year. Where do these buffoons get their ideas from. Firstly to be a problem bigger than before is he saying before he spoke yesterday, before last week or before he had his lobotomy ?

Secondly to make such statements, "please don't panic" guess what will happen ?

I suspect that so long as their own residences are not hit their primary concern even now is how the billions of aid and re-development that will be needed is going to get skimmed to this country's leaders friends and families businesses and associated cronies rather than spending it on a 50 year water management scheme that all of Thailand could benefit from, rich or poor!

Funny about calling "them" buffoons. It was just a few years ago that the "Global Warming" hoax buffoons had people fooled and all the followers of those buffoons said that the rising waters caused by the (hoax) of global warming would flood Bangkok. This is major flooding over a few month period of raining. Yet people heeded the global warming panic and started to worry about Bangkok getting flooded by rising seas levels, something if true. would be very slow in happening, not a 48 hour event, rather a 48 year event.

Well that hoax has been exposed. The only thing rising was the money in the bank accounts of those who profited off the global warming hoax. It has been getting colder, not hotter. After thousands of years of rising sea levels, sea levels have gone down over the past 10 years. Bangkok will not sink because of a warming climate that is not warming. Mother Nature has caused todays flooding problems, not the politicians. They are doing the best they can against a very formable force, Mother Nature.

Enough of the political games. PS- a certain ex politician was not around when property for new airport was purchased, yet he got blamed for it in this on going political game.

Err, sorry to correct you as you clearly have not been in Thailand long or perhaps not now either, but the the airport's planning dates back to between 30 and 40 years. Adequate time for most of the "families" to buy up swamp land cheap, which is what it was, knowing full well that they would capitilise upon the eventual decision to build there. It was not if it would be built - it was when. It wasn't known as cobra swamp for nothing and the "glinting of gold" which effectively this then worthless land became was too much to ignore for any corrupt politician or their cronies no matter of what political persuasion they were. At that time it was fully realised that the location was a major relieving flood plain for BKK.

As for the fact we are not going through a period of global warming well I guess that is for you and the climate scientists to debate.

Some of the comments on this thread are quite frankly , disgusting.Blaming the Leader for a monumental natural disaster is a new low for those trying to discredit the new PM and her government.

Hang your heads in shame!!!

She is blamed for the mismanagement not for the natural disaster which would be far less monumental with some government which does not need to call in Dubai for every step they take.

That's why from the very beginning, they should have brought Thaksin back and install him in power. I bet a lot of people wished this was done instead of the petty bickering of the anti-T's.

Why? Does he have a successful track record in flood and drought prevention to show from his five years in office with almost absolute power?

No but he has unblemished record of allowing his cronies to skim of a lot of the cash appropriated for flood wall building !