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3 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

You guys are so short-sighted and don't seem to know that the biggest investors in vaping products ARE the tobacco companies.  

 

It's already been proven that vaping of non-nicotine flavored juices is a gateway to tobacco/nicotine products for minors.  If these "pretties" are seen vaping in clubs and in media, teens will follow like lemmings.

 

 

 

With that logic, lemon juice is a gateway to Bacardi Limon.

Or any car a gateway to deadly racing. Then why not just ban all cars, and be done with it.

Yeah, right.

On 12/2/2020 at 2:52 PM, khunjeff said:

 

I learned this the hard way. Following (very reasonable) advice on this forum, I filled out only the "required" boxes on the online 90-day report, and got a reply back within two hours telling me that my report was denied because I hadn't filled in all the boxes ????  I re-did it with all of the non-asterisked fields completed, and was approved right away.

Ha,ha, why am i not surprised ? ????

2 hours ago, Jumbo1968 said:

What the Thai Government need to realise foreigners are not millionaires or a walking ATM, the ASQ Hotels in conjunction with the hospitals are a cash cow for a certain few.

They are too full of themselves, to see foreigners as normal "working for their money people",  just as you say, walking ATMs.

And somehow money grows on trees outside of Thailand. They think, that´s unfair and just want their share of it . . . ????

Every time, when there´s a thread about the online-reporting, i feel like thrown back in time for over 20 years, to the beginning of the internet.

They want to be the hub for everything, but can´t even put up a decent working website . . .

On 10/16/2020 at 2:38 AM, Destiny1990 said:

Seems they are interested  about new investors and no care for the persons who have invested already. 

In the many years i´ve been living here, i´ve always found it odd, that when i´m in a shop, where i have been regular customer for decades, a complete stranger comes in (after me) and suddenly gets served first. and i´m like, whtf ? !

This happened to me in many other shops and small supermarkets time and again.

Over the years i´ve come to understand, that only a new customer is worth to please, as they have me already . . . ????

Go figure !

It´s similar to the widespread habit of increasing prices for existing tourists, when there´s less of them.

On 10/1/2020 at 5:32 AM, ezzra said:

So as we understand that during the 14 days quarantine there will be guard positioned thought out the hotel and outside the hotel to prevent them " tourists" from wondering off and mingling among themselves? and them tourists actually signed up for that and paid money?...

But, but, don´t forget the exciting online-shoping from within your hotelroom, they promised us . .

Oh, i read the headline too fast. Thought, they would now stop overcharging me, the farang.

Well, probably not . . . ????

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

How do you disable and stop upgrades

 

Just switch off your internet connection, works every time . . . ????

5 minutes ago, maxcorrigan said:

I think the first 90 day report as in this case you need to be there in person, afterwards 90 day reports can be done by wife alone!

All i now need is, a wife. Oh, wait, not worth it . . .

Alright. I did it online too, for the first time ever, and it went through on my first try (FireFox), easy peasy.

Just had to wait for the approval over the weekend, got an email from immigration on monday (didn´t know, that i would get an email, so i checked my pending status every 10 minutes, biting off my nails over the weekend, retirement is so exciting here . . )

Oh, the sweet and warm feeling of accomplishment and success. In Thailand you really learn to appreciate the completion of the most simple and ordinary tasks. ????

Now that i´m approved and certified for the next 3 month, i´m off to buy a golden frame for my notification printout, or a nice neck-band to wear it day and night, so i´ll never forget that i could be gone in a blink . .

Retirement will not be boring here, they will take care of that, thats for sure.

21 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Well, huge cabinets are actual transformers that turn high voltage to something that won't fry all your stuff at home the moment you plug it in. But maybe Bangkok's 4m high placement (other than not blocking pavements) is better, though I'm sure pedestrians inconvenience wasn't their main concern, floods likely were.

A few meter high placement would come handy in extreme floods as well.

Oh, wait, thats too far in the future . .

Overcrowding? Easy. Who doesn´t behave, gets thrown out. Solved.

Next.

Sorry, i´m not english, is "con genital" another word for STDs ?

????

14 hours ago, SteveK said:

This is it in a nutshell. A sensible country with a sensible policy.

 

Why is it that the Thai immigration is such a humongous pain in the ass?

 

 

Because they are so full of themself. It´s the hub of hubs, the center of the universe, remember ?

6 hours ago, CANSIAM said:

Agreed, that could apply to all the Non O yearly extension holders as well......

Pst, don´t give them ideas . .

I am for making it illegal using the public road with any vehicles.

No more road deaths. Solved.

Next.

On 8/16/2020 at 6:47 AM, ThailandRyan said:

Domestic tourism for most people is taking money they would yse at home to either buy food or goods, saving it, and spending it elsewhere. The money is already here in the country. If its credit they are using then the household debt just goes up as they may not be able to repay the bank for that great weekend they had on someone else's dime. When will these morons stop with the tourist figures and increase in money from domestic tourism as saving the country.  What a bunch of buffoons.

Yep, it´s like trying to build a house, so they carry bricks from here to there, then from there to here and then back to there . . .

And then being surprised, why the house isn´t finished yet ????

Well, at least it saves jobs for now, and gives you the warm feeling of having done something, anything.

3 hours ago, scorecard said:

A little twist of this, some of my Thai sons' buddies have had there hours cut by 70%, one guy in this group is married 2 young kids, has a mortgage, still many years to pay it off, also has car loan; both haven't been paid for several months, has negotiated to pay off school fess, books etc. This buddy comes in and announces he's taking advantage of the great discounts, vouchers etc., for a holiday in another province. 

These people really live in their own little dreamworld . .

Phew. i can´t believe how lucky i was in my timing . . .

Had a business in the center of Chaweng, permanent monthly running costs of over 150000 Baht before any profit, and was struggling more and more the last years, as i couldn´t keep up with the changes in tourism (chinese), plus ever increasing bureaucratic hurdles for farang business owners.

As i had 20 crazy, laborious, but lucrative years and no intention to lose what i made, i decided to pull the trigger and closed my business and company.

Right then Corona came. Bang.

Am enjoying my retirement life now, with Koh Samui as it was 30 years ago. But it feels not to good, as it is this way for the wrong reasons.

I hope this will not just mean hardship only, for a totally tourism dependent economy here, but also make the people rethink their stance against foreigners, as many have become arrogant over the years of easy tourism income.

This can have some positive sideeffects on people too, let´s hope they use it. Well, i can hope, right ?

On 7/27/2020 at 2:21 PM, DrTuner said:

That was fun. I stared at it for 2 minutes and saw one motocy and a black cat. I was waiting for Will Smith to walk into the picture.

 

Yep, i wasn´t sure, if YouTube or my internet connection froze.

But no, it´s real . .

Ha, they didn´t search the returnee for possible fleas or bedbugs (or did they ?), and do a Covid test on them.

Can bedbugs have Covid ? I mean, do we really know that for certain yet ? ????

On 7/14/2020 at 3:57 PM, david555 said:

My personal guess is : …. they not give another  amnesty . BUT a 30 day 's to settle your stay ,by  visa ext. or whatever document  has to be arranged , with maybe possible temporary solutions not needing a border hopping for it ,and  in last resort leave Thailand in the 30 days

Yes, that would be the sensible way, but they would say: you think too mut .

17 hours ago, Trujillo said:

If Thailand thinks "no cases" going forward is the aim, don't expect (as a foreigner) to be able to leave the country and ever come back. 

 

I'm dreading having an emergency in my home country that would necessitate my going there. How would I be able to gain re-entry? 

Yep, we´re locked up in "paradise".

Feels crazy now, doesn´t it ?