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Its a little known often under-reported side effect of diabetes in the over 60's

This is Thailand they shouldn't have been shocked at all

I suppose the burning question is Does anyone in authority in Thailand bear sufficient control of their synapses to exert a scintilla of cogent thought before opening their mouth to spout impulsive proclamations every time their knee jerks?

Oh, for a moment I thought this was leading up to settling it by a swordfight of champions ????

"never mind the shallow breath check out the deep pockets"

Just when you came to terms with digital nomads now there are urinating nomads

Is that what they call a "Non - O" visa ????

I'll drink to that

??? very naive A helmet is no 'hand of God' magic wand and certainly wont stop the fracturing of its contents. The slower the speed and the more spread out the impact the more they protect.

Seems like a fairly standard UK one year / multi trip/ worldwide travel policy The most poignant aspect which differentiates these type of policies is the TRIP DURATION (here 30/31 days are mentioned in the link) - these trips are deemed to begin and end at home address in the UK. In basic terms you can have as many trips in the year's overall cover as you wish so long as individually they all comply with the maximum days duration limit. This is in no way the 'fine print' / 'small print' accusation - which is and always has been the catch all cry of the hard of thinking. *** Typed as 'biggles' made the preceeding post ***

Shoulda done it online

Remember one some years back when Pattaya police tried to shoot out the tyres on a fail to stop vehicle (seriously) from opposite sides of the road at the same time ????

Yes Your intervention was timely indeed and no doubt deflected their overt intention of annexing the country. p.s. keep checking your door handle for novichok ????

The old 20K gambit has been around since the days when that could (almost) be considered a realistically plausible amount to cover a stay. But hotel bookings is a whole different flight of fancy. They seriously want to drag themselves into reality, in the west the concept of overseas holiday homes is quite commonplace and also a flourish of plastic likely commands more spending power than the quizzing brown shirt could ever dream of wielding after a working life time adding badges and ribbons to themselves. This new 'hey look at me' quizzing albeit sporadic does seem to be becoming a trend , I can personally attest to having been on the receiving end of it recently. After trips totalling into three figures spaced over two and a half decades (all barring the initial visa exempts all have been with various visas - TV/O-A's) after the lull of covid closure I returned to Thailand early this year. As the option of pitching up at a local consulate for a TV had since disappeared in favour of the new on-line song n dance (up load a note from your mum etc etc) I flew in and got a 30 day visa exempt. This I later extended at immigration and stayed a couple more weeks. So far so good. Returned again later on this year intending to repeat the process only to endure some ego fest from a brown shirted witch "why you come so much" "why you no have visa" "next time you have visa" we stayed on this merry-go-round for some 15 minutes until I was stamped in with the Visa Exempt. This was the second Visa Exempt in twenty plus years and after a three years gap of not visiting at all !

No its a step up from a local food market Food vendors and a non food section, seating/eating area, car park. More like Thepprasit but with money spent on it & open all week. Worth earmarking for a visit IMHO

Friend of mine in the UK swears by WD40 as dog repellent Apparently liberal amount to face and preferably down throat most efficacious (if not fatal) Plus nothing contentious in having an oil spray

Nah He just wants to settle down and have kids

Villa - a rather laughable term when applied in Thailand

Well at least Indian tourists will be able to travel beach road with their gold chains way out of reach of marauding ladyboys.

Surely to god before the event was sanctioned / licensed weren't the basic fundamentals of accommodation, clean-up, sanitation etc all examined and verified BEFOREHAND?

Like many things in Thailand, it should be OK Right up until the moment it isn't, just throw the ubiquitous snitches into the mix of chest beating, ego centric corrupt officialdom and you'll likely be courting a disaster.

But if you read the OP she's in Songkhla (an 18 hour drive from the quoted robbery in Muang Tak). I think the copy is meant to infer that following publicity of the Tak debacle she's copycatting the shotgun response.

Which of course is why you haven't won the lottery

Good theatre no doubt Downside is it advertises to any prospective robbers & they in turn might tweak their plans to simply execute her as a preliminary measure

Probably one purple persuader (500฿)