Regyai

Plenty of choice in Yaowarat road in China Town. Personally I prefer Chin Hua Heng

Because their bars are of a more appealing design and finish (I prefer their 10 baht dragons)

Never bought a 5 baht but 10 baht ones are always devoid of commission 

Yes, its a walk in and buy (cash) with the caveat that they won't sell bars anywhere in Chinatown on a Sunday etc (when the official Thai Gold Market is closed) had that disappointment some years back when I had to add the cost of an overnight onto the couple of bars I was intent on buying on a Sunday ????

As to the comment above re supposed difficulties in trading 5's and 10's for cash, never in my experience (in fact I realised instant cash for quite a number of them in Pattaya to enable a purchase of 'fire sale' property in South Pattaya)

Ludicrous

Would be a <deleted> poor performance if that was the DAILY rate

Suppose we should await the OK Corral remake when they come to reclaim the motocys

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Have you tried to take a helmet on ‘most’ airlines and been told no, it has to go in hold luggage ?

 

I’ve seen people hand carry helmets, others are reporting they have carried their helmets. 

 

Whats the potential issue with carrying a helmet on a flight? what possible reason for saying no?

I would suppose the likelihood of a check in 'jobsworth' directing you to try it in the cabin bag size tester 'rack' (which it will fail) would be the only foil to the plan.

10 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

What did the pink/red area say? it's blocked out, it probably says 2m max. 

 

As for comparing with swift it's impossible to be exact because different dates involved and exchange rates can move 1% a day. At the moment GBP is rising so using swift may turn out cheaper than TransferWise, but maybe not. Someone could use swift then see what TW rate they would have got but don't complete the transaction

Indeed so on rechecking, TW in respect of transfers exceeding 'holiday beer vouchers' is patently 'mickey mouse'

Another point to consider is the payment's routing into the receiving Thai bank - for the necessary certification for condo purchase etc. Matters if future reinstatement of monies back to the UK becomes an issue in the future. Transfers via TW are routed and remitted directly from their Thai bank account - Thai bank to Thai bank. Grounds for possible heart ache down the line.

Keeping it simple and all ducks in a row is always the best policy in the LOS

OP doesnt say UK or Thai banking institutions so hard to research costs

but TW (ex UK)

You'll need to compare how a received 6.2M THB for a loss of £712.41 minimum fee compares with your UK bank's International Transfer Fee (varies between banks but seldom into double digits and never into the heady realms of TW fees) plus the difference with what £150K returns using your Thai bank's TT exchange rate and handling fee (usually an irrelevant couple o hundred baht or so).

As an aside (assuming the monies being in GBP denotes that you are UK) a lot of the USA's draconian fiscal fetters the yanks allude to are for you irrelevant

Hab promoshaan

Free mats

Free load liner

Free Hello Kitty number plate holder

Free doctor paper

The ubiquitous Thai folk's response to troubles with other's dogs always seems to be clandestine poisoning in my experience

Basic rules of nature:

The death rate never changes - its always one per person

People too stupid to have money - can't.

6 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Distracting the general public?

Trying to look good whilst ignoring the real problems?

Bread & Circuses 

a couple of millennia a little changes. 

I see an onslaught of salivating brown shirts clamouring to to feeding frenzy 

2 hours ago, Saraburi121 said:

Quit paying people for the "inactive posts" would be a good start, especially senior ones.

 

To get good Police you have to pay them and train them good.  

& then Police them 

4 minutes ago, bangon04 said:

How many Police Generals does thailand actually need?

Supply and demand surely,

How many are willing to BUY the appointment

What a situation

Loan issuers are using what yardstick in granting these loans??

The applicants' salaries against which they measure are without doubt incongruous by any industry standard.

Seems the ingrained corruption extends so far into Thai culture that it's a "given" even at this level.

Forget the American 'Sub-Prime' mortgage disaster, here we have loans secured against future thievery !! - priceless!

All very cutesy indeed

But TBH

given their profession's proclivity for sadism and robust levels of violence and beatings

I was expecting to see them evoking memories of Rosa Klebb not images of potential Miss Thailands.

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Thought I also saw some posts with Chucky the doll at the Bus station and a few other locations as well on the news this morning when they saw the Doll sitting in the middle of the road.

All part of the upgraded Covid app

Have to catch all the dolls (like Pokemons)

If you scan all their QR codes you win a voucher for a free packet of "Final Pattaya Coffin Nails"

Double daring a Thai male (even a sober one) to use his gun as part of an argument winning tactic will never bode well.

Mea culpa

It seems the UK Parcelforce 'Global Priority' service is the UK's re-badged rendition of EMS

Things have to adjust with the times

With the travel bans, no bludging farang will be believed with the old time honored 'spent up/fiscal dilemma/been robbed just need money to get to the airport'  routine.

3 hours ago, ronaldo0 said:

None of this makes sense at all !

Without ghosts, malevolent spirits, amulets or lottery numbers the story defies credibility

????

9 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

I am still waiting for something that was sent ems just over a month ago ,anyone else having a problem? 

But there is no EMS service from the UK

Sequenced and detected/discovered by UK scientists (basically I understand due to UK leading  the field in this research) the mutation  isn't home grown in the UK it's quiet endemic across many countries. And as the nature of viruses is to mutate, it's likely to appear notwithstanding any onwards transmission pursuant to its advanced nature.