jonclark

31 minutes ago, welshguy said:

Cheers for that.

 

I "assume" my friend didnt pay...hence them saying it was 3,800 for a 24 hour test result.

 

I dont understand  (well I do!  money!) why they cant give people a faster time test result? Surely that is more beneficial to  everybody?  

In the UK test center a give a 20 min result using lateral flow testing..whatever that is. 

So how does a person illegally in the country go about applying for a pink card? Just asking as I am here illegally ( not a friend this time) and I would like one.

15 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Most foreigners are wanting to become permanent residents with absolutely no interest in fulfilling basic immigrant criteria such as assimilating into the local culture, learning the language, working here, paying taxes, having Thai friends, eating local food etc. 

 

It's just more Western entitlement that we see so often on this forum. 

 

The permanent residency requirements are perfect the way they are. Keeps out the riff-raff and the client/worker couples.

 Well Mr. Grumpy you need to turn that frown upside down today. 

17 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Yep, don't you? 

Of course it allows me to discriminate against Thais on a daily basis and for them to suck it up and accept it. 

30 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

It would, and thank Buddha we don't live in those countries.

Sorry, are you suggesting that you like living in Thailand because discrimination is 'accepted'. 

I think the mere fact that these proposals exist - especially the one for the high end condos and PR (remember that currently PR is limited to 100 people per nationality) speaks volumes about the scale of oversupply at the more expensive end of the condo market. My suspicion is that there is a rather large property bubble starting to expand and this smacks of a desperate measure to try to shift unsold stock. I think there is a liquidity crunch. 

I have read recently in Khao Sod newspaper, that given the increasing levels of household debt many Thai banks are now being far less 'forgiving' in martgage aplications for Thais seeking mortgages for 2nd or 3rd properties and this may be feeding into this move.  If you put down 20% on a 10 million baht property. A 15 year mortgage works out at about 70K a month and a 20 year mort 62K. There are not a huge number of people who can afford that level of mortgage locally.

The ony place less stagnant that the new condo market, is the second hand condo / property market which has some bargins but has basically flatlined. So if you do buy a condo - You may well be stuck with it unless you sell it for probably far less than you pay for it. 

"where the traveller can make merit and pray for a partner."

In just one sweep of a pen, TAT has just written off the entire family segment of its tourist industry. 

8 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I still wear one when out and about, maybe it will stop a "one in a million" chance of stopping a Covid infection...

but it definitely stops PM2.5 and me swallowing concrete/dust particles all day long.

I don't think a mask is meant to prevent you from catching covid, but rather if you have covid it reduces the risk of you passing it on - as the mask will catch some of the water droplets if you sneeze, cough or exhale. 

On 11/23/2020 at 2:45 PM, Oldie said:

You are complaining - okay. But why don't you stop to act like everyone else? I clean my mask every evening. 

 

I am still wearing the same one from May and it is begging for its first wash. Pongs a bit now. Still I am complying. 

2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

 

Not true regarding the toxins. Just as in all mammals, toxins are treated by the liver and kidneys and the break-down products excreted.

https://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/blog/pork-myths/

Only water soluable toxins are treated by the liver and excreted via the kidneys - Persistant Organic Pollutants, (such as insecticides and herbicides) are fat soluable (as the farmer wouldn't want them washing off in the rain after they have been applied,), are stored in fat its a process called bioaccumulation and it was the concept which underpinned the famous book by Rachel Carson; A Silent Spring which focused on DDT. 

Of more concern probably is the anti biotics and hormones that commerical famers tend to stuff into their pigs which also get partially passed on when we consume the meat. 

Clearly he has includeded the cost of quarantine in that figure. 

Sorry if this has been answered in the previous pages, but who pays for the covid minder and what is the daily cost?? Just need to add that one to the already mentioned mind boggling amounts needed to enter the forbidden kingdom.

57 minutes ago, KhunKenAP said:

Best to carry a copy of your passport, visa and arrival card. Anyone looking like a foreigner, will be stopped if not wrist band. Police State!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right so after a visa amnesty for however many tens of thousand stranded foreigners, the arrival of plane load of wristband wearing chinese is going to cause all police to check foreigners for wristbands. Honestly???

1 hour ago, miamiman123 said:

Big Joke was out of Thailand during that time .....where was he and who was he visiting? Does the initial TC mean anything to you. It’s not Take Care! 

TC - That's my brother Tommy Clark's intitials - Big Joke was visiting my brother?? Tommy never mentioned that!