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As I said, I hold no particular affection for the death penalty per se...just that if it is in fact on the books it should be respected.

That kind of reasoning didn't work out too well for those who themselves were executed for crimes after WW2.

All they were doing was their jobs, it was all authorised, etc.

Let us for a moment assume that they were convicted by a real court, on real evidence - not by a mickey mouse court, <deleted>land style.

The death penalty would still be a horror, an abomination.

But it would be a horror, an abomination that is not high on my list. After all, those people were serial murderers.

You've lost me there, who murdered who ?

Drug sellers murder their customers. Slowly.

Sure they do

Let us for a moment assume that they were convicted by a real court, on real evidence - not by a mickey mouse court, <deleted>land style.

The death penalty would still be a horror, an abomination.

But it would be a horror, an abomination that is not high on my list. After all, those people were serial murderers.

You've lost me there, who murdered who ?

Australia has withdrawn thier ambassador and suspended political ties with indonesia.

These people knew the laws and consequences, they didn't give a single thought about the lives of others they were destroying. They broke the law and paid for it. The execution of drug dealers is no loss to society, the trash has been taken out.

The best retaliatory action the Australians could do would be to issue the most stern 'do not travel' warning to Indonesia - the one that voids all travel insurance policies and implement economic sanctions.

All but one of those executed were foreigners and probably not of the same religion which suggests some politician sabre rattling to gain a few votes.

This country needs to be punished for its barbaric and medieval ways.

I find it a little disturbing that nearly all of those who were murdered today are foreigners. Only one was from Indonesia.

This sounds political or worse still religiously motivated to me.

There will be serious repercussions for these actions.

Ho guess what I just found in Bangkok?

Awful lot of numbers I noticed.... Still think it's 100% coffee?

At 329 b a box in BKK that's $AU13.00 and $8.50 at home puts it in the super rich class of poisons, do enjoy your coffee guys.

Where on the picture I can read anything that indicates that it isn't 100% coffee?

(I don't like Nestle, but on the picture I can't see anything new)

I'm not going to go through every type of coffee ( ) on it, but the one I did was 30%.

http://www.dutycalculator.com/popular-import-items/import-duty-and-taxes-for-tea/

he talks about additives not about tax.....

That photo above is of the Dolce Gusto coffees, these come in all sorts of flavours.

Some of them are a '2 capsule system' one containing the coffee and the other some kind of milk like substance with flavour. I have no doubt there's plenty of additives in a chocolate mocha style coffee but in the regular espresso I think it's just coffee.

I opened one up once to see how it worked, it contained some kind of thin plastic type membrane and some coffee granules. There's not a lot to them really.

I suggest you visit a consulate instead of the Embassy. They are more friendly but you have to go in person these days from what I've heard.

The Nescafe Dolce Gusto coffee is also way overpriced, it's at least double the price of what it costs in the UK to buy the capsules.

Pretty tasty stuff and quick to make though.

I believe there was some kind of patent on the capsule system used in nespresso which has now expired.

Nah... I'm a Asian barely 5ft tall and no blue eyes... but one thing I forgot to mention, I brought a Thai with me and uses her address to sign up for the account. I think they photocopied her ID card too.

I heard that having a Thai national there who will 'vouch' for you makes a big difference.

You still need the certificate of residence for the purposes of opening a bank account.

So this guy receives 199,000 real baht, but calls the police for 1000 fake? Why not just refuse the one bill and tell him to go back to the bank?

It defies logic and reason.

Anyone else would reject the single note and tell him to get another one from his wallet in order to avoid losing the 200k Baht sale.

Your local immigration office (Chaeng Wattana for Bangkok) should be able to provide you one of these.

They charge 500 Baht where I am for this but I'm not in Bangkok.

The question is : Is it worth going all the way to Chaeng Wattana just to save 1000 Baht ? It will be a several hours long round trip plus waiting and processing time.

Edit: You can only use the immigration office in the area where you live.

Still a ball ache and where is the "security" if a mate collects it and pops it in the post?

It seems to me that they're more worried about 'physically cancelling' the old passport which means cutting the corners off the cover page so 'everyone' knows it shouldn't be used as a valid ID document.

I access my UK bank account (Lloyds) from a Thai IP address all the time and have been doing so for years and I've never had any issue at all.

I've been back to the UK only once in the last 5 years and that was only for a few days.

no need, if you show you have 500k, they give you tourist visa one after one. no question asked.

I m in Thailand for 8 years now and under 50.

this is something i've never heard before. are you doing border runs?

He would have done 32 separate 90 day border runs to stay on tourist visas for 8 years.

If you live right next to the border then I guess this isn't too much hassle. If you live nowhere near a border or airport then things get boring very quickly.

wait... is it 551.8 and 555.8 ?

not 5518 and 5558 ?

Yeah, that . character is there for a reason.

Pay attention !

It should take about a week to ten days get the visa depending on how quickly you pay after they've processed and accepted your application.

As for reporting until now I've been going to the local immigration office and do a 90 day report the same as anyone else on a long term visa.

I've heard about the new online reporting process, however I did my last 90 day report in March before online reporting became available and my next one is due in June which coincides with my yearly extension so I'll be going to immigration anyway. So I won't be testing online 90 day reporting until sometime in September.

Sounds like someone's been paying attention to the Chinese system.

So is the guy who was driving the car ok after the accident ? What happened ? Was there an arrest, etc ?

Just throw them out if they don't pay on the day it's due. Only a sucker would allow debt to build on empty repayment promises.

Yeah, I think the Thai's aren't took keen on the Japanese visiting Thailand and therefore discourage visas from being issued.

You'd think they would loosen things up a bit now Thai's are allowed to travel to Japan without needing to apply for a visa in advance but I guess not.