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I read a post on here, last year I think, and the OP had went in to his Thai bank and used his ATM card from his home country to transfer funds straight in to his Thai account. I believe the staff put the card in to the reader and he put his pin in to verify the amount and it was transfered instantly and all he had to pay was the charge for changing the money (Sorry can't remember how much it was). It it's that simple then pretty damm easy.

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I wonder why people travel all the way to Thailand to eat American Fast Food??

Better to go down the road for a nourishing plate of fried rice, at half the price.

What happens if you don't like fried rice or any Thai food?

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Couldn't give a monkeys what plane I travel on just as long as there is a decent amount of legroom. I've yet to travel on a plane where the staff weren't sour faced melts or the plane didn't smell like a hookers minge.

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Don't you get out much then?

Just the occasional day release under supervision.

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Couldn't give a monkeys what plane I travel on just as long as there is a decent amount of legroom. I've yet to travel on a plane where the staff weren't sour faced melts or the plane didn't smell like a hookers minge.

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spoken like an expert, obviously got a good sense of smell or a very long nose your obviously still used to flying with some of the older scottish budget airlines that have outside toilets on their planes, 2 rows of seats separated by freight down the middle

LMFAO, outside toilets make the flight a little bit more fun.

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Couldn't give a monkeys what plane I travel on just as long as there is a decent amount of legroom. I've yet to travel on a plane where the staff weren't sour faced melts or the plane didn't smell like a hookers minge.

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I have not yet traveled on an A380 but I understand that the economy class seats are more comfortable due to extra seat width. I also hear that the flight attendants are much more pleasant on the A380 because they are hand picked especially for the plane (in the case of Emirates).

Regarding the on-board odours I cannot comment, but the cabin pressure on the A380 is more conducive with comfort and I would imagine that because the plane is relatively new, the stink of body fluids has not yet penetrated deeply into the seating.

Good luck, and enjoy your flight on the Emirates A380.

Thank you, and when I do I will surely enjoy it.

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My wife arrived in the UK on a fiance visa in October 2006, said visa expired in March 2007, we got married in January 2007 and she had to apply for FLR no sooner than 28 days before her fiance visa expired. When we applied for her FLR visa all we sent were proof of our marriage (Wedding certificate), her passport, my passport and the relevent form, hope this helps.

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Couldn't give a monkeys what plane I travel on just as long as there is a decent amount of legroom. I've yet to travel on a plane where the staff weren't sour faced melts or the plane didn't smell like a hookers minge.

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Yes people will try to rip you off even for 5 baht.

I always buy my smokes by the pack, usually from the mom and pop shops around here. The smokes were 45 baht in every shop. One day I walked into a new shop, asked for my smokes, she gives me the pack and I hand the woman a 50 baht bill and she justs stands there. I ask her how much, expecting the 5 baht coin, she looks at the bill and says 50 baht.

I pointed to the shop across the street and said 45 baht, point to the other shop next door and say 45 baht, I then pointed to different directions on the horizon and said 45 baht each time. I stuck the pack of smokes back in her hand and took my 50 baht bill back and said mai ow. The look on her face changed from prosperous shop owner to young child caught stealing red handed, maybe because there were other customers waiting in line behind me. Ohhh the face...

Anyone trying to rip me off will know on the spot, whatever the amount. I'm sure some of the airport taxi scammers remember me veeery well.

Good for you, it's not the amount, it's the principal.

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Well bully for everybody with their high and mighty attitude. I had to speak to my wife in pigeon english for the first year we were together because when I didn't 2 things happened.

1) She couldn't understand my Scottish accent

2) She would tell me she felt stupid and upset when she couldn't understand me.

Now she understands me perfectly when I talk the way I've always talked and she talks the same way as somebody who is learning to speak english properly (Because she goes to college to learn it).

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The thai's in my wifes family do indeed celebrate birthday's, in fact the missus is heading back to Thailand with her sister next month to celebrate her sisters birthday with their family, it's a big deal to them all.

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I just went through this with my Thai wife. She has my last name....

It was required for me to sign a document for each Chanote that the money used was her money independant of my money. (We had 4 pieces of property).

If she has never changed her name, and but is in fact married, the transfer is illegal by the rules. If she is married and says she is married, but still uses her Thai last name, the assumption is she is married to a Thai, and may not be asked for this document from her husband.

I know many Thai, that do not declare there married status. However, they can find problems if they have relitives that care to stir things up.

The one advantage to declaring a marrriage to a farang, if something should happen title will pass to the farang, but he must sell within 6 months.

If she says she is single, dies, then titile passes to all the Thai relitives, not to the unknown spouce.

I thought it was 12 months to sell the land if it was passed on in death?

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mozarella cheese..seems really expense here so only a monthly thing i think.

not a food but detol! im a cleaning freak but again its pretty expensive here so thats a treat

my boyfriend would love to buy a nice cold magners...but he begrudges paying 250 bt when he can get chang for 33! so magners will be a rare treat

decent bread is a regular, have now ecome addicted though to those frozen mini bread rolls from macro that you bake in the oven yum.

but i am craving a can of iron bru BIG TIME, but havnt seen it anywhere if anyone has seen anyone selling it in phuket pleeeeeease let me know

Iron Brew, it's the one thing I really miss when I'm in Thailand, but haven't seen it anywhere.

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Irn-Bru was mentioned on the BBC news site today. I'm tempted. What does it taste like?

It's made in Scotland from girders and it put's hairs on your chest. It's hard to describe the taste, it's very gassy and hard, whereas coke is as soft drink, you either love it or hate it. When I was a kid my dad always told me that Iron Brew would burn my throat if I drunk it, the first time I tried it I was 8 and was shiting myself but I loved it.

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If you live here, I would think you would immediately clue in to the fact that the only people that wear flip flops and shorts outside of the home are poor uneducated people. So my big question is, knowing this, why dress like a poor uneducated person?

I'll be sure and pass on your expert knowledge to the wifes father (Who works for the goverment and loves to wear his t-shirt, shorts and flip flops whenever he can).

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Is it possible to dowload videos from Youtube?

If so - how?

Install Realplayer and download them direct to your hard drive in FLV format.

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There was a guy wandering around Tesco's the other day in flip-flops, knee shorts, a sleeveless vest and wrap-around sunglasses (indoors). Just looked stoopid rather than offensive.

Was it just his outfit or was there another reason to make malicious remarks about someone?

Do we really want, that everybody is like everybody else in this world only accepted if fitted personal ethic principles?

Never ever come to Tesco Samui btw. You would be shocked to see, that almost everybody of the crowds there is like that. Maybe they would think about you in the same way.Sad

a ) This is beachwear in an air-conditioned, city-centre Tesco, a loooong way from the beach.

b ) Not malicious, just my opinion and you are welcome to it.

When I'm in Thailand all I ever wear are shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops and that's in BKK,at the beach or visting the wifes family in Nakhon Phanom (A long way from the beach). As long as the person has a t-shirt/shirt, a pair of shorts/trousers and shoes of some sort, what's the problem, or should we always wear our Sunday best at all times?

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mozarella cheese..seems really expense here so only a monthly thing i think.

not a food but detol! im a cleaning freak but again its pretty expensive here so thats a treat

my boyfriend would love to buy a nice cold magners...but he begrudges paying 250 bt when he can get chang for 33! so magners will be a rare treat

decent bread is a regular, have now ecome addicted though to those frozen mini bread rolls from macro that you bake in the oven yum.

but i am craving a can of iron bru BIG TIME, but havnt seen it anywhere if anyone has seen anyone selling it in phuket pleeeeeease let me know

Iron Brew, it's the one thing I really miss when I'm in Thailand, but haven't seen it anywhere.

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No matter which social class you marry into, the chances are you will be asked outright for money or asked to enter into a "risk free, sure deal". I would like to know what you say or do and how successful you are with your approach.

Start as you mean to go on, if you decide not to give any "Help" then stick to your guns.

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jimplan, you take a photo with his/her eye's open we had to do the same for my little fella he was two days old.

Recommend you get him dual passports of his own.

For a UK passport for an infant under 1 year old, their eyes don't have to be open just as long as they are faced towards the camera, I know, my son is sleeping in his passport photo which I took myself then took the memory card to get the passport size photo's and sent the form away, it lasts for 5 years.

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Sorry just realised it was a Thai passport you were asking about.

Shoot an e-mail to the following company:

http://www.wheelchairtours.com/vehicle.htm

The owner speaks good English, is disabled himself (weelchair bound), and he owns several vans and tour buses converted for weelchair use.

Thanks, will pass on the info to the wife's family.

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i have no idea what you guys are on about as i see the seat given up 90%+ of the time to these people.

Have to agree with above post.

Also I was brought up to always give my seat to an OAP (Man or woman) or any lady, it's just good manners nothing else.

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This survey would be the same as many parts of the world,as engish guys are too sexy lol.Notice no scottish,welsh or irish were mentioned,how strange.

That's because us Scots are tighter than a camel's arse in a sandstorm, just ask my wife. After my wife came to live in Scotland, she couldn't believe that there are poor people in the UK and she asked why jobs like street cleaners and shop staff aren't all Thai, phillippine and the like, and she was serious, she thought everybody in the UK was rich and everybody had thai or phillipino maids. When she told her friends back home that there are poor farangs they didn't believe her, she had never been out of Thailand before and she was truly shocked.

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Hi all, the wife's uncle is disabled and in a wheelchair, while it is possible for the family to take him out in the car (They have a 4 door vigo) A toyota van (Or similar) with a wheelchair conversion where he could be wheeled straight up a ramp and into place in the back of the van and his wheelchair locked in to place would be ideal, does anybody have any info on companies that will do the conversion?

Many thanks

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Nothing.

Thank fuc_k I'm off that plane then another scary adventure in a new land.

I suspect that there is more to this than we have been told. If she has been in the UK legally for four years with a subsisting marriage, then she must have ILR by now. If so, then she cannot be removed from the UK, and she is entitled to all benefits. If she does not have ILR then I think we have not been given the full facts.

She can only get ILR if she passes the life in the UK test, passes an ESOL with citizenship course or claims domestic abuse from her husband otherwise she would have to renew her limited leave to remain visa every 2 years, I think.

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