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PUWA's grasp of history and logic is absolutely unshakable! C'mon sheeples, WAKE UP!

^ "Use a visa service or move; those are the only real options."

A third option is to get the paperwork in order, make an appointment, and spend well under two hours there - as I have done for my retirement extension since the appointment system has been in effect.

How about someone providing an intermediate service where you pay, say 500-1000, to just make the appointment for you? That's really almost all the value offered by agents and what many people seem to have trouble with.

Japanese food is not spicy at all yet the average life span is longest in the world at 84 years.

Check out the statistics on breast cancer in Japanese women. Before WWII. it was almost unknown with the traditional low-fat diet. After WWII. it has skyrocketed as more Japanese women started eating McDonald's etc.

They met Little Boy and Fat Man well before McDonald came around. Nothing good about any of it.

I hope and pray that this continues, and China collapses, leading to 44 THB to the USD and NO Chinese tourists, like the good old days 12 year ago!

Not even the ones with looong legs and micro shorts? 44THB would be nice though.

I wouldn't ever make a scene in a restaurant either. Who would?

You? OK, go home please.

But I think a quiet word with the owner or manager might be appreciated. Losing face is one thing, losing baht is quite another.

The bisquits and gravy, TB135 while not "authentic" is close enough when I'm feeling nostalgic. It pairs up nicely with the French omelet TB 55.

It's a lot of food but I rise to the occasion.

Please, Winnie. You went to one out of a few million places that serve coffee in "America". Very varied.

The thing is I like coffee. Tea drinkers usually put so much milk, sugar, water, I don't know what all, into coffee that it really doesn't matter what it started out as.

It's weak. Everything else is fine. Maybe I could bring a thermos of real coffee?

I, too, really like their breakfasts but I have quit going there because I want coffee with breakfast.

The coffee may just be very weak, or maybe it's the beans, but it actually tastes to me like they dumped a few tea bags in with the coffee. So I ordered tea last time but a bag of Lipton wasn't an improvement.

Maybe some regular and valued customer could enlighten them - or me - about this blight on that fine diner.

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Or Thai driver license.

For sure if it takes you hours to fill out the TM 7 and make copies of your passport, then you need all the help you can get at any price.

"Don' t bother trying to do the paperwork ,its just too difficult,all those copies and form filling,...."

And all those paper cuts! Ouch.

Would you be OK with paying say, 6,000 per month for garbage pickup service since it would be such a pain If you had to haul it away yourself?

Not per month, but I'd certainly be glad to pay 6,000 per YEAR to avoid hauling it away myself. Hell, I'd pay 6,000 a year to not have to step outside my door and walk the four steps to the garbage chute in my condo. At my age, what the hell do I need to save a few pennies a day for? My old age? I'm there already. My family isn't going to suffer if I spend 200 bucks a year over the next, say, 10-15 years I've got left.

If I can't get a slot on the schedule board, you can be sure I'll spend the money with 'Assist Thai Visa,' if for no other reason than not to stand in line at 5am or wait around for four hours.

Not per year, but per decade - hell, make it a century. You funny guy.

Later. I must now call my personal shopper to buy me some new flip flops and a tee shirt.

The cooler weather is nice, indeed.

^^ "Get back to us after you have had to sit in line starting at 6:00 in the morning. Remember there are only ten appointments a day and they are seeing up to 50 a day. Until then you have nothing to say."

Northernjohn, look at it this way. Would you be OK with paying say, 6,000 per month for garbage pickup service since it would be such a pain If you had to haul it away yourself?

Up to you of course, but I must agree with worgeordie. The fee is high for the amount of service.

Especially if your name is Krugman...

Your avatar is so very appropriate!

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If you are doing your 90 days online from now on, what's the big deal if you lose a few days?

You would complain if they hung you with a brand new rope, wouldn't you? hhok.

I immediately think of three friends who have been in accidents with Thais. One was a fatality.

In no case was the farang blamed.

So, what do you think about the word kɛ̀ɛk. Same-same, but different? I've heard that used in a way that is definitely derogatory.

I'm not a conservative so I don't have strong opinions on things I know virtually nothing about.

So, where do farangs like to go for pizza?

Pardon me, Sharktooth, but that requires a lot of scrolling on a smart phone to get to your one-line comment.

If you can post in a different way, I'm sure it would be appreciated. Thanks for your attention. Have a good un.

I don't know anyone who considers "farang" a pejorative term.

feel so sorry for you guys advocating change of every day life in los you just don't relies how brain washed and programed you are to events on the other side of the world that have no meaning here.

You mean like obeying the law of the land? Progress?

I guess I am one of those you pity. Heck, I even advocate slowing down enough to use capitalization, punctuation, complete sentences and spell checking.

Pray for me.

"The roads inside the moat are "designed" for ox-carts, tuk-tuks, motorbikes, samlors, etc. They are not designed for cars and trucks"

Doesn't that suggest anything to you?

Look at labs instead of hospitals. I'm sure someone more sober can elaborate.

NancyL is right.

Some of the big stores have asked me to draw a map to my house. Lately, I give them the GPS coords and they handle it ok.