dudemeister

Well, here's an interesting scenario for you:

You arrive at the airport and check in as normal.

You go through immigration / passport control - they take your departure card and stamp you out of Thailand.

You wait airside for your flight, which then gets cancelled for volcanic or other reasons.

How do you now get back into Thailand?

Your departure card is gone.

Your passport is stamped - you have left.

You do not have an entry card or a boarding card stub from an incoming flight as you haven't actually gone anywhere.

The only thing that you have is your boarding card for your cancelled flight.

How would immigration handle this one? It may be an unlikely scenario but certainly possible.

DM

Fill out a new entry card and go back through immigration arrivals.

Isnt the mac address hard coded and unique to the NIC/network card.

Does it have a happy ending facility?

Haaaaaa hahahH !!!

Can you alter the incline a bit more, and attach some handcuffs to the arm rests?

Patriotism - ok, i see that.

The rest - total bolx

Where do you start? Thai politics is a total sham(bles), and will remain so into the very very far future.

I think the poll should be what is to blame not who.

TAN Network: Peoples Alliance for Democracy (PAD) gives the govt 7 days to take action against wrongdoers otherwise they will come out themselves

That will be a vote of no confidence from the Yellows then.

In a normal democracy - we should be then heading for the polls.

Wait a minute, isnt that what the Reds want?

Wait a minute this isnt a normal democracy.

wait a minute this isnt a democracy.

wait a minute TIT.

And the show rolled on!

Tiger Woods is not Thai. He is, essentially, American.

If Thai people classify him as a 'hero', they are fools & are clutching at straws.

According to WIKI he is a quarter Thai

So what about the other 3 quarters you may ask?

THAI GER(man) FOR(mosa) EST(onia)

Tiger Woods - one quarter Thai apparently.

But not so much a hero nowadays!

This is a very interesting thread, I have many questions but I wish to raise just one for now. I went the the Krung Thai website via the link provided and it appears to have been updated:

•Thai nationality. (Foreigners cannot be borrower or co borrowers even though they have Thai work permit.)

This appears to indicate that even though I have a Thai wife am unable to get the mortgage with my wife, is this the same interpretation others have?

Thank You

CHS

This ruling appears to come in for a while then disappear again to resurface again. Example, The GF at time, (now the wife) applied for a mortage with SCB and was granted a 100% mortage based purely on my income, I have a WP and was allowed to co-sign the loan, fast forward 6 months, a collegue tried the same thing at the same SCB branch, with the same bank manager and was told "the law" had changed and foreigners could no longer co-sign mortages for Thai nationals.

Suppose at the end of the day, its up to the individual banks to set their own policys, in line with their intepretation of the law at the time.

Or perhaps, you opened up a can of worms?

You mean you dont have a Papeekanet/Ganesh statue on a solid one metre concrete plinth?

I keep telling her to stop buying this stuff -

Changed the spirit house 3 times now, because the local witch doctor's cant agree on the correct placement.

Used to have two very large MMF looking warriors guarding the front door, but they brought us bad luck (apparently!)

Not forgetting the big man himself. Oh yes, 'Bud' had to be really huge - otherwise somebody might carry him off.

I keep telling her, a Japanese garden is fine, but not Disney World.

Back to your tigers, perhaps they are supposed to be bought in pairs?

I try to be prepared for the inevitable;

She (thinks) she knows better than the GPS and the road-maps. (Be ready for quite a few u-turns).

And, dont forget to top-up the tea-money drawer with 100 baht notes.

My first inclinatin would be to change location, not necessarily leave Thailand.

and i expect arrivals will be somewhat quieter than departures!

It is to be expected.

There will off course be many reasons why people will be looking to fly out earlier. Business appointments abroad , travellers who were just passing through Thailand, and those that just want to get away from the madness, to name just a few.

Just a point: I read somewhere that it is possible your travel insurance cover may be negated, if your govenment issues travel warnings.

SONGKRAN COUP IS ON THE CARDS!

Or has he done this knowing that most red supporters will be heading home next weekend and he will have a better chance of controlling the situation?

SONG-KRAN COUP ("We know a song about that")

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In purely practical terms, what does this mean?

Looking at the current poll results here, the leading consensus is to wait.

End of democratic story - close the thread.

That's a complete perversion of the word CONSENSUS, mate. When you add crack down before Monday plus crack down on Monday, you currently have 57 percent (vs. 31 percent for waiting for even more red violence). That's a consensus for cracking down actually YESTERDAY or before.

Those who voted for "He should have cracked down earlier" does not necessarily mean, that they still want a crackdown now or in the future. Therefore it would be incorrect to tally these votes together.

I feel you made one of the worse decisions of your life.

Yeah, why?

Rubbish!

Looking at the current poll results here, the leading consensus is to wait.

End of democratic story - close the thread.

Maybe just drop the perfume idea and get a 10 litre tub of that skin whitening stuff. Should do the trick.

An interesting slant from the Turkish jury:

Turkish government requires an affidavit that states that you are not married, therefore eligible for marriage in Turkey. The document is valid for 6 months. You can therefore get married in US and then in Turkey after you have this statement.

http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/getting-...rso-182693.html

Here's the twist.

Because she wasn't married the liabilities from the marriage that was not are going begging for someone to take on.....

And here's the second twist.

Because she wasn't married the first time you'll get to pay the full never been married, parish virgin sin sod.

To avoid twist number three take a good look around to see if you can spot any blokes that look a bit like the kids from this marriage that was not.

And to avoid any further twists.......

Just dont use "Fon's Fast Foto Service"

Think the Embassy complained about the wife's photo. (background too dark or something)

Also, received this "funny" in my email today - very true:

This was actually taken from a UK passport application

and a member of staff copied it, as it made her laugh all day.

Subject: Passport Application

Dear Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport but I am a total loss to understand or believe the hoops I am being asked to jump through.

How is it that Bert Smith of T.V. Rentals Basingstoke has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a satellite dish from them back in 1994, and yet, the Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date?

How come that nice West African immigrant chappy who comes round every Thursday night with his DVD rentals van can tell me every film or video I have had out since he started his business up eleven years ago, yet you still want me to remind you of my last three jobs, two of which were with contractors working for the government?

How come the T.V. detector van can tell if my T.V. is on, what channel I am watching and whether I have paid my licence or not, and yet if I win the government run lottery they have no idea I have won or where I am and will keep the bloody money to themselves if I fail to claim in good time. Do you people do this by hand?

You have my birth date on numerous files you hold on me, including the one with all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30-odd years. It's on my health insurance card, my driver's licence, on the last four passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes and boats over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done every ten years and the electoral registration forms I have to complete, by law, every time our lords and masters are up for re-election.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, I was born in Maidenhead on the 4th of March 1957, my mother's name is Mary, her maiden name was Reynolds, my father's name is Robert, and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and the day I die!

I apologise Minister. I'm obviously not myself this morning. But between you and me, I have simply had enough! You mail the application to my house, then you ask me for my address. What is going on? Do you have a gang of Neanderthals working there? Look at my dam_n picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to re-activate the Third Reich for God's sake! I just want to go and park my weary backside on a sunny, sandy beach for a couple of week's well-earned rest away from all this crap.

Well, I have to go now, because I have to go to back to Salisbury and get another copy of my birth certificate because you lost the last one. AND to the tune of 60 quid! What a racket THAT is!! Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day? But nooooo, that'd be too dam_n easy and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some tosser to confirm that it's really me on the goddamn picture - you know... the one where we're not allowed to smile in case we look as if we are enjoying the process!

Hey, you know why we can't smile? 'Cause we're totally jacked off!

I served in the armed forces for more than 25 years including over ten years at the Ministry of Defence in London . I have had security clearances which allowed me to sit in the Cabinet Office, five seats away from the Prime Minister while he was being briefed on the first Gulf War and I have been doing volunteer work for the British Red Cross ever since I left the Services. However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am -- you know, someone like my doctor...

who, before he got his medical degree 6 months ago WAS LIVING IN PAKISTAN ...

Yours sincerely,

An Irate British Citizen.