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1 hour ago, BenStark said:
Didn't know there was an Isaan in South Thailand, because that is where you live according to your posts
I had no idea that you could not read, understand or comprehend what people write.
1 hour ago, MarcelV said:Great news! My wife and her entire village are celebrating. Everywhere are red flags and flags with the image of Mr. Thaksin. Everyone is wearing red today to express their happiness.
Here in Issan people know when it's time for a party. 🙂
My wife is praying for Mr. Thaksin to replace the current PM asap and give back more to the lovely Issan folk.
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If you had read it correctly and carefully you would see that he was talking about his wife
My wife and her entire village are celebrating. Everywhere are red flags and flags with the image of Mr. Thaksin. Everyone is wearing red today to express their happiness.
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2 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:The whole thing is carefully orchestrated theatre. The face mask, the neck-brace, Paetongtarn being in the car with him, the time of release at 6:09 which has a meaning of 'moving forward' according to the Thai media.
I don't believe for a moment that he has ever been ill. I'm not sure if I believe he has even been in the hospital for that time either.
You simply can't trust these people. They are duplicitous, greedy, corrupt liars.
It doesn't matter to the Thai people what you, I or any other farangs think or say. It is up to the Thai people what to do about it.
As for your assertion quote "They are duplicitous, greedy, corrupt liars".
My answer to that is, pure unadulterated BS.
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5 hours ago, mfd101 said:It's what's called a coup d'état: his state of being has had a sudden buck up.
Actually a coup d'état is when the military usurp power and take over from the elected government in power as happened in 2006 to Thaksin. It also happened to his sister, Yingluck in 2014.
Another term that could be used in place of a coup d'état is treason against the state.
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2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:
I did answer your question, see my simple enough answer bolded above, and, as a starting point, she could have extended it for another 30 days, then perhaps done border trips to stay longer, who knows, cares or is affected by how she did it? Or perhaps her entire story was just bullshlt?
You seem to have informed yourself pretty well about business, ED, teaching, marriage, retirement visa. et al, so how come you couldn't also find an answer to how many days an American stay here VE?!
Why would I need to inform myself about VE. Not being a US citizen I wouldn't need to know as it is not something that interests me. As for quote "business, ED, teaching, marriage, retirement visa" they are brought up regularly on ANN which is where I read the information and learned something about the subject. I have also held both a retirement and currently a marriage visa and its extensions.
My business visa and extensions were handled by the US international company I worked for and also the Thai company I worked for. I just turned up where and when I was told with the documentation I was told to bring.
For the retirement and marriage visa and its extensions, I have always done those myself.
It is easy and called experience learned over the years.
I have never had the need for on and YOU are the one that brought up the subject of VE
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1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:
Have you ever owned property. I can tellyou from experience that when you buy propetrty and are using a different property as collateral there is almost always a difference between what you think and the bank does.
Also, no one holds a gun to the bank's head. The bank looks at what is provided and balances that with whether they want to agree and or do business with a person.
As others have stated this is going to cause almost all commercial property owners to get the hell out of NY state.
They all do it. THe banks all do it.
I am willing to guarantee that a lot of business is going to leave NY state and that this is gong to go to the supreme court.
This is a Dem gtovernor and DEM AG that wanted to make a name for themselves with a DEM judge.
Hell the judge under valued the properties that he owns
But of course it is NOT political.
Nobody forced the voters of New York to go to the polls and vote for any political party.
If you think that it is political then look here.
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/ny-special-election-santos-02-13-24/index.html
Democratic victory: Democrat Tom Suozzi won the special election in New York to succeed disgraced former Republican Rep. George Santos — a result that will further shrink the House GOP’s narrow majority.
What this means for the House: Democrats now take back the seat Santos turned red in 2022, a huge win in a race that focused on immigration. While the victory won’t affect control of the House, an even tighter GOP margin could prove critical in upcoming legislative battles. The election could also offer clues for the fall races.How about a former Republican Mayor of New York? Once a Trump lawyer and now a bankrupt.
Rudy Giuliani?
Perhaps the people of New York (who are the voters) are fed up with Republicans.
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1 hour ago, riclag said:The way I see it, I have a responsibility to help preserve the Republic and the old ways, by throwing my support toward the cause.
Just sent another donation to help out the next POTUS!Just doin my part to combat the
Bolshevik's in New York.
imop
I will also send a donation to Trump just as soon as I can find change for a 25 satang coin and of course if Trump pays all the financial transfer charges. After all, every little helps.
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2 hours ago, frank83628 said:Putin puppet...yawn...... you just proved the type of person you are.
And so did you with your first post on this topic.
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3 hours ago, Prubangboy said:I love your fantasy world where you get to pick the judge. Or demand a recount if you don't like the decision.
Let's pretend you're not another gullible, low information chump:
What are Trump's grounds for an appeal?
Would that be the same world that Trump gets to pick his own judge?
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4 hours ago, Prubangboy said:When you're a judge, you can grab 'em by the wallet. They let you do it.
But only when and if they break the law.
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2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:
You seem to think that those entering VE have no way of extending their permission to stay after the original 30 days, or whatever is stamped in the passport!
No I don't think that at all, so please stop putting YOUR words in my mouth.
I asked a simple enough question on the length of a visa exempt (which you still have not answered). I asked simply because never having had a visa exempt entry, I have no idea.
If you have no idea either, then just say so.
So, on what grounds would a person be allowed to change from a VE to a different visa and what would the requirements be?
She would be unable to get a business visa without extensive paperwork and a confirmed job offer from a Thai company, she would be unable to get a married visa without being married to a Thai,
she is too young and appears not to have enough money for a retirement visa, so what does that leave?
An Ed visa and she could become and ESL teacher, IF she qualifies and has a job offer.
There is no sign in the OP about ANY type of visa. There is possibility of Muay Thai training or perhaps learning to speak Thai, but still no sign of ANY type of visa.
You seem to be an expert on visas, so what kind of visa could she get, if she can get none of the above?
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18 minutes ago, CartagenaWarlock said:Every day, hundreds of people come without 20K cash, or any visa. No wonder some people in this forum have to flee their homeland because they could not live a decent life there and then sought to live like refugees, possibly using a 'wify' visa.
Thank you for showing your ignorance about expats and people from all walks of life.
Apart from the fact that you seem to be unable to spell marriage and call it a "wify" visa, thank you for calling me a refugee.
I am sure that both my Thai wife of 24 years, and my dual nationality 19 year old son would like being married to a refugee.
And FYI not everybody fled their homeland to live a refugee life in Thailand. I was an expat who was in the RAF for 25 years and spent the last 20 years of my working life as an expat, living and working in 38 countries across the world.
I retired to Thailand in 2009 after being married to my Thai wife for 9 years and having known her for 7 years before that.
No we do not live like refugees, unless the refugees that you know live in a 4 bedroom house on 15 rai of land, and I doubt that you actually even know any refugees anyway.
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1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:
Unless she made arrangements to not be on overstay! The article did not mention that she had ever been on overstay.
But you did not answer how long a visa exempt entry is valid for.
How can you make arrangements NOT to be on overstay, unless you have the correct visa to begin with?
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4 hours ago, John Drake said:
How did she get into Laos with only $7? Used to be $5 cash but I think it's now $15.
More importantly, how did she get from Japan to Thailand with only a one way ticket and USD$7.
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14 hours ago, proton said:
People seem to be working now and nothing happens, captain hamburger is another one, blatantly cooking and selling street food in Bkk and streaming it on tik tok.
And that is the best that you can come up with?
Something which has nothing to do with the topic?
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2 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:Never had to prove any of those "requirements" in 30 years of coming here. By the way, travel insurance is not mandatory, no idea why you sneaked it into your list!
How long is a visa exempt entry for?
30, 60, 90 days or unlimited?
According to the article, she was in Thailand for 5 months so unless visa exempt is for 6 months, she would be on overstay.
Also, according to the article, she had a job as a hairdresser which IIRC is a job for Thais, and she would also need a work permit plus the correct entry visa, so a visa on arrival would not be valid.
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37 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:
Not so much. Basic rooms start from 2000-3000 baht per month. Street food is cheap, 50 baht for a decent meal with chicken and rice. A set of clothes (shorts, tee and flipflops) is 300 baht. Thailand is one the cheapest places in the world to be honest.
It may well be cheap, IF you are legally a tourist in Thailand.
It might be, IF you have a visa for ,ore than 30 days,
IF you have a return air ticket,
IF you have a confirmed hotel booking,
IF you have travel insurance,
IF you have 20,000 thb that you can show Immigration,
IF you are not homeless or begging on the street.
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2 hours ago, The Old Bull said:
When the second amendment was added to the constitution they did not have automatic weapons or RPG's. To be true to the constitution everyone should be allowed a single shot black powder gun and a sword. Shotguns and rifles for qualified hunters OK also. All the hand guns and military weapons need to be removed from society. You don't just take them from bad guys you take them from everybody the less guns in circulation the less shootings you will have.
Do you really think that will happen in the USA?
It hasn't happened in the last 250 years and it won't happen now.
How will you take them?
Just knock on the door and say please give me all your guns?
First you need to pass a federal law which cannot be superseded by any state law. That won't happen either.
So how would YOU collect all the guns?
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How did she even get into Thailand without a minimum of 20,000 baht, no return air ticket or any sort of visa?
There was no mention in the Thaiger about that. They did mention that she had a partner and also that "she received an outpouring of support from her online community".
She also spent 4 months in Laos.
All this on USD$7?
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1 hour ago, impulse said:Like many cities in Red states, KC itself votes Blue. Trusting the citizenry in a Blue area that doesn't lock up criminals is bound to cause problems. The alternative is to punish the whole population for the crimes of the few. The Dem way.
In Red areas and Blue areas, the majority of the people are decent and a few are criminals. The difference is that, in a Red area, the criminals are the ones who live in fear. In Blue areas, everyone else lives in fear.
Instead of whining about politics, democrats, republican and poor gun laws, why don't YOU come up with good viable options to control guns across the USA?
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2 hours ago, impulse said:
Guaranteed they're people who already aren't allowed to own or possess guns. As if tighter gun control will keep guns away from the bad guys with multiple felonies on their records.
And how would YOU keep weapons away from the bad guys?
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7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:They embarrassed Biden- all good. The game proceeds.
They are not in the extremely well paid job of senators and representatives to play games. They are there to run the country.
If they want to play silly games, quit their jobs, give up ALL their perks and see if they can find a kindergarten that will accept them.
Give their jobs to sensible people, who want, and need good secure jobs.
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4 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:
Makes total sense, we need to remind the gutless west who actually started the war and causes the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
How, when and where did the. using your term "gutless west" start this war?
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21 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:
Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are
All together now
Obviously you have never heard of the Red Army Faction in Germany, AKA the Baader Meinhoff Gang, or the Red Army Faction group in Japan, which then split into the Japanese Red Army and the United Red Army.
There are hundreds of terror groups operating across the world if you spent a little time researching them.
Many terror groups are Muslim but many are not.
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7 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:
Lessons Learnt......always remove sex toy batteries before flying 😉
Common sense 101.
The only problem might be, if the batteries are permanently fitted and rechargeable from the mains.
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Thaksin freed on parole and returns to Ban Chan Song La residence
in Thailand News Headlines
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Yes. Have you?