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I have carried both electric & disposable razors in hand luggage. Never a problem.

I have the same issue.

Charlie, no need to yell !

I'd be quite happy that the reception, management are at least awake & alert.

I'm sure if you approach them in a respectful manner, they will allow your "selected guests" entry, so long as you vouch for them.

No doubt the small bike/ scooter was a great invention. But I'd say many medical & technology inventions would be far ahead of the bike.

If no motor bike invented we could still walk, ride a horse or a bicycle or drive a car. Life as we know it would be much the worse if no medical & technological breakthroughs.

But hey, just my opinion.

2 hours ago, possum1931 said:

"We all knew the rules & regs before we settled here", perhaps, but did the immigration rules not change drastically over the last ten years?

I personally know one chap who lived here on tourist visas and bought a house for himself and his girlfriend, in her name of course, he did not want to get married, he is now living in a neighbouring country having lost his house. Like thousands of others at that time, he had no idea that he would no longer be allowed to live on tourist visas.

 

I am not saying that people should be allowed to live permanently here on tourist visas, but this chap should not have been forced to lose his house, there should have been other options open to him, and I don't want to hear rubbish like if he cannot afford to have 800.000 Baht in his bank, he should not have been here in the first place.

Possum, mate, I think you may have missed the bus re this topic. It's about embassy's providing assistance to their citizens. More to the point, about contacting your embassy.

I'm sympathetic to your friends plight, devastating. But nothing in said situation is remotely associated with an embassy's duty or function.

You appear to have gone off track & started on about the unfairness of the Thai immigration office. I agree with some of what you are having a gripe about. But this is Thailand & not much is straight forward or rational re visas & residency & coming & going.

Maybe you should start a new thread on the "unfairness of the immigration office"

Best of luck.

48 minutes ago, samsensam said:

 

yea it's a wind up. thais know that while dominos is a game for children and adults here in thailand it is also played as a form of gambling. 10 baht per game in my local soi gambling den.

 

The "wind up" tag referred to a domino addicted falang asking for romantic help with an intelligent Thai lady.

This is a wind up... right !

This is either a comic or troll post.

Do you really think your embassy will take up your plight with Thai officials ? Why should they ?

We all knew the rules & regs before we settled here, or at least should have done some research to enlighten us in what we were getting into.

Head up into the hills. Roadside stalls have some great fruit & veggies. Avocadoes are the best.

3 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

I found a pic of george !!

 

Ah, there's three of him. A man for all seasons. Oops, a farang for all seasons.

Yes falang George....  I'll have a look for your dimwit reply a bit later. Chores to do now.

Just now, ResandePohm said:

Enlighten me George. Which country ids that?

With some embarrassment, georgrmadman, claims he's from Oz.

If you care to research some of his earlier posts, replies, you'll see he can actually string a sentence together with reasonable English & grammar.

This nonsense script he uses now is just his way of getting his jollies. I think his meds have run out.

Just now, georgemandm said:

One more who has a problem in his life .

Na, no problem. Just trying to wind you up, like you try & wind up other members on here.

1 minute ago, georgemandm said:

Read it , how can it be racist if I ask what country you are from are you on  drugs .

give me idea about your up bring.

 

Hey falang George. Go take your meds & have a lie down. Don't want you to burst a valve.

Hope you get better soon.

Cheers.....     farang Mal.

4 minutes ago, little mary sunshine said:

This is about soy milk...not cow milk...

You're missing the point. MILK is only available from lactating mammals.

You might have soy something, but it's NOT milk.

Milk is only available from lactating mammals. Not nuts & beans.

You sending matchbox size or fridge size ?  Might make a difference.

Why not ask the bus company ???

5 minutes ago, outsider said:

 

Very true. The Thais do love to remove their shoes and sandals and air their feet and this is done even in nice cafes and restaurants. Of course they don't put it up on the table or delibrately use it as a pointing device, but they do cross their feet and sometimes, in more casual (but no less nice) cafes, actually sit cross-legged on the sofas. When this is done, the soles of their feet face up and out, for everyone to see. I don't see anyone, much less a Thai, being offended by that?

 

My colleague in the office loves to sit on her folded legs, Japanese style, on her office chair and when she does that, the soles of her feet is like an open book to the rest of the office. I once asked her and another Thai friend, if that was considered rude if done outside, and they both asked where I heard that from! They did add that it IS rude, if you delibrately show the sole of your feet at/to someone else, or worse, use your foot to call out to other people i.e. nudge the person next to you with your foot. It's also rude to delibrately touch anything with your feet. But it's ok if you're just exposing your feet to get some air in between the toes.

 

Back to this offending tourist's foot. To be fair, there is a lack of courtesy on the part of the tourist if I'm honest, and it's damned unsightly, if I must, but I personally don't think it's downright disrespectful or insulting. I've seen Thais themselves do it, sticking their feet out the windows of their vans and lorries while catching a power-nap or something.

 

As I mentioned in my earlier post, this 'uproar' is typical herd behaviour of the internet/keyboard warriors who put on this holier-than-thou cloak and get on their high-horses whenever they're anonymous behind their laptop screens, but are otherwise just as guilty of causing, in some form or manner, minor irritations to their fellow humans when they're out and about. A herd that should be largely ignored, in my opinion.

 

 

Amen !

47 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

shouldn't that read uneducated?

Nope ! Educated know it as an idiosyncrasy to most older Thais & some Arab countries. This is the 21st century. Most old, odd ball, customs & idiosyncrasies die a natural death over time.

The "foot guy" wasn't directing his feet at anyone in particular, no intended insult. This thread is being hijacked by the holier than thou brigade.

I still think he was just waiting for a tow truck. 

Who's trying to save face. Just another unintelligent Thai idiosyncrasy foreign to most educated people.

31 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

If you pay attention you'll notice that Thai's who take off their shoes and sit cross-legged are not pointing their feet forward at the people they are facing, ditto when Thai's take off their shoes in the temple and sit, they all do so with their feet pointing backwards, not pointing in the same direction as they are facing. Are you slowly getting the picture yet! BTW post 41 wasn't an intelligent response so I've ignored it.

No sense of humour ? Loosen up, you're taking all this foot stuff way too serious. You really did get off on the wrong foot this morning.