BangkokHank

Why not check the price on Bolt or Grab first, and you can use that price to facilitate your negotiation with a regular taxi driver.

There's one of these iris scanning devices at a shop in the mall near my home in Bangkok. Every time I pass by, Thais are lined up to get themselves scanned, all for a few hundred baht that they will probably never even get.

Most Thai women on dating apps these days weigh more than I do.

On their eyes?

I don't use sunscreens either. Sun is good, but sunburn is bad. So I just limit my exposure to the sun, rather than slathering myself with a carcinogenic cream that blocks out the beneficial aspects of sunlight. Do you really think the human body evolved to need chemical sunscreens and sunglasses? What did people do for the hundreds of thousands of years before there were sunscreens and sunglasses? And why is there more skin cancer today than there was in the past? https://www.ener-chi.com/sunglasses-and-sunscreens-a-major-cause-of-cancer

I don't wear sunglasses because it's not healthy. Our eyes are meant to be exposed to sunlight.

I once got a fake Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar on Lazada. I happened to have a real bottle at home at the time, and the vinegar couldn't have been more different looking. Obviously totally fake. Lesson learned. Never again will I buy ACV anywhere except at a trusted store.

The solution to the drop in tourist numbers is obvious: Impose the long-debated tourist tax.

That's precisely the problem: Many people who (rightly) didn't want to get "vaccinated" for "COVID" didn't have a choice. As for criticizing people who do get "vaccinated": Are we sensible people who oppose vaccines supposed to silently sit back and watch people destroy their health just because they don't want to be criticized? Then, if they still wish to get "vaccinated" after our warnings, we anti-vaxxers at least know that we've done all that we can to try to save them. (And yes, I am now opposed to ALL vaccines - not just the mRNA ones.)

I use a different bank (Krungsri), but I also had the same problem recently. I tried dozens of times to get the app to recognize my face, to no avail. I went into the branch, and the lady there first upped the lighting on my phone to the maximum level, and then had me hold my phone straight out (rather than looking downward at it, as I had been doing at home), and it finally worked. Strangely, I never used to have any problem with this, so it must be the result of a recent "upgrade" of the app.

I thought that was obvious. Dictators don't need to apply for jobs.

He'll get his comeuppance the next time he goes to apply for a job and his potential employer asks if he has a degree from Ramkhamhaeng University. Then he'll come crawling back to Thailand to ask them to reissue the diploma.

So what did she think was in the suitcases? Just somebody else's clothes? Would that be worth flying to the other side of the earth for? So stupidity is now a valid legal defense.

How is he going to be able to find a job now without his Thai degree?

Wishing the bad people of this world to be gone is blatant anti-Semitism.

I actually found that to be a very useful explanation of how the Thai mind works. It's a keeper. Thanks. And just ignore the people who are unable to appreciate it.

As a regular bus rider, my experience is the same as yours. Once recently I was standing at the bus stop as one of those Thai Smile buses was approaching. Because there was another bus stopped at the bus stop, the Thai Smile bus stopped just before reaching the bus stop. When the other bus left, the logical thing for the Thai Smile bus to have done was to just edge up to the bus stop where I was standing with my hand out indicating that I wanted to board the bus. But he just kept going without picking me up. It was extremely frustrating given that I had waited a half an hour for the bus already, and the next one wouldn't be around for at least another half an hour. Like you, I wanted to report this behavior to someone but didn't know where to report him.

Well, which one was it? Teh? Or Chiwa? It matters, you know.

A DNA test would solve the mystery.

So you're saying that he was conducting espionage and blackmail for himself?

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Check the exact wording. Maybe you bought a "Moron" blood pressure monitor rather than an "Omron"? Ha.

I used to know a boiler room swindler in Bangkok many years ago. After he finished swindling as many people as he could, including "friends", this is the excuse that he used: "Hey, I was duped too - so we all lost our money. Sorry." That's what allowed him to get away with his crime without having the crap beaten out of him by the people he swindled.

With 40 million baht, he didn't need ANY return on his money to live comfortably for the rest of his life in Thailand. So what was the point of risking it like that?

Thanks. That's very clear. So I wonder why that article whose link I provided said that it was possible. And I wonder about the other countries on the list. By the way, I live in Thailand on a retirement extension. But I was thinking of moving to Vietnam and dropping my retirement visa, and just visiting Thailand a few times a year. But if I cannot enter Thailand with my US tourist visa, then this would not work, as I wouldn't want to apply for a visa every time I visited Thailand. So I'll just keep the Thai retirement visa and visit Vietnam on tourist visas.