Did TOT (phone/internet) stop sending paper bills?

no.

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Let's see how that works out.

If motorists have a few photocopies of their licence to show the police, won't that reduce the chance of any "fine" being paid?

I can see if it was produced on a smartphone, their could possibly be some 'reluctance' by the police to return the phone.

no reluctance: They the BIB have better, high-class phones than the average farang

I think it was more of a "cultural" thing - as many here in this country...

11 minutes ago, Beggar said:

There are so many tourist destinations full of tourists and these destinations don't provide noise and sex at every corner. But obviously Thailand wants to go back to times before. But I hear many complaints by sex tourists that sex got pretty expensive here. I don't know since I never use such a service. And what I have watched was that sex tourists don't care much about closing times. They will take home the service person much earlier. 

 I dont know a single sex tourist, but still: Looking at F/X charts tells you that everything incl. horizontal service becomes more expensive day by day for foreigners in TH

How to get rid of the hot air in your car

close the windows cobber

Cambodia?  never for wife, she says "worse than China nowadays with all the lowly Chinese there in Khmer"

1 hour ago, Tidybeard said:

I am not sure how many in total, but it seems like about 2 or 3 die each year at Na Muang 2... maybe need some better safety protection putting in place ?

why? this is a natural place, not one for tourists perking about everything (no experience, outfit not suitable, no safety shoes but rubber slippers, partially drunk etc.)

and nobody uttered sofar that all these sa-mart systems incl. the sa-mart airport computers and all ATMs in this sa-mart nation still run on the very latest, sa-mart win95 system

22 hours ago, Sujo said:

Malaysians dont say that. Thats arabic. Malay word for god is tuhan. Malaysians dont like arabs.

 

60% of malaysians are muslim. So could be lots of chinese malays crossing the border. But then there are enough girls of the night in malaysia not to need to go. Unless they prefer thai.

they love the MAL- prohibited combination of Thai girls, big pork knuckles, boozing till half dead

On 7/21/2019 at 3:12 PM, jackdd said:

But they can't legally fine you, so you could just refuse to pay. Problem is that they might then refuse to process your extension or whatever you wanted from them.

two interesting aspects...

On 7/20/2019 at 5:19 PM, 2long said:

How about short-time hotels? ????

That'd be an interesting can of worms if everyone had to 'report' their stays! ????

the only way out is to entertain the lass at your home and not bother about sleazy hotels anymore

3 hours ago, Artisi said:

Could be interesting times coming for some, not so pleasant for others. 

sufficiently cryptic...

4 hours ago, Beggar said:

No. We don't want to wait so long. As usual we make our own story. 

yes...and parallel we wait for the next "escapade" of someone with bad luck

6 hours ago, Pilotman said:

went down to the beaches just west of Chantaburi last weekend, the surf was high and the red flags almost invisible. they were there, but hidden behind trees, and buildings.  Not a lot of use in those locations.  No lifeguards to be seen at their stations.  Some people paddling but nobody in the sea swimming.  Lots of signs warning of strong rip tides, but the signs all in Thai. So not much use to tourists. Mind you, the water there is a lovely light green and clear as a bell, very inviting. 

with all these people either coming from Nanny States (W-Europe, AU, NZ etc.) or having an extremely tiny brain: I don't need flags, people who chase me away from the beach, no loud speakers, no barriers ... I just look at the surf and tell myself "blimey"

21 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Yeah, can't see the "Curtain Hotels" filing a TM30. 

 

 

 

 

friend says "for the first time they did last week", now he is not going to present his documents anymore -- let the "fiancee" do this

13 hours ago, UKresonant said:

I think Krungsi are ahead of the pack with the FCD, electronic plastic card for in branch, ATM card for their machines, and nice paper statements through the post every so often. More likely the other banks will reduce the use of passbooks eventually. Also they could print the last 12 months of transactions for me, in a few minutes, when I asked them (in branch last month) ???? All inbound SWIFT transfers coded SWF...

one of the advantages with KrungSri having Japanese roots...

3 hours ago, Peterbkk99 said:

A reflection of the values of Thai society. Sad.

for me it is o.k. coz it predominantly reflects all the hot air around in this country in all walks of society

14 hours ago, OneEyedPie said:

The pink ID card also appears to be the Thai way of embarrassing male expats.  Quite effeminate if you ask me.  

only for certain western countries, pink appears to be quite queer for guys.

In Thailand, PINK is the colour of Tuesday and many males do  walk around in pinkish outfit (shirt, cap, tie, shawl/bandana sometimes)

8 hours ago, RobMuir said:

Thaivisa notes that Thai women frequently encounter problems abroad due to the large number of their compatriots who work in the sex industry and travel to countries like Taiwan to work. 

 

The Thai women are world famous for the sexual services they provide across the globe. 

 

If you tell people you have a thai girlfriend or wife most will assume she is a prostitute. They might not say it, but they think it.

 

I am guilty of that as well. Probably because most of the farang thai couples that I have met the woman was a sex worker.

Just the way it is.

what's wrong with a woman who was a sex worker before? Now she is a highly skilled, specialized wife with lots of valuable contacts!

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

How could the container truck fall over, looks like a straight road?

wind, gusts

sofar, used the Pinky on many occasions, mostly hotels, SIM card purchase, post office (!) when sending small parcels to overseas etc.

question: a Pinky with an integrated, readable chip would be state-of-the-art: any news on that?

here's today's news for all of those glorifying these trash people...

14 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

So helping dogs is more important than helping people. Is this what the new law means?

why do you want to distort reality? in most cases it is not "people" it is gang / mafia rackets behind each and every beggar: THEY get the biggest piece of the cake not their "employee" (= the beggar whom the mafia owns)

and as for the farang beggars who are free-lance con artists without mafia ties (but maybe have relatives who at the same time go for crowd funding as easy means of living in TH):

Kick them out of Thailand right away

4 hours ago, KittenKong said:

800,000 Baht plus 850 Baht. What was the 850 Baht for? Service charge?

 

Even when you are paying a massive bribe they find a way to nickel and dime it upwards.

 850 thb = entertainment tax