On 9/29/2019 at 8:12 AM, glegolo said:

WHY should it even be an issue?????

Just get your re entry permit, and you are of course allowed to go outside Thailand, and come back, even if it is just for a minute..

 

glegolo

I always have a 1yr multiple re-entry: pay once and forget about it

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I have done this without issue... 

tks for quick reply

1 hour ago, glegolo said:

WHY should it even be an issue?????

Just get your re entry permit, and you are of course allowed to go outside Thailand, and come back, even if it is just for a minute..

 

glegolo

thanks; but I believe in the axiom "never be sure about TH immi..."

I have a few errands in SIN to do (see bank in Changi AP and meet a friend who on transit that day):

want to leave BKK in the morning, come back same day evening: any probs with Thai immigration because of such a day trip? I live in TH on 365d retirement extension

Anybody ever did this?

virginity - an extremely theoretical state of the body in TH; none of these hi- banging so-called pretties remember when they last saw hers...

2 hours ago, ThaiRebound said:

They meant "fish sauce." Fish sauce is the ultimate aphrodisiac in Thailand.

cautious: not to be drunk but abundantly applied on skin

17 hours ago, bangkok12345 said:

Does this apply for whole Thailand or only Phuket?

not even for all of Phuket - they say it is limited to Karon and the airport area

2 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Imported goods should automatically become cheaper because of the baht. Lower for the importer that is.

And that's where it stops and doesn't get passed on; or if it does get passed on to the wholesaler it is unlikely to get any further than that. Certainly not to the consumer. It's called greed.

If there was such a thing as a Perceived Greed Index Thailand would be at the top.

as long as we talk "pricing farang food": our problems are

a) limited consumer power - in total we are not too many

b) little competition between suppliers in the Thai market

c) a possibly high percentage of food (stock) loss - shelf life expired...

5 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Some in Pattaya won't be aware that they live at the eelswamp (Nong Pla Lai)

 

The village names are often quite trivial.

"Nong" as above (swamp, marsh, mire...) is very frequent combined with other words like Nong Prue (sleepy swamp, not sure about this ).

We live in the villa of the abundant paddy(?). About 20 of same name in Thailand.

 

 

 

right; same as Suvarnabhumi now ("Golden Land") which was Nong Ngu Hao before ("cobra pit swamp")

On 9/10/2019 at 4:36 AM, Chazar said:

Ah yes what we need is  more TM30's  how  about a  weekly Tm30 which can be  updated to daily..............of  course seeing older people who have been on extensions for years with no problems  caused is  too easy to select these out of the "all falang" mentality.

the really ridiculous problem behind the TM30 harrassing  residents and the like is: None of all these terrorists flooding Thailand every day are ever  controlled and listed / covered by this TM30 ... it simply does not go for tourists!

7 hours ago, 3421abc said:

I am sure on the Malaysian insurgents in the south will be filling their TM30 ????

no need, all of them bought appropriate passports already...

20 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Get the DLT QR Licence app on Play Store and register. Then you have your DL on your phone 'legally'.

check your licence! Mine is valid but approx. 3 yrs old and it does not have the code on its back yet - then you won't get any further with the DLT app

On 9/2/2019 at 12:58 PM, MysteryX said:

And in practice, renting a scooter (or buying a motorbike) is really the only way to get around Thailand

is it?

train, bus, boat, airplane, taxi, samlor, baht bus, tuktuk, bicycle, walk ... and friends with vehicle plus valid DL

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