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I have a great workaround for this for mobile YouTube on my phone.

I use my smartwatch which is connected to my phone and has the ability to override the play function on the YouTube app without removing the prompt question, ensuring no further prompts/ interruptions.

An article approvingly linked from the article here says he admitted to taking $500,000 of his fans' money in a Ponzi scheme.

It looks like he's finally experiencing the rewards of his general behaviour.

And as for other people here complaining that lewd display is normal in Thailand, this is different because it involves distribution of obscene content for money over the internet. Thailand is notoriously strict on this.

3 hours ago, BritTim said:

the company often handles all the paperwork

I agree with you on this.

But they would have benefited from knowing. I guess they will find out eventually from somebody.

Even if the company handles things, as mine does, you still have to physically turn up yourself at chengwatana. 

This e-extension offers two advantages. It removes the absurd waste of time sitting around at chengwatana (even with an appointment last year it still took well over 5 hours), and ensures that some clerical error by the office does not result in having to attend twice.

2 hours ago, DTiger said:

Deafening

You would think that people would be throwing themselves at this option-- getting all the documents approved without even attending Chaeng Wattana-- but instead all there is is silence.

I appreciate that most of the forum users retirees or aspirational retirees, and they are specifically excluded, but that still leaves a large number of others.

I'm just bumping this because the silence is deafening.

I really want to hear some feedback on the use of the e-extension as I'm going to use it in the next couple of days. So, if you have ever used it, how did it go, how quick was it?

1 hour ago, Maestro said:

issue neither work permits nor work permit extensions

Correct.

They describe it as a 'visa extension' by proof of a valid work permit. I was sloppy in my wording. And arguably they are also sloppy with their wording.

Interestingly, the service is heavily plugged on the Immigration Police website. The "e-extension".

But as I said before, it is rather restrictive to who can use it. I would be keen to hear how it went for others.

I found the website.

Has anyone had experience?

Please note that it excludes retirement visas. And only includes a restricted class of work permits.

Here is a newspaper article on it.

Sometime around mid-2022, I saw that for work permit extensions it was now possible to upload documentation to the immigration police in advance of the appointment date. They would then approve or disapprove the documents in advance.

This is hugely useful because refusals of extensions are almost always because of clerical errors completely unconnected to the farang applicant.

I'm unable to find on the immigration police website the link. Has anyone got it? Has anyone used it?

12 minutes ago, john donson said:

western european country

You are narrowing it down...

But it is still absolutely useless information. Every country has an entirely different legal system. In fact, the UK alone has several different legal systems; an English lawyer has no idea about Scottish law for divorces.

13 minutes ago, john donson said:

that should be good enough

No. 

I'm not really sure this should be categorised as a "crisis", but instead is the new norm.

Europe, with the UK, has been in a sustained relative decline to the United States. In 2008 Europe was larger than United States and today United States is 1/3 larger than Europe, around six trillion dollars.

All the indicators suggest this will continue. Europe simply cannot compete. It's only hope of fairly cheap energy was Russia, and we can see will be presumably gone for years. Without that energy, German manufacturing will move to the United States as it has been doing. Terminal decline is the new norm.

In the meantime, the UK working classes will suffer to an unusually heavy extent. One of the major aims of the EU was to take power from the ruling classes of the individual countries and regionalize it. It also had a very intense social regulatory programme to make the working classes lives better.

Even when in EU, the UK ruling elite ensured that the UK opted out of these regulations, pushing zero contract hours. The idea today continues in plans to make the UK the Singapore of Europe. In fact this today is really the UK's only hope. But there's a lack of bravery in the government to commit to it. It is also largely a fantasy since for it to happen you need an extremely educated population and the UK has a famously poorly educated population for a developed country, below the small but highly regarded elite strata.

The British working class are also notoriously troublesome (the image in Victorian paintings of the gin-soaked masses rings true even today) while Singapore relies on an extremely docile populous.

I see nothing but pain and suffering. The population will increasingly vote far right. Criminality will increase. Wealthy foreigners will exit, as they have been doing for the last 5 years. The UK will fade into irrelevancy. And the growing populations of Africa, owing to climate change, will gradually but inevitably take over.

I haven't used them except very occasionally since the expansion of the metro services. But I was always amazed that they stuck to the same routes despite all the alternative transport networks growing around them. It just didn't make sense as they were following the route patterns for a city that no longer existed.

The App ('ViaBus') with all the positions via GPS of most of the buses on most of the bus routes hugely enhances the experience. We've gone from having no idea where buses go or how frequent, to knowing the exact location of the buses in real time.

I'm sure it'll be a long time for all the routes to use a card for payment.

1 minute ago, NextG said:

Actually the deposit ATM idea is the best if you know her account number.

I've never used the ATM for depositing despite living here for years and having had accounts with 4 different banks at different times.

It doesn't require any identification? I suppose the bank gets its photo.

33 minutes ago, digbeth said:

if's you making  a deposit in person, they'd have to look back at cctv footage to find the time you made it, dig to the copies of your ID that they had made, the bank won't do it without valid reason like she suspect she's being scammed by being sent money?

This sounds good. I'll go ahead and do it.

36 minutes ago, NextG said:

Get them to send the 25k and you can reimburse them. 

She will simply pay the money back to them or compel them to tell her my name. She will feel the guilt to repay if she can find a way to do it.

4 minutes ago, Trippy said:

They just have you write your name and phone # on the receipt.

Is that info added to the records of the deposit or just kept by the bank for itself?

4 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Her maternal grandmother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia

That's surprising because schizophrenia, when it is inherited (50% of cases), is almost always through the paternal lineage (90%).

A Thai friend needs to get some surgery, but she doesn't have the money. I want to gift her the money but I never want her to feel any obligation to pay it back. She has a heart of gold and will want to pay it back.

I think surgery will probably cost around 25,000 baht.

Can I simply deposit cash into her account by going to her bank? I can obtain her bank details because she has shared them with a mutual friend to sort out a lunch payment.

So my concern is for it to be anonymous to her. I'm wondering if by paying by cash I can achieve that, or do banks here require the sender's name to be on the deposit? 

The problem I can imagine is with legislation on money laundering, but I don't care about the bank knowing who deposited, just the receiver. 

1 hour ago, bigt3116 said:

Non-B is a visa and therefore can not be cancelled

Every law firm website I have looked at describes it as a cancellation. What are you suggesting is occurring and what word is suitable?

2 hours ago, fdimike said:

It looks like a moving walkway to me rather than an escalator

It's described by the airport as a travelator.

20 hours ago, ballpoint said:

Cancel the work permit and immediately go to immigration for a retirement extension

Must be on the same day?

What exactly happens on your passport on that day you cancel the work permit and go to immigration?

(That period is a time of anxiety because you can easily be forced to leave the country if things are screwed up)

On 2/13/2023 at 9:13 AM, MRToMRT said:

its the same Thai sweatshop that makes them all for the "tailor" fronts anyway.

Not true, but certainly true for almost all of them.

My one, who is a closely guarded secret, can be seen stitching the suits and shirts together when he has no customers.

He is, of course, nowhere near Sukhumvit Road. And I don't want his prices to triple when some out-of-towners from Thaivisa turn up.