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Here is that case. (BBC)

"all parties involved in the act of adultery can be liable for adultery and may be sued under the civil and commercial code. Adultery in Thailand is defined as sexual intercourse between a person who is married and another person who is not their spouse." [Source]

Ex-lawyer here. I agree it'd be GBH as a matter of law. The external bleeding is sufficient for a charge of GBH through wounding. Although in practice, the charge might get diluted to ABH at the courts.

So the streamer got fined for 'voluntarily quarreling and being a public nuisance'. Nice.

Big news this week so I felt I should bump this thread. Zenni, who many of you use, have just released a range of migraine relief glasses of the FL-41 type. They are really competitive with the more specialist manufacturers. You can easily get a pair for around $90. And with a wide variety of frames and crucially, the typical cheap prescriptions that Zenni offer. $90 for prescription plus FL-41 tech is a bargain.

For anybody wondering why he would be going to a remand prison despite having already received a sentence: "The Bangkok Remand Prison is for prisoners who have cases in the Court of First Instance, but this prison also has prisoners whose cases have already had judgment in the first court and are awaiting the process for the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court." You are on remand until you have exhausted all your appeal options.

OP, take a photo of the denial of entry stamp, and explain what the "trumped up charges" were. This will help us to gather the possible ways for you to get back into Thailand. If, for example, you were denied entry for previous convictions from a street fight, then your possibility of getting back anytime soon is much reduced compared with simply using tourist visas too much. It is very revealing that you refuse to do these two things.

This is a question of risk tolerance analysis. I don't think anyone came to Thailand hoping to bring with them Blighty's extreme risk aversion.. Surely most people came to escape it. Whilst it is true that young men (around 20 years old), who have a genetic vulnerability to schizophrenia, can develop schizophrenia because of cannabis, this horrifying threat must be balanced against the reality of how safe it is for most people. The man who died here was middle aged, far outside of the risk group for mental breakdown, and indeed he suffered from no mental breakdown. Perhaps a sensible balance would be banning cannabis from anybody under 25 years old. So now it's a question of a heart attack and its relation to cannabis. It's important to keep these issues of mental breakdowns and heart attacks quite separate, or risk aversion will become the new culture of Thailand wherever Farang are found.

Really? I've never heard of the money moving from the woman's household to the man's household, such as in India. Your claim makes for an interesting sociological and historical analysis of sin sod, and the changes with gay marriage. It's fascinating because it's not legal for gays to marry in Thailand, and yet his parents are claiming by historical analogy a right to sin sod.

Your partner has to be persuaded to take it more seriously. The possibility of future limb amputation and blindness should hopefully wake him up. Start with this nice, clean NHS explanation.

Can you not simply order the bank statements via your bank app, as you sit on your balcony sipping MaiTais, and they arrive instantly as PDFs? I get statements all the time with this system. Takes a solid 2 minutes.

Big Joke took a huge risk in accusing his superiors of massive corruption. He lost his job and somebody tried to murder him. So this is a real comeback story. Here's the hero we need.

It means "I resigned" or, owing to an ambiguity in English, could also mean "I resign (there and then)".

You might sleep better if you use a white noise appliance. Huge numbers available from literal mechanical fans to noises of nature soundboxes. Or you could try ASMR, such as the "French Whisperer" on YouTube. He has 4 hour audios about everything from the history of ancient Egypt to the myths of India. They knock me out within 3 minutes.

Don't drink for at least one year. "If you have had a brain injury, there is no amount of alcohol that is safe for you to consume. In fact, you should avoid alcohol completely, especially during the early recovery stage when your brain is healing. Besides the risk of worsening the effects of a traumatic brain injury, if you have experienced an injury to your brain, alcohol should be avoided for the following reasons: • As a toxic and foreign substance in your body, alcohol can interfere with your brain’s natural healing process. This can be detrimental to a full recovery. • Your brain won’t be able to absorb alcohol as well as it used to, causing the effects of alcohol to be stronger than they were before." [Source]

Of course. A lot is riding on your misinterpretation of the word "alternative". I simply mean that Kasikorn has decided in its risk management strategy to switch from disabling the app to warning the users of the dangers instead. It is an alternative. I'm glad I could clear this up for you.

The app actually introduces the awareness test as an alternative to the disabling of other apps. Since I've now passed the test I can't show the screen, but if somebody was to do it, the app reminds them to be careful if they have other apps which read actions on the screen. And then it offers the awareness test as a way for the user to see how well they grasp the potential danger. It is clear that the awareness test is precisely in the bank's eyes a way to move on from the annoying disabling of the app.

In line with the fears over scams, Kasikorn's app, like some of the other banking apps, had required --for the last few weeks-- the disabling of apps designed to read actions on the screen. This is a huge number of apps, ranging from antivirus apps to apps to skip adverts on YouTube. Although I understand the thinking behind it, this was extremely annoying, since it meant in practise, the disabling of around apps every time the banking app was opened. They have abandoned this policy, and replaced it with a simple test for every app user. It will now be down to the user to determine if they trust the other apps they have downloaded. If you didn't know those correct answers, you have no business using a bank, let alone its app.

This. As soon as inflation levels were lower than expected, the market will anticipate lower interest rates, which will naturally mean a weaker pound. Economics 101.

I also recommend Melatonin. When you try it just start with a small amount to begin with. For me, just 0.5mg is enough to knock me out. If I take more than 2 mg, I get muscle twitching on my lips and I am unable to sleep. Be careful. But the best thing to do is to not medicate and instead use the classic tools of life: exercise until exhaustion and wander around in nature.

There is one additional point I should make: the surcharge depends on the urgency of the application. Same-day turn around is expensive but guaranteed. The cheapest version, which I think is a 500 baht charge, is advertised as taking between 4 and 7 days.

That thread that is linked was put together by me. In regard to your questions. 1. I really wanted to use it this year but the extremely poor English explanation in VFS website (the same company also doing British passports etc), creates too much uncertainty. There is no Thai language version to check the English against. They also, disconcertingly, say they will reject the application if there is any error and keep the money. If it really is that strict, not giving a chance to send new or corrected documents, then that is pretty ridiculous. 2. They are really aggressively pushing this electronic extension. There are signs advertising it all over immigration, including a huge ad plastered on the outside of the immigration office. So I imagine they have big plans. As Crossy points out, they only will do it for very few visas. My visa is one of only a tiny number of visa types that are allowed to do the electronic extension. Interestingly, when you log on to the VFS site, it is linked to my British passport applications. And, fascinatingly, it states which particular documents would be required for my particular application. It is as if VFS have been given all the details of all the possible applicants in advance. In regard to the idea that the electronic extension holds little advantage over making an appointment, that is not the case. With the electronic extension you literally walk in and get the new visa almost instantly at a special desk. In contrast, even with an appointment system, my visa still takes around 4 to 6 hours to get done.

That's interesting. I found that all but one of the N1 counters were converted/turned into N2 counters for the entire morning. If things stay the same, it makes sense for me to go very late in the day. Around 3pm.

Just to bounce this thread. If any person on this forum has been given an N2 ticket by the Immigration Police please let me know your visa type. Thank you.

There is no such thing as N2 desk. There is a subgroup of N, which share with N1 group, the N counters. It could be extremely useful for me to know which group of visa holders they are.