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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.

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear enough. I'm asking what is N2. I already know what N is. It doesn't refer to a particular area. It refers to a particular group of applicants who fall within the N group. Who are this group?

The N counter is used for non-business work, such as diplomats, experts, teachers, as well as students and monks. But what is the N2 subgroup specifically?

That's an interesting development. In the early 1990s "it's political correctness gone mad" phase of politics, what might be called a proto-Woke spasm, a similar conflation occurred between health and safety/risk avoidance issues and the "rectification of names" involved in the process of political correctness. The conflation arose then because both involved a sense of petty, wasteful bureaucracy, and both produced lots of headline news stories.

Kettle logic.

I ruled out taking the vaccine after I spoke to the doctor when she tested me positive for dengue the first time. Firstly, it is expensive. Secondly, from my memory of the chat, it requires several jabs over a long period of time. Thirdly, it's not actually that effective; I recall her saying around 60%, and then it fades with time. In addition, there other nasty mosquito diseases which the vaccine will have no effect on. In Thailand, they are the Zika virus and the Chikungunya virus. My doctor actually thought I had the Zika virus until the test results came back.

I can't speak for him but let me describe my 4-day headache from my dengue infection last year. The headache was no worse than the migraines I often get. But no matter what there was no relief for 4 days, except if I sat in a almost boiling shower. But the relief only lasted in the shower and 10 minutes after it. That brief period was the only chance I had to fall asleep. So for 4 days and 4 nights, I went back and forth to the shower every 30 minutes or so. I felt so exhausted from the pain and lack of sleep, that I gave up even drying myself off from the shower. I would just walk to my bed soaked wet and drop to sleep. I was so sensitive to light that when I went for a short walk at 2 in the morning, I wore sunglasses, and I still felt dazzled by the night light of the moon. There were other problems as well but this was the largest problem for the last few days. It was just a headache and yet there are very few people who have a headache which does not end for that length of time at that intensity. I'm so glad I did not go to hospital. By being home I could control the lighting, get to the shower, and keep the room completely quiet.

Just to explain what is going on here: a Russian refugee living in Georgia and working in IT, likes to comment on anyone with a silly understanding of Russia. This effectively opens up to him almost the entire population of the United States. In this particular review he's looking at the general tendency of Americans to see not just Russia but even Thailand as places to escape ideologies of America, not grasping that they are also not utopias. The conservative here is ironically making the precise argument that radical leftist feminist Judith Butler was making in her famous work, 'Gender Trouble'. She argued that not just gender but also even sex is performatively produced (this is the book where "performative" emerged in American discourse). The extreme conservative is favourable to that position by his supporting Thai ladyboys because they truly act like women, as in they performatively constitute themselves as women. He is implicitly opposed to American ladyboys because they don't try to act in conformity with his constructed image of women. It's interesting to look at this tail end of the 30 year-- increasingly flagging-- dialectical arguments between liberal forces and conservative forces. And just as expected, after all the screaming and shouting and knashing of teeth, the conservative ends up as the liberal. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

A particularly effective strategy is to lie on your left side.

This database has around 3 million books now. It is by far the best collection on the internet. Thailand is indifferent to the question of its legality. Western countries claim it is illegal.

The issue is not how much weight you have lost, but whether you are now at an acceptable weight. You should aim to be straight down the middle of the BMI chart.

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.

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.

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?

They get access to the medical records etc as required by the terms of the insurance agreement.