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4 hours ago, orchidfan said:

as others here have advised, I needed to inform the bank (BBL).

I use my old passport number for the bank. It has never been a problem, and this is after around 8 years.

It operates as a security feature in my favour: observe, improvise, overcome. 

On 6/17/2023 at 6:33 PM, nauseus said:

rebates and vetoes had disappeared before we left. 

Wrong on the issue of rebates.

"Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher successfully negotiated the UK Rebate which was adopted in the May 1985 European Council decision. It was in place until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union." - Wikipedia

14 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

Britain would be welcome back in the EU anytime

But would the UK get the amazing deal they had before? This sheer number of fantastic optouts would surely not be allowed again.

5 hours ago, Plern said:

 

I don't need a VD test because I'm not having sex with prostitutes.

The test is mandatory for anyone applying for a work permit.

As for the cost of the clinic, I'm simply pointing out a normal price at most clinics.

1 hour ago, Plern said:

I've used it in years past for a work permit

My clinic charges me 100 baht every year for the documents for the physical. I then pay a lab 120 baht to do the mandatory VDRL test. 

On 5/29/2023 at 9:42 AM, FritsSikkink said:

Goodbye, enough of your rambling.

Now that you have had time to calm down, it would be a great opportunity for you to look back through the thread and use it as a great educational opportunity.

24 minutes ago, thaiscot said:

I don't  want a concurrent  passport

You are literally describing a concurrent passport. Do you understand the meaning of the word concurrent?

16 minutes ago, BangkokHank said:

I can't recall ever seeing such a thing in Thailand. Maybe they exist but we farangs just don't know how to find them?

They are on every other street. Just look for the Thai word for "clinic".

The ones in Thailand tend to be very very basic with typically a retired surgeon doing simple checks and providing simple advice. Very few medical procedures such as unstitching will be performed there.

26 minutes ago, thaiscot said:

as there is no such thing as a concurrent  uk passport but thanks anyeay

Wrong.

"A second UK passport is when an individual has two separate British passports simultaneously and can use both of them at that same time. This is different from dual citizenship and is also known as “concurrent passports”." Source.

If you ever want the Elite Visa (a pricey but convenient visa for long-term touristic visits) in the future then be warned, they do take past overstays into account. 

8 minutes ago, glegolo18 said:

People are being sent hoem to die home.. Discusting...

This is an issue of control norms and not an issue of deprivation or cruelty or incompetence.

Please see the substantive comment by Nurse Sheryl ( @Sheryl) in another recent topic on palliative care in a forum post by a member who is about to die.

On 6/9/2023 at 3:26 PM, Vibora99 said:

Why don't you ask on the street?

>Walks out the building to a barren wasteland of car parks and 8-lane roads.

>Screams to the concrete building 3 km away: "what massage options are there?" 

>Hears but his echo and the passing tumbleweed 

2 hours ago, flbkk said:

I did mine in person recently after moving to another room (same building and landlord).

I've experienced exactly the same scenario. 

The issue of whether you need to present a new TM30 when you move within the exact same apartments to a different room causes friction within the immigration police.

If you telephone the immigration police they will tell you it is not a requirement, but there are officers who will say it is a requirement. This has been the case since the immigration officers presented a notice requiring the TM30 for extensions to visas in around 2020.

My impression is that it has relaxed again.

32 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

The Italian version of Boris in many ways!

This is very accurate.

Until Berloscuni, politicians covered up their dirty private lives and demanded journalists not intrude into them.

Berloscuni was an innovator. He grasped that the best way in hedonistic modern times is to deflect attention from policies by encouraging the media to look at his naughty private life.

The media would ask him serious economic questions, and he would ask why don't they talk about his naughty swimming pool party.

You can see that Boris and Trump took notice of this new style.

The Friese-Greene Club, off Sukhumvit soi 22, is famous for having a tiny cinema with around a dozen seats. Perhaps they will let you use their screen. 

In general, you can renew 6 months before expiry and up to one year after, without incident. After one year, there are annoying extra documents/tests required.

28 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

Just out of curiosity where does the foreign aid (Foreign Office) get the money for asylum seekers?

They siphon it out of their own foreign aid budget. That total budget amount has consistently been below the amount that the government promised for international aid.

As a First World country, the UK sends development aid to the  Third World. The government has simply deducted from that budget to pay the budget of asylum seekers. There is no net increase in cost to the taxpayer.

You can imagine that a lot of left-wingers are rather upset about this as they already feel the international aid amount is unimpressive. Daily Mail readers, by contrast, are simply ignorant and feel there has been some extra cost incurred by the arrival of asylum seekers.

8 hours ago, Dene16 said:

Thank you for letting google explain that you are talking a load of tosh,

Cost of retirees in 2022: 112.5 billion British pounds

Cost of unemployment benefits for all the unemployed in the UK, not only migrants, was 1.23 billion in 2022.

Cost of asylum seekers was £3.7 billion, or 29% of its aid budget, in 2022. 

[Source: Statista, the UK government's own statistics unit]

They are the simple statistics.

Crucially, you will note, as I stated before, that the entire cost of asylum seekers come out of the foreign aid budget, so there has been not a single penny extra in cost to the taxpayers because of asylum seekers. I don't know how I can make this any clearer.

You will also notice that the entire cost of all unemployment benefits in the UK is a rounding error compared with the cost of retirees.

The facts don't care about your feelings.

If you had actually used Google as I told you to I would not now have to waste my time pointing out that I was right on every point I made. 

•mic drop

Is this "somethings crawling on us" in the room with you right now?

Is it talking to you? Is it trying to get you to do anything?

I think the psychiatrist might be an option.

But make sure you select roaming on your phone before you take off from Thailand! (It is normally disabled on your phone's menu)

8 hours ago, Dene16 said:

packed full of foreigner's bleeding our welfare state dry

The cost of refugees comes out of the funds siphoned from the foreign aid budget. It actually has incurred no cost to taxpayers, but has worsened the suffering of desperate foreigners abroad.

If you mean the cost of welfare for people of working age then I you are living in fantasies concocted by The Daily Mail and The Sun newspapers. The welfare budget is a rounding error compared with the astonishing cost of the pension budget.

Please use Google. It is your friend.