Lee4Life

I think JoePai meant when the original finish date was supposed to be, I do believe that has come and gone years ago, hasn't it?

So does the amount of money you possess indicate the amount of money you spend? How do you think wealthy people get wealthy, by spending all of their money? I have met some really thrifty people who have an awful lot of money. I know a millionaire who cuts cotton buds in half, one half for him and one half for his wife.

Was the American guy on a retirement visa? I fail to see the connection.

In other words Immigration is counting the extension as another Visa Exempt entry? Original visa exempt entry plus extension equals 2 visa exempt entries. But that would also mean they are back to the 2 entry per year limit on visa exempt entries. I have to admit I haven't been keeping up on all this.

It depends on the pharmacy, but the highest percentage will sell them to you without a prescription. Some pharmacists will also print you a prescription and stick it on the bag they put the meds in. I was with my Thai niece when she tried to buy some at a pharmacy in the Tesco mall here, and they said she had to have a prescription. We just went to another pharmacy outside of the mall complex, and they sold them to her.

The family were the victims in this story, and yet you seem to be blaming them. What doesn't seem sensible to you may seem sensible to others. Most people would wait longer than usual if it appeared they were losing a substantial amount of money,

The dogs here in Isan abuse the people, not the other way around.

sandals?

Maybe it was AI Police Robot

Sounds like you are just looking for a chance to dump on Americans to me. Back up your opinions with some facts, most of your statements hold no truth, they are just your opinions, and according to the chatter on many online forums, are untrue.

I'm sorry for the family and friends of the deceased fellow. Many times while driving at night I have come up behind heavily loaded trucks going uphill very slow, the tail lights are not very bright at times and the large loads also obscure the other marker lights on the truck at times. But it appears this time that they were traveling in opposite directions. Driving here requires such alertness and concentration at all times, but especially at night.

The lack of compassion so many of the posters on these threads is sickening. Most of you would be playing a different tune if it was one of your family members...but then again maybe not.

No, Where I'm from in the States there are lots of casinos, they are full of people who are not having fun because they have lost money, many times money they couldn't afford to lose. It's a place full of unhappy people as far as I'm concerned and I don't want to be there.

I can understand your reply, but the post I replied to specifically stated that the non o-a one year multiple entry retirement e-visa was currently unavailable. I was asking for source references.

What is the source of this info please? (besides "an unrelated thread"). The one year, multiple entry retirement visa I applied for and received 18 months ago in my home country was an e-visa.

I was thinking that looks like a big John Deere Tractor pulling a big double disc in the back ground, are those fir trees in the background also?

I was thinking more along the lines of a multi-story building or bridge. You are correct for being concerned they may make it out into the marketplace, the portion of the article dealing with the substandard electronics is proof of that. We have a couple of black burn marks on some of our electrical outlets from plugging in phone chargers that we just removed from their wrappings. They came along with rechargeable radio/mp3 players.

Driving against traffic has been responsible for so many traffic deaths over the years here. The typical answer when you ask a local why it is so common is "Thai people like it easy". I have even seen eighteen-wheelers driving against traffic to get to a u-turn opening and cross over. I will never forget driving past a u-turn on a four lane highway and seeing two Thai ladies lying on the roadway because they approached the u-turn from the wrong direction on their motorbike and were hit by a vehicle using the u-turn from the correct direction.

We just finished putting our power cable underground, our cables were overhead but the power poles were not behaving themselves, the PEA installed them for us, and we put concrete footings around the bases, but our ground becomes so fluid during the rainy season that they began leaning more and more and the cables drooping more and more. We contacted the PEA about having them unhook the current cables and hook up the new cables once we were done, and their initial reaction was to question us as to who the electrician was we had doing the job, When our Thai niece told them it was a licensed electrical contractor from America, the fellow she was talking to said "American standards may not be the same as Thai standards". So our niece asked hi to send us the Thai standards, to which he replied, "we don't have any specific written standards for that". He said they would have to come and inspect our work before committing to changing the cable over. We used HDPE and 25 guage NYY cable, as we were unable to source the size of poly we wanted (1-1/4") we used 2 each 1" polys and just ran one cable in each pipe. We dug ditch to 50cm and installed 4 inch metal electrical runner up the side of the house. When our niece sent pictures of our work to the PEA fellow and said we were ready for the cables to be changed at the meter, his reply was, "go ahead and do it yourself, I can see that you guys did a lot of work". Swapping the cables out at the meter and service in the house went quickly. Our contractor friend from back home said the use of the NYY cables was overkill, as the 'W" in THW stands for "wet", and that's what code calls for in the rainy Pacific North West where we live, according to him NYY is rated for direct burial. Our cable had been up for the 18 years we have been here, so I don't mind that we bought new cable. The old 25 gauge THW is really stiff and we weren't sure the insulation coating wasn't compromised by the weather here. It was a lot of work, the ground was rock hard, and finding the correct materials was a pain, but I would do it over again if needed, peace of mind is priceless.

Let's see... the fellow is a Canadian, driving a pickup, and somehow you manage to bring America and SUV's and guns into the mix?

Enduro Bikes are considered dirt bikes here, but I understand the haha....how many of the vehicles really should be on the roads here?

A small minority in this case was six individuals running around with a huge knife. You don't think that if the same thing happened to an elderly Thai man it would hit the press? It's good to know about these things so others can be cautious and keep an eye open.

Just a heads up, we crossed from NongKhai last week and after getting our 40$ visa on arrival we were exiting the border and the officer who inspects the paperwork upon exiting asked where our receipt for the "Tax for Entering the Country" was (Pah-Si Kao Muang Kao Patit). When I said that we didn't have to pay an entry fee because we paid 40$ for our visa on arrival, he said, "not any more, there's a new tax for entering the country" and directed us to go to a machine nearby where we had to pay 40 baht each and then show the final officer the receipt.

Doesn't "youth" include minors? Doesn't sound legal.