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by bad i thought he was pattaya...

some people spend the night at the jometiemthani hotel near immigration and i unerstand they give you a tm30....pain in butt and another expense but i guess it works for some...

MY original was a 60 day tourist visa which i had extended one time for 30 days and had the tm30 form ok....then went to cambodia to get 45 more days...when that was expiring went back to jomtiem immigration about ten days ago...Same tm30 form was still stapled into passport and nothing had changed... had not moved from same condo and had all receipts showing paid up BUT they said no good....have to go get a new tm30 and come back next day....no fine, no can we call the rental agent, no discussion...so went back to property manager and they gave me another tm30 which was accepted...at least on second visit i did not have to go to the end of the line but was put in the line of people who were also there day before and were back again...which was a LOT of people but not as bad as go back to end of line square one.... short answer to OP question? Best to have a new tm30 even if old one appears perfectly good...so go see landlord or property manager and get one to avoid an extra trip ...enen if landlord says no need as it is the immigration person that decides not the landlord....

according to todays reports the officers admitted to extortion...now why would they admit that if they did not do it? also the reports indicate that checkpoint and cops helmet cameras had been wiped clean....now why would they do that as surely the video would prove their innocence? dimwits?

Yeah boy Trump sure did provide a perfect role model for the nations children. I really want him to decide what children should be allowed to read or be taught....Favorite classes? 1. Just grab em by the pxxxxy 2. How to make fun of handicapped people 3. 100 lies in 20 days: How to Lie like a pro 4. How to hire a porn star. 5. How to use a Bible for a political prop 6. How to avoid the military with fake bone spurs. 7. How to declare bankruptcy and stick workers with your bills. 8. How to act like you know more than experts 9. How to keep the uneducated drinking kool aide 10 How to throw your friends, famiy, staff under the bus, 11. How to cheat on your wives 12. How to lust after your own daughter and seem normal. 13. How to use racist slurs effectively 14. How to praise neo Nazis 15. How to steal classified documents 16. How to raise money for a cause and spend it on yourself 17. How to encourage violence, murder and mayhem 18. How to have more golden idols than carter had peanuts 19. How to make fools of people who worship you 20. How to run a fake university and make millions. 21. How to engage in tax fraud for decades 22. How to know less history than a 5th grader. 23. How to cure diseases by drinking bleach 24. How to take from the poor and give to the rich. 25. How to match your fake tan with orange jumpsuits.

If you want to ban a book that is full of sex, murder, violence and fairy tales start with the Bible.

and who exactly gets to decide what books are allowed and what are banned....a bunch of politicians or political appointees? Bring in the bible beaters, the flat earth bunch and the conspiracy theory lunatics? Don't forget the election deniers, the anti vax, the anti science, the anti global warming bunch cause they no doubt want the kids to be dumbed down to their levels. How about have a national standard where any book proposed as inappropriate is reviewed by a board of education professionals selected by a large group of teachers who actually have some knowledge of schools, libraries, school kids, etc..who can discuss after actually reading the books in question and make appropriate recommendations? I don't need or want some right wing bible beating moron like desantis or one of his bat sxxt crazy political appointee deciding what is appropriate. What's next revive the Salem witch trials?

EV just like most every other vehicle from cars to planes to motocycless to bikes to tanks to ships continue to improve with new technology....the first gas cars are a far cry from what they have evolved to....EV and others that use something other than dead plants to propel them will also evolve and in the future people will look back and say how primitive that we burned dead plants to power our transport.

In a strange way I want trump to get the nomination as he has proven he is a loser. If he does not get the nomination then look for a 3rd party MAGA run (assuming his incompetent crew can file the paperwork)....which would split the vote and also insure a dem win. Of course T then can raise millions more from his delusional MAGA base and claim that he and he alone brought down the republican party. That would be the best case scenario for trump...he can sit in mar largo with millions of MAGA dollars to pxss away as he pleases all the while whining about how unfair it all has been and how great the world would be if only they would listen to the Biggest Loser. He is not now and never has been nor never will be a gracious loser or even admit when he loses. That will not change. The odds of him yielding to a Desantis type are slim to none. He will burn it all down before he supports anyone but himself. Repubs best chance is for him to be in jail. If they have half a brain they will be cheering for an indictment and felony convictions.

another farang who knows better than the thai people who actually voted for the Shin gang in a landslide ....but of course their votes don't count because they don't have their hearts in it....and the powers that be can overthrow the will of the people with a nice illegal coup.... it is so simple...let the thai people vote for who they want to and then honor the results of their vote without a bunch of jacked up charges pursued by a bunch of generals and their wealthy backers who themselves illegally seized power.

never had that problem at all....

only 8.5 billion a day...give or take a few hundred million.... The latest data shows that Google processes over 99,000 searches every single second (Internet Live Stats, 2022). This makes more than 8.5 billion searches a day (Internet Live Stats, 2022

why not ..or just have an election and shoot any winners that you don't like or do a coup in the middle of the night and tell the voters that you and you alone know what is best for them....take "dear leader" as your nickname.

There are a lot of folks who come across as having the iq of a bucket of mud or a box of rocks but think they are Einstein. 98 Most people (about 68 percent) have an IQ between 85 and 115. Only a small fraction of people have a very low IQ (below 70) or a very high IQ (above 130). The average IQ in the United States is 98.

Sometimes you will see dumpy little bars that have way too many girls sitting out front. There is no way the bar can be paying them all a salary. Some of these bars get lots of girls who are looking for easy money on a straight commission basis ....if she can get you to buy her a 150-180 baht drink she may well get 100 baht a drink....get 5 guys a day to buy you a drink and you have made 500 baht a day which for many thai gals is not all that bad a payday....some of these gals would not be interested in being barfined or going with you unless she either really likes you or you throw silly money her way. Some may be looking for a full time boyfriend to go live with IF you meet her standards re age/looks/$$ etc. The bar is able to attract a lot of drinking guys without having to pay salaries to the gals if they do the straight commission gig...the girls that sell a lot of drinks will do well and the ones that don't will drift away. There are more than one type of bar and many more kinds of "bar girls".

If as was reported the video was reviewed and nothing to see then why in the world would the RTP not have had a big press conference, release the unedited video , make a big deal out of it and prove the RTP did nothing wrong? Any PR company in the world would advise them to get that video out there asap and kill the negative story quickly. Me thinks there is something on that video that is "troubling". Prove me and all the other suspicious people around the world wrong and release it now and have the gal shown to be the liar/conwoman/click bait pile that she is being accused of being. I am sure the taiwanese media would be all over it.

yes Pattaya is pretty busy right now...but....has there been a year in recent history when the snowbirds don't start to return to their home countries in the springtime? And regular tourists prefer to avoid the off season weather of Thailand when it is hotter, rainier, smokier? It is simply a more pleasant time to visit most areas of Thailand between Nov and March,,,add to that those are often freezing cold weather months in a good chunk of the world and no big surprise. Also the summer months in Thailand are often the very best months to be in North America/Europe etc due to good weather there. Maybe the Russians and Chinese and Indians will pour in even more during normal soft season but I don't see that happening with tourists from North America/ Europe. The condo where I live is pretty full right now...but the property managers say check back in late March or April as lot of people leaving then.

court case? i doubt that.

it is already a public spectacle so if the tape shows no wrong doing who in their right mind would not release it to kill the story and demand an apology to the RTP... ..we all know how much they like to have photos with a gang of cops all pointing to the perpetrators of various crimes....never seems a problem getting those pics out quickly...

yep but how many border bounces are allowed per year? and sooner or later the air asia bounces will likely not please immigration if overdone....i am betting a year from now there will be a lot of overstays to be dealt with...or maybe a lot will ultimately go to cambodia and settle in there for a while....but i guess if they do have the $$ it's not that big a deal as that will get you one year visas with a proper reward to agent/immigration without too much trouble...i doubt many would want to get deported back to russia if they are not part of the putin gang....

So what about the video at the police station? Surely there are cameras there that record everyone entering and leaving? And where is the police report of such a horrible incident that surely the police would write down the basics? There is a reason that most countries require police to wear video cameras....and does anyone really believe that at least one of these gals would not have recorded it all on their phone video...hell they record what they had for lunch on their phone....did the girls just decide to delete it or were they as stated forced to do so? If video showed nothing happened then gals might delete....otherwise cops would want it deleted. So lets see the official police videos from every camera as well as police station and the police logs if there were koreans also there as she says....if the cops say oh sorry don't have that then i think that would be damning evidence cops are hiding something. In other words look at the evidence. Isn't that sort of police investigation rule number one in any investigation? If police have videos that clearly show she never entered police station and no koreans there that would certainly make her less credible and the police should get it out there asap to aid their side of story. What's the delay? They either have it or they don't.

So when all the 30 day extensions are used up and if the Russian war continues to draft and send the Russian people off to fight the war how many of the current Russian tourists will become overstays? I for one would prefer to stay in nice warm cheap Thailand than go back to brutal winters and a brutal dictator. There are tons of condos all around Pattaya owned by Russians who likely would be happy to get a bit of rent from some fellow ruskies. I could be wrong but I predict massive numbers of overstays coming soon. Will Thailand look the other way or actually round them up and deport? Are immigration and other government officials all licking their chops at the thought of big envelopes headed their way for dodgy visas?

These cops sure do have a lot of different versions of what happened....it's not rocket science...just tell the truth...why did you stop her, why was she detained, how much was her "fine" and what was it for, where is the receipt for said payment, is it on camera, etc etc...basic police report 101 that barney fife could handle...

yeah oh boy if only trump had been able to overthrow the election then he could have been more of a tyrant dictator like his buddies putin and dear leader then trump would have told putin what to do and putin would have laughed in his face like every other world leader did for past four years.....trumpers don't seem to understand that trump is finished because he was a horrible president that would not take advice from any of his own hand picked "best and brightest" cabinet and advisers....all of whom he praised to high heaven when appointing them only to fire them and call them incompetent idiots when they dared to tell him what he did not want to hear....and of course mr bone spur knows more than all of the US generals who actually experienced war, studied war, lived war first hand while trump was playing golf and grabbing em by the pxxxxy

Go spend a day at immigration in Jomtiem and see how tourists who are in thailand already and would like to stay a bit longer are treated like irritating herds. Part of any promotion should also include trying to make it simple and easy for those who might want to stay and spend money for another month or two without suspecting they all have nefarious intentions when most simply want to extend a vacation a bit longer. As for the expats...promote a snow bird visa for six months avail once a year that is online and simple to get as long as clean record etc....there are a LOT of snowbirds worldwide that go to mexico or spain or wherever to spend cold winter months in warm climates....not exactly tourists but not exactly residents. Promote the off season to snow birds from countries down under etc whose seasons are reversed and would very nicely be added biz during Thailand's low season. Promote that Thailand has warm weather year round and welcomes snow birds....lots and lots of retired couples come here rent condos or hotels spend a pile of $$ and get treated like <deleted> ( and yes often yelled at ) by immigration with visa extensions involving tons of worthless forms to be filled out, copies of this and that, 1900 baht fee or pay an agent even more....even with a tourist visa after 60 days have to do extensions and/or a visa run to cambodia (3500 thb min and wasted full l day) or fly away to vietnam or ??. Are these snow birds really some kind of threat to Thailand? I see a lot of trade show junkets in list of targeted countries which will be very nice expensive paid trips for a lot of TAT staff and especially big bosses to go visit these countries stay in top hotels, wine and dine, etc. I know this as I used to actually do a ton of these "junkets" (not in Thailand) all over the USA, Canada, Europe etc and can say that it was a very nice life indeed....Spend a few days at a trade show, stay in top notch hotels, go to a lot of fancy dinners/receptions, get treated like royalty....all on the Tourism authority's or hotels or attractions $$.....sweet.