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Just taking a leaf out of the UK's notebook. Don't black women ever marry white men? There has to be something sinister in this.

Because of our woke police hierarchy and woke judges, Brits can commit crime with little consequences. Hardly suprising that they think they can do the same here. I disagree though that the spotlight should be just on us Brits, there's plenty of misbehaviour from other nationalities here ie Swiss, French Moroccans, Kuwaitis, Germans, Chinese and Russians etc. Warning: snowflakes close your eyes - A dose of Singapore's corporal punishment would sort them out.

There are some on here who will say that a bus full of people, overturning because of brake failure, happens every week in the west. By the way, it was probably brake failure because the driver wasn't using the back compression of driving in a lower gear to help with slowing down. The things overheated.

Even those who were mocked by the local DTA official for requesting a TIN to do exactly that and were sent packing I assume. You'd have to be mad to have another shot at it.

In my opinion if I have zero assessable income then it doesn't have to be assessed and if it doesn't need assessing, then I don't need to file. I'd just be making work for people. If they have doubts about me, they can call me in for an audit. I don't want to chance some jobsworth taxing me on income already taxed, which in any case is covered by the DTA.

In the village in France where I lived for two years, I seemed to be very popular, had many friends there. I never caused any trouble and was always respectful to the locals. The other Brit expats in the area also appeared to be valuable members of the community. I did however see some locals exhibiting disruptive behaviour, but it's their country. All nationalities have their bad apples.

There are about two streets out of thousands in Pattaya where large amounts of alcohol is consumed in late opening bars and clubs by tourists and ladyboys. I saw more squabbles in the last village that I lived in in the UK. Most of you critics have never been to the place, but wish you had,

Correct! Only mainstream officers can be expected to go above Grade 5. If I remember correctly, they enter as Grade 8 and are groomed in the diplomatic, economic and commercial jobs. I think the bottom grade for the dogsbodies is Grade 14, although I can't be certain. Consular departments are a very small part of an overseas mission, in most cases manned by a low grade UK Based officer and a couple of local staff. I should think that Bangkok would be run by a Grade 10 or thereabouts. High profile missions with high UK immigration applications, like Delhi and Islamabad, I think would be run by a Grade 7. If any high profile cases arise, then one of the senior dip grades would step in to deal with it. This would only happen in exceptional circumstances, the dips don't really like to dirty their hands with run of the mill stuff, but I'm sure no one's surprised to read that.

I always have a bottle of baking soda mouthwash in the bathroom, which I make myself with baking soda, water and a little lemon juice. Sluice my teeth a few times a day with this in between brushing.

If you're a UK ex govt worker and have already been taxed at source there, my understanding is that you don't file for tax here as well. To do so is asking for trouble IMO.

Three places I've been during Songkran which are chaos, Pattaya, Kanchanaburi and Bang Saen. Pattaya being the worst, it's mayhem and drags on for a week to a greater or lesser extent. If you're a Songkran lover, Pattaya's definitely your place.

First "If you don't like it here you should go back to your own country" post I've seen in days. It isn't your country, yet tell the poster he's not welcome here. You don't have to seek these people out, you can't stroll along Walking Street or Beach Road Pattaya without being bothered by them. They're also often involved in gang fights. No bigotry involved in the original post, just good sense.

On asking my stepdaughter if she was excited about seeing her uncle who is a monk and was due to stay with us, replied simply "He tok too mut".

Of course the customer pays the VAT. The store owner hands over the cheque to the government, but all his goods are marked up to cover the cost to him. If there was no VAT the goods you buy would be 10% cheaper. You also pay vat on utilities ie electricity, water etc.

How about if I pay tax at 20% to my home country and don't work here or receive any benefits, but pay tax on most of my purchases? Still a selfish foreigner?

Now I'm getting on in years, even though I have several tattoos, I agree. But that's only my opinion. You missed IMO from your post.

The local immigration staff would probably struggle without their "bread and butter" money, also if I could afford it, I'd go the agent route myself. Anything rather than come under the stony glare of the dragon lady once a year, clutching my small rain forest of paperwork at the same time.

I've been with my UK bank for over 50 years, but when I went onto the site a few days ago, they made me fill in a big questionnaire regarding my pensions, who I paid tax to etc, before accessing my accounts. Bit daunting because it was early morning and I was still half asleep! I must admit that I was panicking slightly because I was about to do my monthly pension transfer. Anyway, they seemed happy with my answers because my transfer went ok and I haven't heard back from them. I did cock up my first attempt at logging in, so it may have had something to do with that.

The government is at fault for not preventing these dog incidents. Dogs rule in Thailand, there'll be many other incidents of people being harmed by them tomorrow.

The problem for a lot of people is that a lot of these places open up after a residential area has been established. Also, the loud bass-heavy rubbish they play is at such a volume that it doesn't have to be nearby to shake your walls and windows. There seems to be a bit of a trend these days to build pool villas which operate a karaoke every night for the tourists staying there. It's happened around our way and although they aren't on my doorstep, you can hear the boom of the bass speakers most nights in my house with all the doors and windows closed. Although this guy's actions were extreme, I can understand what caused him to kick off.

I changed from retirement based to marriage because I feel that the powers that be, when considering rule changes, might show a bit more leeway if one of their own were affected. Probably wouldn't make the slightest difference to them, but there you go. It is a pain in the backside though.

Your post in itself is generating more President Trump threads by referring to him as "Donald Chump". Obviously his supporters will have a go at you in his defence. Seems to me if you want less posts about him then keep shtum. I do however agree that there are far too many threads on US politics.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

I can understand the outrage. When you have enough idiots of your own, you don't want foreign idiots adding to it.

I dunno, I don't think it's over the top when you consider that you get a 2000 baht fine for being a day or two over on your 90 day report.