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1 hour ago, Eaglekott said:

If I understand you correct, you do not report 90 days? you simply cross over the old date and put a new?

you understood wrong.

Just now, Jingthing said:

Ouch. The old 'tink too much' canard! 

maybe, but *think about it* ... I believe I hit the nail on the head with that one.

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

I'll put this another way. 

Argentina was brought up.
In Argentina it's common to give people nicknames such as CHINO for a Chinese person.

It's "innocent" and Chinese Argentinians are used to it.

But think about it -- objectively, just how innocent is it?

What if that person was a fast runner. His nickname wouldn't be about that. It would still be CHINO. 

There may often be no CONSCIOUS racism in the Thai usage of farang but that doesn't mean it's racism free either. 

I guess it's only offensive for people who "think about it".

So for a large part of the Thai population it's not offensive.

1 hour ago, Forethat said:

Yes. On the TGA-website you'll find that Amateur events are listed as well as all events on the Thai Amateur Tour. If you are a TGA-member you can sign up for all tournaments listed - even the tour events (as long as your hcp is low enough). 

thank you - I spent some time on the site, but wasn't able to locate relevant information.

I don't know what to make of the "open tournament" section, as all dates listed are in the past - or is there a calendar only accessible after login?

By the way, are there "serious" official amateur tournaments ?

I'm not talking about the expensive golf weekends or Pattaya series, but I was unable to find any information about other amateur golf tournaments.

The other day after playing a round I saw a promotion for the Kasikorn tournaments with a finale at Amata.

I'd be interested in websites listing tournaments or even tournament calendars of individual clubs? any ideas?

1 hour ago, Forethat said:

The form, TGA or the Handicap Card? Yes, yes and yes.

I have dealt with TGA for many years and they are one of the friendliest, most professional bunch of individuals I have ever met. Office at the Ramkhamhaeng Stadium. I also like the idea that handicaps are published online, so in situations where hcp is required (like Singapore) you can easily be looked up. TGA is the real deal in Thailand. 

interesting.

did I read that correctly - the procedure is to enter every single casual golf round with marker's signature?

13 hours ago, FashionExport said:

So everybody still prefer to spend more money on ridiculous iphone mobile phones than on better quality food it seems :-)

 

I really dislike Thai grown chicken because of the nonexistent taste.

I'm partial to chicken wings and thighs because the breast is dry and lacks taste, but I tried to prepare Thai chicken in a number of ways with different spices, the result is always the same, I only taste the spices :-(

1 hour ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

Some views on how the homicide charges against the two skippers may affect the US Navy in the future:

 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/01/21/how-homicide-charges-for-two-skippers-will-shake-up-the-entire-navy/

 

today, there is far too much emotion involved in the management of serious matters.

3 hours ago, Takeprofit said:

I have 2 cards from Lumpini condo. One works for entrance door and lift, another - for parking either. So, I want to copy parking card to use it sometimes.

Condo office will not make it because one room can use only 1 parking card.

I want to copy it just to be able to open the parking gate when I am going by motorcycle while my GF going by car.

Anyone had an experience of copy Lumpini card?

Or they use extended security system and cards cannot be copied without their computer, coding softwate and equipment?

why not bring the topic up at the next AGM

I would just continue to be a good father and ignore what she says about MY girlfriend. I would also tell her that.

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I am inclined to think that she feels that a young chick could take money that should be hers, and of course present her with a sibling or two.  Same thing.  The money.

yes, very likely.

5 hours ago, thaihome said:

Here is the full report on both collisions. Makes for very sad reading, both for the deaths and the actions leading up to them. 

 

http://s3.amazonaws.com/CHINFO/USS+Fitzgerald+and+USS+John+S+McCain+Collision+Reports.pdf

 

TH 

thanks for posting this - good to see that they made good on their promise to release the details.

the reports confirm our suspicions - all of them.

1 minute ago, DrPhibes said:

We brought laptops, desktop, game consols, hand held game units, 20in display, about 100 Xbox games, Lego robotics kit, all in our check-in luggage in '16. All showed up and no duty charges.  Worth a trip back home?

I can only second the advice to bring the items as luggage.

I have brought in computers, 28" monitors and a large printer that weighs 30Kg.

No problems at all at customs, though my heart sank when they stopped me and asked to put the big box in the X-Ray. They helped me, scanned it and then put it back onto my trolley "welcome to Thailand sir". okay.

2 hours ago, maxpower said:

Buy fresh and freeze it - good idea eh

doesn't matter fresh or frozen.

all chicken I bought in Thailand never ever had any own chicken taste.

that's the reason why in chicken recipes they add chicken powder :-/

I guess it's because what these chicken get fed to them

1 hour ago, hyku1147 said:

Sarcasm is the lowest form of whit.

that can be easily disproven by reading this forum

work permits are only issued to employees of a company.

I very much like good chicken but chicken in Thailand has no taste.

I guess it has something to do with what the chicken are fed.

That being said, I noticed that it also has gotten worse in Europe. I bought a couple of chicken in France recently and they tasted like cardboard.

In Naklua, near Pattaya, some restaurants carry German grilled chicken on the menu and I think it is as good as chicken can get in Thailand, but all the yummy spices can not completely compensate for the inherent lack of taste.

I sometimes tried to make baked chicken wings in my oven using wings I bought at makro, but the problem was basically the same: no taste.

6 minutes ago, douginbkk said:

I was in a similar situation 25 years ago.  X should simply make a Thai passport here and exit on the Thai passport and should never return to Thailand on the US passport again.  25 years ago I entered on another passport.  Both it and visa expired.  I made a Thai passport in Thailand several years later and exited Thailand on it and have used it to exit/enter Thailand ever since with no problems at all.  I travel frequently for work.

 

Five years ago, my daughter who also has two passports (Thai and another) was studying outside Thailand and had to urgently return on her non-Thai passport because her Thai passport had expired while she was overseas and we didn't have the time to get her a new Thai one.  She entered Thailand on the non-Thai passport then made a new Thai passport here and has used that to exit/enter Thailand ever since without any problems.

I think there are no issues using an expired Thai passport to enter Thailand.

I use Thaifriendly as a free member and I would say it works well.

It's not a "dating" site in the Western sense, it's a site which primary function is to exchange LINE IDs.

and on LINE, you then exchange a dozen of messages before making a date and meet.

used like this it works well.

most Thai women I know are not thrilled about reading and writing many long messages with men, many are just basement <deleted> that will never meet them.

I'd like to ask and double check with OP if hotel bookings and money were in corrrect supply on a per person basis?

i.e. 20.000 baht per person and max. 1-2 persons per hotel room in accordance with the hotels' room occupancy policy?

5 hours ago, dddave said:

I come through Suvarnabhumi a lot and I can not picture an ATM anywhere along the path from the arrivals gates to Immigration, either A,B,C,D side or D, E, F, G.

Perhaps in the transit area?

The first ATM's I see are in Baggage claim.

2 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

he did not say that it was going s/sw,

 

he said it was s/sw of Tokyo Wan, thats a location - not a direction

 

Thats been in some of the News clips quoted in this thread and in the other Fitzgerald thread that

it was on its way back to base, (marked on some of the maps that have been circulating).

 

sorry for the misunderstanding!

I too always supposed the Fitzgerald was returning to base at Yokosuka, but then he wrote :

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only that it was S/SW of Tokyo Wan having come out of Yoko

so I supposed he meant the Fitzgerald was heading out...

1 hour ago, 55Jay said:

I was running 2 plausible scenarios myself on this a couple weeks ago but gave up, frustrated as position/course/speed of  Fitzgerald wasn't known - only that it was S/SW of Tokyo Wan having come out of Yoko.  The comment by Crystal's master about going hard over STBD, was confusing. 

 

Has there been any new info on Fitzgerald's course and speed?

Where did you get the info that the Fitzgerald was going S/SW ?

I searched everywhere, but I couldn't find any information on the Fitzgerald's heading or where it came from or where it was going.

did you try JJ market?

if that fails, I would go speak to the metalworkers that line certain streets.