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12 hours ago, Pouatchee said:

 

a woman previously married with kids knows not to expect a dowry. thai guys know this, foreigners not

Exactly. No dowry for secondhand material so to speak.  

I used to make these kind of French style dry-cured pork sausages, pork loin and so much more. Then I taught my wife how to make them. She made a small business of it while we were still living in Phuket. Since almost 2 years we are now living in Isaan and she stopped doing it. Maybe I should start making them again for myself, I'm really missing these.  

15 hours ago, bignok said:

Nonsense. Enough to last more than 60 years.

Enough to last more than 60 years, but not allowed by then. 

In the almost 40 years I lived here, how comes this never happens to me? Just saying...

On 11/21/2018 at 1:12 PM, scorecard said:

IMHO what's even more shocking is that this stuff has been happening regularly, with death / assassinations for well over 30 years that I'm aware of...

You're exactly right. I first lived here from 1980 to 1993 and this occurred so often back then already and always between rivaling tech schools. I always wondered why, but never figured it out. 

 

On 4/29/2015 at 11:10 AM, pigeonjake said:

lincolnshire, i was from lincolnshire and cunberland,

make them myself, that way i know whats going into them !

Indeed: nothing better than home made French style dried sausages. The wife makes them here in Phuket. I was her teacher. She is a good student I should say. And I am a happy man. ???? 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9aw6v1a9naeUVl0ZlNzMUwtbTQ/view?usp=drivesdk

If you could find the license plate.

On 8/1/2018 at 1:24 PM, OJAS said:

On 7/31/2018 at 5:34 PM, snoop1130 said:

However, her grandson declined the offer, saying he would use the services of Kasikornbank near their home in order to replace the notes.

A decision which he might come to regret

I don't think so. If handled by the police it would surely not have been done for free. He probably saved himself quite some money by taking this decision.

5 minutes ago, Adventra20 said:

Pickup 100% in the wrong.  Cannot pull out onto road unless it’s clear.  It wasn’t clear, there was a Mcycle approaching. Fine 5000B and fix Mcycle.  Next case.  

and take away that so-called lawyer's license.

Phuket soon to be renamed Alcatraz.

6 hours ago, giddyup said:

No, I mean the letter supplied by immigration that is required by Motor Transport before you can get a drivers licence.

It's free. I just tell the officer politely "Sorry, but I think you might have made a mistake. This document is free."

Appogies then come from the other side. Worked every time for me. 

I'm not condoning this, but sometimes I wonder, after living here 27 years, why I never ever had any problem, neither with youth gangs, neither with police. I think I do understand Thai customs and I do speak Thai fluently, maybe that helps. Having said that, something has changed in Thai society. This is just sickening. What happened here is just between Thais. I can't remember something like this happening 3 decades ago. What ever happened to the "respect for older people"?  Personally I believe there is a problem with the next generation. 

Oh my, oh my! Loved to read the "serious replies" to this 1st of April story. Really shows the intellectual level of many TV members. 

17 hours ago, p_brownstone said:

She should leave Thailand on the same Foreign Passport which she used to enter the Country, NOT the Thai Passport.

 

On returning, use the new Thai Passport to enter Thailand.

 

Patrick

 

 

 

The information Patrck provided is correct, including what he specified in his later reply: she is required to leave by plane and re-enter by air. A border run will not do it. Later always exit on the Thai passport, showing the foreign passport in lieu of a required visa if questioned. My children are traveling like this for more than 25 years. 

5555 , Pattaya been a disaster zone since the 90's.

Got news for you buddy, This was happening in the late 80's also, again mainly due to improper zoning and inability to upgrade drainage and roads for increased traffic/Use, I even remember almost crashing into a huge hole way back in 1984 due to a road giving way after a huge storm passed through.

Indeed, Seismic, flooding in 1984 was worse than this time around.

"Beyond inhumane"??? I suppose it should read "beyond humane".

This problem is very common in the middle east.

Uhhh?

But, then again, you're not Belgian, mr. NativeSon 30, so how could you possibly have an opinion on this? It's meant as a joke and fits beatifully in long love and friendly banter that goes on between the people of our great nations.

But maybe it's just me, a Belgian loving Dutchman (like the majority of the Dutch)

And your Bullie "argumentative" point is.....? Huh? duh!

NativeSon360, I've got news for you: I totally agree with Robblok and Bullie, although I am a Flemish/Dutch speaking Belgian. We don't take offense. This teasing has gone on for generations and a byproduct of this has been thousands of really good jokes about Belgians and Dutch as well. And that's all I've got to say about that.

Just went through all the 4 steps of filing the 90 day report: no problems and fast as well.

Step 2 asks for the address to be entered.

Steps 3 and 4 are like confirmation pages where you can review your entries. Step 4 also gives you a rather lenghty Reference number to be used to check on the status of your submission (I did not receive a bar code, but didn't seem to need it later on).

Checked the status after about 5 minutes, which showed "pending".

Also possible to check the status if you forgot to note down the Reference number: just press the second Tab and enter passport nbr., date of birth and nationality.

I think it's just great. Love it. No whininig here.

FYI: living in Phuket, using IE (older version: 7 I believe), Internet speed 10Mb, Windows 7, didn't need to copy/paste the URL.

Just went through all the 4 steps of filing the 90 day report: no problems and fast as well.

Step 2 asks indeed for the address.

Steps 3 and 4 are like confirmation pages where you can review your entries. Step 4 also gives you a rather lenghty Reference number to be used to check on the status of your submission.

Checked the status after about 5 minutes, which showed "pending".

Also possible to check the status if you forgot to note down the Reference number: just press the second Tab and enter passport nbr., date of birth and nationality.I

I think it's just great. Love it. No whininig here.

FYI: living in Phuket, using IE, Internet speed 10Mb.

They really hate us here you know! Just more proof.

I have the proof.....nobody hates me here for the 8 years that i have been living in Thailand.

There always be thugs around that this doesn't mean you can speak about all Thais hating foreigners.

Agree with Costas: in the 25 years I permanently lived in Thailand, I never ran into trouble with any Thai, be it in tourist areas or border areas east or west, north or south or central Tailand. Speaking fluent Thai does help, but then again, I didn't speak Thai at all when I arrived here. I believe attitude is of essence here: once when pulled over by police for lane hogging, I told them in Thai that I really wasn't lucky. When asked why, I answered that my wife would question me to what happened to my money, suspecting that i spent it in a massage parlor (all this with a polite smile of course). The police cracked up laughing and sent me on my way without a ticket. After all these years I still love to live in Thailand.