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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...

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. 

"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.

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.

Sounds like a nice little earner for tourists to reclaim "their chairs" from the beach, at 1000 baht a pop lol

Holy s. mate, you definitely ask too much as you can see, don't overstrain 'em, lool ... got to be s-l-o-w and label cynism or sarkasm clearly as such - else you get ripped to pieces as above ... then again, who gives a flying t.

Indeed amazing to see how many people didn't manage to read Culicine's post correctly.

If the head line is to be taken literally then I wanna know how he got the power pole started and what kind of modifications did he have to make to get it road worthy.

No helmet - no chance. Happens everyday here.

Y'know, rather than these constant criticisms of Thai news reports occasional grammatical and spelling errors, I am always impressed they have learned English at all and are willing to translate these news articles for my benefit.

Can you tell me, is your Thai so good that you could write any of these articles fluently for a Thai to read?

Seriously, isn't your post even a violation of the forum rules on grammar police?

Totally agree with ClutchClark. A "dislike" button would come in handy to mark posts like that.

"plunged" !? I was on that flight: no turbulence during the whole flight. Didn't notice anything at all. Must have been a slow descent. Now I still have to fly back on the 21st of August. Wish me luck. Got a lot of Buddha amulets with me. That might help, I hope.

I cannot hurt an animal and I am in principle against the death penalty, but if I would be asked to be the executioner to get rid of this guy, I would gladly accept.

Regarding playing music extremely loud: when I was living at the Thai-Cambodian border 35 years ago I was giving an explanation for that. It was apparently a remnant from the days not everyone could afford a radio. Hence it was considered impolite, if you had a radio and your neighbor did not, to play it at a low volume. Cranking it up allowed your neighbor to also "enjoy" the music.

I don't think Ms A was an A student in her younger days. ?

Go for it, no problem. My children, now 29 and 26, live and have their own business in Phuket. They own property in their name. No need for a Thai visa or work permit. They travel on their Belgian passport, since that is so much easier: out on their Thai passport and showing their Belgian passport in lieu of any needed visa and leaving from abroad with Belgian passport, showing Thai passport upon re-entry in Thailand. Never had any problem.

Also made a solar powered pontoon boat (12 Volts) based on the same principle.

How's that pontoon boat working?

I have a 150watt solar panel and a few hulls (Kayak, inflatable, inflatable pontoon) that I'd like to try the solar route. If it works out, my plan (If I stay here long enough) is to take 2 kayaks and make a pontoon boat out of them, powered mostly by solar. I'd use the solar panel to charge the battery(s), not for power

It's basically working exactly like you plan to do it: solar panel(s) charge the battery using a solar charge controller. The motor runs directly off the battery, not directly off the solar panel. My nominal 12 Volts panel (35 Voc) is 120 Watts.

Same principle for the golf cart, but higher voltage and watts (of course).

The pontoon approach is the right one: this adds stability when the solar panel(s) double as roof.

whereas it

IS a good idea - silly comments like the "amount of sun" we have show how little people know about solar power.....for a start it wroks best at temps below 30 degrees..

So true: my solar panels work better during the rainy season than during the hot season.