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8 hours ago, cnx355 said:

Also check with the Elite Visa Office  !  I talked to a French businessman on of flight a few month ago; The Elite Office in Bangkok is doing the 90 for him. I know he was Elite as he showed me his passport and the ELITE Visa.  No sure if the ELITE Office  can do it for people outside Bangkok area. Maybe some ELITE member on TV can elaborate.

Only in bangkok and you have to book a couple weeks in advance to drop off the passport... and go back and get it. Two short trips instead of a longer one, barely worth it.

43 minutes ago, Trentham said:

Do not have an operation in Thailand. I have had and know of others who have had horrendous experiences.

People can have "horrendous" experiences anywhere in the world.. just select your surgeon carefully, many very good and experienced ones here.

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1 minute ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

Bicker away, by all means, but it achieves nothing, ergo it is pointless and a waste of people's time reading it instead of something relevant to the discussion we should be having..

I'm sure you have some valid and informative information to help the OP with their problem, so get it out there for all of us to read and discuss.

As your thinly veiled scorned "som nom na" helped the OP? Or the subsequent discussion with multiple members? Try to live by what you preach before lecturing others... seeya

49 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL.

The point is that personal attacks are flaming by definition, and waste pixels and drive space on off topic and pointless replies.

Therefore I hope I don't have to respond to any more such on this thread.

Your oversensitivity is what is wasting pixels. Everybody understood exactly what you meant with that post, so either we are all psychics or you should have worded it differently. 

The EUR has strenghen against ALL currencies since the elections in Netherlands and France of pro-EU candidates nothing to do with BHT.

The OP's very slight 72 hours weakening against the dollar (apart from ridiculously trying to fit his narrative) is Fed anouncing it would probably raise interest rated again before end of the year and tapering quantitative easing.

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5 minutes ago, JohnLick said:

Man I couldn't count how many times I lost it because the drivers can't find places that a tourist second day in BKK would find.

 

Or I say go left ... driver goes left and immediately takes u-turn... <deleted>? I said left

 

That's not much Uber vs Grab but the fact Thais don't learn at school how to read maps

Only two times I took Uber, first I had a Chinese driver then another one who said "Korea" (probably also Chinese), neither could speak a word of Thai, not sure they had been here longer than a tourist on his second day...

2 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

he isn't, he is pointing out that people are innocent until proven guilty - I know, such a crazy whacked our concept 

In the eyes of the Country/State. But every man is entitled to form his own opinion. Do you think OJ is innocent, would you buy him a beer? tap him on the back? Anyway that Spanish dude is now sentenced to death but even if he hadn't and managed to bribe his way out it would have been everybody's right to believe in his guilt or innocence.

everybody knows who the kingpins of boiler rooms are in Bangkok but despite arrests they always get released and are now the kings of the nightlife owning clubs, gogos, the majority of pubs type bars, as well as the master lease of ____ They made BILLIONS of baht. The kind of money that buys not only low level cops but buys ANYONE, and when its not here its in Manilla or Malaysia. Tony Kenway was small fry, still the police would do well to look at his facebook friends all driving brand new german imported cars and clean this up a bit.

14 minutes ago, VN4now said:

Yes selling 16 yo virginity not an issue ...damn ngos

Not the ngos fault but a good percentage of Isaan (and other areas) girls virginity is sold for 30k/40k to Thai guys.

it's like the old magician trick look at my left hand so you don't see what I'm doing with my right, some will say one girl is better than nothing but if the ngos had any balls they would expose the real problem, but of course they never do it, wouldn't want to risk their visa and cushy life. esier to play along with the powers that be and do publicity stunts at Nataree/Blu Star where the foreigners go. .

If they want to find illegal and underage girls why do they never raid those places with Vietnamese and Laos girls where people in green uniforms drink johnny walker red while singing karaoke

current overlords prefer to kick the ball down the road with a no vote, it means no scheduled elections, no change of regime.... so, as usual, they let their favorite little lap dog out of his box to do his dog and pony show

Those places close to army bases where mid-afternoon army officers have Johnny Walker while Vietnamese and Laos ladies provide "services" are they closing any time soon? Nah didn't think so....

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I hate to be the goody goody here but actually alcohol is not forbidden. Being drunk is forbidden. Smoking is certainly OK as most than half of young arabs smoke, and prostitution is considered legal as there is a law about 'temporary marriage' for a few hours, making everything OK. Like it or hate it, they're allowed a little fun.

Sorry but I don't think the nikah mut'ah applies to short time with a Thai girl when the spouse to be has to be muslim and.... chaste

Also, even though some very liberal interpretation allow a very small quantity of alcohol as long as not intoxicated Kuwaitis and Saudis dont allow any at all. Either way, neither interpretation allows drinking whisky till 6am then stumbling back to your hotel with a woman that use to be be a man.

All the rabid racist and Arab haters all well represented here, all the tough guys who would run a mile if a knife was pulled on them.

Keep to your keyboard warrior mode, its anonymous and you can talk tough.

Huh?!? if a knife is pulled getting away is the smart thing to do, what is "tough" about waiting to be stabbed? nobody in the comments I read said they would fight it.

Anyway, you completely missed the point. The coward (whatever the origin) is the one who pulled the knife, not the guy on the receiving end.

They are not lost on everybody...

Is this when they usually take their holidays?

In Samui right now it's like living in a suburb of the UAE, some of the nightspots like Ark Bar have been renamed Ali Arkbar by the locals.

Incidentally....Drinking, making as much noise as possible on big bikes, paying over the top for sex, etc. don't remember those being muslim precepts

Ironic that someone who spent years cheerleading all things yellow is now in this situation for having been "lukewarm" about the coup.

Countless daily cartoons of Thaksin bashing had seen him able to apply his trade with no problem whatsoever but a "lukewarm" reception to the military was enough to get him into this trouble. Maybe now he'll understand one of the key grievances of red shirts that you're allowed anything if you're on the right side of the elites but nothing if on the other.

Having said that good luck to him, hope he gets his work permit back, doesn't deserve this.

Well known Boiler room scumbags were caught multiple times, but hey, not only are they still here, their very visible investments in BKK are booming, no problem.... but got forbid a backpacker stays a week too long and is stopped in his mini van.... 5 year ban

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Just don't know why The Immigration chief does not welcome tourists on a 6 month visa without having to leave the country every 60 days one way to get tourists back to thailand!!

How many genuine tourists visit a country for 6 months?

10s of Thousands?

Gap year students of course, but not only. People who want to make a trial run before possibly moving here. Seasonal workers, many hotel/restaurant owners (including a few friends of mine) work a few months a year and spend the rest in the sun. People who take time off work following an inheritance...etc.

Looks like a nice earner for Immigration officers picking up under 90-day overstays who don't surrender.

"OK you have been arrested and, if we prosecute, you are out for 5 years., Now, how much money do you have on you?"

Exactly.

They had to leave the bit where you get stopped by officers murky because that's where the uniforms of all colors make their money.

So an over stay of less than 90 days does not get you banned?

Not banned in case you "surrender to the authorities" but to be "crystal clear" they would have had to explain what happens if you're a couple days over and stopped on the way to the airport.

In 50 years and hundreds of trips in and out of Thailand- I have never overstayed even 1 day. However, I believe the law is poorly written. If one makes an honest mistake and then is stopped and found to be a few days overstay- your life depends upon convincing the Immigration not to prosecute or then convincing a judge not to blacklist. While the current law is somewhat benign the new law is way to severe. It doesn't matter what Western countries do, Thailand used to be know for its readiness to bend. Let us see how this is actually handled in reality. My instincts tell me money is going to make the difference and that is not how the law should work.

Grey areas are the perfect breading ground for more corruption.

I was late by 1 day once in 15 years because of the massive floods a few years ago. You'd think the immigration officer would understand, but no, he was a real <deleted> about it. So what now? somebody caught in floods is banned if the officer is having a bad day?

People will say no it won't happen but when things are open to interpretation like Thailand's 10 year in jail or/and 10k fine it means you are at he mercy of a uniform. Why not make it 100% clear?

You are TOTALLY wrong with your comment on the repercussions of a US overstay. In my case; an ALLEGED overstay, I have resigned myself to the fact that I will receive an unpleasant 'secondary inspection' every time I arrive in the US in perpetuity. I am also banned from using the visa waiver system; therefore I need a visa for each and every US entry. They are not legally bound to share this overstay evidence with me or my attorney; the onus is on me to prove that I didn't overstay. This dates back to 2002... about 4 passports and several hundred boarding passes ago.

Imagine what the 'TV grumpies' would make of being pulled up each and every time they enter LOS?

Nothing tall or equestrian about it.

So you are not banned and have been able to go back "several hundred" times since then?

Like I said you are not barred if you overstay in the US less than 180 days you get a overstay stamp in your passport meaning the officer at immigration will pull you over. How is that worst than an outright ban?

You also miss understood the TV comment, they aren't complaining it's too hard, they are wishing people with two days overstay get the ban, they would welcome people getting pulled over.

I like Samui but there are two things to consider : Visas are a real pain and if on a budget you're basically stuck on the island unless you like bus rides that last forever.

Anyone who has put their money in U.S. or any other stock market since 2008 with the Fed and the U.S, Treasury trading debt for the electronic printing of worthless money by the Billions and Billions to infuse the stock market is a DIM BULB... There is no such thing as a free lunch... Not to mention the cases of insider trading using all sorts of schemes revealed over the past 7 years ...

And people still trust putting money into the stock market ..!!! Fricken Amazing ...

Bought LVS @ $12 sold at $60 today it's still $48, Bank of America in single digits today it's worth more than double...

but yeah we are all "DIM BULBS" for investing since 2008.... should have listened to all the tin hatters on their soapbox and bought bullions, or their favorite silver, so I could have lost half my investment same thing with the guys at the end of the bar.

Whether it's online or at the end of the bar there's always a self appointed expert distilling his knowledge with an air of authority, years later they are still at the same place saying the same thing while we lived a little.

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