jayboy

You miss the point.These days banks exchange information with other banks and their domestic tax authorities.If a customer provide false information on his tax status, that could definitely be a problem.

Your Pink Card will carry the same number as your Thai TIN, but it is not actually your TIN unless registered with the Tax Authorities.You may well have done this already but the point is worth making - the Pink Card doesn't automatically provide you with a TIN.Having said that there's every possibility at local level nobody will check (or care) especially if the amounts involved in the tax return are small.I think the risk, such that it is, would arise with giving a fictitious TIN to foreign banks - but probably not much risk there either.

Your understanding is wrong.

I can only speak from personal experience and as previously noted probably also relates to type of hotel and (ahem) how one presents oneself. I would never attempt to use Thai DL but Pink Card will usually do it - though probably sensible to have PP or photocopy PP in back pocket.It would be interesting to know whether anyone has had PP photocopy rejected.

I always use the Pink Card to check in at hotels and have never seen any "signage" suggesting it would not be accepted.Perhaps it depends on what type of hotel one stays at.

Yes, you can do that if foreign banks want to know because the number will be the same as the one as if you really had a Thai TIN.You would probably get way with it but you just stand a chance of not doing so.In which case the consequences could be serious because you would in effect have found to be lying to your bank.I personally wouldn't risk it.In case the point isn't clear you need to obtain a TIN from a Thai tax office.Yes, the number will be the same as the one on your Pink Card.

I wonder what you mean by extreme transphobia.Undoubtedly it does exist but I'm not sure how large a group profess and more importantly act on their hatred.I must say as a NYT reading Brit, I'm always astonished how many on the liberal/left in the US regard someone like JK Rowling as a extreme transphobic to the point of seeking to cancel her (they wish). On our side of the Atlantic something of this lunacy exists - for example Daniel Radcliffe - but not to the same extent.

It was better in 1986 and even better in 1966.For one thing there was virtually nobody with ugly regional accents, tattoos, obesity issues and obnoxious behavior - and I'm just talking about the bar girls.

The special relationship is not particularly abusive in my view but I agree it is very one sided.The Brits are largely responsible for this in that they have exaggerated the bonds between the two countries and lost sight of their own national interests.The Americans follow their own national interests in an utterly ruthless way.As Charles de Gaulle once said, " The State is a cold monster.The British used to pursue their national interests equally ruthlessly but this instinct has faded over the years - culminating in our current policy of conducting our affairs through the prism of fanatical human rights lawyers. Your reference to a number of European politicians backing Trump's excesses is unclear.Who are they and are they major figures and what are they saying? Or have you just made his up?

Don't be silly.I was responding to your comment that we would have to wait and see whether some of Trump's "British fans" would support his disgraceful remarks.I pointed out that no Brit to my knowledge would do so, and as far as I know not one has.So your speculation was misplaced. i have no idea why you think I should have explicitly blamed Trump - though of course I do - when my post made my position very clear.

Though in fairness to Trump he had at least a point of sorts relating to the German contingent.The Germans did lose 59 men and as might be expected their military is very professional.However for historical reasons on the orders of the German government they were generally kept away from the front line.This is no reflection on the courage and commitment of German soldiers but it does reflect the weight of history which hangs heavily over them.

Find me one Brit who would defend Trump's remarks.You can't.

I wouldn't describe it as a nice friendly place.However it had some great strengths before that well known businessman from Pattaya ran it into the ground. With one or two exceptions the grownups have left the room.

If you wanted an example of the stupidity, malice and sheer ghastliness of the British far left, take a look at this tweet from Zarah Sultana MP https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1220077084984344576/xYLp_MPN_x96.jpg Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana The images of body bags leave no doubt about the brutality of Iran’s repression, and a communications blackout is indefensible. Across the country, Iranians are protesting real economic hardship, much of it deepened by US sanctions. From the UK, genuine solidarity means opposing those sanctions and the imperial strategies and aspirations behind them. At the same time, this unrest is being cynically exploited by Netanyahu’s genocidal government as a pretext for military intervention and regime change — a path that must be firmly rejected. It must be clear: only the Iranian people have the right to decide their own future. No outside power should dictate or interfere. Any serious politics requires holding all of these truths together.

It's a completely relevant question.In the UK for instance what might be called the Corbynite left might not have any sympathy for the Iranian authorities but they are distinctly uncomfortable in being vocal for a cause which is embraced by Israel and Trump.They are fools and hypocrites.Sometimes the oddest of partners need to take up arms against wickedness.Churchill, Stalin and FDR knew that.