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urghh .. that’s so annoying. In Hat Yai, there was a nice young female immigration officer, easy to understand her Thai. The following year she moved to retirement visas. The new woman was plain rude, we didn’t click and I just didn’t want to talk to her. She tried to ask me about how I could afford to live in Thailand as I wasn’t of retirement age, i said “I rent out properties in the UK” “aha .. gotcha, you said investments last year” to which I replied, well isn’t that the same thing, I wasn’t so specific last year, sorry, then she went to “so .. what’s your parents name?” I looked at my wife, and we both said in unison “mum and dad” and had a good laugh together. She went crazy, telling me she was a police captain, that she was to be shown respect at all times. She continued to tell me on my report that my Thai language was very good, but I hadn’t spoken any Thai today. I informed her that I sometimes I don’t like to speak Thai and for official business it’s better to speak English. She tried to tell me that she was doubtful that I was the same person who applied for a visa the previous year. There was no issue with the application, she was just puffing out her chest. I never saw her in the subsequent years, but I heard her in the next cubicle giving the applicant the third degree, needlessly too, people generally don’t retire to Hat Yai for an easy life, there has to be something that keeps you there.

I never have issues - I have done mine at two different offices, I think I’m at 8-9 of them now, I lost track. Sometimes you can get ahead of yourself (one year I got my financial letter the day before which you would think would be fine as I had an appointment - during Covid - for a 9:00 am, that caused issues) but generally nothing changes, I have a checklist on my computer, all the documents scanned and on in a folder - the procedure is go to immigration get the forms, take photos (always the same, 2 off - in front of the gate Inc house number, next to front door, kitchen and on sofa) complete the forms and print documents, go to the photo shop, drop off the file, continue to ampur to get KR2, pickup the photos on the way back. Next day, bank at 8:00 then on to immigration, usually home before 11:00. The best thing about KKC immigration is, they don’t ask any silly questions - it’s just a formality in which I sit in silence and sign the forms as directed. At Hat Yai they asked questions about meeting wife, financial position, etc .. and they made notes and tried to catch you out the following year.

Its pointless worrying about warrantee work then - you can go to Amorn and they will fit a new battery for you.

Yeah, I think you are right - mine was just a guess, I remember the story now. I have no interest in F1 at all, but I have been reading these posts for years on various places and I was interested by the story of Prince Bira and the continued saga of the proposal. Its nothing but a money grab now.

Synex are the agents for zircon - if its within a year, just drop it into the local branch of Synnex - they were really good when mine didnt have any power.

Its been touted for many years .. Birabongse Bhanudej designed a street race around rattotaksin island in the 50s. The route that others are posted is banned - there was a law passed in 2013 banning any such streetrace around the historic sites of Bangkok. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/formula-one-stalls-bangkok-law-bans-car-racing-102346416.html I dont know why its suggested, it seems that Phua Thai PM's are keen to push the idea but are unaware of the laws - this may be one reasons for the chattujack proposal. Its an interesting subject with a long history, there should be a wiki page that can be referred and added too every time some politician comes up with the latest idea. Bottom line is, how much cash would it really generate and how much needs to be laid out and wether or not that should be spent on more important infrastructure projects - I also suspect its one big excuse for a lot of people to fill their pockets.

No, it was a word used by the article - I think it was byline times, I was looking for the link. It was more of a light hearted post about the increased relevance of social media in todays political scene.

I could “forgive” the poster, but brain farts are happening every day on GBNews by politicians who should know better.

I think that kind of proves a point. I read an article the other day, the rise of the populist right coupled with the widespread use of social media has resulted in a huge rise in stupid people getting involved in politics for the first time, the effect on the landscape, posting their opinion where traditionally they were out of their depth and kept their opinion to the works tea room. How can you be so illinformed to get hajj and jihad confused?

Hajj means pilgrimage.

I'm sure it will filter down, looks a bit different, there doesn't seem to be too many Scandinavian action series about. Try to google this Conflict.S01E01.1080p.WEB.h264-XME

Heads up. Tehran has only been broadcast on Israeli KAN and the files kicking about only have Hebrew hardcoded subs .. the Apple TV release has yet to be announced - I was unaware it was an Israeli production. Konflicti looks interesting, there only seems to be one episode (01) with English subtitles, the scene group mentioned in the filename is XME, the NetITV files only have Finnish subs.

but its really sad, isnt it? It's like holding doors open for people. It's that brief moment where someone does something so small but can mean a lot.

I haven't done this in years, I think since I had experiences like yours. Giving the people the "odd" thinking you are helping isnt really part of the culture here.

Maybe .. maybe the whole dynamic shifts, maybe it's not the UK that we know it, who knows? whatever happens has happened before, no path is really set in stone. If things had of continued, we could have all been living our lives under Cromwells Puritanical law. I have read a couple of articles suggesting the downfall of christian nations, it's quite a biased opinion. However, Maybe in the future being a muslim nation may not be seen as such as an issue, maybe right wing politics will not exist any longer, people will not identify by their religion, they will accept people are people.I don't know or particularly care tbh.