Why would anyone need an ATM card these days? Get the app on your phone and do QR code payments almost everywhere in Thailand. Do cardless withdrawals at any of your bank's ATMs. Pay shopee or lazada with QR code.

No hundreds of baht/year fee for the app either. 

17 minutes ago, orchidfan said:

Well, point taken, and I have flown Biz class on longer flights (Oz to BKK etc) but hardly worth the cost on a 2hr flight from Hong Kong.

Plenty of reasonable French red and white wines available on EK in cattle class.

Wasn't it immigration cattle class you were complaining about? Avoided if you fly business. 

2 hours ago, Sigmund said:

Thailand remains faithful to it's shameful record of the highest road accident death toll in the world. Sad for the victims. If only Police corruption was stopped and the cops started to do their jobs,  instead of chasing only the foreigners to racket money.

More inaccurate bar stool info. Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

1 hour ago, Dolf said:

Where are your topics darling?

 Much more fulfilling to snipe than post useless topics that make me look a fool. 

7 minutes ago, Dolf said:

My topics are interesting.

Only to you. 

Stock Market Performance by President

https://www.macrotrends.net/2481/stock-market-performance-by-president

25 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Like I said that's their problem. The only thing at issue here it seems to me is whether the new Trump shares will factor into the issuance of an appeal bond before 'sundown' MON.

Sorry to burst your bubble(oooh, that's a lie) but Trump has no access to sell those shares until 6 months after the IPO. Maybe be can get someone to give him money for future access to the shares but with Trump's history of failed IPOs that's doubtful. 

Just finished opening and funding a Schwab International account. Canadian passport and foreign proof of address were all that was required to open. 25k minimum to fund. I transfered a few existing Vanguard retirement funds recently, when they needed my SSN. SSN not required to open the account initially or do normal transactions. My Schwab ATM card is in the mail. 

Not available in all countries of residence. Canada , no. Thailand, yes. But a Canadian in Thailand is ok. 

Stop your whining and fly business class. No lineups in VIP line. 

Use a linux live boot USB and then you have access to the “dd' command which does all you need.

Then, after you see how much better it is running Linux, just install it and get rid of the windows nonsense. 

17 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Just keep their hands off the horses and everything will be fine.

I don't think the horse was concerned with the hands... 

Most (good) torrent clients will have info indicating how much of the torrent is available and when was the last time it had access to the complete torrent. You might want to check if the whole thing was ever available. 

6 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Was discussing this with my Wife the other day as we  have amassed a  lot over the years. The  problem is who to give it to, WE both neither trust any Thai charities and western ones  seems to spend  inordinate amounts on "management"

Open to suggestions................erm not the obvious, must be NON religious  based prefer education inc anti religion

Doctors without borders

Mercy ships

Etc

14 minutes ago, MonteD said:

Ok soy-boy, it’s obvious we have different versions of patriotism. 

Ooh. Somebody learned a new word. Who explained it to your high school diploma'd(if you're lucky) educated mind? Like all the MAGA rubes, another simple and unsophisticated low-life. 

Soy boy is a pejorative term sometimes used in online communities to describe men perceived to be lacking masculine characteristics. The term bears many similarities and has been compared to the slang terms cuck (derived from cuckold), nu-male and low-T ("low testosterone") – terms sometimes used as an insult for male femininity by online communities.

Come on over, I'll show you how masculine I am. 

1 hour ago, Madgee said:

My neighbour swapped his 2010 Vios with 240k km,  for a 2011 Captiva with 110k km, which has turned out to be a lemon.
Things keep breaking on it, the seat adjuster, tailgate lock mechanism, door mirror adjuster etc. Ordering parts has been a nightmare for him.
10 weeks wait for an oil seal, something to do with a transmission rebuild following an oil leak. (It's still got a slight oil leak!)
Now it's in for starter motor problems after a breakdown, 3 weeks and counting. All the work is being done by an authorised Chevvy garage. I picked him up last time it was towed there and the adjacent field was full of older Chevvies (many Captivas) apparently waiting for parts. 
Just saying .......

 

It's a Chevrolet. One of the worst American manufactures, ahead of Chrysler though. Don't waste your time. Buy a used Toyota instead. 

I went through this in Vietnam while my passport was waiting at the Chinese embassy for a visa. No problem getting rooms with photocopies.

Some touts which we were ignoring killed a couple of hotels by saying we had no passports but when going to a hotel cold no issues at all. We were moving almost daily doing halong bay, etc while the passports were in Hanoi.