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They have to give the new IOs purchasing their 'job for life' posts training; i.e., something to do. New IO #1 uploads 1 scanned copy to online system. New IO #2 shreds all copies. New IO #3 transfers shredded copies to recycle bin. New IO #4 incinerates contents of recycle bin in the back yard. At least 3 copies are essential to create this illusion of work and the vital physical and psychological stimulation necessary to provide job satisfaction.

If you ask for a receipt they will probably change their mind and give the 500thb back to you. This happened to me just this week when I went for transfer of O visa retirement extension stamps and re-entry permit to be transferred from an old passport to new. IO asked for 500thb with a smile and I said I did not know there was a charge but handed over 500thb saying 'Can I have a receipt please'. Her face dropped and turned to tell her supervisor sitting at the back. Then she gave back the 500thb saying 'No problem for you'.

Yes. They are valid for 1 year. I just checked my last one to make sure.

I remember reading that Thailand halted a deal with China on this rail project many years ago. One of the reasons given being that China insisted on owning the 1 kilometre of land either side of the railway line. This would mean all ancillary businesses to the railway, and all others no doubt on that land, would be Chinese owned and controlled No wonder Thailand backed out of that deal.

But they are too late. Sadly he died 2 years ago.

"is now recuperating in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (NICU)" Could he have had a lobotomy? That would explain the pardon.

Bejesus! I never knew elephants could move that fast; to reach Loburi and arrest that thief so quickly... 🙃.

In English respect is embedded in and can be shown in good manners. I try to to teach my partners Thai kids that it is important to use please and thank you and kaa and krap as it shows that you are respecting someone as an equal and not talking down to them. Sadly it has been forgotten that good manners function as a social lubricant to promote a harmonious society.

rent an old minivan..........In Thailand?

Was you in a job you were interested in? Come on OP! Lets have a bit of grammatical consistency here. Surely this should read: Was you in a job you was interested in?

So says the Undisputed World Champion Number One Bona Fide 5 Star Liar.

Yes! The 'taking back control' was the taking back of absolute control and manipulation of the British population and the regaining of absolute power by those Tory toffs and the wider British establishment just as they enjoyed before EU membership. Preferable to a military coup I suppose, but a similar outcome.

I am not anti-semitic but I am anti-Zionist (A lot of people confuse the two) and I am therefore pro-Palestinian. I have been ever since decades ago I saw on reputable UK TV; BBC Panorama or the like (long before Social Media, You Tube etc.) video evidence shown of 2 Israeli troops on a hillside using rocks to break the arm bones of stone-throwing boys/teenagers captured during an intifada. The Jewish race were a dispossessed and persecuted people for 2000 years yet they have treated, and continued to treat, the Palestinian people in exactly the same way as they were treated; brutally repressing, killing them and discriminating against them, destroying their homes and stealing more and more of their land for settlers. This is the absolute height of HYPOCRISY! I am not religious but thank god Jesus came along and overrode the Jewish Old Testament teaching of 'An eye for an eye' with the forgiveness embodied in the New Testament teaching of 'Turn the other cheek'. Gandhi was right when he said that if 'an eye for an eye' is practised you end up with the whole World blind.

I had the same experience this summer while in the UK. Received my new passport really quickly in less than 2 weeks but it took about another week to get the old one returned. Waste of resources as usual needlessly inflating the passport price by sending them back separately. I re-entered recently and simply received a dated entry stamp in my new passport. When I handed over both passports pointing to the last extension stamp and re-entry permit stamp in the old passport the ignorant bitch of an IO who was chatting away to someone on her hidden hands free mobile connection while she worked, impatiently said to me: "I know, I know" and pointed and told me to just put my fingers on the scanner.

This is exactly the problem; Thailand has great roads but Thais are not taught how to use them. The better the roads which encourage faster driving the greater the carnage.

Yes. I have seen it a couple of times in Esaan. Same as a quick tickle under the chin with index finger but under the penis instead. Quite openly in a public place because it was a part of Thai or Esaan culture. Dont know if it still is. But this case is quite different. Quite clearly peadophilia.

Just for US citizens?

Climate Change. The Human Race will be annihilated, and quite soon I think, by a rapidly approaching Extinction event. What is being done or can be done when most of the World lives a Capitalist Consumer lifestyle is like p i s s i n g in the wind. And this ideology continues to spread like cancer throughout the world. Nothing can be done when most of us are so comfortably numb!

The only time I used to feel uncomfortably alone when content to live on my own for years in the UK was at Christmas. With the Christmas build up and the palpable hysteria on Christmas Eve and nearly everyone in the homes around me disappearing to be with friends and family over Christmas, it felt really strange and as if I should be accepting invitations and/or doing something special. But I preferred to choose not to and to treat it like any other day. I love it here in Thailand, where, beyond the Christmas carols and decorations in the supermarkets attempting to cash in, nothing happens on Christmas day and Christmas comes and goes like any other day.

Me too. Most of my working life has been working with people and the public, so Ive always been content to go home and be alone rather than needing to socialise.

I recognised a long time ago that I am not like most people. Most people say they like being alone some of the time but with people most of the time. I am opposite to that. I need to be alone or by myself most of the time but with people some of the time. I am never more content then when I am by myself or alone. Often a chat or 2 in passing during the day is enough social contact for me, but in Thailand I find that meeting and conversing with other mostly native English speakers is essential sometimes. Sometimes when I do so, it feels like a pressure relief valve has been opened and the relief afterwards is palpable.

Oh sure! The shooter will now easily find and shoot those hiding by just wandering around listening for these phone alerts.

So confused he got on the wrong flight. Should have been a flight back to Oz.

48 Officers? That must have been a mighty fat brown envelope they handed over with the complaint.

The delivery riders are a f e k k i n menace to all. Even worse than the minibus drivers!