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3 hours ago, transam said:

Think the Prez does have military advisers as to what is what...

You rekon.Doesn't the sil have a say in things he would know nothing about.

3 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

Props to thailand for actually protecting the jobs of their own people.

 

The disgraceful government of Philippines should use their own resources to create jobs for their own citizens instead of allowing them to leach off other economies. 

 

In singapore filipinos do a lot of jobs that the locals won't touch….like being a maid, medical support staff and frontline service staff. The locals have no problem with this…but of late they have been encroaching into the white collar pmet jobs that locals compete for. They undercut the locals by 40-50% and this has the locals seriously pissed off.

The boss will always go for the lowest paid,so yes,there will be problems.The way to fix that is current employees demand equal pay for their fellow employees.This is what is going on in Australia as well and the govt turn a blind eye.

No word on the Emerati employer?????

4 hours ago, Guderian said:

I hope you're all correct. I've only seen one person post this so hopefully it's untrue. The bars where I enjoy a beer most afternoons are almost completely deserted now, yesterday I was the only customer in three adjacent bars. All the regulars who drink there every day had vanished. The fact that many of the bars had set up water drums and hosepipes outside was probably  to blame, though at the moment with hardly anybody down there to soak it's all fairly quite. I'd hate to see an extra day of this idiocy.

So the bar makes no money in Songkran.May that will teach them something but i doubt it.

"There is a common line of thought"but no link to any study on the subject.The writer has just made up a story.Good luck to him if you get paid for it.

1 hour ago, edwardandtubs said:

 No. I've been in this situation and asked people on this forum and got replies that I needed a termination letter, which I couldn't get. The reality was a lot more simple. You simply go to the work permit office and fill in a form, hand it to them and that's it. You're now free to get a new work permit. No need for any letter. I asked immigration what I should do if I have no letter and then said cancel the work permit yourself and then come to us.

That is the right place to go for info,you local immi office or Ubon Joe.

They probably look at you and laugh that you are stuck with a Thai hooker and should be out having fun,which could be had with or without fishermans trousers.

55,you adore Sonkran because your memory of it is from 20 years ago.Your adoration would quickly disappear if you had done 20 in a row and see what a desecration Songkran is today.If you a really missing it you could have gone to a wat in Perth and had a very gentile Songkran in the old tradition.

On 08/04/2017 at 5:32 PM, balo said:

You mean like Cambodia or Laos ?  Smaller population and not good enough roads and high ways . Most of the deadly accidents in Thailand happens when speed is involved. I think the roads are a big factor and overspeeding.

  

But this doesn't need to be the price of progress.The boys should not have been on that road,simple as that.

On 08/04/2017 at 6:03 AM, simoh1490 said:

It's one thing to get on your high horse and be judgemental about all of this but then there's the practicalities of it all. If this were the West we could all agree with your sentiment but here is not there, here comprises a different set of social rules and enforcement with a much lighter touch. Kids of 12 years riding motor bikes is the norm, especially in rural areas, it would be an unusual parent who would deny their kids the same privileges as any other, especially in rural villages - come to that, how do we know that the parents didn't forbid them and that the accident was simply the result of kids being kids.

 

Sure there's lots wrong here with the levels of education, safety training, enforcement etc but perhaps better to not  simply bash the parents without first considering the larger picture and asking whether all of this was not just an unfortunate accident.

But it doesn't stop there.After a work accident,especially causing death,there is an inquiry and a corenors report and recommendations.In this accident several mistakes would be highlighted and maybe even new laws to prevent it happening again.Sadly,in Thailand,there is no follow through and nothing will be learnt from these boys death.

On 06/04/2017 at 11:40 PM, starky said:

Must be great to live a privileged life then come live in a developing country and never stop judging the locals. Up my way there would be maybe 3 cops for the whole town and everyone morning couple hundred kids going to school on motorcycles. What do you want them to do? Fine them every single day and take even more money away from their family which they don't have? Or maybe start arresting 8 year olds. Such ridiculous colonial attitudes. All you natives should just start obeying the laws, learn better more efficient farming techniques, get a better education pull up your bootstraps and just get better jobs and start making more money and learn the Queens English dammit I am sick of trying to understand your pidgin English.

The delicious irony is these poor people with no money, little education and not much hope are some of the most happy I have had the pleasure to meet where conversely some of you privileged pricks on here making judgements from your ivory towers are some of the most miserable <deleted> to draw breath. 

How many kids funerals have you been to.I have been to a few,caused by underage speeding on bikes.Funny thing,didn't see too many smiling faces those days.

On 05/04/2017 at 10:17 PM, wvavin said:

If only this type of Thai killer truck has a regulated speed limit, many accidents could have been avoided. 

The truck was not at fault here as you seem to imply.By the way,they have rules on truck speeds,the same as they have rules about dodgy motor bike sidecars and the age that you can ride those bikes.

On 05/04/2017 at 6:08 PM, kingkenny said:

I saw a number of motorcycles in that video, some with more that two people, I saw only one helmet being worn in the entire video. I have been here 14 years and the safety has never improved in all that time. Sometimes I think I might be over protective to my two sons but then I think it's needed.

All you can do is give them the best chance for survival.That means no major roads until they are 16 and compedant on bikes.

On 05/04/2017 at 5:24 PM, Essaybloke said:

At age 9 I was regularly driving the farm Massey Ferguson and the ute. What a shame I wasn't killed in a roll over or head on with a road train. Would've taught my evil parents a valuable lesson! <deleted>. (Will that get deleted?)

Yes it would of and if you were killed by a road train,your grieving parents would be charged for their stupidity.

On 05/04/2017 at 4:52 PM, Essaybloke said:

Yeah, just what a pair of grieving parents needs. Do you have any empathy at all?

No.They gave up their rights for empathy the moment they let the kids get on the bike.Parents have to stop being friends with their children and start being parents.

On 05/04/2017 at 1:00 PM, tracker1 said:

And I would be sure that the truck driver like hundreds more was driving sensibe  like most I see evey day Driving like maniacs !

RIP kids unfortunatly you arnt the first and wont be the last !

 

This has to be one of the worst posrs this year.The only person not at fault here was the truck driver.Most truck drivers drive ok.

On 14/04/2017 at 11:27 AM, little mary sunshine said:

Try reading the post...They were returning after leaving

a patient off....Also Two other Nurses, most Nurses I

know  drive cars....

Not when they're working.

On 12/04/2017 at 1:41 PM, lemonjelly said:

She's probably just uninformed as to the etiquette and customs of Thailand re: feet..... I personally feel that this guy is a complete wet blanket for wasting bandwidth with such whining best left to older ladies' gatherings at the morning market.

Actually i think feet down would be ettiquette anywhere in the world.Where were you bought up?

3 hours ago, dentonian said:

The term Marriage Visa confuses many because there is actually no such Visa.

 

As the OP stated it was obtained from Lao, then he certainly has a Non Imm O Multi entry Visa based on marriage to a Thai.

Local Immigration offices only issue extensions of stay based on marriage, not Visas.

 

Your assumption that he therefore has to make 90 day border runs is correct and as already mentioned he is being hassled because Immigration cannot figure how he is supporting himself without working at such a young age.

The thing is being married to a Thai allows you the right to work.

If you have a work permit.

41 minutes ago, bander said:

Why all the foreigners who fall from balcony's is always naked?  

The whole story sound fishy, was there any ladyboy(s) on the balcony together with the victim?

Only if you say so.

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

and farangs don't generally jump off balconies naked.

When they are pissed they have no idea.Pattaya can do that to you.

3 hours ago, BruceMangosteen said:

Very astute observation. Another tragic story of farang in critical condition being taken to Pattaya Memorial. There must have been a change in policy there. RIP young man, way to early to go and hopefully his family will be notified in a more dignified manner than reading on here he was naked outside a brothel.  

If they didn't know before,they surely do now,thanks to you.

4 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You would not have to leave the country. The extension would remain valid until it expires. Plenty of time normally to change to retirement or another type of extension.

Only one time out of 9 extension have I had to get a document from the house I didn't have with me. That happened when they had a major staff change. I really cannot see how they could come up with something more than I ready supply now.

They must joke when they see you coming Joe.You can't do this farang over,he knows everything.

4 hours ago, Confuscious said:

I was doing the Visa extension, based on a marriage for 2 years without any problems.
But the 3rd time I was doing a Visa Extension, the Immigration Officer took my wife to an other room for a PRIVATE interview.
When finished the private interview, the officer told me that the extension was denied on grounds of "not offering enough support to my wife and her family".
She told me to discuss this again with my wife and agree a "support" sum before applying again.

I took my passport and went the next day for a change from "Married" visa to "Retirement" visa.
This was 12 years ago.

 

Since that day, I go to immigration every year to extend my Retirement Visa and spend about 30 minutes for the extension without being blackmailed.

That's a bit rude.Where was this.You still with poor wife?

I think you are making things hard for yourself for the sake of losing 6 weeks.Get the extention and re entry and thats it.