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They'll all be queueing up and fighting to use the toilet ('bathroom').

We'll have to print them out from our phones.

Obviously over the years I've had the odd difficult issue - most in the early years based on my misreading of a situation or person and my insecurity as a newby. But I always managed to defend my position effectively and mutually resolve it without going ''full throttle up'' on confrontation. Thais will u s u a l l y want to compromise and tend to abhor confrontation. Nearly every Thai, private and business, I've ever met or dealt with has been exceedingly accommodating and helpful. I've been given loads of space for mistakes as a farang as long as I remain respectful without being a douchebag. It IS their country ... (Perhaps also because I never hung around on Beach Road after 9pm, or pushed bouncers around on Walking Street 555) And yes I rent, finished with a couple of Thai girls when it got too silly for me, and would never invest anything I couldn't walk away from. But I say that without the slightest bad feeling. It is what it is and I love the people, the place, the way of life, the food and the way it's been so far - despite the occasional (rare) knot that's needed untying.

This quip gets the Golden Gallows award ...

Frequently see it with homeless people back home in Europe as well.

There were times with the TM6 card I had no idea where I'd be spending the first night. The first ever entry I told the immigration officer that I was heading for Ayuthaya - that was no problem. Other times I just wrote any old hotel I'd stayed in the past. The TM6 was useless bog paper. There must be billions rotting in warehouses if they haven't already been recycled. This can only really be to filter out tourists for the 300 baht entry fee. And even that assumes everyone answers honestly. The ETA is supposed to flag up 'undesirables' of whatever ilk.

That's the only reasonable explanation. All that gobbledygook about keeping tabs on tourists and 'security landscape' is garbage. Noone checks the addresses - the old cards were never checked anyway and noone ever followed up on changes of address. The resurrected TM 30 is supposed to do that job. It really can only be a way of exacting the 300 baht fee from actual tourists. As I recall the TM6 asked for reason for travel: leisure/business etc. The upcoming ETA will cover the claimed 'scrutiny' of travellers for 'security' type stuff.

The case of the Swiss cheese whose dogs have been terrifying the people in Bang Saphan for ages now gives the lie to this uniquely resentful post. So sorry you've had such awful experiences. I've been coming to Thailand for over 20 years, for periods of 3 to 8 months at a time almost every year and I've never had to 'pick battles'. (And don't imagine I'm a shrinking violet either ...) I've also known (through the years) and know quite a few dozens of expat retirees who've had and have a wonderful time in Thailand. Yes what happened here is sad and should be sorted. But it is the exception which of course sells column space.

All due respect for your experience. Fact is though that most (tens of thousands) retirees never have anything remotely like this kind of experience. It's either horrifically bad luck or they ramped up a confrontation - perhaps without realizing what they were doing. I'm sure with the video evidence they'll be OK - the cops went for the assailants in the first instance. This counter claim'll get tossed I'm sure.

Yeah and Churchill should have arranged a state visit for Hitler too. Your comment, like Trump's shameful and negligently homicidal actions, is pathetic and craven.

I'm sure this perspicacious analysis will go down in the annals of political science.

Sounds like they only had a 1-way ticket into Thailand. Anyway they don't seem to be very savvy. They didn't know the onward tkt would lapse after 48 hours. They also wasted time and money obtaining an unnecessary eVisa in the first place.

Aren't there some with a clasp or quick release? Maybe a market gap there.

In the junior infantry they taught us to right a capsized kayak with the paddle. I hated it to begin with but it was fun once I'd mastered it.

All the best in paradise to ya ... 😉. For a punter passing through like me the place is intolerable.

Speaking as someone who was jailed for resisting and refusing, and later risked his career by taking part in serious civil protests (for issues I obviously thought were more important than my little self) I agree. Or every Tom, Dick and Harry would be at it because they didn't feel well that day. That element of risk is essential. Suppression, torture and tyranny towards protest however is not acceptable. Fact is that no government or authority takes real notice until they realize they've gone too far and start to get scared. I also support Al Green. The only real spine in the entire house that evening.

This is by no means unusual in the world. It has been like that for most of humanity for most of history.

The Dead Kennedys 'Holiday in Cambodia' springs to mind.

I crossed the place off my list in 2008. I suspect even those who live in a nice place there long term, who know the places where tourists never get to are now suffering from what's happened over the last couple of years.

The world still waits for a cure for stupid ... 🤣

I doubt that somehow in this case. If he was gonna shop anyone he'd have done so a while back - and presumably in return for privileges, protection and shorter sentence (potential King's pardon) etc. He can't have been very popular and I can imagine the thought of the rest of his life inside would make anyone as comparatively young as that consider a rope.

I'm sure these are only some of the questions the AG is cogitating. Real life is indeed complex.

I was questioned in VIE by EVA staff en route to BKK 1-way visa exempt. I told them I intended to apply for a Non-O Retirement visa when I got there. They obviously knew about that and let me through without further ado.

Perhaps part of the confusion here as to Tourist eVisa/Visa Exempt requiring onward flight is that a single entry Tourist eVisa requires ''travel booking confirmation'' during the application process. This is normally a return flight in the case of most tourists so the question is answered at check in without even being posed. (I guess the same also applies to visa exempt.) That's why very few get asked when they've got an eVisa. But when someone with a Tourist eVisa turns up with only a 1-way ticket then the alarm goes off and the airline wants to see an onward booking, same as with a visa exempt pax traveling on a 1-way. As noted previously airlines will be liable in the first instance for returning rejects to where they came from, possibly with a fine on top.

Also mixed with water to feed into some jet engines to boost take off performance.