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Didn't know they had soi dogs and ladyboys in London.

I think I first read a comment like this about 20 years ago ... It's a known design made for Thais that's cost innumerable inebriated farangs their life.

Yes. And as I read the OP, they fished him out of departures at BKK last January. Looks like they kept him here since. That's over a year away from his home country, in Bangkok, where it looks like he's failed on all fronts. Facing the interminable Thai legal system and the chance of losing a good portion of his wealth as well as child custody. Without a decent support group suicide would not be surprising at all. The autopsy will tell. (The two bottles of wine and the chair in front of the balcony also reminds me a bit of Eddy G. Robinson's last moments in Soylent Green.)

And for which the hitmen are usually family members of the lady beneficiary of the will.

Gottfried surely you have heard of the Pattaya Flying Club? The flight instructors being the 'brothers' and 'cousins' of the young hostesses who welcomed the budding geriatric pilots on board? It's an industry mate although it seems to have been in something of a recession since the pandemic. Whether or not Ploy is a shareholder in the industry is purely a matter for conjecture however.

Narrow. It'll run down Soi 6 easily ...

South Korea's just shown the US what should have happened to Trump. The fact that 77m instead voted him in as president a second time, after fraud convictions and sexual abuse verdicts, shows the country has lost both its moral compass and its spine. This is actually the problem the world faces with the US. It ain't Kansas any more. Major global reshuffle underway and the US will be much poorer in every respect (in particular with regards to respect) when it's over - probably over the next generation or two. But: it's what you voted for (or stayed at home for).

It's already stapled in when my passport is returned with an extension.

Could I do the same with a Non-O Retirement visa? i.e. 2x90 days with a decent break for traveling in between?

Great news. What a super story. Local project with much potential to solve serious problems. Kudos! Strikes me as a lot more serious than Pattaya monorails. Imagine this rolled out nationwide over the next ten years. The boost that could give the economy and quality of life as well.

Living the dream eh? ... That's how nightmarish it can get. And that was not a 'romantic dispute'. It's clearly a case of stalking and threatening behavior. If you can't take no for an answer then don't play the game.

I love watching the gammonloons popping, spitting and fizzing in their xenophobic terror. Their ignorance is stupendous.

Gogo bars were DEFinitely a lot cheaper in 2003. But it was almost impossible to find a decent coffee.

I would venture that the only ones who only ever see Pattaya aren't interested in anywhere else anyway.

Because it gets us all a bad name the same as the dudes who arrogantly flout other laws from the roads to the barstools to the abuse of the visa system etc. Anyway I'm not 'emotionally invested'. Just passing the time of day on AN with a comment or two.

I'm quite happy to look away when the performers are happy enough to screen themselves at least somewhat. In any country. Have. But it's hard to look away when it's happening on the steps of a 7-11, or in my hotel garden after a nice meal in the restaurant. I'm really quite liberal and always have been about sex. But like so many other things, if you're gonna play stupid games, expect stupid prizes. I personally wouldn't spray them with water. I'd actually look away. But the Thai female hotel employee who did was well within her rights to respond to what she perceived as a gross insult. This is a country where even nudism is frowned on. It is arrogance to simply screw in public. It's like saying 'screw you lot, we're gonna do it anyway'. From what I gather from this story it doesn't even qualify as an act of civil disobedience (something which of necessity also has consequences). It was merely self-centered rudeness. A water spray is pretty much on the lower end of the kinetic scale of pushbacks. Having said that, I wouldn't stay long in a hotel where public copulation was commonplace or where scumbags lie around in puddles of p!33, but does that make me prude? Or a curtain twitcher? A rat? I don't think so.

Means she is no longer a dual citizen/national. She is Spanish and can enter on the Spanish passport with ETA. Or she lied to the Spanish authorities by renouncing it to them but not actually renouncing it to the UK authorities. Lies usually have consequences. It used to be that until you renounced your right to UK domicile you remained a citizen with right of entry. I have not renounced domicile or citizenship for many good reasons I won't go into here. I entered on an EU passport last year with ETA. Haven't needed a UK passport for travel since decades. I wouldn't usually bother with this c5@p money grab (that's what it is), but unfortunately I face the prospect of some family funerals in the not too distant future and so the extortion will work. Getting a UK passport is both cumbersome, expensive and time consuming. My EU PP is easy, relatively cheap and streamlined. It is bleeding galling. To put it diplomatically.

No. It reflects high corruption. Fact. And that's just the stuff they know about.

It's what we used to do to separate dogs who'd coupled in the street. Can't say I'd feel particularly comfortable seeing people casually copulating around the place when walking around town or my hotel grounds or going down to the beach. I mean, how about having it off on the steps of a 7-11? Good for standing doggy position or sitting ... If you wanna do it outside GREAT! But have at least a little decorum and choose somewhere more isolated than a hotel garden next to the spirit house. Some kind of screen like a bush or whatever. The floor of a fishing boat. Whatever. But I also ask what kind of a hotel has a garden scattered with scumbags and stinking of urine. Dream Hotel Pattaya? Oh dear.

The remnants of working class colonialism. Ruling the waves and all that jack.

That's all fine and I agree. But if you can't even (or can't be bothered or have been bought off) track down multi year overstayers involved in scams and trafficking with the TM30 program, it is all totally useless.

30 days or 60 makes no difference to those who have no intention of sticking to either immigration regulations or other laws. Once in they just disappear and get on with whatever crimes they want. It seems they then use the criminal defense of the brown envelope if they appear on any local radar. As Nan Laew said: vet the worst offender countries. But I would say instead of lowering to 30 days visa exempt for them, apply full visa requirements instead. That'll certainly shake them up and sort the sheep from the goats.

Well it won't really will it? They get in anyway and then just abscond for a couple of years on their nefarious 'adventures'. Those types don't care whether the entry stamp says 60 or 30. Once they're through the gate they're off and all this TM30 garbage and any other potential form of enforcement is useless. We know this by the multiyear overstayers Inspector Chance stumbles across occasionally which he uses to pose for those immigration 'enforcement' foto ops.

What difference will it make with so many people even overstaying the 60 day exemption, sometimes for years, with complete impunity?

What's just as saddening is seeing how many farangs want them put in their place as well.