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Billionaires aren't quite made like average common-folk?

Thaksin sparks online debates for being released on parole Well, just throw all those disgruntled commoners in prison for pointing out that there seems to be one set of rules for the billionaire-class and another for commoners and little-people, and its too obvious to ignore regardless of how it is spun.

Same reason for burning mountains of corn stubble out in Mae Hong Song. Billionaires are winners; everyone else are losers.

There is a thread running for U.K. SIM cards of OTP overseas. I'm interested in the same for U.S. SIM cards for OTP overseas for the same reasons.

I've got the information I need. @Sheryl You can close this. Thanks.

Topical. I used to have some years ago. Preferably 5% topical jell, liquid, or ointment without any other substances like camphor or other additives. What I'm using it for will simply send this off topic. It's nothing nefarious. Thanks.

@Sheryl or anyone. Has anyone seen Lidocaine for sale in Thailand (specifically Chiang Mai). Is it OTC (I can no longer access MIMS so I can't check)?

If I was a Thai investigative reporter I'd be out looking for the 70+ year old parolees who are not in good physical shape who are wearing ankle monitors. Just saying..... I bet there are more than a few.

Yep.

From the horse's mouth (or ChatGPT's mouth). That's about right. Looks like I changed to a Retirement extension back in 2018 then flipped back to the Marriage extension in 2019.

I really hasn't been that way "always." I can't remember the exact year it happened (201n) but it happened before Immigration started to push those of who were married to Thai women to switch to retirement extensions "for the convenience." Then they changed the financial requirements the next year to what they are now, and a lot of us changed back to Marriage extensions. IO "Why you change to retirement then back to marriage??? I only do this one time. No change again." Me: 🤐 <zip> 🤔 <thinking> "Ahhhh, because you told guys like me that it would be convenient. Then ya'll turned around and changed the requirements." Shhhh

Welcome to Thailand. It's been that way for a few years.

I suggest they take a page out of American Native American heritage and do a PM2.5 dance around a fire.

And those three new taxi apps are... <drum roll - slide whistle, cymbal crash> Sharpen your machetes and let the Phuket Taxi Wars begin!

It's alive!

They'll probably get thrown into prison. Not the penthouse suite in a hospital kind.

50 couples at Saphan Khao (White Bridge Park) near Doi Khuntan in Lamphun. So basically, the bigger the city, the fewer marriages. They are gonna have to change the Immigration laws as the Thai Boomers die off and the younger generations stop having kids. 😉

I have very little in common with most expats here, retired, married, or working.

Thailand Moves Closer to Marriage Equality Law You mean that foreign men married to Thai women will be extended the same consideration as foreign women married to Thai men. Oh damn. Silly me. LGBTQ+ community. But? 🤔 Maybe Mrs Connda can become Mr. Connda and Mr. Connda and become Mrs Connda. Yeah....hummmm? 😉

Sick, frail 70+ year old farangs would end up in Gen-Pop.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows - Everybody Know, Leonard Cohen

Well, time will tell one way or the other. If he's out golfing this year the powers-that-be will spin it on overdrive. Either way. I remember when I first got to Thailand and there was an article about some poor plod who had been tossed into one form of Thai prison or other. He was in really bad shape. I won't get into specifics but it was inhuman. So this concierge prison service is extended to all frail, sick, prisoner over 70? Of course. Yep - everybody knows. Btw - I'm not picking on Thailand. This two-tiered system is global: one tier for the obscenely wealthy, another for the common-folk.

I just take my wife down there, let her do all the talking, and bada-bing bada-boom - refund. I just give it to her hence the incentive to cut through the red tape.

FYI. I downloaded this non-fillable TM.7 from the official Thailand Immigration site. It does not reflect any changes. It's the same as the fillable TM.7. I assume what they publish on their site is the most current, but - This Is Thailand. https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4.คำขออนุญาตเพื่ออยู่ในราชอาณาจักรเป็นการชั่วคราวต่อไป-ตม.7.pdf 4.คำขออนุญาตเพื่ออยู่ในราชอาณาจักรเป็นการชั่วคราวต่อไป-ตม.7.pdf

The only change I can see is that the dotted lines after the phrase, "Reason for extension" use to be three lines under the phrase. This document they have brought the dotted lines up to the word "extension." That's the only change I personally see. Anyone see anything else. Does anyone have a PDF editor? If someone can take the fillable TM.7 form and edit it to make that change it would probably help us all. I'm headed to Immigration for an extension tomorrow. I'll see if the fillable flies or not.