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Have a checklist. Keep multiple copies of reusable items (for example, hand-drawn map, your wife's house-book and id, your passport). That leaves you with annual pictures. If you want to get sneaky about it, take multiple pictures wearing different clothes. Our office wants two pictures (copies of the same picture) at the front gate with address, two pictures in living room and two picture sitting on the bed. While your at it, make multiple copies of a 4x6 photo of yourself. You could spend one afternoon/evening at put together application packets for the next three or four years. That leaves you only with going to the bank to get a bank letter (you have to do this for retirement too) and on the way stop by the Amphur office and pick up a copy of your Kor 2 (20 or 30 THB). Op, you're making a mountain out of a mole-hole. You're railing at the system probably because it is unfair as compared with the immigration policies of our own country's where foreign wives are pretty much a shoe-in for a visa, a green-card (work permit), permanent residency, and a path to citizenship. I get it! I've been there. I've done that. I do understand. But now pushing 16 years of marriage and 17 years living here? You adapt. Or you don't and you leave. The process is an afternoon of prep work (or like I said, make packages for the next three years) and a day at immigration that could be as little as an hour to as much as all day depending where you Immigration office is. Put it in perspective - It's Once A Year. Really - it's not that big of a deal. I've attached Ubonjoe's (may he rest in peace) Marriage Extension Checklist. Marriage Extension Requirements - Ubonjoe.pdf

🤵‍♂️ "Here's a million THB." 👮‍♂️ "Yep. He really is sick!" 🙄 TIT Baby!

"Legal" vote buying. Call it what it is. Illegal: Hand a voter 500 THB before they go to the poll. Legal: Promise to give a voter 10,000 THB using government funds if you vote them into office. What concerns me is the moral relativity. Btw, the 10,000 THB scheme grift initiative is going to give birth to a whole new generation of nouveau riche billionaires as they refine the digital shell game and give special retailer status to connected "essential businesses." Watch.

Between Feb and May (even until June some years) this is your friend and buddy.

In Northern Thailand where I live, once it starts raining and though most of High Season is usually really nice. By February it usually has all gone to hell and we begin to wait for the rains to happen again. Now Bangkok? Different story. If I remember right they tend to get inversion layers in the atmosphere which traps the smog in during High Season cooling. So - it depends.

I gotta pair of those but I don't wear them. The edges and strap rubs blisters into my feet. I just go for plain, old Gambol flip-flops. I probably go though a couple of pair a year. But each to their own. I could see how some people might like those.

A heart attack after age 70 is nature's way of saying, "It's time to go." However, some people want to live to be in their 100s. Gawd, the thought of being packed into an aged, broken-down, decrepit, meat-sack body. Kissinger has handlers to help him walk around. No thanks. A heart attack is a relatively quick way to go, and we all are going to go.

Try mailing it in then. Better than visiting in person.

Agreed. Put in on your calendar to submit the form 15 days before the due date, and then if it doesn't show, wait until the last couple of days before heading to Immigration. Usually it will show up if you give them that 22 day lead-time.

PI. I'd take them up on their SRRV visa for members of the US military.

That's about the size of my bird's outdoor aviary.

As far as shoes go. Yeah, I agree. I put a pair of trainers on for about 5 minutes. Nope. Probably ain't wearing shoe again in this life-time.

Nope. Haven't been to Pattaya since 2007. There's a reason for that. Pattaya of 2007 wasn't the Pattaya of 1986 that I enjoyed and where I had fun.

Well, at least he didn't have a gun. The Chinese tourist are probably not going to hear about his "axe arsenal" on Chinese news or social media.

Yep - I've received that too. Simply deleted the post as I was clueless as to why I got that message. Spam filter? Over 21K posts you'd think that the system would "know" me by now. And I got a Captcha challenge today as well. Strange daze days.

Well that posted. Perhaps we could get a list of what the upgrade changed? That's pretty normal when web applications upgrade their services.

Let's see if I can even post this. I've had some weird stuff happen today. I had one post display "This post is hidden until approved." Ok The post contained the word, "I'd get a new bag," and a link to a James Brown song on Youtube. Next I got a Captcha challenge. Never had that happen before. Then my post didn't post and it required me to log on again - even though I was logged in. So I'm confused. I'll now hit the "Submit Reply" and cross my fingers. In 3-2-1...........

Good for you. I'm not. I haven't been drunk in years. I'm happy with a couple of beers on occasion and a pleasant buzz. But? To each their own.

Sort fits the 15 minute city paradigm. 15 minute villages. We'll come full circle back to the 1960s when most villages walked, those better off had a bicycle, the rich had a motorcycle, and the wealthy had a car (or a few).

It will be interesting to see how the underground economy will develop after the populace is hung out in the sun on digital tenterhooks for the capitalist vultures to feed off of the scraps of flesh that may still remain within a raped and emaciated economy. "You'll own nothing and be happy." / "Happiness to the people." Same same - not different at all.

This is the official roll-out of CBDC with all the bells-and-whistles to come - on a pre-determined schedule of course. Notice that just like during the Covid plague, there will be "essential businesses" who will be allowed to play, and then everyone else who are not part of the scheme. The "essential businesses" players become the receipts of a massive wealth transfer (10,000K happiness to the voters scheme worth a half a trillion THB compliments of a Thai printing press system of digital debits and credits manage by the Thai central bank). Non-players? So sad, too bad. "Wealth will" (not) "trickle-down to non-essential businesses and entities who are outside the scheme and are deemed non-playing-entities," the plebs will be told.. Of course, prices for just about everything will skyrocket to soak up the excess money supply of digital banking ones-and-zeros flooding the banking system. Happy to the indenture debt-slaves people.

Translated: Only "connected" special people can participate in the grift scheme initiative. Fyi. Prepare for massive inflation in Thailand in 2024 - 2025. You can bank on that prediction. But the exchange rate should be a real winner for expats.

Nothing that I haven't seen in Bangkok.

Do stupid stuff, win stupid prizes. Enjoy your stay followed by deportation.

Human hatred will put an end to it all. Give it time. We're on the brink. "Holding on to hatred is like a man who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink." -Buddhaghoṣa, 5th century Buddhist scholar