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On my report 3 months ago I never got a reply. Exactly one week after the due date I had to go to Immigration and do it in person. About two weeks after that I got an online approval.

Probably out getting a soapy massage.

My guess at what they are taught. Entering a highway to make a turn at a U-Turn 1km up the road. Pull onto the acceleration lane and stop with you car at a 90 degree angle to fully block the lane. Sit and wait until the air temperature is correct. Pull out very slowly and cross at a right-angle across all lanes and turn onto the far outside right lane. Don't worry about all the cars that nearly ran into you. Accelerate at walking speed until the car is going 40 kph in the high-speed outside passing land and continue at that speed until you come the the U-Turn. Don't use the deceleration lane but instead make a turn slowly from the high-speed outside lane as cars whiz by flashing lights and blowing horn. Left the tail end of your car in the high-speed outside lane and block the view of the car attempting to properly make a U-turn. When the air temperature and wind direction seem right, pull out in front of oncoming traffic without a care. Accelerate at walking speed while driving with two wheels on the shoulder and two wheels on the highway until a car attempts to pass you and then pull out in front of them. Keep accelerating until you're going 120kpm. They all do it. No one knows how to properly merge onto a highway nor how to safely cross at U-Turns. So I assume the 'driving schools are naught but the blind teaching the blind.

Yes - there are warning signs, rumble strips, flashing lights - and it makes no difference. And yet? There have been three accidents in the same place in the last two years. When I say it's the government's fault, I mean the government's inability to licensed trained drivers or even having a set of rule that aren't complete hog-wash. There is no mandatory training or a level of expertise that is required to get a license that addresses the constant roadside genocide that occurs here. They play lip service, but they don't address the root cause of the problem. When I see cops driving doing the same idiocy as an average Thai driver? They have no Highway Patrol and other cops in patrol cars issuing citations to people openly breaking what minimal driving laws they have. Nope - those Highway Patrol are for escorting VIP and pretty much nothing else. There is no hope. These people fain to care. And the carnage will continue unabated in-infinitum.

Wait until the day when Thai Buddhism and the very open giving of money in "Money-Trees" meets the government who outlaws cash. Money-Trees are outlawed and Thai society has a very negative cultural reaction. Money-Trees are part-and-parcel of the Thai religion as well as Thai culture. "You commoners will get over it. Put a QR code on a stick plebs and suck it!" Ok.

As clear as mud, ain't it. We ❤️ your money but we detest you - farang. TIT.

Insurance underwriter spend a huge amount of their operating expense to reject claims based on any reason. Don't admit it? They cancel your insurance and refuse to pay. It's a hell of a legal scam.

Thais have no driving skills and I blame the government. In the US, we HAD to take driving courses in high school in order to get an endorsement to drive. Well, that was 56 years ago, things have no doubt changed there too. But here. Watch a video, learn to wai someone when you almost get into an accident, and Somchai Is Your Uncle. There is a reason for for the horrendous vehicle injury and fatality stats. If this kid dies in the hospital? <The Thai Government> "It wasn't a traffic fatality." It's all rotten from the top-down. This never changes until these fools address the fact they have a major problem. Ah! But that would be 'losing face.' So? It never ends. My wife is going to talk to the heads of the village and tambon. She is assertive like no Thai I've ever met (which is why I like her, bad moods and all), but these leader will just give her a mealy-mouth load of BS, and eventually someone else will be killed. If they come around that corner fast enough? It might be me in my bed. At least one car that failed to make that corner hit her cement wall, but before I knew her. But I'm the one who paid to have that wall straighten back up and reinforced. It's just a matter of time, in my opinion.

Rough sketch of the road. Thais? They don't have a clue how to drive. The highway where you can drive 90 kpm narrows, it's a rise to a blind corner on a reducing radius turn. They carry too much speed over the hill and into the corner and <BAM>. They come off the road at the same place every single time. Too many on this corner. This has been at least 4 since we move to the village 8 years ago. About 1 every two years at this rate. Another statistic.

There will probably be a police report filed on you for 'assault."

We live on a 'highway' where the road narrows significantly as it enters the village. We live out on the boundary. The road make a reducing radius turn over a hill and then shoots into a 150 meter straightaway. It's a 'blind-corner." The apex of that turn is about 75 meters before our house. Come around that corner at speed, and you hit a wall that was built by the homeowners closest to the corner who have had two trucks misjudge the corner and slide into their property and bust up the old fence and gates. It's now a significantly reinforces cement wall. Some idiot on a M/C just hit it. Today some unlucky young man in shorts, and t-shirt, and no helmet didn't make that corner. I've been helping with traffic as the morons come up on the blind corner where their was an amulance parked in the oncoming lane. Idiots keep coming without a care until they get past me and lock up their brakes because there are flashing lights and a blocked road. My wife is yelling, "Be Careful," but she is the one directly in the line where an out of control car will smash into the ambulance and medics. The whole thing looked like something out of Monty Python. Talk about insanity on steroids. There is a huge yaba problem out here so I would not be surprise the that 20-something guy was on some drug. Feeling great until you fubar yourself by misjudging your speed in a corner that doesn't forgive idiots. I don't gawk. I went up, took a look, start asking people to call the an ambulance or police, and then went to the blind side of the curve to slow idiotic Thai drivers down. Of which there are plenty on a Sunday afternoon. But the kid, although conscious, was busted up bad and lying in too much blood. My wife, being my wife, is now in a foul mood direct at me. It doesn't take much. This hasn't been a good day. Hope the kid lives. ????

Yes - they do have proper resuscitation equipment. But if you're so worried, go the a private hospital.

Well, shouldn't have been streaming obscene material. I don't understand the younger generation. Post all sorts of absurd stuff online. But I agree, back in the 1980 the first brush with Thai "culture" for many sailors on my ship(s) were Patong Ping-pong Ball Shows. But there are limits to what can be posted online in Thailand. Err on the side of conservatism.

Had my done in a public (government) hospital and it was just dandy. Go for it.

If she is a typical Thai gal looking from farangs, she has more than one on the side. Cut her loose.

Then cut her loose. If you're afraid of Covid? Best to isolate and stop swapping spit with anyone.

Do you like her or is she just a steady pump? If you like her, go visit her family. If she's just a steady pump? Cut her loose as you're raising her expectations.

Me neither. I can't get past it asking for a PIN. I only have one PIN with SCB but the setup fails there. Like another commenter stated, I'll be taking the phone to SCB and let them install it for me. It shouldn't be this difficult - but?

Some people get sicker that a dog with GA. My ex-wife was one. She'd puke every time afterwards. Me? I'm like you. "...wake up with a warm glow...," unless I'm in pain then I ask for morphine.

Exactly - they'll target legitimate tourist and business-people with harassment while overlooking the dark-dank recesses of human trafficking and illegal cross-border immigration. So they alienate those whom they target to increase tourism. Great business plan. Pasty white farangs will be low-hanging fruit for Immigration.

Zero overstays? It will never happen, but I'll have some of whatever the dude is smoking. Pipe-dream at best. FYI - "Farang" overstays are the tip of the iceberg compared to illegal cross-border 'immigration' of those seeking jobs and well as a subset of other people who come here to engage in illegal activities. So they'll take the tip of the iceberg down to the water-line and claim success. Ah-huh. ????

Because, as far as I know, pedophilia is still a crime. But for under-age boy lovers? Feel free to come on out. Let's see who you are. Oh, and those who prey on under-age girls too. People who sexually prey on the under-aged should be thrown in a hole for the rest of their lives. They are obscene dangers to society.

Don't know. My TGF (now my wife) is only 8 years younger than me, and the oldest of the four wives I've had.

Let me guess. If Pita isn't given the PM position, then it's then an new "Color Revolution!" 'Eh? Ok. I've seen two of those and a coup since I move here. ???? My guess? Historically speaking, it will have no effect on anyone out here in the Thai boondocks. This will be a strictly Big City (BKK) affair.

Actually? Ask a doctor who specializes in Anesthesiology. That's probably about 0% of the people on this forum. Your surgeons and anesthesiologists are obviously not listening to your complaints. Nobody here should do anything but point you back to a fully qualified and licensed anesthesiologist. Ask @Sheryl for referrals.