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13 minutes ago, pazienza said:

Hardly terrible - I've visited the embassy for the last 3 Fridays in a row, all with pre confirmed appointments I made on the phone and email. 

 

If you're that desperate to fly then maybe take a trip down there, you can pick up a queue number and wait. 

So you've traveled there every Friday for the last three weeks, and you're singing their praises? From my home in the UK, it's a 4 hour round trip at least.

It's a bit like saying you've been to your local Domino's pizza for the last three Fridays in a row, and you're still expecting your pizza at some point in the future, but you still don't know. It's a shambles. 

6 minutes ago, pazienza said:

What I'm trying to say is, it may well be worth trying to contact the London embassy and seeing what can be done. 

Terrible advice. They don't answer their phones and ignore emails. I've never had a response to an email that I've sent them. 

Sounds like booking Glastonbury tickets. If you want to log in quickly, put one person's details in and pay, you might get lucky. But by the time you've entered 3 peoples' details you've got no chance because the site is so slow and there's so much demand.

Listen to Richard Smith; there appears to be loads of flights into Suvarnabhumi, but as a passenger your chance of getting on one is somewhere between Bob Hope and Pee-Wee Herman. I hear there are still boats you can get on.

3 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Well pay it then, 4000 for servicing a bike that young it a joke anyway.

What a helpful comment, The guy spent a fortune on a new bike which includes the first service. The fact that they are even asking for it is outrageous.

In Thailand, if you get burgled, provide CCTV footage to the police and a sizeable envelope nothing will still happen. Friend of mine has a mini-resort in Hua Hin with multiple cameras and was burgled. Luckily they only got away with an ageing laptop and the petty cash, but police were about as much use as a chocolate teapot. The best way to avoid being robbed in Thailand is to simply not have anything worth stealing, the cost of keeping your valuables at the bank will be less than what you spend on security systems.   

16 hours ago, Flying Saucage said:

Surely they read our posts. They are keen to track foreigners wherever and whenever possibly. For sure also on Thaivisa.

 

But honestly, isn't that one reason why we post all this here? We want to hold a mirrow towards them to show them that we understand what really happens here, but also TO HELP THEM to understand what is wrong in this nevertheless so wonderful country which honestly we love same as they might love it. And also, we hope to teach them not to believe everything they are told by their superiors, and to learn to start to think for themselves, isn't it?

 

Make Thailand great again! 

 

 

If you post something inflammatory or derogatory on here, the mods will delete it and might warn you about it, they do a good job. Thais don't want your help or advice, I suspect. I doubt they will go to the lengths to find out who you are and put a marker on your immigration record because you voiced your opinion on a forum. Currently, many Thais are posting very nasty things under their real names on Facebook etc, I suspect that this will be more of a concern right now. 

Send her to the crocodile farm next and tell her to get a photo fondling the croc's tonsils. 

2 hours ago, paulbj2 said:

Does anyone know what progress is being made in the project to make the Thai language replace English as the world's 'lingua franca' as Chan-Ocha predicted it would?

I honestly dismissed this at first as a joke, then double checked the old Google, and sure enough, he did actually say this. I am absolutely flabbergasted, gobsmacked and in disbelief. He's in charge of a country of 70 million people!

I wonder how long he thought it would take to have citizens of New York, Paris and London all speaking Thai?

29 minutes ago, nausea said:

I'm sorry, Thailand is a bywater. The Vietnam war is long over, and nobody cares very much what Thailand does. 

Surely you mean "backwater"?

42 minutes ago, gamini said:

They do, but it is illegal. You would be taking a big risk. 

I'm interested to know more about this "big risk". I am fully above board with nothing to hide visa-wise, but have never heard of someone using a "fixer" and getting caught.  

So I'll ask again - can you get into trouble for doing this? It doesn't sound legit at all.

3 minutes ago, Pi Tao said:

Internet on phone, day by day, 17 bahts, AIS.

Put your sim card in tablet.

Just get the cheapest sim and put 20 baht on it every few months so they don't cancel it. Also keep the tablet charged up. When the power goes off here I just use my laptop which obviously has a battery, and switch over to the phone's mobile internet hotspot, very easy.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Hope that's not in LOS. Riding a push bike on main roads in LOS is likely to lead to an early death.

On lovely Isaan roads. Actually I feel safer riding here than in the UK, there's a huge hard shoulder for bicycles and mopeds, most of the time I'm nowhere near the main traffic.

So if you need a visa and are missing a certain piece of paper, you can see one of these fixers to sort it out, but how legal is that exactly? Could you end up in trouble?

10 minutes ago, rott said:

Look at my life on the other hand, pushing 4.30am and I am on TVF because I can't sleep. ???? Ah well. 

Same here, but I'm making a strong coffee, packing my rucksack and going out to do 100km+ on my bicycle as soon as the first rays of light appear.