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He'll pay up. He's certainly leaving, given that his visa has been canceled. Banned? Probably not indefinitely. Big question for our shrewdest members, blowing more of the usual hot air, is: when's them bribes gon' to kick in? You know, the bribes smugly and authoritatively predicted to bury the whole case as all quickly returned to normal, WOT??? We may have (cough) a credibility problem here.

Bob? Of course.

Or they really do feel what they feel. Simple as that.

As would any Brit if possible under similar circumstances. She should get all she can out of this pr*ck. She probably IS stressed. It was quite a shock. Docs aren't the bar girls you're accustomed to.

Let's see. Sitting on some stairs watching the night sky on the beach isn't "classy." Resenting being suddenly kicked in the back by an big arrogant Swiss nutter shows no class or control. If YOU were kicked in the back then you'd just wai and slink away. Seems the ANF Poster Boomerang Principle applies: it's actually the poster himself who lacks class and control. Class is sitting on a bar stool.

Is it necessary to suffer a haematoma before common sense tells you that a kick in the back is actually a kick in the back and not a "shove?" LOL.

Actually just posters milking it to reinforce ignorant Thai stereotypes and have an enjoyable bash.

Oh, that makes ALL the difference. We don't like Chinese.

Perhaps it makes a difference if it isn't YOUR violent assault causing your own injuries?

Photocopy of TM.6 Departure Card if you have that. Jomtien also wanted a photocopy of the middle pages of my passport, first time for that. However, the IO made a copy for me to sign. Also the Terms & Conditions and Overstay Penalties forms if you have those. You can download them here: https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/downloads_en/ Scan, fill in your computer, then change the date as needed and run off copies yearly. You can stop your bank in the morning on the way to Immigration to update your bank book and get the bank letter. Ask the bank to provide you w/ a copy of that updated last page. Don't forget to sign it. Pensioners: save money by using the bank's pen.

Never needed a TM.30, use a copy of my pink card. Yellow book will also do nicely.

Do that. And let him know that he may shop in other areas of the store and return later to area in question. Or if it's an urgent need for, say, toilet paper, he may request staff to fetch him a few rolls. Sorted!

In Pattaya it's always started on the 11th in the bar areas. It does always stop on the 19th, or rather the 20th in the wee hours. In recent years it hasn't been bad at all outside the bar areas. But you may always encounter exceptions.

Whinge of the day. Chalk it up to one o' them "mysteries of the Orient," without which the Orient wouldn't be the Orient. Then move on to something worth thinking about.

Probably, another Brit? It's time for bashing

Refuses to answer. 😂 Imaginary need. What do these trolls get out of playing these games? So obsessive.

Ah. You login to google drive etc. on google.com. Unfortunately it happens that google doesn't automatically upload all your data from your PC. Not surprisingly, if you didn't upload it, then it won't be there all safe and sound when your drive crashes. The other issue, you see, is that serious computer users often have much more data than the measly 15 GB google gives you for free on Google drive. So actually they'd ALSO have to pay for more space, as you noted. But then it seems you're limited to 2 TB? Many people have more than that. I have 6 TB of data, for example. As it turns out, just having your password [to a Google account], not necessarily Chrome, and are using Gmail, then your Gmail is stored there, unless you've exceeded your space limit. But not much else without conscious effort and payments. If you're using Chrome, Google will love to backup your bookmarks and browsing data and sync them to Chrome on other devices. I think we can just state the general principle that you'll lose data when it's deleted, erased, or otherwise becomes inaccessible if you don't have it backed up SOMEWHERE.

We also need the baked-beans-on-toast index. However, a lot of Thai cities may not serve any.

Merely from experience with prostitutes whom you paid to fake a "spark" for you. Older Thai women can be quite hot naturally but are pretty rare, certainly unknown to members here familiar only with the lower class. As with physically desirable older men, they retain youth the old-fashioned way, the only way possible: through diet & exercise--both of which you've wisely made a point of avoiding.

Why bother? The new PC may just be imaginary or a wind up. If he wants to use Linux, he could just install it on his old computer and it'll probably run like new.

Now this is good news. Thank god for Chrome, eh. How does this guarantee to save your media files, your documents and shortcuts, work? Login to WHERE?

As do I, fields already typed it in, just change the date. Also have my phone number typed at the bottom. Anything to get outta the Immigration office quickly. Been a couple years since I received a bank book check notice. I'd ignore it anyway. Exactly. I get the bank book letter from the bank on my way to Immigration. They give me a photocopy of the updated last page. If online doesn't work and I must go there, I print out a pre-filled TM47 and passport copies. Also my yellow book. Never done a TM.30. I love surprising them. What "extra" besides the usual acknowledgement slip w/ notice of your next reporting date?

Let's not overcomplicate things. Make a Macrium Reflect bootable USB stick (aka rescue media). Install both drives into the new computer. Boot with Macrium. Clone. Remove/disconnect old drive. Profit. Will it boot? Yes, it might. Gone are the bad ol' Win 7 days. Win 10's much less grumpy about waking up in new hardware. It goes out and finds stuff. Worth a try to avoid reinstalling all those programs from the old installation. If you get the MBR complaint, enable Legacy/CSM in BIOS and test. If it's matter of drivers . . . you can try startup repair. Fairly useless, in most cases. But paid versions of Macrium and other such offer a "redeploy" feature or "bare bones restore" from an image (yeah, make an image of the old drive on another drive and use it). I'll redeploy if I'm moving an installation to very dissimilar hardware. Does Samsung have a similar feature? Find out. I can't remember, but it may be that Macrium Free doesn't adjust the size of the clone to use the entire disk. If not, you'd need to extend the system partition into the extra free space, after it's up and running. Or you can make a data partition and move the libraries there. I never do on ONE drive, seems a legacy handed down from Win98. Best use another drive for data . . . .