BigStar

Life at the keyboard, posting fiction the morbid old Brits like to hear.

Additional compensation to the victims for pain & suffering. I hope they survive.

LOL. I seem to be on the few on the forum healthy and fit enough to need no meds, thank you. OH. It does NOT, in that narrow case.🙂 But YOU have determined it DOES apply when she hasn't expressed politely and gently--according to your standards of "class" and "control"--her mental distress and subsequent legitimate request for due compensation. Correct now? Hee. Now the concept of tort was broached in Gladstone's Commentaries and has been a branch of law for more than a hundred years. The Brit legal system, formerly ruled by men, was traditionally reluctant to recognize the concept for what they termed "women's maladies." After all, women do express their "maladies" vociferously at times, unlike tough guys such as yourself. Now the courts certainly do, however, in the UK and the USA, as suggested by the recent fine of 93 million imposed on a prominent figure in the US for crying claims of trauma over an imagined incident nearly 30 years ago with no hard evidence. Widely applauded here, BTW. In that case, perfectly understandable, LOL. Call her a drama queen if you like. 🙂 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events. --https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/overview/ Though you may have your womanly side, you don't really know how stressful it was for her to be suddenly kicked in the back at night by a big foreigner and cursed out, with possibly much worse to come. Clearly it was quite a shock. And you can't definitely say the event, and subsequent events, didn't cause lingering emotional distress for this lady that could be described as at least mild PTSD. Could she have nightmares? Not a far-fetched idea. Does she have the right to let a court decide the matter? She does. But your "class" and "control" would have her just suck it up as you would have, if kicked in the back in the dark by, say, Taylor Swift on public land in Hawaii. In reality your PTSD would have come on much, much sooner, LOL. Typically in such legal cases the plaintiff will put forth the "best" case. We see similar in claims for GoFundMe by all these Brits injured on their scooters. Nothing unusual here, really. Including Boomerang posts such as your own.

You get the copy of the passport validated and then find a translator either in or around the MFA or elsewhere (mine was in Pattaya) to handle the MFA's blessing and mail it to you. One gotcha is that you need to be sure the spelling of the name on the translation is exactly the same as the translation that appears on any previous official document, such as marriage certificate or land deed. Otherwise you'll need to get another translation or change the spelling on the other document. Thais are known for being consistently inconsistent in their transliterations, and so idea is that at last your name should have ONE official spelling.

But that's not the predicted scenario that fits the shrewd assured prophecy, you see. The bribes, including covert payment to the doc, would ensure that events didn't reach a certain publicity level and all would be buried and quickly forgotten. It would appear then that our smug experts were just full of cr*p as usual.

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.