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Puccini

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  1. That's a misinterpretation of the court decision. The unpaid fine is still legal. It was the manner in which the Land Transportation Department refused to renew the vehicle registration because of the unpaid fine that was illegal.
  2. What car forum? Can you post the link to it?
  3. You thought wrong. People living in condominium units are not forbidden by law to smoke, fart, cook curries, etc on their premises.
  4. I think I found the galleries, but images do not get displayed on phone screen. https://aseannow.com/gallery/#
  5. I didn't know we have galleries. How can I find mine? I'd like to see if I can find a solution to your problem.
  6. I asked myself the same questions. Most likely, the information is withheld because of Thailand's defamation laws.
  7. Rabbit, for example: https://www.sextoysinbangkok.com/product/7-speed-silicone-rabbit-vibrator-usb-rechargeable/
  8. Even better, buy only from sellers who give size charts in centimetres or inches.
  9. I suggest you put your question to the person to whom my reply was addressed unless you have already found your answer in the scholarly and partly not so scholarly discussion that ensued.
  10. The rules for extensions of stay will have to be rewritten. No more "the husband or wife", but "that spouse" No more "the father or mother", but "that parent" If the appropriate words don't exist yet in the Thai language, they will have to be created. (This should make an interesting topic in the Thai Language forum)
  11. It would be considerate and generous on your part if you kindly shared your source of this knowledge with me and other readers by posting links to the corresponding articles.
  12. "informed comments" is an interesting term but it depends a lot on how it is interpreted. In this topic, I have seen a member present his view with references to scientific publications accompanied by relevant links. This is, in my view, an informed comment, acknowledged by the readers as such regardless whether or not they share the opinions or conclusions of the linked published articles.
  13. I interpret "full parity with heterosexual couples in establishing and nurturing families" in the OP to mean that they will indeed be allowed to legally adopt children, who will then not have "a father and a mother", the commonly used Thai term for "parents", but two fathers or two mothers.
  14. I agree. You're got a good nose.
  15. It is comforting to read all the helpful advice from government agencies on how to avoid potential health problems caused by excessive air pollution. It would be even more comforting to be able to read weekly reports about industrial companies being prosecuted and penalised for their non-compliance with existing laws about limiting pollution caused by their smoke stacks. Where can one read such reports?
  16. I see that Bangkok (if BKK in this instance does not mean Suvarnabhumi airport) now has its separate app for air quality information. I'll have a look at it.
  17. I am not subscribed to the newsletter but I'd like to have a look at this problem. If the newsletter has a link on which you have to click to display the weather information to your screen, can you copy that link and post it here?
  18. I don't see the connection between the "condo owner" and the gate. The condo owner owns the condominium unit, colloquially called the condo, he is letting to the OP but he doesn't own the gate. The gate is part of the so-called common area of the condominium building and thus is jointly owned by all owners of condo units. It is the management of the Condominium Juristic Person, ie of the condominium building, that deals with the necessary repair and or replacement of damaged items in the common area, not an individual condo owner.
  19. That's new, a defense lawyer saying that the accused should protect the lawyer. Protect her from what?
  20. Forget my question; I found the answer on Quora. "The English language, she is difficult", says Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's detective novels and I, who am learning English as a foreign language, agree. Lesson learnt: If it is between your legs, it is being ridden.
  21. Driving a motorcycle or riding pillion on a motorcycle?
  22. Thank you for this additional information. It helps me to assess your situation better. The conclusion is that you were fortunate to have had to pay only 35 Baht. The details: 1. With the declaration of medicine, customs at many post offices would not have allowed delivery of the package. Perhaps your post office does not have a customs official looking over their shoulders. 2. The declared value of the contents must reflect the cost of purchase of the content, not the amount paid by the recipient (in your case zero) 3. Packages with a value of not more than 1,500 Baht were, and perhaps still are, exempt from import duty. It appears that no import duty was assessed for your package. 4. Quite recently, the Thai government decided to assess the prevailing rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) on every import with a value of 1 Baht or more. 5. The zero declared value was obviously false. You can imagine the burden on the individual post offices and the delivery delays if every package had to be referred to customs, which incidentally would probably incur an additional fee for customs inspection. I suspect that a rule was established and perhaps published in the Royal Gazette to the effect that post offices are allowed to assess and collect the VAT directly for packages exempt from customs duty and, where the declared value is zero or suspiciously low, to assess VAT based on specific parameters, eg weight of the package and/or declared category of the contents.
  23. Is it possible that you got things a bit confused? The Thai Revenue Department talks about assessable income, not accessible income. Your talk about buying a new car, though, leads me to the question whether the Thai tax declaration form for a natural person requires the declaration not only of assessable income and allowed deductions, but also of assets and liabilities. Has this already been mentioned somewhere?
  24. Just testing if arse and/or butt are on the profanity list. (I am compulsively curious) P.S. Please don't reply to this post. I'm afraid I may have gone off topic, and my post already gave me the the answer. (It occurred to me that in future I should go to The Lounge for this kind of test and I hope I shall remember to do so next time curiosity overcomes me)
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