oceanyachting

There are agents online. Not offering much at the moment and advice to speak to locals is good.

thailand_property.com, dotproperty.co.th

46 minutes ago, Kalasin Jo said:

At the moment we are, subject to the curfew. But what for?

Passport expires

how do I get one of these apps?

And someone whose religion says decapitate all infidels, just respect them?

so you pick which bits to believe?

moontang

Can the religious amongst you please explain something to me. You say your god created Adam and Eve. They populated the world by having 3 sons? No girls and anyway incest is wrong?

Sorry Sujo. That wasn't to you! it was to it was to logosone

You didn't understand the topic! Sorry if English is not your first language. It is difficult for you to reply in an English language forum

15 minutes ago, Logosone said:

With pleasure.

 

The Congressional Budget Office in the US estimated that the cost to the federal government of extending employment benefits to same-sex domestic partners of certain federal employees (making no mention of additional costs such as Social Security and inheritance taxes) would be $596 million in mandatory spending and $302 million in discretionary spending between 2010 and 2019. 

 

https://images.procon.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/cbo-same-sex-benefits.pdf

 

NB, that's just some federal employees, no mention of private sector employees. And it focuses mostly on health care only, not tax breaks as such.

 

In Germany the Spiegel calculated that a single tax-break related to gay marriage, a single one, costs the German taxpayer up to 286 million Euro. Every year.

 

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/was-das-ehegattensplitting-fuer-homo-ehen-den-staat-kostet-a-904171.html

 

Then you have employee benefits, unemployment benefits, inheritance tax advantages, and as you know or should know married people benefit from a whole host of tax advantages across the world. All of which would become available to gays upon gay marriage being legalised.

 

And all, without even the a single chance of gays ever contributing to the pool of taxpayers or pension contributors after their inevitable demise. So, for my children, what is the benefit of gay marriage? I know what the cost is. Still don't know what the benefit is.

We're talking about Thailand. Please restructure your reply explaining the costs in Thailand

As I thought. No reply

23 minutes ago, Logosone said:

 

Well exactly, and because gay people can never have and will not have kids (perversions of science or parenting excepted) they will never contribute to the pool of taxpayers. So why give them the tax breaks, employment benefits, unemployment benefits, pension rights, inheritance advantages that marriage brings?

 

What do they bring to the table? Apart from great flexibility in some areas?

 

You understand gay marriage costs heterosexual taxpayers hundreds of millions of Dollares, Euros and Baht?

explain the cost

No I don't understand how gay marriage costs taxpayers

Please explain

gay marriage does not prevent people who wish to procreate from doing so. Same number of kids either way. Gay people will not have kids whether they can marry or not

6 minutes ago, moontang said:

The New Gay World Order reaches far across the borders of the US.  China?  Be careful what you wish for.

I am inviting comparison with a country other than US which has absolutely no relevance in a discussion about marriage in Thailand.

As this is a discussion about gay marriage in Thailand, please explain why so many are posting about US. You don't make any sense. Please let's have the Chinese laws as they are likely more relevant

3 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

Unlikely, no official alcohol ban tomorrow.

That's what I thought. Just found it strange that two separate places have just said there is a ban

Just been told by a restaurant and a 7-11 that there is an alcohol ban tomorrow for the new king's birthday

3 minutes ago, oceanyachting said:

That's intesting. My BF is the first name on our rental agreement so could he report that we've both come home from a trip?

Exxcept his Tibianbaan is from his village, not where we live so that probably won't work

7 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

You can file it yourself.

“ House Master ” means any persons who is the chief possessor of a house , whether in the capacity of
owner , tenant , or in any other capacity whatsoever , in accordance with the law on people act.
 

That's intesting. My BF is the first name on our rental agreement so could he report that we've both come home from a trip?

3 minutes ago, Jim7777 said:

An extension is an extension if that confuses anyone they must be dislecsec or something.  

do you mean dyslexic or was that another of your jokes?

5 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I think it's trivial if people call their retirement extensions extensions of their visa.

Because everyone understands what they are talking about and it doesn't hurt people to use either term.

But it's less trivial when people call retirement extensions themselves visas.

That's because there are multiple things that people refer to as retirement visas:

O visas to start the process towards retirement extensions

O-A visas

Retirement extensions

 

I don't understand the drama if people want to say I got a retirement extension of my visa. 

Only that it at best confuses and at worst misleads others

3 minutes ago, perthperson said:

Thanks for the picture which is of an extension of stay stamp -- not an extension of a visa,

AND it's an Extension of Stay based on Marriage, for which the sums he quoted are correct. Ane Extension of Stay based on Retirement has different financial requirements

3 minutes ago, sanemax said:

I do think that he wasnt being too serious about that .

Exactly. How can a language with very limited vocabulary and no grammar compete with the sophisticated languages?

2 minutes ago, KhonKaenKowboy said:

You misspelled immune hematology.....I got a good laugh the other day jogging behind a girl with a jersey that said "Animal Laboratory."

obviously american with your lack of spelling techniques

4 minutes ago, sanemax said:

My point was that just because either you or myself knows ONE person, who can either speak English or not, who is working as an English teacher, is quite irrelevant, when we are talking about English teachers in the whole country 

   You seem to be saying that ONE example is typical of the whole situation

I am saying that typically, Thai English teachers in Thai village Schools sometimes cannot even speak English themselves, and an unqualified English speaker would be the better teacher

It doesn't matter how good you are at a particular thing. Being able to do it and being able to teach it are completely different