GroveHillWanderer
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I've been doing marriage extensions in Hua Hin for several years now - I don't supply or do half the things you refer to there. For instance, I have never supplied house purchase papers, or house contract, or internet & power bills with my name on and for the map to our house, it's just hand drawn and does not include Google coordinates. For the photos, they're all taken with us wearing exactly the same clothes (I'm not aware of any requirement for them to be taken with different clothes on and the IO's are perfectly happy with the photos I supply). Also, if I might ask, why is your wife still on a tabian baan from her home village? The tabian baan is supposed to be a record of where a person is actually living now, not where they used to live. If she's living with you in a house in Hua Hin, she should be on the tabian baan for that house. As far as all the copies of passport pages, marriage certificate, bank book, letter etc I just hand everything to the "copy lady" at HH immigration and she does the needful - and at an extremely good price as well. I've never bothered counting how many pages it is in total but it's way less than 74 - probably less than 30, I reckon.
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Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case
GroveHillWanderer replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Perhaps he could have done that, had he not shot himself in the foot by admitting on camera that everything he did was his own decision, and that he wasn't just following the advice of his lawyers. -
Thai to UK visitor visa sponser
GroveHillWanderer replied to DarChana's topic in Visas and migration to other countries
I don't see that he necessarily lives at home with mum and dad permanently - only that he stays at his parents' when he's in the UK. Which is what I have always done, despite not having actually lived there full time since I was 17 (over 50 years ago). -
Thai to UK visitor visa sponser
GroveHillWanderer replied to DarChana's topic in Visas and migration to other countries
On the checklist of documents to provide in support of a visit visa application, if you've indicated you'll be staying with family or friends you will find the following listed among "Other documents." So whenever I go to the UK with my Thai wife to stay at my parents' address, I just get one of them to write a letter of invitation stating that they are happy to have us staying at their house and stating how many total and spare bedrooms they have. There's no mention of having to provide proof of a tenancy agreement or of house ownership and we've never provided that. For evidence of "permission to be in the UK", either a copy of passport or birth certificate are considered acceptable. -
I used the women's toilet today
GroveHillWanderer replied to Chris Daley's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Many toilets in the West, especially in Europe, have been mixed gender for decades - way, way before anything even vaguely resembling what is referred to as "woke" was even dreamt of. I remember going to France for the first time in the late 1960's and being struck by the fact that in many cafés and restaurants the toilets were not separated by gender - there was just one set for everyone. -
Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case
GroveHillWanderer replied to Social Media's topic in World News
I'm not saying it doesn't matter, just that I'm not sure I'd put too much faith in his conclusions. For instance, he also refers to the judge in Trump's civil case in NY as an "Elected Democrat in a Robe" and accuses him of promoting a Democratic Party narrative. Elected Democrat in a Robe Fines Trump as Pretext to Promoting Democrats’ Incitement Narrative He hardly sounds like an impartial observer. -
Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case
GroveHillWanderer replied to Social Media's topic in World News
That's the same Andrew McCarthy who characterized Barack Obama as a radical and a socialist, authored a book alleging that Obama was advancing a "Sharia Agenda," wrote another book calling for Obama's impeachment and defended false claims that the Affordable Care Act would lead to "death panels." He also wrote a book alleging that the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration colluded to rig the 2016 election against Trump. Watch How Trump Moves the Goalposts on Ukraine I'm not sure his opinion about matters regarding this case is something I'd want to put much store by. -
Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case
GroveHillWanderer replied to Social Media's topic in World News
You do understand what negotiating a plea deal entails, don't you? In cases like this with multiple defendants, it typically involves agreeing to give the prosecution something they want (such as evidence against other defendants) in exchange for which they agree to charge you with lesser offences. It's even possible in a plea deal, for a person to go from facing serious charges, to facing no charges at all, in exchange for testifying against those who have greater responsibility for the crime(s) involved. In this case, Powell and Cheseboro are still facing charges, just not as serious as the original ones. It's not that unusual. -
ICE vs EV, the debate thread
GroveHillWanderer replied to KhunLA's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
Are you honestly trying to suggest that if there is a mixture of ICE and EV cars, any fire that occurs must be due to an EV? And if you do think that, then I have some news that may surprise you. See news item below, where a parked diesel Range Rover recently caught fire in Luton Airport multi-storey car park, completely destroying it and writing off around 1,400 vehicles. Range Rover fire which sparked Luton airport car park collapse comes six years after Land Rover destroyed Liverpool's Echo Arena car park Moreover, and as the headline points out, this was not the first time a fire caused by an ICE vehicle caused the loss of well over a thousand vehicles. The article goes on to point out that: -
Russell Brand and why the allegations took so long to surface
GroveHillWanderer replied to Social Media's topic in World News
No, it's not. An insult is when you say something disparaging about a person - something personal and uncomplimentary about their character, appearance etc. Telling someone to shut up is brusque and possibly rude, but it's not an insult. Also, the phrase "put up or shut up" is not the same as just telling someone to shut up straight out. It's a way of asking someone to justify or prove what they've said. -
ICE vs EV, the debate thread
GroveHillWanderer replied to KhunLA's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
That figure is from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Whatever else the IMF might be, it could hardly be described as a leftist organization. -
Russell Brand and why the allegations took so long to surface
GroveHillWanderer replied to Social Media's topic in World News
In light of some of the posts on here about agreeing to sex at some points but not others, I think the video below, put out by the Derbyshire police, is rather apposite. -
I think the incident you're referring to happened in the US, not Australia. Jennifer Strange's Family Awarded $16.5 Million in "Wee for Wii" Contest Death
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Not if you drink the water too quickly, no. There have been a number of links posted in this thread already, that explain how this works, and/or give examples of people dying from drinking too much water too quickly. If the excess water was just released in the natural way, there wouldn't be all these instances of people dying.
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No, it's ridiculous to suggest that no one does it. People can (and do) overdose in all kinds of different places. Car parks are not excluded. I just Googled, "person dies of overdose in car park." I found 19 news articles where this has happened, before I stopped counting. Here's just one - as I mention, there are more than a dozen others. Man dies after overdose in Brighton seafront car park
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While on the subject of taking stomach acid reducing medication, in case anyone had been taking ranitidine (Zantac) long term and was worried about the perceived cancer risk that led to it being removed from the market (I know I was) recently-published research may serve to lessen those concerns. Large Study Eases Fears Over Zantac-Cancer Link The study involved, "more than 1.18 million individuals across seven countries."
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It's definitely not impossible to kill yourself with a drugs overdose, whether that be of prescription medicine* or illegal drugs - it's one of the most common methods of suicide. See below. Self poisoning And the question I was addressing wasn't whether this person committed suicide and/or how he did it, it was whether committing suicide in a car park is possible. Which it most certainly is. *In fact, one of the most common prescription medicines used to commit suicide is paracetamol. Use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) for suicide and nonfatal poisoning
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There have been at least three other examples already given in this thread. And it certainly does prove something - it proves that drinking too much water can be dangerous and potentially even fatal.