NativeBob

... and you can show valid airplane ticket away from Thailand. Here comes fun: they might demand the destination must be your home country, but AFAIK it is wrong requirement. Any country, even flight to Penang, MY. But for some reason [I wonder] everybody insist on homeland.

astonishing! I've been told that only in BKK few overstayers are being arrested on daily basis. any nationality and ethnicity.

that's very good idea!

Go to Iglesia ni Cristo and have a great dinner.

My cat was suffering from severe kidney malfunction. He stopped eating and drinking. I had to use syringe to forcefully feed him. He was dying. Yet big pretender. His blood's readings were very bad. Terminal. Yet vet shops [many-many] told me "Buddha" when I requested merciful euthanasia. We watched him slowly dying

strange. the worst <deleted> I tried in my life. back in 90s at KSR, Patpong shops and "good dealers" of dried weed - all is pure garbage. Not even close to Central Eastern ha$hi$h. dealer with this <deleted> would get stubbed in Good Republic of Kazakhstan. this garbage grown on any possible boosters, sprinkled with dangerous chemicals - is just another case of irresponsible business in TH. poor man high low

Good idea!

Ok. The water at reservoirs in Bangkok are very clean and yes, drinkable. But the pipes and so-called "last mile pipe" are often old and [well] filthy. Filtering through triple passive filter will not do any good. UV treatment is pure BS Boiling - as a part of overall treatment process is OK, but you have to boil is for some time. RO is the only solution as long as you can monitor membrane's usage. We use triple filter and RO device.

The beauty of the situation is that all "debts" were signed by the man, who is and was not an el'Presidente while signing. So they will have to do "Karifakis trick" - write it off Most of UA leaders signed some I.O.U. and just wai away. Black Rock with $17T can bend over and ______________.

Really? Technically you still have to pay for what you overstayed "outside of prison" and nothing during detention. Interesting if they apply some "creative approach" btw, the food in IDC is "uneatable" - either you order with quadruple price or enjoy long fasting. Even in BKK, I guess Phuket is even worse. Poor sod, he probably said something very "british" like "PHOOK OFF, YOU BASTARD!"

Nope. I'm not. You seem wrong.

nope. It was pure "uniform rage" a.k.a. "look what I can also do!"

be cause he likes freebies. they all do, don't they?

Likely what is missing in this story was his "Great White Man's" attitude toward them. Something went wrong and they got pissed. No wonder - thais have very short fuse [no, not what you just thought - that is just tiny].

and what exactly was a "scam"?

It is amazing how many "khun thai" students are overstaying abroad. Anybody got similar "punishment"? I met really mean thais in [such a god forsaken place] Bulgaria and Slovenia. West coast of US is infested with thais who arrived on student visas sponsored by thai govt. but "changed their mind". Same in UK and EU Does anybody charge them $15/day for overstay? Nope.

fines, detention, ban to enter LOS. Isn't too harsh for innocent/harmless overstay? May be they also should neuter as well?

That's good one! Remark on that BS about russians looting everything including washing machines ))) #ROFL so called "free-fall" is irresponsible style of journalism in UK (and other countries).

100% true. Ruskies don't mingle there. But Bibi has a lot to do with it. Last weekend we went to check that elephant pants at KSR (nope, same price as at Silom) and seems like little Haifa. Brave and vigilant defenders of Holy Land some how relocated to exactly this area. Why?

College grads are dumb as a brick. Just high schoolers? I guess same. Everybody wants starting salary from 35K up & benefits. Their ambitions are tremendous. I know that first hand.

Agree. KSR is done long time ago. And F*** those memories "I've been there in 90s!" So what? Marco Polo hostel was 120thb? many hostels were not more than 200thb. Pad Thai for the price of burger? Everything is vanished from KSR and unfortunately it is normal. Thai charm is gone.

Oh, I see where she's heading now. I thought IS scam startups are long gone, just after Nigerian Black dollars. Nope, I was wrong. IS food technology is about growing cherry tomatoes in the desert. That's all. The rest is <deleted>

Yes, they welcomed Nazis as liberators with bread and salt and celebrated. BTW annexed Gdansk was always Danzig - old German city with amazing architecture and paved roads.

I thought the narrative from the press was exactly opposite: They are brave Soldiers of Light, willing to sacrifice themselves for striving Democracy, Peace and Freedom. What a huge turn! Oops! that was nypost!

During Cold War guess who was the most vigorous and hawkish anti-Soviets? It was Soviets living abroad. Nothing changed since: Famous Solzhenitsyn called US to nuke USSR. Russians living in Israel openly criticize their Motherland yet don't rush to assimilate into hebrew culture. I saw something similar only with Turks. BTW: it was expected that nobody from NATO leaders took new Nuclear Dogma of Russia seriously. Again. When will they learn or TzarVlad will stop lecturing?