Is It Easy to Get Things Done in Thailand, or Is It Laden with Needless Formality?

[Lacessit]

Just now, Bday Prang said:

Well I have yet to see Thais fighting over toilet paper, unlike in the "civilised" west

Toilet paper here is used for napkins, in lieu of handkerchiefs, in general for anything requiring tissues.

 

I have got to the stage I consider the "civilised" West unhygienic, after having used a bum gun here for many years.

[Lacessit]

8 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

there's hundreds out there   are you a transphobe 

No, I am a live and let live person.

 

Psychiatrists have noted quite a few homophobic males are actually reacting that way because they fear their own suppressed tendencies.

 

Personally, most of the gays I encounter are usually more intelligent and articulate than average.

 

Not that I have ever met Alan Turing, Leonardo Da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, or Tim Cook.

[GammaGlobulin]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

What other kind is there?

 

Political ones, altered ones, multi-X ones....etc....

 

 

You name it.....

 

[khunPer]

20 hours ago, hankypankee said:

What's your take? Have things really gotten more difficult as I suspect, or is it just a natural shift as Thailand modernizes and industrializes?

It's not only Thailand. In my Scandinavia home country things has become even more difficult. Part is caused to terroismen and money laundry, and it's all over most of the World that they check more-and-more. Things are still easy in Thailand compared to my home country, I'm happy that I moved and therefore have less to fight with in my home country; unfortunately still have some, including more demanding requirements from banks etc due to governmental demand...

[digger70]

20 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

You do know people resign and rejoin under a different moniker?

Yea We Know  They Get Banned for good  and Resurface  Again,,, different ID and Phone number.  😇

[Ralf001]

6 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

Poor guy before us.....78 year old German.....been here for ten years, married to a Thai......said he had been told to comeback to the IO at 3 pm.......(five hour wait).....he asked why?.....they said the person who needs to sign his documents is out.....yet they signed all my docs about 40 mins after he'd left????

 

Must be luck of the draw... am on my 3rd consecutive (2yr) extension.... always under 1 hour in and out.

[Ralf001]

4 hours ago, digger70 said:

Yea We Know  They Get Banned for good  and Resurface  Again,,, different ID and Phone number.  😇

how do you know they change phone number ?

[oslooskar]

I find it very easy to get things done here in Thailand.

[FriscoKid]

Everything is too easy for me here in Thailand. No formality and nothing to complain about. My weed gets delivered straight to my door by post, my meals arrive once a week, and I take regular trips down to Nana for a short-time or two. After that, I'm back home just in time to read the drivel on AN from all the miserable old foreigners moaning about their troubled lives in Thailand.

[FriscoKid]

9 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Well I have yet to see Thais fighting over toilet paper, unlike in the "civilised" west

Guess you weren't here during the 2011 floods. Toilet paper, packaged noodles, canned fish, bottled water. Fighting and hoarding over the gamut.