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Worst Joke Ever 2025
My fellow "oldies" will get this..... -
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When was the last time that you spoke with a foreigner?
The winner of the 2025 Hemingway award. -
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Report Thai Schools Struggle with New Literacy-Based Curriculum Shake-Up
Finally, only English is missing. -
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sourcing electronic products?
Best place to buy consumer electronics is Bangkok. For "big ticket" items like a new laptop, I go to regular malls, they all have the same chains, eg Banana IT or IT City. Or I just visit BigC/Lotus. For a new phone, if you know exactly which phone you want, it's NASA on the 4th floor of MBK (most other shops in MBK are of ill repute). Prices not much cheaper than in many western countries, but Thailand often has a cheaper selection of products that are not for sale in eg Switzerland. Lazada/shopee can be very good value, but also sell a lot of fake stuff. For cheap accessories, cables, USB hubs, no-name blue tooth speakers etc, it's Fortune town. Much cheaper than in the West. -
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Report Mobile Networks to Broadcast Disaster Test Alert Today!
Yes, I made an assumption and it was wrong. I think if people didn't get it it is most likely due to not having alerts enabled. But again that's an assumption, and as I don't have good form in this thread with assumptions I will stand down. Carry on! -
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I have booked flight for DMK only to realize afterwards how picky immigration became lately
What you need to understand - Thai Immigration don't "really care" if you live here 360+ days/year, IF you pay them off via their agent partners - either safe-entry by air, or a agent-van border-run. They simply are not "allowed" to shake-down the short-term tourists, because that would anger "deep pocket" people (big hotels, etc). If you don't have the 20K, OR a flight-ticket out, you are (bleeped) if they single you out - then airport-detention, forced to buy a flight to Vietnam, then who knows what they do when you get there. Even meeting all requirements can fail if "coming too much/often as a tourist" - without paying agent-tribute. Back when I was here on tourist-entries, I carried 20K Baht in travelers checks, purchased from Bangkok Bank. They do not care if you can prove you "really have" the money in a Thai or foreign bank - will not even let you get it from an ATM to prove it beyond all doubt. They are just using these "requirements" as a rationale. On several (reported here) occasions, they have even refused to let the foreigner prove they met them - just "not a tourist" and denied.
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