joekicker

Who you calling a prostitute, pal? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're just trolling and aren't referring to one or any of the girls in these tasteful photos of people in the entertainment industry.

Could and would are similar words but different. Thai immigration will not do any sort of check like this UNLESS they have a specific reason to do one on a specific individual. Of course immigration or the local police or the landlord or the girl friend COULD do some sort of an international or cross-border police records check, and wouldn't even need your passport to do it. But none of them will in the normal course of events. The short answer to the OP's question is that unless the applicant is pretty notorious, his previous criminal background won't affect his stay in Thailand in any manner including getting visa extensions (which is what "retirement visas" are). Note "previous". Anything current can and will be used against him, probably.

I would just borrow someone's installation disk or invest in a 150-baht one. Maybe my conscience is a little more adjustable but I'd rather do it the easy way than the Microsoft way.

Untrue. You never have to leave. Each year you go to exend your visa. You go through roughly the same drill as the first year. Ten minutes. It's a "re-entry visa" and all immigration offices give them. About the same at the moment, yes. The big banks are very big and very safe, so far as any banks are safe these days. The funds have to be available, meaning in an ordinary (savings) account. You may be able to make other arrangements IF you talk to the immigration office you will be dealing with - but probably not if it's your very first time. Most of the banks are fine. Bangkok Bank and Kasikorn are the biggest. Krung Thai is a government bank so, in a perverse way, safer even though it's less solvent. I'm sure they won't mail it or send it to the embassy. It gives you MORE options of being sponsored by her for a spouse visa, as well as the retired visa. Good luck.

That stuff, you can only guess about from here. But you really need to check with the airline. Best guess I have is you'll get as you say - different flight, different airport, same ticket.

Nothing unsure. That particular flight isn't going to fly -- as close to 100% certainty as you can get looking into the future. The last THAI flight from Don Mueang is to be March 29.

Don Mueang is closing, finally and completely, for all commercial flights. Gone like a freight train, gone like yesterday, gone...

I've always thought that being a landlord is one of the worst and potentially THE worst way to try to make money. Good for your for standing your perfectly legal ground but I wouldn't do your job for 10 times what you might have got.

This is a rare class of BS that can only be called TOTAL BS. You don't "not return" things to me or 99 per cent of breathing humans, bucko. Heaven Above has the total right to bar photography and bar those it dislikes for any reason at all or for no reason. However. Managers or others would spend a LOT of time and probably a fair bit of change if they actually touched any personal property, let alone attempted to seize it, let alone laid hands on the person to whom it belonged to get it. I'm sure Heaven Above owner/managers are not as stupid as you say, either that or they enjoy being keyboard warriors.

Do you have a lot of that? Highly selective quoting is a common cause, along with smartaxxism.

Oh fercrissake stop it! Is the title of the post "helping soft drinkers"? Everyone is in some special group, often a group of one. What about people who ride to the bars on bicycles and need more liquid? What about the customers who weren't able to use their ATM card today? What about people who have an upset stomach and need Alka-Seltzer? This doesn't help these tragic victims of life at all. I drink a LOT of soft drinks and I don't feel your pain. If you want the cheapest soft drink, go to a drinks stand and have the gal pour your Coke or Sprite into a plastic bag and give her 8 baht, then go sit on the steps of 7-11 and ponder on why the girls all laugh as soon as you walk in. It's because THEY don't give a crap about your ridiculous problem either. Bars make more money on Cokes than Cointreau. I have three questions about that. Yes? And? Your point is? In the meantime, good for Catz to bring down some prices some of the time. How can that be a bad thing?

What a hoot and a credit to the board that we have two white Europeans to explain to the rest of us the negative thinking of Thai girls towards misled, unthinking American blacks. Thanks guys.

I have no idea how an alleged thinking person could leave out Thaksin Shinawatra, the most powerful evil force on Earth and the explored universe, so powerful that in exile and on the run he has forced the current government to maintain all his policies AND caused the coldest winter on record. BTW, although members of the religion and so on are "Jews" the group that causes pretty well all problems and ALL deaths is The Joooze.

Yeah, well, at least they don't automatically put mayo on french Fries. Do you know that in the entire history of the world, no country with a McDonald's has ever conducted a hostile attack on America? And you think that is a BAD thing? pshaw!

In all seriousness, I THINK it's because of the US civil war - whose veterans could not join back when the VFW was formed and they were alive. The specific qualification here is being in a war outside the US - although I think it's now reduced to being in the military during a time of warfare (not literally declared "war" of course since America has so very, very few of those) and may be less than that for all I know. There is another military veterans' group, the American Legion, which does not have that "foreign" qualification. Important to note that neither of these has any legal status beyond taxes and the like. They are completely independent, private clubs able to make their own rules. There is no legal group of military veterans in the US.

If you have a business of any kind, you can get a Makro card pretty easily, no need to wait around until someone else will carry you there on their backs.

No reason to be paying 2,000 baht. Right bargaining and you'll have a great unit for under 1,000 baht. But an excellent point up there: All "good" cheap DVD players these days come with a USB port where you can plug in a thumb drive, portable drive or whatever and play directly without any disk, without any conversion.

At the top of the page, there is a title supplied by the Hungarian Hobbitt to identify what he's writing about. Among other things, it supplies the name of the bar/place involved in his tale.

Sigh. Why did you read this thread? Was it perhaps the attractive TITLE OF THE THREAD that caught your eye?

Yes, pretty well everyone reaches into the caddie's pocket for the score card. I often stop my car alongside a golf course, run over and reach in for the scorecard. You'd think they'd be used to that by now. But no, they just want to rip off good-natured, good-hearted foreign golfers, it's really their only purpose in life. I do the same in the US, just reach into women's pockets for their breasts.... er, their papers. Line of the week, though, trotski: After 9 hoes....

When you see someone eating what you like, just point at it and indicate you'd like the same. Um. I guess I'd better say you should indicate it to the waitress/sever/preparer, NOT to the person actually eating it.

Never heard that BUT you can easily make your own mayonnaise every day or so, or you can go to the supermarket every few days or one week and pick up a small supply. No reason to keep it so long that it separates.

These days all US passports are issued only from Washington and as a post above says - one to two weeks, plan for three. Same-day service expired several years ago. The main US Embassy in Bangkok has very efficient service in very cramped and busy quarters. Take your money (baht is fine) and your white-background pics and you'll be in and out, twice, in less than one hour altogether. Most places you travel, and everywhere you need an actual visa, needs a passport with more than six months of validity, so everyone should plan accordingly.

Okay, flat statement: The advert is misleading at best and in England would be banned - I mean if "real fast" claim by Apple is banned, this one is way worse. I don't have to ask. At the price the Queen Vic serves its (very good) breakfast, it does NOT have "real English" food of any kind, let alone meat. The duty alone would be far more than the price of three breakfasts.

Of course. One of the great tragedies is that Thailand has no food of its own, no place to raise animals, and has to import all food from the far superior small, distant islands. [/sARCASM] No. There is no sausage or bacon from England in Thailand unless you carry your own. Thailand SELLS sausage and bacon to the world, including "English" restaurants. But look. Seriously. There's a place that is GUARANTEED to have English sausage and bacon. Why would you leave it? Also, if you click on Search above, there's a huge and informative thread on breakfast places from not all that long ago.