joekicker

Yes it's Mother's Day, no, the AIS voice network didn't collapse because of it. .

Very. Wish I could think of something. Sometimes I see a very small little... kind of an icon/gif which if I right-click and "open in new tab" I can see the original photo. Never get that from an original post on this board though. Photos seem to work very well here. Trying to think of what I might be doing to subvert that, and I really can't. I am the good nazi on this, just followign orders when posting pics from my machine. First Browse. Then Attach This File. Then click to "add to post". If anyone spots anything wrong there, please let us know. What's your browser LD? Did you try another one just for giggles? .

And a typical reply to an offer to help. Do you have to have a copy of the 1971 law in Thailand against serving food between 2 and 5pm, and after midnight? If you have to have it, I'll get it for you, but you have to tell me why you need it. It'll probably take a few hours (including travel time) in the newspaper and/or law office archives. Happy to do it IF you actually need it. There are 8 grillion laws in the Big Mango, and this is one of them. .

We just settled this. It has nothing to do with ANYTHING but your arrival in Thailand. It has NOTHING to do with visas or extensions on visas. You have to report 90 days after you arrived in Thailand. You have to report 90 days after that. You have to report 90 days after that. You have to...... You leave and come back. 90 days after that, you have to report, i.e. when you arrive in Thailand, the 90 days starts -- EACH time you arrive. If you report a week before the 90 days are up, good on you, probably. You'll still have to report by 97 days after that. .

No, the visa is not going to be cancelled because you didn't report. Worst case, which I've never personally heard of, is a fine of up to 2,000 baht. It probably happens but even that is rare. Some two-bit bureaucrat may scold you too, that's even worse. But you visa won't be touched. .

Bureaucrats: Halting human advance for 3,000 years. I'm assuming your visa here, but if you go to the district office of your district, you can get a YELLOW book, the foreigners' equivalent of the tapien baan. It's ever so handy in this kind of situation. The "rental agreement" demand post on the door like Martin Luther's complaints about Rome has all kinds of holes. What if you're not renting, just for example? I don't rent. Being able to one-up them with a tapian baan could be very satisfying, actually. Using BETTER bureaucracy back on these folks can make your whole day sometimes. The 90 days is from the day you entered Thailand, irrespective of your visa. It's the date on your TM6 (the card probably stapled to your passport) that is the decider. Bear in mind your mileage WILL vary, but that's the law. .

This thread, and LD's post specifically, is the first I've ever heard of it. Shows to go, I guess, there are NO hard rules about anything in Thailand. .

I use the board's tools, exactly as presented, never try anything fancy at all. That is, I upload the pic, then "attach this file" and finally "insert in post". Might be your browser, wouldn't be the first bug ever discovered -- or a weird security setting. But it seems you have the link to the photo, right? At least you can click that and see it, is that right? .

From the Morning Fishwrap. It doesn't say 50 per cent off what, but for anyone heading Philippineswards, it's something to start with.

I've stayed here a number of times. I haven't paid what they're asking on the website, though, usually around 600 baht with a phone call or two from inside Thailand to arrange it -- Thai speaker if possible of course. Very well located, a lot of walkable sites in the area. Typically German- and Thai-heavy on the guest list but in my experience VERY quiet. .

Yes I were not. I've been called a lot of things in my misspent life, but never accused of car abuse. A Bentley is silly in Thailand, except maybe as an airport taxi for the Oriental Hotel, something like that. And other brands. There are "real" cars that run just as nicely. That's not an annoyance, people can buy what they want. But personal opinion is that it's kind of dumb to be caught with a dead Bentley and have to go to all the time and trouble of reviving it -- EVEN if the money means absolutely nothing to you. If you absolutely have to have a Bentley, rent someone else's with a driver. Have an accident? Walk away. .

Sorry about flashing the lights at you jacko. heh. Just kidding. But Bangkok people in general do that. Reminds me of another one - turning on the flashing lights when it gets a little murky. Lovely wife and I refer to the emergency lights as the "rain lights" now -- even when they're used to go through a green light. .

Yeah, what I mean by everything getting to be the same. It's not there yet thank Jaweh! .

Yes but you've made a good start. Why don't they show the (insert back-home local team) games? Why don't the Thais speak English? What's with the fork and spoon and the idiot waiter who wouldn't bring me a knife? The noobs with a map, ranting that the taxi/baht bus STILL didn't take them where they showed them where to go - this is a sad sight, even though I LMAO every time I see it. I must say that one of the really off-putting things for this grumpy old guy is foreigners demanding in Thailand (and elsewhere of course) exactly what they had at home. Why come? And fergawdsake why not go back? NOW! I've been in a lot of places in my misspent life, and in every one of them I tried to soak up and absorb, even try to understand, but always, ALWAYS revel in the differences. Hated some places. Appalled by others. Really liked a bunch of them, and settled on one, well, two really, as "the best, although far from perfect". But in every case, EVERY case I knew and wanted it to be different. The idea that every place I go would be same as where I come from makes me want to puke. The fact that the world is slowly becoming more and more homogeonised with the US-style strip malls and food choices (not limited to chains) and laws and government crackdowns and government tracking people makes me THRILLED that I won't be around in 100 years when I fear everywhere WILL be the same. Hey, you asked. .

Never seen it on the street (the occasional ripoff guy, but rare). Money changers are typically jewellery shops, the pooyai at the back of the shop does it - something along that line. I think often they don't really advertise it, maybe even not at all. But there IS licensing, the licenses are pretty easy to get, and people in that sort of tourist-friendly business usually do it. Some of the tailors do it. Rarely gold shops, for some reason. You can get rates better than the banks every day, buying and selling - they just work on a smaller margin than the banks, is all. "My" little jewellery store in Bangkok does a few thousand dollars worth of exchanges a day, doesn't even have a sign up, but he has a rep for very good rates. Pretty typical. Almost never ethnic Thais - Chinese and Indians in the main. I've noticed in Pattaya a few garish booths that are NOT bank-connected, or at least apparently not. Never seen that elsewhere in Thailand. .

It's not a nitpick at all. There are laws, decree laws, royal decrees, regulations, rules and more. It actually does matter. I'd say, though, for most people it's enough to know if it's currently being enforced, which is why I put that in. .

That is misleading. Most money changer are not affiliated with banks, and most of them give slightly better rates than banks - and post them. It's true that most money changers are not booths -- and most booths are run by banks. But there are a LOT more legal, licensed money changers than bank-run booths. .

No, never looked for it or tried to document it. And of course there are other laws. When Thaksin's zealous society bender Purachai was setting up "night life zones" in Bangkok various other laws on hours were also written. The laws on night life are worse than the telephone wires on the back sois, although they are more inscrutable. I remember well when it came in, though and several times when it was enforced. It was in the papers a couple or five years ago when Bank Rak police decided to enforce it on a bunch of Japanese tourists enjoying lunch on Patpong Road at 3pm one afternoon. A very quick search on the Thai Law Forum unearths this but no mention of the food thingy: The sale of alcohol in Thailand is banned between 2pm and 5pm and again between midnight and 11am seven days a week. This rule largely affects supermarkets and chain shops, such as 7-11 or Tops. It is common knowledge that the law is not always enforced at smaller, family-run shops. (And of course the last five words are superfluous.) .

VPN is definitely the way to go. Thing is that proxies don't always deliver the exact (British in this case) IP address you need for the specific purpose of watching one TV service. There are some very, very nice VPNs for free these days. They require some setup. Tor is not a good program. It is a GREAT program. But its purpose is to allow people in censored countries (Thailand, China, Saudi, Iran) get around government censorship, and not to deliver content banned by the remote service (BBC). It will get around all Thai government censors, but it won't necessarily get around Spotify or BBC or Hulu. Plus because it is trying to give you some SECURITY from jack-booted government thugs, it tries provide personal security through obscurity, which means a lot of slowdown. A VPN is a direct pipe. Horse, course, etc. .

Actually the LAW (not a rule) applies to Thailand, and is both obeyed and enforced like most laws in Thailand. No booze sales and no food service between 2pm and 5pm and from midnight to 5am. These laws may be enforced at any time. They were passed.... well, decreed actually, after the 1971 coup against himself by Thanom Kittikachorn, dictator of the day and two years away from Thailand's first popular uprising. The stated purpose was to instill some of that "shared sacrifice" by all citizens in the big struggles of the country -- sort of like President Obama, and proving there is really nothing new under the sun. Pretty easy target for a "dumb law" diatribe, but then again, aren't almost all of them? Plus of course, like almost all laws, they sit around on the books "just in case" the coppers need something to hang on those breaking it. In recent years, people have JUSTIFIED this 40-year-old law by pointing out all that booze-buying and morals-corruption by young people, and claiming it's a great law because of the fine example and standards it sets for and upon our young people. Enforcement, if I may be permitted that word, is often on the basis of nearness to schools and such, and in fact there were some amendments to the law to mention that. It's true and you know it must be true when you can't make up stupidity like this. Yep. The idea is that big business and transportation has to continue. The weird thing here is that the actual purpose of the law was to shut down pleasureable bars and soup shops and restaurants so that people would REALISE they are "sharing the pain" with the fine, sacrificing armed forces who protect the country. It was meant to inflict popular pain. .

Ditto. Of course you can wire a tiny bit of money and prove that TC are better, cash is better, etc. But in real life, transfers are going to get you the best rate for a personal (not business) transaction.

I think Endrin and/or Endrosulfin (sp??) are available. But just look at the "ingredients" on the various cans, I'm sure you can find heptachlor. .

There are lots of choices and lots of opinions, but "playing" the baht in an actual market is a mug's game.

AND you'd better have a good reason to bet on something else. Or I suppose bet on nothing and sit on the sidelines is an option. .

You sound pretty confident. I presume you're heavily invested in this theory? I'm interested, because the people who bet against "this government" 10 years ago sure were wrong. Any back story to the theory you can share? .