atlas2

I think about 10'ish. ......I'm never late for anything...... but didn't think I needed to be in the queue at 8:15. The 2nd time I was in earlier but still would have been turned away had I not protested. It was a good few years back and things seem slicker these days.

'Luck was your co-pilot.' The question of, 'When you're leaving and where you will be leaving for' I nowadays just make up a date a few days later than my application. Since I was once turned away...as it was considered by the immigration officer (with the perfectly coiffured hair) that there was time for me to come back the next day. The next day I returned and was turned away again. I pointed out I'd been told the same thing yesterday and I'd returned as requested.........My testimony was soberly weighed and sustained........

History records the horse's reply.........'Looks more like prison clothes to me'.

Sorry I'd lost you!!

Fairtex

'not' ...... Im not confused. Im saying the form is. If you think it's logical and clear to ask for a visa number and expect you to write a permit number....... fine. If you think the man-hours, (or Trudeau people-hours), wasted looking for somewhere else on the form where it says, 'enter permit number' and then after failing to find that digging out their visa number and adding their permit number to the end in order to 'logically comply' as being not wasted time........ fine. If you think the time wasted by immigration officers deciphering the numbers and thus adding to the queuing time and length of queues at airports unimportant........ fine. You think it's trivial..... not important enough for comment, or just quibbling........Fine. What are you making of the, 'How to make lasagna in pictures' thread? I'll stick by my comment that the re-designed TM6 needs re-designing. It still sows confusion and wastes time.... Unimportant you say?.... Fine. Atlas gave a gallic shrug.......oops!

..I admit to feeling terrible shame...........I should know a British English noun from a British English verb by now........I blame my American English self correcting spell-check....Sometimes I correct it when it was right to correct me. I need more practice....or is that practise ?

'Idefix Post 12 Unsure why you quibble on that. For Thailand a Visa is an "Authorisation to Enter in the Country". For the huge majority of people, they need a Visa to enter Thailand, except if their country allow them to benefit of a Visa Exemption. This Visa/Exemption allow them to get an "Authorisation of Stay" when they enter. The Re-Entry Permit is in fact a special Visa that allow entrance to people who already have an "Authorisation of Stay". We often see it named "Re-Entry Visa" in other countries, or even in Thailand' I don't agree that 'quibble' is a fair characterisation of my objection here. One definition of 'quibble' is: 'the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.' I agree my complaint might be termed as petty but it is a complaint about the ambiguity of the form.......and its' continued ambiguity despite the recent re-design. Let me explain......... If you ask for a banana.......and I hand you a banana........That's great!! Then you ask me for a banana but this time you expect me to know that even though it's a banana you're asking for it's not a banana you want........This time when asking me for a banana you're expecting me to give you an orange.......And somehow it's my fault for not knowing this. If the form asks for a visa number that's fine. If it asks for a re-entry permit number.....that's tickety-boo to. If it asks clearly for a visa number but castigates me for writing a visa number and not a re-entry permit number I object to that. Call me childish........call me petty .........call me a grouchy old fart........But bear in mind there are other threads on here...(currently the very useful 'driving license thread') where it's clear ex-pats go to extreme lengths and are anxious to comply and get right first time the bureaucratic requests from Thai authorities. The re-designed TM6 form is still open to different interpretations with respect to visa and re-entry permit numbers. But hey!.....If Immigration officers who must have individually corrected thousands of TM6's haven't bothered to address this confusion when the re-design was signalled...........Why should I care?

But for those re-entering, (minority or otherwise), it won't.

Yes I agree......It was for me too when I completed my TM8. My point is despite the redesigned TM6......... ......It still asks for 'visa number.'....but that is where they expect you to put in your 're-entry permit' number. A wrinkle that I think it's useful to know. I was once informed this by an immigration officer at the passport desk........ I'd reasoned that the number of available boxes for inserting this information on the old form, being much more than 4 must correspond to my visa number + the 4 numbers of my re-entry permit. Logical to me but wrong. I wai'd and grovelled my foolish falang mistake rather than point out the form actually asks for a visa number but expects only the re-entry permit number.

Not on the form.

Still calls entry permit a visa.

I have never seen an 'English' bf advertised as an, 'English bf' that fits your description of toast and jam..........Otherwise by definition we would see the same in Pattaya........And it would follow logically that what we know as an, 'English bf' would be called a 'Thai bf'.......?? Butch is usually 'spot-on' .......maybe I've been away too long. PS last time I was in London a menu said: 'Breakfast Anytime' so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.

I can't believe we have to register after a night in a hotel somewhere in Thailand! That's some disincentive to visits to BKK or the odd weekend away.

Nothing anymore.....The last pieces of the hard to find in Thailand 'jigsaw' fell into place when I found ginger preserve at Friendship....... Yorkshire gold tea at Siambury's........ And English tv on my android. The evocative smells of an English Autumn and a proper sea-weed sea ......(as against a sea-piss), sea I've learned to live without.

Passports still from Petty France. Visas from India from June Onwards New Embassy on the 15th floor in AIA Sathorn Tower Central Business district. We need the money to help keep all the asylum seekers and illegals fed and housed.

As long as you're enjoying it.

Sorry missed it.......(@#45 by-the-way).......Three'che I shall try some of the other mentions........But not 'Indian by nature' biggest let down since my first walking street starfish.

I noticed two 'Royal Cliff' restaurants on the list.......Apparently there are eleven on the hotel site. But The 'Royal Grill' missed out so a quick plug for the best empty restaurant in Thailand. ......I joined the Wine Club at RC, purely because by doing so my Fitz gym membership is discounted. Added to Wine Club card discounts at all the RC restaurants comes a voucher for two worth about 2,000 baht. Food free then just pay for drinks. But who to take? My current on/off squeeze, the Orgasmotron.......is covered in tattoos and bless her however modest her dress she can't adopt any persona other than her winning mainstay.....that of, 'horny tart'. That's perfect for me but I didn't think she would be a good fit for the Royal Grill......They can be a bit sniffy there and sommeliers look down their noses at me at the best of times. Of the girls I know that could easily carry it off and would enjoy a good 'swank'. One's in Germany most of the year. Another is married to a wealthy European and she wouldn't want to get spotted. Shame because I've seen her, wither a waiter with look over her reading glasses. Same goes for the last one she's married to an American sponsor....And the Royal Grill might not have the dark corners she prefers. So I kept my vouchers and saved them to use when my 18 year old son was over. My French stopped at, 'Amuse Bouch' so with all the command an ex barrow boy from Lisson Grove can muster I ordered the 'set meal for two mate.' Not counting the bread basket with 5 types of bread one like a big crisp with seeds, (my son told me what it was but I've since forgotten).....or the excellent coffee and devine chocolates..The set meal was 5 courses. In order of scoffing the courses were in turn .....Tart.....(should have brought the Orgasmotron after all)......Ambrosial........ Gustatory.......Piquant and Nectarous.........All in all a meal that was saporous. My son loved every course and kept up with me on the wine blast him. Still I was driving. It was one of the more memorable meals of my life...And doing the reckoning later even without my vouchers we'd have seen change out of 4000 baht. My son's only slight criticism was that, 'the pianist wasn't exactly amazing' Royal Grill........Worth a try. I liked it much more than Caprice.

Learn to play 'connect 4'

O'Garas isnt bad. Lately my boring bf consists of blueberries, Greek yougurt, rolled oats, pumpkin seeds, and walnuts. Good for me........But my 'Full English' is a guilty treat two or three times a month.

I love Penthouse, I know it has it's haters.....but I've had some awesome times there. It reminds me of the Brighton Pavilion. That particular 'folly' began with a role of Chinese wallpaper ..........And ended up as an English Regent's interpretation of an oriental palace........OK if it was described as a collection of 'Pepper pots' (there have always been haters)......Whatever got Dudley the owner of Penthouse started I don't know? .....But the blackout curtains give you a chance at least to play in the night and catch-up on sleep in the day.......The dance poles, porn channels, love swings, disco lights, mirrors and jacuzzis cry out for GoGo girl bar-fines. The place screams tasteless fun and you must do your best to answer its' call. I'm sure Leather did....randy old goat.........He'll go to Hell......( there's a pun there I won't pursue) I think I've read everything from Leather. Hugely enjoyable. Oddly I'd thought 'The Chinaman' his lightest effort and yet that one gets a film treatment in, 'The Foreigner' The 'Spider' books are just begging for the same. As for you knowing Praed St.......Apart from the old, 'Count Suckles' Q Club, Praed street's only other claim to fame is the 'Clap Clinic at St Mary's Paddington' Were you a friend of Count Suckle then?.........

I've had it in a beach bag to read since it came out in regular size paperback.........Always read his stuff. The hero in 'Takedown' appears in his 'Spider' novels. A new one of those is out called 'Light Touch'.......They will be the next two books I read. I like the Pattaya connection too. One of his 'Spider' novels...(forget which) centres the action in Pattaya and Paddington's Praed St........ie where I live now and where I grew up. My one problem with Leather is his book's climaxes are so exciting......I speed read the endings rushing the page turning. Not a bad problem.

Darkest Hour has turned up on my Android box along with most of Oscar favorites. Watched it yesterday..... through gritted teeth. Even knowing the history quite well the film is gripping. People are raving about Gary Oldman.... playing the ‘Oldman’ himself. The guy who played the lisping snake Halifax wasn’t too shabby either.

No I didn't know that. I've used the 'straight on the plane' justification in many conversations......And I think even on here before. No one has ever offered your information. So thanks I might reconsider next year. As for the permit/visa question? It is as you say a re-entry permit. Though on the arrival cards we fill in they ask for the visa number........When they want the permit number.