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  1. My Retirement extension is due for renewal September 30th, and I'd like to know if there's any way the date of renewal can be extended by a few weeks at Chiang Mai Immigration.

     

    I'm overseas at present, and have been told that I need some open-heart surgery which will prevent me returning to Thailand in time to process my renewal.

     

    I really don't want to go through the hassle of a new application and all the paper work involved, plus the time involved working through a consul and embassy.  e.g. a police report would be difficult as I've been in Thailand the past five years.

     

    Any suggestions appreciated, and please feel free to PM me.

  2. 7 hours ago, perthperson said:

    LOL !    Must tell my wife to take better care of me 'cos I really don't want to catch  the Dreaded Lergy ! 

     

    Edit  -- Just in case you don't know the DL was a fictitious disease invented by Spike Milligan for the Goon Show ! And no I am not that old ! 

    I always thought that the dreaded lurgy came with pink toenails and spots before the ankles.  

    Owww.  He's fallen in the water!!!

    Nothing like a bit of Goonery, and yes, I am that old!!

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  3. 11 hours ago, samsensam said:

     

    you may like the smell (most of my thai friends dont like durian or the smell) but the general consensus is that it is by many considered an unpleasant smell, i have seen hotels and guest houses not allowing durian in rooms, i have seen it removed from buses and aircraft. exact venues, dates and times dont spring to mind but anyone spending time is thailand will, i'm sure, know this to be the case.

    The artificial smell added to Propane gas which has no smell at all, is almost identical to that of Durian.

    Many airports have a sign, prohibiting the carriage of durian.

    In Indonesia, they sell durian flavoured ice-cream.   No accounting for taste!

  4. 14 minutes ago, Minnie the Minx said:

    The non stick or teflon variety definitely a no no just get a small one to do scrambled eggs in and only use it for that. Aluminium is supposed to give you cancer #note aluminium foil. Best pans are cast iron for general cooking.

    Ensure that the base is suitable for an induction cooker.  That's the way to go if you're in an all-electric kitchen. 

    I have a single plate model, ideal for a quick cook-up, and the controls are 1 - 10 for heating and an electronic timer for up to one hour.  Cost less than 1000baht.

    Just make sure that your wife or friend knows how to use a non-stick pan.   Otherwise they'll gouge out the teflon when they use metal kitchen tools or even steel wool!

    Teflon non-stick products are sold around the world. I'd like to see the scientific evidence that it's a carcinogen.

  5. 20 hours ago, jeab1980 said:

    Bottom line is This is Thailand some will accept D/L as ID some wont. As for police if stopped D/l usually does the trick. I also have pictures on phone of Passport and relevant Visa.As a back up if going long distances I also have photocopies of the same in the car with the insurance docs. Hotels again some will some won't on D/L trial and error like Joe I would say if going into a hotel carry your passport just in case. I Use the Foreigners pink ID card now that seems to work on everything you mentioned so far.

    How does one obtain the pink ID card?

     

  6. 17 hours ago, jadee said:

    I don't know where you'd buy one from in Thailand, but large stainless steel vent hoods (extractor fans) are popular for people who barbeque outside and don't want a lot of smoke. Installing one over your cooking area would vent the smells vertically and probably reduce the smell coming into your home.
    A few problems - 1) very expensive, 2) your wife may 'forget' to turn it on leading to arguments), and 3) she will probably bring the cooked food inside and stink the house out anyway! When I first glanced at the title of this thread I thought it might be about stinking out the fridge - that's my pet hate - weird stuff in the fridge that stinks and transfers its stench to everything else.  I don't want to get too dark here, but No. 1 on my 'cancer list' (a theoretical list of things I'd do if my wife tragically passed away unexpectedly) would be to decontaminate the fridge and/or buy a new one. I swear to God if I see another bag of chilli flakes in the freezer next to the ice cream on more time ....

    Kitchen walls coated in old palm oil are the worst thing.    The stuff dries sticky like half dried varnish, and is hell to clean up.

    Outside kitchen is the way to go.

  7. 17 hours ago, kenk24 said:

    You will be fine in shorts... if you are going hiking in the jungles, you might want to put on long pants and wear some DEET... though the times when I go out to our local waterfalls, I do not. 

     

    Personally, I never have a need to wear long pants. I wear respectable shorts every day. And in the countryside, it is not uncommon for people at leisure to wear shorts. People coming from work will have long pants and business attire. If I walk around the local mall, I would say it is 50/50 short pants amongst men... very common for the lades to wear short pants or short skirts. 

     

    In my village, most men wear shorts most of the time. But, they are not going to formal business appointments in Bangkok. If they have a doctor's appointment they will likely put on long pants. 

    As wearing shorts in Thailand does not contradict any religious beliefs, as in Muslim countries, I have no hesitation wearing dress shorts when shopping, and footy shorts around the house.

     

    It was a total pain having to wear jeans or long trousers in Indonesia, as it is a tropical country.  I consider shorts part of the Australian national dress, and I see nothing wrong with exposing my knees in Thailand.  

     

    In neighbouring Papua New Guinea, wearing long trousers was the exception.    

     

    Yes, I use a good mozzie repellant in the evenings when I wander around to a nearby restaurant.  If dengue is half as bad as malaria, I don't want it!

  8. On 14/01/2017 at 3:24 PM, Shrek said:

    Thanks. He is in the housebook, at grandmas house, so we will wait for the papers to come then  write and tell them he has lived in  th UK for 12 years and doesn't read or write Thai and attach a letter from the University.

    My Thai friend didn't have to register until he had turned 20.

     

    Seems your son has a year or two to go yet.   Yes, enroll him in University.

  9. 2 hours ago, canopy said:

    I enjoyed the video presentation posted earlier in this topic:

     

    Air in Thailand that is twice as bad as other countries is being called good. An AQI of below 120 is classified as safe air in Thailand. In other countries it must be below 50 because over 50 impacts people's health. The medical community in Thailand is not happy about this discrepancy because there is absolutely no reason Thailand should be any different than anywhere else. So what that means right now in January is Chiang Mai has lots of burning, the AQI is 70 and visibility is down and yet no one is talking about unhealthy air even though it's already been unhealthy for a long time.

     

    The unhealthy air is less than a half century old. From the beginning of time everyone in the countryside in Thailand had great, pure air to breathe year round generation after generation until now.  Solutions are easy and available, but the people prefer burning things and the others accept this.

     

    Anyone visiting the north should avoid the unhealthy times (i.e. when there are no rains roughly October-May) and living there should be a last resort. A half million people can end up in the hospital for respiratory problems linked to air pollution in a given year. If one is there during the unhealthy part of the year, the only solution is the boy in the plastic bubble approach: confinement to the inside of a filtered house with doors and windows tightly shut, when venturing outside always wear a high quality mask (the cheap ones the government hands out have been proven useless), and avoid exercise.

     

    The documentary I attached (Chiang Mai expats) backs up what you've said.  Someone, somewhere, increased the safe AQI from 50 to 120.  

    So much for concern of public health.

  10. 19 hours ago, worgeordie said:

    The most dangerous places in Thailand are the roads,many people killed everyday,

    its the only place in Thailand I don't really feel safe.

    regards Worgeordie

    Agreed!  I would suggest a newcomer who puts his/her faith in a pedestrian (Zebra) crossing would be a sort stay visitor.

     

    Other than that, rent a scooter, don't bother about a helmet.   R.I.P.

  11. 4 hours ago, samsensam said:

     

    a few years ago i was buying a ticket at a nearby travel agent, the girl working there was attractive and a little flirty so i remembered her. i then stated to see her around the local restaurants with foreigners and various friends. i later found out that she liked to get customers to take her out for dinner, when the guy turned up for the dinner date, full of anticipation, he found out she had invited a few friends along. and yes, he ended up paying for the lot and yes, when the meal was over so was the date. she really enjoyed dining out for free and treating her friends. and then heading home alone.

    Same happened to me in Pataya a couple of years back.    Went to dinner with a friend, and about 5 of his friends turned up. Drank lots of whisky, ate well.  I was handed the bill.

    Same happened a few nights later.   On the 3rd occassion, before I'd ordered and the same ol' friends mysteriously appeared at our table and a few bottles of whisky also, I suddenly developed a bad headache and had one of the guys take me back to my hotel.    It wasn't me who paid for the booze that time!

  12. 9 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

    Follow the wire to where it ends and face them with the fact, that this wire runs off your line.

    They will claim not knowing anything about it which will allow you to disconnect the wire and they will have to look elsewhere. They will not complain to you because they told you they would know nothing about it in the first place. 

    Thainess at its finest! 

    Had a similar thing happen to me;  I was sub-renting a house from a friend and was only there weekends.  the power bill was huge!

     

    I suspected a bit of theft, so Saturday night I switched off the main at the power board.  Two houses in total darkness.   So I left the switch off after locking the box and went out for the night.  Only had to do it twice!!

  13. 24 minutes ago, funlovinkid said:

    Smoking from balconies in some states in Australia is banned, as it is in city streets.

  14. Personally, I think people who come here to live should do a little study of the environment here.

    If you did this in Australia, and it was a python or protected species, you'd be minus a bit of cash.

     

    Think before you kill, and remember, most people who are bitten by snakes, is when they've trying to destroy them.

  15. On 23/10/2016 at 0:38 AM, fruitman said:

    I eat som tum already, very nice. pet nit noi.

     

    But what is a pink id-card? Sounds gay to me....

     

    I boycot everyone and his dog who tries to overcharge me but even on markets they think it's fair to do, they try at least but when i come back with many full shoppingbags i always like to show them how much i bought (from the normal vendors though)...

     

    Those floating markets are ALL fake, all over thailand. But tourists like them so that's fine with me. National parks i refuse to visit but instead i pay airtickets for the family so we can go to national parks in other asian countries as long as they charge a normal price.

    In China, when visiting an exhibition or whatever, I was often asked for my passport, as they suspected (and rightly so) that I was a senior citizen.  This entitled me to free admission.

     

    A nice gesture.

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