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Having slept on this, now I wonder if they thought you might want a VAT receipt. I believe two thousand is the level at which a purchase qualifies for tax refund at the airport. That would be the only way this makes any sense.
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Today a foreign lady in Tokyu Department Store in MBK (MahBoonKhrong) had to show the checkout lady her passport because she had 2,160 Baht of groceries.
Tell her to hold onto an item so that your total is less than 2000 baht. Then after you pay, come back into the line and pay for the remaining item.-
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5 hours ago, rumak said:
snake ID if possible
Yep; that's a snake.
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7 hours ago, Pique Dard said:
i've seen too many television reports filmed with secret cameras exposing farmers who claim they produce organic fruits and vegetables, yet using chemical fertilizers on the quiet.
That's because - everybody say it with me - so-called organic farming is totally allowed to use pesticides. And what's with the phrase "chemical pesticides"? Is there some kind of magical pesticide that's not made from any sort of chemical? Is it made from thoughts & prayers?
Here's a list of pesticides that are allowed in organic farming:
Ethanol, isopropanol, calcium hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, cypochlorous acid, sodium hypochlorite, copper sulfate, hydrogen peroxide, ozone gas, peracetic acid, soap-based algicides/demossers, sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate, mulches derived from composted newspaper or other recycled paper, plastic mulch and covers (petroleum-based other than polyvinyl chloride (PVC), ammonium carbonate, aqueous potassium silicate, boric acid, elemental sulfur, lime sulfur, horticultural oils, insecticidal soaps, sucrose octanoate esters, insect pheromones, vitamin D3 (a rodenticide), ferric phosphate, copper hydroxide, copper oxide, copper oxychloride, hydrated lime, lignin sulfonate, magnesium oxide, sulfates, carbonates, oxides, or silicates of zinc, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, and cobalt, sulfuric, citric or phosphoric acid (to adjust pH in aquaculture), vitamins, B1, C, and E, sulfurous acid, ethylene gas, hydrogen chloride.
Nope, no chemicals there!
And some of these have specific use requirements. For example copper sulfate used as tadpole shrimp control in aquatic rice production is limited to one application per field during any 24-month period. Why is that? Because copper is a heavy metal and it builds up in the environment. It's toxic at certain levels, too. Wait - why are we doing this "organic" farming thing again?
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22 hours ago, RobboR said:
Various reports in Singapore media have said that Chinese companies are mass producing fake rice made, in part, out of plastic, according to one online publication Very Vietnam
"One online publication" Enough said.
Once again - just be a TINY bit skeptical and think about how much effort would be required to cut plastic stock down to the size of rice grains, individually machine each grain to give them the right granular shape, apply color so they'll blend in, and then set up that entire production line alongside the one for genuine rice, nearly doubling your operating costs. Then realize that the base price for plastic is higher than that for rice. Right from the beginning you're losing money - and that's before you spend all that effort on machining and coloring and mixing in resins
22 hours ago, RobboR said:The “rice” is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic. The potatoes are first formed into the shape of rice grains. Industrial synthetic resins are then added to the mix.
Sweet potatoes are going for around $500-$600 per ton at the moment.
Why go through all that effort and expense? And imagine the ire of your customers marching back to your shop with plastic rice stuck in their teeth, wielding meat cleavers at your staff.
22 hours ago, RobboR said:Don't know how widespread it is but it doesn't surprise me
That's the problem. It should surprise you because there are too many obvious reasons why this idea is pure nonsense, and NO reasons as to why anyone would ever want to do it. Just the economics alone makes it a losing venture:
Cost of rice: $300-$500 per ton:
Cost of synthetic resins: a few thousand dollars per ton:
Cost of recycled PVC: $500-$1200 per ton
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42 minutes ago, RobboR said:
Loads of fake food, especially things like honey and plastic rice
News for you: plastic is more expensive than rice. The plastic-in-rice thing is a myth that came from a story about some lesser quality rice being sold as premium brand. Can you imagine biting down into rice and getting unchewable plastic bits? It makes no sense at all.
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2 minutes ago, Vacuum said:
Which are full of pesticides....
Wash your veggies, okay?
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On 6/22/2019 at 6:17 AM, Scott said:
Would you be willing to pay more for food that is grown organically?
The organic label is a scam that preys on the gullible and uninformed. Probably the most successful thing the Organic Consumer's Association ever did was to convince people that organic means healthier or pesticide free, when neither is true. It's nothing more than a way to shame those who can't afford the premium price.From Dan Glickman, Agriculture secretary when the organic standards came out in 2000:
The only way to get people to shell out the extra money for "organic" is to try to demonize conventional produce. So the Environmental Working Group makes up, out of thin air, their own set of standards. They arbitrarily decide - in sharp contrast to already established safety data - that conventional produce has "excessive" levels of pesticide residue. They publish their "dirty dozen" list every year, in an attempt to scare people away from conventional produce in the hopes they'll spend the big money on "organic". For those who get scared away from conventional produce but can't afford organic - what should they do? They'll probably end up at McDonald's eating a carbo-sodium-sugar meal.
Never before in the history of human beings has our food supply been as abundant or healthful as it is now.
Having said all that, of course it matters what choices you make. The food supply might be healthy but you can still choose to live on pizza and deep-fried candy bars.
If the OP means 'prepared food' rather than the food supply itself, then that also involves a lot of variability. However Thailand seems to incorporate more fruits & veggies into its entrees than is done in the west. For reasons such as this, the food here is marginally more healthful. But for other reasons it's not - such as making an omelette by cooking egg batter in a pool of oil or all the added sugar in everything.
1 hour ago, thecyclist said:The FDA and health department have done several tests of certified organic food over the years, and the result is invariably that most of them are still contaminated with significant amounts of chemicals.
Testing in the USA showed that both "organically grown" and conventionally grown produce had similar pesticide level residues. But in both cases the levels were two to three orders of magnitude below the safety margins. The ridiculous part of this story is that, since organic farmers couldn't guarantee 0% pesticide residues, the organic industry had to come up with some baseline number that was deemed tolerable. It turns out that conventional crops come in at or below this level most of the time. So I guess conventional crops are mostly organic too, if all we're measuring is the pesticide residues at the point of sale.
It also annoys me greatly that organic farming methods are, in general, worse for the environment than conventional methods. They require more land, have lower yields and have a larger carbon footprint. Organic pesticides are less effective and therefore must be applied more frequently and in greater amounts - meaning more passes with the crop sprayer and more fuel consumed.
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What is the purpose of this? Is the water bill checked to see that the name matches the ID? Does the ID need to show an address where the water bill is delivered? If I pay my inlaws' water bill for them, do I need to carry their ID along with me to show the cashier? Did they make a photocopy of the ID?
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I had never heard of Lazada Wallet, so I went to checked it out. Sure enough:
I'm tempted to use my Thai brother's ID number just to see what happens. I've spent almost half a million baht on Lazada since 2015 but instead I think I'll start doing more business with eBay and less with Lazada now. Most of their stuff comes from China anyway and almost everything you can find on Lazada can be found on eBay at a lower price.
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I suspect the people who are qualified to answer your questions (which is not me) will need to know what kind of school has offered you the job. Public, private, language school or university?
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On 5/23/2019 at 4:02 PM, gjoo888 said:
I was at CW yesterday for my extension, and yes they did require the TM30.
They asked for mine, too. I had done a TM30 a few weeks prior to my extension visit so I had the receipt to show them. But that wasn't enough - the immigration officer (L section, retirement extensions) wanted to see all the original documents that I presented to the B desk when I did the TM30. She wanted the owner's house book, ID and power of attorney form. I did not have them in hand, but I had saved hi-resolution color scans in my google drive which I could call up on my phone and show her. She said that would be okay but I would need to go find some copy shop that could print the photos off so I could tender them to her.
So the TM30 serves no apparent purpose other than to collect 800 baht, because you'll need to show all of that documentation all over again when you do an extension later.
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15 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:
Not sure what you can do about that if your financial records are not available for the last four years .
Maybe go back and see a different IO, cos the one you saw is surely making up the rules for fun !!I've got only two days left on my current permission to stay. I'm not too excited about using that time to play immigration officer roulette. Perhaps the most ridiculous part is that they are the ones who should be keeping records. THAT'S WHY THERE'S AN IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT. If all those bank letters and copies I supplied at prior immigration visits are unavailable for checking, then what good are they in the first place? Why even bother collecting them?
Imagine this level of competency at any other place of business. Imagine going to the bank and having them ask you to bring in your past year's records because they're not quite sure how much money you've got in their bank!
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On 5/17/2019 at 7:52 PM, attrayant said:
I'm going on Wednesday of next week, with exactly two months of seasoning. Stay tuned.
I'm back and will update as promised. The 2 month seasoning was accepted without question. I had my 800K in the bank on March 22nd and today is May 22nd, which is two months and one day.
However, I ended up not getting my extension for another reason: The immigration officer noticed that this was my 4th retirement extension and wanted to see my financial proof going back those three prior years. Basically she wants to do an audit of my entire history of retirement extensions before granting me another one.
Of course I didn't expect that so I had nothing to show her. Now that I am home and looking back through old bank registers, there isn't enough detail to satisfy the officer because I rarely got the book updated. I would have to go into the branch and ask for a detailed statement and the last time I did that, it took nearly ten business days to get it back and I've got only two days remaining on my current extension. The immigration officer has made a demand that places me in an impossible situation.
So I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I've got two days to think about it.
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I live with the inlaws so there's no rent. I pay only for electricity that I use in the two rooms I spend most of my time in (bedroom & office). I don't drink or smoke and almost never go out, so I selected 16-20K. I do have occasional bursts of discretionary spending like buying new computers or shop equipment but that's infrequent. If I lived alone and had to pay my own rent, it would be closer to 30K.
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1 hour ago, ChouDoufu said:
i'm asking for any actual experience......has anyone applied for a retirement extension with 800k seasoned for 65 days, and reported here with the results?
I'm going on Wednesday of next week, with exactly two months of seasoning. Stay tuned.
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I brought a soda stream with me from the states eight years ago but threw it away after several years of trying and failing to find replacement cartridges. Now I use a seltzer bottle that just needs a small cartridge, and mix drinks one at a time.
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7 hours ago, Henryford said:
Same here i have an Onkyo receiver which has a fault (after 3 years) It only cost 10,000 baht so probably not worth a repair, unless it is @ 650 baht. Anyone want a dead one?
I used to fix these monsters, so I'm tempted. Where are you?
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I don't remember where I found this graphic, but it seems to agree that everything revolves around the filing date, not the extension expiration/renewal date. In this example, the filing date is July 1. The actual retirement extension expiration date could be 30-45 days later.
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Gammaco:
Borax (บอแร็กซ์): 450g for 150B
Boric Acid (กรดบอริก): 450g for 220B
They will deliver only if you purchase more than 2000 baht.
I am pretty sure Suksupan Panit also sells both, probably cheaper too, but I'm unable to find them on their website.
The location on Ladprao Road between 61 and 63 is the best for chemical stock.
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Candy in general seems not to be a popular item here. Probably the environment is inhospitable to confections (both heat and moisture cause problems), requiring any would-be candy store to spend money on 24×7 air conditioning or sell substandard waxy chocolate. This has probably led to the preferential proliferation of prepackaged snacks and sugary drinks.
As a child, I used to love going into candy shop and pressing my nose up against the glass. The turtles were my favorite.
Luckily, fudge is easy to make if you have a candy thermometer.
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2 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:19 minutes ago, MeePeeMai said:
Don't forget the signed POA Power of Attorney form (unless your landlord is in tow).
I have seen nothing stating CW wants that. As far as I know that is only needed in Phuket.
I offered this form at CW a few weeks ago when I did my TM30 and it was accepted. Would they have required it, had I not had it? Who knows.
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5 hours ago, mtls2005 said:
FWIW, there have been many reports this week that in-person 90 day reports at CW now require a TM30.
Counter B is raking in the cash. Plan 3 hours is what some people are recommending.
When I paid my fine, she told me to always bring the receipts for both the TM30 and the payment of the fine whenever I came to immigration, in case future immigration officers asked for them.
I got the impression that immigration officers now routinely ask for them, in the hopes that you (a) don't have one, (b) are not in the system as ever having had one, or (c) you have one but you can't prove that you paid the fine last time so they'll soak you for another 800 baht.
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I find the mom & pop appliance shops to have the best prices and they sell all the same things. The only downside is that I have to take a Thai friend or relative with me to speak to them because they usually have zero English-speaking ability.