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8 minutes ago, BenStark said:
Wrong, the home is registered in my foreign name
My apologies......
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6 minutes ago, dick turpin said:
Why not just stay home and rip
up 1,000 baht notes.
It's not his home.
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1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:
There could be something subliminal going on there .
A person with an agenda against Jews , has the same viewpoint as far right neo Nazis , wears a t=shirty with a photo of Adolf Hitler on it, because he doesn't like Adolf Hitler .
Could be something Freudian going on there
Either that, or your paranoia is kicking in.
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47 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:
OK, so you would walk around with a T-Shirt with Adolf Hillers photo on it .
I wouldn't
Same answer.
It is all about the message, not the image.
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25 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:
Would you walk around wearing a T-Shirt with a picture of someone you didn't like ?
Depends on the message.
This one was lost on you.
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15 minutes ago, Morch said:
Or maybe he's familiar with poster's posting history and views.
....and you are?
.....his minder?
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2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:
So , just to clarify , you are an anti Zionist /Anti Jew and you wear a T-Shirt with Adolf Hitler on it ?
Why do you write this cr4p.
Once again you have conveniently missed the point to suit your own agenda.
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On 2/4/2024 at 9:56 AM, HauptmannUK said:
Answers to two points raise in this thread....
1. The UK state pension is classed as a benefit. Benefit fraud is committed when you deliberately claim benefits you are not entitled to. E.g. by providing false information or by not reporting a change in circumstance. So if you don't inform DWP you are living overseas then you are definitely committing benefit fraud. HOWEVER the laws covering benefit fraud (specifically Social Security Administration Act 1992) EXCLUDE the state pension as a 'Sanctionable Benefit'. This means that if you commit state pension fraud your pension cannot be stopped or reduced. Your pension will simply be adjusted back to the correct 'frozen' level going forward. You will not have to pay anything back. Theoretically, if you go back to UK you could face a court case and fine (in the range £250 - £5000) but in practise that is extremely unlikely to happen because the cost of action would be far greater than the fine income and DWP have much bigger fish to fry. Putting 'forgetful' OAPs through court is not something DWP would want to be seen doing.
At the moment I spend just under 180 days per year in Thailand and don't yet receive the state pension anyway. However if I were to relocate to Thailand I WOULD NOT inform DWP since I feel that the freezing of pensions is unjust and immoral. Especially since nationals of any country can enter the UK and claim Pension Credit (up to about the same amount as a full state pension), plus Housing Benefit and a range of other benefits without having ever paid a penny of UK tax or NI.
2. On the subject of NHS care.. My daughter is a doctor in a UK hospital. In general the medical staff are far too busy to worry about eligibility for treatment. If you turn up speaking with a UK accent of some sort and can quote a NI or NHS number then you are unlikely to face a problem. Obviously don't start talking about your life in Thailand. The government are pressuring the NHS to get tough with 'overseas patients' so larger hospitals may have an 'Overseas Patient Team' - but they are really looking for foreign passport holders who arrive at a UK airport and take a taxi straight to a local hospital (it happens more often than you think - and these people are often seriously ill).
Back in 2018 I assisted a sick expat return to the UK. He arrived immediately at a hospital A&E with about a year's worth of Thai hospital notes. He was immediately admitted and treated, with excellent care. The Overseas Patient Team did visit him after a few days but his sister was able to show them his UK passport and a rental contract for a bedsit and they were satisfied with that.
Excellent points and, with your permission, I would like to copy these comments to interested friends.
I can actually confirm the second point. I went back to the UK for a hernia operation and my experience was exactly as described.
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Yes to phones. No to laptops, iPads etc.
They do now offer to 'store' said items (for a fee).....that is a new development.
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11 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:
Tendy is a building with lots of residents, bars, shops and offices. Maybe you should clarify which part you are concerned about.
57 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:Yes, I read his post.
And I came to this post because of the headline "Trendy Building".
Applying for a passport <> Trendy Building
That was the clue
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5 hours ago, flyingtlger said:
LOL, it might help the tourism industry a little but if it is lifted, it'll sure make all the local alcoholic happy!!!
Cheers!
The local alcoholics don't need to worry about alcohol bans - they will get booze when they need.
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23 minutes ago, blue angel said:Most likely asked and answered before but the search option here drives me crazy and rules and regulations change weekly.
Also this question is region specific as each Immigration office has different requirements. I am in Chiang Mai.I am on a Non O with an extension for retirement and using the 800.000 bank option.
I withdrew 300K about 60 days after my last extension but I screwed up and wrongly assumed the 300K had to be back in the account 60 days before my next extension when in fact it is 90 days before.My renewal is last week of March and the account is already back up to the 800K but it was topped up about 60 days before my pending extension date.
Here are my options as I see it.
A - Get some solid advice from you guys and not some scaremongering hearsay I am getting from my friends.
B - Visit an agent which I did but they wanted 20+K and basically want to get me a new visa .... and send my bank book with 800K in it to another provience ( really sketcky option ).
C - Plead my case with immigration and see what happens.
Can they invalidate my current visa or worse because of this ?
This concerns me a lot as there is the possibility that this option might aggrivate the situation.D - Start the whole tedious process over again as I was told that its not possible to extend my current extension past my renewal date at the end of March.
Any input or work around on option A ?
Thank you.
Should be 60 days before renewal.........did your Immigration office tell you 3 months?
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27 minutes ago, VBF said:
Personally, if alone, I would only buy from a place vouched for by someone I knew and trusted (which is what I did), or if that's not possible, at least try them when you're tucked up in your room out of harm's way. I did that too and was glad of it - I'd hate to be walking around in Pattaya crowds and traffic in a "dazed and confused" state. For me, the feeling is very different to having had too much alcohol which I've done many times and can predict.
Never was the expression "YMMV" more apt!
Now you understand why I was asking for recommendations.
"Dazed and confused in Pattaya" ... 😀...... don't need weed for that..😀
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7 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:
Seems kinda daft to put that anywhere near an oven.
By "oven" I am interpreting that to include "hob".
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11 minutes ago, ozimoron said:
I'm very wary of cookies, I have to give up smoking because my lungs are suffering these days. About 6 months or so ago. I had half a brownie and went to a soi 6 bar. After a few minutes my vision started to go white and next thing I was on the floor with several security guards asking me if I wanted to go to hospital. I explained that I had eaten a dope cookie and they just laughed and left me to it. It was 2 hours before I could walk home. I once had a similar reaction to synthetic weed that someone gave me to smoke. I'm wondering how many of these cookies are made with just real ganga.
I went a bit wobbly and needed some assistance after eating 2 and half muffins (in the now closed soi 21 restaurant).
I had had a couple to drink and my lady companion bought them to have after our pad krappows. I naively thought they were banana cakes.
I now use them only as an aid to a good night's sleep.
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2 minutes ago, bbko said:You're funny, good luck on the cookie hunt.
Thanks.
I did actually find some on my doorstep (not literally, please).
Well, like my enquiry about Pattaya, I didn't actually find it; in response to an almost identical question as I posted here somebody on a local forum said "I buy from the shop just opposite the market, next door to XYZ; nice people, fair prices".
See how simple that was........................ 400 people on that forum didn't respond because I imagine they were not able to answer my question.............
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1 minute ago, bbko said:Let's take this from a practical standpoint, where could you get edible cannabis? Shoe store? No. Noodle cart? No. Barber shop? No. The sensible answer is from a weed store, and there's 100's in the Soi Buakow area, walk into one and ask, no joy? Repeat till the problem is solved.
Comprehension not your strong point is it?
I asked....."Does anyone have a recommendation for a similar edibles shop".
I also said I was 32km away
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1 minute ago, NoshowJones said:
I take it you mean a condo. Buying a house needs to be in your wife's/GF's name.
...or a company.
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47 minutes ago, BenStark said:My 3 year old water kettle, which I bought from Lazada for 140 baht, just gave up. So as I wanted to have a replacement quickly I did a google for what is available in the local electronics shops/
I notice that most well known electronics brands are around 1000 baht, until I stumbled on this.
It isn't a misprint of the price, as it is available at other stores at the same price. How can a company justify such a price for a simple water kettle, and who in his right mind would spend that kind of money on it?
All it does is heating up water, isn't it?
You are not a brand name person, why waste your time looking at SMEG which is a high end Italian brand.
Get back on Lazada and look for Thailand produced kettle.
If you really want to focus on saving money go boil a saucepan of water.
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1 minute ago, JackGats said:
Maybe the OP has something to sell?
Why would you think that.
It wasn't a difficult question...........well clearly it WAS too difficult for some ...
"Does anyone have a recommendation for a similar edibles shop".
I remember when this forum was a good source of information.
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1 hour ago, bbko said:1000's of ganga shops in Pattaya and you can't find a ganga cookie?
No. Not from where I am sitting 32 km away..
Now, do you have any suggestions - or are you just bored and need to get a life?
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13 minutes ago, Thailand said:
Would this also apply if you lived in the UK for say 10 years after returning and then went to another “frozen” country. It would revert to the original “frozen” pension?
NB - No intention of doing any of these things just a question that came up recently.
I was advised by IPC something along the lines of..."You keep the increase for the duration of your stay in the UK whether that is 6 weeks or 6 years; it then reverts on your return to the original frozen amount".
Admittedly, I didn't ask about leaving to a different 'frozen' country - but I would put money on that being the same.
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I can't speak for the DWP but I can say that if you go to a 'frozen' country yourpension should revert to the original frozen amount you were getting
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2 minutes ago, VBF said:
'Cos I'm directionally challenged mate
I said "..... at the market just after Tree Town heading south..." that was wrong
So:. from Soi Diana - proceed along Bukhau towards Klang (i.e. NORTH) Oops!
Get to Tree Town and as you said correctly, "there is a little market after 7-11 just before the S bend at "R-Con corner""
THAT's where it was, a big shop near that "little market"
My apologies for being a useless navigator. And that's before I've tried the product 😆
Please do not apologise, I am just grateful that you took the time to reply.
There was me thinking you HAD tried the product.
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There is a middle ground that works very well.