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Bloke down our ways got a large chopper - He'e always got it out ....
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On 2/12/2024 at 4:13 PM, scubascuba3 said:
There's a thread on it i posted a year+ ago, basically there's a cartel in Pattaya, they charge falang price. Go to Asia City Motors in Bowin. Easier to just order on Line or Facebook, and get a taxi there when ready
i'll second that - Those in the know go to Asia City Motors ....
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And they laughed when i moved to Wongamat .....
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Decent accesory shop on corner of South Pattaya Road and Soi Kopai .....
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i'd bet that the vast majority ain't got work permits .....
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they should take a walk down the six, that's were they should be clamping down ...
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would just about cover me rent .....
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some days i sits and thinks - some days, i just sits .....
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On 10/20/2023 at 4:30 AM, scubascuba3 said:
Good, was Grail still there? Previously the others didn't speak very good English
Grail still works for Asia City, but she's not involved in selling - The new contact that speaks English is a lady called "Warn" .....
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On 10/18/2023 at 7:37 PM, scubascuba3 said:If you want to save some money contact Asia City Motors, Bowin. Pattaya garages tend to add on falang tax
Agreed ...i bought a scooter from there 10 days ago (at the proper honda list price, 1,900b registration and no charge for "red plate") - got the phone call today that the book and white plate had arrived ... never again will i buy in pattaya ....
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you don't need to change to a non O .... i had a job with a Non B visa and work permit .... When i left the job, immigration did a retirement extension to the Non B visa - And i've extended it each year, for the last 8 years .....
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OP - The day i arrived in Thailand 18 years ago - my buddy, who got here 7 years before me and had a few businesses running, said:
"Never forget this place attracts the har souls of society and the worrying thing is that these har souls don't know they're har souls..." ...
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10 hours ago, SunsetT said:
Wow! You are clairvoyant are you? You not only know what the UK would be like if the Socialists (not Communists) had won the last election or win the next election, but you can also read my mind.
All I know is, at 70 yrs old, I grew up in a country where I received excellent free education to graduate level, excellent free NHS healthcare, incl. dental and eye care as a child, all public services and utilities were nationalised and more efficient and affordable by most, I felt safe with emergency services and police arriving in minutes not hours or days when needed. And all of this was from Socialist policies introduced by post-war Labour governments.
All of this has now been destroyed by the Conservative party!
I never thought I would live to see UK people having to pull their own teeth because there are no (affordable) NHS dentists in huge areas of the UK; city people having to hail taxis to get to hospital after road accidents because ambulances take hours to arrive. Elderly folk, after a fall, spending hours (one 9hrs, one, over 90, 14hrs in my area) laying on the ground, even outside, and sometimes overnight, waiting for an ambulance. And when they do eventually reach hospital they, and other patients in emergency circumstances, often have to spend hours and hours in ambulances queued outside of hospitals because A&E is backlogged with patients lining corridors on stretchers waiting for beds to become available. And it is Jeremy Hunt, the current Conservative chancellor who is personally responsible for most for this appalling situation. Because, as Health Minister, he was notorious for closing wards and small rural hospitals cutting the number of beds available, and also nurses and doctors to the bone. As for the police, they have become a complete joke, not even interested in arresting shoplifters, taking hours to answer non-emergency phone calls to report a crime. Rather they expect people to fill in a lengthy online form to do so. Again even in an emergency, it can take them hours to respond even where there is a threat of violence, and then maybe just with a phone call!
Who is responsible for the absurd UK price capping system which has made gas and electric the most expensive in Europe and unaffordable by most and requiring government sudsidy for all. This when the government is refusing to increase windfall taxes on the fuel companies supplying it who are raking in obscene and record profits?
Who is responsible for the total disaster that is Brexit, and which has led us from being one of the most respected countries in the World to being the laughing stock of the World?
Have you tried using UK government depts. such as the Passport, Driving Licence, or Pension offices lately? There are often long delays, and it is virtually impossible to contact them by phone or get a reply if you have a problem. Why? 12 years+ of Tory austerity again have cut their underpaid staff numbers to the bone.
How about the ongoing Tory corruption, hypocrisy, and cronyism, e.g., the millions of tax payer's money squandered and wasted on PPE, etc., during Covid giving contracts to their mates and Conservative party doners?
I could go on and on but sadly most have been brainwashed by extreme Right wing populist propaganda published by tax haven millionaire owned publications such as the Daily Mail who have an extreme vested interest in keeping the Tories in power, i.e., tax avoidance. Also many more voters, thinking they are superior and more enlightened, suck up to the biased political coverage of the BBC who are the propaganda wing of the British public schoolboy establishment & elite who again have a vested interest in tax avoidance and hanging on to their wealth by keeping the Conservative party in power.
People in the UK make the mistake of simply voting for the party leaders that they are presented with when they should be scrutinising and voting for party policies and their track record when in power. Labour lost the last election because Jeremy Corbyn, who, OK, never had leadership qualities, was completely demonised by the establishment media who, along with Boris Johnson's lies on Brexit, convinced people that returning to the socialist Britain that I was blessed to have grown up in, would be a nightmare. So Corbyn had no chance compared to the cuddly, charismatic and posh eccentric Boris Johnson (The British Class system is alive and well). They said that Labour would take us back to the Seventies (which were actually great), but hell! the Tories have taken the UK back to the Stone Age!
So I ask you, how can the alternative be far far worse than this? Any alternative must be better than the utter disaster that we now have in the UK. Are Corbyn and Starmer far far worse than Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss (????)? I dont think so. And now we have an unelected ethnically Indian millionaire or is it billionaire as Prime Minister (who is actually not doing such a bad job compared to the previous shower!).
How can we possibly know that the alternative is far far worse until they are given the chance in power to prove that they are not? Of course I forgot, you are clairvoyant. You must be rich or one of the rich British establishment greedily clinging to their wealth and frightened to death of paying more tax under a Labour govt., or even paying any tax at all to contribute to the country that has given them so much? Or have you been successfully brainwashed by the UK media?
some very valid points there ! what are your thoughts on the "boat people" keep rocking up ??
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Talking of total farses - i took the oppertuity of ringing the "international pension centre" help line ....
auto answered by a computer .... giving you 4 options (you know the dope "press 1 for..." etc .....
mine was option 4 - just after i pressed, was disconnected !
so rang back - pressed 1 - disconnected
so rang back - pressed 2 - disconnected....
And you guessed it - rand back - pressed 3 - disconnected ......
The UK is a total mess .....
The irony is that if arrived in a rubber dingy, a free lawyer would advise me free of charge how to get the application through.....
i could scream ....
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54 minutes ago, Jaggg88 said:
You qualify for your state pension when you reach 66 years old and not 64. You need to contact the overseas pension centre by email. https://www.gov.uk/international-pension-centre
Fer hooks sake - If you read the thread, i said i made a typo - 66 is my retirement age - and if you see Bob - can you tell him ...
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4 hours ago, The Fat Controller said:
@piston broke EDIT due to mistake.
I have never seen any reference at all regarding purchasing missing years at anything else other than the Class 1 rate of around £800.
my pal did at the class 2 rate and subsequently advised 2 of his friends, who also did the same .....
i'm hoping to be next !
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18 minutes ago, The Fat Controller said:
@piston broke EDIT due to mistake.
I have never seen any reference at all regarding purchasing missing years at anything else other than the Class 1 rate of around £800.
Each year purchased increases your pension by £5.29 a week (IIRC)
it was my pal who told me .... like me has lived in Thailand for 15 years and not worked ... he said it was tricky as they wanted him to pay class 1 - but he argued the point and they buckled in the end - he has helped pals in similar situation and they all have paid class2 rather than class 1 - quite a considerable saving .....
So i'm on the class 2 route .....
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30 minutes ago, Scott Tracy said:
Really? How so? I'm 65 and not entitled until I'm 66... I should read all before commenting....
typo ...i meant 66 ! sorry ...
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17 hours ago, cleopatra2 said:
For the Government Gateway the credit reference does not have to be recent. However you need a uk address that can be linked to yourself.
The system will go through a number of credit reference questions and responses can be negative if correct.
Such as
Question: How long since you opened your last current account.
It will then give a number of options for you to choose such as 1 year, 2 year etc,. The final option will be
More than 5 years ago.
There will be approx 5 questions of this nature.
I successfully registered only last week with just passport and no credit history using the option of more than x years, and using an old UK address that is no longer connected to me.
Thank you so much, your "credit" method worked - i'm now registered !
The next problem is that they are asking for 9 years contributions for class 1 N.I. @ 824 GBP p.a - whereas i qualify for Class 2 contrib which is 160 gbp p.a... (as i left the uk over 15 years and have not worked) ....
Just got to find a way of getting them to agree this and to ament my records ......
All before 31 july 2023 .....
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14 hours ago, Upnotover said:Why are you special?
sorry - i meant 66 ! was so wound up after the farce on the phone to the Pension hotline ...
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1 hour ago, simon43 said:
I had the same problem some time ago. I tried messaging but no luck. The only way was to telephone the international section. If you don't have 2 valid proofs of ID (my DL was lost/no photo ID), then you can still get registered by answering their probing questions. I can't recall what additional questions they asked me (name of my pet cat, bust size of my ex-wife etc). Whatever it was, I passed the test and managed to register.
As others have said, you will retire at 66. If your missed years are more than a few years ago, then I think you have just missed the deadline to top these up (or you might have just a week or so to do it!). You need to check asap.
31 july....
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1 hour ago, transam said:
You can get the answers using the pension service site, just fill in the boxes.
As far as I am aware, you still need 35 years national insurance payments, if not, you will get a % of a pension, depending on years N.I. paid. You will get what ever is due at age 66.
you have to register for a Gateway account ...... went down the line and come to the "proof of identity" - needed 2 things ...passport - ok - driving licence card - not ok (expired years ago !) - proof of recent credit transactions, old P60 slips - don't have any, so couldn't complete registration and was told to ring them....
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i'm 64 and been living in Thailand for 18 years.... I am entitled to the UK state pension at age 64 .....
I know i missed a few years, so a month ago, tried contacting DWP to find out how many years i need to pay to get full pension entitlement.........
So you have to register for a Gateway account ...... went down the line and come to the "proof of identity" - needed 2 things ...passport - ok - driving licence card - not ok (expired years ago !) - proof of recent credit transactions, old P60 slips - don't have any, so couldn't complete registration and was told to ring them....
Dialled the number - auto reply said they were very busy and there was a 1.5 hour wait time to speak to someone - how dreadful is that ?..
Managed to find a way to send them a message - told them whats what, and asked someone to contact me .....
1 month later - heard <deleted> all ....
So this afternoon tried ringing again .... A new tactic this time - the computer answers the call asks you loads of questions, each time confirming what you've said - after about 5 or 6 min, the computer says they are very busy and "goodbye" - then disconnects the call ....
What an absolute <deleted> state of afairs .....
i'm not holding out much hope - but anyone out there managed a way to either register or speak to a human ?
tia ...
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Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger have ZERO Crypto .....
That's good enough for me ....
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Are you struggling in Thailand?
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When i first arived in Thailand the neck end of 20 years ago, the late great Bob the Pig told me two things:
1) You'll be amazed how many milionaires you'll bump into that live above shops
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2) This place attracts the "are souls" of society and the worrying thing is that these "are souls" don't think they're "are souls" ......