JackGats

"Section 145 of the Narcotics Control Act: possessing Category 1 drug (methamphetamine). The penalty is imprisonment from two to 20 years and a fine of 200,000 to 2 million baht." Trying to procure drugs and possessing drugs are not the same thing. In most countries merely shopping around for drugs is specifically not illegal per se. This is so that undercover police can shop around for drugs to catch drug sellers without the police having to break the law.

If some Thai ruins my 2500-euro a-piece hearing aids by splashing water unto it, a lot of good it will do to me to have the Thai's apologies. Can I file an insurance claim with the Thai's apology?

"If you are lonely and desperate why not find a gf at the local hardware store?" Are half-way decent looking girls keen on men who are "lonely and desperate"? That's new. I'd have thought girls hated losers, going instead for men who exude strength, confidence and control.

On mongering sites some men will like to brag about pulling freebies (or pulling working girls below list-price). Endless discussions would ensue. Such endless discussions were not so common in earlier internet days, when posting pictures of the girls was ok, indeed expected. A pic would often reveal we're not talking about the same types of girls lookswise. It is funny though how inveterate sex-tourists often feel the need to distance themselves from their peers. What they need asking is why would female employees in a country like Thailand be easier than say the ones in Toronto or Stockholm? If you can pull freebies in Thailand so can you in your own country. Why then do you save all year long to be able to afford flights half-way around the world to hot mosquito-ridden countries where you can't stand the food, don't understand the language, and often risk being robbed at knifepoint?

Lol. Feminists wanted sex to be just a social construct. Well done ladies, now enjoy the consequences!

162 people killed, 1,279 injured within 4 days? No big deal. Cannabis is the national catastrophe: 162 people with anxiety and 1,279 with reduced motivation.

The problem is that the water-throwing synergises with the worst aspects of Thai Society, like willingness to accept any degree of road carnage. Make no mistake about it, when they throw water at scooters, they don't mind at all, indeed hope, to throw the driver off balance.

Indeed. I remember taking Modafinil for physics exams. I felt focused like never before and got better results. However if I studied for my exam under Modafinil the learning was poor. Good for taking the exam, bad for learning towards the exam.

Then you're the ideal person to rant against it on Aseannow and elsewhere.

Sorry but it's hard to believe someone can be so careless. All the same, they didn't force you to unlock your phone, so it's not so bad after all. I read US customs could keep passengers under arrest as long as they didn't unlock some password-protected drives on their laptops. That is really bad. Someone once recommended to "clean" my smartphone before traveling to Malaysia. I guess the same recommendation would apply eg to Indonesia and many African destination.

I read it was especially recommended if you didn't have much meat in your diet.

Did they ask you to unlock your phone and hand it over to them for checking the content?

Difficult. Israelis now no longer allowed to fly over Saudi Arabia (or Irak) I think. They would need to use missiles. I've read the Iranians had scattered their "nuclear facilities", especially whichever nuclear warheads they may already have produced. So no easy option apart from armageddon.

A decade and a half ago Jimmy Carter said Israel had about 123 nuclear warheads in its arsenal. Best thing for Israel could be to nuke Iran before it's too late. A small country like Israel can only have a first-strike nuclear doctrine unless it equips itself with a submarine deterrent.

They write "pause". Semantics may not be their forte. Maybe it meant "abolished". The TM6 serves no purpose, apart from being able to fine those who lose it.

Can someone tell me if there's water throwing early in the morning at breakfast time? Like before 9am.

Murderers wait for the effect of their coffee to die down before they kill someone, it's a well-know fact.

Coffeine is short-acting meth.

Of course not coz it's legal.

Note how in Thailand an additional layer of damaging crap, ie caffeine, is added to the methamphetamine. As though methamphetamine were not sympathomimetic enough on its own. As far as I know the meth/speed consumed in other countries only contains methamphetamine as the active ingredient. Besides, if methamphetamine is a social evil in Thailand, what about caffeine? If you die of a heart attack from Yaba, do you die from the methamphetamine or from the caffeine? What about the coffee shops sprouting up everywhere in Thailand? What about caffeinated drinks that hook people by combining two addictive substances: sugar and caffeine? The yaba epidemics is bad but I guess the caffeine epidemics is no longer an epidemics as 90% of the population are hooked on it anyway. If you want to rant against drugs you need to wear a good pair of blinders/blinkers.

Duplicate. Tricked again.

Why can't the Burmese manufacture xstasy instead? Xstasy: there, at least, is a drug that has something to it. Yaba is zero euphoria. Sky-high blood-pressure. Sleeplessnes. Meth dick. Of course xstasy has low addiction potential. One consequence of the war on drugs is that the lousier a drug, the more widespread it gets.

Filing taxes and paying taxes are 2 different things. It might be useful to be able to show the taxman back home you filed taxes in Thailand.

This is a question owners of an LTR visa will love to get an answer to by the beginning of next year.

Ok then I think PIN = TIN. Give your PIN to UBS saying it's your Thai TIN. I heard a similar story but the reverse, namely it could work to use one's Thai TIN instead of the Pink Card number, in case one had a TIN but no Pink Card.