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Hey,
I have to meet a chap tomorrow at somewhere that sounded over the phone like "Mike's Burgers" near "Arcade bus station. Superhighway!".
I know Arcade bus station - that's that place you get to off Kaeonawarat road, correct? But is there really a Mike's burgers there? Or something with a similar sounding name?
I remember Mike's Burgers from years ago, but I thought they closed up shop for one reason or another.
Thanks peeps,
Cocopops.
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The article says "invest", but I would think that "participating in a criminal conspiracy" would be just as applicable... At least some of them must have been aware that it was an illegal operation.
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1 hour ago, fangless said:I assume you typed the above after your "everyday in evening" evening smoke. If so I rest my case assuming that is that you are a native English speaker!
He knows about commas though. You should check them out!
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Not to condone her actions or anything, but it's quite ridiculous how the sentences run consecutively here.
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Chap I know who owns one of the little bars around Zoe in Yellow said yesterday that they had to shut until "next month".
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2 hours ago, connda said:
7500000 infections / 7800000000 Earth population = 000967949 or .098% of the population of the Earth is infected. I won't bother to do the deaths. They pale in comparison to road fatalities.
But just be extremely afraid and get your shot (which isn't available) as soon as you can. And wear a mask and social distance for the rest of your life.You're out by a zero - 75 million / 7.5 billion is about 1% infected.
Global road fatalities run at about 1.35 million per year according to WHO. Virus has, also according to WHO, accounted for 1.7 million of us so far.
While I agree people have been overreacting in many cases, you're quite misinformed. You should reconsider where you're getting your information.
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5 hours ago, Aussiepeter said:
I was just wondering about the age of that picture of the blue skies and relatively clean air over CM. I haven't been back there since last year, when the air was putrid, but to be honest the last time I saw the air that clear in Changers was in the rainy season in 1994.
It was genuinely beautiful a few months ago. I do a fair bit of running and I was continually transfixed by how amazing the sky looked. And how even these old eyes could pick out the finer details of our feathered friends as they traversed the atmosphere off in the distance.
That's all over now though. Today the AQI sites are colored orange and the sky is looking all dusty. You can see the white smoke near the horizons. To say this is maddening doesn't quite capture how strongly I feel about this. ****ing crop-burning farmers can all drop dead as far as I'm concerned.
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They really are that simple!
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How much <deleted> is he in for this? A couple of years in the clink? Throw away the key? Or are they lightening up on this smallish scale stuff?
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Give it a go and watch the daily reports would be my advice. Right now we're down to pretty close to zero community infections a day, and there's no reason to believe it will jump to 10,000 overnight. It seems to me most likely that if there is to be a second wave it will be much like the first, which took a few weeks or so to build up. So pull the kids out of school if we get back up to a few dozen infections a day if you've reason to be particularly concerned, otherwise wait a bit longer and the government will probably shut them down again.
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Government price fixing for anything other than the shortest periods of time always leads to shortages. There is no monopoly, the market will figure things out.
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Yes, and yes. It is almost certainly illegal, but there have plenty of signals and announcements indicating that the authorities DGAF.
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4 hours ago, Thaidream said:
The Thai people one sees in Western style restaurants are those who have upper management positions in banks ; the military or police. or stable industry.
Quite so, but don't overlook the owners of successful small businesses - from busy market stalls to regular shops and cafes. Plenty of these people doing very well, by western or any other standards, too.
They are still, of course, a relatively small minority compared to the very poor though.
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when we see thai people, he’s not interested in talking with them. He will just say to me, they don’t speak English. When we watch tv, it has to be English, same with music.
Has he started school yet? Our 4 year old was just like that until he started school last August. Much more friendly with English speakers than Thai. And with men than women curiously enough. My theory was that Thais are always touching/hugging kids, which he didn't like. Foreigners don't tend to do that as much. His Thai wasn't as good as his English either.
Since he's been at school he's turned all that around. Funny really - pay the earth for an international school and all he seems to have learned is Thai language...
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I got - it's a long story - a small eyedropper bottle of cannabis THC oil from Maharat Hospital in Chiang Mai for 1000 baht.
I'd love to hear the short version of the long story if you're in a sharing mood. For what ailment was the oil prescribed?
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8 hours ago, newatthis said:
External or internal travel?
International both times.
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11 hours ago, CygnusX1 said:As far as I know, Elite visa holders have to do the TM30 just like anyone else, no VIP treatment there, and they don’t receive any assistance from the Elite visa team in completing the TM30. According to their website, they will do a 90 day report for you if you live in Pattaya, Bangkok, Chiang Mai or Phuket, but not the TM30.
I have an Elite visa and immigration have fined me 1600THB twice for TM30 in the last few years.
Also, and this may be out of date, I don't think they can do much for you in Chiang Mai. It's on the website, but last time I contacted them they apologized and said no office in CM. I'd quite like someone to post that I'm wrong here!
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I got my CBD permit to carry and use Cannabis on 2nd June from my Doctor.
Thanks for posting.
So what does this permit actually allow you to do today? Is it still illegal for you to buy regular cannabis on the black market? Assuming so, is it that once you have obtained it you cannot be prosecuted for possessing or using it?
And how does "CBD" play into it? Does the permit specify a maximum THC level of the cannabis you are allowed to posses?
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Here is what they think of us lot .... after 3 middle fingers, I was asked to exit the vehicle
You're actually proud of sullying yourself with behaviour a ten year old should have grown out of over a couple hundred baht?!? Baffling...
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Going with wife and daughter I explain that I live and work in Thailand, pay my taxes here, live with my family here, that we are not rich (I might tell a small lie about my salary being 21,000B/month) and that if I have to pay that ridiculous fee, I won't be able to go in and my family day out will be just my wife and daughter, whilst I sit at the entrance waiting for them to come home.
It has worked once (Doi Khun Tan National Park) but not at Doi Inthanon, where I sat for three hours with the staff to ensure they felt suitably embarrassed at the entire situation.
I imagine that sucked for 3 hours, but the important thing is that that you didn't lose face by backing down. Nice!
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My other option is i do have a contact who can sort my overstay out inland and I wont have to leave but he will take 5 days to do that which means holding the police off until my passport is back.
Is this legal? If not, do you really think it is wise to break yet another law at this point?
Sounds like it might be a more serious law too. Right now the OP has committed an overstay and what sounds like a fairly minor DUI (you're still a bloody idiot for it - but that's not the point). "Fixing" the overstay (corrupt civil servant? forged Government documents?) might count as pretty serious fraud in the eyes of a court though.
Trying to clear the overstay at the airport sounds like the best way to go. Perhaps the OP could use his connections, or some legitimate service if they exist, to figure out if he's going to get stopped at the airport or not.
If I were the OP I wouldn't worry too much about the local cops seeing the stamps after I returned. If they do notice, come clean at that point and acknowledge you firetrucked up. From what he says, they sound like reasonable enough guys.
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You can't present your visa in an expired passport. You get it transferred
Nonsense!
Inexperienced "travelers" should refrain from making ill-informed comment
Visas are never "transferred" ....................
Have you ever had a Visa transferred?
VALID VISAS remain valid even if contained within an expired passport.
Valid visas in an expired passport will be accepted by immigration officers world wide.
To use a valid visa contained in an expired passport one presents both the expired passport containing the valid visa together with a current valid passport.
Possibly!
But in this case if your passport has less than 5 years to run they stamp it with a PE visa that expires the same day that your passport does. When you get the new passport you have to go back to Chaeng Wattana and they will give you a new visa that expires 5 years after you picked up the first.
Source: The girl must have explained it to me a dozen times when I went to get my visa.
To the OP: It appears to do what it says on the box - you hand over the money and they give you a visa. I haven't tried using any of the other services they offer.
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Playing amature gangster in order to recover a few thousand dollars would be exceedingly foolish. The potentially life-ruining risks far outweigh the frankly trivial rewards.
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Good people,
Right now, I'm here on an extension of a non-ed visa. But I'm changing visas next week and have been warned that I have to "cancel my non-ed visa" - or perhaps it's the extension of stay. I have a letter from my school requesting the cancellation in my possession.
Does anybody know anything about this? Specifically, how do you do it in Chiang Mai (e.g. by mail, show up at immi at 6 in the morning for a queue number, what?) and what might happen if I just don't bother?
Thanks,
Cocopops.
Is there a "Mike's Burgers" or similar near Arcade Bus Station?
in Chiang Mai
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Ha ha. Dude found me on Line and sent a photo. McDonalds. "Macs Burgers" I guess. ????