bradiston

Presumably as with all SIMs, ID is required. Easy then to track the SIM user.

tldr

It was on Paetongtarn's FB page back then.

The man trying to nail him.

So trick him into suing the democrat, then unmask him as an impostor when he appears in court? A cunning plan indeed. Baldrick, you're a genius.

Yes, luring him out of bed will certainly prove he's faking it. Where do you get this stuff?

So Thaksin's lawyers will sue.

Much depends on the proximity of the pick up and drop off points. I've seen drivers picking up an iced coffee from 7/11. What can they possibly earn from that, unless it's for himself!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gaAJAb2NK9ALcVKz6 Somebody posted this link. I went there a couple of years ago and it was great. I believe it's open.

"The ''tones'' thing doesn't exist - do not fall for it. All words are understood within context in all human languages." Weirdest comment so far. Just watch YouTube and everything will be fine.

I think if you're a delivery driver, you're under intense pressure from the customer and whoever it is you work for, to deliver fast. The more jobs you can do in a day, the more you earn. I try and keep out of their way. They have a job to do. It's dangerous and badly paid, but a last resort for extra cash for many, I imagine.

They're not the same in length or tone, that's why. It's possible to learn to speak Thai without knowing anything about tones I guess, if your ear can pick up and differentiate between them, and you can reproduce what you hear. I've had to ask Thais how they spell a word in order to figure out the tone. If you know how it's spelt, you'll know how it's pronounced. Might sound obvious, but it isn't. How many khao and ma and my do you know, some pronounced the same, some different, but each with a different meaning? I can't see the objection to teaching yourself the tone system, and the alphabet. Use a children's wall chart for the alphabet. I got the tone system from a very old linguaphone handbook, and rewrote it for my own use. It's a very simple table. Initial consonant class in the left hand column, live or dead syllable in each row, tone marker. We live in a country with a unique language.

Yes, but that's vowel length, not tone, if I read your transcript correctly. Vowel length plays an essential part in determining tones. As your example illustrates, khao, short vowel, falling tone, is entrance, long vowel falling tone is rice. It looks impossibly complicated until you figure out the tone system. For me it was a challenge like code breaking.

It doesn't, and you wrote it.

If you learn the alphabet, the consonant classes, and the tone rules, you can work out and apply the correct tone to any syllable. Otherwise you have to learn the correct pronunciation of every Thai word you encounter. Sure, it can be laborious, but it speeds up with practice.

Because, as I said, in order to write Thai, you need to know how a word is spelt. Sounds obvious, but there are many consonants (s, p, t, f, h, for instance) that have different characters. So 's' could be one of 3 or 4 different characters. Not simple at all. You'd need to memorise the spelling of each word in order to write it. With reading, it's there in front of you.

Just have to add, anticipation is key to defensive driving. If you assume that the guy in front of you is liable to chuck a left or right without any warning at any moment, just hang back that extra 5 m. Might save your life. And watch for the mobile phone user. Erratic braking and steering as they look up and down from their screens.

Not really cannabis related, but I met several girls in Nana back about 10 years ago, who were adept at putting me out like a light. Trouble is, they never hung around so I could ask them what it was when I woke up. Or reclaim my lost belongings.

I'll take the 5th on that one.

I've got a framed very ornate certificate hanging over my work desk at home thanking me for my ongoing support for the families of immigration officers over the years. I never got one from the bank. A little grease goes a long way.

81? Are you mad?

Writing Thai is a near impossible task for me. With multiple versions of a variety of consonants, you'd have to learn every word. But reading Thai has numerous benefits. It teaches you pronunciation and spelling irregularities in the language, of which there are many. You can practice your tones, and just have fun with anglicisation. And find your way round without needing English translations. And really start to understand the language.

Yeah, but nothing like what they quoted me which is what spurred my comments. Why quote Tuesday when the funds arrived Friday, after a huge amount of complaining from me? That's not a service of any description. And you'll always get a percentage of respondents with "always worked well for me", akin to "nobody else has complained".

Update! The money arrived in my Wise £ account yesterday at 1622. Men. It can be done!

I didn't see structured as an option when I was there, until the very last. Then I noticed classes reading and writing Thai. Without that, all disciplines, just forget it. You'll learn more out and about. Most of the useful phrases I learnt came from every day situations. Like "I'll think about it". "Can't think". "Too much hassle". But I haven't progressed beyond that probably through living in Pattaya.