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A few days ago, I looked at an Associated Press article about the rising price of coffee in the US, and I was shocked by the opening sentence in which a woman laments the fact that she can no longer afford to go to McDonald's in the morning and buy a cup of coffee - to which she used to add ten lots of sugar and five lots of cream. What was equally shocking was the fact that the writer made no comment about this behavior. The rising cost of coffee force some to give up their brew | AP News

It certainly hasn't been in mine.

My wife has been putting toothpaste on my toothbrush for the past 40 years, but it is always too small an amount. As I appreciate the gesture, I have never said anything.

During a 'No Kings' protest in Washington, D.C., a speaker said, 'Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant, the grandson of an immigrant, and is married to an immigrant. In fact, two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.' And Margery Taylor Greene wrote, 'I am not towing the party line.'

When articles about the Thai education system appear on this website, the stories are followed by mockery and worse. However, the article below suggests that American members ought to think twice before commenting. https://fortune.com/2025/10/10/pepsico-lays-rebrand-consumers-didnt-know-made-of-potatoes/

I just looked at the website and i was surprised to see that Immigration Division 3 is missing from the list. So it is not possible to make an appointment in Hua Hin.

Fake astronaut scams OAP telling her 'I'm stuck in space, send me money for oxygen'

The Drudge Report listed this clever headline yesterday: Vax Quack Lacks Facts.

As Lyndon Johnson is supposed to have said, "Better to have him on the inside pissing out than on the outside pissing in."

Many years ago, my wife wanted to demonstrate how well her grandsons, who were then about ten and twelve, spoke English. The boys went to a private school and they showed me a chapter from their English textbook which they had just finished studying. It was titled, 'The duties of the clergy and the laity during Buddhist Lent,' and they had memorized it. But they didn't understand a word and neither did my wife, who had learnt English while working for the US air force in Nakhon Phanom during the Vietnam War. When I tested the boys' spoken English, all that they could say was, 'HellohowareyouIamfinethanks,' as though it were a single word.

The 'Daily Beast's' website today has a story about Prince A's visit to Thailand in 2006 when he demonstrated that he deserves to be known as Randy Andy. https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-new-details-on-prince-andrews-thai-orgies-expose-his-corrupt-abuse-of-power-for-sex/

I seem to remember that, decades ago, Ramkhamhaeng University faced criticism for proving easy qualifications for members of parliament - or is my memory at fault?

Sorry. I meant to say that I found it one month later.

A few years ago, I bought a small Cubic loaf for about 80 or 90 baht in Tops in Rangsit. The packet, containing one slice, got pushed to the back of the refrigerator and it was still as soft as the day I bought it. So, no more Cubic for me.

My last order for Arabica beans was about 30% more expensive than the price three months before.