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A rightwing Black person? Oh no, how will we cope? (Well, I think Maggie Thatcher would have been cheering her on.)

In a rational world there would be 2 debates: One at a time and place proposed by Trump, and one at a time and place proposed by Harris. But I was often accused of being too rational during my career as a Federal public servant in Oz.

I've had a b/f since 2012 and we've been trying to have a baby but somehow we don't seem to have managed.

We've had full house insurance since we built in 2016/17. Arranged thru BKK Bank. Never a problem for the 2 or 3 small claims we've made. No suggestion of scepticism or being difficult on their part. Helped no doubt by being good bank customers known to be 'rich'. Much the same as the car insurance where we've made 2 or 3 rather larger claims. Having said that, Thais clearly have a problem with the concept of risk. You see that every day of the year on the roads, including eg crossroads or intersections with blind spots. Only AFTER a death do they rush to fix the problem (See! No ploblem. Noone die). Every year when it comes time to pay the house insurance premium I have the same argument with b/f: "House not burn down".

Just like the politicians that WE elect to run the country, so in Western democracies we employ the police to do the jobs that need doing but that we don't want to do and are incapable of doing. In both cases - politicians & police - we then spend a great deal of time whining and grizzling about them, accusing them of being corrupt and incompetent. In which case why did we elect THOSE particular people? and why don't WE try doing the cops' jobs instead?

In sum, with Trump anything is possible.

Just to keep everyone happy, Baht is FALLING STRONGLY today - against USD and thus also AUD & £.

Everyone knew. Not a secret. These are Thai peasant boys. Half of them were gay-for-pay. That's how they made ends meet (so to speak).

My mumbled one- and two-word attempts are greeted by my family with cheerful understanding (giggle giggle). Anything beyond that would be beyond either them or me. But I am resolved - once I've finished improving my Cherman and teaching myself to read Spanish literature fluently - to take up Thai seriously before I reach 80. 5 years to go.

Things must be bad if people think that Prayut & Fatty were better!

Thais need to learn that, if you want smoother entries, you have to make smoother exits.

Yes, my b/f served finger food to the highest in the land (well, actually the second highest). And minded the colonel's dog and cut the hair of his platoon. He also tells me the conscripts have to pay for their own uniforms. All of which is somewhere between amusing and appalling but I must say - for an uneducated illiterate peasant boy who spoke Khmer as his first language, peasant Thai as his second - this was all for him a great eye-opener & an education in itself. He still knows all the shortcuts thru hotel lobbies and other people's backyards whenever we're in Bangers. And he met the love of his life and now speaks OK English ...

Utterly disgusting. A pity the conscripts don't go on strike. That would certainly give the Powers a shock ... Back in the day (12 years ago) my b/f used to climb out over the barracks walls at midnight in BKK in search of food (and other moneymaking adventures) ...

Fingers crossed.

Send in the Israelis, they'll fix it. Probably working on it this very minute.

Which (if true) says a great deal about what younger generations put in their mouths and what they don't do by way of daily exercise.

2 down, 99998 to go.

But unfortunately it does, and particularly in the Greatest Nation on Earth.

Oh rilly? How did you work that out? (Her mother was Indian; her father is Jamaican Black.)

The thing about Srettha is that he has at least the appearance of NORMALCY. Something which Thailand could do with large doses of.

As pointed out above, RTAF already has (aging, I assume) Gripens & F16s, so either way reconversion will be necessary.

Yes, they would be wise to walk away from it. Security aspects vis-à-vis China impossible to manage. The Gripen is supposed to be pretty good (though for what that's relevant to Thailand?) and probably cheaper than the F16 variant.

Mmmm, wonder what's involved in that.

The early trend is somewhat towards Harris. The question is: Is that just a late starter's bump? or is it the beginning of a steady trend that delivers victory to her? Early days. Anything can happen and - this being Usofa - it probably will.

Monies to maintain the vehicle have - over many years, I suspect - disappeared in to certain pockets. Whence they can only with great difficulty be extracted.