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Huge hotel? Well, the name should have been enough for AN habitués to mention. "Lek lek' means 'Very small' in Thai.

I'm actually surprised. 87M฿ is not a huge amount. Roughly AUD3.6M. There would be many Westerners living here who are worth more than that. Would like to see Prayut's numbers too.

B/sht

I think of it as the cognitive machinery which converts an input of questions/problems/issues into an output of answers/solutions/actions. The quality of the machinery is measured by the success of the outputs. One of the characteristics of the process is its abstraction ie the capacity to think of practical problems in abstract ways. This allows you to manipulate the problem, approaching it from different angles and trying out different possible solutions - all done inside your head. How that turns into proclamations like 'The average IQ of Americans is 102.3' is beyond my machinery's capacity to understand.

However designated, it is a common disease in Thailand as in many other tropical countries.

Exactly my experience.

Of course, but this is about the decision to 'come out'.

Quelle surprise!

We had a house burglary once 2 or 3 years ago (no cameras - since installed). Police were pleasant and helpful, particularly after my b/f made a donation to the social club. They had a fair idea who it was - doing the rounds, yet again - and they turned up with him at our house 3 or 4 days later for a reenactment. Salutes all round at the end, and the English-speaking one gave me his phone no. to call if any problems in future. Can't complain.

Thai culture loves complexity and ambiguity ie lots of wriggle room. So why clarify things?

Falang Superiority Syndrome.

Not many gay Palestinians in Gaza or West Bank. Mostly in Haifa.

I gather there are more firearms per capita in Thailand than in Usofa ...

Lots of middle-aged and elderly couples might have a different view, I think. Sexual activity tends to diminish in most - but not all - people with age, so sexless marriages are quite common. But they're still more than friends, a couple who sleep together and enjoy a cuddle on a cold winter's night ...

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Well at least here they don't need the government to broadcast (as I gather they do in the UK in hot weather) messages for old people reminding them to turn off the heater.

I didn't 'come out' to the world - as opposed to my closest friends (all 'straight') - until I was 62 and had just fallen in love with my Thai Khmer boy to whom I have now been officially 'partnered' for 10 years. Everyone to whom (in Canberra) I announced the glad tidings behaved as though (yawn) they had 'known' since forever. All fine. But they didn't feel the need to talk about it. When I finally took my boy to Canberra for a few months to meet everyone and to live (we thought permanently), he was overwhelmed by how warm everyone was. And everyone wanted to meet him. Middle-aged beautifully dressed dowagers at evening gatherings would kiss him on both cheeks. If you could have seen through his darkish skin he would have been blushing as well as giggling ...

Can't do that. The 'Old' Senate will continue to sit even after its time is up in May, until the 'New' Senate is voted & appointed under the Junta's Constitution. Or, to put it more bluntly, changes to the rules can be worked up and voted on only under the no-change rules.

Stalling action revving up.

Load of rubbish.

And pigs might fly. The GG has no powers whatever in the matter (nor any other matter except as advised to him by the Australian Government). He will have merely nodded politely when the Thai PM raised the matter.

My understanding (but I - or anyone else - may be wrong) is that the new Senate will be only 200 seats, not 250. The basic problem in all of this is that, to change the Constitution, you have to use the provisions of the current Constitution as devised by the fascist puppets. If you want to maintain the façade of law-obeying conformity, you don't have any other way of attempting to move forward. In other words, your feet are stuck in glue before you even begin.

Hillary making her run for Veep under Biden, then successor as Pres when he keels over a year or so later. 😀 Stranger things have happened.

Yes, laughable really. And has that common Thai characteristic: Complicated to the nth degree. The thing about complexity - as for example in the drafting and interpreting of Thai laws - is that it gives the stringpullers and the lawbreakers wriggle room.

Why isn't this item entitled "US Social Security chief ... " so that people can know which country the item relates to before they decide whether to bother or not?