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No doubt a sensible punishment but - from a 'Western' point of view - quite peculiar. No end to Thai inventiveness.

RTN is not the RTA. Says it all.

Starting to show his age but.

Always a sign of desperation: Good PR, zero effect.

But annual preparation 2 months in advance (clearing khlongs, for instance) wouldn't require AI at all.

Yes, that's my experience but of course much depends on where you live and what your connections are. I live here in south Surin amongst the poor uneducated iliiterate Khmers who are my b/f's family and village. What I always notice is that getting along with sisters & nieces is easier than with brothers & nephews even though I see the men now more often than the women. In particular the men who are not so close to my b/f (cousins, inlaws, uncles) will always lower their head when I'm around and not 'see' me. I interpret this as the usual problem of status: Not sure where I fit in the scheme of things, don't know whether to wai or wait for me to do so, and therefore best to ignore (which - given that I've had some 12 years of being around & paying regular (FIL & MIL) & irregular (health) bills for everyone - I find a little irritating.) Even ignoring the language barrier, there's no possibility of having a conversation on any subject because they simply know nothing outside of the village & local agriculture ...

But Kiwis used to be such NAICE people! (I was one once, then I became an Aussie but still naice.)

Yes, ditto.

I had a similar experience with Wise Australia about 2 or 3 weeks ago. When I pressed the Funds for long stay in TH button, nothing happened & I couldn't get it to work. So I reported the glitch to Wise via the problem-reporting item, and it was fixed in 2 hours. They specifically said it was a problem at their end.

So you need to ring or email Wise in Canada. Is it a change or just a glitch ... ?

But I haven't died either.

Well there's another one I didn't know. Golly how one's linguistic capacities expand by reading AN!

A new meaning of the word 'chopper' for me. In my (antique) version of the English language it's a helicopter ...

The PM (the current one) is wearing one of my shirts. My respect for him has just risen a little. Always thought he wasn't a bad guy, struggling against the odds ...

Sooner the better.

You get what you pay for.

Ah yes, those mysterious people who pull every string and manipulate every outcome ... The only problem is that noone ever does manage to identify them. (The notion that it's the 2 P generals or the very summit of the triangle strikes me as unrealistic.)

Thaksin certainly looking better without the facemask. A potential PM there, I should think.

Oz seems to manage it.

If at first you don't succeed, try try try again.

Depends what you're interested in.

An interesting way of lifting the skills of Thai workers: Export them to other countries so they can send home their earnings. Thus Sth Korea surges ahead and Thailand picks up the scraps off the floor. What should be a 2- or 3-decades task turns in to a forever-task.

No wonder they're not assisting the Philippines & the US & the Aussies in patrolling the South China Sea. More danger to their friends than the Chinese expansionists.

I'm sure Beijing will be delighted with all these neighbourly activities.

Mmmm, who would you trust least? Trump? Orban? Erdogan? Putin?