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Personally, I would want to keep the physical licence. It's nice to have as a form of ID, and apps/phones are notorious for not working when you need them. Unless they maybe want people to have a physical print out of the QR code and the police scan it? But then you might as well just stick with physical licences. I assume you would still have to go through the rest of the palaver for getting the licence, you simply don't end up with a physical licence at the end. Seems like a bad idea and will only make things more difficult.

They're not that stupid, surely... 🙄

I'll take bash at it... I was using the DLT app for about three years and never took my physical licence with me. Then, about six months ago, I could no longer access my driving licence through the app. I tried to upload a copy of my new licence, but the app would not allow it. It seem to only foreigners who are unable to access the full range of uses from the DLT app, as my Thai girlfriend is easily able to access it on her phone. Anyone can download the app from the Appstore, but you need your phone to be registered in Thailand. (I took a guess that maybe "handy" means handset. 🤷‍♂️)

Because people in middle management positions constantly need to come up with non-working solutions to non-problems, in order to try to justify the existence of their job, and everyone else suffers as a result.

It's funny you should say that. By some accounts he wasn't actually that nice a person.

It's amazing how often you see guys being women's emotional punching bags. Really sad to see. I think, unlike Thailand, Western society is set up in such a way that if a man is unmarried or divorced, he's kind of an outcast. Men are often scared to leave their wives, even when they treat them like garbage. They even seem to end up having their friends cut out of their lives. It's not a million miles away from what would be an abusive relationship if the genders were reversed, but it's kind of normalised for men.

I think it's not that they are more accepting, they just don't feel the need to be around their partners all the time. Thai people don't seem like Westerners, who want to be madly in love and joined at the hip. Often they don't seem to even really love their partners, it's more like a business arrangement (how else could there be so much semi-open cheating?). It's not unusual for parents and kids to live pretty much independently and in different locations. As long as the flow of money doesn't stop, no problem. It's quite common for Thai adults to still hang out with friends like we do when we're teens, for a big portion of their adult life. They are also able to act like best friends with people they hardly know. Easy come, easy go. Thai people simply view relationships completely differently to us.

As long as they come to the conclusion that all rulers of the past did really bad things, and not just single out White people, while pretending that non-White people never did anything wrong.

If it's that cut and dry, then the OP really shouldn't need all this "You either say what we tell you to say, or you're siding with the enemy" propaganda nonsense.

Unfortunately, some less scrupulous women can try to get the best of both worlds. Anything they can get from Western traditions, plus what they can get from their own. I've even seen posts on Facebook where women defend sin sod while trying to make out they're modern progressive feminist types. My response would be something like: "Oh, you like the tradition where the man gives you money, but you don't like the tradition where the woman cooks and cleans? How surprising!"

No idea, but I can see these left-wing "If you don't say what we want you to say, then we're going to claim that that means you're saying something else" blackmail tactics a mile off. Pretty sad. Really nasty witch-hunt style stuff.

Why? It seems to report the facts fairly well.

First night?

Lol. "Trump wants Russia to win the war with Ukraine. Don't vote for him." Nice political propaganda... 🙄

Do they even use engagement rings normally in Thailand?

If it's purely financial and she genuinely says "You pay me or I go!", then I guess you might think about that when she starts to get less attractive, if you think your money can get you more. If it isn't a purely financial arrangement, then it depends how attached you are to her and what you think of the commitment you made to her (and what assets you stand to lose). You might want to think about kids, mutual friends, lifestyle, etc. also. It's likely that most women would be playing some form of long game, or, if charging by the month, they would expect a much higher price. They're not stupid. You give them the money now, or they are guaranteed the money when you die.

A colourful façade hiding the true state of things.

Did he ramble on endlessly about nothing also?

The link below explains it a little, I think. I remember hearing something somewhere about the concept of poor people never having anything so they don't really think about things in a long-term way. I guess because they aren't used to getting anything good through waiting (or at all) because they're deprived, so they don't do delayed gratification well. I think maybe it was that they were so used to not having anything, the idea that they might have something in the future, through waiting, was kind of a foreign concept. It was more to do with money, but I guess time could be thought of in the same way. It's all about waiting. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/21/linda-tirado-poverty-hand-to-mouth-extract

As far as I know "McCarthyism" was an anti-communism thing. As we all know how harmful communism is, I don't see why anyone would be against McCarthyism, new or old.

England has the NHS. That's one of the reasons that the story is a little fishy.

Not only that, but we come from places where there is very strict law enforcement on roads, as well as learned social responsivity due to stigmatisation of bad/dangerous driving.

She saw a space and filled it. She probably didn't think he would move back into it. The guy likely didn't even see her. But she thinks he should take responsibility for her error! Filtering is very risky. Thais seem to behave like motorcyclists have their own little private lane in-between each lane on the road. They don't.

Just because he hit her, doesn't mean it is his fault. From her description, it sounds like he was still in his lane, but she decided to filter/lane split into his lane before he had left it, as it looked like he was going to change lanes. If he then decided not to change lanes, and returned to the centre of his lane, while she was in a spot in his lane that he could not see, then it's surely her fault for being in his lane. Filtering and sharing lanes with cars is very dangerous.

I think you mean it would be more accurate. You could do this for most of the article. I'm not sure how these people are so out of touch. I guess it's just racism.