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"now the driver has a second “penalty” issue to deal with the taxi cooperative… in addition to the criminal side …" Reality is that it's NOT a taxi cooperative (although the word 'cooperative is on many taxis). It's one owner who owns all the cars for that colour and rents them out by the day.

Agree.

Can you pay Bolt by cash or debit card or bank app in Bkk? Seems that in Chang Mai Bolt only accepts cash. Please share your comments on this

Whether countries should participate / interfere in wars not of their own making / not on their own soil is complex to say the least. To suggest that soldiers who went to these wars (mostly through conscription) are not entitled to claim PTSD, is not valid. "theres not a single British soldier worth his salt who would lose the plot over multicoloured water pistols on a hot summers day." You cannot possibly be in a position to make such a substantive statement. Also, was it specifically 'multicolored water pistols' that triggered his reaction? You don't know the answer to that and neither do I!

Not funny. Your unneeded comment is why so often these experiences are not shared and are carried hidden for decades.

Money, increased wealth, can of course be the driver for anybody including cops and soldiers. Also the glory of the military, it's image to outside militaries, it's internal glorious image can also be a strong driver and especially in families where there is a long history og high ranking soldiers.

Let's please understand there is no standard box that all war vets fit into. My uncles etc., never ever talked about it and as kids we were educated to not ask them questions about the war. And the experiences of war vets can be vastly different according to the 'jobs' and units they belonged to. Some saw horrific incidents, some didn't quite so much. My own experiences include small children being blown to pieces and I was the section leader on a search and destroy mission. The village was very strongly suspected of aiding the viet cong communist army. After many hours of serious very methodical searching everywhere for villagers (because of geneva conventions protecting / non targeting of civilans etc.) and your in an area known to have active well trained communist ruthless special forces, and you have to get on with your orders, I gave the order to blow up the village. After the village was destroyed we searched again as per orders, looking for any equipment, ammunition, packaged food etc., that might have been revealed. We discovered the badly dismembered burned bodies of several adults and children. Enough said.

Been there done that.

You have no idea what yo're talking about. You cannot say "No soldier would ever be triggered by plastic water pistols squirting water, ..." Soldiers are not robots all programmed to think the exact same way.

Very true for many WW2 veterans. I lived in a very well organized war veterans village nth of Sydney until a a couple of years back. A number of the residents were quite young, veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of these vets had very serious issues fearing severe danger around every corner. Especially the Afghanistan vets. I sat with many of these guys, and their wives and we talked slowly for hours, all aimed at getting them back closer to mainstream life with reduced PTSD issues, fears etc. There was some success but their PTSD issues, panic, anxiety, lack of trust weren't gone. The wives always included because there was strong value in educating the wives about what the real combat situations looked like. Also some meetings/discussions with parents for the same reason, always including many examples of what NOT to do/NOT to say at home. I'm a Vietnam war vet. My parents alwas very caring and balanced. I arrived home from VN, the same day my dad said 'on Friday night after work I'm taking you for a camping trip to shoot some roos and rabbits etc.' And he showed me the new rifle he had bought for me. This was the very last thing I wanted to do. In reality I desperately wanted to avoid: - Night driving - Camping with rifles in a small tent - Handling guns / firing guns - See more death. I waited 24 hrs with lots of concerns going through my mind then I told my dad 'I don't wnt to go camping', and I explined why. Dad quickly/deeply realized his plan was less than appropriate and he regreted what he had done and I never ever saw a gun/rifle in our house ever again.

I guess you're meaning WW2. In those days There was little information about the emotional effects of war but is is well recognized that WW2 did suffer PTSD issues. Part of the situation was that thousands of returned soldiers had issues... The governments of the day focused (some countries with OK success some with very little success) on getting their countries back to manufacturing productivity and income. A very mixed bag.

You really think it's that simple? People with PTSP issues want, as far as posible, to have a normal life like eveybody. Staying home isn't the answer and avoiding isn't so easy.

Not so fast. There's many war veterans from the US, Australia and many more countries still having PTSD, panic, anxiety depression issues resulting from combat situations/experiences going back as far as the Vietnam conflict, it's real. Have some respect and compassion.

I bought 2 expensive tickets by post to see the Beatles live in Adelaide. On arrival discovered the hall was massive. Full house. Our booked seats in second last row. Performers on stage looked about the size of ants. Audience went wild with screaming and yelling all the time, couldn't really hear the Beatles singing or their band work. Waste of time and money.

Personal choice.

I'm elderley but in good health. I have one son (born in Thailand), he's married has 3 kids. Good pensions income. Thai will already in place - my son. No need for will in my birth country As far as possible my son already owns everything. All bank accounts in joint names with son, only need one signature. Son has the pin numbers. Only debt I will have on departure is one credit card in my name but I make a payment quickly (same day or next day) equal to anything bought on the card, so balance owing is always very small and for very limited time. All funeral details already well explained and documented - main theme: funeral to cost as little as possible, to ensure all funds are kept for grandchildrens education. No regrets about anything - so far so good.

So did the foreigners ask th very obvious question "Is that 80Baht for one person or 80Baht total for 2 people?"

Yeah by whom, same as roo...

Christian chat group who often talked about their guns... No further comment needed, except 'Why no comment/support from MTG?'

- You're making a lot of assumptions. - You can find older naive folks in many countries who have, over decades, saved large amounts of money.

OK, but if there's a bank employee involved maybe that employee knows how to get access through other databases/processes/procedures etc?

This has happened before. I recall just before a general election perhaps 10 years back the election commissioners complained about the plan agenda. They complained because there's wasn't enough time (on the oficial agenda/schedule) for shopping.

Where does receiving OTP numbers in Thailand (at no charge) fit into this 'plan'.

Nice point. Is this an indication that folks now employed in the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, various police agencies etc., have little hesitation to reveal classified information?

Good question. Nowadays I wonder if this is an indication of a GOP zealot who has no respect for following the known rules of the job / nor the repsonsibilities of the job nor the expected ethics involved in the position they hold and sees gaining something for the partisan politics of trump and the MAGA cause as his driver/objective?