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True, It does come and go, and often with long periods of time between 'episodes'.

Just his opinion but I'm looking forward to his sharing/explanation of how he is qualified to have an opinion of this subject.

Is that relevant? You say 'generous DVA pension' (which is just your personal opinion rather than a structured calcualtion from a experience based systematic calculation embraced by experts as suitable and fair). To be honest I'm not interested in your opinion on this point. The DVA Disability pension also embraces many other disabilities; examples; loss of legs, arms, hands or all limbs and other items. By the way have you served in the armed forces? And do you have war service?

Really. I would have throught case file would have quite restricted ccess. Do you have any qualifications to analyse such case files?

".... 15 years with the DVA. I saw psychiatrists approving PTSD claims for people, who as it turned out, never even served in the military, but gave false accounts of witnessing all kinds of atrocities. ...." A bit confusing, please expand.

So how did you get access to read all the case files?

That's a strong assumption. There must be false claims, were dealing with human beings. In terms of PTSD from war service please note that as an example the Australian DVA (Dept., of Veterans Affairs) has much experience and knowledge re PTSD. Other countries also and I'm aware that many countries regularly study what other counties are doing re PTSD and how they assess PTSD. I can tell you that re the Aust. DVA, if a veteran lodges a disability claim saying they have PTSD, their claim is taken very seriously and there's many very well structured long self-assessments and assessments conducted by licensed and experienced physicians (approved by the DVA) and several long structured sessions with qualified and very experienced psychiatrists (approved by the DVA). I've been through this, took many months, I very much doubt 'fakers' would pass.

Actually I'm not American. I suggest that a very large % of Americans have no understanding of / don't want to understand the Social Democratic model of sharing and supporting each other aiming for a good quality of life for all. It seems to me many Americans see Socialism as Communism and that's of course not what, in modern terms, Socialism means. I'm from a solid Social Democrat country. I've lived in a Social Democrat society / discussion all my life. At home my parents attitudes to everything was underpinnned by sharing, equal opportunity and all (of society) supporting each other. This framed my attitudes and values today; sharing, equal opportunity and supporting each other - Social Democrat. Many countries today are Social Democratic and are peaceful, balanced, have a good quality of life, and quality medical care for all at zero to very very small personal cost. It works.

Why do you say it's a 'woke' company?

Question: Is payPal involved somewhere in the process when I use my K+ smartphone app to buy something in Thailand using the QR cade?

Not joking, all correct. The requirements for female and male foreigners are different, always have been.

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Checking is also not a strong point.

Also suggesting that the check if the right body is going out is just skin colour. Wow.

PTSD from military/war events has existed forever and will continue forever, but it's wasn't propery diagnosed/understood until well after WW2. Many soldiers came home from WW1, WW2, the Korean conflict and more with PTSD but nobody knew they had this condition and they didn't speak up (partly because it wasn't yet recognized by the military/governments/the medical profession). I've talked to Australian soliers who saw severe active conflict service in Afghanistan where the conflict environment is diferent (all wars have different conflict environments).These guys have severe PTSD. I was part of a team to talk to/counsel the Afghanistan returnees who were more willing to talk to vets who were also experiencing PTSD (mostly VN vets). Luckily the Afghanistan vets are getting the recognition that their PTSD issues are real and severe. But unfortunately there is no cure for PTSD and probably there never will be.

But plenty of wealthy hi-so men pay the rent for their 'on the side' girl. Could be that her status is not acceptable to the boys family, or it could be he's married to a hi-so woman and lives with her. The exact opposite can also be found, wealthy hi-so women/girls paying the rent and a salary and a gift of expensive motor cycle etc., to a hot boy, expected to be 'at home and ready' whenever she arrives. But he'll never see her family, because he's 'low class'. (What a horrid term!)

Exactly, I've been in that situation on active service in Vietnam. Comes back again and again over 50 years later. Other debilitating experience makes me panic when I can't quickly find my grandchildren in the supermarket, a form of PTSD. Worst exerience of all, in Vietnam supervising the very detailed search of a village proven to be aiding the communist VietCong army. Purpose was to find and destroy any food, ammunition etc and then ensure there were no people, any age, still in the village, then blow up the village. I gave the order to blow up that village. The blown up village then searched again for anything that might aid the enemy. We found the remains of 2 toddlers who had been blown to pieces. How can that situation not create severe trauma and recurring very disturbing graphic memories for the rest of life - PTSD. Nothing whatever to do with being weak, which could be true but that's not PTSD.

Learned a long time ago when a 'very good/very close friend' stole my expensive camera. I didn't suspect him at all but I knew he was the only person who had been in my room. I asked 'did you see my camera?' He acted confused and said no' but with no emotion at all. A day later I accidently bumped into him and his gf in a big store. She had my camera around her neck. I asked to have a look at the 'nice camera', sure enough I identified it was mine because of a scratch. To the side I showed the scratch to my friend and mentioned that I had a photo at home (taken for insurance), showing the same scratch. Later the same evening he came to my room and returned the camera with many apologies. Friendship finished. Since then I have been very careful to ensure all money and valuables are locked away in a safe at all times and ensure nobody even knew that I had a safe, only small amounts of cash in my wallet and never open my wallet in front of friends or anybody in any situation and never share a hotel room.

What about 'slightly pregnant'?

Slowly please... can d jr read and write?

He became a billionaire on the back of rampant capitalism. Now he wants more than capitalism.

More and more he's declining, becoming even more boring and irelevant. With a bit of luck the speed of the decline will accelerate and confine him to the storeroom where the documents he stole are located.

Examples?

It could be that to be acceptable to prove ID the item must have an embedded photo. Tabien Baan books don't include photos.

My red police book does show my full address and when I moved to the current location the polite pleasant and organized policeman (spoke enough English) asked me to complete a 'personal profile sheet' in English, including full address, then asked my Thai son to add the same details in Thai. No interview or similar, all very mechanical. He then started a new folder and sticky taped the 'profile' to the front of the folder then when all complete into a hanging file in his filing cabinet. Then said to my adult Thai son in Thai 'don't forget please, come back in 5 years and bring a new photo'.