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Just your opinion. I love 7/11 toasted ham and cheese for the taste and because I often had just 20 minutes break at lunch time between uni lectures and student appointments for extra explanations. Worked well, luckily a big 7/11 right t the uni gates and just 2 minutes from my classroom.

Reminds me of a story some time back. The son of a major bookseller met a new GF, son convinced his father to give his new GF a job in one of their big bookstores with big daily sales. Day 1: New gf sold big piles of expensive books and some sales involving 10, 20 + copies of each book. She had privately convinced many buyers that she could give them a big discount if they paid cash. None of the cash went into the cash drawer. She went home that night with several hundred thousand Baht cash in her bag. She didn't come back day 2 and the new bf couldn't contact her. Discovered later she had very quickly moved out to the other side of Bkk with her family. Son and his father highly embarrassed, they took no action, preferring to let the matter die a quick death.

But if Kamala had won, would trump have respected the democratic process / the election process? Very very doubtful, it would have been a repeat of 'they stole the election / they rigged the counting machines' etc.

Best check the your facts because you're not correct.

Who is 'you'?

NO, I wrap the note(s) in christmas paper first.

Total rubbish. There's hundreds of millions of people world wide (who are not fools and many would object to you using this word) who are very happy for their elected gov't to organize quality equal health care for all close to no charge. Same for quality equal education. Many are quite happy with the share the wealth aspect of this subject / support and care for each other.

What is a DWP certificate?

Not always true. If the foreigners is a lifetime permanent resident of Thailand the foreigner is recorded in the dark blue covered Tabien Baan book.

Unless you have lifetime driving licenses (both car and m/cycle), but unfortunately no longer available. Lifetime licenses stopped more than 30 years ago. My licenses were issued at Rayong, process almost completed, suddenly the officer said, in good English 'will you live in Thailand for a long time?'I responded 'Yes', he continued 'do you want lifetime licenses?' I didn't know they even existed. I quickly responded 'yes please', 10 minutes later I walked out with a car and a m/cycle lifetime licenses.

Searching for negatives... Perhaps the local 7/11 management (CP the franchise holder for Thailand), or perhaps the parent company / the ultimate owner of the brand, in Japan, which is quite active to explore any activity which might cause an issue and fix it by instructing the local franchise holder to take a specific action have already realized this could be an issue and have taken. And keep in mind that the brand owner (in Japan) have every right to insist and they do insist that franchise holders follow master instructions promptly. CP in Thailand have way too much to lose by failing to follow the rules / regulations/ dictates specified in the franchise agreement. Another point, if the franchise was withdrawn from CP there's several other local Thai operators who could / would apply instantly to take over the franchise and be well capable of success. On the other side of the coin it's well known that the 7/11 brand owner in Japan do continuous monitoring of franchise holders regarding : 1). revenues etc., (brand owner gets %) and 2). totally following the very detailed rules in the franchise document, have arrangements in place to very quickly replace a franchise holder (small or big) if needed. Like similar brand owners they have regional teams across the world to check everything. It's very possible the Thai lady / man just before you in the queue at the cashier point is actually a plainclothes 'secret shopper' who goes outside and on a tablet streamed to Tokyo instantly completed a very comprehensive survey. Also possible the secret shopper will cause an accident to happen and get abusive or whatever and report the response to Tokyo.

I'm not aware that this is a regular problem. Have other members seen this before? Who creates the 'ticket' that is slipped into the clear plastic holder on the shelf? At 7/11 it's always printed by a machine (not hand written), so I'm guessing the data to create the small ticket (with barcode and price) for the shelf comes from a main database (the 7/11 franchise for Thailand is held by CP, their systems are very modern and very sophisticated). I'm guessing that after the cashier has scanned the barcode on the actual product presented by the customer at the cashier point, the price then goes into the cash register for the creation of a total to be paid by the customer. In other words the data for each item for building a total price comes from the main database, the same database used to create the small ticket shown on the shelf. How can they be different?

I have used used Samsung Android phones forever. I have no difficulty to get into Mygov, the 'code' appears quickly in my messages on my Samsun phone, entered on my notebook, sign in complete.

I wonder how many Thai folks cannot work from home? e.g. staff at 7/11, supermarkets, hypermarkets, many government offices which require citizens to come to the office to do many transactions, and more ...

ABOVE: "Surely forcing them to remain part of socialist Denmark, against their will, would be more "Putin" like?" Strange comment: a google search says that the danes are quite happy with their lot and in fact like the socialist aspects of the way things work. And who said any change would be against their will?

All pointing to the reality of Thai family life where most parents don't talk a lot to their kids. E.g. My Thai son often brought 1 or 4 uni buddies home to our very large condo in Bkk to do team case studies. If I was home my son (rugby player, perfect English) would come immediately to me and give me a kiss on he cheek, as he had done all his life with me and his Thai mother. Often I noticed the other uni boys seeing me son kiss me on the cheek and a bit surprised. Then my son would chat to me for 15 minutes while we made a big plunger of coffee for all. Many times my son and his buddies had planned an all day session / 4 hr session etc., so i would go outside and buy a lot of fresh noodle dishes and more, bring it home and put all the bowls on the big table where they are working. Several times I overheard one of son's uni buddies whisper to my son "xxxx do you talk to your father?' He would respond 'yes of course!' Also often enough they weren't sure which way to go in a case study. My son would sometimes say 'Dad, please sit down and give us some advice. he would explain the case study / the point at hand in English, doing Thai translation as he proceeded. I would respond with some options and giving reasons for each option. My son had ben to the homes of several of his class / team buddies and had mentioned to me. 'My friends are shocked that we (son and me) talk and discuss, at their homes they give a polite greeting to their fathers but nothing more'. The point, They don't learn right / wrong, etc., at home.

Adoption as a single parent (M or F) is also legal in Thailand, has been all along.

Do you still have to register and wait for about 24 hrs before you can access the free wifi?

Did you ask about membership?

OK, but I have a Thai son, married and 4 kids. So I feel obliged to watch what's happening and if needed a couple of time I've mentioned my worries to my Thai son. Each time I quickly discovered my son concerned about the same item(s).

Also unfortunately in the picture, the policeman who was killed was a no-name / long-time / low ranker. Sad.

How sweet is that...

My Thai will bequeaths everything to my Thai son. For several decades whenever we opened a new bank savings account: - it was with the same bank and was specifically set up as: - a joint savings - either party can sign.

You think that will force head men to take action? Think again, the big players would make mince meat of any head man who tried to get tough. This is LOS.

Wrong country. Baht doesn't smell of curry.