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Over the years there have indeed been many stories of things going very very wrong very very quickly for some people. whilst in many cases people only have themselves to blame, there is no shortage of innocent people who have become the victims of circumstances and ended up "up to their neck " in the brown stuff Never say never, It might not have happened to you, but that does not mean that it never will, or that it has never happened to anybody else. The police may well have helped you previously, but their services can be bought and as such their assistance cannot be taken for granted to the extent that it might be in one's country of origin ,

I don't think that its only foreigners who suffer in that respect , Nobody really has any "rights" here, it all depends on who you know, Even as a foreigner, knowing the right people or having the right connections can make all the difference

"Don't eat with food in your mouth," are you sure that is what she told you?

No need for anybody to panic themselves, there will be no shortage of experts with charts and statistics along shortly , with the sole intention of doing just that.

good question, I hadn't thought of that. Joking aside I find this all rather worrying, not the disease itself , but the media's predictable response. I'm in the UK at the moment and its already getting plenty of coverage on the news. Various "experts" are emerging, there is already plenty of talk about vaccines, and apparently various health authorities are "preparing", presumably for " the worst" following advice from the WHO. One "expert" gloomily seizing the opportunity to remind us that lockdowns are most effective when enforced quickly and strictly enforced All we need is a government spokesman to utter the phrase "no need to panic" and there will be fist fights over toilet rolls in supermarket carparks again

So now its called "M Pox" because apparently "monkey pox" is considered to be "racist" I wonder about the thought process that led to that decision. are we really concerned with offending monkeys ?

British taxpayers who would never be allowed to live in one, then the locals start moving out one by one Lo and behold another ghetto / no go area is born

but its not just Nigel Farage or the "far right" is it ? https://www.gbnews.com/news/uk-riots-ex-cop-says-two-tier-policing-certainly-exists-and-officers-walk-on-eggshells

it's not the police that the uk population have lost confidence in, it's the politicians ! Any shortcomings in the police are the direct result of political intervention, and as every cop above the rank of police inspector is effectively a politician the rank and file cops are in a difficult position. It was so much easier for them (and us) when they were allowed to hate everybody equally, now all that hate still has to be shared out amongst the criminal classes, but as certain elements of that community are now protected, it means that the others must now take a little bit more on board

I gathered that, i was referring to them threatening not to approve your next application, on what basis ? "over seasoned funds"? never heard of that one

I can't see why it would be, as long as the money has been there for at least two months the requirement has been satisfied surely ? it maybe some sort of misunderstanding between your missis and the IO. What would be their (official) reason for denying your application?

Whats wrong with me ?? it's you that appears to have anxiety issues , There was no shortage of people using covid rumours to "share" their fears on here a few years back. Some people seem to have a need for others to share their fears, but then again..... Some also seem to enjoy doing just that

then then So for reasons known only to yourself you actually are trying to frighten people

And normally there is nothing like a topic like this to bring out the virtue signalling woke But your battle cry appears to have landed on deaf ears,They must all be busy taking offence somewhere else, Somewhere more worthy perhaps? You would probably be better off joining them , if you haven't already, afterall , virtue signalling is a group participation activity, It won't be much fun for you on your own

in english ?

I doubt much would happen in the UK. where it's quite normal for a political party to promise the electorate many things secure an election victory and then having secured victory they then break every promise they make. Its really not that different to the scenario Bob mentions in the OP.

I had a dream the other week, I dreamt I had returned to Thailand from the UK and accidently brought somebody else's debit card rather than my own, luckily it belonged to a trusted friend and was for a UK account that he rarely used. The simplest way we could think of to get me instant access to much needed cash was for him to tell me the PIN code and for me to use the card for ATM with drawls in Thailand as if it was my own, whilst funding the account appropriately from my own UK account via internet banking. All was going well until an ATM at a 7/11 swallowed my card , at which point I woke up!

I didn't think about facebook, etc. probably because I never use any of those platforms, My mrs, who's default setting amongst friends and family is generally set to Khmer only ever posts in Thai, as do all her khmer speaking mates, probably because they all have non khmer speaking friends who would have no idea what they were saying, Unlike Issan Lao t here is no similarity at all between Thai and Khmer The Khmer speakers also had Thai imposed on them, my mrs tells me that they would get their knuckles rapped if they were heard speaking it at school. I guess it makes sense that everybody in a country the size of Thailand should have a common language, but in my view Its almost bit sad when a language dies out. I guess somebody agrees, because these days it seems to be be almost quite fashionable to speak Khmer in southern issan, some schools even advertising that they teach it, but I'm not sure if they teach the Thai or Cambodian version There are a few road signs and other notices written in Khmer script around Surin , but they are for the benefit of the many Cambodian nationals who come and go on a daily basis often to visit the hospitals or supermarkets. We have been to Cambodia many times, my mrs can make her self understood in "Real" khmer and gets the jist of what they are saying but only just, but I think her shyness is a serious hinderance, fortunately for me many speak good english and many seem to understand Thai The khmer script to me appears unreadable.

I've noticed sometimes the site can have problems loading up, Its working for me at the moment

When would you need to write "issan Lao" ? the only possible reason I could think of was for writing the lyrics for a Morlam song or maybe writing the script for the slap stick comedy show that normally accompanies the live performance of such. Surely , as you say, it would be a transliteration, and there is no official dictionary so the spelling would be somewhat arbitrary at best, similar to Isan , Issan , Isarn, Esarn if you get my drift. I live in a village in Surin province only small but with three distinct sectors divided by language There's the Issan Lao speakers, The Khmer speakers and Suaii speakers. I don't think the Suai language has ever been written, None of the Khmer speakers can read or write Cambodian and as the Surin Khmer "language" differs significantly to that spoken in Cambodia I doubt the Khmer alphabet would be much use to them even if they could. The Khmer spoken here differs from province to province, and can differ from village to village The only examples of transliterated written Thai Khmer I have ever seen is on Kantreum and Jarieng music videos The same goes for written issan lao. I only ever saw it on Morlam videos as far as I can remember The number in the village speaking Khmer seems to be dying out slowly, For my Inlaws at 80 years old it is there normal day to day language although they both speak and read / write Thai It's strange seeing them watch the news in Thai and then talking about it in Khmer My mrs and her siblings nearly always speak Khmer with their parents and seem to speak either with each other swapping and changing at will, sometimes mid sentence I often hear one asking something in Thai and the other replying in Khmer. They are all capable of speaking Issan Lao to the neighbours when req'd None of the next generation in the family speak Khmer to any degree but I do hear them use the occasional Khmer words They seem to use Issan Lao a lot more, possibly as its closer to "Thai" than Khmer Unfortunately when I'm there they need to speak Thai to me if they want to have any chance of being understood, My Khmer is pretty much non existent and since I left KhonKaen around 20 years ago I have pretty much forgotten the little issan lao I ever knew

Attitude comes into it as well, the older people get the more they end up almost fighting the language, "why do they say it like that" "why do they say things the wrong way round" sort of thing

Meanwhile back in the UK We may end up with the political party that we vote for BUT, there is no obligation for that party to follow their pre election manifesto, they can and will, just do what they want . Same Same but different?

"transactions via mobile banking" so that would imply its just the app

Well that is one of life's mysteries, Similar to "why do we rarely see dead rats or pigeons" or "what do immigration do with all the copies we give them" In this case she probably just got carried away on her mobile phone and lost track of time, or was it time to "gin khao" and she didn't tell you she was going to lunch

That's good to know, Its years since I called the UK. I'm sure it was a lot more expensive than that