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My notification was just approved after 5 days in pending status. Checked earlier in the day and it was still pending. Not sure but it seems if I apply online at the beginning of the application interval I get approved. If I wait until I get the notice from immigration I don't get approved online. I am relieved cuz I figured if it didn't get approved before Songkran started I would not get approved online.

So since you say "still" I think you correctly attribute some mask wearing to COVID precautions. But before COVID Thai people would wear masks if they had a cold to prevent giving it to others. I notice a high proportion of taxi drivers seem to wear masks, I guess in the confined space of a taxi and being exposed to a lot of people each day it makes sense.

Good call.

Alex Jones supporter? When you look up can you see contempt?

I object to a 77 year old man being characterized as "elderly". I consider a man age 77 to be best described as "in the prime of life".

Stalinization of the USA. Watch this space for show trials. Although these filings mean little, a law firm asking for criminal investigations. Meh.

Homophobic are you?

Same here. I use Foodpanda frequently, 3 times a week at least. No problems, even sometimes do the scheduled delivery so it gets delivered about the same time I get home from work. Works great. I seldom use Grab just because Foodpanda is more convenient ordering on laptop.

In videos theses troggs are heard pleading "It's a Prank, It's a prank!" as they get their lights punched out. Creeps.

'hearing an American news reader saying " Unalived him " instead of " killing him ".' Have never heard that one, obviously dumb. But I am skeptical, where did you hear that, a news reader or a YouTuber?

In June of 2023 I decided to try an Android because replacing an iPhone was expensive. I struggled with using the Android and put it down to lack of familiarity. I kept using it and found it difficult to use even after a period of learning. After about 18 months I decided it was just inferior in design and went out and bought an iPhone. Expensive but designed to be easy to use, just a better phone. I think Steve Jobs once said he wanted Apple tech products to be as easy to use a toaster, that is maybe a key, having ease of use as a goal. So happy to be using an iPhone again in spite of the expense.

Non-citizens working in the US may need to have a Social Security Number. The US workforce is around 170 million individuals. So this (2024 figure) represents 1.2% of workers in the US being non-citizens. Clutch your pearls if you must but this is no scandal. This is simple arithmetic, don't even need anything beyond finding a percentage to evaluate this info, but apparently beyond the modest abilities of the OP. Significant numbers of those workers are technically educated and take jobs that the kind of innumerates who think this is a scandal cannot do. (because I know my audience here at AN: Innumerate: a person lacking basic knowledge of mathematics and arithmetic.)

Wow. Hold the presses, front page news.

I doubt it with respect to TOPS. TOPS gives a 5% "expat discount" to Americans.

Seems like the wrong thread to take this side of the argument when the foreigner was clearly the aggressor here.

Exactly what I was thinking, overgrown bullyboy. Picks a fight when he has a 50 kg weight advantage. Coward. Hope he gets it in the rear without a kiss.

Hilarious. Funny story and a harmless gag and clever promotion! Sadly on AN the bitter old geezers trot out their over-used complaints about airline seats and cost to healthcare systems blah blah blah, instead of enjoying a funny story,

I am closest to Pattaya Oldboy but... He is not quite fat enough to represent me. I don't wear sleeveless shirts/tank tops/vests (whatever they are called) nor walk around with my shirt open. Both of these for humanitarian reasons so decent people don't have to see my fat self. I don't drink for 30 plus years so the beer bottle doesn't fit. I don't live in Pattaya, and I don't live in a tourist area, I live in an eastern suburb of Bangkok. Not sure what the ATM is meant to represent, I do use an ATM rather than going in to the bank. I am a contributing member to the Thai economy working full-time for a Thai company. My leisure time outfit is very close to Pattaya Oldboy's. I favor tropical patterned shirts purchased at Fatboy's in Pratunam. Tevas rather than flip-flops. I basically never wear long pants outside of work, too hot for anything but shorts for me. I have the solar panel for a love machine on my head, often mistaken for ordinary baldness. If Pattaya Old Boy robs a 7-11, I might get put in the lineup. As Popeye the Sailorman said "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam".

"Patriotic American men" especially if they are butch right Yagoda? Sorry, I shouldn't say "butch", I should say "masculine".

I have my doubts about Thais and the Buddhist way of thinking. In my experience Thais are as inattentive as Christians as far as theological/philosophical concepts. I've asked Thais about the nature of different Buddhist holidays and get a blank look and answer "it's Buddha day". "Everything is fate", my impression is the average Buddhist thinks about that about as much as the average "Christian" thinks about the difference between the Protestant and Catholic theology of the eucharist. In other words, not at all.

I don't know the answer to that. But how about this, would you like to live without GPS? (Although admittedly many Bangkok taxi drivers live without GPS.)

Certainly a failure on the part of the motorcycle rider isn't it? He struck the truck.

27 amendments including the first 10 which were approved immediately. So 17 over the life of the nation, hardly constantly. If you look into the procedure for amending you will see that it is in fact a big deal and not easily done. More difficult now with 50 states than it was with fewer states.

Totally ... neutral?