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I too am toying with the idea of getting one in the New Year. A degenerative nerve condition brought on by an injury to my foot is making walking without a stick difficult, and I can't cycle any more. I would really like to know what the useful range on a full charge is - that for me would be the decision maker - less than 30km is of little use. The on line sellers are a bit vague about that. I am not particularly worried about how fast they go. Home to the big city is about 25 km or so. Ideally I would like to be able to trundle in, change for a charged battery and then trundle back.

Not of course a problem if they are ridden by many AN members; you would be able to hear a constant whining sound as they approached!

All very good, but do they have milk? My local 7/11s in Chang Rai seems to have given up.

Now that the government shutdown has been averted, for the time being, the clown car can continue to wobble on down the road. We outside observers can continue to tune in to watch from time to time, to see which bits will fall off next. Such a rich cast, this fellow with the sculpted silver hair, the looney in shirtsleeves, Gaetz popping up in the background like Banquos ghost, the blonde bimbo with a gob, Lauren "cop a feel, anything else is extra", Kevin "give me the gavill" McCarthey looking like a rabbit in the headlights...

The three leading witnesses you put up on day one all said there was no evidence...

"Ethics" does not require MFP to be removed from the political stage before May of next year, to clear the way for a reset of the Senate. Srisuwan, as a dedicated servant of the establishment, is gamely playing his part. It will be interesting to see whether this will be just another move to chip away a few more of MFP's leading players, or the start of "the big push"!

Idly browsing this forum, (I don't/have never smoked cannabis, stopped smoking tobacco 25 years ago, and drink a little - perhaps four large beers a week) it does seem that tolerance is not a feature of the "cannabis debate".

Sadly the telephone promotion with the larger than life cardboard cut outs of her (in those boots!) outside 7/11 seems to have ended! A pretty girl. My daughter tells me she is a very good singer. One of the joys of Thailand!

I once had the system explained to me as being like the scheme for "prize money" in Nelson's Navy. If you captured an enemy ship it became your ships "prize". It was sold through a "prize court" and the money it raised (prize money) was divided up amongst the crew. The Admiral got say, 25%, the Captain got 25%, the officers of the ship shared 25% sorted by rank, and the crew got 25% shared amongst themselves. The same sort of principle applies to the distribution of the various informal income streams relevant to whichever branch of the force you serve in. That is why the costs of promotion reach such eye watering sums for lucrative posts such as (for example CO of the Pattaya police). Removal to an "inactive post" is a real punishment, as you are removed from the distribution chain for the time you are inactive. Everyone, from the decent old buffer seeing kids across the road outside a school upwards is in the system. I suppose you could refuse your cut, but you would never be trusted by anyone, never be considered for (or of course be able to afford) a promotion if you were to do so. And of course, because the system is universal, it is effectively unreformable.

1) "it was like the battle of the Somme but without the laughs!" 2) "He must have been on a course, nobody could be like that naturally." 3) "Assumption, the mother of all **** ups!"

I use that - a small "cafetierre" (two small cups) for breakfast and again for "elevenses" using one of those little filters you perch on top of a mug. I rather suspect it works out at the same cost as using instant! Toying with the idea of buying a small drip machine...

I would agree, based on a particularly unpleasant personal experience I have narrated elsewhere. That said I really don't care what they do. As a tourist draw frankly I think it's potential is wildly exaggerated. Here in the Metropolis of the Frozen North we have a very small area of foreigner orientated bars. Last year three Cannabis sellers opened on the patch, all using almost identical decor ( I think that they were a franchise). Two have closed already, the third is next to a restaurant in which my daughter works as a waitress. She tells me it is always empty.

I honestly don't think that there are any such assessments and tests here, other than perhaps a willingness to pay for the offer of a job which may pay B20,000 a month.

There again, there are 634,000 teachers in Thailand (2021 figures) of whom I should imagine some 400,000 or so are female.

No problem, just fit your dog with a tinfoil hat, that will put the mockers on the "New World Order's" cunning plan!

I just couldn't take my four to a shop which sold fresh food. It would be like the battle of the Somme, but without the laughs!

It's all very well, but what if you get run over by a bus?

Any comeback depends on whether some very, very influential people higher up the pyramid either want or are prepared to tolerate him back. If he is clean then I doubt that he will have many friends. If he was running a numbers racket, then whoever has taken over the operation will not want him back.

Well I suppose that if they are fighting each other then they won't be fighting their passengers!

Thai Government and FIFA. Should sit well together.

I don't suppose any of those are either within his remit, let alone on his radar. They will be due to the efforts of government (or in the case of the banks, corporate) functionaries, lower down the "food chain" seeking to show how important they are.

As opposed to a big Joke?

I don't think Trump really cares. Going out on a limb here, (on the perhaps not entirely rational assumption that he is not a raving narcissistic loony) I think that he expects to win the election next year. Quite why he believes that I don't understand, but he does. Once sworn in he will set about what he sees as the priority of his second term, remaking the executive branch of government in his image, extracting revenge and pardoning himself and his cronies. He will drive a coach and horses through any and all checks and balances, and rely on control of the House, Senate and the Supreme Court to allow him to get his way. Judge Chutkan along with anyone else who has crossed him will be out on her ear. Now of course all this is contingent upon Trump winning the White House and both houses of Congress. If he does, it will be the end of democracy in America, and will have massive repercussions across the globe. 4 years of this malignant clown show in charge will cost the USA its political, economic and moral lead on the world stage, and leave it as an inchoate state, residually wealthy perhaps but with failing governance, judicial, healthcare and a crumbling infrastructure. The stakes are quite high aren't they?

Quite a surprise really - a senior Thai Policeman, allegations of corruption, if not directed at him certainly at his "entourage ", and a variety of answers, none of which could really be described as "straight".

I don't think it is Thai bashing to observe and comment upon the appalling standard and competence of drivers, almost verging upon stupidity, of so many drivers on the Thai roads. There are no doubt many reasons, lack of training and education, corruption and/or low standards in the licencing process, an utter lack of enforcement of traffic law and basic mechanical safety standards, and an apparent lack of comprehension of the risks involved in some manoeuvres. Virtually all of us see it on an almost daily basis. To remark on it is not Thai bashing, it is an observation, sadly, of reality.