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I was just going to say, should make the gold chains easier to spot!

Hang about, for the last year or so all the potheads on this forum have been claiming that cannabis is entirely harmless as it is not at all addictive!

Whilst I have low expectations of him, (and even lower of his commanders!), it is fair to point out that he has only been in the job for two weeks.

They will be the ones stationed in Central Bangkok for the express purpose of providing "guards of honour". Specially selected to look like miserable bastards... Mind you to be fair, join the navy to go to sea, only to discover that the aircraft carrier only goes out once a year, the submarine has no engines and the surface ships are mostly broken - or sunk! I would be pissed off as well!

And they're off! It'll be worse than the Cornish and Devonians arguing about whether to put the cream or the jam on the scones first!

She may have reacted unfavourably to you wandering in there clutching a broomstick and announcing that her transport had arrived!

Of course, entirely up to you! I merely offered it up for the uninitiated as an example of just how easy it is to bake your own bread.

Ah oysters - they are supposed to be aphrodisiacs aren't they? The last time I tried them only the first three worked! Still, a diet of whole wheat bread, beans and oysters should ensure simultaneous eructations front and back as it were!

There is a few Baht difference in cost. I use all purpose when I can't get bread flour - I live out in the sticks. It works OK. Bread flour is supposed to help the dough rise, cake flour is too sticky in a dough I find. The biggest problem is getting yeast ( I live out in the sticks). A couple of stores sell bread flour, neither sells yeast - one sort of goes with the other really!

Yes, silicone, that was the word I was looking for. It was on the tip of my tongue but I had "Biden moment"!

4 cups of bread flour, 320mil of water, 2 teaspoons of oil, salt to taste, 1/2 sachet of dried yeast. 5 minutes in a bowl with the dough hook on your cheap as chips mixer from Lazada. Cover the bowl with a 7/11 carrier bag and leave it in the sun for an hour. Put the mix into one of those rubber loaf tins, and give it 30 minutes in the space ship oven (halogen oven). 1 loaf costs about half what a Macro/ Lotus/ Farmhouse loaf does. You control the salt content, you can add sugar if you like. If I am feeling exotic I sometimes add a dash of honey.

A simple question, a simple answer. It attracted two " confused" emojis! Now what in the name of The Almighty and the little fishes is confusing about that? It really couldn't be plainer or simpler! If you are using them to indicate that you disagree, then have the bottle to post and say you disagree, and maybe even offer a reason why you disagree!

In your enthusiasm, it seems to have slipped your memory, that the Thai people repeatedly voted for the man they wanted to run the country during the first two decades of this century. That man was Thaksin.

Well, it can make phone calls, use Line, What's Ap, go online, use Google maps, weather forecast apps, it has cameras front and back, can take photos and video, and lots of other things. Now my android phone (real-me) can do all that, BUT I don't have an Apple sticker on the back to demonstrate that I have lots of money to spend on a phone! Still, I think I can live with that...

It is my impression that overall public opinion is in favour of his release.

One of course assumes that the campaign for the government to exercise equal treatment for all prisoners has long been at the centre or Thawill's senatorial concerns, and is the cornerstone of his desire to be reappointed next year.

Yes, understood. He has of course secured his place on the list of new Senators! They will need men of principles!

Yet one who was, effectively, prepared to go along with (certainly make no public comment or principled stand on) any or all of the coups, shenanigans or gerrymandering which has marked the political scene for the last two years.

Yes, but it was raining remember ( one presumes that the RTAF operates like most air forces). So pick up your bergen and start tabbing... Looking at the OP photo, 5 up on the bike is quite impressive. Presumably the heart was in the 7/11 carrier bag! Joking apart, well done boys!

No, no, no! My dogs are different!

Can anyone remind me how many seats, and what proportion of the popular vote Pichit Chaimongkol, and his "Network of Students and People for Reform of Thailand" got in the recent election? Mind you, one must accept that there is not exactly a direct correlation between that and forming a government! That said, Pheu Thai, and the major opposition group MFP, are rather more in touch with public opinion in this matter than Pichit Chaimongkol, and his "Network of Students and People for Reform of Thailand"!

And mistakes!

What did you want to say - it shows up as blank! Edited, seen your text now, thank you!

Perhaps returning to the original intention of the OP? My daughter is "Lok Krung", or as she describes herself "hasip hasip falang Thai". She is now 18, and in her final year at school. She looks far more Western than Thai, although fortunately for her has not inherited my rugged good looks. There have been occasional problems with bullying at school. By and large I have kept out of the way ( I was a teacher in the same school) although there was one episode when she was fourteen when a couple of boys were making life difficult for her - I had a quiet word with them and explained that unless they stopped I would make them my "personal project". Most of the time she and her friends (she is pretty and quite popular) sorted it out. A bigger problem was some of the more "nationalistic inclined" teachers - the "yellow underpants brigade"! My daughter is a keen singer and dancer, she is good and regularly wins medals and competitions - a couple did their very best to stop her from taking part, claiming it was inappropriate. Matters rather came to a head when we had a new Bishop installed - it is a Catholic school attached to the Cathedral here in Chiang Rai, the school dance group were to welcome the Apostolic Nuncio (the Vatican Ambassador) and other clerical dignatories. She was deemed inappropriate at the last moment having worked very hard to get ready; I was furious, not least because she was the only Catholic girl in the group! I went to see the Principal (a nun) and the Director (a priest) and had that stopped. Funnily enough the Apostolic Nuncio ( an American) made a point of talking to her and her friends but not to the teachers, to their fury! One of the teachers - a vile harridan who really belonged in 1930s NAZI Germany, kept telling her she should dye her slightly auburn hair black to "fit in"! The "yellow underpants brigade" all left together to join another school when she was four years into her secondary education, and her behaviour improved noticeably. She was also humiliated by the oaf in charge of the Army Cadet detachment. He started his recruiting presentation to her year group when they became eligible by announcing that she (identified by name) could not join as she was foreign - she is of course a Thai national! I subsequently had an intense little talk with him about that Lucy actually got her own revenge. I keep my medals, cap badges, photos and so forth, momentous of a long and not particularly glorious career in the British Army, in a case stached in the booze cupboard.. she got me to explain what each one was for - and then (unbeknown to me) used them to illustrate a talk given at school on her family! She finished her presentation (I didn't see it) by quoting her daddy that, whilst he didn't have as many medals or badges as the "galloping major" his didn't come from Disneyland, and the parachute badge ("lightbulb") was for jumping from an aircraft not off a wall! By all accounts the teachers were in fits of laughter - even the Principal, an austere nun, was giggling. Anyway, in summary, the normal "teenage angst" was perhaps made slightly worse by this sort of bullying but she came out at the end as a sweet, kind girl. No great academic, but she has got herself a place at University next year to study dance and drama, (Bank of Daddy will hurt!) and has recently started a quite well paid part time job as a waitress in a western orientated restaurant here - they love having a "Western girl" as a waitress and she does very well for tips!

Quite an ambition, but one worth aspiring to. If you come to power ( and I hope you do) then you will have to thoroughly "clean house" to be in a position to present that. That of course is also an ambition you aspire to.