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You seem very certain - it must have been at least 10 years ago, in a bar on Sukhumvit Soi 7. They came in, sat down, one ordered a coke. They started to take alternate sips. The boss woman came over and told them to leave.

I did once see two Indians try to share a can of coke in a bar off Sukhumvit Road. They were turfed out after a few minutes.

Is that peculiar to the USA, or common throughout the industry? If so, then for example, if you were Cabin Crew with Air Asia, and your shift was two return flights Bangkok to Chiang Mai, then you would only get paid for 5 out of 10 hours?

If the number of Western expats falls ( in particular from Europe - the continent not the political construct) it will probably be because of the demise of the various state and company pension schemes from which many of our generation benefit.

I come from Bath (Somerset). As a place to live entirely ruined by tourism 25 years ago - although to be fair the rot started with Jane Austin publicising the place... There again the Romans didn't help with all that "Aqua Sulis" nonsense two millenia ago. And we've had to put up with the Liberal Democrats running the place for the last thirty years! Mind you, not a lot in the way of nudism - rains too much I suppose.

Well Minister of Defence is largely symbolic - this is a ( nominally) civilian government so the service chiefs will do whatever they like and ignore the Prime Minister. It could be dismissed as a largely "sleeping duty" The other post is harder to define; let's call it a "Minister Without Portfolio", with ill defined yet wide ranging responsibility to ensure that various projects and pathways written into various published plans over the last decade continue to be followed. It is the reef on which any attempts to reform the military, rewrite or amend the constitution, change certain monopolies and so on will founder. Almost a shadow prem(ier). Very likely in a few years it will translate into the senior role within the Privvy Council. No prizes for guessing to (tu) whom that job will go.

Well I suppose, in an attempt to be in line with current correct thought, it depends on how they identify, what pronouns they use and to which part of the alphabet soup they aspire to. Or, as a Thai lady of my acquaintance might explain, with refreshing simplicity,lady, man, ladyboy, you think too much!

Ideally I would suggest one next to the 7/11, on the same side so you don't have to cross the road, and close enough so that you do not have to take a TukTuk! Shouldn't be too difficult to find in Pattaya, given that the 7/11s are outnumbered only by the knocking shops (sorry I meant massage parlours), although the Tuk Tuks run a close second!

Especially with one strong, 'media savvy" opposition block holding their feet to the fire over certain policies!

Shouldn't tyranny include: sacking the Capitol, pressurising the Vice President to prevent the adoption of the results, erecting a gallows outside the Capitol to underline that pressure on the Vice President, threatening poll workers, sending death threats to those poll workers, arranging for " pastors"and "community activists" to visit and pressurise those poll workers ( so confident of their " untouchability" that they made the threats in a police station - unfortunately for them the policeman kept his body cam on), arranging for "armed militiamen" to "protect" the advance polling drop off boxes in areas where the electorate were predominantly black; that's all off the top of my head, just for starters. The RICO laws seem a most appropriate basis for charges in Georgia. Trump and his merry men operated just like an organised crime cartel during and after the election. They predicted trouble if they didn't get their way - and win - and have continued to forment trouble, break the law, lie about breaking the law and bluster about and threaten ( often with the most open racist and vile sexual suggestions) anyone, investigating that lawbreaking, and generally deploy bully tactics since. The man is a skidmark on the underpants of American politics.

So, 15 minutes "notice to move"; an interesting take on a "rapid response team"!

Is this the penal system equivalent of "working from home"?

Golly, talk about stretching things!

In fact, anyone who does not agree with me!

Because the need for air conditioning will be the reason why he will be moved to private medical facilities.

3 months + since he was voted out 3 days since the new PM was (eventually) selected by Parliament. Still in place I see. Not going anywhere is he!

I wouldn't mind one of those cardboard cutouts of Lisa which they have outside currently! Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind the real thing, especially in those boots!

I am all for a dress code for bar girls. There needs to be a proper consultation. I hold myself ready to put forward some well thought through suggestions...

I think it is time for a cup of tea!

Oh he (Srettha) will do exactly as he is asked, after all whilst Thaksin is back, and at the moment relatively safe from the clutches of the Army faction, the boat cannot be rocked whilst the question of a pardon remains.

What did you have for breakfast? Isn't it on Facebook?

As an outside observer I think that there are a number of influences at work. Certainly this seems to be one of them. Many of the "grass roots Trump supporters" we have seen interviewed at his rallies have shown themselves to be neither particularly intellectually or physically distinguished...

Before sentencing you need to be charged, tried and convicted. Thaksin has been neither charged, tried nor convicted. Cynical as I am as towards the actual "crimes" of which he was convicted, of the veracity of the evidence presented and the independence of the courts which convicted him of his other "crimes", this "crime" exists only in the more fevered imaginations of his detractors on these forums.

So, when will that be - days, weeks, a couple of months? If some enthusiastic stickler for the rules dons his yellow underpants and deposits a petition with the EC or the courts, will that have to be dealt with before any swearing in?

If he had gone into the prison system he would likely have succumbed to a "sudden blood disorder" within a few months.