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herfiehandbag

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  1. I think on balance I would go for "Pinky and Perky"!
  2. I should imagine that those who test positive will be treated, those who test negative will be offered vaccination.
  3. But then you can fly to pretty well anywhere in the world from Suvarnabhumi, and even more so domestically if you include Don Muang. U-Tapao, as you have said, doesn't really have any flights to anywhere!
  4. Fortunately he had it to hand when he went to assist the customer!
  5. Probably a more "discreet" custodial arrangement, coupled with a low profile for a while.
  6. Perhaps the quote was based on his assessment of your house to and from that what you were "worth"?
  7. Besides, they might have their hands full somewhere else soon...
  8. Indeed, a cricket pitch!????
  9. The batsman's Holding the bowler's Willey...
  10. You must sleep soundly knowing that you pay B1000 for the privilege!
  11. The Thai people have decided. They are being ignored.
  12. I didn't say that, did I? It does however put the initial police action - stopping the car - in, at least some context. France has an essentially effective judicial system which will hold, is holding, those who killed this boy to account. That is true. It also has a large and racially motivated urban population of young ( predominantly immigrant, notionally Muslim) young men, who are prepared to riot on this scale. That is true. That community is heavily involved in crime, racketeering and drug distribution. That also is true.
  13. And decisions like these serve to prevent any attempts to regain control. They also go a long way towards explaining how and why control was lost.
  14. The Photograph has been carefully edited or selected. The full picture showed the judge facing two rows of bewigged berobed barristers, at least a dozen of them, all on the taxpayers "dime".
  15. It just slipped out ( his mother complained) that he had been stopped numerous times over the last two years. So he had been driving since he was 15!. This in a country where the legal age for driving is 18! Let's stick my neck out - nice car, driving without a licence, drug dealer/courier?
  16. I've heard worse: "Who cut your hair, the council?"
  17. If memory serves, Carlsberg set up a brewery and bottling plant in Thailand, trained up brewers and we're all set to go, when in some sort of quasi-legal sting operation they were forced to hand it over, at way under the market rate, to Mr Chang, who promptly got rid of all the Carlsberg staff. For the first couple of years, until the Thai brewery techs settled in, Chang was very hit or miss, it's alcohol content varying from batch to batch. They took over both the brewery and bottling plant, which is why many of the bottles for some considerable time had the Carlsberg motif. It probably goes some way towards explaining why Western brewers, distillers or wine makers are reluctant to get involved in Thailand.
  18. My local 7/11 has undergone major refurbishment and extension. It retained its (Bangkok Bank) ATM. So now our small town/big village has 2 Krungthai ATMs (one with deposit and one a brand new replacement machine at Sinthani), Bangkok Bank (7/11), Green Bank/KBank ADM ( although the branch closed a few years ago), Government Savings Bank ( and branch) and Farmers Bank (and branch office). My problem is that I rarely have any cash!
  19. What is required to move and pass a constitutional amendment? I understand that Chapter 15, Section 256 (3), of the 2017 Constitution requires that a majority of the combined two chambers of parliament, the House and the Senate, as well as no fewer than one-third of senators, or 84 of the 250 senators. The Senate vote is guaranteed, that would give them just under a year to create the majority.
  20. And doesn't look like she spends much of her time under a flat stone in a damp place!
  21. And another straw floats past on h90's political river - quick, clutch it!
  22. Lucky so and so - got a seat right at the front! I hope that the lass with the denim shorts jumping up and down gets a place in his cabinet!
  23. They will appoint a new Senate. Rinse and repeat. It will (for them) have the great advantage of keeping the appointing of senators and the holding of elections in step. Perhaps a constitutional amendment to introduce a fixed term parliament, so that elections will always take place a safe period after a new Senate is appointed. It would tidy things up a bit!
  24. Possibly they have done their number crunching, and reckon that with the police and military available to them (remember April's draft intake will have just about finished their training) they can withstand the inevitable protests. Once he is installed as Prime Minister, his government will use the inevitable widespread protests as the excuse for the inevitable state of emergency, and take wide ranging powers to rule bypassing parliament. They desperately need to hang on for a year until they have their new set of senators ( who will probably look remarkably like the old set of senators! It will all hinge on whether they can weather the inevitable storm. I doubt that they can.
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