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Almost certainly so. For all the in flight videos of winged horses and prayers for travelers, those regimes are essentially medieval, and extremely racist, in their approach to treating those that they regard as inferiors. However unwise she was to go there, this lady is trapped there, is being held there against her will, enslaved. She is far from the only one, I have heard from my Filipino friends some absolute horror stories of the way they treat girls who go there to work as teachers and nurses, let alone as maids or domestic servants. Personally I think it is something that demands the attention of the International community. After all, 180 years ago we (quite rightly) put a stop to the practice of shipping African people in chains across the Atlantic to work on plantations. Well this is a modern day version of the same phenomenon, and should be stopped for exactly the same reasons.

I doubt that she, as effectively an enslaved person, has any means to talk to the embassy. I further doubt if her family in Thailand have the first idea how to contact the embassy - or enough influence to get the Thai government moving. In the UK certainly, the fight would be taken up by the victims MP. Maybe with the emergence of a new style in politics here...

Perhaps, does it justify her being held against her will and being forced to work as a slave?

Dodgy things, cheese toasties. Killed my rabbit! He used to enjoy a ham toastie. One day I had run out of ham so I gave him a cheese one. He died that night. The vet said "mixingmytoasties" can come on very suddenly.

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. Without thinking, so skewed is my moral compass, I drank a small can of Chang with my supper last night, as is my foul habit. Woe is me, Woe is me. What will become of me - I can feel the foundations of my life, and the society in which I live, rocking as I write!

One of the problems we have to face is that many of these activists have taken to telling people what they can and can't do with their lives. Recently footage was aired of one of those "just stop oil" protests blocking a street in London. A Police man asked them to allow a car, carrying someone en route to an important hospital appointment, through the blockade. The protest spokesman refused, saying that he didn't believe that it was important enough. The Police accepted that. Incredible arrogance. Self appointed decision makers seriously affecting people's lives. Pathetic policing.

I imagine that if you were to survey Manchester United Football Club supporters, many would declare the view that Brexit was a significant factor in Manchester City Football Club beating them in the FA Cup final yesterday. It's all in the question you ask!

I wonder if Wissanu is confident he has a seat on the last flight out!

I remember once hearing expert defined as ex being a "has been" and a spurt what happens when you put a drip under pressure...

It appears that they don't have a branch in Chiang Rai. Maybe we prefer our pretty girls "free range"!

I have never patronised "Hooters" but I rather understand that one of the principal requirements of their staff was that they be, shall we say, well endowed in the chest department. Not really a feature of Thailand!

A terrible story. An indefensible act. However I can, maybe, have some sympathy with the daughter. I spent 7 years in my early fifties as the sole ( no one else bothered or cared frankly) caring for my mother, in her 90s and stricken with vascular dementia. It was an unrelenting, unremitting, backbreaking task. Because I had an army pension there was no help available. The only real practical help was from a couple of real friends. I ran my local branch of the Regimental Association. Some of the ex soldiers in the association, and more particularly their ladies, would get together and look after mum for a day, once every week or so, so I could get a break. I would go out for the day, come back to a sparkling house, laundry done, freezer stocked with prepared meals, and mum "entertaining" them with tales of her teenage exploits in the "Blitz". Real friends. God bless them. So to return to the point, I don't condone the action, I understand the desperation.

It would, of course, require setting up a whole new "informal accounting system"!

Sadly that does seem to be the case. There are younger "rising stars" amongst the Democrats (AOC? That should get a number foaming at the mouth!) But they are not going to be in the zone for President for a couple of decades, by which time, what is left of the USA will probably resemble the dystopian scenes from the opening footage of "Blade Runner"!

Thai Army has 1200. British Army has 85. US armed forces (across the board) has 650.

And most of those are probably AWOL!

Well obviously, then the boy scout berets fit properly!

I tend to agree with you that he is too old. But look at the alternatives on the other side of the political divide! A second Biden term will be woeful, but it will at least give the Democrats a chance to sort out some meaningful successors. A second Trump term, would be worse. No meaningful elections by the time he has finished, in fact by no means certain that the United States will still exist!

I downloaded the app. I tried to load my information. It told me that it was unable to verify my passport no. It told me to go to a branch to get it sorted. I will do so next week. No doubt the branch will tell me, for the umpteenth time, that they can do nothing. I have been trying to do this since the new year. I am bored with going to the branches, which are 27 Kms away from where I live. They are <deleted> useless.

Now I am a complete numpty (widespread howls of agreement), so how does this paying by QR on your mobile phone work? I presume that somehow the QR code links to the vendors bank and allows you to transfer money to their account. Since I bank with Krungthai, and their new app seemingly is not available to foreigners (the last two visits to my branch to sign up have met with"sorry, cannot!" although I haven't tried for a couple of months) it seems to be a route not open to me

An absolute masterpiece of stating the bleeding obvious! One thing I do take issue with (and yes it is a pet peeve of mine) "Christmas isn't Christmas!". Of course in a country where only a few percent of the people have anything but the haziest of ideas about the feast, of course it is. But I think that the way it is marked, as a secular consumer driven event is at least honest - after all in the West we hide the consumerism behind images of stables and angels, but how many could, for example, explain the significance of a star on top of the Christmas Tree? But all in all, of course it is different here!

Well, you know what they say, in for a Satang, in for a Baht! I understand that the Army has asked them to spin things out for a bit - they are having some issues getting ready, sourcing parts to get their Russian kit back up and running is proving a problem!

He seems to be doing quite a good job, maybe he should stay on!

They sold the horses long ago. Cash, got quite a good price too!

It would be interesting to know what percentage of the Tatmadaw's various units, regular army, police and various militias, are actually true volunteers, and how many are what might be termed " pressed men.