herfiehandbag

So, he mortgaged his electric car business to buy twitter? Perhaps not the brightest move?

The problem with the "minimum wage", in Thailand, is that it has effectively become, in many areas and activities, effectively the Government mandated standard wage. The ties between the really big employers and the current government are too close to allow your suggestions to improve the lot of the workers.

Cheap street food is no excuse to go pay exploitative wages. Interesting that you pay some below the minimum wage.

Herfiehandbag notes that it is either "can't have your cake and eat it" or " burn a candle at both ends". I would advise a candle, it might help illuminate what is in plain view!

Because it will hurt. Mr (and Mrs) Biden are no doubt concerned about the state that their son is in. He has no political influence but congressional investigations will add to their worries. American politics is not in a very nice place at the moment. Maybe it never has been, but there are some very nasty people bobbing about on and just below the surface.

You have taken that "quote" entirely out of context. I was, quite clearly, talking about Thais attempting to speak English, not making a philosophical point about the ills of the world!

I am pretty much in Buffalo Country, rural Chiang Rai The doctors and nurses at my local hospital, where I have been going daily for treatment, mostly speak some English. I am often surprised by the ability of all sorts - a local petrol pump attendant for example. The girls in my local 7/11 make a point of trying their English out - basic standard but the important thing is they try. I live next door to the local school. The children like to try out their English - most seem to learn through Google translate and Facebook and so on. I listen patiently and if they make a serious mistake I gently put them right (I am a retired teacher); bizarrely the English teacher can't or won't speak it. I suspect he is worried about losing face, the children are happy to rabbit away. I have rather become the "go to resource" for homework! if they try, it's remarkable how they can communicate.

I don't want to be presumptuous, but won't there be other candidates; Pheu Thai and Future Forward ( or whatever they are called now) for example.

I am not a sailor although I have quite a lot of experience as mate on large - 55 foot - sail training yachts a lot in heavy weather; including one occasion when we came close to foundering in the North Sea on a passage from Ijmuiden to Portsmouth. The deep sea seal ( where the propeller shaft passes through the hull) failed in a force 7 gusting 8 and the boat started to fill) apart from myself and the skipper the bulk of the crew were made up from trainees. By dint of some energetic pumping and a very hard beat to windward we just made Ramsgate - "plan B" was to sail her up onto the beach at Pegwell Bay and hopefully walk ashore! The point of this "war story" is that there are two parts to most incidents at sea - first the breach of the hull's integrity and second the battle to keep the vessel afloat, sailing and get her to a haven. Often part one is beyond the control of the crew, part two depends to a large extent on the competence and training of the crew - and this was a naval vessel, damage control is what they do. There was what, six hours between the ship taking water and finally sinking.

We won't.

Well, most of them seem to be configured as VIP transports to ferry generals around...

Shipping container, washed overboard from another ship? Depending on what they are loaded with they can float a foot or two below the surface. Hit one if you are pushing hard in heavy seas and it could punch a hole in the hull. If your damage control routines are not perhaps all they should be, and the engine room floods, you lose power... I used to sail a lot ( large - 55 foot - sail training yachts) in all sorts of weather, and they were the one thing in heavy weather that worried me.

The village school next door is on day three of one of these galas as I write. The days start with parades and inspirational speeches. The school band runs through it's repertoire repeatedly, which consists of two tune; one is the "US Marine Corps Hymn" played as a slow march, the other one isn't! No fireworks yet, last evening they had a pretty wild disco. The children seem to be enjoying it, and as a retired teacher it ill behoves me to complain about the noise - don't mind it anyway!

Extra crew? I was wandering about that, 106 is a lot of matelots to cram onto a 260 foot corvette!

Yes, I agree. Mind you I also find it quite bizarre that the foundering of one of the country's warships seems to have no coverage on AN!

You refer to the constitution referendum? The voting coverage was less than, umh, universal. In my neck of the ( rural) woods each village normally has its own polling station. For the referendum all voting was centralised on the amphur office. Purely coincidentally, the police were on that day, manning vehicle check points checking tax stickers, insurance policies, number plates and helmets. These VCPs were about 500 metres from the amphur offices, in both directions. Voting numbers were very low!

Only as a provisional, L plates and no pillion passenger - used to be the case.

In my experience (explained in an earlier post) insurance companies will find a way out if they possibly can. In my case, they claimed that a badly poisoned foot, the result of standing on a rusty rebar wire sticking out of the ground, was not covered because I had diabetes. Talk about stretching the "pre-existing condition" clause!

There's two contrasting ways of looking at it. I must confess that I tend towards the second. "Pfftt" indeed - not a lot of the milk of human kindness in that glass! I doubt that she ever had the slightest intention of relying on "go fund me". She assumed, perhaps foolishly, that her existing travel insurance, through her credit card company, would cover her. The " go fund me" campaign has been started by her sister in the UK. She certainly needs to get herself moved to the government hospital. The medical care is just as good - although the food is awful!

Last year I was admitted to the Government hospital in Chiang Rai as an emergency, I had stepped on an old rebar wire sticking out of the ground, it had gone into my foot and although I cleaned and dressed the wound it had rapidly gone sceptic. The poison was spreading. I went to my local hospital, they immediately transferred me by ambulance to the provincial hospital and I had immediate surgery, waking up that night on a ward, with half my foot cut away - the tendons were fully exposed! Nobody even mentioned money. I had further surgery three days later. When I was ready to be discharged a finance person came to see me. The bill was about B35k. My insurance declined to pay, blaming it on a pre-existing condition (diabetes) so I stumped up B24000 in cash, and we created a payment plan for the rest. Throughout ( including the ongoing outpatient treatment) the hospital finance people have been perfectly reasonable; the insurance company (UK based) have been a bunch of cheating charlatans, about as much use as an ashtray on a motorcycle.

It means: 1) he has fully embraced the lunatic fringe of American right wing politics; 2) he has no concept of the role and correct use of pronouns in the English language.

And Twitter is a particularly bad trip!

Which is? I am intrigued!

Certainly seem to be a lot less suicidal maniacs with pink food boxes, and a lot more with a green and white cartoon character on them! I am surprised that they lose a lot of money - there is not exactly a lot of infrastructure to support.

There is a website called Quora. There is a very funny chap called Ian Lang who posts on it. He has a whole slew of imaginary characters he writes about, including Sebastian and Jocasta, a millennial couple from West London.