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Is this supposed to be a Trump quote? I don't believe it, this is at best a paraphrase or a highly edited version of something Trump said. Trump could have said this 20 years ago, but he is no longer capable of saying a complete, coherent sentence unless he is reading someone else's words off of a teleprompter.

So, was this article written by a Thai AI or and English speaking AI?

New Charter? Didn't the Constitutional Court already rule that changing the constitution was unconstitutional?

Hmmmm.... 30 cats and dogs, 500,000 baht debt, a career as a recycled rubbish collector and her husband's forgiveness. What woman could resist returning to all this!

ONet exams are nationwide standardized exams in multiple subjects (Thai, English, Math, Science, etc.) that are taken by all students in P.6. Their admittance to high school is partly based on their ONet scores. During M6 they will take the ANet test which may be used for admittance to universities, though many universities don't use the ANet, but instead require incoming students to take the university's own test.

At the end of Covid I weighed 102kg, the heaviest I have ever been. About a year later, getting back to normal activities and not just sitting inside all day, I was down to 95kg, which gave me a BMI of about 28 or 29. Then I had a heart attack. My doctor recommended the following diet: No refined sugar, no alcohol, (an occasional small glass of red wine is ok), no processed foods, no margarine, less dairy (only mozzarella or feta cheese), no red meat. So what do I eat? Whole wheat bread, chicken, fish, lean pork, lots of vegetables and fruit, avocados and garlic every day. But the most important part of my diet is that I eat a hearty breakfast (though I do miss my bacon & sausage), a large lunch and then just some fruit for dinner. I went from 95kg to about 78-79kg in 4 months and have maintained that weight since then. My BMI is about 23 and it is much easier to climb stairs, get in and out of cars, etc...

I married an orphan. 😁

True, but that´s a pretty low bar! I suspect that the average tuk-tuk driver could do a better job than the current fellow.

When I read an article like this I always think of a famous quote "Well, he would say that, wouldn't he."

Have you ever tried to buy a real rat trap in Thailand? The spring loaded kind that will kill a rat? They only sell the non-lethal traps here, so people trap rats and then release them a few blocks away. This doesn't solve the problem, it just relocates it. I finally solved my rat problem by acquiring a furry, purring anti-rat device!

She's just lucky that she was arrested in Thailand. If she had been arrested in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam or China, she would have been executed.

Bangkok already has several large entertainment complexes with gambling! They can just move the gambling out of the basement and they're set to go. 😂

The words may be coming out of Srettha's mouth, but that's Thaksin speaking! This is 'war on drugs' 2.0. It seems that major decisions in Thailand always come from the Cabinet. What exactly does Parliament do?

Probably ransomware. It'll be back up when they transfer some bitcoin to the hackers!

My first car wasn't a V8, but it was still quite sporty! Mine had wire spoke wheels, but otherwise looked a lot like this one.

^Wasn't that a 'box of donuts' that actually had a stack of money 'accidentally' included! 🤣

My wife is from Nakhon Sri Thammarat, which is considered by many to be the Wild West of Thailand. One of her uncles (a fishing boat captain) was shot and killed by an acquaintance many years ago. Also, as a young girl she saw a man shot and killed at a temple fair. The police later hunted down and killed the shooter. Another story involved a cousin of her grandmother, a very attractive young woman who fell in love with an outlaw who lived in the forest. He was eventually hunted down and killed by the police, leaving her alone with a young daughter. During her grandfather's funeral after dinner at her aunt's house, she told me that we had to leave, as her uncles were arguing and she was worried that someone would start shooting. I will say that this sort of thing seems to be much rarer in Bangkok though.

That is an interesting example of how American and British have become so different from each other. If you go back several hundred years the past tense in English was -en rather than -ed. While English speakers adopted -ed for most words, a few retained the older -en form. In the 1600s, when my English ancestors moved from England to the Plymouth Bay Colony (now Massachusetts) all English speakers used gotten as the past tense of got. Sometime in the past 400 years the British dropped the -en while the Americans kept the original version of that word.

The business owner was only 21?? She was probably recruiting the younger sisters of her school classmates!

I see that the article carefully does not mention the political party of the the two MPs (they are members of BJT).

I will eat my hat if "construction projects on Rama 2 Road, spanning nearly 50 years, were being addressed as per the prime minister's directive to complete them all within the next year." are actually finished within the next year!

A couple of my wife's nieces married within the past 10 years. One had a simple country wedding at her Aunt and Uncle's house, (not us, another Aunt and Uncle) which cost about 100k with a dowry of about the same (which went back to the couple). The other one married a wealthy Thai-Chinese guy. I don't know what the wedding cost, but I suspect it was over a million. The dowry was a 20 million baht house in Bangkok. This one is my wife's real niece, the first was one of these related through marriage 'nieces'. So, 500,000 for a pair of working professionals, sounds about right.

I went with my school's activity director, who is also the daughter of a military officer. I don't think I would have been allowed in on my own.

I think I went years ago while scouting out a school field trip. I recall it being rather interesting if you like old planes (as I do!)

Could you let us know which airline you work for? 😉