NanLaew

Scenario #1: Pita gets the nod and the coalition gets seated. Protesters from the loyalist, royalist brigades will take to the streets, fomenting increasingly violent social upheaval. The army steps in to save the people and the institutions. Prawit becomes the interim (+5 year) 'caretaker'. Scenario #2: Pita doesn't get the nod and neither does Srettha. Protesters from the Future Forward and Thaksinista cliques will take to the streets, fomenting increasingly violent social upheaval. The army steps in to save the people and the institutions. Prawit becomes the interim (+5 year) 'caretaker'. Have I missed anything?

Am I reading this right that your step-daughter is being denied a Thai ID card due to her absence from the country but her brother got one despite his absence? Is this the same Amphur? How long ago did HE get his ID card? This proof of a government official who knew her more than 15 years ago is ridiculous. They won't even accept one of her teachers? What's a teacher if not a government official with a different uniform?

Google was and still is the primary developer of android so the gmail on your android phone is securely hosted on that device. If this new 2FA authentication requirement loop started AFTER you got the new phone then I think you need to match the new phone to Google/Gmail on your desktop devices. Maybe see if there's a checkbox option to 'always remember' that's being overlooked? Are you allowing the password to be saved on any of your devices? I recall that Google brought in this need to register all your devices and browser access some time in the past year. I thought it was going to be a pain in the butt as I travel overseas a lot and my ip address changes several times in a day. However, it was a one-off event and both my smartphones, my desktop and both my laptops (old and new) allow me to log in with just the gmail option on Google's browser with the password saved.

I'm in but the bong stays outside on the balcony.

Not to mention the OP's overwhelming and perpetual sense of anger when interacting with the locals?

Incorrect sizing of air-conditioner to the room?

I just love the smell of empathy in the morning, don't you?

At least he's not Facebooking and gaming on company time like most of the nation's work force.

Is it the fact that you've snooped on her unlocked phone the reason why you are avoiding the inevitable confrontation and seeking advice here? Is there a possibility of a sick or ailing relative out in Bahn Nawk? To me, it does sound like gambling since she has 'priors' in that regard.

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It's also a good age to start self-funded annual medical examinations so you don't get blindsided by the perlious "I'm healthy for my age" self-assessments.

We do not know that it's a medical issue. I didn't suggest it was.

Or who you or I are ! And we're not the one's soliciting advice on mental health issues either. My response was to augment another member's suggestion that blindly suggesting controlled substances as the solution to the problems of people they don't know is just plain dumb.

We're not supposed to feed them either.

Correct, we have absolutely no idea who the OP really is.

Ah, so you're NOT serious then. Thought so.

I started my career in Saudi Arabia and also did almost eight years in mainland China pre- Tienanmen whereupon I quit to go work in pre- Kuwait invasion Iraq. You cannot sell me on the benefits of socialism, despots or cults of personality. Having said that, one of the upsides of Saddam's reign was being able to freely buy and consume pork products, imported beers and dine, swim and play cricket at the British Embassy and party with the Irish nurses in Block 13 in the evenings. TBH, I was a bit miffed when Desert Storm kicked off.

Yes, my formerly lucrative consultancy business with certain Vietnamese government entities has been in limbo since before covid due to high-level corruption investigations against state elected or appointed officials, including two Deputy Prime Ministers. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/vietnam-removes-two-deputy-pms-amid-anti-corruption-drive-2023-01-05/ Despite having the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela is a failed petrostate due to the serial socialist disasters of Chávez and Maduro. Luckily, I made my business there before Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution milked the cow completely dry. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/venezuela-crisis

This is the forum formerly known as ThaiVisa. Consider yourself shot.

Good point. However, I recall a perception that they were too readily aligned with, or easily influenced by the military and ex-military parliamentarians and ministers. I'm not suggesting that Abhisit will be a tough act to follow, but Pita isn't the first well-spoken, foreign-educated and intelligent person to grace Thailand's political stage. The Thai people can be a tough audience, even the vast majority of them that have no links to the military or the palace.

Since the south has been historically the epicenter of Thai Democrat party support and elected parliamentarians, this is hardly remarkable.

Nope... under the current constitution, I can't see that listed as a legal requirement.

Are these actually planned or is it all a dream?

Cool your revolutionary jets. Under the current constitution, the military appointed senators term expires before next summer. No need to poke the bear. Plenty other issues are of far more immediate importance than curbing military powers and abolishing 112.

What is that? Oh, so it's nightly is it?