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Oh taking other people's money is just so inconvenient, so let's get rid of money, let the buyer take the risk of it going wrong, and make lots more profit.

I have no desire to know the details of other people's sex lives.

Nothing is "gone". She's an old lady and probably stayed on because she likes the life style, rather than to "do a job". Most people likely gave up "work" as soon as they qualified for a pension. She might not be whatever such ladies actually do anymore, but I doubt any personal relationships have "gone".

I assume that's the writer's opinion. It could also be that she chose to resign to avoid further embarrassment to the palace, and also that she is old and might like to have a cuppa and a long lie down instead of going to affairs where she meets a lot of people she has nothing in common with. Does the Spectator support or oppose the Royals?

We don't often agree but that is a very excellent post IMO.

From a thread on Pattaya News Pattaya — Pattaya Traffic Police collaborated with the Chonburi Department of Land Transport to arrest and fine dozens of Bolt drivers who did not have public transport driving licenses to pick up customers.

I used to do that all the time to avoid having to climb stairs ( escalators are great ), plus AC most of the way.

Unless they added an overhead walkway since I was last there you can't get from Siam to MBK without going down to street level. That's why a 5 minute walk takes 9 minutes, plus the climb on the stairs to make one sweaty. Easier to just wait for next train to MBK.

Garbage is a Thailand thing. Last time I went to Samet it was a garbage tip end to end, despite being a national park. I visited a waterfall beauty site ( right next to a national park ) south of Lamphun, and it was a garbage tip. Seems locals just don't care.

I'd have loved to be a paramedic, or work in A and E, but it's not the work that was the problem- blood and guts don't bother me- it was the <deleted> that attack people trying to help them. I wouldn't take that garbage and would have ended up getting fired. In the end I couldn't even tolerate the <deleted> on the wards and got a job in theatres where I didn't have to worry about <deleted> people.

Any computer expert should be able to see if anything was added after Hunter abandoned it.

If you were correct the law might have had something to say about it, but it hasn't, has it?

Thanks for adding that info. Sounds like it was both sides confused about the questions being asked. Add a woke media and bingo, here we are having a barney about an elderly lady being racist. One might suspect that she's been around long enough, and the media have been woke long enough, to have noticed a while back if she was overtly racist.

Indeed, Britain has Welsh, Irish, Scottish as well as English languages. Probably some even less widely used languages from isolated parts of Britain.

Didn't read the post you quoted then? Had you done so you might have noticed the little tell- tale sign of " She wasn't very talkative or responsive". BTW, not all Irish people have a "BROAD Irish accent", but one needs to have been there a while to know that.

She would be a minority then. I've spent a lot of time in Southern Ireland and can't recall seeing any black person working there. I don't even recall any as tourists.

LOL. So you never, ever, said something you regretted later then? I've done so many times, but never an intended insult. Sometimes people misunderstand what I said as I don't vet my words for 10 minutes to see if they conform to the politics of the moment before speaking. Luckily I'm not a target for the woke media. Should I ever become a target of the woke media I have a Churchillian salute for them.

Indeed we can. LOL.

Rubbish. Quoting what was said doesn't give the context or the inflexions of speech. Unless one was listening to it one doesn't know the full picture. This, IMO, is a very good example of a "storm in a teacup" ie much ado about nothing, or more likely the "looking to be offended mob" seizing on the proverbial molehill and conflating it into the proverbial mountain. BTW, if one professes to be British, not a good idea to be wearing the colours of a different country unless expecting to be asked where from. If anyone is going to be exercised over something like this when the world we live in is in meltdown mode they need to get out from behind their social media screen and get out into the real world, IMO.

Only white men. Don't you know that all women are perfect and would never be racist? Sarcasm alert for the humour bereft.

Did you miss the "LOL". It was sarcasm.

It's not racist if it's against white men, LOL.

IMO nurses are hard to get now because they have to do a degree at uni instead of being paid to train like I was. The pay is just too low to make it worth while. That's why so many Filipinas are working in the west, as they have a degree and even low NHS wages are better than what they'd get in the Philippines.

Decades ago when I started nursing, I had considered being ambulance driver or working in A and E. Given the <deleted> people they have to deal with now, there is no way I'd even think about it today. It was a different world back then, when most people had some consideration for others.

Is it any wonder the NHS is in strife?