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JAG

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  1. As they chant from the stands at football matches:

    "Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go!"

     

    Perhaps you could let me have the location, so I can ooze in there and unleash my devastating charm. It's just something to do with those devastatingly sexy green shirts, and the way they coquettishly say "member?" when you come up to the till!

     

     

  2. 43 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

    Rural Buriram. She was the only mixed race student in both primary and secondary school.

     

    Your use of "white Thai" is strange. 

     

    I don't know everyone in our district so wouldn't know how many mixed race there are. 

    "White Thai" - I was casting around for a phrase - that one was used by the school to try and explain why she couldn't join the school Army cadets.

    There is a bit of a "back story" to that one which I can relate by PM if you are interested.

     

    Whilst I too obviously don't know everyone in the district, in oh, 12 years I have never come across any other mixed race children.

     

    She was also the only "mixed race" child in her school in Chiang Rai, although there was an American boy, and a French girl there for a time. I was also a teacher there.

     

    Maybe Lucy has been unlucky, maybe your daughter has been lucky. Lucy's problems have all eventually been resolved, annoyances rather than major obstacles, and  I suppose it is only half a dozen events over the last 7 years. Nevertheless, it has been a feature of her young life, and the latest, the driving license business, is particularly annoying.

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  3. 6 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

    Our daughter, now 23, has never had any issues at any time with regards to what you've posted. Even when I've been with her, she's been treated just as if she was Thai.

     

    She does have a Thai Christian name. It certainly helps to keep her Thai identity.I wanted that for her. A Thai name, my surname and an English nickname. Best of both worlds.

    It may be a question of where you live. We are in rural Chiang Rai, and almost certainly she is the only "white Thai" in the Amphur - probably a bit of a novelty in the city as well.

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  4. 1 minute ago, Keeps said:

    I can't believe 3 retards gave you thumbs down for this post. Says more about them than the post.

     

    I think you have hit the nail on the head. Combination of ignorance, stupidity and throw in a little xenophobia.

     

    I'm glad that your daughter seems to be coping with it fairly well. No doubt many more such challenges ahead unfortunately.

     

    Best of luck.

    Thank you - with my "Pollyanna of the internet" head on, the thumbs down emojis may have been because they think it is a shame.

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  5. The whole driving test system, web based and bureaucratic, is a cranky almost impenetrable mess. My daughter is trying to get a motorcycle license - she is 19, a Thai national and has a Western name and looks Caucasian. The system initially refused her because her Thai ID card photo "didn't look like her".

     

    Off we went to the Amphur office for a new one, because she is under 20 I had to accompany her, much group examination of my passport, sucking of teeth, phone calls to higher ups and photocopying of many pages of the passport and her birth certificate. Eventually, armed with a new ID card she went back to the driving license office. Refused - the system (computer and human) wouldn't accept she was Thai!

     

    Probably going to have to hire one of those agent chappies to get her one!

  6. On 6/19/2025 at 7:54 AM, save the frogs said:

    And he may go down in history as the most important president ever.

     

    Perhaps, but probably because of the damage he is doing to primarily the USA, but also to world trade.

     

    In terms of the "global order", the USA has turned into the fat cop from the "Dukes of Hazard"!

     

    As far as The British Empire, that rather dissolved itself, and was all over, oh some 60 years ago. Apart from Hong Kong - and that was a cracking parade!

     

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  7. 6 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

     

       Upholding rules and laws in indeed the Republican way 

    Particularly when done by heavily armed, masked unidentifiable members of a ramshackle collection of militarised federal agencies, with no visible identification; then holding those arrested incommunicado in privately run detention centres.

     

    That has rather come to define the Republican way!

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