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JAG

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  1. 3 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

     

    So, for instance, a military or police service would be wrong to criticize a government, elected chambers, committees etc for anything? Say like procuring poor equipment, under funding, under manning?

     

    And what were the Mexican border authorities doing when illegal immigrants were trying to breach their border and enter a neighboring country illegally?

     

    I can understand the ire of many Americans at how some of their politicians seem to want to allow illegal economic migrants to enter and stay freely; and some even want to give these criminals the vote!

     

     

    I expect that in the USA, as in the UK, the heads of a military or police service have the right of access to the appropriate Secretary of State, maybe even to The President in certain circumstances, to raise the matter of underfunding procurement and so on. That is rather a different kettle of fish to allowing, or maybe even instructing, a spokesperson for the service to publicly criticise one party in a political debate over that service. For example, when there was grave concern about the availability of helicopters (a very expensive resource) for operations in Afghanistan during Mr Brown's time in government the Chief of The General Staff certainly exercised his right to raise the matter, I believe that he went to see the Prime Minister. However, he did not, quite correctly, instruct a spokesperson to say that the Labour Government should (spend more money on) sending more helicopters to Afghanistan. That's the difference. 

  2. 4 minutes ago, sumrit said:

    My Thai Driving Licence shows my Thai ID number, not my passport number. When I renew my DL  I choose to use my Pink ID card for ID, not my passport so they use my ID number on my DL.

     

    When did you last use your DL for an internal flight? A friend tried to use his DL for an internal flight earlier this year he was told the DL was no longer acceptable.

    February 2018

     

  3. 6 minutes ago, Rugon said:

    Same here, the pink ID card is stupid, and useless, and gives many a false feeling of being accepted into society. 

    "Being accepted", yes, that takes a bit more than a pink card!

     

    A couple of visits to the hospital ago, the local school was closed for the day. There were a few of the staffs children corralled restlessly in the waiting area. The diabetic clinic nurse asked me if I would talk to them - well a couple of choruses of "heads, shoulders knees and toes" and a marathon session of "I spy with my little eye" kept them busy, and passed the waiting time. That probably did more to make me "accepted" thank any number of cards!

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  4. On 12/24/2018 at 1:39 PM, phetpeter said:

    Don't have to carry your passport, I use the ID card instead. It is proof that you are a long-term residence, shows you are legal, The number show BIB what your status is, and is becoming more and more relevant. 

     

    On 12/24/2018 at 1:43 PM, jackdd said:

    I assume your number starts with a 6, this says you stay in Thailand temporarily, so same as any tourist

     

     

     

     

    My driving licences use my passport number. To get a driving license you have to produce proof of residence (yellow book or letter from Immigration), so the DL showes the same information.

     

    Certainly my DL has been accepted as ID for internal flights.

     

    As for hospital, when I first moved here I stepped on a broken glass. Off to the local hospital for stitches. They took a blood test, and found out I had diabetes (type 2). Head nurse signed me up, I was issued a hospital number, and now I have regular check ups and get my medication at the hospital. I pay the going rate, but it is about a third of what the big private hospital in town would charge. Queues are long, so I take a book 

     

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  5. 8 hours ago, impulse said:

     

    And who is to protect us from the military and their puppet masters?  Ya figure the holocaust may have gone a little differently had there been 2nd amendment protections in Germany in the 30's?

     

    Well the regime which carried out the Holocaust had it's roots, and got most of it's leaders from heavily armed political militias, which were major players in German politics in the 1920s. So no, I don't think "2nd amendment protections" would have made any difference. If they existed it would have probably been to the NAZI's advantage, an armed SA for example...

  6. 10 minutes ago, Opl said:
     

    MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL through the many billions of dollars a year that the U.S.A. is saving through the new Trade Deal, the USMCA, that will replace the horrendous NAFTA Trade Deal, which has so badly hurt our Country. Mexico & Canada will also thrive - good for all!

     
     

    A whole raft made of straw that he can clutch on to!

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  7. 12 hours ago, Crossy said:

    I really do wonder sometimes:-

     

     

     

     

    Trainspotters head on:

    They have 244 normal services, and 3 relief trains running.

     

    I rather doubt that they have the locomotives or rolling stock to put together any more relief trains, judging by the amount of stock stored (dumped) in various yards up and down the system.

     

    Last time I traveled on the Chiang Mai - Bangkok sleeper, the front vehicle was a very old carriage (wooden seats) which was being used to carry parcels. I managed to persuade the guard to let me up there to listen to the double headed locomotives in full cry as they climbed the bank into the mountains (not as good as the steam engines would have sounded but still an impressive thrash -I like trains, it's a hobby all right!). The ride in that 50 year old carriage was exciting to say the least. I know a bit about carriage and wagon maintenance from working on a UK heritage railway, and I would say the side springs on those bogies were utterly knackered.

     

    I should imagine everything on the SRT which can turn a wheel is running this weekend!

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  8. On 12/28/2018 at 6:53 AM, TSF said:

    I was on a bus a couple years ago heading to the Thai-Lao border on way to having a little holiday at Pakse. Bus was stopped by police and he asked to see all foreingers passports. When he saw my UK passport he told me to follow him into the police station. I was starting to get worried why, but everything was in order regarding my visa. In the police station I was taken into a large meeting room where there were about 30-40 unimformed police officers and I was taken to a lectern and handed a microphone and told to give an English lesson to the police.

     

    So seems they were having this meeting and someone decided at the last minute it'd be good to have a native speaker give an English lesson, so they pulled one (me) off the next bus to the border.

    If that ever happens to you ever again teach them some common idioms: sick as a parrot, over the moon, raining cats and dogs, as nutty as a fruitcake etc.

     

    Imagine the next time they stop a bus full of foreigners. "Ladies and Gentlemen, please don't be as sick as a parrot. You can remain on the bus as it is raining cats and dogs outside, my colleague, who is as nutty as a fruitcake wishes to check your passports, you will be over the moon as it will only take a twinkle of an eye and then you can be off like a rat up a drainpipe..."

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