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I tried a canvas poncho but I got really wet!

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

I believe his last recorded cock-up cost him 130K!

It's not a BS post @NickyLouie. It is what happened. You can take a running <deleted> at a rolling doughnut!

But I doubt whether many of them have the faintest idea who their father is, don't have "western names" and if they do know who their father is, I doubt it he functions as such.

The Amphur insisted that under the age of 20 she had to be accompanied by a parent. Her mother (my ex wife) was not available. As for the passport, who knows why! I went to buy an induction hob from my local Sinthanee a couple of weeks ago and they wanted my passport! Didn't show it, and they wouldn't sell it, next door no problem!

No I won't go away, and since you refuse to accept it here is a link: https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/detention-statistics/ 90 per cent of arrested immigrants are held in private detention centres apparently.

So many Thai systems, web based and bureaucratic, are simply unable to cope with "Lok khreung". My daughter is trying to get a motorcycle license - she is 19, a Thai national and has an English 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! Just about all Thai systems and their operators are unable to cope with the combination of an English name, western features and Thai nationality. There was the occasion some years ago when her school ordered her to get her hair dyed black! Some may remember the mushroom cloud over Chiang Rai! She wasn't allowed to join the army cadets at school ( didn't mind that one). She was initially refused by the COVID vaccination programme, then when she had COVID the health system tried to charge her as a foreigner. She works part time as a waitress in a restaurant. She has already been interrogated by the Labour Department for working without a work permit! About the only organisation which seems to have no problems is her University - but then they have plenty of International Students, and probably regard her as one! It is petty, venal, ignorant, annoys me and upsets her, although she is quite stoic about that. Xenophobia, petty nationalism, racism (certainly had that at school) or just ignorance, perhaps even stupidity?

It rather appears to be exactly what is happening. No shortage of video... Maybe start by looking at the reports and video of the raid on the second hand market in Los Angeles last weekend. Heavily armed, check. Combat kit, check. Masked, check. No identity, badges or numbers, check.

Google it.

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!

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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!

Are such "frameworks for negotiations" the same idea as "concepts for a plan". After Trump's bizarre embarrassing public ramblings about immigration and Democrat run states and cities, the G7 summit leaders rather obviously decided that there was no point in having anything to do with him. That is why he got the hump, climbed aboard Panda Express ( it delivers orange chicken) and went home!

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!

If you are underneath it when it is dropped, then I should imagine it is pretty horrible.

Better in Swanage eh, Bob?

Alert the NAAFI, sounds like a task for the Short Range Desert Group! 🙄

Trump is dead? You heard it here first! And such a reliable source.

Oh dear no, he will come back as Ho Chi Minh!

Not as much face lost as there would be if there were to be a fight at the border, with the same outcome as the last couple of times!

@KhaoHom, join me in the blue corner! There will pretty soon be a queue outside the ropes to get in!

"In the red corner we have susan/spark trader/bignok/Harris fan, in the blue corner we have, well anyone he/she can pick a fight with!"

Oh dear, you don't have ambitions to be a moderator do you Bob? In the (unlikely) event of such an elevation, which of your various identities will you assume?

FPP got 151 seats (251 required for a parliamentary majority) and 37.99 of the vote. It was the biggest share, but certainly not a clear majority. That led to the coalition negotiations. After some breath takingly cynical shenanigans Pheu Thai ended up forming a coalition government, which had a majority in the parliament.