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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.

I suppose that Nippon Steel reckon that with US Steel protected by a tariff wall they can still make money from it within the US.

If I recall no party had a clear majority. Therefore a coalition was formed. I don't like the way the coalition was put together, nevertheless when the dust settled she had a majority in parliament.

Quite unlike Anutin then... But what constitutes being qualified? In a democracy, even one as flawed as this one, the requirement is to command a majority in the parliament. I don't like the way in which that was arranged, but Paetongtarn emerged from the shenanigans following the election commanding a majority. As for these two buffoons from Khon Kaen...

And my giddy aunt, didn't it cause some trouble!

Well in my case it is because I am handsome! On my occasional forays to the very limited bar scene in my neck of the woods I chat, flirt, buy drinks for the girl who I am with and enjoy myself. I don't shag them, bar fine or grope. I do usually enjoy a kiss when I leave the bar. But then, as I said, I am universally regarded as handsome.

A Lieutenant General working as a medic! Talk about multi tasking!

For some reason I have great problems with connecting Bhumjaithai and the concept of honour! I would also far rather that The Prime Minister was talking to Cambodia's leaders, than the army and it's political bedfellows start a war; people will suffer and die, and going on past performance it will be a war they will lose.

It will be interesting to see how the Washington Post readers react to the Bezos driven changes. Having being presumably broadly content with "Pravda on the Potamac", for many years, will they remain with the new direction being taken?

Christ on a bicycle! I can't believe I have just read that!

I think everyone knows! Probably not on tape now, technology has moved on. Digital is so much more secure!