BeastOfBodmin

Sprays. As in marking territory. Usually involves a liquid, resembling "a shaft of gold, when all around is dark. (It was one of Wilde's)".

He actually sprays in the Oval Office?

He had takeaway? https://youtu.be/aM_tYKOcr9M?si=iaQwmTGCRUTTVnHh

Just what I was thinking.

THB hasn't fared as well against the Swiss Franc vs GBP & USD. https://www.tradingview.com/x/kaAQUDHL/ I park my spare fiat in CHF at Wise, unless there is a "good deal" to be had in CHFTHB, in which case I convert some CHF to THB and leave it at Wise until needed.

Government got involved.

Workaround is to offer a quid in some other change to someone returning their trolley or go to the service desk or to a cashier.

Maybe hook up a garbage disposal in the toilet waste line?

You forgot "What are you wearing?"

Criminally insane pathological liar? "Purse"? Did you mean snatch?

We have occasional blockage from our double sink arrangement in the kitchen. We don't have a hot water line, so I suppose that can help fat & grease bergs to build up. No chance I can train my family to be careful what is dumped down there. The sink drains are connected to a cess pit. Would installing one or maybe two garbage disposal units help? Is there anything I should be aware of wrt how such a unit would interact with the Thai plumbing standards?

I beg to differ: EU citizenship - https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/democracy-eu-citizenship-anti-corruption/eu-citizenship_en Wikipedia tells me the idea was built into the Maastricht Treaty, which came into force on 1 November 1993.

I agree. I'd go so far as to replace the "could" with "should". So many people pay their licence fee &/ or Sky subscriptions, which means they are directly subsidising those who lie to you.

Yes. I'd go further and suggest the MSM's paymasters are also largely the politicians' paymasters, through party donations and policy influencers via so-called "think tanks".

Because it was a large march, it represents something the current government don't like and MSM are bought and paid for and do not do their jobs which is to inform their viewers without bias, not to tell them what to think.

What was the question you asked Google's AI? Google's AI didn't deduce that Tommy Ten Names is far right. It just processed some tokens and spat out its response. Wikipedia is run by humans and in my opinion is increasingly unreliable when it comes to the profiles of "persons of political interest". ADL is probably the one I would tend to believe over the other two, as they have the best incentives to be accurate. ADL doesn't mention "far right" as such either. But I'd want to check ADL's reasoning and sources before deciding how accurate they are. Tommy Ten-Names seems to have undergone a period of re-branding of late anyway. I am on the fence as to how "far to the right" he might be and I don't find political -isms to be useful lenses for objectively assessing the motives of such people. Seeing this as us versus them keeps us busy hating the wrong people (each other), rather than the ones who use the media to instil these feelings of division in the first place.

By dissing BBC coverage, discouraging wearing face masks, saying Palastine [sic] Action & right wing groups are not welcome? Edit: Added the & to avoid implying Palestine Action are a right wing group.

NIYMFO - Not If Your Mates Find Out

Won't prison for him be more like prison in "Goodfellas"?

It was mentioned in the article at the top of the thread.

Pray tell, who was this idiot?

It seems to still exist: Thailand Elite Visa - https://www.thaiembassy.com/thailand-visa/thai-elite-visa It also seems to only be worth the "privilege points per year to redeem lifestyle privileges" and maybe priority lanes at airports and not having to go down to the immigration office so often. Back to the topic: Thailand LTR Visa Benefits: More Comfortable and Profitable - https://www.thaiembassy.com/thailand-visa/thailand-ltr-visa-benefits The qualification process is painful in order to stop people getting one? Weird thinking. Why not just collect the required documents and fees up front and give a decision within a reasonable amount of time? Isn't this going to be enough of a filter on eligibility? Why add "long" and "difficult" into the mix?

Hmmm. I just coughed up THB 5700 to renew my 1 year Visa. THB 5K p.a. is a 14% discount. Assuming I would qualify, what's the catch?

Yet again we find someone parroting something they heard or read somewhere which, because it supports an ill-thought-through prejudice, was memorised to be regurgitated at the slightest provocation before you could say "critical thinking".

My mistake. NIAID not CDC. "Anthony Stephen Fauci ForMemRS (/ˈfaʊtʃi/ FOW-chee;[5] born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.[6]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci I would have corrected the original post but it was posted too long ago.