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Ad-infinitum. In with the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss.

I could have sworn it was 325 the last time I walked by the TV, but now they have flipped the channel to Lakhon Soap Opera. That's about right. Eh? "When in doubt - distract the Ox and Buffalo with mindless TV." Caveat: I don't care who the PM is. Will it effect me personally? Only if the PM and his cabinet are racists who hate farang. But after living here married to a Thai woman for 15 years. <laughs> Yiaat Piyu abound. What's going to be different? Not much.

Color Revolution funded by "You Know Who," 'eh?

Wife was watching the count less than 1/2 hour ago. What's the disconnect between real-time and MSM reporting?

Yes.

Well, why not Glap considering the vagarities of the Thai language transliterated? ???? I actually have a pretty good understanding of Thai transliteration which I used to correct Thai English student's mispronunciations of English words. Yeah yeah, but her for a long time and taught enough English. Enough.

Now - Khun "It's My Dead Friends Watches?" There's a leech that need to have a salt bath.

Good. I wish him the best in retirement. It's a good thing to know when to quit.

99% of the time my VPN is on. 1% of the time I turn if off for sites like Lazada.

PIA.

Aseannow or Asiannow? "Agghrr. Who cares." Well, one is a forum and the other isn't. Grap or Grap. One is a delivery service and the other is non-existent. Sqwakvfr or Swavkfrq? Who cares? You don't get it - do you? Ok - I'm done. I can't do stupid.

I'm fully cognizant that at the 'end of my life', I may need to board a plane and fly to my home state where I can obtain opioids on the street and self medicate - or - inject too much. Thailand? Unless you are wealthy or really, really well insured? You don't want to die here. And even if you are "wealthy or really, really well insured," you still may not want to die here because these Thais - do - not - care - about - your - physical - suffering - because - IT IS YOUR KARMA. Cement that in your farang mind. Which in my Buddhist opinion? Is Sick and Twisted. But? I'm not a Thai Buddhist.

No - it is not - unless you can't come to grips with your mortality. Especially after 70 years old as I am. On the contrary, the only money I wish to spend is on palliative care. Not trying to make a terminal condition 'better.' For those of you who wish to 'live forever?' Man, I feel for ya. Ain't happening. Palliative care, for the most part is not accessible unless you are admitted to a government hospital or a high-price private hospital. Palliative care is pathetic in Thailand. Hospice care? What hospice care. Hospice care doesn't exist her because? "You have Bad Karma And Must Suffer!" These people have no real soul or empathy. Like I said, they consider that you are burning karma and who are they to help you. And yet? In my Buddhist opinion, they are the ones who by refusing to provide palliative care are the monsters. People who refuse to provide palliative care to the suffering - are monsters.

My POV. Thailand completely sucks at providing palliative care for terminally ill patients and out of some sick, twisted sense of morality they say it is based on Buddhism, that the dying deserve to die in pain and suffering due to their 'bad karma." And it is a sick and twisted view of life. I'm Buddhist and I despise this total lack of basic humanity by Thais for all other suffering sentient being when palliative care is available. You must have been bad person in past life. You suffer now. It's your karma!!! That's sick and twisted. All people deserve to be treated with palliative care at the end of their lives. Those who refuse to provide the palliative care or those government officials who make pain relief like opioids and fentanyl patches next to impossible to acquire as you suffer in your end of life? Those people are headed to Buddhist Hell.

I hate to be the spelling police, but in this case, there is no company in Thailand named "Grap" that delivers food. It's Grab. Get the company's name right if you're going to talk about it. https://www.grap.com Doesn't exist. Grab delivery services and taxi: https:/www.grab.com

Now what. Will he be thrashed with wet bamii noodles?

And if he isn't? Then what? Color Revolution? Just saying....... ????

Like the Nobel Prizes, so-called "Beauty Contests" may have once been based on merit, but now are based on whatever politic is being pushed on the unwashed masses by their elite overlords and the billionaire class. My guess is that pretty much most of these "trans-women" in these contests will have been born without a penis. Sorry - a biological woman is not a biological man. Do I have anything against LGBT? Not at all. As much as we are told horrific tales about society's non-acceptance, well, I haven seen in in my circle of friends, family, and acquaintance. Mostly what I see is acceptance, especially here in Thailand, but also many places in the the EU and US, and again, especially in the part of the US where I am still a resident. But what I do see is pretty much a hatred aimed directly at traditional sex roles which are now being adopted by government and corporate interests alike. The "Bud Light" blowback being simply one case. "But that is non-acceptance of Trans-men," some will say. No - it's a non-acceptance of having a sexual ideology crammed down our throats by people with immense sums of money and power. Then - I look at women in general - straight and gay. Suddenly those born with a penis are "women," which in turn discounts biological women and their rights. Want to see real anger? Look at the lesbian communities who are now becoming second class citizens because some guy who 'identifies as a women' is legally allowed to access to what use to be "women only spaces." Yeah - if I was a woman, I would not want someone with a penis and a physique shaped by male puberty to be roaming around in the women's locker rooms and showers unless that individual has completely gone through gender altering surgery. There is an answer to this. Accommodate transgender people while protecting the rights of biological women especially. Easy to do. In sports? Create a competition category for biological men who identify as women. In "Beauty Contests." Create a competition category for biological men who identify as women. Same for women who identify as men. I'd applaud that approach. But what I'm afraid of is what I'm seeing - the destruction of 120 years of fighting for women's right upended by a rather insane wokism that states the women have a 'birthing hole' or an 'additional hole' or a 'glory hole.' I don't want my own wife and granddaughter put in the position to have to co-exist with transgender men who have gone through puberty. I might change that position if a biological male 'transitions' surgically to a female prior to puberty. But after puberty? No. At least not in sports. No - actually not at all. I'd completely accept a biological male as a 'woman' if the kid is transitions completely before puberty. What I see is an open assault on women by individuals who want to blow human society apart. I'm pro-female rights, and female rights and protections are being shredded. And I'm pro-trans rights too. In employment, in equal competition (trans vs trans), but not in the access of the spaces society reserved for biological women. I can't condone that.

"They just fell into my pocket out of the sky!" Of course. Now, two tabs of X in most Western countries would be a slap on the wrist. Here? Probably considered 'trafficking' as dumb as that is. Thailand's 500 lb gorilla is meth. But the way the system is set up? Some people can make a lucrative living, some get popped for some minuscule and amount that is then labelled "trafficking." Brown envelops.

He should be glad he didn't get busted for drugs in the PI. Although I like an occasional toke of bud, I completely stopped after coming to Thailand. The old saying, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time?" Yep. My philosophy goes for all other drugs as well.

On my report 3 months ago I never got a reply. Exactly one week after the due date I had to go to Immigration and do it in person. About two weeks after that I got an online approval.

Probably out getting a soapy massage.

My guess at what they are taught. Entering a highway to make a turn at a U-Turn 1km up the road. Pull onto the acceleration lane and stop with you car at a 90 degree angle to fully block the lane. Sit and wait until the air temperature is correct. Pull out very slowly and cross at a right-angle across all lanes and turn onto the far outside right lane. Don't worry about all the cars that nearly ran into you. Accelerate at walking speed until the car is going 40 kph in the high-speed outside passing land and continue at that speed until you come the the U-Turn. Don't use the deceleration lane but instead make a turn slowly from the high-speed outside lane as cars whiz by flashing lights and blowing horn. Left the tail end of your car in the high-speed outside lane and block the view of the car attempting to properly make a U-turn. When the air temperature and wind direction seem right, pull out in front of oncoming traffic without a care. Accelerate at walking speed while driving with two wheels on the shoulder and two wheels on the highway until a car attempts to pass you and then pull out in front of them. Keep accelerating until you're going 120kpm. They all do it. No one knows how to properly merge onto a highway nor how to safely cross at U-Turns. So I assume the 'driving schools are naught but the blind teaching the blind.

Yes - there are warning signs, rumble strips, flashing lights - and it makes no difference. And yet? There have been three accidents in the same place in the last two years. When I say it's the government's fault, I mean the government's inability to licensed trained drivers or even having a set of rule that aren't complete hog-wash. There is no mandatory training or a level of expertise that is required to get a license that addresses the constant roadside genocide that occurs here. They play lip service, but they don't address the root cause of the problem. When I see cops driving doing the same idiocy as an average Thai driver? They have no Highway Patrol and other cops in patrol cars issuing citations to people openly breaking what minimal driving laws they have. Nope - those Highway Patrol are for escorting VIP and pretty much nothing else. There is no hope. These people fain to care. And the carnage will continue unabated in-infinitum.

Wait until the day when Thai Buddhism and the very open giving of money in "Money-Trees" meets the government who outlaws cash. Money-Trees are outlawed and Thai society has a very negative cultural reaction. Money-Trees are part-and-parcel of the Thai religion as well as Thai culture. "You commoners will get over it. Put a QR code on a stick plebs and suck it!" Ok.