GroveHillWanderer

I don't see that he necessarily lives at home with mum and dad permanently - only that he stays at his parents' when he's in the UK. Which is what I have always done, despite not having actually lived there full time since I was 17 (over 50 years ago).

On the checklist of documents to provide in support of a visit visa application, if you've indicated you'll be staying with family or friends you will find the following listed among "Other documents." So whenever I go to the UK with my Thai wife to stay at my parents' address, I just get one of them to write a letter of invitation stating that they are happy to have us staying at their house and stating how many total and spare bedrooms they have. There's no mention of having to provide proof of a tenancy agreement or of house ownership and we've never provided that. For evidence of "permission to be in the UK", either a copy of passport or birth certificate are considered acceptable.

Many toilets in the West, especially in Europe, have been mixed gender for decades - way, way before anything even vaguely resembling what is referred to as "woke" was even dreamt of. I remember going to France for the first time in the late 1960's and being struck by the fact that in many cafés and restaurants the toilets were not separated by gender - there was just one set for everyone.

I'm not saying it doesn't matter, just that I'm not sure I'd put too much faith in his conclusions. For instance, he also refers to the judge in Trump's civil case in NY as an "Elected Democrat in a Robe" and accuses him of promoting a Democratic Party narrative. Elected Democrat in a Robe Fines Trump as Pretext to Promoting Democrats’ Incitement Narrative He hardly sounds like an impartial observer.

That's the same Andrew McCarthy who characterized Barack Obama as a radical and a socialist, authored a book alleging that Obama was advancing a "Sharia Agenda," wrote another book calling for Obama's impeachment and defended false claims that the Affordable Care Act would lead to "death panels." He also wrote a book alleging that the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration colluded to rig the 2016 election against Trump. Watch How Trump Moves the Goalposts on Ukraine I'm not sure his opinion about matters regarding this case is something I'd want to put much store by.

You do understand what negotiating a plea deal entails, don't you? In cases like this with multiple defendants, it typically involves agreeing to give the prosecution something they want (such as evidence against other defendants) in exchange for which they agree to charge you with lesser offences. It's even possible in a plea deal, for a person to go from facing serious charges, to facing no charges at all, in exchange for testifying against those who have greater responsibility for the crime(s) involved. In this case, Powell and Cheseboro are still facing charges, just not as serious as the original ones. It's not that unusual.

According to the mother's GoFundMe page they have raised the necessary funds and she is headed home today. English version as per GoogleTranslate:

Are you honestly trying to suggest that if there is a mixture of ICE and EV cars, any fire that occurs must be due to an EV? And if you do think that, then I have some news that may surprise you. See news item below, where a parked diesel Range Rover recently caught fire in Luton Airport multi-storey car park, completely destroying it and writing off around 1,400 vehicles. Range Rover fire which sparked Luton airport car park collapse comes six years after Land Rover destroyed Liverpool's Echo Arena car park Moreover, and as the headline points out, this was not the first time a fire caused by an ICE vehicle caused the loss of well over a thousand vehicles. The article goes on to point out that:

No, it's not. An insult is when you say something disparaging about a person - something personal and uncomplimentary about their character, appearance etc. Telling someone to shut up is brusque and possibly rude, but it's not an insult. Also, the phrase "put up or shut up" is not the same as just telling someone to shut up straight out. It's a way of asking someone to justify or prove what they've said.

That figure is from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Whatever else the IMF might be, it could hardly be described as a leftist organization.

In light of some of the posts on here about agreeing to sex at some points but not others, I think the video below, put out by the Derbyshire police, is rather apposite.

I don't know which circles you move in but if you only ever meet dishonest Thais I think that might be more due to the kind of social milieu you frequent, rather than the characteristics of Thais in general.

The Thai Navy has committed to buying at least one such sub - and already paid more than half the asking price. As stated in the article linked to above by @richard_smith237:

I think the incident you're referring to happened in the US, not Australia. Jennifer Strange's Family Awarded $16.5 Million in "Wee for Wii" Contest Death

Not if you drink the water too quickly, no. There have been a number of links posted in this thread already, that explain how this works, and/or give examples of people dying from drinking too much water too quickly. If the excess water was just released in the natural way, there wouldn't be all these instances of people dying.

It's not clear why the pilot ejected, however a number of aviation analysts commenting in the articles I've read, have speculated that he probably didn't realise the plane was going to be able to continue flying for quite some time, because otherwise, he wouldn't have ejected when he did.

Where is your evidence for such a statement? Please provide a verifiable source. I've met a number of Thai officials in various different situations, all of them seemed perfectly delighted by the fact that I could speak Thai.

No, it's ridiculous to suggest that no one does it. People can (and do) overdose in all kinds of different places. Car parks are not excluded. I just Googled, "person dies of overdose in car park." I found 19 news articles where this has happened, before I stopped counting. Here's just one - as I mention, there are more than a dozen others. Man dies after overdose in Brighton seafront car park

While on the subject of taking stomach acid reducing medication, in case anyone had been taking ranitidine (Zantac) long term and was worried about the perceived cancer risk that led to it being removed from the market (I know I was) recently-published research may serve to lessen those concerns. Large Study Eases Fears Over Zantac-Cancer Link The study involved, "more than 1.18 million individuals across seven countries."

It's definitely not impossible to kill yourself with a drugs overdose, whether that be of prescription medicine* or illegal drugs - it's one of the most common methods of suicide. See below. Self poisoning And the question I was addressing wasn't whether this person committed suicide and/or how he did it, it was whether committing suicide in a car park is possible. Which it most certainly is. *In fact, one of the most common prescription medicines used to commit suicide is paracetamol. Use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) for suicide and nonfatal poisoning

There have been at least three other examples already given in this thread. And it certainly does prove something - it proves that drinking too much water can be dangerous and potentially even fatal.

Lots of methods of suicide could take place in a car park. Overdose, poison, gunshot, self-inflicted wounds etc, etc. The British Parking Association obviously thinks it's a possibility - they have a web page about it. Preventing suicides in car parks

Because if this person did commit suicide and did so in a car park, (and if the body had not been moved) then that's where the body would be found.

Not sure why you would make such a ridiculous post. Nobody, absolutely nobody is proposing "to dip high voltage batteries in water from time to time." However what was pointed out was that, according to the US National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA), if they do end up in the water: "Hybrid, electric, and fuel cell vehicles are designed to be safe in water, even when fully submerged. The High Voltage (HV) system is isolated from the chassis and is designed to NOT pose a shock and NOT energize the surrounding water. "

Laboratory testing of any consumer product is conducted by simulating the real world environment. So any conditions that would normally occur during the use of the product and might affect product life, whether that be an EV battery, a vacuum cleaner, a zip fastener or whatever, will be included in the laboratory tests.