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Much more comfortable than economy plus. Join the different airline groups such as Star Alliance and others. Search their websites for the lowest fare.

How can they be socialists if the left describes them as far right wingers?

As a sort of off topic response to your last paragraph ... I used to know a woman that lived on the outskirts of Hiroshima when it was nuked. She was 12 at the time. I asked her what she thought about the U.S. bombing Hiroshima with a nuclear bomb. Her response did surprise me a little, "It was a war. That's what happens in a war." Hopefully, there will be no more nukes used in a war anywhere or any time again. No fire bombing either. War is enough of a horror as it is now!

off the topic Are you from one of the states that requires a gun license? Without doing an internet search, two states I know of that require firearms licenses are New York and New Jersey. Perhaps Illinois, Minnesota and I think, most recently, California. I have never shown a firearms license when checking a firearm for air travel in over 40 years of travel (I don't have and am not required to have a firearms license where I live). It didn't matter what state I was in. I never check a firearm for air travel on an aircraft that lands in or takes off from states that requires a "firearm license"! What I am required to show on checking firearms in for a flight is that the firearm is not loaded, any ammo is in a box separate from the firearm (federal law stipulates the ammo box be a factory ammo box), and no ammo is in a magazine. I think there is a limit on the number of rounds allowed to be checked in too. I also carry a printed copy of the federal laws and airline requirements regulating the checking in of firearms for air travel. Too many airline employees do not know what their airline employer or what the federal laws are for this. Now days, I mostly drive if I take more than my carry pistol. Federal laws provide protection for interstate transport of personal firearms. When I was gainfully employed, I used my federal agent ID & badge when checking in at airline counters. It made the process of checking firearms easier as the airline employees did not freak out and call for managers when I told them I was checking a firearm in my baggage (it takes a little longer now that I am retired.) The airline employees frequently assumed I wanted to carry a loaded, concealed carry firearm into the cabin area. I never did that. Sometimes airline employees wanted to sit me near the other law enforcement people that were transporting criminals from one state to another. I never did that as I wasn't being paid to accompany criminals in flight!!

"Thurrock Council is likely to recover a significant chunk of that money through the impending solar farm disposals, according to industry sources." Or not. Seems this might be like the solar company that the U.S. Government, under Pres obama, invested $700,000,000.00 into that went bankrupt (if I recall corretly)! https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-07-15/his-companies-made-a-deal-for-138m-of-taxpayers-money.-where-has-it-gone

I'm in my 70's as well. I use the word even if I didn't spell it correctly. I don't recall my grandmother ever talking about her undergarments. Might have something with her growing up in back woods Louisiana in the early 1900's. I'm not even sure women wore brassieres in the back woods of Louisiana back then.

I don't know if this is an off topic question or not. Here in the U.S. of A. I have devices I use to plug in and check the wiring in electrical outlets. It tells me if there is an "open ground", "open neutral", "open hot", "hot and ground reversed", "hot and neutral reversed", and "correct wiring". The device also has a button I can push which will activate a GFCI (I don't remember the term I have seen used on Aseannow forums), which shuts off power off to electrical outlets. This device is for 120 volts here in the U.S. is there an equivalent plug in device I can purchase in Thailand in say, a Home Pro store that is for 220 volts that I can use to check two prong and 3 prong outlets to verify that the outlet is wired correctly? Also, is there a way to use a multi meter to check hot water heater electrical feeds to see if the heater is wired incorrectly (even if it heats water)? I really do not want to feel that electrical tingle when I am taking a shower, much less to be electrocuted and end up naked and dead on the floor of the shower!!! I am not a sparky, even though I have found and corrected miss wired electrical devices here in the U.S. of A.!

I have never left a passenger behind. A $20,000.00 radio receiver, yes, but not any human beings!

I had a Thai language teacher like that when I was stationed at a military base in Thailand 1972-1973. She had 4 years of English language in Thailand and continued for, I think, 8 years in the U.S of A. for a masters degree in English language. She still had a Thai accent. As opposed to a young woman I spoke with for a few minutes when I was taking a Thai language class at Chulalakorn University 4 or 5 years ago. I thought she was an American of Thai decent due to her accent, which was the same as my brothers Arkansas accent. After I asked what southern state, in the U.S. of A. she was from, she told me she had never been outside of Thailand. Her English language teacher was from Arkansas.

What color is your house? I don't want to be waving at the wrong house.

When I stayed in Thai police apartments (when on vacation) I watched a man building security frames for the balcony of one apartment. He had his welder power cord run to the electric meter box in the stairway. I went over to see how he was getting electricity for the welder because I had never seen any electric outlet that could be plugged into. The man had wrapped the two leads from the welder around bare wires behind one of the meters then left the door open. Shook my head and walked away. I later saw children looking at the same connection which was within their reach. I have had more electric shocks from devices in Thailand such as computers, refrigerators, and hot water heaters in the shower, when visiting Thailand since 1988, than I have in my over 70 years of life here in the U.S. of A.

Probably could become a future bride in the U.S. of A. now, after biden's signing of the marriage act law.

No. What with the homework she does after school, the additional tutoring she has in math and reading, and all the LOL dolls she has that she is instructing on how to dress up properly, she has little time for such a menial task as that.

No. She is an American by birth, Thai and El Salvadorian by lineage.

It isn't baggage if his comments are close to reality though.

I will have to try this place when I am in Bangkok next July. Thanks for posting.

Not much to do with this story other than it's about someone cheating on tests. Grand daughter is in the first grade. She has told me about a classmate that has been copying her answers to tests that she has been taking. The class has desks that seat two kids side by side, so it is probably easy to do. The other day she told me that when taking math tests, she has been writing the wrong answer to some of her math problems. Her classmate then copies the wrong answer. When he isn't looking she erases the wrong answer and writes in the correct answer. She is six years old and figured that out?

I searched the internet for the phrase, "Saint Margaret's Bell Gardens". Your post was the only response to the search. I am still curious as to what it means or refers to?

I traveled through Europe one time. I exited the airport to walk around before returning and had to go through security. When my bag was checked as I went through security I was pulled aside and had a more thorough security check of both body and carry bags. The guy checking me asked when I was last at the shooting range. I think it had been a week before and asked him back, why do you want to know. He told me my backpack tested positive for explosives. I asked if I was in trouble and his response was, no, you are an American. Lots of American's backpacks test positive for explosives and they owned guns and used their backpacks at the range a few days before traveling. Since this subject has come up and stimulated this memory, I don't think I should have my new backpack near any firearms or shooting range!

If your post was about people not reading hospital documents, but signing where told to, that is what my response is about. I read what they give me.

Good thread ... I use grab when in Thailand. I did not know I could put a credit card on the account. I have not had a problem with paying cash before. But might put a credit card on it anyway.

If you want to be pernickety about it ... military time would be 0001 hours. No decimal points. I don't know how many times I signed out for leave, when in the Army, at 0001 hours. ????

My Thai wife, who reads, writes, and speaks English, met her niece at Chatuchak Market one day. Her niece was wearing a T shirt with a very obscene phrase in English about what sexual act a woman wanted a man to perform on her. My wife told her niece what the phrase meant. Niece was so shocked she removed the shirt, trashed it, leaving her brassier on top, and went to find a new shirt. Niece was wearing a new shirt, with no words on it, a minute later.

Here in the U.S. I have had people upset with me because I won't just sign the document they hand me and give it back to them. Many times at the end of the document above the signature line is a statement that (paraphrased) reads, by signing this document you agree that you have read it. I also, frequently, get documents that also reads that by signing it, I have been given another document. When I ask where that document is, some of the things I am told are, we don't print that out, no one ever reads that, I don't know what that document is, we don't have that document here, just sign it, we will give you a copy (of the document they didn't give me) when you leave/before you leave, ets. When I tell them I won't sign the document until I have a copy of the one that they didn't give me, one person told me that she had to cancel my appointment!