GinBoy2

Wiki is your friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_marshal

Well I totally agree about BSG remake. Gritty, edgy totally loved it. Still one of my goto shows when I want to watch something where I can just drop in on an episode I've watched multiple times and still be thoroughly entertained

Maybe I'm just too lazy nowadays to even bother with simplified. I can read to an adequate level in traditional, enough that I can read a Taiwanese newspaper. I'm not really interested in reading much from the mainland anymore, because it basically propaganda, so simplified doesn't really interest me now. As for your comment about reading Thai, that baffles me. Reading Thai is easy compared to Mandarin, it's a cipher not dissimilar to western languages

Did you learn simplified or traditional? I learnt Mandarin while I was living in Taiwan, so went down the traditional route. With hindsight I wish I had tried simplified, although having said that I now find comprehending simplified text much harder due to the lack of characters. It becomes a little guessing game more often than not

The answer to that is no. The bags have never left the sterile area so they would be fine. What we do when a passenger is removed, their bags fly and they will be forwarded back at some point by the end station. Not going to put the rampers through the Hell of trying to search a stacked cargo bin for some jackass' bag

So if you ever wonder how this whole process works, it's very simple. Once the cabin crew determine they have an issue with a passenger, they inform the Capt. and he/she decides what to do. If he determines it's a safety issue to the flight, he/she will send an ACARS message to Dispatch informing them that he will return to the gate, or if in the air to the nearest diversion airport they have in the flight release. Dispatch will then contact the GSC(Ground Security Coordinator) on shift at the receiving airport They will contact the LEO(Law Enforcement Officer) who will greet the aircraft with a nice pair of shiny bracelets. Moral of the story, don't get blind drunk on a plane or be a disruptive jerk. I've done my fair share of dealing with people who seem to lose their frikkin mind as soon as they enter an airport Just remember you can be a jerk at home, be a jerk on an airplane, it will ruin your day!

As an official American Anglophile, I love most UK drama, although sometimes I do wish they could pick up the pace a little. Recent standout the final season of Endeavor But, British comedy is always where I've had trouble liking a lot of it. Most of it seems totally idiotic, at least what PBS likes to import. I didn't like Blackadder, except for the amazing final season set in WW1 Out on a limb here, but never really liked Monty Python, save for a few stand out sketches Keeping Up Appearances, and all that ilk I just don't get. When I was a kid I totally enthralled by anything British. Today I'm a lot more picky, and the offerings we now get from HBO and all the streaming services are for the most just as good, if not better. Hard to imagine the UK producing Succession, Game of Thrones, Yellowstone, Deadwood, and just because i'm a SciFi guy all of the Star Trek incarnation's, excluding Enterprise of course, which was a howler

Actually the Capt. doesn't really care about how 'happy' a passenger is. What he cares about is the safety of the flight, thats his job, and thats exactly what the Capt. did in returning to the gate, nothing to do with keeping some numbnut 'happy'

Just the fuel burn alone to taxi back to the gate is in the thousands of $. Depending on how long this incident lasted they would have had to get the fueler back, no small deal. Then factor in the disruption the crew and aircraft scheduling it's huge. The cost of these kind of things is huge, and all for a bag, which would have been forwarded on the next flight!

Oh you would be amazed how common this is. I work for Delta, and I can't tell you how many times we have passengers leaving bags, phones, wallets in the gate area. Then on the flip side so many gate checked bags passengers forget to collect at their destination! In this case, in US at least and I think most Western countries, upon arrival back at the gate the passenger would have been greeted by law enforcement, reunited with his bag followed by a trip to the local jail.

When I first wrote this, I was primarily talking about physical appearance as we age. As with many of you I don't think I resemble my Dad in my mental state in the slightest. My Dad was a down to earth kinda guy, worked in the fields all his life. It was my Mom who nurtured and encouraged me to go on to be the first in my family to go to college. So in many ways my Mom made my mind, but sure as Hell my Dad made how I look physically today

I was talking to some of the kids at work, and I happened to say, enjoy your hair while you have it. It may not last, look at your Dad. It got me thinking, how many of us now look in the mirror, and think "My God I've turned into my Dad" My Dad, as I suspect for most on here, is long dead, but sure as sh**t every morning I look in that mirror and I see him staring right back at me

I just listened to Funky Moped. That must be a ethnic special

I had to do a web search for 'Huw' I guess he's a TV guy in the UK got caught trolling young gay guy's

Still love Karen Carpenter's voice. Sadly went too soon Recognize almost all of them

Mrs G might be among the olderThai wives here, she's mid 50's She always hoped for the best, but expected the worst. Her attitude was this is groundhog day. Nothing has yet fundamentally changed in Thailand. Next come the street protests, and ultimately another military 'intervention' Are we allowed to use the co.p word?

Didn't mean to be condescending at all. Sex is a huge part of our lives as adults. But all I wanted to say, maybe not so well is that I would put my kids before anything else in my life. I would die for them, put my own happiness aside to keep them. I'm not disparaging anyone else, we all make our own choices, but this happens to be my line in the sand, which hopefully I will never have to cross

JT, many of us on the bleeding heart left are a little conflicted about all of this, so give us some space

This is where my liberal bleeding heart kinda breaks down in turmoil. Whether it's a pageant or sports, I struggle with a trans woman competing. I think I'm OK with pageants, since that's just beauty, but then you get to sports and not so sure about that

The other thing to consider. Many a married man, or woman can pretend to be single when it suits them!

I don't want to derail this thread but the Washington Post makes one very valid point about Thai debt; '1. How bad is the situation? Pretty bad. Thai borrowers have high debt with low ability to pay back' The key phrase there is; low ability to pay back. Thailand isn't the highest personal debt country, but it's up there. In fact Switzerland, according to the IMF is #1 https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/HH_LS@GDD/CAN/GBR/USA/DEU/ITA/FRA/JPN/VNM The difference is I would suggest, that the Swiss, unlike Thai's with high personal debt have a very high ability to pay back

If that boy is only 45, poster child on why to stay off the ex!!

That's actually really sad. I couldn't imagine a situation where I didn't talk to my daughters and Grandkids. I'm kinda lucky my 2 American daughters are only a few years older than my Thai son, he lives a block away from my eldest daughter in Denver, with his new wife and baby. My other daughter has given us two Grandkids, and I couldn't be happier. Kids without the hassle and sleepless nights of having kids! Couldn't ever imagine what I would feel if I'd given that up because of my sex life choices

Sorry if you took that as an attack, it wasn't meant to be. I really just wanted to make the point that i would always put my biological kids ahead of anything.

Oh come on, this is one of the more probable Thai/Farang relationships. Similar ages all good. As for bringing up another mans kid, well thats not unusual. I work with a young guy, just got married to his gf. Her daughter is as much his, if not more than the biological dad