PeaceBlondie

If you've worked alongside a severely handicapped near-genius, you know the disabled could do far more than sell lottery tickets. Think of Edison, FDR, Steven Hawking, Charles Steinmetz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz

The pedants are discouraged in the Teaching Forum. We had a general rule against it before the entire forum did. English teachers should know that forum posts are informal.

It's funny how many mistakes are made here by native speakers. As Ulysses G said or suggested: if you insist upon correcting another poster's post, you'd better make a perfect post; otherwise you'll be mercilessly corrected.

That’s true, but in my case being an intelligent member, obviously I have a good command of the English language anyway.

But of course we all make errors, so I always type my posts in Microsoft word that has an excellent spell checker and thesaurus, before I publish the text into a post.

I do try and make allowances for the American posters, who have invented they’re own version of the English dictionary.

Using good punctuation, grammar and correct spelling gives a post and it`s author much more credibility.

Maybe Harcourt caught this already, but the final sentence uses the contraction for it is when the possessive pronoun its is correct. For that mistake, or for a they're/their/there or to/too/two mistake, our 11th grade English teacher would give a zero on a long essay. Firefox has spell-check, but it's American. I make allowances for the Queen of England's use of the language, on which the British lost the copyright 200 years ago.

There is an aging Kathoey restaurant owner near one of the bus stations in Chaiyaphum. Always very nice and polite but certainly did not keep her looks. In the right, (wrong), light you could be mistaken that one of her parents was an orangutan!

Who keeps their looks as they age? When they ply their trade they wear a ton of makeup and most wouldn't look that good to start with anyway.

If by "ply their trade" you mean prostitution, maybe that only refers to the katoeys you know in Pattaya.

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It's funny how many mistakes are made here by native speakers. As Ulysses G said or suggested: if you insist upon correcting another poster's post, you'd better make a perfect post; otherwise you'll be mercilessly corrected.

Ph.D, Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State Univ. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaksin_Shinawatra That's a good program, near where Texans are executed.

Columbus barely touched "North America," mainly the "Moskito Coast" of Central America, which is the kite's tail' of North America. America is the Anglicised name of Americus Vespucci....

Thailand, or Siam?. Lanna, or Pattani, or Isaan?

If I read the news correctly, these guys are U S Marines; more than able to defend themselves. Fairly nice blokes generally. And mostly young and horny. The US Navy Shore Patrol watches over them.

Never had any problem with ladyboys, since I'm gay.

Friend just asked. I think answers are yes.

I think Thais consider their nationality to be Thai.

America is an entire HEMISPHERE. I lived in the United States of Mexico, just north of Guatemala. As citizen of the USA, I was estadounidense.

There is no clear-cut Thai rule that you must have a degree to teach. Some farang have extended visas, work permits, etc., without a degree.

Yes, the large name brand tire dealers do front/rear end repairs, replace and repair tires, etc. Take a Thai speaker with you.

Moved to Visas

If BA's wife had actually gotten the MA-TESOL as a Thai teacher of English in Thailand, it would have been fine for a Thai in Thailand, teaching English. I worked with a Thai English teacher who earned her MA-TESOL at Payap; she did well.

Or move to Chiang Mai or Khon Khaen...

Finally located 2 rare CCR tracks:

Ramble Tamble

Pagan Baby

Violently murdered? Is that worse than being non-violently murdered?

Like others, I think your post is a troll.

I believe the murder Paagai refers to was unusually brutal and vicious, up close with a knife and a blunt instrument, etc. - not a happy shooting with a warm gun. He is not a troll IMHO, but his rose coloured glasses broke.

I met Paagai in a Tai-Yai bar. I've been a guest at his place (I was not the young Thai with short hair ). So we run in overlapping circles. One murder he refers to was at a fine home in an upscale moobahn, very near me - not in a low-class soi. The murders or attempted murders in Hua Hin were not in seedy bars or barrios; the dead German outside Pattaya was not gay. Bad things happen to good people.

But gay men and Texans exaggerate.

Whom, I?

When I started teaching in 2003, my pony tail was the only long male hair on a big campus. Chances are, it would still be. Yet upon leaving matayom, even at age 15, they soon let it grow very long. Like tatoos, it separates school boys from emancipated men (military males are not free).

I've seen more long-haired men over the years. Yet I doubt I've seen a Thai man my age in a ponytail, or riding a sport bike, or blond.

Safer than working unarmed in a conflict zone.

Kevin, ostriches don't bury their heads. "Contrary to popular belief, ostriches do not bury their heads in sand.[27] This myth likely began with Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79), who wrote that ostriches "imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of their body is concealed."[28] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich

And haven't we all noticed that many of those who are abnormally well endowed with rrreally large sex organs or a gorgeous face, flaunt it? And expect you to pay for it, one way or the other? And don't think you deserve their best?

And Norchai Normal tries harder to make you harder?

Only the upper arm bone; my sense of humor is intact.

Frankly, I was dishy.....

It's relatively new, pricey for Thais (private).