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I have a pet peeve about expats, those who have lived here for five years or more and speak a total of 100 words using poor grammar. These tend to be but not exclusively the same people who say; "they come here to my country and can't speak any English"

yes right, I learnt an additional two languages plus a difficult dialect in my youth, no problem. I went to a foreign country and learnt. At the age of 66 after three years of work I am beginning to understand how the Thai alphabet works and have a vocab of about five hundred words, mostly to do with plants and animals. With respect I find your peeve is a bit arrogant if you don't mind me bloody well SAYING SO.

Do you really need to say hello? to every stranger you pass? Is it a divide? nah if you took the time to say hi to every stranger you never have time to do what you want to do.. I'm not here to live to what you want nor are to live to what I want. You may get a hello or a nod, But don't expect I'm going to take you under my wing. After all why are most of us here? to get away from where we were. That and that nasty ex oops sorry off topic. But don't take it as personal we all are different yet the same. allow the space and from time to time others will enter your space. Like myself Thai Chi is my inner peace and found many others in same space. Go about doing things in life you enjoy and you will find others liked minded.

Well there you go, some of us only see a Farang or two when we go shopping. The others that live in my village are hiding. In my small mountain village in Switzerland it was considered an insult not to reply to a greeting, guys would stop their tractors. here it is the opposite, Russians won't say hello according to my son, and I know that Brits weren't either, I used to be one. Badly dragged up.

Many seem to be taking this letter at face value. One or two have suggested 'cherchez la femme' but there may well be something else behind this.

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Think about it. You need to vibrate the 'tile' (you mean slabs?) moulds and get the concrete, concrete/water mix just right. You need a concrete mixer, not a delivery of probably over wet concrete that you can just slop into the moulds before it starts to go off. I have done special orders myself and it was more work than I thought. How are you going to lay such small 'tiles', on concrete and mortar? And then grout such a large surface? Such small 'tiles' need to be really well laid. We have bought and laid cheap ceramic tiles everywhere, on reinforced concrete. We drive the truck on it. I often bought expensive, coloured and decorated blocks and slabs for customers and after a year they were hardly distinguishable from grey concrete. They didn't listen to me either. So you have to buy a pressure cleaner also.

I am being discouraging, sorry.

How are you planning to install it in a screen door. The unit requires a hard surface on all four sides for mounting. You will have to have the door structurally modified to accept it!

Yes, you have to check it first. I couldn't mount the one I got in a door, I knocked a hole in the wall!

Hey ho, I am sure that the planet is looking forward to the day when the humans have eradicated themselves (along with a lot of other species). Just give it a few million years and things will be right as rain again.

Here's an unpleasant link about food in markets, unless you mean small village markets. The remark above about insects is of course a good one.

Sorry, I forgot the link: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/health-ministry-warns-increasing-use-formalin-vendors-fresh-markets/

Wouldn't know ....never went to school in Thailand ...

BUT ...When I see the rote teaching (Well that's not really teaching!), and failure to teach critical thinking .....I wonder?????

well, from first hand evidence, I dont

critical thinking can be taught at home, as can respect.

so now you tell me where to buy cloves. not all of us llive near a Tops. I would guess that if I could buy clives I could buy allspice allso.

Kids often want what they can't have.

We are looking at ways to get our now 8 year old to a European school for one year at the age of 11 and again at the age of 18 (she'll still have to complete the 'missing' year).

I think it is important to get whatever certificate her Thai (private) school will give her, and I don't want her to miss out on becoming fluent in Thai, English and Chinese. After that: up to her. Whatever happens, sooner or later she will be leaving home so we are keeping her options open.

Here's an unpleasant link about food in markets, unless you mean small village markets. The remark above about insects is of course a good one.

Where did you find allspice? What is it called in Thai?

There was a news report recently indicating that a lot of stuff sold as being organic in fact contained more than slight traces of pesticides.

Most small farmers have grass fed beef (I can't eat it, too tough), and free range eggs and chickens.

Only a laboratory can do the analysis necessary to determine pesticide content. Maybe your nose will help.

I would send you a foto of the fertiliser I bought containing many microelements. However water has almost destroyed the label. It is a Bayer product, might be called Bayfolan. This worked wonders for my peppercorn plant which had been sulking in a corner for a year with yellow leaves.

pretty sure that this is an iron/magnesium deficiency.

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The result of this case will profoundly affect the way I think about the present government one way or the other.

Perfectly put - are they really wanting to drag Thailand into the modern world or are they just slaves to a wealthy and powerful elite?

Snig27, I think we all know the answer to that. I can imagine the judge during the trial....PAID.

Do all of you "freedom fighters" take a stand against corruption and injustice throughout the world, or have you become obsessed with the Thai system for some unknown reason.

What a weird posting. I don't know much about other countries' problems, and this is something that may well affect our every day lives. Is that what you call being obsessed with the Thai system? Not obsessed but very much interested and after a year or two here, feeling that I have a right to speak about Thailand.

The result of this case will profoundly affect the way I think about the present government one way or the other.

sorry C, but do you really think the current government's main concern is your opinion?

even you're right....

No I don't, why do you ask?

I thought it was a boring book when I read it before 1984 and I still do.

The result of this case will profoundly affect the way I think about the present government one way or the other.

The political wing of the government should not and must not have any influence or involvement in the outcome of any particular judicial proceeding. The courts must proceed independently and in accordance with the law.

We should want the present government to radically overhaul current libel and lèse majesté laws with the intent of making freedom of speech paramount, but we should certainly not want them to direct the courts in individual cases.

True. But other cases have been initiated or interfered with, so why not this one?