cooked

I saw tomatoes that stay green when they are ripe, maybe a solution there somewhere?

at our house in Isaan the main problem is the MIL collecting everything that is eatable before we get up.

We really must get a Thai gardening blog/website together some time.

very lazy autistic graphic artist at work?

yes yes, so we have lots of lovely graphic displays about what has happened. The subject is 'ready for the deluge'. What has been done to prepare for what may very well happen, what has been done to prevent it or lessen its effects?

Nobody is talking about this presumably because very little has been done (apart from saying it won't happen).

Why, prithee, would someone be videoiing an empty street quite by chance? The robbery seems very inept and badly rehearsed to me.

It's CCTV footage of an alleyway, exactly the sort of place where you would hope to find CCTV cameras!

great, investing money to find out what is happening, or whatever happened up to 2 hours ago. Any research being done into how to prevent what may be happening? Same old story everywhere, not just Thailand.

We were beaten at school, but it was really a big deal, everybody knew about it days in advance and the guy to be beaten was in a blue funk. This happened about once or twice a term. One or two guys got hardened to it and they generally got thrown out of the school eventually.

Individual teachers also had the right to ask a recalcitrant child if he wanted immediate corporal punishment at his hands or did he prefer to go to 'the beak'. Nobody ever took this second choice of course. The fact was that it was always there as an ultimate recourse and was actually rarely used.

Teachers that use CP regularly are falling down on the job, and I don't mean as individuals but as a group generally.

Sorry, I was thinking like a Swiss, if you can wait until September I'll come and do it, maybe cost a beer. You generally get a nice brochure with the chain saw when you buy one, showing you how to fell trees, nobody explains about the importance of sharpening the chain, no files supplied or information about what file to buy.

anybody can prune a tree. Doing it right is a different thing. Make sure you/they have insurance, plenty of stuff on Youtube showing trees landing on houses..

Thai is one of top 5 (if not THE) most difficult languages in the world to learn. Why bother? I do a number of things well, learning languages isn't one of them.

Incorrect, according to material found on the web and to personal experiences (I am good at learning languages).

Only time really when you can learn languages, is under 10 years of age.

Incorrect. Give me just one more year in France and I will be fluent in French.

But back to the op's question. That's a difficult one. You live in Thailand and could have full-time immersion in Thai (if you were living in a Thai area and had daily contact with Thais in Thai), the reason your progress is so slow is because you don't need Thai for your daily life. You forget the words you learnt last week simply because you don't need them!

yes. I'm afraid that this is true, Even going on an intensive immersion course is no good if you then go out in the evening with fellow sufferers and revert to English. You have to suffer. Well that's what worked for me any way.

ask in Dokmai Gardens?

I learnt two and a half languages (one was a dialect) on top of my English, no problem, but I was 24 at the time. My kids grew up tri- and-half lingual. Our dinner dinner tables when we had guests invited were amazing.

However now at the age of 64 although I can get myself a beer and find the toilets in Thailand I don't have many illusions about ever being able to speak Thai correctly although I have managed to read bits and pieces sometimes (beer Chiang for example, for some reason later on in the evening I couldn't read it any more).

Surely just being able to understand would be a worthwhile ambition, after a certain period of inhibition you may find yourself chipping in with a few bits of gibberish. That's the way I plan to go anyway, especially after I lied to a group of village trollops once and saw their faces fall when they thought that I had been following their conversation. My wife agrees that just understanding would be very important.

Living in the West, we are used to public schools at least striving to prepare students to advance in society and move on and up.

Last year I had a conversation with an expat who has lived here around 20 years and he explained to me that the Thai public education system is designed to first properly indoctrinate and then to educate the lower class only to level required to perform their part in Thai society as farmers, menial laborers, drivers, etc. It's part of the whole system to ensure the continued effective control and position of the higher-class "pu-yai" or "better people" in Thai society. He also said that any parent that cares about their child and has any kind of money sends their child to a private school.

I do not blindly accept what anybody tells me but I will add that I had many conversations with this person and many things that he has told me about Thai society and life here that I have been able to substantiate have all turned out to be pretty much right on the mark.

20 years? Sheesh I must be a genius, I worked that out, as well as where this stuff originates, in three months.

OP. What's your next mission regarding queueing system gonna be, getting on a bus in Bangkok?

yes, it must be great to know that you never feel uncertain about anything. I myself just don't give a flying flamingo's f*** about anything any more (apart from my wife), but I do respect people that do.

Obviously you didn't understand the relation with 'queueing system' and getting on a bus in Bangkok.

yes of course, I just realised how stupid I am, thanks for the reminder, professor

try starting Firefox without addons (safe mode) and see if things are ok. If they are you will then have to disable one addon after another to see if the problem is there. I had to get rid of Ghostery after the last update, things were then ok

OP. What's your next mission regarding queueing system gonna be, getting on a bus in Bangkok?

yes, it must be great to know that you never feel uncertain about anything. I myself just don't give a flying flamingo's f*** about anything any more (apart from my wife), but I do respect people that do.

well it's not a Thai problem is it? I ate out at midday 5 or 6 times a week for over 30 years and there wasn't just one way of reacting to bad service/food/prices. I got most annoyed by bad service, usually went over to ask for the MANAGER! , bad food I usually ate and complained afterwards. Price? Well paying above average for what you expect to be a good meal and then being disappointed does merit a complaint. For the last 8 years of my working life I started making salads, sandwiches and packing some biccies + a beer, never ate so well and healthily. and cheaply. I now look on most restaurants as ripoff merchants, I find it difficult to cook as badly as many of them do.

However you don't mind laying yourself open to attacks by our beloved trolls?

Just do it wrong for goodness sakes, you'll find out, that's how I used to do business, and it worked. If you see a number that is changing periodically somewhere up in the ceiling, then there is indeed a ticket numbering machine somewhere, just grin stupidly and gibber, somebody will help.

I got a T-shirt made, saying 'no plastic bag please'. Maybe the Op can take the initiative to do something similar? I get friendly reactions in 7/11 with mine.

I also downloaded and ran Kaspersky TDSSKiller, which is a free rootkit removal tool that is designed to remove the TDSS rootkit.

"This rootkit downloads other malware, redirects Google searches, and prevents programs (exe files) from opening.

TDSSKiller will also detect and remove other rootkits, such as the ZeroAccess rootkit."

The software reported my computer clean, so I am sure that it is, except for a few seconds when I re-boot and before Avira deletes the reinstalled malware.

But I'd like to get rid of it 100%

I can't be the first person to have this problem, surely?

Thanks for the tip about TDSS killer, which I just installed and ran. Despite unticking the box 'install Softonic search bar', this still got installes, both in Firefox and in IE. Took me another 10 minutes to get rid of. The scan results were worthwhile though.

I tend to hate 'yes' or 'no' surveys. As I get older I find myself seeing both sides of almost every point of view. Maybe 'integrate ' isn't the right word, maybe 'making an effort to understand, and not annoy, too many people around you' is more like it. This isn't a Thaivisa question, it's a question you get confronted with every day wherever you live.

So, my definite, convinced and cogitated answer: dunno.

The yes or no construct is a method to force you to make a choice. Many things in life are exactly like that. Such as do you move to Thailand or not? Yes or no. Do you stay in Thailand or not? Yes or no.

I fînd myself confronted with the choice: do I want to answer a survey that forces me to say yes or no to an over simplified question.

I tend to hate 'yes' or 'no' surveys. As I get older I find myself seeing both sides of almost every point of view. Maybe 'integrate ' isn't the right word, maybe 'making an effort to understand, and not annoy, too many people around you' is more like it. This isn't a Thaivisa question, it's a question you get confronted with every day wherever you live.

So, my definite, convinced and cogitated answer: dunno.

did you see the infos on Buriram expats forum?

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Anybody feel like scamming this doubtless 50 year old guy sweating his b***s off in a tiny concrete box in Pattaya?