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"Thai education has generally concentrated on literacy and numerical skills, with little emphasis on new ideas and creativity skills. The Mechai Pattana School intends to change this situation for poor, rural students.

The school strives towards getting its pupils to perform at their full potential by focusing on developing the complete individual. The lessons at the school are focused on enabling students to analyze and create"

from the first page of the website.

Si I dunno where you got that from

...what's the opposite of a genius? Halfwit? Ok, sorry halfwit sir, I think you have been living too long in Thailand and place too much value on external appearances. I don't know what you look like, but the image that you present on this forum is certainly not a lovable one.

Guess you didn't read my post [38] I could start a dating service for over 30 Thai girls who drive BMWs. Thailand is just not poor bar girls. JIm

me too, I started 'helping' some girls until I realised that I was actually pimping, so I stopped, the frontier between morally acceptable and illegal wasn't too clear.

An oversized A/C is pointless, it will cut off when the temperature has reached its setting, before the humidity, which is what causes the disconfort, has been removed.

Thanks, I didn't know that about cancer treatment.

By cheap, I meant that I didn't want to pay for an insurance that was unreliable.

I have still to make a decision.

mm... mr tjhorner... you will with time notice that certain posters are coming up again and again, some of them may be very annoying... and you find that you seem invariably in agreement with certain others. I think that you will find that the trolls go hide and start annoying someone else when they notice that they are being laughed at, so keep up the good work!

well as always, questions about THAILAND are answered as if everyone lives in BANGKOK or PATTAYA. You guys should get out more.

You do not get a filthy piss stinking rat's nest for ฿5000.- in Isaan, you get a quite nice modern house. You get a good haircut for ฿30.-. I live very well with my wife on ฿45 000.- a month. I do not have pretensions to be be someone who 'simply must have the basic luxuries in life, my dear'.

Yes it is cheaper to live here for some people, probably for those that stay away from Bangkok and don't complain about the price of whores and beer. (I have a Thai wife and make my own beer).

What happens if you dont want to live in the wilds of Issan because you find it too "rustic" ?

Try Chiang Mai. You can get a nice, clean room with aircon, cable TV and bath for 5,000 baht downtown and perhaps a house if you live in the suburbs. There is plenty of farang stuff to do and you can eat as cheaply as you need to if you are OK with Thai food.

Chiang Mai: I have asthma and would probably die before my time if I lived there in the 'smoky season'. I would move there like a shot without that.

well as always, questions about THAILAND are answered as if everyone lives in BANGKOK or PATTAYA. You guys should get out more.

You do not get a filthy piss stinking rat's nest for ฿5000.- in Isaan, you get a quite nice modern house. You get a good haircut for ฿30.-. I live very well with my wife on ฿45 000.- a month. I do not have pretensions to be be someone who 'simply must have the basic luxuries in life, my dear'.

Yes it is cheaper to live here for some people, probably for those that stay away from Bangkok and don't complain about the price of whores and beer. (I have a Thai wife and make my own beer).

Firstly do you really need A/Cs?, we just have the windows open and

use ceiling and wall fans plus lots of trees and plants around the house,there maybe a few days a year when I wish

I had one ,but then i remember the money I am saving.

Just a thought

regards Worgeordie

well if that's the way you want to go, you should insulate the roof space, make sure that there is adequate ventilation up there, maybe fit a whirlygig or two, insulate the sun facing walls also. I am hoping to be able to survive without A/C, will know if I succeed in a year or two

My mind is twirling: corrupt cops arrested corrupt would-be cops, is that it? So who paid the cops to arrest the ... corrupt would-be cops? Honest would-be cops? I just can't work it out,

Anyway I am shocked and surprised by this news, who would have thought it...

Good question! There are people that try to produce in an environmentally friendly fashion: http://puraorganic.org

there must be others...

we left our car at the ferry car park for three days, no problem..

As there are regularly questions appearing about medical insurance on this forum, I thought the enclosed attachment would be of interest. I got in touch with a guy at PacificPrime and he was very helpful, although I haven't decided which Insurance I will be taking or indeed if I will be getting an insurance at all.

I mentioned in my email to him that I will be 65 in January and thta I wasn't interested in a 'cheap' insurance.

Medical Overview.pdf

Due to copyright reasons this video program is available for download by people located in Australia only. If you are not located in Australia, you are not authorised to view this video.

But thanks anyway

The shame of it is that when you do manage to get a Thai through his education without passing through the school system, they can be very bright indeed. My wife got only two years of school and self educated herself. Her English is better than that of the village school teacher, and she didn't learn it in bars. She had never had a map in her hands before I met her, one day after explaining the principle of map reading, she was directing me cross country. I imagine that she is not an exception, however without a piece of paper she will never get a 'good' job.

pedant

noun

1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.

2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.

3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.

hmm, yes sir, right straight away. My beloved wife will be interested in your views. You write quite good English for a fan of Nietzche but you seem to have trouble understanding it.

.. years ago my son took a video of his class teacher not hitting, but bullying, a child in his class.. When the teacher had the cheek to come to our house to complain about lack of respect by my son (since become an army captain and security officer), we just showed him the the video. He changed colour and left. Two years later he had to change house, wife and job. Happened in Switzerland around 1990, so this isn't a uniquely Thai problem.

I was beaten at school also, and I guess it was justified (I got my own back on a bully in front of the cathedral). However it is all too easy to make thing easy for yourself with violence. Get your kid an unobtrusive video apparatus and see what happens when you threaten to put it on youtube...

sorry, I understand very well what is being said.....

I agree with beano2274.

In the UK with have home grown terrorists (blow up the London underground). We also have people standing at the side of the road shouting child killers at are returning military, as they march through the streets. We also have people burning poppies and the Union Jack during rememberance parades.

Well poppies are a symbol of British state sanctioned drug dealing in China 150 years ago.

oh boy, reading this comment I wonder if Time Traveller even knows anything about botany, let alone what the origin of the poppy as a symbol of the tragedy and inutility of war is about. Read some books please, maybe learn how to use Google

for material plus work?

that is so cheap

sorry, just for the work.

I was quoted ฿17 000.- for mine, I'm still looking (in a vague, blurred sort of way).

In Buriram, not Pattaya, ฿3500.-

as I am actually quite an attractive lovable person, I'd like to meet myself.

sorry OP, your feet will drop off