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  1. The legalisation of weed in Thailand was done much the same way all of their important decisions seem to be made. Which is of course, with no proper due diligence, no thought process about the implementation, no care given to timelines and how thigs will roll out.

     

    Legal weed isn't the problem. The problem is the way everything is done there. There's no freaking plan! Everything is done in an off the cuff half-arsed way. The only wonder is that some things actually work.

     

    Canada legalized weed. Where's the problems there? Crickets....it's called planning.

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  2. On 2/29/2024 at 12:01 AM, bradiston said:

    Everybody always assumes that, but they obviously never have any evidence. How could they have, unless they were in on the scam. It's just an urban myth. You think the Oz authorities would be partial to some fat backhanders also? From like 10 couriers? Any complicity and they'd suffer the same fate.

    Not on the Aussie side. here. It's all bets off once they get on the plane. Statistics dictate some are going to get through. The big guys don't care about the couriers. Some always get through. A close relative is the chief of narcotics here. I get a great deal of inside info.

  3. 23 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

    How many accidents, injuries and death will it take to make changes?

    This is one of the reasons why Thailand is considered a sub par industrialized country...

    It is not going to change. A few years back there was a survey of Thai drivers which was quite comprehensive.

     

    In short, a full third of the respondents said there was literally nothing they could do to prevent an accident. Nothing. It is all preordained. 

     

    Driving drunk, not wearing a seatbelt, in the rain, with the stereo blasting, forgot to put on your headlights, texting a friend on the phone that you're coming over for beers, speeding and blasting through a stop sign without even noticing there was one....has NOTHING to do with getting T-boned and killed by a huge over-loaded semi-truck with <deleted>ty brakes and a driver whacked out of his mind on yaba. 

     

    It's simply the way things were meant to be.

     

    How can you change that? It's such a profoundly stupid, and yet molecularly ingrained, attitude......

  4. I lived and worked in S. Korea for 6 years. They are, generally speaking, incredibly racist. Especially to non-whites. 

     

    As for the mention in the article about S. Korea being a travel destination for tourists worldwide...

     

    HA!

    As mentioned, I lived there 6 years and met precisely 1 tourist who was there specifically to see the country. The huge majority of tourists were from Japan (whom the Koreans actively hate) and were there to shop in Seoul. 

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  5. 6 hours ago, Homburg said:

    I recall when I was at school it was common for children to make up stories about teachers that they did not like.

    True. I detest pedophiles more than any other criminal, but kids have certainly been known to lie.

     

    I'd like to learn more about this guy and his relationship with the students. I find it challenging that this behaviour took place in the teacher's lounge and was unknown for several months. 

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  6. On 1/21/2024 at 4:09 PM, Chris Daley said:

    Thailand - First class 7:40.  Last class 16:00.

    China - First class 8:10.  Last class 16:40

     

    I have studied with Thai and Chinese students and the Thai student absolutely obliterated Chinese students.  The Thai students can speak Thai, English and Chinese.  The Chinese can only speak rural Chinese.  They sit in every class in total silence.  They lacked even basic primary school grammar.  The teacher had to teach them how to write the days of the week because they kept saying 'day 2' 'day 5'.  This was at university level.

     

    Chinese schools are all show but when it comes down to it Thai students would crush them in math, English, and science.

    I taught 1st year university in Zhengzhou, China. Chapter 1 in the textbook started with learning the days of the week. This is how far they'd come when they started learning English in Primary Grade 1. So, in their 13th year of formal English language learning, they'd made it all the way to days of the week! 

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