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Cereal

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  1. 1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

    While I agree the injuries should be dealt with and the teacher fired from teaching, I would like to know what REALLY caused the teacher to punish him.  Teachers in Thailand rarely care if you can recite a timetable as a matter of fact I think most of them would have trouble.  I am willing to be there is more to it than the boy has admitted

    There usually is. In general, you seriously cannot take the opinion of the student as being flawless and factual.

  2. Two good places to start would be:

     

    1) Standardization of rise / run for stairs. In Canada it's 200mm/254mm. In Thailand it's whatever...and in Laos it seems worse.

     

    2) The tile floor situation. There are tiles that are meant to never get wet cuz they're slippery as ice and there are tiles that are not slippery when wet, such as those we put in our bathroom. A simple rule is that if a tile is shiny when dry, it's slippery when wet. Use non-slip tiles on stairs, bathrooms and outside.

     

    I bet these 2 thing would help immensely in reducing slip/fall accidents.

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  3. I have met two predominant dog owners while living in Laos and Korea. The owners who don't care and either let their dogs run wild or keep them on a 1 meter long rope all day or caged up, and the people who treat their dogs like barbie dolls with dyed ears and paws etc and carry them everywhere they go.

     

    The remaining small percentage in the middle are - to use an encultured biased phrase - like Canadians. Dogs are part of the family. They eat, sleep and play with us in the house or outside. They're exercised and trained at least a little bit.

     

    Oh yeah, we don't eat them either! Or have sex with them like that guy in Chang Mai. Although, if you're an NFL superstar quarterback, you may run a dog-fighting ring. Of course, then you throw footballs in prison for a few years.

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