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39 minutes ago, Loaded said:

You mean like cars, computers, pens, fast-food containers, food packaging, traffic cones, kitchen ware, carpets, clothes, catheters, saline drip tubes, heart stents, straws, coffee containers and the list goes on for a few miles but you saw a viral video once on social media telling you about the evils of plastic supermarket bags and you fell for it. Banning them will make the world a better place - lol.

The world needs to reduce one time use plastics.

It's at a crisis point.

Plastic bags are the the most obvious target as they are so unnecessary.

Straws and coffee containers the next obvious targets along with packaging..

Everything else you listed has a longer life span or an important role.

Got to start somewhere, or shove your head up your arse like you seem to want.

18 hours ago, a10ams said:

I bought a house using a company in Jan 2007. Had I taken the 'rent it' advice and rented the (exact same) house next door at 40k a month I would now have paid rent to the tune of 5.6m on a 6.2m house. So I'm 15 months away from break even point. Buy it if you're here for the long run.

You might  just as well be 15 months away from losing it.

The company thing has been done for many years, but it's also been a dubious (illegal) practice for many years.

I wouldn't risk it but if it works for you?

All it takes is for one official saying "hey this isn't right" and the house of cards tumbles.

3 hours ago, Chrisdoc said:

I can understand the few beers part but I did find your initial posts abrasive hence my reaction. I know internet discussions are open but if you post in an edited manner it can often sound like you are trying to push over your point without consideration of other views.I don't think my analogy is bad as I was talking as a teacher not as a student. Regardless of your experience, mine is that the filipino teacher is terrible and there are other posts in the thread that seem to agree. I am sick of correcting the garbage that her filipino teacher puts out which made me react to the original post.

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My posts have never been abrasive.

I simply don't understand your response. You have been very grammar nazi  about this.

I stand by my assertion that there are many fine Filipino teachers  in Thailand.

Your daughter's teacher may be sub par, but you paint them all as bad.

Pull your daughter out of the class and send her elsewhere.

I suspect you won't be happy with any school.

15 hours ago, ozmeldo said:

I bank 30-35k a month M-F. Excluding large expenses.

 

It'sreally a myth that Bangkok is hugely more expensive. What

does your scooter or car and insurance cost? I have a small, tidy flat 5200b pm. Less than 10% of my gross pay.

I have a 3 bedroom 2 bath townhouse for 4k a month.

If I wanted a small tidy flat I'd pay 1800 baht pm.

I hate big cities. At this time I'd prefer less money and more peaceful life than I'd have in  Bangkok.

I'm glad you're loving it there though!

1 hour ago, Chrisdoc said:

I was a music teacher but have never taught English. If I was on a forum recommending a certain music teacher and then they saw me playing my instrument and I played badly, do you think I could expect someone to accept my opinion? As I wrote to Duane, if we were discussing football I could understand but we are talking about a child's education. I can understand about conversational English but your comment about your daughter and the filipino is quite ambiguous and an obligation of conversation is that each person can understand what you are talking about whether in slang or polite conversation or it has no point. From the context of the thread. I can guess the filipino is a teacher. Whether you can have an in depth discussion with the teacher or your daughter is not obvious?

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Internet forums are very informal conversations.  Often grammar is misused.

People are often replying after a couple of beers or in anger. Grammar gets left behind.

Your analogy of commenting on a music thread while playing badly  is poor. You could be a student who is struggling to learn the instrument, but recommend a teacher. 

I think you are over blowing a sentence I constructed  awkwardly..

PS. the quality of  playing of an instrument is subjective, so you should have said " I played poorly."

14 minutes ago, Chrisdoc said:

Are you and H-tel really teachers? H-tel wrote "My daughter went to a school with a Filipina and apart from UK English teachers, she was pretty good.  At least I could have a complex conversation with her in exactly the same way as I would talk to a fellow countryman.". Who is he talking about? Is the daughter pretty good or the filipina? Who can he have a conversation with? The daughter or the filipina? Is the filipina a teacher or a student?" Why "apart from UK English teachers" You agreed with him in your post so you must understand what he is saying? In your post when you said " you missed the point" do you mean you understand what I am saying now or do you think I have no point. Do you write sentences with the verb between the subject and the object or verb at the end. Is your point good or the teacher good in the sentence "My point about most Filipino teachers to be quite good I still feel". I don't want to be rude but if the filipino teachers express themselves like you two do it is hard to accept your judgements.

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We're on an informal internet forum. No need to be grammar Nazis.

I  understood that HHTel felt his daughter's Filipino teacher was quite decent.

When I posted "missed the point" I left the pronoun "I" out of it as it wasn't necessary. The Subject IS before the verb and the object is last.

OK "I" missed your point. "I" am sorry. Says exactly what it is meant to say. People don't type formal English on forums. You're being a pedantic <deleted> and you are being rude. Anyone who says, "I don't want to be rude "but".... is being exactly that.

Just now, ozmeldo said:

Come to Bangkok, double your salary ?

Triple my expenses, no thanks.

3 minutes ago, ozmeldo said:

That is some dreamy scanario. I've never met a Filipino with a slight accent. They are all from the Beesayas. Filipino universities are horrible. Many have bogus paper.

 

But most importantly, a commodity of which we all are, our labor is worth what someone will pay for it and we are willing to accept. They routinely accept poor wages then whinge about it. The spiteful backstabbing for which I have been victim is legend.

 

At the end of the year when you negotiate a contract a teacher has the opportunity to leave for more money or stay and be bitter. I always leave, the Filipinos always stay.

 

I know for a fact that Filipinos with game and some that are just stupid lucky are making 35-42.5k.

Not my experience at all but I'm not in Bangkok but Northern Thailand. Where I live very few NES are making more than 30k.

A pen. sorry to be stupidly simple but my last trip I forgot my pen.

If you need them, reading glasses.

Maybe a good book.

If in no rush, I like dropping my papers off on a Friday and collecting on a Monday. So dead at the embassy. Takes the weekend hanging out in Vientiane but no one there. It's a lot more relaxing. 

8 minutes ago, ozmeldo said:

 

 

There's a reason Filipinos are paid local wages, that's what they accept and that's what they are worth. And yes, some schools overpay white teachers but that's what it is. Overpaying crappy white teachers, not underpaying Filipinos.

I disagree that's what Filipinos are worth.

They are often drastically underpaid but take the best they are offered. A Filipino with a proper Education degree and a slight accent versus a NES who has never taught nor been trained.

The Filipinos are underpaid. 

3 hours ago, catman20 said:

along with all the other millions of farangs that have been doing it this way for the past 25/30 years or longer.

i suppose you put your house in your wife's name thats assuming you can afford one, i hope she cleans your dumb AXX out. opps i forgot shes different  

I highly doubt there are even a million farang expats living here let alone millions having formed companies to buy houses 30 years ago.

6 minutes ago, Kelsall said:

 

Not only do I use plastic bags, but I drive my big truck on routes serviced by songtaews, simply because it is more convenient.  My carbon footprint is huge.

OK, fine with it.

Acting like a pig and a troll is completely up to you. People's opinion of such behaviour is up to them.

On 8/22/2018 at 7:44 PM, Kelsall said:

Actually, they offered me a box.  Ever try to take your groceries home in a box?

 

I said no, give me a plastic bag.  They did.

You should have been using your own reusable bag on your own volition without needing the store to force it on you. Been using my own bag in Thailand since I got here.

18 hours ago, konisaan said:

Every plastic shopping bag I get gets reused as a garbage bag in the kitchen. If they stop providing bags at checkouts I will have to start buying garbage bags. I don't see a net reduction in bags as far as my usage is concerned; only a small increase - namely the extra bag the garbage bags came in in the first place, which doesn't have any use. If there is anything wrong with my logic; please speak up.

When you get 5 or 6 bags full of groceries you usually generate about 1 bag of garbage.

If you are creating one bag of garbage for each bag of groceries you get, you're an environmental disaster.

7 hours ago, My Thai Life said:

Point 1 is such a big generalisation it doesn't move your argument forward. NES speakers are definitely not favoured at our school. We hire on the basis of ability, and we do require an applicant to be able to speak Thai. Many of the applicants I've had from "NES" countries are unemployable.

 

Point 2 is simply not true. There may be some US online "schools" that only accept US or North American citizens, and this may be for operational reasons as much as anything else. But the majority of online "schools" accept a wide range of applicants.

 

Point 3 depends on whose definition of "NES". I find a lot of the "discussion" about NES to be, frankly, racist. Anyone working in the TEFL sector who has kept abreast of developments in the theory and practice of TEFL over the last 20 years would know that the debate around "NES" moved on a long time ago. There are many Filipino NES speakers, the fact that you don't recognise that doesn't change anything.

 

I'm going to disagree on some points.

Point 1.

Yes it was a broad generalization. But I'll stick by my assertion that the majority of schools  prefer NES teachers,  especially in Asia and the Middle East.

Point 2.

You're right on this one. I should have said "some" Chinese language online agencies prefer  North American teachers. I was thinking of VipKids one of the most active agencies from  China.

Point 3.

I agree depends on the definition. But the debate is still around. My definition of NES is someone who learned English at a very young age and  prefers to communicate in English. The Filipino teachers I know revert to Tagalog or their dialect whenever the conversation  doesn't require English. The majority of people in the Philippines aren't speaking English at home. I consider that non-NES. 

5 hours ago, Chrisdoc said:

You have obviously not read my original post before commenting. I guessed the teacher who corrected the exam is from the Phillipines. I was wrong. The teacher was Thai. Seperately I mentioned my niece's teacher is definitely from the Phillipines.

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Read the post but missed the point, sorry.

My point about most Filipino teachers to be quite good I still feel.

On 8/21/2018 at 7:26 AM, My Thai Life said:

I am sorry to hear about your niece.

 

Being able to speak a language does not mean you can teach it. Also, most English teachers worldwide are "non-NES". Also many Philippinos are NES as much as many Brits/US/Oz/etc citizens.

 

Maybe most aren't NES,  but Native speakers worldwide are far more desirable to schools for a reason.

The online tutoring to China doesn't even want Brits or Aussies because of the accents.

Filipinos are by definition NOT Native English Speakers.

31 minutes ago, Chrisdoc said:

The reason I commented was my frustration at my niece's teacher. I am happy to argue it round and round like you seem to want to but my experience is with someone who seems to be a totally incompetent teacher and is from the Phillipines. Can't work out what you mean about your daughter going to school with a filipina and the rest of your post?

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I agree with HHtel here. 

You said you guessed the  teacher was Filipino. Now you are saying definitely from the Philippines?

Incompetence is nationality independent. I've worked with many fine teachers from the Philippines.

What I find ironic is the amount of posters decrying our "nanny states" back home.

Then complaining about Thai traffic deaths.

Complaining about construction safety, no hardhats or work boots.

B1tching about poor restaurant hygiene.

Poor wiring in our houses.

Poor customer service.

Corrupt police and immigration.

The list goes on and on and on......

 I love living here, but I'm going to stand up and say I don't condone everything about it.

One poster suggested we do do something about it.

Ain't gonna happen,

3 minutes ago, 1sickpuppy said:

Thailand is the freest country in the world.

Try posting  something against very powerful Thai political , religious or Royal people publicly and get back to us.

I don't view police road block checks as much a "shakedown" as misguided police strategy.

In the West we have police giving  moving violation tickets from active patrolling of the streets with the common police roadblock checks at major holidays for drunk driving.

Here, they simply have the roadblock checks. No moving violation tickets.

Of course many police are pocketing the money but I've been in the wrong and handed over the exact same fine money as a Thai and was given a receipt.

I don't think we are being "shook down" but I live up north, not Pattaya so could very well missed something. I've been pulled over 3 times in 6 years.

22 hours ago, OnMyWay2 said:

I had a Thai license.  They stop you for the license shakedown.  If that doesn't work they find something else...

What else did they find?

They don't charge you 500 baht if you have a license, registration, and insurance, with a helmet of course, just like all the other countries of the world.

What didn't you have?