Norrad

Looks like the saga is continuing on the Hot in the Biscuit page. Now more drug smugglers, international schools, Bitcoin, scammers etc. Getting my popcorn out now as it's like a movie in the making...

https://www.facebook.com/hotinthebiscuit

Around 2000. I've tried to go as cashless as possible, so I use cards for 99% of my transactions.

1 hour ago, GinBoy2 said:

So without wanting to rehash the definition of a pedophile.

 

We all know instinctively that a 62 year old man with a 14 year old child, is just wrong.

Anyone trying to justify that is, I fear is a pedophile themselves

Exactly! There is no justifying it. No matter how it's spun.

3 hours ago, jackdd said:

Where did you get your definition from?

According to these two definitions he is not a pedophile

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedophilia

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pedophile

 

Here you go...

22 minutes ago, Mac98 said:

Legally not a pedophile, which is sex with prepubescent child. I wonder what happened to her disabled father? 

Actually a pedophile is defined as: a person who is sexually attracted to a child.
A child is defined as: a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.

So he was definitely a dirty Pedo when he met her when she was 14 years old! He deserves to be castrated with a rusty knife and left to bleed out slowly.

9 hours ago, mikebell said:

My wife's done the same to me.

I have way too many questions for this...

I've had a few scares, mostly condoms breaking. The Thai Red cross makes you sh*t bricks when you do the test there. The doctors always look so down and worried when they give you the results.

3 hours ago, hottrader77 said:

the business must have 7 thais working there before they can employ a farlang and he still will need a work permit , it does not look like he has got 7 thais working there ONLY HIM ! so he is breaking the law shame on him !

Where did you dig up that nonsense? A business needs four Thai employees per work permit. If you are married to a Thai then the requirement goes down to two Thai employees. He is married, so he only requires two Thai employees to be able to get a work permit and his wife can be counted as one.

A dictionary definition of a "quality tourist". The Cambodians couldn't handle all that "quality", so they had to arrest and deport him. At least he is living up to his tattoos ????

Watching the video it seems it was a total loss of tail rotor effectiveness. It would have been impossible to recover from that and a forced/slash hard landing would be have been difficult to achieve ????

8 hours ago, DoctorG said:

Initial witness reports that the engine just stopped and it came right down (as they tend to do). Many will be waiting for the official verdict.

No they don't. You can perform an autorotation landing after an engine failure. Although height and speed play a big part. Anything below 30 meters or 30 knots and likelyhood of a successful autorotation landing is slim. Think of how a Sycamore seed works.

The embassy in Hong Kong is normally very polite and accommodating, but they are very strict when it comes to paperwork and carefully go through every document. That was my experience applying for a Non-B there for teaching.

That being said I'm sure they are a little bit racist to people of colour. An African-American, who was applying at the same time, was turned away when they checked his paperwork. I remember it clearly because he had a mountain of paperwork and I started to panic because I didn't have all the papers that he had. We were comparing our papers while filling in the application forms together.

34 minutes ago, puukao said:

I will have to turn in my work permit, go to immigration and then do a border run.  

 

 

Don't do it until you have visited the Labour department in your area and had a chat to them. They will advise you on your options.

42 minutes ago, puukao said:

Can they make it impossible to teach any where else?  Like call ministry of education or something....

 

 

No they can't. There is no blacklist of teachers or anything. Schools will often threaten that they will blacklist you, but it's hollow threats.

Now from the severance pay perspective. Government schools are assigned government employees and all other hires are considered contractors and therefore not entitled to severance pay. Private schools, language centers and agencies hire you as an employee and you may be entitled to some severance pay if they fire you. But the teaching profession is strange as it is exempt from many requirements (such as minimum salary and contract lengths) and I have never heard of a teacher actually being able to get severance pay after being fired.

Also refusing to sign a new contract can be seen as you quitting and then any company would not have to pay severance pay.

I'm going to guess that this is a teaching contract (based on the May start date). In that case you will have major problems getting any severance pay out of your employer as schools are exempt from certain rules.

Just now, Jingthing said:

Oh! Are you sure about that? If that's the case, then I understand why the reports haven't focused on that. 

I'm just going on personal experience on climbing rocks with sandals on. You sweat and the sandals become slippery and dangerous to use when climbing. Your bare toes are far better adept at finding the perfect spot on a rock to give you a better footing.

7 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Yes, and that would be an understandable and not uncommon human reaction.

Panicked, trapped, and no help coming, desperate attempt to swim out.

A way to avoid that would be a strong leader that has some good sense.

One question I have is about the found sandals found much earlier.

Isn't that bad sign? Why would people that haven't been swept by water discard their sandals? 

The sandals were found near the entrance to one of the chambers along with bicycles. It makes sense because sandals are difficult to climb in when you are planning on scaling up rocks or slopes. Better to leave them behind and go barefoot.