Paulzed

Red Shirt conspiracy

Sounds like Mercury poising to me!!

Boring game.....who would want to gamble on socker.???

let alone having a riot over it.

I predict an increase of people seen consulting tree's,large fungi's ,fruit's with an unusual shape,or gazing intentley at the clouds,to get the score before placing their wager.

Don't forget Paul the octopus...he was my hero!

Wow! Once again I'm baffled about the sharpness and wisdom of yet another so-called "academic".

Betting may lead to gambling addiction.

Smoking may lead to nicotine addiction.

Shooting up may lead to heroin addiction.

Drinking may lead to alcohol addiction.

Swimming as a non-swimmer may lead to drowning.

Drunk driving may lead to accidents.

Thailand, the hub of pointing out the obvious.

Breathing air may lead to getting high on life addiction....cant have that!

Looks like another box of tissues coming up!

getting lost in forest or an encounter with wild bears. Some Thai berry pickers end up not making any money and find themselves hopeless indebted.

Sounds like the bears are in on it to, and the berry pickers had to pay them off also.

HAs anyone tried to negotiate a busy round about in Thailand???

love the road rules in Thailand.....Because there are none!

And no speed cameras or RBTs

TAT is right, it will bounce back and all the naysayers on TV wont change that.

RIP, there is always someone that cant cope with life and when they have depression, they don't think straight and look for the easy solution and there is no rhyme or reason for what they do.

www.beyondblue.org.au

Any place that serves food.

Credit Cards are evil, don't let your wife get a hold of it, destroy it the first chance you get!!!!!

My first reaction was to moan about it, then after a few years laugh about it, now I know the way the average Thai thinks is very different from the way the average Westerner thinks. It's a cultural thing due to the Buddhism, IMHO. Thai people don't care if the person they meet is late as they a lot more comfortable enjoying the moment than Westerners, who are not taught "samadtee" or meditative techniques at school.

They will reply, "I am here 'now'", so what's the problem.

They are actually right as time IS an illusion.

Its all relative.

I have read your story and I have done a bit of research and it looks like she was married to the Mormon tabernacle choir as well.

Dig a hole a few feet from the front door and throw all your rubbish in it and then wonder why the house is full of ants and fly's

"battmot" = dead battery... (in thai, "mot" means empty, no more of whatever) proper transliteration towards english would probably require to write "mawt". Thais use this expression often in relation to their phone's battery when it goes dead.

Batterly Mawt Reuw, Can always use fingers and toes, just don't point your feet at any one.

Running over and killing a Farung, in a company truck, third offence same crime.

150 000 baht fine

My apologies for keeping quiet through all these very informative comments (well most anyway, but this is TV) but work has kept me head down all day. [... intentional shorten ...]

As far as the subject of critical thinking or "thinking outside the box" goes, I have pretty much given up on that with my staff. As was said earlier I think that sort of thing is "beaten" out of them at a young age, and that truly is a waste of good people and a crushing of their potential. The "elite" of both colours appear to want that maintained along with never questioning authority (although I do see some changes recently). Just keep turning out workers with enough education to bolt a Toyota together but not enough to question why they will probably spend the rest of their lives doing it.

I fully agree with you. Through made experiences in various cultures where the same situation exists, I know it can be rectified to some extend. But that is a time consuming and delicate process where each situation is different. No matter if you are in the Middle East or Asia/SE Asia - it's possible.

Good luck with our daughter and keep your head up. PM me if you need help.

The education system in the south is really bad for not allowing of "thinking outside the box" and "individualism", the Islamic schools are a lot worse for this but, insist that their version of education is better that the rest.

I worked for 2 years in Bangkok public schools (mattayom 3-6 mostly). I won't pretend to have had years and years of experience, but here are my oservations:

Classes are huge--my smallest were around 30 students, largest were twice that. Most research that I've seen suggests that the optimum class size is under 20--much more than that, and it simply doesnt work.

Creativity and imagination are discouraged in favor of rote memorization and copying. More emphasis is put on discipline, uniforms, and hierarchy than ideas or mental stimulation. Critical thinking is discouraged and any natural curiosity students might have about the subject matter is stifled.

No real attempt is made at student centered teaching or tailoring lessons to students learning styles. Because of this, students feel alienated and bored by the content. At best, theyll do the bare minimum to get a good grade. At worst, they totally lose interest in school early on and go through the motions until theyre old enough to drop out.

To the extent that studying is considered important at all, hard sciences, math, and morality classes always take precedence over the arts and humanities. For this reason, students emerge from high school knowing next to nothing about geography, history, languages or politics.

Grades dont mean anything. No one is held back or forced to retake classes, even if they do zero of the coursework. Students are allowed (forced, actually) to retake exams until they receive a passing grade, and deadlines are treated as suggestions more than obligations.

Incompetent or struggling teachers, rather than being given support (or weeded out if necessary), are instead shuffled around from position to position within the faculty and administration in the hopes that theyll either magically figure out how to do their job better or will simply quit.

If you want to know how to improve the system, I'd suggest you start with any of these.

And that was just a brief overview!

If all else fails you can still use Lao Khow

Alien Abduction and genetic manipulation

Udon grandmothers stretch them as babies. It's a traditional thing to ward off ghosts and predict lottery numbers.

They have to stop doing it before the grandmother gets to 35 years old though. After that is bad luck.

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