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On 11/19/2020 at 3:04 AM, owl sees all said:

There is a funny story from Mildred's school. I'm sure they would not mind if I was to spill the beans.

 

Mildred brought home a math's book about a year ago. The section they were working on was giving examples of calculating areas of shapes. But, I notice that the formula at the top of this particular page was incorrect. For the area of a triangle, the formula was hxb multiplied by 2. But this was obviously wrong. The correct formula is hxb divided by 2. Or hxb multiplied by 1/2. I got a red felt tip and circled the error.

 

I told Mildred to show the teacher the mistake in the text book.

 

When she got home I asked her what the teacher said about the error. Teacher said; "Tell your Dad not to put marks in text books."

don't try to fight the system, work round it; i often help friends' children with their english schoolwork. fairly regularly they will come to me with questions or queries about mistakes in text books and/or those awful worksheets some teachers throw together, or something that the teacher has told them that is clearly incorrect. the children are usually correct and i advise them that in school go along with whatever the teacher tells them, everywhere else in their life go with what i tell them.

re the guitar, have you taught your daugher how to tune it, or bought a tuner? an out of tune guitar is not particularly motivating to play, or pleasant to listen to.

and the drawing... to be honest most of the friends' female children spend a lot of time producing that style of anime character drawing

what on earth are they complaining about? the government has excelled bringing in 1200 tourists every month, and  each, apparently, is going to spend 1 million baht per month! they should be patting the government on the back for its efforts!

13 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

It could well be that vaccinations certificates will be the quick passport to international travel and being allowed in,

we shall see ....anti vacs stay home ????????????

anti vaxxers probably aren't the type of people that feel comfortable travelling abroad, what with all those foreign people with their strange ways, better off hunkered down at home...

i was under the impression they could already be bought on line... i think i've seen travel agents using an online booking system, maybe i'm wrong, maybe travel agents only...? anyway better late than never,

14 hours ago, ezzra said:

Unless you leave in the the boondocks of Thailand you wouldn't know that so many are financially strapped, living in the big cities of Thailand you don't see baggers, no raggedy people milling about, no one sleeps in the rough, i think that because to be poor and something to be ashamed of and Thais will do their utmost to hide it..

have you even been to bangkok? there are an awful lot of homeless people and beggars on the streets; silom, rachaprasong, sanam luang, to name but three areas...

i've received parcels from the uk and from hk, both by normal air and surface mail, i've never had any problems or any missing items.

20 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

QUOTE: THE BAHT IS too strong.

 

Too strong for living the farang life on a meager British pension. I agree.

Therefore the baht must go down, ergo the baht is manipulated. I disagree.

 

Endearing wishfull thinking........

haha, there does seem to be a one eyed view of the baht exchange rate here. anyone working, being paid in baht and shipping it home is quids in, anyone working and paid in baht and holidaying abroad likewise, imports are cheaper - in theory!

4 hours ago, JusticeGB said:

The vaccines are in development stage and seem to be 90%, at best, effective. The adverse risk scared Government of Thailand is unlikely to open its doors to tourists quickly even after the vaccine is released. Most of Thailand's population would have to be vaccinated before that could be considered safe.

what are thailand's plans for the vaccine; how many doses have been pre-ordered? who will be the first groups of the population to be vaccinated? when will the vaccination programme begin?

9 minutes ago, Speedhump said:

I don't need to read 22 pages of posts to reply to one. The hotel was pushed beyond endurance by this aggressive man's highly unreasonable and sustained online attack. If the law is there to stop him then they certainly had the right to use it. 

 

Laws on defamation and similar in the UAE also are strict, and people learn by their mistakes. But it's still a major holiday destination, COVID excepted.

 

This is a fart in a teacup. 

This is a fart in a teacup

in the grand scheme of things for sure. however the owner of the hotel may rue the day they decided to use a sledge hammer to crack a nut. a far more proportional and indeed rational course of action would be to address the complaints with relevant, accurate responses within TA and/or escalate to the TA compliance /complaint department. basic common sense that is applied by the vast majority of individuals and businesses that have issues with reviews on TA.

32 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

From my experiences working in the intl. Corporate world on 4 continents, the preference is American English.  People want to talk the way people do in movies.

Unfortunately, Americans want to speak like the British.

unless someone is fluent and/or has spent time living in a native english speaking country, or has close native speaker friends they will have very little chance of speaking like a native british or american speaker. and to be honest it makes absolutely no difference because what is important is not the accent but being able to communicate in a clear and effective way.

since the latest iphone/ipad os update i am repeatedly asked to input my hotmail/outlook password, anyone else experiencing this? any solutions?

thanks for any advice

1 hour ago, recom273 said:

You should have done what the Muslim families do in our local big C.
 

They just send 10 items with every kid and grandparent in rotation. 

 

predictably a light, humorous post brings out a TV bigot expressing a racist ethnic trope.

jai yen yen ????

5 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Oh dear.

There is an MRT station in the basement.  It is called Bang Sue (there's a clue in the name - it's the same as the station!).  Also connects with Light Red and Dark Red lines when they open next year.

Why would you expect it to be connected to lines that don't pass through there (BTS, Purple Line)?  There are lots of other things in different parts on Bangkok it's not connected to either - it doesn't connect with any Chao Phraya river boats which is another massive oversight.  No walkway directly into Emporium either - more stupid Thai short-sightedness!

there are many benefits being and to be realised from the investment in public transportation in bangkok, however, i would agree, there are many, obvious, missed opportunities;

- in the original planning decades ago a strategic objective should have been to connect all major transportation hubs in the city; air, bus, train, this still hasnt been achieved and results in terrible congestion in certain areas.
 

- major residential areas should have been connected to the shopping, CBD, and tourist areas should have been connected to hotel areas e.g. there should be an mrt connection to a station under sanam luang, this would enable tourists to visit the area as well as thais to go there for many national holidays and national occasions, this would make bangkok more tourist friendly and reduce terrible congestion in the area

- at some point heads need to be banged together so there is one valid travel card valid across all public transportation networks, as in most major cities e.g. oyster card in london

Pattaya's tourist police chief has told the Thai media that he and his men are ready, willing and able to help foreign tourists stranded in Thailand

who are these people 'stranded' in thailand? everyone i know who genuinely wanted to leave thailand has left, most fairly straightforwardly. i have a mate (well someone i know) in pattaya, since the end of march he's been claiming he's stranded, despite me forwarding multiple opportunities to purchase a reasonably priced flight out of thailand...

thailand may need to reconsider its previously mooted  preference for scandanavian 'snowbird' tourists...

1 hour ago, Stoker58 said:

I think he just wasn’t expecting to need insurance.

when it comes to optional insurance there are two types of people; risk takers and risk avoiders, the latter take out insurance the former don't. we are adults and having made the decision not to take out insurance a person should have a contingency plan should the worst happen; i.e. access to funds, and not simply assume/rely on strangers helping them out.

6 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

I was attending hospital in the UK for treatment and checkups until 2 years ago and there were notices in all the waiting rooms saying this. Something about if a British citizen is not ordinarily resident in UK then treatment must be paid for. I advise anyone leaving UK to go abroad to maintain an address and remain on gp register in UK. This will also help with pension increases too. 

absolutely, it's a no brainer maintain the illusion of uk presence, it's not difficult; keep a postal address, keep registered with a gp - and if you happen to be in the uk make sure you visit with some small medical issue, also keep bank/credit card statements going to that address, as well as any other pensions or organisations you deal with.

trump on twitter; the gift that keeps on giving.

but really, when you're in a hole you really should stop digging.

apple dont have a monopoly on devices that support music apps... so just download the relevant app to your smartphone. failing that sony have an mp3 device, but it's one more thing to carry round...