condo bought

I like Thai food prepared using good quality ingredients by someone who knows what they're doing, hygiene and quality wise.

Not some 40 baht plastic plate of gunk served next to an open sewer.

Good to get them out of the path of the scooters and motosai taxi riders.

A society where leading by example, duty, responsibility and duty of care are all alien concepts.

Money is God.

Morals and integrity before self-advantage are for the stupid.

Many, many, Thais have serious issues with ex-partners and new partners.....

Teachers are paid so poorly as are police officers. The real fault lays in a system perpetuated by a semi-feudal stystem that favours the rich and powerful.

Most schools, even the 'best' schools never give a grade below 50% even to a student who has not attended class.

The PTA's are so powerful here, they influence educational policy even as far as the choice of coursebooks.

If they have a stupid child thsat child will still benefit from being in the top or elite stream despite their inability.

Face-making and corruption at all quarters and levels.

Teachers are at the bottom of the pile . . . . inadequate though most of them are, they are paid very poorly

Choosing a career with low pay is of course an excuse for extortion.

Ordered one of these.

Cheap, easy, and should help keep the aircon in, somewhat.

just type 'chiangmaicurtain' into facebook and the first three results all have them.

Would be more impressive if he turned it into somtam.

I also find it very odd how many teachers are engaged in tutoring their own students after school. I mean, whatever happened to office hours and the concept of asking your teacher for help. I always assumed the parents realize how bad the education system is here and feel obligated to give their children an edge wherever they can. But it still seems really scummy when you hear teachers soliciting "extra classes".

Not soliciting.

Forcing.

If you don't pay, they don't teach. Your kid goes uneducated. Even though it is their job and duty to teach them during normal class time.

They really need to clear out the educational system and start again from scratch.

And the police.

And the.....

Very, very common here. To the point of almost being the norm.

The Thai teachers don't teach what they are supposed to during their classes.

Then give extra lessons after school, for cash, where they do their job and teach what they are supposed to.

Of course, them being disciplined or fired for this would make them lose face, so on it goes.

Welcome to Thailand, Thais, and Thai culture OP.

Beautiful, isn't it.

" to serve 13 years and 4 months in prison without suspension" ! Not a word about the crime he committed.

I wonder if he got to say, and in other news, "yesterday I was sentenced to serve 13 years and 4 months in prison without suspension".

Thailand. The country that just keeps on making me laugh.

conviction and imprisonment should never interrupt one's day job.

priorities, people.

Did the lad in pink steal the victim's sleeping wear?

Looks like another 'expert.'

Best to avoid them, they bring down the average intelligence of the group.

Well done. More of this needed. Wonder if they will get anyone above these two? Probably not.

Oh they'll be squeeling like pigs now.

Whether the people they name are already paying their tax, or are in higher positions than the authorities, will be the deciding factor.

That lot will buy a few nice police s-classes.

Must really have been a <deleted>.

Thai jealousy and guns don't go together very well.

Now if they could get the little fat guy that thinks he's a woman, and the boing-boing sound effects guy.

Will this piece of news be presented over Channel 3 tomorrow morning?

Definitely not if he's still the anchor !

" Yesterday I was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. ... " Highly unlikely but it would make for great television !

Not sure I would use the word 'highly' to describe the unlikeliness of it.

I would say 50/50 at best.

Can you imagine the feeding frenzy going on behinds the scenes at the auction.... sorry, appointment offices for this position.

A rich man.

Idiots.

I'm surprised that one of them hasn't married it. Like the guy in Udon Thani about 10 years ago.

Do they have a Facebook page you can mention this on?

I'd be careful about what you do on Thai (government organization) facebook pages.

It's not more expensive for farangs.

It's cheaper for Thais.

Well, at 35,000 feet I would rather him not croak than any of the passengers.