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Sadly, even in relatively educated and progressive societies, many parents actually don't believe that what they do affects how their child develops.

Blame the parents.

Very sad and a hard lesson to learn. Never go guarantor on anyone else's loan, ever. Legally you're agreeing that if they cannot (or simply don't want to) pay back the loan, you will pay it back for them. It seems quite common that people default also. Cruel that someone's childhood friend would do this to them. I wonder if selling the actual vehicle to recoup some of the loss is a possibility.

There was a post a while ago claiming that people who had got a volunteer visa through an agent were having difficulty going through the COE requirements, even with a reentry permit, due to the authorities asking for additional information regarding the volunteering. Not sure how true that was, or if it will be the case in the future, but you might want to have a quick search.

An interesting and challenging idea. The things is, if you have the precepts of Buddhism on one hand and the ideas of the younger generation on the other, should they be in conflict, then you really have to make a choice. Either force the young people to act more in line with the precepts, or abandon them. If you're a monk and your business is Buddhism, you have to follow the rules, or the blessings and merits won't work. Then you cannot claim the right to not have to work.

Just not Buddhism itself...

(Un)happiness is subjective, but it isn't relative. If it was a relative term, it would always need to be discussed in comparison to something else. You can, of course, discuss happiness relatively, as you can most things.

Freudian slip there? I assume they meant amongst. Or they mean that they want to make Thais hate and fear foreigners even more?

Why not apply everywhere that deals only in appointments and see what you can get. There might be one available soon. You won't know if you don't try. You can always say no.

Finally this problem is being addressed.

If you're worrying about this then there's no point in opening up. Need to concentrate on vaccination and learn to live with covid. No restrictions and treat it like the flu, or there won't be any tourists, or at least only nature overs. No one is going to come if they are treated like a leper while they are here (a leper people want to price gouge), with the constant threat of being incarcerated at your expense.

How does he know he can trust her? She might have another Dad on the side. You have to be really careful in Thailand.

Perhaps you just met some really bitter and negative people who shared their opinions with you. Actually, just noticed another post by you in this thread where you complain about over-educated people. Is there a chance that perhaps anyone less educated than you is bad, while anyone more educated than you is bad also? Perhaps you might want to look for the factor common to both these judgments.

Try to be polite, but absolutely say no. Way too high a risk. If his business goes under then you lose your house. That's not a gamble I think anyone should take. It's risky even for your own business.

Might be the case for some in Thailand but other countries have quite different attitudes (and rates of pay). It certainly isn't a universal attitude or reputation held everywhere.

If you can drink it, they will come...

I thought China was getting rid of all the foreign teachers anyway. Is that not the case?

Fair enough. You are free to think about things to whatever level you want and come to your own conclusions about them, as am I.

Depends on what your idea of "too much" is.

Is it worth taking the risk? Is there anything a lawyer could do without incriminating the OP? Sounds a little catch-22. He cannot begin anything legal without incriminating himself. And what if this aggravates the IO or the whole office? What methods do they have up their sleeve of making OP regret it?

And if they explain to the lawyer that the OP bribed a government officer previously?

It's kind of a combination of swimwear being slightly different to underwear in terms of material, construction and purpose, the different social situations of beach vs. (for example) a mall, and the effect of something being seen in a way that is somewhat taboo or unwanted. I would imagine that a woman who was wearing a bikini bottom under a skirt, might still not want people looking up her skirt, while if she was on the beach wearing just the bikini, she might not be so concerned.

Hope you mean wearing a bin bag. ????

Can visitors make boom-boom?

It's a high-risk activity as it is generally done secretly in enclosed spaces with no social distancing.