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There'll be no law enforcement until Thai society wants it.

Who wants to be the first person to not benefit, only claim base salary, have to pay full price, pay full tax, follow the procedure fully, wait the normal wait time, etc.?

Yes, the way "face-saving" culture works, Thais generally don't ask questions in the first place, then once they realise someone is making an excuse or was embarrassed by the subject, they immediately drop the subject, making some of of excuse like it was a misunderstanding or they were only joking. (You can actually sometimes experience this in real time when you're talking with a Thai and they realise that a question has made you feel awkward.) I think as well as not causing someone else to lose face, there's a kind of self-preservation thing where they don't want to make someone mad as there might be consequences. And, of course, they would hope that they would be afforded the same level of face-saving should they be the focus of the conversation. You can't really blame them for it, it's the culture they were raised in. Yes, I think everyone knows about it. It's similar to the face-saving thing. Everyone just knows to not mention it. They're senior staff, and the junior staff are probably doing corrupt things of their own also. It's the kind of thing where no one is going to complain as they might hope to end up in that position in the future. They're both deeply ingrained cultural behaviours and there's clearly a reciprocal self-interest element.

Sometimes people have different feelings about certain nationalities or races and this affects how they treat them, regardless of what the actual individual is like as a person.

This only proves that at some point this sign was printed and it was subsequently displayed in this window.

It would probably be "Thais Rolling In Dough As Ten New Bakery Shops Open!".

Is this actually real, or is it photoshopped? If it's real, I can't imagine why anyone goes on these things, unless they didn't realise how busy it was.

Given that pretty much every organisation/industry has this problem in Thailand, it's really more of the local culture being the root cause.

Pretty good, on top of the amount of downtime/paid holiday teachers get, the regular incremental pay rises, medical coverage, financial benefits, and the pension they get at a fairly young age.

And it's the people not caring that causes the law not to care...

A top to bottom fundamental change within Thai society and culture, which isn't going to happen any time soon.

Shouldn't be too hard to check some CCTV and find out which officer has been borrowing the truck, if they wanted to look into it.

Pay it forward?

Could you imagine if malls were held accountable? There seem to be rats everywhere and I can't imagine how much would need to be changed to keep them out. I don't think many places could still trade, especially the outdoor kind.

Great bit of pointing by the ladyboy. Clearly a good sport.

You wouldn't be bothered if someone stole £260 from you and wouldn't pursue it further?

Possibly people were slightly confused by the idea of lightning starting fires during heavy rain storms, when everything is extremely wet. I'm not denying it could happen, it just seems a little unlikely or unusual. Is it electrical fires in buildings? (It also could have been the three ideas kind of smushed into one paragraph.)

Buddhism "Thai style".

The behaviour of many Thais who regularly make the news would suggest this is untrue. Some Thais talk about military conscription like some sort of sexual or physical abuse that they suffered which left them permanently traumatised.

It seems that you're fighting a losing battle here. People don't even appear to be fully reading what you're posting.

It's not all Brits, of course. But there is a sizeable demographic of young British men who like to go out and get wa*kered then re-enact Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Perhaps they share some DNA with the Australians? There were a few sent over there at some point.

In my experience, Brits are wound fairly tightly. It's a very classist and hierarchical culture. It's also, I feel, centred around humiliation and looking down on people. A lot of bullying and teasing going on that lasts well into adulthood. As in, actual adults worry about being teased or what people will think of them in various ways. There's also a lot of what I guess could be classified as toxic masculinity (I mean real toxic masculinity, like around drinking, fighting and f*cking). Guys are very excited to get as drunk as possible and then act like someone out of a London gangster movie. Night times in towns where people are drinking is kind of like a dystopian purge night situation. People behave in ways that they would never dream of while sober and in the daytime. Many Brits need to get drunk to do things like dancing, talking to strangers or singing Karaoke. Search for "Booze Britain" on YouTube.

I suppose the easy answer is that these procedures aren't necessary and in reality they are being used to control the people of Thailand. (Also there's the fact that whatever your subjective opinion, Thai people are being controlled where any restrictions are put in place. The question is more about motive.) The inclusion of covid anti-measures to protect people from the flu should be enough of a red flag to indicate this is bullsh*t. Again, it comes down to balancing the cost you pay for what protection you get. I can't imagine it is in any way worth keeping covid restrictions in place for "other respiratory diseases", otherwise you're moving into kids following covid restriction for the rest of time to prevent the flu. I'm not sure how that is not viewed as dangerously insane. Obviously you're entitled to believe that school children should be following covid restrictions forever, but many people are ready to see an end of it, not least of all the kids. It isn't good for their mental health. As covid becomes the same as any other flu, it's time to forget about covid, not start adding other flus to the justification for masks and social distancing at school forever.

I do feel sorry for people like this. I guess they feel like they need to claim Black ownership of famous names from history due to feelings of inferiority. It's like the episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air where Will pretends he is descended from African royalty because he cannot deal with the fact that he cannot find any record of his ancestors prior to slavery. It must really suck to feel like this, but I don't think claiming people were Black is the right way to deal with it.

We can get the required clothing at Lotus's or Makro, or other private shops. They do not need the school name on them. Name tags we got in a roll of 50 and sew on ourselves. Yes, two pair of shoes needed here. You can also get names and logos embroidered on at various places.