BangkokReady

A very racist person.. ⬆️

Nah, it's a bigger issue than consonant clusters, i.e. ending/final sounds.

Apparently so. So my mistake in terms of labelling the example, but the issue being described was final sounds rather than specifically consonant clusters. Thais have different problems with consonant clusters at the beginning of words than they do as the final sounds in syllables.

Yes. I appreciate the correction.

You're confusing an example with being a complete account of the problem. (Possibly in haste to get to correct someone.) Thais also have a problem with sounds like "t", "p", "d" and "s" at the end of words. It's a final sound problem, as I said. I don't know the exact term for it. Maybe closed or unaspirated consonants. Basically most Thai syllables end in a kind of closed or muted way, so they have difficulty with the way English syllables end because we don't "close" them off or "silence" them in the same way as they do in Thai.

While Thais do have a problem with consonant clusters, that isn't what is being discussed in the comment you are replying to. It's simply syllable/word ending/final sounds and their correct pronunciation. Consonant clusters are sounds like "bl" "br", etc., where two consonants combine to make a different sound. What the user you are replying to is talking about is where a Thai attempts to pronounce a word like "six", but pronounces it as "sic", due to the different pronunciation of ending/final sounds in Thai.

Large crowds in Asia are nothing like large crowds in a Western country, in my opinion. You may have experienced this in BKK. Compared to somewhere like London, they are just far easier to deal with. Less annoying, less shouty, less "f you, me first", and so on. I don't think it's fair to say you need to get used to crowds in your home country in order to be ready for crowds in Asia. I realise that when things go south they can do so a lot quicker and with more dire consequences than you might expect back home (if the news is to be believed), but the average day-to-day thing is way calmer and less aggravating. You're also right to avoid places with drunken tourists. I hate that back home and have no desire to visit it in Thailand.

They can be quite acidic. Also some can be soaked in some weird juice. I went through phases of eating them regularly, and other fruits, but sometimes I would buy some and then leave them to rot and throw them out. My food purchasing varies with my mood, as it often involves going to food vendors. Also, I'm kind of absent minded sometimes and go through phases of visiting different areas. Covid has made my interactions with locals slightly tainted, so I choose to go to places that I feel the most comfortable. This means sometimes no fruit.

Are you talking about pineapples or women here?

It's genetic and due to the climate. Why have the ability to easily pile on the pounds if you don't need to? You should search about genetic differences between races and their causes. The "race is only skin deep" is a lie. There are biological differences between races. (I'm saying nothing about intelligence.)

Che Guevara is a cultural icon for many in the West (on t-shirts and posters all the time) and they don't really know what Mao did or who the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot were. I wonder why Hitler always comes up on his dates though... "Wow. What's taking the waiter so long?" "I know, ri..." "So what do you think about Hitler?"

How's that going? Are you teaching in China now, or has that evaporated?

Christ, it's slipping into 1984/Catch-22 realms of bizarre language use.

"People. What a bunch of b*stards."

Those are two separate events. 1, being hit by a car, then 2, going to hospital. Being stabbed and being injured are not two separate events in this story. The stabbing is the injury. There is no second event. When she was stabbed she was injured. She wasn't stabbed then injured, as the headline suggests. It would make sense if "injured" was being used as an adjective, but then they would have had to have written "woman left injured after being stabbed...". They could have also used the stabbing as a noun "woman injured in stabbing", but they did not. The way they have written it, both are in the verb form, which suggest two events, a stabbing then an injury. Does that make sense now?

Obviously. Not sarcasm. Don't worry, I'm sure you will come to terms with it. ????‍♂️

The disadvantage is that when people fold them the creases look so much more untidy.

Definitely an interesting observation with relevance to the story. Certainly a different dynamic based on the genders. Despite what people think, the man often becomes far more attached to the woman than the woman does to the man, even in a sugar daddy/mommy relationship. An average woman can far easily replace an average man than an average man can replace an average woman also. The woman in this story probably got bored and replaced the younger man with someone her own age, while the young man was still very much hung up on her.

I thought the same thing. I expected the story to say that after she was stabbed she was hit by a car or something. The writing in these news articles leaves a lot to be desired most of the time. Not sure where they get their writing staff from, presumably from the pool of retirees.

If you're taking the role of a teacher, they should be showing you a decent level of respect. I would hate to be referred to as "the farang". I would have told them to call me whatever they call a coach in Thai or I would not be doing it at all. Anything like "dirty farang" and I wouldn't want to have anything to do with that person anymore. If it was in a group and none of them stood up for me or challenged his behaviour in any way, I'd be done with the group as well. Sadly, doing things for free rarely gets you any respect as often people don't value anything they don't have to pay for.

I agree. Around 30% triple jabbed could mean a little over 30% with decent protection against Omicron.

Probably the Yaba stash...

So ignore the cheating? Give him a secret penalty at the end of the game? Surely even in Thailand referees and umpires point out when players break the rules?!!

Waste of space, maybe.

Cheating, faking and not being called on either are fairly standard Thai behaviours. They were likely having fun too, just they have a different approach to rules than we are used to. It starts in school where cheating, copying and lying are totally accepted, maybe even encouraged, then it continues into adulthood.