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They were probably included under "staff".

As they should, given the vast differences between the exposure to and importance of the languages in the lives of each group. Thais study English from kindergarten/primary school and it can make a real difference to them throughout their entire education/careers/lives. Foreigners don't typically encounter Thai until they choose to retire to Thailand and can generally make do without it. ????‍♂️

After Thailand changes into a country that facilitates one.

What a boob.

Probably a law saying that you need to be authorised and licenced to produce medical supplies that go inside people's bodies.

No, no. The elite highly educated Thais represent the "real Thailand". The unwashed masses do not. /s ????

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's those who are only hanging around high-class educated Thais who are in fact not experiencing the "real" Thailand. They experience a very nice "ideal" version of Thailand, but given that that is a minority version, it cannot really be claimed to be the "real" one.

I don't think they would, or at least not once they realise that an end to police corruption means an end to much of the corruption that they enjoy every day.

I'm happy for you, but I'm not sure I could just blow that much partying in a weekend knowing how many very poor people there are in Thailand. Obviously it's your money to spend how you wish, but in terms of "waxing" it with nothing much to show for it, I'm not sure I could simply waste that much like that.

Unfortunately Thailand has been protected from price increases for a long time. Food prices had to go up relatively recently for the first time in many years. Imagine what it would be like to go up again so soon? Thai people would suddenly have to face a living situation like the rest of the world. Food going up every six months to a year. Fuel costs going up several times a year. Alcohol and tobacco duty going up considerably once a year. It seems like maybe tourism contributed a lot to the subsidisation of Thai people's daily lives, and two years of covid closure has emptied the coffers. Now Thailand is suddenly looking at a pretty serious situation. It's obviously going to hit poorer people harder. I wonder if suddenly the corruption that has been enjoyed by so many for so long will no longer be tolerated. If the general populace isn't being kept happy, they might become quite upset. "Mai bpen rai" might become a thing of the past.

Do Thai people expect the government to simply subsidise everything for everyone? Who pays for all of this?

Isn't most Thai news videos that get shared on social media?

That doesn't prove that they care, nor that they were really doing something "right". It just means they did enough to make them vote for them. It is easy enough for a politician to do something to make a group of voters temporarily "like" them, while doing something that will harm them in the long-term. In order to buy votes and enrich themselves, the money had to come from somewhere, and it would likely run out eventually.

I'm not sure how he resists the urge to type something like "Good. I hate other foreigners." I guess that's a little too explicit.

I wonder where the degree symbol went. It seemed to be present in the original article.

I think it's more "we won't be enforcing this law on tourists so please come/cum".

They're also suggesting that overstayers and people without up-to-date TM30s are responsible for all the crime in Phuket...

The problem is that people rarely ever "pass" for the gender they wish to represent. This is fine in terms of people being able to see which gender they want to be and making accommodations based on politeness. It becomes a real issue though, when they expect to be considered absolutely a biological version of the gender they wish to be, and treated as such in every way. People can say "A trans woman is a real woman" all they want, but if they are still visibly male, there are going to be issues when they want to access the private spaces of biological women or are accidentally referred to as their biological sex.

The above are not acronyms. They are initialisms. An acronym is an abbreviation where the first letters of a group of words are used to make another word. If you don't say the abbreviation as a word, and instead pronounce each letter, they are not acronyms. These are acronyms.

Is this not the case? If he is your senior manager, surely you cannot tell him what to do? Do you have any authority over him? Why would you ask repeatedly if he obviously isn't interested? I'm not surprise that he is annoyed with you continually telling him what to do if he is senior to you. Repeatedly telling your boss what to do, then making it very obvious that you are moving off into another office because of him seems incredibly likely to make him "lose face", and that's a big no-no in Thailand. I don't wish for anyone to lose their job, but if you do, the reason would seem pretty clear and also, more importantly, quite avoidable. Perhaps you can apolgise and find another way of solving the issue.

By the new meaning, yes (as pointed out in my comment). But the word originated literally as "being executed with electricity". created to define the state putting convicts to death through the use of the electric chair. I'm sure you can see that it is a combination of execute and electricity. Hence "electrocuted to death" will always sound like "killed to death" to those that don't really embrace the newer definition. Particularly as some people seem to think that it can mean both, then fail to clarify, as in the original article.

I see. Well, the comment I was replying to was suggesting that it wasn't just Pit Bulls that attack people. My reply was claiming that the aggression and physical strength of Pit Bulls (and other dangerous dogs) means that they are unique in terms of damage they do when they do attack, and possibly the rate at which they attack. Meaning it is "just Pit Bulls" that do the damage they do.

From the Cambridge dictionary: While his mental illness means that he is probably not in control of the screams, and therefore couldn't really be called a liar, you could probably consider his screams as being an involuntary cry for help which people grew to ignore. It certainly sounds like it had the same affect as "crying wolf".

Are you asking a question? There are no question marks, so I am unsure. Or are you enthusiastically agreeing with me?

It is just Pit Bulls (or other dangerous dog breeds) that have the aggression and the physiology that leads to these things though.