BangkokReady

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I really never understood the concept of economic growth, and why it's so important. So what if an economy shrinks? So what if you don't have economic growth?

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/why-does-economic-growth-matter

10 hours ago, motdaeng said:

"Kids Are Too Expensive!” How Thailand Became One Of The World's Fastest Aging Countries

 

 

An interesting video.  It seems that, with the younger people they spoke to at least, there seems to be a sense of them wanting to be able to spend their money on themselves.

The people who said they couldn't afford to have children seemed to have a fair amount of money, but wanted to spend that money on nice things (and cats).

It also might be a factor that they plan to have enough money to support their own retirement, and don't see the need for children to take care of them.

I wonder if there is some Western influence at play with the whole "prolonged childhood" thing...

3 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

What happens to this old rice after the auction....does it get packaged and then sold on....is it checked for weevils....is it edible....will it be exported along with the other fine rice from Thailand?

Presumably, if the rice is auctioned, then it will be delivered it to whomever bought it.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The majority of the dropouts, as reported by the Department of Learning Encouragement (DOLE), cited personal reasons and poor economic conditions as primary factors.

Why keep the kids in school when they could be out earning money to help their parents?  There is only now.

9 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

I don't see any generalisations.

Then you don't know what a generalisation is.  🤷‍♂️

9 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

What I see is you telling a guy he doesn't know his wife and suggesting that his wife lied to him. Well, a little more than suggesting actually.

 

Now you're simply trying to 'backpedal' - claiming you were generalising.

Not trying to backpedal at all.  Simply correcting your error.

A Thai would have to be mildly sociopathic to do what he claims his wife did.

No rational person with any meaningful experience in Thailand or knowledge of Thai culture would fail to realise that to do such a thing would be a clear f-you to the professor, so it isn't believable.  It isn't even a case of someone not being one to "take sh*t".  It's clearly a confrontational and disrespectful thing to do in Thai culture.

11 hours ago, webfact said:

humorously noting that no one would be around to handle the termite problem

Extremely humorous...  🙄

7 hours ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

i try to photobomb all the girls in old city taking them daily on my bike ride

 

i just do not get it

Probably somewhere between them wanting to take photos, and you wanting to ruin those photos, lies the understanding that you're not quite grasping...  🤔

1 hour ago, Dogmatix said:

Since when has it been the role of the Education Ministry to decide what goes on the list of prohibited drugs.

Presumably, they're talking about rules withing schools.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

This has led them to speculate that the man might have been drunk, wandered into the panel and accidentally fell into the hole, causing his death.

Died falling down a one metre deep hole?

1 hour ago, MangoKorat said:

No, you know what a lot of Thai people are like.

No sh*t. That's what that literally means. A generalisation never means 100% of the people. 🙄

Still, it's far more likely that she didn't tell her professor than did.

It's just not something that a normal Thai person would do.

6 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

How can you say that?  He knows his wife and what she's capable of, not you.

Because I know what Thai people are like, both in terms of what they wouldn't do (showing their professor all their mistakes which their foreign boyfriend found) and in terms of what they would do (lying to their partner to keep the peace).

If she lied to him, how would he know any different?

28 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

I'm not getting into pointless arguments with you. Nor am I going to read any more of your posts as I'm blocking you. I don't waste my time on idiots.

Why did you start one, then?

Don't be mad just because you said something wrong and another person pointed it out.  🤷‍♂️

On 5/21/2024 at 6:11 PM, snoop1130 said:

severe weather encountered by the Singapore Airlines plane after it left London for Changi Airport led it to land at Suvarnabhumi Airport instead

Quite a bit after it left London, then?  🤔

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

My point was that the vast majority of people in the world, like me, have never felt the need to have a gun for self-defense. Certainly outside of a war zone, and even there they leave defense to the professionals.

Again, that's all pretty irrelevant, as there are people who use/carry guns for self-defence.  You saying that you (or some other people) do not, does not change that.

6 hours ago, retarius said:

Sorry, but this isn't rocket science. All you have to do is copy the way they do things in successful countries like Scandinavia in the west or Singapore, Japan or China here in the East.

This is likely to clash with Thai culture pretty significantly.

7 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

On just one A4 page I found something like a dozen errors and corrected them for her to give to the professor, who simply threw it in the bin.

There's no way your Thai wife would have done that to her professor.  She probably threw it in the bin herself and lied to you.

4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Which means that I have managed to avoid either the wrong company or living in a country where people are in such fear of their life that they feel obliged to carry a gun for self-defense. I think I win.

Win what? My point was that guns are useful for self-defense. Your having never needed one doesn't affect that at all.

39 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

better eat it

You can get vaporisers also (not vapes).