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So, for the full 12 months how would one go about getting a new passport, transferring stamps if need be and applying for a (marriage) extension? I'll copy and save this, thanks.

200usd great money spinner for consulate.

On 5/11/2019 at 8:14 PM, wilcopops said:

there you have it - this poster of these pictures clearly is only interested in what women LOOk like - clearly they aren't going to get a job on merit.

Drank the Kool aid

2 hours ago, otherstuff1957 said:

When my wife was about 42 or 43 we visited my family and friends in California.  Every time we walked into a Thai restaurant she was offered a job!  She was very amused by the fact that a woman who was 'over the hill' and unemployable in Thailand was viewed as an ideal potential employee in the US.

 

At 62, I am now the oldest person at my school, except for the owner and the director.  We had a frank discussion about my age and continued employment a short while ago and fortunately (as my retirement plans seem to have not worked out the way I expected) they said they would ignore the retirement age (60) and would keep me there as long as I wished and could continue to do the job well.

There is no mandatory retirement age for falang esp at private schools

On 5/10/2019 at 11:07 AM, Dmaxdan said:

Yes. Banks are a classic case in point. You hardly ever see any staff working the counters who are much over 30. And they are nearly always of a certain standard of attractiveness.

But that's jr staff stuff here in Thailand. The only banks holding on to old maids in western countries have reason. Most have been phased out with technology. Thailand labor over intensive and unproductive

How selfish. The poor maid has to live with this all her life.

Why can't people just jump off a cliff or feed themselves to sharks?

Came to Thailand so their own family would not have to deal with the mess.

Bullshit, sorry.

We all have our moments but my question for him is why does he live here?

The Philippines is no place for a 90yo man.

Thailand is happy old geezers go home. Less potential downside of some Thai hospital picking up the medical tab.

I'm just anti palm oil, period.

Yeah, this is utter stupidity.

Couldn't all the grass and farm waste that's been burning for months be converted to biodiesel?

Is there a farm commodity that's price isn't in the toilet? Serious question.

Expats lived through the fall of HCMC and PNH, somehow I'll (we'll) manage.

I suspect if you stuck around Bangkok in 2010 while it burned you're not in much of a hurry either.

I love 7. Forever.

So off you go to Family Mart Jingthing. Enjoy.

I've always said ... take away western toilets, toilet paper, air conditioning, bread, western food and fancy supermarkets, the internet then double the prices for fe/male companionship  -- 80% will be gone in 90 days.

It amazes me how even the most skint farang manage to live in a bubble since 2000.

On 3/16/2019 at 9:26 PM, Pravda said:

The country has no drinking water and worst pollution on the planet.

 

Talk is cheap.

I've been drinking the water in Bangkok for years. It might not be mountain spring water but it doesn't make me sick.

The pollution and particulate matter is way out control. One thing junta should be excellent in resolving post haste. That's exactly the purpose of juntas, to halt the excesses of the population.

Large plastic bags such as what are given out in supermarkets are fine. We reuse them as trash bags. I recently read an article that stated plastic trash bag sales skyrocketed when these bags were eliminated.

It's the small bags, plastic in plastic in plastic type bagging, plastic cups for sugary drinks and most of all styrofoam takeaways. Get rid of that and you'll be well on your way.

I remember when there were two restaurants and two guest houses save for the hotel that is now Sofitel. There were also about 6-8 families that rented a room to intrepid backpackers. We drank Carlsberg cans for something like .50c in the unrenovated pub of the hotel and then grabbed a rented cub50 back to the gh.

1992-3

I prefer that time.

The article is pure lofty fiction. When I look back on my old photos of the temples and compare them to the last trip about ten years ago the damage makes me want to cry.

Next to nothing has been spent on maintaining the environs. International crime

You can post at Ajarn like everyone else.

Hope it's a good one, spate of dreary postings last sixty days. In fact, rather shocked.

Agencies are really scrambling some with a dozen posts for essentially same jobs.

Country has military government but everyone is depressed because the party is over.

Bread and circuses

These new criteria. I don't see how anyone but L1 natives can for all intents and purposes meet this standard. In the best of public (/private) schools perhaps 15-20% are C1. Perhaps 750+ TOEIC. That's the best, after that the graph line would head pretty much straight down. I'm discussing English department as well.

The other issue brought up is the expensive of Cambridge exams and certification. I really can't see this as financially viable making less than 85-100k a month. Surely public schools won't pick this up. It would be first a kneejerk no, but after a few teachers leave after not being given large raises based on post-grad diploma, Cambridge certs and teachers license that will kill funding in the bathtub.

Cambridge seems to be all the rage now with international programs and ICGSE. They should run free classes. In fact, you have to wonder...I question their motivations of selling these packages without the teacher base maybe not certified but in some program working on it.

I don't see how this Cambridge thin can possibly work at any level of competence given the current pool of incountry teachers.

There's also a new Cambridge program I think agreed upon in OZ and UK which is accepted for teacher certification.

So all the campaigning and blah blah blah had zero affecton Thais. Anyone surprised?

Bolshevik

On 4/14/2019 at 4:08 PM, marcusarelus said:

Each to their own.  My kids got into top international universities on their own.  Now they are all graduated and approaching middle age. 

Aren't you special..

This is for many reasons the best time to take a holiday outside Thailand. Goes doubl6if you need a car to get you about. If you can't afford to do that, then just hole up for a week. Really no sympathy for farang getting injured in this annual shitfest. You want songkran, go to Luang Prabang.