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any choice expressions that would convey annoyance? 

You're probably better off just ignoring it. Working your way through these situations is difficult because the meaning of your being annoyed (or at least of expressing your annoyance) varies from society to society so even if the guy is an annoying <deleted> and everybody else thinks he's an annoying <deleted>, that doesn't mean you will be right to say "Shut up, you annoying <deleted>". Since you're asking for advice on how to say this, you presumably speak only minimal Thai which means that it's probably not going to be worth starting down that road.

14 hours ago, jspill said:

I'd say one or three of these:

 

reuang kong guu mai chai reuang kong meung = It's my business, it's none of your fck*ng business = เรืองของกูไม่ใช่เรืองของมึงไม่ใช่เรืองของมึง

ban yaa oon rue baow = are you retarded or what = ปัญญาอ่อนหรือป่าว

tammai ben kon bep nee = why are you this kind of person = ทำไมเป็นคนแบบนี้

bai haa reaung kong mung mai dong maa haa reuang kong gu = go mind your own business, no need to poke your nose into my affairs = ไปหาเรืองของมึง ไม่ต้องมาหาเรืองของกู

por leaw na mai dong maa taam = enough already, yeah, no need to come with these questions = พอแล้วน่ะ ไม่ต้องมาถาม

taam hia arai = <deleted> are you asking = ถามเหียอะไร

puud hia arai ai sat = <deleted> are you talking about you animal = พูดเหียอะไรไอสัส

Best get your fighting boots on if you go for some of these.

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Only 41 out of

the 11,944 published climate papers examined by Dr Legates team  explicitly stated that 'Man caused most of the warming since 1950'. 

Get on your Jstor account and pull all the papers in biology for the last, say, 20 years. Count how many state explicitly that 'God did not create the earth in 7 days'. How many did you find? See. Proved. It's God wot done it. And if you don't like that, pull all the papers on astrophysics and count how many explicitly state that the earth orbits the sun. Hmm. Heliocentrism must be bullshit, too. I guess the Catholic church were right all those years ago and the earth really is at the centre of it all. Or at least that's what the climate change deniers would have us all believe.

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In 2016, the worst Polar ice conditions in 20 years

 

 

2016 set a new record for minimum winter extent. It was an extraordinarily hot winter this year and temperature anomalies of up to 20 degrees were recorded so the worst polar conditions for considerably more than 20 years.

10 minutes ago, bkkgriz said:

Agreed. Not only is the test too difficult, but many of the questions are poorly written and confusing. It's been a few years since I have seen the test, but I'm sure it hasn't changed much. 

Quite. Questions might have two or more correct answers (or none at all) or they might test on areas which are nothing to do with the subject being examined. One of the Thai papers I saw had a question on eating behaviours (eating with your mouth open, chopping your food up into small pieces, etc.) and then asked which was the most hygienic. On one of the English papers, there was a question along the lines of, "Your car does 12 kilometres to the litre. You are going to drive 550 kilometres. How much petrol do you need?" The exam writers don't seem to understand the difference between a question which tests in English and a question which tests English.

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One acceptable interpretation is that rebirth really refers to the arising of new thoughts (and/or attitudes) in this lifetime, and that the Buddhist scriptures that imply otherwise are just distortions of the Buddha's 'true' teachings,

You want to get rid of the only evidence you have of what the Buddha taught (though presumably only get rid of those bits which are incompatible with the views of modern science) and instead make some supposition about what he  'really' believed based on....something other than the textual record. Having read some of the suttas which deal with reincarnation, the Buddha's beliefs seem fairly straightforward and unless there is compelling evidence to think that this is all invention by later editors (something which I haven't seen) then, assuming the Buddhist claims are straightforward truth claims about the world, you have a simple choice to make: choose between a pre-modern and a modern account of the world (and between those two, that's hardly a difficult decision).

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Just feel its better to keep him on your good side so they can do their job better.

As a journalist, your job is to tell the truth. However, telling the truth and keeping the head of the junta happy are fundamentally irreconcilably goals. Journalists in Thailand need to choose; unfortunately, almost all of them have made the wrong choice, though in their defence, so have almost all of the general population of this country.

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Police alleged Ko Tee’s gang plotted to assassinate government leaders

If only that were true. And if only he had done it.

1 hour ago, Throatwobbler said:

Simple question All I see is the same 10 or 20 posting on everything. Most of them are negative and hate everything about Thailand. These people have driven everyone I know away from this website apart from the occasional look to laugh at the car crash of other peoples lives.

My point is how relevant now is Thaivisa? Everyone can now get their info from other places. Are we watching the death throes of this website? 

I think that describes reasonably well how the forum seemed when I first read it in, I think, 2003. As long as elderly white men flock to Thailand and/or the trade in internet brides continues, Thaivisa will probably be relevant.

9 minutes ago, biggles45 said:

 The really disturbing part is that only around 50% passed in Thai Language tests !!

Whilst Thai high-school students typically finish their schooling a good two years (or more) behind where they should be, the O-NET exams are criminally bad; it's not the students one should blame here. 

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students from schools located in the city areas got higher scores than students in rural schools in all subjects, while students from Bangkok schools scored higher than their peers in other regions in all subjects. 

Mission accomplished then. I think everyone at NIETS can look forward to a little something extra at the end of the year.

Actually, I've just being some work on the English O-NET. It's not surprising that virtually no students pass (the average is very misleading as the distribution is very right skewed so the stats are worse that they appear) - the exam is at a level of difficulty which is way beyond the already very optimistic goals which the Ministry of Education have for the English ability of high-school leavers. In fact, the average English graduate from a mid-range Thai university would be extremely unlikely to pass.

I think a lot of this is just make-work bullshit by underemployed government officials in over-staffed offices. They don't care about you, they care about being seen to be efficient and on the case (much like the largely pointless road blocks organized by the police). Just smile and offer them a glass of water and some cake and everything will be peachy.

A few others.

NHK have a daily 14-minute Thai-language news podcast for which they release a (Thai) transcript. It's NHK so you'll be listening to a lot of Japanese news. www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/th/ 

Some of the earlier episodes of เจาะข่าวตื้น (on youtube) were partially subtitled in English, though they gave that up pretty quickly. As a listening exercise, it's not the easiest material but it's very funny and always relevant to current affairs.

Thai PBS has a radio show called ห้องสมุดหลังไมค์ (at www.thaipbsradio.com/category/sbj5g9sswvfr/) - they broadcast serializations of novels in 50 minute slots so you can buy the original and read along or just listen. At the moment, I'm listening to โรงแรมผี as I do the gardening.

Thai Deaf TV (www.youtube.com/use/thaideaftv) has tons  of programmes available subbed in Thai.

Some of the GTH films have Thai subtitles and I think Hormones (high-school series which I never watched) was released with English subtitles (and I'm sure would be available somewhere on the internet.)