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2 hours ago, scorecard said:

"...Thaksin is much needed to impede militarism authoritarianism ..."

 

If you are suggesting that thakins' goal is to stop miltiarism / authororitarianism then you get the annual award for silliest / most inaccurate / most divisive  / most ironic comment.

 

In terms of democracy he's commented several times that democracy was not his goal etc.  

I add... you say stop authoritarianism, so having the police under his control, doing his bidding, and making the police frightened, and using chalerm to frighten society in many ways him is stopping authoritarianism?  

53 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Love or hate him; he is the only person who can seriously challenge the elites and military bloc. They will be losing sleep to know that he has not given up after 2 coups, much indoctrination and intimidation of his supporters, buying up his politicians and countless legal charges of his family to keep him silent. His party still win big in previous election and could have form the government if not for some skullduggery by the junta and the betrayal of the usual political party suspects. FFP seem to be a revelation but on their own, they may not have the political incumbency and grassroots support to go against the junta. In my view, Thaksin is much needed to impede militarism authoritarianism disguised as democracy from dominating Thailand for a long period.  

"...Thaksin is much needed to impede militarism authoritarianism ..."

If you are suggesting that thakins' goal is to stop miltiarism / authororitarianism then you get the annual award for silliest / most inaccurate / most divisive  / most ironic comment.

In terms of democracy he's commented several times that democracy was not his goal etc.  

11 minutes ago, GarryP said:

The whole lot. Red and yellow alike.  Influential people on both sides have proven they are in politics purely for personal gain, are morally bankrupt and that they have no principles at all.  

OIC you suddenly add red and try to make it look 'everybody'.

TV members are not as dumb as you seem to think.

1 hour ago, KKr said:

That is what mobile cameras are useful for. Show the impossible.

My son had already taken photos of everything. The farang rude manager refused to look or even acknowledge my son. As he was leaving a senior Thai lady from accounting had arrive, my son showed her the photos etc., and told her 'I will move my daughter to another hospital now and I want a detailed letter including details of the wrong medication to take to the next hospital, and I will not be paying your hospital 1 Baht'.

If you don't cooperate I will call the police and he showed the name card of a fairly senior cop he knows from his kids school.

He then told the acct. lady If I don't get 2 letters within 30 minutes (Med. report to take to the next hospital and a letter to indicate all charges have been cancelled) then I will call this policeman.

She arrived back in 30 minutes but my son refused to accept the med. report because it cleverly avoided any mention of the wrong meds. Son said write it again and mention ..... wrong medicine... . She went away and came back in about 15 minutes with the letter my son had asked for but no signature.

Son said 'I want the letter signed and the name of the person signing and their job title'.   Acct. lady returned 20 minutes later with the GM, who was less then polite or cooperative.

The GM said to my son 'why do you come here and make problems when you can't speak English?'  Son responded I speak advanced English, I was educated in Singapore.

GM signed and fled. 

44 minutes ago, GarryP said:

He has had his time in the limelight. He needs to step away from politics. His continued involvement is actually harming the country. He is continuing to give those rabid anti-Thaksin voters something to continue screaming about. With him out of the picture, along with some of the yellow shirt leaders, perhaps divisions could start to be healed. The Junta has done eff all in this regard, despite them claiming it as one of their goals. If anything the country is more divided than ever. 

 

And then I woke up. 

Woke up to the fact you deliberately didn't mention the red shirt leaders?

On 7/13/2019 at 2:00 PM, gamb00ler said:

I use the LINE application on my Apple desktop, but I'm pretty sure there's also a Windows version.  Download the appropriate version, and log into you LINE account in the application on your desktop.  I'm not sure if it will automatically synchronize all you old messages and photos.  It's been quite a few years since I did this process.

 

If your old photos are not automatically shown in your desktop account, then you may have to download them on your phone and use another method (email?) to get them to your desktop.

 

If they do show up, then you are given the option to Download or Keep each photo.  LINE only keeps them available for a limited time and after that I'm not sure how to recover them.

 

Happy archiving!

Same, I have LINe on my phone and on my notebook, easy to install and automatically various options to save photos etc.

If I go to another country where it's not so easy to use LINe on your mobile to call home to Thailand (or anywhere), then so easy to use it (as a phone) on your notebook. Used it many times like this. 

"...employed in the IT industry..."

There are thousands of qualified and experienced Thai people in pretty much all aspects of the 'IT industry'.

Unless you have rare deep knowledge and deep insightful experience in something very specific and very valuable, then...

Keep in mind that 'Unless you have rare deep knowledge and deep insightful experience in something very specific and very valuable' then why would a Thai give you a job where you cannot communicate well with other staff or with Thai clients, and make Thai employees angry / annoyed?

If the employer did employ you then you probably want more salary than typical Thai employees are paid. So why would the employer unnecessarily pay higher (higher operating costs)? And again piss off the Thai employees? 

And unless you have rare deep knowledge and deep insightful experience in something very specific and very valuable, why would the Thai empoyer spend time on work permit stuff, etc?

1 minute ago, BobBKK said:

Wrong. He dragged Thailand into advancement and challenged the Status Quo and was brought down for doing it. Anyway all that is academic he should 'retire'.

Can't resist  'You're joking right - some nice satire right?'

2 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

He probably has the backing of the Chinese government.....

That's doubtful. A couple of times in the past he's been told he can visit China / stay in China but he cannot engage in political stuff from China. 

1 minute ago, FredGallaher said:

The airline has on incentive to resolve this quickly, since the passenger doesn't want to pay. They'll probably wait until there are a few unsold seats then call him/her to go.

Well yes, but does the airline want to spend any time on cases like this. Like any business spending time on problems interferes with using that same time to enhance positive factors etc...

14 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Probably a whole lot more than your internet search revealed but the key is the airline that the OP came in on has to pay the seat cost for the OP's 'repatriation' and the airlines are not about to bump a fare-paying passenger just to help the OP or fulfill their obligations.

Sure, but possibly a bit more complex. The airline check-in staff are not equipped to make absolute decisions about whether the traveler will be admitted to the arrival country, and especially where there are numerous past visa factors. 

In the case just above should the airline refuse all travelers where there are obvious previous stamp? No, that's not appropriate.

So in case like this has the airline actually broken a rule and therefore that airline should bear the costs of returning the passenger to the departing airport? 

11 hours ago, Chazar said:

great ,  how  do i  join to  become a gay..........pretty   sure  ill  be  the  only  one  in  the  village

You would very likely be wrong, it's well established that the world / country / village gay & bi-sexual community is much larger than many people realize in all countries.  

50 minutes ago, Zhanna said:

Have you been in the same situation?

I doubt many people have and those who have been in the detention centre probably more concerned about moving on. 

37 minutes ago, Chazar said:

great ,  how  do i  join to  become a gay..........pretty   sure  ill  be  the  only  one  in  the  village

Ignorant post.

And this reminds me of the obvious reaction of the being insulted when at innoculations my Thai son checks the name on the injection vial with the name in the inoculation book just signed by the doctor. He's found 2 errors over 4 or 5 years.

And being told strongly by the nurse, when his very young daughter was admitted to the most famous 5 star, that he cannot read the details on the chart hanging on the foot of the bed. The nurse backpedaled quickly when my son mentioned that chart was for another patient.

Further checking proved that his daughter had been given the medicine for the other child and therefore she had not received the medicine prescribed for her. Son doesn't accept things like this and demanded someone from management come to the room.  Management guy (farang) insisted, without looking at anything that it was impossible and walked out.  Then senior nurse attached my son with 'why do you come here and make a problem for me?'  

1 hour ago, SABloke said:

I think the bizarre premise is that the minimum wage for bachelor degree holders will be 20k, regardless of what the job is. This will just lead to degree holders being fired from low skilled positions.

Or simply not interviewing degree holders (particularly bachelor degree holders), because for many jobs / professions smart high school graduates can do the job.

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

richiejom Krung Thai are only protecting you from theft/ fraudsters, just contact them and give them your new address.

Yes, telephone their call centre, they speak English, they are good listeners and this bank has gained a good reputation for being customer focused. 

2 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Why is there a teaching license, if not required ? Can Thais be teachers without a license ?

No, they need a teachers licence, I have 2 in my family.

2 hours ago, brokenbone said:

if you also speak thai fluently, then you will be able to explain

it in a language they can understand, and then you are a perfect fit for it almost, provided you  know noun/verb/adjective etc

But this approach would gain complaints from many parents, they want their kids immersed in English.

In reality Thai English teachers are expected to use Thai language to explain English grammar, end result is that this occupies all the class time because the teacher (to avoid conversation classes) uses all the available time to teach English grammar, but using Thai language.

Plus the reality is that this is well accepted by the education hierarchy. 

Call the KTB call center, they speak English, they don't bite.

I doubt you will get a definitive answer to your question.

My first thought is 'not to my family', but that's from the angle of a parent / grandparent expecting a result which has merit. And in the past I lodged serious complaints when the school advertised that it's English teachers were non-Thai fully qualified in terms of:

a). Knowing and using a structured progressive approach to English language development in all skills and

b). Qualified in teaching methodologies, development of teaching materials, classroom management. 

But in fact the 'teachers' had neither a)., or b). above and along with other parents I complained.  

Putting aside, for just a moment, ethics and morality, you ask about whether it's possible.

IMHO with no training whatever it's possible but the lesson(s) likely be disjointed and quality would very probably be very low and a waste of valuable time for all concerned. On the other hand I guess the quality could be improved a little if the 'teacher' did some surfing to gain some knowledge in regard to a)., and b). above but not raised to a standard expected by paying parents.

Further the quality could be improved over time by trial and error, but this approach is way under what parents have every right to expect.