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Well uh, any of us lads whose wife's been not in the mood, on the rag, etc., leaving us to turn to certain online forms of "entertainment" (which are also supposedly all banned), has been bombarded with elaborate ad campaigns for all sorts of illegal online gambling. They're offered to anyone in Thailand, in English and Thai, with bonuses for quick and easy bank transfers, some will even take TrueMoney you can top up at 7-11.

Great news. Indeed, that Philippine "diploma" many were getting to fulfill the requirement was merely a scam to fatten someone's pockets.

The bars at the back of Soi 22 Queen's Park Plaza. The mamasan would draw the curtains and say "leaving already?" You were then free to continue whatever you were up to with the lovely staff, drinking or otherwise, until nearly sunrise. Good times. Yeah, I also don't have that in me anymore.

Hahaha. We haven't had a real Songkran in 3 years due to Covid. Thais and tourists alike have been dying for it. We've got an influx of tourists, most of whom haven't traveled in 3 years. Post-Covid, I reckon this'll be the wildest Songkran yet.

With this job stealing Cambodian finally off the streets, all these lazy young people lying about my village, having dropped out of school, playing on phones, riding motorbikes back and forth, wandering around all night popping yaba, surely now they'll be lining up to fill this lucrative gai yang vacancy. No, no they won't.

Hah, not all the red states are as red as she thinks. After my years in the LOS, I'll soon be going back to a certain red, midwestern state. Very outdoorsy, farms, mountains, at the DMV you can pick up your license and a concealed carry permit, if you wish. Yet, the people hiring me are using "she/her" pronouns, they want people with intl experience as they're accepting of immigrants, they support LGBT and minority groups, as they regret the trouble they've long had with white supremacists. You'll find a similar disconnect between Austin and the rest of TX, Miami and the rest of FL, etc. The Rep will have to get into each of these states and divorce these areas as well.

A few posters on here as well as former colleagues have been asked to look at research papers and dissertations. They said they were a disaster of copy and pasted nonsense from random Internet sources, then ran through Google Translate. They said they offered what minor suggestions they could, not wanting to tell them uh, this is complete garbage. The papers were accepted, and they were awarded PhDs. At one particular farang bar out in the Issan sticks, a regular frequently got totally wasted, hung onto any newcomer who wandered in, then let loose a lot of colorful, explicit, and broken English. I once asked, gee, which Patts bar did she come from? I was then informed she was one of the top profs at the nearby Rajabhat. What's a Thai PhD worth? Many have said it involves handing off a stack of nonsense no one will ever read, just as a formality, while it's the stack of other papers in a fat envelope that counts. But that being said, I did have some colleagues at one particular school, with Thai PhDs, who traveled abroad, did research projects at foreign universities, managed to gain something from their education and put it to use, and in talking to them found they were quite brilliant people.

Add that certain chain of language schools named after a famous street in New York into that mix. I've heard they charge ridiculous amounts, the teachers are paid a pittance, the teachers are lied to about scheduling and their number of hours, and finally, it's more a sales outfit than a school. Teachers are evaluated on how well they can push students into signing up for longer or additional packages.

I teach English, but only upper high school and up. Sometimes I'll get good, mature M1-M2 students (7th-8th grade) but it is rare. If you're used to teaching advanced vocabulary, academic reading and writing, professional applications, you're certainly not going to switch into colorful flash cards, noisemakers, hand puppets, silly faces, for the next student. Haha. They are totally different beasts. Some really don't get that. "You're an English teacher? Here, teach my 10 year old." Uh, no. But I'll have you know, that certain famous name BKK private school I once worked for and keep mentioning, once tried to hand a primary class off to me. The fact that secondary and primary teaching have totally different requirements should be common knowledge in education. That pretty much let me the know the quality of that school.

Gender relations, banning books, drag queens. Glad to see America's got its priorities in order regarding education. Meanwhile, how about those STEM scores? How about that massive teacher shortage? How about all the tech layoffs? Sure would be nice to have some more engineers. I see China's got plenty of them, and they can't stop sending over spying devices. Can we compete? Dear me, there's a book about two dads. Lock down the school.

From their horrible traffic, to their immigration office, to their schools, and now this. I've never known anything good to come out of Samut Prakan.

In my hometown in the States about 10 years ago, the local taxi drivers went circling around City Hall all day honking their horns, demanding they do something about Uber and Lyft. Improve their service maybe? Nah, that'd make too much sense.

My wife has many uncles, but contrary to popular belief, none have ever come hitting me up for cash. All they've asked for are my empties. They know I have many as I like to drink. Sometimes I give them full ones too. ????

They MADE his car break down so he'd have to take it to the garage, where they could set up this elaborate takedown and impressive photo op. Absolutely brilliant. Never underestimate the BIB.

"We were always high. That was the job." - Tommy Chong

These must be deployed throughout Thailand immediately to end all the lao khao and yaba fueled rages. Prices will have to come down a bit tho.

Exactly this. I left the US to escape all that. I found the exact opposite in my Issan wife.

This right here. Everyone I've talked to says a rental is around 9-10k baht a month. So I thought I was getting a deal financing our new car at 7800 a month. But then I gotta buy insurance, so then it's back up to the 9-10k, heh. But at least it's a new car. 300 baht a day? Then there's your gas. Nah, not much of a business opportunity.

Here are some famous Thai people. #2 is in a pop group, with an American dad. #4 is a former Miss Universe, with an Australian dad. So yeah, some farangs certainly do get with hi-sos. But they were already ridiculously loaded and connected in their own respective countries, and didn't expect such from Thailand.

Put on a shirt and tie. Go hang around a private school or lower tier intl school around 4 pm, as school's getting out. DON'T go to Harrow or BKK Patana, they are TOO hi-so, and all their kids have private drivers. At the lower tier schools, you can see BMWs and Benzs with hi-so moms or other family members picking up their kids. Indeed, it was one of them who saw me walking home one day and gave me a ride. She'd just dropped off a kid for an after school activity. She was quite interested in getting a convo going about my work, the traveling I've done, my experiences in Thailand. Lovely lady. I reckon it would've been absolutely no problem to get her Line ID for coffee later, or heck, perhaps even "Uh, would you like to come up for some tea?" But I had the wife waiting. Haha. Thus, if you look halfway decent, got decent convo skills, you should be able to pick up a hi-so lady for some, er, social activities, and likely more. Older Thai women have quite an APPETITE, I can personally attest. If she's a mom it'll just be a fling, but if you happen to get someone's single aunt, perhaps something longer term. But in any case, as others have noted, don't expect this to move into marriage and your ascension into the upper echelons of Thai society. Ain't happening, man.

That's exactly what this is. The whole thing's about "Hey, looks like you're really cleaning up over there. Where's my cut?"

Recapturing lost youth. This and the other story about a Swede who'd just arrived, then took the corner too quickly, and was thrown into a concrete pipe. You're like a kid in a candy store upon arrival. The sights, the food, the booze, the women. Then you see how much further your money goes here, and you feel like a king. Back in the old Soi 22 Queen's Park Plaza I saw 50 somethings bouncing tiny ladyboys on their laps, as they put 80's hair metal on the YouTube, recalling their glory teenage days of live arena concerts and wild after parties. They're here to bring it all back. No prob, just take it easy, fellas.

Yup. They had to pick some school to throw under the bus, to show that they're doing something. Certainly not a certain, famous name group of private schools I once worked for, that does stuff to make this look like nothing. The kicker is that they're religiously affiliated. WWJD?

I'll tell you a story. In my first teaching job in one of the poorest schools, I was assigned to a beautiful co-teacher. In chatting with her and the rest of the staff, I heard she was single. I found it hard to believe. I had her on Line, and one day she sent me a FB link to something on her page, something about school activities, I don't remember what. I'm not a FB guy at all. But then on her FB I happened to catch that she was building a 2 million baht house for herself, with pics of the construction. What? I ran it through Google Translate, and there were dozens of comments from Thai men, congratulating her, fawning over her. Hmm. I then noticed that her, and usually the other younger, more beautiful teachers in the schools I've taught in since, would often take off in the afternoons if they had no classes to teach. The other teachers would remain bored in the office, playing on their phones. Just what were they up to? How do they pay for 2m baht house in the poor Issan countryside? Yeah, sure they get cushy govt loans. But someone's still gotta make payments on them, that the teachers can't do on their meager salaries. Perhaps many such sponsors.