Jare

February 15, 2020

10 minutes ago, TheDark said:

64.000.000 baht / 3.000 new teacher = 21300 baht / new teacher. I guess that 64 million is price of the project / hiring cost.

I'll do it for 64,000,000 baht a year, I'm worth at least 3,000 not-really-native-speakers.

February 15, 2020

19 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

if the foreign teachers he hires teach the Thais to be better English teachers, then by three years time he won't need so many foreigners to teach in Thai schools.

13 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

Another roundabout way of getting rid of some westerners !

I'm confused... aren't those foreign teachers going to be foreign teachers still? If he wants "jao khong phasa", then is he planning on branching out from the Phils to Singapore and Nigeria? In the UK, teachers now get a promise of 30,000GBP a year starting salary if they're clever, that's a bit more than 30,000THB a month.

February 15, 2020

On 2/11/2020 at 3:22 PM, sanemax said:

I was mistaken .

It wasnt Cheers 6 % beer , it was Tappers 6.5% beer

I had a terrible experience with that Cheers beer .

I went to 7/11 at 10.30 AM waiting for the beer shutters to go up at 11 AM

10.59 went into the 7/11 and told the cashier to get the keys to unlock the fridge door

11.01 and sinking my first can of beer .

To my utter disgust and halfway though the can , I realised that it was 4 % strawberry beer

Slightly different shade of red can and hard to tell the difference .

I finished off that can and the other three , but that experience put mt off Cheers beer for life and I turned my tipple to Tappers 6.5 % for 53 Baht each

Anyone know of a cheaper place to get them ?

I wouldn't inflict that pesh on anyone, don't you have a cheeky little after hours shop nearby for the local grog?

February 15, 2020

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Back to the OP, I'm amazed at the stuff I've been able to order online, and have delivered in the post to Thailand using the ubiquitous 'stealthy packaging'. Not quite worked my way up to automatic weapons yet, wonder if I can find a rocket launcher?

It wasn't "ordered online" like on lazada or something on the dark web, it was ordered using a phone app. The headline seems like clickbait.

True though, you can still find "amazing" things on shopee and ali in some places.

February 15, 2020

I just don't see the point in it really. People in the UK strain themselves so hard for so little, and in the end, being a pensioner is not a great experience. I'd rather spend it whilst I'm still young-ish, and leave enough for a pistol when the money runs out. All that paperwork and call-centre stuff seems hardly worth it.

February 15, 2020

9 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

So if the Chinese stopped , they lose 25% of visitors and 5% of GDP ?

Sorry, but with no exports due to high baht and -25%tourism, This guy speaks like Manchester City but plays like the Scunthorpe Reserves Under 11's one legged team

Of the remaining 20% not working in agriculture and tourism, you have to subtract the government employees, which leaves very few left for high tech high value manufacturing and services. Income per capita on a lot of tourism and agriculture jobs must be low, and explains the 80% private debt ratio.

February 15, 2020

On 2/13/2020 at 7:06 AM, BritManToo said:

You forgot, after the nine months of work you get paid for the rest of your life and a free house.

I'd take that deal in a goddamned second.

Not sure the 'incredible pain' is actually real, my Thai one popped em out without any apparent effort.

It would probably hurt if you were man... i.e.: didn't have a vagina... think popeye or a python swallowing an ostrich egg... that's got to smart. ????

February 15, 2020

Tax... tax... tax... where does that remind you of?

February 15, 2020

10 minutes ago, Catoni said:

Looked like a "...European.."

Could have just as easily been an Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, American, Russian or any other Caucasian that attacked him..

How would he know the attacker was a European ?

Could have been an Afghan, Argentine, Armenian or Azerbaijani... there's no such thing as "white people", and Caucasians are from the Caucasus - I guess it could have been a Circassian or a Georgian, I guess, or even a guy with green hair and white face paint. ????

February 15, 2020

1 hour ago, samran said:

No, most of the developed world has been stuck in low growth mode since the GFC. A few spurts here and there but nothing outstanding.

I bet if you're more specific about which countries have the lower growth, you might be able to elicit some plausible causes for that...

You probably know that high GDP growth tends to be associated with very low down developing countries, or countries recovering from a local economic correction. You perhaps also know that China's growth rate is declining as it reaches development goals. It might not be a surprise that countries riven by war and insurgency tend to have negative GDP growth; and that growth itself doesn't equate to prosperity.

February 15, 2020

7 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

“I feel that there is an element of something that is fundamentally positive which is the advent of machine learning, big data, the reorganization of the economy that comes with really breakthrough technologies,”

A revolution that is going to wipe out jobs, and this time around not just manual repetitive jobs.

6 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The UK is still trading in the EU and the BoE pumped billions into the economy to blunt the economic consequences that have occurred.

6 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Carney is unquestionably right about one thing, the UK’s productivity is appallingly poor.

Good of luck taking that into a FTA with the US.

...and are you going to substantiate these claims, or just go on and on and on about other people not substantiating theirs?

February 14, 2020

4 hours ago, Parsve said:

Just one more thing. At least Pattaya have tried to sell in the town as the perfect family friendly resort. May I ask in what country it is regarding as normal for a family to be out on a bar to four a clock in the morning?

If I was taking my kids out, I would like to see family beaches with all the sex workers and rip-off merchants kept well away. I don't expect disneyland, but just some basics of safety and hygiene and cheap fun things for kids to eat and do all day long is all, it's easy money, if it's cheap will buy lots of times.

February 14, 2020

12 hours ago, Beggar said:

We had this already. And why until 4? If so then better no closing times at all. And I repeat myself - advertise the tourist places as what they are. Pattaya is for sure one of the biggest red light districts in the world with sex offered even in shop malls and on the beach road and in addition at endless sex bars spread all over the place. And I am afraid that extended opening times of the red light districts are not helpful to attract more family tourists.

They need to scrap duty on foreign booze... I mean if you could buy decent booze at lower prices than in the west, instead of having to drink the local stuff, as well as 24-hour licences, that would probably help revitalise the place, but they also need to recognise that Thailand is not seen as a bargain anymore.

February 14, 2020

17 hours ago, mvdf said:

The pernicious power of jealousy. So many bitter posters posting derogatory assumptions about this man's character and life. That's just how it is in this world of envious bipeds. One man gets the best of both worlds: Thai AND American citizenships AND speaks the local language with unparalleled fluency. This is how one discovers the true colours of certain people. One man succeeds and the other resents that success.

There are many farang who have acquired Thai citizenship, it's not so special, and anyone who sticks their head above the parapet and appears to seek to be viewed as special shouldn't be surprised if they get a full range of responses from out and out sychophancy to a bit of mockery. Nobody wants to live in a thin skinned world where you have to agree with everyone else and say everything is wonderful; taking the pith is a normal male thing to do in most western countries, maybe Americans are bit too sensitive and obsessed with superficial "success", I don't know, but laughing at someone is far from envying them. ????

February 14, 2020

4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Brexit funded by billionaires, multimillionaires and shady overseas money is a fight for ordinary working people is one such example.

As opposed to Remain being funded by billionaires, multimillionaires and shady overseas money and being a fight against ordinary working people.

February 14, 2020

8 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

England does not have a monopoly over people being stupid.

So you believe Scotland has an advantage in that regard?

February 14, 2020

13 hours ago, samran said:

Ah, the rewriting of history continues. This is 1984-esque.

1984 is the left-wing playbook, sadly so few of them have ever read it, understood it, or both.

You do understand that 1984 was a critique of the statist left, don't you?

The same statist left that believes religiously in the EU.

February 14, 2020

16 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

genious.

I'm sure you mispelt that on purpose.

February 14, 2020

20 hours ago, Nigel Garvie said:

Could you make an effort to move out of the teenage private schoolboy ya boo sucks mentality, It gets tedious having to read comments on this level.

So you lot can give it, but you can't take it.

You know, people on the pro-brexit side put forward normal posts and face a barrage of purile replies that are allowed, whilst ones on the opposite side are not. As soon as someone does the same back, you don't like it, and start crying foul... well you can't control comedy, even if the remain side is a joke.

20 hours ago, Nigel Garvie said:

Get real, It is individuals not countries who put their money into offshore accounts. These rich individuals (Like David Cameron's dad for one) are much loved by the Tories who would defend their right to deprive the Treasury of billions of pounds in tax revenues, to the last.

What exactly is your point? You sound like you're mimicking me when I corrected the EU this and EU that posts, by pointing out it was individual countries, and companies within them that traded, not the EU.

20 hours ago, Nigel Garvie said:

Are you really naive enough to imagine, that the tax avoiding owners of the Tory gutter press put their vile organs into overdrive, to promote Brexit, because they personally cared about Sovereignty, Immigrants, or Fishing quotas? People that rich are not that stupid.

So now you reveal your bias... with words like "gutter" and "vile" and "stupid", those words apply to the likes of the Remain establishment, the BBC, the Guardian, and other economically illiterate losers, who despite having every propaganda advantage, and attempting unbelievable lies and manipulations, trying to undermined democracy and campaign against the result of the largest democratic vote in history, and support foreign millionaires misusing the courts to undermined the British polticial system, they still lost.

20 hours ago, Nigel Garvie said:

The fundamental purpose of Brexit is to protect mega rich tax avoiders, the rest for them is just window dressing.

No, the fundamental purpose of the EU is to protect mega rich tax avoiders, and failed politicians like millionaire socialists who used to preside over the Labour party, the party of the workers... that's why the workers rejected the EU and the Labour party, and you are still in denial of the reality that is around you.

February 13, 2020

7 hours ago, david555 said:

(So that makes it now then more official as before Brexit.... ???? )

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Thu 13 Feb 2020 10.19 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/13/eu-to-put-cayman-islands-on-tax-haven-blacklist

In wake of Brexit, EU to put Cayman Islands on tax haven blacklist

Decision on British overseas territory comes less than two weeks after UK left bloc

The Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory, is to be put on an EU blacklist of tax havens, less than two weeks after the UK’s withdrawal from the bloc.

In a clear indication of the country’s loss of influence on the EU’s decision-making, the bloc’s 27 finance ministers are expected to sign off on the decision next week.

The EU’s blacklist is an attempt to clamp down on the estimated £506bn lost to aggressive tax avoidance every year but member states are not “screened” in the process of drawing up the blacklist.

more...

If only the EU had any money to put into an offshore account... sadly the UK is taking it all away... ouch!

February 13, 2020

8 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

I think I speak for the entire group when I say we are all grateful for your rapier insights into British politics.

There's a group? Is it playgroup? Or haven't you graduated yet?

February 13, 2020

6 hours ago, samran said:

Ah, Boris, like his fanboys here, can’t stand differing opinions, which in the cabinet system is essential if you want the best out of your ministers and government.

Oh, are those opinions? I thought you were just copypasting Guardian articles, because you don't read other newspapers with other points of view... well, why would you...?! Meanwhile on the red planet... someone's upset at Keir Starmer's male privilege... it must be so hard to get through the day there... but I guess "so hard" isn't really... never mind... Emily Thornberry... dream about her victory speech... can't wait.

February 13, 2020

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

A bit tetchy tonight?

Must be those SNP sackcloth and ashes panties the Remainiacs wear... reminds them how right they are...

February 13, 2020

23 hours ago, david555 said:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/12/uk-alignment-on-eu-standards-price-to-pay-for-trade-deal-say-meps

UK alignment on EU standards price to pay for trade deal, say MEPs

Vote comes as bloc wields its powers to force change in UK domestic law during transition

The European parliament has called on Michel Barnier to keep Britain permanently tied to its employment, environment and competition laws as the price for maintaining free trade with the EU.

In a resolution adopted by 543 votes to 39, with 69 abstentions, MEPs said there needed to be “dynamic alignment” with EU standards across a range of issues ????

(This seems to be more than a majority from 80 votes) ????

So basically the EU parliament has voted for thousands of Germans and other EU citizens to lose their jobs at Christmas, when exports from Germany to the UK suddenly crash. That'll be popular... a victory for the EU... yay \o/

February 13, 2020

Another overtly political use of judicial processes... like against Brexit, and against Trump ...it doesn't win political support though for those who push for this to try and prove their moral high ground. They end up getting badly beaten at the ballot box, I wonder why?

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