WaiWai

Think this should be at the top of the page this morning.

All the best. We are thinking of you.

Read it this morning, too.

Good to see some opinion pieces like this appearing.

My best wishes for a just verdict.

Just adding my best wishes to the family. You are certainly in our thoughts.

Good post, Gaccha.

Yes; the strategy is prevalent amongst expats generally, and certainly can be observed on this forum.

I am not sure if it's so much about attempting to "win" an argument as defending one's life decisions. We all do the latter ... what are some of the other ways?

Nice work, Tywais & crew.

All the best to you and your family in seeking justice, MaryJane .

Many of us are thinking of you and watching this case with much interest.

As far as the tones; it is true the thai language has 5, although for colloquial conversation, I'd give a pass to initially learning the low, middle and high tones. They can be left out as they are so similar in normal spoken thai. Sometimes when I hear thais speaking to foreigners it sounds as if they are trying to sound pretentious (or taking the piss) when they trill their r's, or over enunciate their toning.

Agree.

(Largely untrained) Thai teachers who don't recognize other more important language features will vastly overemphasize both the tones and differences between phonemes. Gives them & you a feeling of "know how", for which you pay. I advise giving more trust to your own "ear".

The very best advice when unsure of tones or sound distinctions may be the use of a rapid monotone. Try it .

Don’t give up, and certainly don’t fall into the old foreign stand-by answer of “I am too old, too stupid, or too (insert your negative adjective here) to learn thai. Use the internet, as there are a plethora of resources out there for free.

Agree again, but by no means everyone needs to or desires to acquire skills in Thai. It's an interesting language but it's never going to be a world language. Personal circumstances, especially other commitments, age, health and so on affect motivation to learn another language rather vastly.

No need for language one-up-personship here. How's your esperanto?

Can we mention things we wish to do, but have not?

Such as moving portraits of certain prominent people from their places in rented homes?

Sao Jiang Mai, I'd like to add my thanks for your work.

I love your constant honesty and the way in which you are able -- and willing to -- express yourself so naturally and so well.

That's a bridge, and a rainbow.

Thank you

I'd advise asking in the medical sub forum of thaivisa.com. Sheryl and other good medical professionals will give you great advice there -- probably for Bangkok, but that's but a heartbeat away.

Best wishes.

The last thing anyone would need at such a time would be dealing with the search function here.

Leave it where it is.

Pinned like a collector's moth .

Some market demand for visas via the "education" route is no doubt contributing to the cost of Thai classes.

The scam is police extortion practised on the guilty and innocent alike without any regard for what may pass for due process of the law in Thailand.

...

That is why the Danish warning is so important. The Thai Police have quite rightly been accused of systematic corruption within an international forum by a foreign government.

Indeed.

Thanks for the advice, but do you know a company in Chiang Mai whom can do the whole house in one day as that is what we prefer.

If it is not there I will inform on the moo baan.

Thanks.

Elnagtegaal, if you buy a copy of the Chiang Mai Mail you will find at least one company listed there who does this.

Chiang Mai Mail (English language) is online, too but I am not sure if their online advertisements are the same as in the print version.

I have noticed this, too.

All cultures have a shared "self perception" of their own values (which may not always be in accord with real values or behaviours, just as is the case with individual people). Being "jai dee" or good hearted is, of course, one such Thai value.

It may simply be that this statement (in English or Thai?) has become standard as a form of welcome to foreigners.

"Welcome you to Thailand! We are very kind hearted!" Was this in BKK?

The way particular, different cultures in general view and interact with particular, different other cultures also has a considerable effect on the equation (& there lies "the rub" of intercultural interactions, of course ... the whole "beauty" of cultural misunderstanding is that we -- both parties -- are very often completely unaware that they are happening! With cultures as different as those that mix in Thailand, it's no wonder there are so many tales of the extraordinary. I can take it quite literally when people who have lived here for decades say they will never fully understand Thailand and its culture.)

However, I suspect foreigners from an array of cultures have heard this phrase.

Now I have a backache .

Hope he was not stung too much

Just got out myself

1 day in ICU cost me 20K

It is getting a bit expensive to stay alive here in Thailand

That is over 400k so far this year

(quote from a thread in Health forum about someone hositalized with Dengue fever)

I have been thinking recently that I may need to check & consider extending the health insurance I currently hold, given the costs I sometimes hear about for hospital care. Any of us might suddenly come down with a bad dose of Dengue or some other ailment which puts us into hospital.

(Also need to catch up with the situation in my home country, Australia, if I should need any care there/return to live there.)

One of the plus sides of Thailand used to be/still is (?) availability of reasonable health care at reasonable costs. Is this still the case?

Have others been thinking about this, too?

I don't know Mobi at all but have often seen his posts in the Health forum.

Best wishes for recovery; I have heard Dengue can be nasty.

Thanks, Paagai.

You spell po-ta-tos and I spell po-tAt-oes ...

The Tremoloes could not spell tremolos.

Probably an archaic form of the word .

I guess Poupee's name seemed apt when she was a kitten ?

Tell me why, WaiWai.

In the photo here, she does resemble one of the more malign marionettes. I am sure she has spells of innocence, too.

(Wai was she named Poupee?)

You spell po-ta-tos and I spell po-tAt-oes ...

I guess Poupee's name seemed apt when she was a kitten ?

Very nice work, orang.

Another "Tail" for your collection, "The Bean Milk of Orang Metta" ?

Oh, well, there are worse things in life than being taught a little humility! ' Although, for the life of me, I cannot think now what those worse things might be.

not having a cappuccino at all

Stepping on a dead squirrel while everybody else is sleeping.

Not to mention being (or no longer being) that squirrel ... not for being stepped apon (?upon), but for what may have led to its demise. Any clues?

Sorry!

In my post (2nd next above) the phone numbers did not copy here. However, they are there if you go to the link.

Can't be sure they are current, of course ...