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  1. 3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

    Drug abuse works like this:

    You think you want to feel better.

    Somehow someone told you that taking drugs will make things better.

    You can a) do that I find out in the long run it won't get better or b) you think for a minute or two how many people ruined their life with drugs and then you don't do it.

    It's not really that difficult.

    or c) Feet up in front of the TV enjoying a joint after a hard days graft. And what do you about betting, drinking, eating too many bigmacs, or any  other pleasure  of the flesh that ruin lives if pursued to excess? Ban everything? Like I said before, no middle ground or tolerance remaining on this unhappy planet.

  2. 13 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    Again, the alcoholic beer ban is only for the stadiums. It's available elsewhere. Unless Al Jazeera is promoting a lie.

    I have to wonder if footy fans are all alcoholics, given the uproar it has caused. Can they not survive a couple of hours without being boozed up?

    Think there's a difference between enjoying a beer while watching footy and being "boozed up".

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  3. I remember 34 years ago meeting a samlor driver in Hua Hin with who I became good mates. He asked me to look over his daughter's English language homework, in which the teacher had set 10 questions. The answers she provided were so bad as to be incomprehensible to an English speaker. I then had a look at the questions the teacher had set, which were also totally incomprehensible to an English speaker. So its a case of the blind leading the blind on that one.  At the time there was a total ban on foreigners teaching in State schools, so obviously this included English language teachers. I'm not sure if this still holds true, but it would go some way in explaining why this generation of  Thais that cant afford private schooling remain so bad at the language. I also think that there are real pronunciation difficulties for Thais when it comes to speaking English, just a couple of days ago my wife asked me in Thai "lao yoo ttii nie" (sorry not allowed by the mods to write Thai)  which left me perplexed as we had just flown from Thailand and I wondered why she wanted to head straight for Laos, but of course it was the bizzy class lounge she was looking for rather than a visit to Vientienne. Its the 'gnge' sound amongst others that  I think the Thais find very difficult.

  4. 10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

    I think good judgment and discrimination in regard to one's actions has gone out the window.

    I agree, its the middle ground and respect for others views that has gone. Its all Me Me. The only human rights violation I can see is the beer ban 2 days before the footy started. Really below the belt, a clear case for dragging Qatar to the Hague.

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  5. 13 hours ago, Hummin said:

     

    Not one time been asked for a passport in 20 years elsewhere by police or anyone else than check in at hotels.

    Same same  except 35 years. Found also when traveling around with it in my shirt pocket it gets soaked in sweat which seems to screw up the scanners used in passport controls, spent 20 mins in Oz at the immigration while they tried to figure out why they couldn't read the thing. Another good reason not to carry it around all the time.

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  6. I am reading the Daily News about a rail link for container traffic and have come across the acronym(?) ทีอียู, which seems to refer to capacity in some sense. No online directory has a translation. In the context of the article it reads 160 ทีอียูต่อสัปดาห์ so its something like "160 something or other per week".

  7. On 6/25/2021 at 10:21 AM, theoldgit said:

    I get this when I check.

     

    You have registered but .... you are not eligible for vaccination!!!
    Will be vaccinated in the next round after more vaccines
    Please check in through the system again.

    I get this in English: "You are now successfully registered.
    Please check for your appointment on the hospital website

    as we update the vaccination schedule regularly."

    But in Thai I get the same as you. At least the English version looks more hopeful than reading the Thai one, but I suppose its too much to expect concise, unambiguous information.

  8. On 6/25/2021 at 9:33 AM, ColeBOzbourne said:

     ลอง(verb)ดู. 

     

    Thanks for the confirmation. I suspected this was probably the structure since there seem to be many similar structures in Thai, verbs with two bits to them with stuff in between. But nice to get your comment, thanks.

  9. On 6/20/2021 at 1:33 PM, digbeth said:

    พยายาม is good 

    there seem to be difference between พยายาม attempt and ลอง try (on) 

     

    you can ask the question without the word try/attempt at all too

     

    คุณกำลังจะพูดภาษาอะไร

    what language are you presently speaking

     

    คุณจะพูดภาษาอะไร

    what language are you

     

    you can omit many prepositions in thai

    คุณพูดภาษาอะไร is understood but comes of as rude

     

    คุณพูดภาษาอะไรอยู่ (ครับ) is polite

     

     

    Really educational, many thanks(to all)

  10. What would be the position of a verb that someone/something is trying to do when using ลอง .. ดู. For example if you ask someone what language they are trying to speak, does the พูด come between ลอง .. ดู as in: คุณลองพูดดูภาษา อะไรครับ or would it come after: คุณลองดูพูดภาษา อะไร. Given the high probability that both are wrong, what would be the correct form of this question in Thai?

     

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