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8 hours ago, webfact said:

Suchart Pornchaiwisetkul of the Department of Employment said that a survey showed that of 922 schools checked there were 6,129 foreign teachers.

...

In the survey eight teachers were found without work permits.

=0.13%, illegal foreign teachers are RIFE!

(Or it's a slow day at the Department of Employment...)

5 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Surely this is a wind up. The items you list are rudimentary at best. Gift it to family or friends or charity.

Depends how much it costs! But IDK that because when I tried to get Movecube quote just now, after entering all the details the result was "Server Error in '/' Application."

But surface freight isn't necessarily that expensive. I sent about 15kg of stuff internationally from China once; I think it was USD25 for the first 1 or 2kg, then about 2USD per kg. So ~55USD - way less than buying the same things over again. (The package did however end up sitting in the post office for several months longer than necessary, because the delivery notice went missing. Sigh.)

What's the strange chunk hanging by a thread (4rd pic in sequence of 6)?

Shocking

44 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

according to a recent documentary on Netflix weed was banned in the US because white women were becoming a little too friendly with the "locals" at jazz clubs (notorious for weed smoking) around the country. basically it was banned for racist reasons.

Possibly a factor, but that may not have been the root cause:

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Shortly before marijuana was banned by The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, new technologies were developed that made hemp a potential competitor with the newly-founded synthetic fiber and plastics industries. Hemp's potential for producing paper also posed a threat to the timber industry (see New Billion-Dollar Crop). Evidence suggests that commercial interests having much to lose from hemp competition helped propagate reefer madness hysteria, and used their influence to lobby for Marijuana Prohibition. It is not known for certain if special interests conspired to destroy the hemp industry via Marijuana Prohibition, but enough evidence exists to raise the possibility.

(And recently everything seems to be "for racist reasons"...)

12 hours ago, EricTh said:

I am not advocating killing of dogs but I find the logic funny.

 

Killing dogs and cats is cruel.....but

Killing pigs, cows, goats is not cruel?

 

They are all mammals and feel the same amount of pain when killed.

 

Every morning I see trucks of pigs being send to the slaughter house and nobody complained of this? There are videos of pigs slaughtering on Youtube and it was horrific.

And dogs and cats eat how many cows/pigs/sheep/chicken over a lifetime when kept as pets? Not to mention the smaller animals they kill themselves.

Or the carbon footprint of pets, which are, by definition, unnecessary, and cause various forms of nuisance to other people...

"Put a ring on it" she said...

4 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

I am just wondering how easy it is to get foreign languages visa in Thailand considering that it will never be used in Thailand and highly suspect of the applicant's motive.

Maybe, but Japan (& Korea?) are relatively expensive, so studying them somewhere cheaper makes sense... although a bit less sense than Asian English language students going to the Philippines.

If someone checks with a school about a visa for studying a non-Thai language, let us know they say????

27 minutes ago, EricTh said:

Remember that immigration will test you on your Thai language skill every 3 months when you go renew your visa so it's not as easy as one thinks.

There are private language schools that offer other languages and can get visas. Usually Japanese, Korean and Mandarin - I doubt most immigration officials wouldn't be able to test people on these. (Then there's English, but idk if a native English speaker could get a visa that way :p)

A select few muay thai schools too.

32 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The press is pretty good at counting numbers. 

Having an inconsistent counting is not the same as knowing whose a big white RINO ????

6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Yes, but impeachment is such a big historic vote for senators that all of the republican senators would have been asked by the press to comment on their vote. If they said, no comment, everyone would know anyway.

They're pretty good liars.

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

A lot of smokers have no regard for anyone other than themselves.

Or people more generally?

21 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

StickBoy owns Stickman and many other domains.

Is there a StickBaby on the way?

21 hours ago, FalangTingTong said:

Berlin Brandenburg airport is a total clusterf***

If so, that's just a cherry on the cake of its construction.

On 2/12/2021 at 9:28 AM, webfact said:

Biggest Starbucks in Thailand opens in Bangkok - and it will serve alcohol

Stardrunks?

The tipsy mermaid ever legless...

28 minutes ago, Speedo1968 said:

My next hospital visit is due 2nd April so will ask again then.

I hope they can improve the positioning of the pacemaker, it sounds like it's really limiting what you can do. ????

9 hours ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

The most important thing is in the first sentence: "Influenza (Flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses."

Not just different viruses, different classes of virus. Also different classes of virus that bind to different transmembrane receptors, which is one reason for some marked differences in the etiology of the resulting diseases (eg much more blood clotting with corona than flu).

17 hours ago, Speedo1968 said:

Any suggestion for useful exercises I would be grateful.

There are some exercises using sticks (aka 'health wands', a broomstick works fine) in these playlists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxHtQ5uyCgk&list=PLjQf2LW1q1Xid2C42jnHCG_UqiPH2OzSi

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHuFcXUTiCL4L3kjXyq6fRA/videos

Using a stick to modify standing yoga poses might make some of them more approachable too.

45 minutes ago, Cobra666 said:

Seasonal flu has the same mortality rate as seasonal flu. 

I should think so.

17 hours ago, elgenon said:

I recently saw an interview with 2 evolutionary biologists who said 90% of the scientists in their field believe it was created in a lab, probably in Wuhan.

Weinstein & Heying?

6 minutes ago, impulse said:

Especially after they just cancelled Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima.

Eeeeexactly. Plus putting snot on your hair???