ThaiFelix

3 hours ago, wvavin said:

The person concerned only occupies 10% of this entire photoshoot! LOL......

How come the rest of the 50 are not in the photo??

8 minutes ago, rijb said:

Be sure to check the door frames for wood-eating pest infestation.

All wood in and around my house I personally treated with 2 to 3 coats of Chaindrite....good stuff, doesnt kill existing bugs but prevents chewing insects attacking it.

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

Do something which could be construed as tasteless.  Get publicity.  Apologize.  Get publicity. 

You beat me to it!

We didnt have many problems with the builders fitting our wooden doors.  They did it as mentioned previously....they built the walls around the door frame and then hung the doors.  Of course every door had to be cut/planed to size.  I think you will have this "custom" fit with any wooden doors.  I always plane off a bit more than required (especially in the dry season) because all wooden doors/windows etc will swell and jam in the wet no matter how much you seal them.

Our problem was with the pvc/plastic? bathroom door.  Wooden doors are not a good idea for wet areas such as a Thai bathroom.  The pvc door frame had moved during the wall construction resulting in the door being too big.  You cant plane plastic doors off course but the builders assured me they could disassemble the side of the door, trim some off and put it back together with some "special" glue.  I found out too late that their "special" glue was just standard super glue!!  Needless to say the door sagged after a month or so and now needs to be lifted to close.  I cant buy a standard door to fit that size and a new one cant be modified to fit because I have found it impossible to get hold of a glue to suit.  I may have to go back to a wooden door and be vigilant about any swelling or warping.

I strongly suggest if you are having your house built by an Isaan farmer-builder type team you need to employ yourself, or somebody else you trust, to be a full time QC checking and double checking everything.  I did and even then I still found things afterwards that were not up to scratch too late.  Good luck.

In Thailand they usually tend to fall down on their own before the building is finished!

Oh, I will have to remember that one.   "Err bail and a small fine would be nice thanks.....er do you take time served as a monk by any chance?"  <deleted>!!

I thought the announcement that Thailand would be the Pokemon hub was supposed to have them pouring across the borders?? 

Tourist visas increased by 1,000 baht a couple of months ago, then reduced by 1,000 last week, now free??  Next it will be an offer of 1,000 baht free spending money if somebody would PLEASE come

So sad to see this girl saying anything just for attention.

"Dear Coconuts, do you know my darling Harold farts a lot but I dont notice because I love him so so much"

On 11/27/2016 at 10:06 AM, lemonjelly said:

Joined 5 hours ago and scans like English written by a Thai.
It's a Sunday troll.


Sent from my twisted mind using Thaivisa Connect

I concur!!

8 hours ago, rkidlad said:

I remember teaching kindergarten level 2 (3 to 4 years old). We had to do exams for mid-term and final. This was my first experience so I was a bit shocked. Anywho, I just got on with it as instructed. In the test it asked the students to put a cross on the picture from the word above. So if it said chicken, put a cross on chicken. Now, the students were always used to putting a circle around pictures and not crosses (the person who wrote the test was a non-native high-so who studied in the US). I simply informed the students not to circle their answers, but put a cross instead. I used an example on the board that was not in the test. As soon as the Thai teacher saw, she went nuts. "No, no, no! No helping. No cheating. Cannot!" Another Thai teacher came in and explained no cheating, etc. I tried to explain, but they just very sanctimoniously tried to explain the core values of Thai culture. I just ignored them.

 

So, during the test, some kids had no idea. They knew the vocab, but being in a room with all the tables separate and the Thai teachers telling them to "shut up" really confused them. They were nervous. I felt really sorry for them. As a few of them struggled, I saw the Thai teacher walking around. She would erase some of their incorrect answers and walk off. If they still didn't have the right answer, she'd very clandestinely point at the right one. This whole process left me so confused. Why are we doing tests? So we can test the smart kids who we already know are smart, and give the same scores to the kids who weren't as smart?

 

Kids with low grades had their scores bumped up. Some parents who would often see their kids licking windows were absolutely jubilant to see that little Som Chai aced his exams. Not one parent ever said "Hang on a minute! My kid chews pencils. How did he get 90%?" Parents were happy and thought the school was wonderful. The whole thing was just a huge waste of the kids' time - all so the school and parents could feel good about themselves. The kids were used. 

Wow!  Word for word that was my experience at my old school??!!

1 hour ago, Redline said:

Why cheat if you can't fail?  Face?

If you cheat and pass then its all over.  If you fail then you have to be retested again and again till you pass.....saves time I guess!

At the private school I taught (part of a large chain) many teachers encouraged cheating because they got the blame if the student did poorly.  In fact one time I saw a teacher give one of her best student's completed test papers to a student to copy because he was absent exam day.  Several times I have seen our Head of English hand out copies of the exam papers for the class to study a week before the exam!!  Don't get me wrong, I am not blaming the teachers (although the Head of English was a lazy bastard), it was the school.   Their policy was that no one failed thus propping up the reputation of the school. It was a business, not an educational institution.  If a student did fail, the school would come down hard on the teacher (especially Thai teachers) and was instructed to keep retesting the pupil until he/she passed.  Eventually the teacher would give in and either help the student pass or make the test so easy they couldn't fail.  The students also knew the policy so many just wouldn't apply themselves.

It makes my blood boil whenever I hear the government blaming the quality of the teachers for this country's poor academic record.  Never have I heard them question the quality of the schools.

1 hour ago, Stan7444 said:

Thank God the b***ard is finally dead. I grew up with him as the Commie off the shores of the US and with his missiles from the <deleted> Soviets 90 miles off our coast digging bomb shelters in case they were ever launched. Batista was not a good guy but far better than Castro for the people. The US was the primary source of Cuban income from sugar to cigars to rum and doing a good business, including the money from casinos, even through run by the Mob. People profited from all of this commerce and under Castro the imbargo imposed by Ike and reinforced by JFK killed their economy. Screw with the US and you will pay the price. Period!!!

 

Look at all the people Castro murdered for their independent beliefs and all of the 1000s of Cubans exiled or running (boat people) in the 60s to Florida to escape his terror and murder, many who died at sea. Under Castro this Communist regime put the people down, shut down the press, killed any form of democratic discussion, and put down the Catholic religion. They exported, compliments of Che Guevara, Communism to other countries in So. America and tried but failed to do the same in Africa. They were the outcasts of the world along with So. Korea due to Castro so I spit on his grave and piss there as well. Good ridden to Fidel and soon Raul and hope they give full democracy back to the people. Trump should cut off relations that the other ba***ad Obama reestablished with Cuba until they come into the international community of nations.

Ooouuuucchh!!  Sounds like a sore loser.

1 hour ago, hdkane said:

Yesterday, I was approached by a university student to take a survey about Thailand. A class project. One question was, "What don't you like about Thailand?" I'm sure she expected me to say something about spicy food, but I replied that the police were too corrupt and the same as a mafia.  The girl actually looked surprised at my answer. Real question--do Thais really not know this? Or was my answer embarrassing to her, because she knows all too well the character of Thai police?

Oh no they know the scene alright....she was probably deciding on whether to put the true response in her survey or not.  Of late my village has been suffering from a lot of burglaries but when I have asked those affected if they have contacted the police they all gave the same answer "Why?  I dont want any more problems"!!

A "freer hand"?.....is that possible??

4 hours ago, Enoon said:

According to another source the VOA fee was raised from 1000 to 2000baht, for those 19 countries in the scheme, on 27th September 2016, and is now being reduced back to 1000baht. 

 

It is the 1000baht that they would have ordinarily paid for a Tourist Visa in an Embassy/Consulate that is being waived.

 

Which puts a rather different angle on their "promotion".  If it is correct.

 

So it sounds more like they put the fee up but then realised their mistake so turned it all around and called it a "promotion" to save face.  Just like my old school, make a decision first and then consider the consequences later.

Why not bring your own folda chair???

28 minutes ago, hyku1147 said:

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You missed the worst side affect of all................The dreaded munchies!!

Could be a red flag, may not be.  Plus you cant work by one flag alone.  In my experience, my wife never says "Oh my darling" when looking at some Thai male star on TV but will do with some  farang actors eg. Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson etc.  And yes she has had a really bad relationship with a Thai man (ex husband).  At the same time I would very very rarely drool over a farang woman but Asian woman I have always been attracted to.  That is certainly not a red flag for my wife!  Its all about personal choice and not necessarily about ulterior motives.  Good luck!

11 minutes ago, TSF said:

No so in LOS. Put on the orange robe and bingo! An instant wise and holy man to grovel on your knees before. Put on a gov uniform with rows of combat ribbons and jump wings and bingo! An instant superior to be respected and kowtow'd to.

Errrr yeah, I stand corrected.....forgot where I was for a second.

Respect is not given...it is earnt!

9 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

What a photo opportunity for T.A.T. to use in an advertising campaign to attract Europe's best tourists !

Yep, "Good guys in, bad guys out"!

48 minutes ago, 14Stevie said:

I share the outrage of all.

Outrage at the big, hard lad that knocked the kid to the ground.

I share the urge to give this animal (well, he may have the biological ingredients of a human but he's not a real man hitting kids is he?) the kicking he deserves.

I admire how quick people were on the scene and take care and protect the little lad from further violence. Whether the little lad would learn that violence is not the answer by those intervening showing such restraint is a different issue and none that anyone here could say for certain.

However, if this happened back where I am from the bloke would have been attacked by both men and women acting purely on the viciousness of the assault. I accept maybe not a great lesson for the kid but the extreme violence would have initiated an extreme reaction.

So were the locals here in the Land of Smiles right to show restraint?

There will be sound and just arguments both ways - especially as such summary justice may see the little lad subject to more of the same or, heaven forbid, worse at home.

I hope the police deal with him to the extent that he watches his ways with the kid in the future.

I also hope (as would happen back where I am from) he is a marked man and decked at every opportunity when he dares show his face in the locality.

Sorry if that upsets some - but you hit a defenceless kid like that you have to pay...........

 

Best post Ive seen for quite a while, esp on ThiaVisa (and your first post...welcome!).  Some fine words of wisdom there...congrats.  The most response you will probably get here is complaints that you cant spell defenseless

2 hours ago, Johnniey said:

Why the need to call them Thais? This is not a racial issue.

I think we all know what he means  (well, except for you).

2 minutes ago, fruitman said:

 

Then it's easy to fool most of the Thai. It makes a huge difference how they treat you, try it yourself! Buy the most expensive blouse you can find (or lookalike, they can't see the price only how it looks on you), wear nice pants/shoes and they'll even open the doors for you while waiing..serious.

 

You can even buy some (fake) big golden jewelry or (copy) watches to top it off...and a nice haircut of course. Keep your cellphone in the hand (put a cover around it if it's a cheapo). Some fake medals from the market on the blouse also help.

 

I have one black blouse which looks very expensive but isn't and it always amazes me how the treat me when i wear it. ALL the Thai, they won't even come close to me.

 

 

And that is how you would be sure to get a teachers job at my old school....and  how that pedophile arrested last week got teaching jobs here so easily.