jonclark

Thai culture is rooted deeply in superstition and the occult, The idea of having your tarot cards read at a Buddhist temple, highlights this mish-mash of cultures and superstition and its ones of the things I love about Thailand. And if it makes people happy and gives them a sense of hope, well good luck to them.. I'd rather read about these cultural oddities than the corruption, nepotism and criminality that seems to dominated the political news recently. 

On 9/12/2022 at 8:21 AM, micmichd said:

If it is used as an insurance for medical bills then I'm okay with it. Why should Thailand take the cost? 

A good host takes care of a paying guest.  Especially if the paying guest contributes a huge amount to the hosts GDP. 

10 minutes ago, mrfill said:

Perhaps he should have some children doing the cleaning around his house, the cooking and maybe a few to dance around some poles to get some practical work experience.

"Dance around poles"...I would sincerely hope that each every single school child aspires to something more than that. 

21 hours ago, ftpjtm said:

 

But while meaningless to the Thai political system, having a foreigner publicly criticize their country is offensive. A situation not unique to Thailand. 

In fairness, he is criticizing Prayut and Prawit, two individuals....not the entire country. 

3 hours ago, Artisi said:

You expect the teacher to spend his free time teaching a student after class - sure and the Easter bunny is real. 

Most teachers remain in school long after classes finish. It is an expectation. They don't leave after the final class's finishes. Teachers are not paid by the hour. 

3 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

disagree, any pain makes you think twice regardless of its  source whether right or  wrong self  inflcited or not.

There  is a  clear difference between the fire and the  punishment but the fact remains you remember due to the pain.

Changing peoples' behavior through the administration of corporal punishment does not work. 

If you arrive late for work should you manager  / boss take you outside and give you a dam good thrashing? After all you will then think twice about turning up late for work - or would that be unacceptable and only reserved for students at school?  

Learning and remembering are two very different outcomes. 

2 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Believe me I don't like physical punishment and always looing for alternatives. As I did in a school I wanted to let students clean the toilets or wash the schoolbusses, but the head of the English department said that I could not punish them this way and she went upwith the stick and solved the problem( she thought but of course it did notl help) and students in several schools said it is n o problems as it hurts a bit and is quick gone. In international schools I don't know how they punish but rural school I am sure noting else is accepted 

You maybe need to advise your Head of English that the Ministry of Education has outlaw all forms of corporal punishment in schools. So this punishment is not accepted by Thai society and your HoD is acting in a criminal manner. 

Its one of those odd situations - If i took a stick to a child and hit them with it in the street, no doubt people would be outraged, yet if it was done in a school building it would be accepted? 

I know it goes on - the recent case of the kindergarten teacher at one of the Sarases schools being a case in point earlier in the year- glad to see the parents managed to get a few kicks in at the press conference / school meeting afterwards. But that doesn't mean accepted - Teachers accept it as it rudimentary and requires minimal effort and really is a negative reflection on their poor teaching practice. But I do not believe for a second parents or Thai society in general accepts it. The parent in this case (and the Sarass case) do not accept it. 

Would you accept your child being physically punished by a teacher? 

6 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

physical punishment is only accepted in Thailand as I wrote before. Other things not... no sweeping schoolyards, no keep student in the class and not coming back or even write rules...believe me. I was 20 years a teacher here

Likewise a teacher here for over 20 years and I disagree with everything you have written about what is accepted or not. 

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Yes I answer them... but as soon as they start shouting at me in Thai I hang up!

If possible it is always good just to wait for the person to start speaking...and then just give them a full blast of the stereo down the telephone line. Didn't call back ...must be my taste in music. 

3 hours ago, ozimoron said:

and ignore this? They can walk and chew gum at the same time.

 

There's a long record of foreigners trashing Thai reefs and disregarding the laws in nature parks.

And an even longer and more illustrious record of Thais trashing reefs in NP and beyond either directly through illegal fishing, or by dropping anchors on reefs, or poor waste disposal methods or indirectly by non point source pollution such as  releasing sewage directly into oceans or, farm run off causing eutrophication  or from poorly though out development leading to massive sediment run off which blankets the reef in filth killing the corals at the base of the reef food chain. 

None of this actually matters though when you consider the vast ongoing damage caused to reefs and the reef community by climate change and ocean acidification for which each and every one of us (including the outraged netizins) is responsible for.  Fairly sure not a single outraged netizins has changed their lifestyle or reduce their carbon footprint to help mitigate the impact of climate change on the reefs. Easier to complain about foreigners fishing rather than do something meaningful isn't it? 

Just don't get me started on the local shrimp industry and the impact that has had on mangroves here. 

Wonder how much those people borrowed for a visa and plane ticket bought on the he promise of a now, never to see,  well paying job in Korea. 

Still on the bright side the loan sharks and money lenders won't lose out. 

2 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

There doesn't appear to be an Interpol Red Notice out for Boss...

 

View Red Notices (interpol.int)

No there is not. Which is why I suspect the scum has not been arrested by UK police if he is there as suspected and stated in the OP.

8 minutes ago, SatEng said:

I don't agree.

This is a Thai problem, therefore any Thai buying land in a foreign country should lose their Thai citizenship ands all rights to land in Thailand.

That would make it reciprocal

No this is the worst thing that could be done. I am delighted that in Thailand the rich elite through various practices steal from the middle and lower classes and then go overseas and give all that money to foreigners when they buy land. Thank you for the money Thailand.