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JAG

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  1. 50 minutes ago, Crossy said:

     

    Yeah, there have been reports both ways about NW, some like you have had no issues, others have been fine until new cards were needed, "pick your card up at a branch of your choosing". I have an address I can use so, until I can't any longer I'll keep them in the relative dark. 

    They are quite happy to send cards to my Thai address. They don't activate them until I contact them on their secure messaging system ( part of online banking) to declare that I have received them.

  2. 3 hours ago, Ebumbu said:

    They should have 10,000 (or 100,000) Assange look-alikes all converge on the embassy at once (flash mob) and call taxis and Ubers. A bold plan is required. He can then attach himself to a man-sized drone and fly to a nearby safe house to replace his face and fingerprints with perfect latex replicas of Steve Martin, Lex Luthor, or Edgar Winter. It would be child's play to create a new passport. 

    As inventive and plausible a scheme as many of Mr Assange's claims to be at risk of kidnapping by the United States should he venture out of the embassy!

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  3. 4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

    Thailand may have 100,000 conscripts yearly but just how many are military reservists. There are vast difference in the role of conscripts and reservists. Singapore has 35,000 conscripts every year and almost 1 million reservists who can be activated and join their units in less than a day. Thailand has no such system. Conscripts contribute very little in supporting the military except for being servants and gardeners for the senior officers. 

    Thailand has shedloads of reservists - all those schoolboys who do Army Cadets in M4 to M6 (to avoid the call up) are actually on the reserve for years - to age 40 I think! So are all the conscripts.

     

    Of course, they have no weapons, kit, organisation for them, continuation training or system for calling them up...

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  4. 1 hour ago, Lucky mike said:

    I still struggle, why do teachers require uniforms with military style ribbons ?

    All the (Thai) teachers in my school now turn up on a Monday resplendent in black trousers/skirt and white paramilitary style shirts, all with the same badges of rank (two gold bars on each shoulder) and the same six medal ribbons, arranged in two rows. I observed that they looked like drivers for "Sombat Tour". The younger ones thought that very funny, one or two of the older ones were a bit old fashioned about it. The senior lady who is the supervisor teacher for P6, and who spends all her time scolding that lively, funny and engaging collection of 12 year olds for not wai-ing to her correctly, complained. Lack of respect I suppose.  None of them could tell me what the medals were awarded for! It was suggested that perhaps I would like to wear a uniform - I declined - it would have been embarrassing - I've only got four medals...

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  5. 9 hours ago, mommysboy said:

    I keep reading and hearing the same crap over and over again for the past decade and for the very same time i am short staffed and cannot get staff.

     

    Is it possible in this case that the kind of people you might employ are already in work- possibly with better pay, and that sadly you are left with those that may be deemed unemployable?

     

    minimum wage businesses are short staffed: The reason lays in the statement; I reckon the minimum wage is not enough to live on, hence anyone who is basically competent, qualified, or just has enough about them to honestly want to work won't, or simply can't afford to take the job.

     

    Yes, I suspect you're right.

     

    If you are short of staff, then you need to attract them, and you will only do that by offering better terms of employment (wages) than those you are competing against for staff.

     

    The trouble is that the "minimum wage" is regarded as a "universal wage" by some employers.

  6. On 2/26/2019 at 5:25 PM, sceadugenga said:

    Still no Royal Project store but I did find the Japanese sounding bakery...Yamazaki? that used to be next to Tops along with the Thai style bakery that was opposite.

    They're in the new mall opposite the Tops undercover carpark entrance.

    Ah, that's where they have ended up! Every time I have been to Central for the last couple of months a mobile sticky bun shop seems to have set up camp somewhere new!

    ????

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  7. LThere is a computer shop called "KVC" or something like that. Start from the main entrance of the Provincial Hospital, where the tuk tuks and songthaws all wait. Head west, turn south (left) onto Sanatbin Rd at the traffic lights. You will pass the new A&E entrance to the hospital on your left, Office of Elementary Education on your right. Turn right at the next lights, the computer shop is on your left about 300 metres up, just before the road bends to the left at a temple. I've always found them very helpful.

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