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2 minutes ago, sanemax said:

 

    With that information , the Police will be able to easily identify the men and quickly arrest them . There is CCTV footage in nearly every bar and many CCTV cameras all over Bangkok .

I don't mean to be rude sanemax, but I  think you have been here long enough to know better than that.  The chances of the cctv being 'broken' are staggering.

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Thanks JSixpack.  I use robocopy for automated backup to an external HDD on boot.  I haven't really got into the cloud yet- I should do I suspect.

Thanks AgentSmith.  Would you agree JSixpack?  I went for 256 + 1 so I hope that will cover all avenues.

Can I interrupt you two b*tching at each other for a minute?

If you were buying a new system now, how big would you make your HDD and SSD drives?

I am starting to see a trend here.  North American NES seem to report that they struggle with understanding NES from other parts of the world as far as I can gather from posts on TV. Perhaps it is a listening problem.

5 minutes ago, sugarcane24 said:

Teachers have quite a high social status in Thai society I suspect because their important role in turning intelligent children into government-operated robots, respectively cogs in the state machinery, is appreciated by TPTB and their underlings. If I value my three years of teaching in Thailand before I retired it is because of the insight into this it gave me.

 

Delving into this issue further, I came to realise that schools anywhere in the world are basically indoctrination centres used to programme children with the lies which keep this corrupt and evil system pervading virtually every aspect of human life on this planet  going.  Seen in this light, so-called education is just another form of government/psychopathic elites-sponsored organised crime designed to dumb down the population. What do a school of fish and children in a school have in common? The fish and the children are both disconnected from their own brain and controlled by a mind outside themselves. 

3 minutes ago, sugarcane24 said:

Sorry - I didn't notice the date. If I had, no I wouldn't have.

 Have you seen this one?  You should post your comment in it.  You will find far more people to discuss it with.  All the best.
 

16 minutes ago, sugarcane24 said:

If you are ever thinking of teaching English, I suggest you make sure to learn proper English spelling first.

Did you really need to exhume this poor long dead thread to criticise someone's spelling?

OldSailor- I have no idea what is going on with the quote system here.  My tongue in cheek post was aimed at AgMech not you, but I am not sure what is presenting on the page. I agree with you from the point of view of conversational English.

I also try to avoid teaching grammar, much preferring literature in my classes.  Even where that is not possible, then functional English is preferable to grammatical English.  The days of not being allowed to finish a sentence with a preposition or start one with a conjunction are long gone (much to my mother's chagrin).

Shawn's comments about accents are spot on- as a fluent native speaker it is rare for me to find another native speaker that I can't understand, be they from Glasgow, India, Indiana, Thailand or a hundred other places.  Those whom we can't understand are non-fluent and must continue to practise.

1 minute ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

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Can you imagine a Geordie and Glaswegian teaching English in the Khon Kaen and Mukdahan schools?

 

I speak with a drawl and spell color different, but at least it's English. And I only use ya'll when I'm in the South. :) (That's the South in the USA, if your not sure).

Well not only do you speak in a weird manner, but you can't spell, you start sentences with conjunctions, you have mixed up the possessive adjective for 'belonging to you' and the contraction of 'you are', and you use adjectives where you should use adverbs.

(apologies I'll get my coat) :D

Just now, Artisi said:

 

Noted on first read thru' - however an insight into your theory wouldn't have gone amiss.

Further, see my previous post 1 or 2 back.

My apologies- I was counting on people to use a couple of skills- the first as mentioned 'scan reading' and the second 'making inferences'.

With reference to your post of 1 or 2 back- a completely unqualified brick-layer/ refuse collector/ dole bludger can come here and make 30k a year.  To pay someone who has a doctorate at the same rate may indeed explain the poor command of English in the country.

I take your point about explaining my points more clearly.  As much as I thought they stood without the need for extra development that is not always the case.  Thank you.

8 minutes ago, Artisi said:

Are we supposed to nit pick and comment or just read it for understanding?

 Use your scan reading skills- 35k for a PHD.

15 minutes ago, kowpot said:

My niece is studying English in the university.  She says she cannot understand the teacher from the UK but can understand better the one from Texas in the USA.  She says, the one from the UK always sounds like he is mumbling.

My grandmother hated electric toothbrushes.  She said they made her mouth feel funny.

If this happened in my country it would be out of her hands.  She would not be at liberty to raise funds on the internet to escape home.  A crime has been committed and needs to be investigated by the police.  

4 hours ago, atyclb said:

an extremely common error is "I'm work" I'm live" and they dont seem to learn and correct the error.

There are a number of these:

The one you mention- the use of the verb 'to be' along with another verb; the omission of the 's'/ 'es' on third personal singular; the use of have (as opposed to 'there are') without a subject (e.g on describing a scene- 'have 2 people'), and a number of others which I have been battling on a daily basis for years now .

The problem comes down to what is known as fossilisation (from when the students learnt from non-native speakers,) or an attempt to translate directly from Thai.  It is frustrating, but these are errors of accuracy not fluency, and such utterances are still easy to understand.

Meanwhile I have a theory about the 'abysmal' command of English in this country.  Please see below an advert from today for a national university: 

14 minutes ago, smutcakes said:

 

I dont think anyone on the topic has said it does not happen. I think people are saying it is extremely unlikely to happen to the OP, and not worth concerning himself about.

It's your final contention that I find a little hard to agree with.  I do agree that it is unlikely, but it's a case of wrong time, wrong place.  Should the OP be concerned? Perhaps, perhaps not- I guess that is a choice only he can make, but as he has already indicated he is happy to quit some time prior to coming here, that would seem most advisable.

https://www.google.co.th/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=raid drug test thailand

Stop and search is far more common, but there is no doubt that random testing does happen even if some members themselves have no experience or knowledge of it- this is dated September this year,

https://www.stickmanbangkok.com/readers-submissions/2016/09/a-very-unpleasant-12-hours-in-bangkok/

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I have a story of misery and angst I'd like to share as a take it or leave it warning.

I've been coming to Thailand since I was a backpacking youngster in 1990. Now I consider myself a senior backpacker, made the move from Khao San to lower Sukhumvit years ago. In all that time I've had minimal contact with the Thai police, an occasional patting down at most. That's going from bushy haired traveler to bald 50-year old white American. That changed this morning, Friday, September 16.

I'm on a short visit to the city only, just catching up with the changes. Flew in from NYC and didn't bother trying to adjust for the time difference since you can easily go out any time of day in Bangkok. So this morning at around 0300 I went to this late-night place that attracts mostly Africans on Sukhumvit soi 3. The place never closes. I was sitting there in the usual cloud of shisha smoke drinking my Chang when the police came in. I've been to this spot, don't even know the name, might not even have one, a bunch of times. The police always come in, look around, collect, and leave. No problem. This morning was different.

 continued at link.

There are areas that are quite famous for stop and search- Thonglor in BKK for example, and there is a road block on the Petchakasem highway just south of Petchaburi which does random testing. I know one guy who has been stopped and tested twice randomly on the roads.  There also seems to be a recent increase in club raids where all patrons are being tested. (As reported here on Thai visa). They will not care where you were when the THC got into your system. 

19 minutes ago, Ulysses G. said:

 

As long as they are living there legally and not terrorists they should be fine. Otherwise, they would not be happy.

Of course- as has been proven through the last century or so, bigotry only affects illegal immigrants and terrorists, in which case it is deserved so isn't even bigotry.  Well done. 

19 minutes ago, Ulysses G. said:

Would that be the same kind of fake bigotry that the MSM has contrived to smear Trump in order to prevent him from winning?

 

 

No, it would be real bigotry being spouted on nearly every US political thread.  The change is quite palpable.  I can't imagine what it must be like for minorities living in the states these days.  

I have noticed a massive increase in the bigotry on this board in two stages- the first coincided with Mr Trump's entry into the American political circus, the second with his electoral victory.  

I don't believe canons discriminate against their fodder, so why the concern?

It's a fair point but I don't understand what he means about protected species.  Are people taking live coral and shellfish away with them?

Is the interviewer an illegal immigrant?  If she is then CMMNightRighter is quite correct, but if she is not then he spewing dishonest nonsense.

The English in the clip is quite clear.  She asks "If I vote will my family be targeted?" Obama refers to her voting 'as a citizen yourself', which suggests that she is not an illegal immigrant therefore...

Exactly what fresh food is available in 7/11?  I was in my local one today, and I didn't see a single item of fresh food in the whole shop.  Processed food is famous for being full of salt, sugar, preservatives and other additives. There is a lot of unhealthy Thai food out there, but there are a lot of healthy options too.  I think the OP is talking nonsense.

I'm worried about this news that vegetables lose all their nutrition after 1 or 2 days.  Back home when I was a kid it was normal to keep some root vegetables like potatoes for weeks if not months. In fact they only grew at certain times of year so I guess our ancestors were in big trouble without being able to rely on the local 7/11 healthy options.

41 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

Three pages of comment about Scrabble and English. I would say that the OP got you clicking there.

By the way, all of the Scrabble players competing in Malaysia this week have a good command of spoken English, many of them are fluent. The game didn't teach them this...travelling all over the world representing their country and communicating with other players using English has given them that. The OP didn't say scrabble taught them how to speak English, he was remarking on Scrabble being a beacon showing that not all avenues using English in Thailand are dead end streets.

 

And for those who have a comprehension problem and used the word "asinine" it scores very nicely, thank you, being a seven letter word it is likely to get a 50 point bonus.

Talking of comprehension problems, you seemed to have missed the main idea of what posters were saying.  Although not the same as my own comment, it was I believe that the English skills of these Thai scrabble players is far from 'standard', therefore the premise of the piece that the 'standard' is not all bad was quite wrong.  You may infer that 'not all avenues using English in Thailand are dead end streets' but that is not the same as the implication made in the article that the standard is 'not all bad news', and is not the same as most posters were disagreeing with.  The main idea of the original post was that the standard of English in Thailand is 'not all bad'.  This is a point the article failed to demonstrate in any way.

Your argument is amusing and quite clever, but entirely fallacious.

As for a mere 50 point bonus- pfft.