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SBK mentions the pay equality trope. No matter how many times this is pointed out to be nonsense it will not die. It should be called the 'phoenix defence'.

The figure given is normally a 17% pay differential, based on a strict comparison of pay levels for each sex. But if it is adjusted for full time workers on equal experience the 'discrimination' disappears.

Young women, who have not moved their priorities to child rearing, earn more than their male cohorts. In both male-dominated and female- dominated occupations, applications made by women are enormously favoured.

This is privileging through the language of 'rights' and 'equality'. The disconnect between the academic position and the female-centric press is beginning to be untenable.

As SBK rightly observes, we should read more on these issues to find the brute truths. I really hope she takes her own advice.

Well they managed to get soi 23 reopened... It was open yesterday, and busy.

....but why did they say they needed to go to the bank to do this...? I thought the problem was the landlord's cutting the power... I thought they had already agreed a new businesses strategy with the banks about a month ago. Something very fishy. And it's not the Tom yam gon...

Well I am. The policy is a government response to the hysterical nationalism of Thai equivalents of the knowledge incapacitation nexus of daily mail/daily express readers.

For somebody like me, rich but 20 years from a retirement visa I must do something to stay here. As it happens, I work and so have a work visa, but that only accounts for 11,000 Brits... What are the others doing? It is not immoral to find loopholes in a system designed on bigotism and prejudice.

I don't.

I watch dubbed Japanese anime in Thai. I recommend the Conan the Detective movie series (about 20 now). You can also read the same stories as 20 baht manga at your local comic stores.

Thai voice actors are very high quality.

Well, one academic argues the genealogy for this trope is from a smiling air hostess picture of Thai airways from decades ago.... But a Thammasat prof specifically refutes this, claiming it goes far back.

But the Thai was only fabricated a couple of centuries back and there must necessarily be benign western contact to get that image so it can't be too old....

Well, the alternative is the Grand Theft Auto-like Thai roads, not the sleepy B roads around Bournemouth....

We should look at the stats before saying it is not worth the risk.... Otherwise, it is blind hysteria that is guiding you.

That is jolly good news.... I love the canals and would love a way to zip past the traffic.

The link in English doesn't seem to give any info. Do you know if there will be a counter-direction flow in rushhour, I.e. east to west?

I do not know. But surely you can just download a new one as an app. My Android has 5 keyboards...

My favourite is when they ring after the appointment time from their apartment to say they'll be late because of the traffic... Yet they've not yet set off.

It is lack of respect. They would not be late to meet the Queen of England.

I have cut off so many potential Thai friends because of this.

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Not turning up for job interviews is routine here possibly because of the 0.5% unemployment rate. They can always find other work.

If Thais or better young Thais are lazy was a simple question, I don't want to insult anybody no matter what nationality. I just ask this to find out if there are more owners with similar experiments so I know what I have to look for. I owned a company for over 10 years with 14 peoples but this was never happen to me.

Thanks stigvinck for the tip!

A pretty Thai girl in CM that can speak good English and has a driving license will be expecting a wage of 20k+ a month. If you are expecting them to have a degree as well add another 5k a month.

If you pay less, or expect long hours, you won't find anyone that will stick at the job longer than a week.

I don't think the Thais are lazy, I suspect you want too much for not enough.

big big difference between expecting and what is offered.

I think at a stretch you can expect lets say for example a pretty hotel receptionist in a 4 star hotel, degree in English a pre requisite in Phuket to get circa 15-20k in high season with service charge comissions, but same girl in same hotel in Chiang Mai, maybe 12k tops.

not sure who you know on 25/30k; we are talking the level of bank managers/lawyers/teachers with oodles of experience.

However that being said I hope to God my beautiful,fluent English speaking,28 days a month, 14hrs a day, reception manager, and bed partner doesnt see this post or i will have to raise her into double figures!

LOL I assure you that 25-30K pm is "chump change" for a lawyer. I rent from a lawyer and he is fabulously wealthy. He spends more than 30K a month on weekend golf trips.

You would think so.... But *astonishingly* a friend at Baker & Mackenzie 3 years PQ was on 50k a month.... I make that 1/12 of the salary of his brethren in London.

Rip off. More than 3 times my local... 555+

I walked into my local one . It was 30 satang a page. There are tonnes of them. Just ask students.

In 2005 there was a flurry of activity with new canal routes. One from sathorn to Dao khanong in thonburi, another from memorial bridge via bangkok noi canal to phet kasem soi 20. The boat was numbered 20. You can find internet conversations at that time full of the innocent enthusiasm of a bygone era.

Can I have a definite yes or no as to whether they were cancelled. I think they were but just want to be sure.

Thanks.

Looks like a fine idea. Exactly how Japanese write Japanese....

Btw, no need to write legalese all over your website. Declaring copyright has been redundant for some time. And I suspect it is not trademarked in any national or international system, so there's no point in sticking "TM" everywhere....

If they don't know it's Indian food then they like many of the plainer dishes, and I would think would get used to the stronger alien spices. Muslim Thai food is different, many Thais from other regions are fine with many of those dishes.

But they aren't willing to acquire unfamiliar tastes when they don't have a good impression of the associated ethnic group.

Same with Arab, Persian, Turkish/Greek, African etc.

Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, French are fashionable and therefore worth it to them to go to the trouble of getting used to the unfamiliar stronger aspects.

I think Bigjohnny's comment above pretty much nails it.

The Thai's I know who have been encouraged (or often in the cased of our wives) forced to enjoy more than one gastronomic Indian in general like Indian food.

The Thai's I know who have never tried it don't like it.

Both 'groups' would agree that it smells, both would likely agree that Pla-Raa smells, but thats acceptable, much in the same way we in the west tolerate the whiff of blue cheese.

Strange how the Japanese curry is popular here, I find it remarkably Indian !

Japanese curry is an adaption of a British dish that was an adaption of an Indian dish. Since it uses curry powder it has a very distinct taste.

There is an irony that Thais will immediately and without qualification be dismissive of Indians, only for them to wai the Lord Buddha (an Indian), the next.

A non-standard keyboard arrangement? Why would anyone want to use that?

Because--incredibly-- just like the english QWERTY setup, both of the most popular Thai keyboard arrangements are made to incapacitate your ability to type fast....

....not all in there 20s are fit and well. I am sometimes in such pain I have to hold my chest. Standing up for a person because they are older does not always make sense. I disguise the pain... So they must think I am a jerk when I don't stand for them....

Anyways, i read somewhere recently that Thailand is rabies free

Thailand is no 3 in the world for rabies cases. (Google is your friend)

Can't see Thailand in the top ten on any list of rabies prevalent country, you will need to show me that one. I do see that it is not considered rabies free though, wish i could find that article now about the pet passport consideration as per my post that you conveniently snipped.

Human rabies:

" As of 2007, Vietnam had the second-highest rate, followed by Thailand; in these countries, the virus is primarily transmitted through canines (feral dogs and other wild canine species)." (Wikipedia)

Learn to use google correctly.

Yes, he is at peace. He is in a better kingdom now. The kingdom of heaven with God. May God bless you sir.

there is no peace to be found in suicide, the ultimate act of a tiny coward. Learn something. Study. Meditate and pray, but most of all, try to improve yourself and stop behaving like a human parrot.

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Albert Camus observed that since it is clear there is no god, and that life is an absurdity, the biggest question of philosophy is whether we should commit suicide now. There can be a happy suicide.

Camus describes an actor:

"In those three hours he travels the whole course of the dead-end path that the man in the audience takes a lifetime to cover."

Anyways, i read somewhere recently that Thailand is rabies free

Thailand is no 3 in the world for rabies cases. (Google is your friend)

The notice suggests they are urgently looking for reception staff. Perhaps the staff quit when offered lower wages....

On the pinklao branch there is now something written in Thai. If somebody can decipher the letters I can translate it. You need to look at the handwritten blue pen stuff, not the 7 day old english.

Take a photo and I shall tell thee.

Can you post the PDF again. It seems to have evaporated.