TackyToo

In a country where everything is about status and class and money and social standing, it is school- uniforms, that are making the big difference?

What a sorry- a$$ excuse!

Uniforms stand for control!

Remember the sixties when all Chinese wore the Mao-frock? Looks like the author of this BS is just annoyed there are no uniforms for amateur editors- at least not yet.

“Wearing a uniform, they say, makes all students equal”

Certainly not in a society invariably based on medieval hierarchy.

“What if police officers shed their uniforms? Would we be able to identify them in any given situation?”

If not total control, what’s the need identifying a student in any given situation? This argument is simply ridiculous to defend leveling down in an education facility.

Addressing those advocating the uniform fad I’d like to cite a line of a Rodney Crowell song titled- It’s time to go inward:

Prison bars imagined are no less solid steel!

And now all those wistfully awaiting a barcode on their collars may go and complain about my post to their warden.

When is the next ghost ceremony planned especially for railways mishap? Would like to attend the circus

The next one in the queue is not related to the railways as this one is over due:

Wow, the number of train accidents this year in Thailand is astonishing.

Practice makes perfection.

“The AEC means that investors in all 10 ASEAN countries will enjoy the same privileges.”

This will not be accepted here. Thailand will create all kinds of hidden obstacles to prevent equal rights for the other nine members. I can already see special visa rules, mandatory tests in Thai language, Thainess and Thai culture etc. It always reminds me on Animal Farm: all animals are equal- but some are a little more equal. And to use another expression of the animal kingdom: if you want to p… with the big dogs, you got to lift your leg. I doubt this country will or can do.

The attempt to "kill the deal" comes a little late. Perhaps the "killing" should have taken place before involving those guys who let it happen that two crooks could make such deal.

It's Check and Balance not "Cheque and Ballentines." But than again- TIT.

Just sell them and be done with it. You can't beat market realities, it's just part of the cost of doing business.

They tried to manipulate or beat market realities in the rice and rubber buiz. They probably need a third attempt to find out the Thai-Way don't work.

Spirits were apeased here too.

http://www.nycaviation.com/2011/01/alaska-airlines-launches-new-hawaii-service-from-bellingham-washington/#.UjWOaMZmiG4

and here

http://www.examiner.com/article/hawaiian-airlines-airbus-a330-200-gets-a-blessing-from-the-skies

The difference is they do not blame evil spirits for their lack of professionalism or any wrongdoing after a crash...

Nobody seems to have taken Techboy's "Father, Son and Holy Ghost" bait. Pity, I was hoping to hear about the merits of angels and saints and things .....

As a confirmed atheist I'm up for it. What's so different about Thais making merit or having ceremonies to placate evil spirits and any of the other religions in the World. Isn't a common practice to have a fishing fleet blessed by a priest for good luck and what about all the unbelievable bull that goes on with proving "miracles" that is required for a person to become a saint. I won't go into the angels or heaven and hell scenario as it would take too much time. Moving on from the Catholic church what about the evangelist Christians and their amazing behaviour. It's all just hocus-pocus superstition that was created to control the great unwashed masses hundreds or thousands of years ago or in todays world, make lots of money. Thailand's superstitious beliefs are no different to the religions that prevail in so called 1st world western countries. I think all of it is Bull...t but being critical of Thailand's version only is very biased

The topic of this forum was the post above. The subject is about what happens here and now in 2013 or if you want 2556. There is no need to tell everyone there are other morons doing similar stupid things in other corners of the world. That won’t make what happened here any different or any better.

No one really mentions the good spirits,are they hiding, or is it they have lost to the dark side yet again? These remarks can be made in Thailand because everybody believes in it.

There must be many "good spirits." Just ask a cop who turns home with his pockets full of tea money.

Perhaps K. Adisak at BMA could explain why tropical storm Man-Yi (not a typhoon), which is located to the east of Japan, is the root cause of the rain and flooding in Bangkok?

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/western-pacific/2013/Tropical-Storm-Man-yi

Also, he says "Typhoon Man-yi is expected to be followed by Typhoon Usagi." Typhoon Usagi? But there is no Typhoon Usagi yet on any weather map.

http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/ab/abpwsair.jpg

Would you really be surprised if the guy would have said there is no rain season in Thailand?

Is this "news" distributed to keep the population from awareness of all the people who could need a little help from their friends in this country?

Conformity (uniformity) in any form and command of unquestioning obedience should not be part of any contemporary education system as these are tools contra productive to a healthy development of students. I studied in Europe during a period of fierce student revolts under the motto: under the gowns (of rectors) you find the fustiness and mildew of a thousand years. That was only the beginning. Later not only the hardcore members of the movement turned against the entire establishment.

Over here students are brainwashed from day one in school so it takes them a little bit longer to understand the system they are in and for what purpose the above mentioned tools are used. I estimate it will take no longer than two or three student generations feeling the heat and pressure of Globalisation and ASEAN to make them realize they were betrayed by a system established and defended only by people who benefit from it.

Yeah, I know I’m an old hippie. However there is a lot of truth in the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song:

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.

Some people should not be let out of the country.

...or leave home without an adult.

A pastor with a firearm, didn't he understand the "you shall not kill" part of the 10 commandments?

I think there are many more things this moron don't understand. I could've live with the outcome if anyone would have thrown a cigarette bud in his Papamobil.

I'm not saying this is not a disgraceful crime. However TIT and I have my doubts if it is such a bright idea to wear an expensive necklace at the age of 92 even as a monk.

Surprised not to read 'Four BIB arrested in Bt12m marijuana bust in Songkhla'.

You are probably one step ahead of the news.

Oh please, enough hand ringing and hoping that by luck any politician or journalist in Thailand knows how to reform thai education.

They are probably busy to figure out how to paint over the entire "education system."

He didn't want to be there.....he had something important to do.

Maybe he is p&ssed off....he got told a Shinawatra was coming to Switzerland and he thought her brother was coming to stash a few billion in stolen money in the banks there, instead all he got was his bimbo sister bleating on about rice and reconciliation

He's a little confused because yingluck seems to think that swiss people eat Thai rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. This really is a perfect example of her not having the slightest clue of how agribusiness works. Starbucks buys all its coffee from itself in Switzerland to keep profits there. You think they have warehouses of millions of tonnes of rice and coffee and other commodities in Switzerland?

She really has shown herself to be illiterate in multinational business. Great effort.

Looks like the briefing for her got lost in translation...

Average per person consumption of rice differs from country to country. The following are the top ten consumers of rice on a per capita basis in 2007, showing average annual rice consumption (kilograms) per person:

Brunei Darussalam: 245*

Viet Nam: 166

Lao People's Democratic Republic: 163

Bangladesh: 160

Myanmar: 157

Cambodia: 152

Philippines: 129

Indonesia: 125

Thailand: 103

Madagascar: 102

For the consumption of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein scroll down to the end of the list.

Estimated time for scrolling: 10 to 15 mins.

Approximately 45,000 tons of rice are consumed in Switzerland every year, which corresponds

to around 5.62 kilos per head and a little over 1‰ of the worldwide total.

Switzerland Milled Rice Domestic Consumption by Year:

Market Year - 2013

Domestic Consumption - 120

Unit of Measure - (1000 MT)

Growth Rate -4.00 %

*BRUNEI July 11, 2013 The Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers Association are to deliver a total of 3,000 tons of rice. The price for the shipment, it was reported, was set at US$1,020 per ton – US$104 cheaper than imported Thailand rice that Bruneians are more accustomed to.

They leave no chance to promote their incompetence.

Two hubs of hubs rubbing their backs?

Just another little white lie.

Someone lost a face as big as a dinosaurs ass!

I would have liked the headline:

"Bangkok on a mission to get rid of the guys renting out space of public footpaths!"