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We put my step granddaughter through 7 years of the so called "Chinese school' - Hua Khiao school. They were supposed to learn amongst other things Chinese, none of them ever did apart from learning a song, which none of them understood. We didn't pay the suggested sum of ฿20 000.- to get her into the supposedly best school in the district after that for further education so she went to a state school.
Doesn't seem to have made much difference, she is now in technical college, plenty of stuff there I don't like but never mind, she's doing fine.
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It is amazing to me how far this has got. I first came in contact with this idea through a very intelligent teacher at school. Week after week we would bring more evidence that the world wasn't flat. Week after week he came up with another counterargument. Some of us latched on (11 years old, 60+ years ago) that it was a JOKE <deleted>. He did force at least some of us to think about things for ourselves, probably started with the most outrageous statement he could think of. Much better than "if a tree falls in a lonely forest with no one to hear, does it make a noise"
Never mind, feeling outrage at something that is an intellectual joke is not a sign of high intellect. IT's a JOKE.
I usually get insulting replies when I post this kind of stuff...
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Looks like fusarium wilt, soil borne.
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Nope. I doubt that a good quality paint would last two years in Thailand. Try to find a concrete additive to mix in.
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13 hours ago, puchooay said:
Of course it was. That's why you explained that it was at the first and second opportunity, instead of waiting for the third.
I often wish I could be so convinced that I'm always right about things, that takes dedication.
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On 9/21/2022 at 2:34 PM, puchooay said:
On the contrary. I think not.
My daughter decided her future studies based on what she enjoyed, what could help her prosper in life, what would open the world up to her and what would enable her to move onwards and upwards. In that order.
I don't recall her ever mentioning air conditioning.
It was a JOKE <deleted>. But bully for your daughter.
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19 hours ago, puchooay said:
That is a sad, narrow minded outlook on one's future.
That is a sad, narrow minded outlook on attempts at making ironic remarks.
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I think the main reason that my granddaughter decided to study IT and computing is that the computers have to be in an air conditioned room.
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Close up pictures of flowers and fruit would help, also of the leaves, but I doubt anyone would want to id your stuff from fotos. Your neighbours will know, ask them, one of the kids will write the name down in Thai for you, you can google it.
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That's exactly what I do. However the 'Grow pots' are a waste of money, in this climate they will survive being potted up easily.
The other thing of course, is that in Thailand tomatoes need shade, and that constantly wet leaves leads to disease. Cherry tomatoes don't seem to suffer so much.
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My teacher many years ago, an intelligent bloke, was a member of the Flat Earth Society. He said there are two kinds of people in the world: those that believe that Flat Earthers are serious (can include members) and those that realise that it's an intellectual joke. No matter what argument I brought up, he managed to find a counter argument. Took him a day or two sometimes.
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After years of applying Ivermectin and the like every three months as per instructions, I followed "village wisdom" and gave them doses 10 days apart. Gone. Some days I was literally taking off a hundred ticks, I hardly bother to look now.
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On 7/2/2022 at 9:17 PM, Iamfalang said:
Friendships don't matter? Social skills underrated? Fun in a classroom bad? Eating lunch with friends? Playing games? Meeting a boy or girl......
Online learning as a supplement, maybe. I'm not sold on this concept, yet. No friends might spell childhood trauma, and that doesn't go away in a lifetime.
Yes I have seen these arguments before. Plenty of opportunities for friendships out of school, meaning that social skills would be learnt socialising with people of all ages and walks of life.... etc. Statistics have shown that home schooled kids are better adjusted. I went to University (OMG, 55 years ago) a totally introverted, shy and brow beaten idiot. Three years of engineering study changed that. I ended up leading a semi professional dance troop!
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On 7/28/2022 at 2:22 PM, exfatriate said:
"I mucked about on the UK pensions website until I found the form for changing bank account. Printed it and sent it off by registered mail. Worked seamlessly."
- Can you give me a clue where you found it? I've mucked about with no luck.
Sorry, that was a few years ago.
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I mucked about on the UK pensions website until I found the form for changing bank account. Printed it and sent it off by registered mail. Worked seamlessly.
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On 7/7/2022 at 3:09 PM, jvs said:
We have tried that,absolutely no effect.
See the post by Sametboy.
It is not possible to get any effect by what you are saying.
Of course not. Legal cannabis is limited as to its THC content. I have been offered seeds with potentially high THC but that would require a leap of faith.
Try Kratom instead.
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We use a tea making sieve thingy, whole leaves. I like to squeeze a lemon into the result. I sleep like a baby.
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20 hours ago, Jingthing said:
No you don't get it.
The radical Christian theocrats are now working to make fetuses legally persons which would instantly ban abortion nationally and make all abortion murder.
You don't have to be a radical Christian theocrat to have a sense of moral values. Calling babies just about to be born a foetus doesn't help your argument at all.
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On 6/26/2022 at 6:15 PM, Jingthing said:
OMG!
PAY ATTENTION.
Pence calls for all states to ban abortion after Supreme Court ruling
As far as fetal personhood all that would take is the republicans taking congress and the white house or as few as one more right wing radical on the supreme court.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/fetal-personhood-explainer/
The leaked Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion is bad on its face, given the fact that Justice Samuel Alito’s writing would gleefully destroy the constitutional right to abortion. But Alito doesn’t stop there, and anti-choice activists have no intention of letting him stop there, either. Instead, these activists are already teeing up their next big legal fight: for the constitutional recognition of fetal personhood.
I don't really care what Pence called for. After this decision, such bans would be illegal. Don't you get that?
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On 6/26/2022 at 7:43 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu said:
Many freedoms and rights that Americans enjoy are not expressly mentioned in the Constitution. The Constitution was intentionally written and has been consistently interpreted to provide a greater degree of liberty than that.
The original Roe v Wade ruling is not an outlier in that it established the right to abortion as being provided by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment which establishes the right to privacy. Many other rights have been established in a similar manner under the 14th and other clauses.
What is an outlier is the current Supreme Court's disregard for precedent and its personal religious and partisan political motivation for striking down Roe.
If the current Supreme Court can strike down Roe in this manner, there are many other rights that Americans potentially stand to lose as a result. It seems that the sole determinants in deciding whether to scrap those rights are the personal religious beliefs and partisan political motivation of some of the justices.
With the wife of one of the justices allegedly deeply involved in the January 6th coup attempt and others having either lied, misled or dissembled in their confirmation hearings, this court has no credibility left.
OK so abortion on demand and even "abortion" (murder) after birth as recently proposed, should be made legal across the USA by federal law. The Roe v. Wade decision contained recommendations that strictly limited such barbarous demands. Never mind. The Roe v. Wade decision was supposedly based on the constitution, 14th amendment, and I don't think that "right to privacy" has much to do with right to have an abortion.
People object to abortion clinics that pressure women into becoming clients and also make big money selling body parts. Maybe teaching kids about birth control and making it accessible to them would help?
In any civilised society women do not have the "right" to have an abortion.
The dems had plenty of opportunity to codify Roe v. Wade, preferred to let it go and then start screaming when all this happened. I assume that morning after pills will still be available. Fentanyl certainly is.
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15 minutes ago, Jingthing said:
According to your logic blacks would still be 3/5 of a person and women would have no constitutional rights.
Also these radicals are.working on criminalizing abortion nationally or short of that criminalizing traveling for abortion or helping such a woman in any way including driving her there.
There is no such thing as a woman apparently, just "birthing persons". I'm "not sure" where you get your figures from, There is as far as I know, no projects to criminalise abortions nationally, although I'm sure you read that somewhere. Read again: it is NOT within the powers of the US government, of whatever side, to insist on nationwide caveats, interdictions or obligations of that sort unless there is a change in the constitution. That's what this was all about- rule of law. Very inconvenient of course if you can't get your way.
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It is the job of the Supreme Court to decide on constitutional matters. They decided, quite rightly that as abortion is not mentioned in the constitution that the government of the USA does not have the right to impose the right to abortion on demand on the country, it's for the states to decide.
Maybe these women should learn about birth control, grow up in families that have fathers present. Only a very low percentage of abortions happen because of rape or incest, some parents were demanding abortions because they wanted a boy, not a girl.
Then there's the huge profit to be made from running abortion clinics.
Maybe some will have to travel across state lines to get rid of their inconvenient baggage, I'm sure that funding will be found for that so that the industry doen't die out.
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In the UK there exist roundabouts on high speed highways. The only reason they still have so many U-turns as default is one of cost. Cost would include condescending to actually design the bllody things correctly using over 100 tears of experience in other countries. And to educate as to how to use them.
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"Two conflicting COVID viewpoints".
How true. There's the fully informed viewpoint and the naively believing what they're told viewpoint.
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Thai government schools.....is this for real?
in Primary & Secondary Education
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Yes I remember you, always ready to give advice . Yes she did struggle through her first school, mainly due to one teacher but she was happy to very happy in the following two up to present. The main problems were most definitely a matter of bad school organisation, how do you like the fact that a couple of times at 9pm she got an SMS saying "no school tomorrow" or alternatively "Saturday school tomorrow"? I was the one struggling with that.
Maybe you have behaviour disabilities checking up on and analysing children you don't know on the evidence of a few posts. For your information she has never been top of the class (except in English) but always near the top.
Not lazy, not stupid, and well brought up, right?