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On 6/12/2022 at 9:13 AM, Caldera said:
Isn't this more about how YOU organize stuff? They probably assume that their college students stay nearby (in a dorm or otherwise), not that they employ their grandfather as a chauffeur on call duty.
They don't care about 14 year olds driving the same distance on motorbikes, so I guess, no, my experience isn't unique.
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So, I have been driving my granddaughter 70 kilometres daily right through kindergarten up to government 'technical college' as they call it. In her previous school we received, at least three times, on a Sunday evening, the SMS "No school tomorrow'... or next week, Covid evidently, so I guess acceptable.
I had thought that a technical college would have got their act together as far as basic stuff like schedules etc are concerned.
Now, three weeks in, I don't think that a single day of lessons has finished at the scheduled times, meaning I get a come get me call at inconvenient times, like when I am eating, etc. On Friday night on Facebook... Facebook! she saw that she had to go to school on Saturday for a health check, probably take all day. So that was my Saturday plans all effed up. Got her there before 8am, nothing happened before 09.30am, and she was finished at midday.
At least we know when her Autumn break starts, that's a first, but don't know when the break finishes.
Is there any point in complaining? Is this generally the case in Thailand?
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4 minutes ago, LaosLover said:
Me in Switzerland? Less plush, more expensive. My financial situation need not be interpreted as a personal affront to you. It's just so Euro.
... Oh, plush.... I missed that part.
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Good luck with that. I faced staunch opposition when I proposed home schooling for our granddaughter. Combined with the work needed when you actually do HS, I gave up, just try to fill in the many gaps, like critical thinking and sport for example. It IS legal in Thailand, there are Facebook groups you can look for.
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On 6/4/2022 at 9:40 AM, simon43 said:
For a short time around 2013, I was headmaster of a private ('international') school in Luang Prabang, north Laos. There was a tuck shop on campus which sold sugary 'sh*te'. I attempted to get the items sold changed to healthy fruit etc, with sugar-rush items only sold near the end of the school day (so that parents could 'enjoy' the hyperactivity of their offspring at home!).
No chance of changing the tuckshop. It was run by the sister of the school director. I also tried to add an additional person to supervise the kids at the local swimming pool (too many kids, not enough adults to keep an eye on them etc). No way said the school director.
I resigned soon after....
My granddaughter just started 'college' (secondary school, 15 years+) and it has been a general rule from kindergarten upwards that the school shops sold sugary drinks and candy, with the choice of buying highly processed salted junk. I gave up long ago, but our girl drastically cut back on sugar when she realised that it caused her acne.
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I would be doing very well in my home town in Switzerland on that kind of money.
VERY silly question, but maybe the OP never went abroad before apart from annual two week holidays?
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After being involved in a similar accident (among the things I picked up on the road were mobile telephone and cover), certainly not my fault, I was fined ฿800.- after wasting two and a half days at the police station - it was that or pay tea money. They saw my carcam. Not sure what the insurance agent said but the next two renewals were not more expensive. They had to pay for replacement of my engine hood and side door. I'm still paying first class insurance on my now 10 year old car. I wonder if the OP has first class?
The one time I took second class I hit a rock and the company told me to get first class or pay more for my second class. Seemed like an easy choice.
Viriya insurance treats us well here in Buriram, but this seems to vary depending on where you live.
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3 minutes ago, bluebanana said:
naww too lazy xD
God helps those that help themselves. So god help you.
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Possibly a Euphorbia tithymaloides? -White sap?
Put it in a bigger pot whatever it is!
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I don't think that seedlings from avocado will be worth it; trees you buy are usually grafted.
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My Thai granddaughter intends to become a teacher, starting on that path in the next school year.
Anybody else experienced what this involves, how many years, what are the costs?
I will of course be making inquiries directly but should like to work out which questions to ask... through a translator of course.
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In practice it seems that only "doubtful looking" characters have to show proof. I wouldn't depend on it though.
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In Ireland (only coutry I have stats for) the average age at death due to Covid is two years more than the average life expectancy.
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I have been told that some of the stuff sold in bags is spent mushroom compost. OK I guess but you would have to add slow release fertiliser. Other stuff I have bought consisted of 40% peanut shells, what principally seemed to be composed of road sweepings and miscellaneous muck. Nobody made a market for cactus soil, or any other special need. None of it will have been sterilised.
Thailand seems to specialise in producing excellent things that disappear the next time you want to buy again,
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On 1/5/2022 at 7:00 PM, ilikethai said:
Thankyou. this might be a stupid question. So those guides pertain to Thailand as well?
A lot of things are different here, including plant care. Outside of the rainy season my cactus (and other plants that we are generally told can easily rot) get plenty of water, the heat is so intense they never have time to rot. Even during the rainy season I don't worry too much.
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20 hours ago, Tony125 said:
Guess you are unfamiliar withthe word "progress" Yes it took years to develope vaccines but with new advances in coputer tech and medicine they cut that down.
How did we develop a COVID-19 vaccine so quickly?
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-did-we-develop-a-covid-19-vaccine-so-quickly
So you can predict unpredictable side effects using computers? I don't think so. I can only wish that so much energy was being put into therapy as has been put into much more profitable vaccines. Oh, and change of life styles, maybe eating less <deleted> would help.
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Many confuse portable air conditioners with swamp coolers. I presume that this is not the case.
A portable A/C needs an outlet, which tends to make it less portable, opening the door wouldn't be a good idea, right?
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22 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:
Most vaccines which do not contain a live attenuated (weakened) virus typically require multiple doses and boosters.
Its not your fault that you didn’t understand this, you’re neither a Dr, a Virologist or given your comments have a scientific or analytical background. But, don’t make stuff up - it was never expected that the existing vaccines work forever, that is something you have misread, taken out of context or assumed.
It is of no surprise that a booster is required for Covid-19 vaccination just as it is with Influenza,
Some live vaccines can offer you a lifetime of protection against disease, others require two doses of attenuated (live) virus for life time protection i.e. MMR (measles, mumps, Rubella) and Chickenpox.
Other vaccines which use inactivated viruses need several doses over time to maintain effectiveness, i.e. Hepatitis, Tetanus, Polio etc.
Yes, yes, yes of course. But there are still people around that think that a vaccine should protect them against a disease, not reduce symptoms. Why? Because that's what a lot of uninformed (uninformable) politicians and journalists think and want you to think. As you so subtly hint, most of us are too stupid to understand this, but the fact That the WHO had to change the definition of the word "vaccine" in order to be able to call these untested meds vaccines, gives rise to suspicions in some simple minds.
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Plenty of really clever comments here of course.
Tell her that it is a religious festival originating in the fact that people started slaughtering their cattle before the onset of winter, that it is a season of giving, family love, caring. And too much beer and icecream.
But don't let me stop you clever guys sneering, it's all the rage at present.
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On 12/26/2021 at 10:50 AM, Hummin said:
At once someone start claiming everyone is brainwashed, I stop watching. This is not about brainwashing, it about dealing with firstly uknown scenarious if you let it loose, since the cosest scenario is 100 years ago, with far more deadly outcoms, and not as god science neither possibility to make a vaccine that could prevent deaths.
The truth is, we really do not know what would happend if we let it loose. Nobody knows, except we know the hospitals would have been filled up, and the death statistic would have been much higher.
I can't help noticing that most people haven't been paying attention. Sweden did Ok without lockdowns, as has Florida. Excess mortality due to omicron will be hardly noticeable.
"we really do not know what would happend if we let it loose"... are you referring to the so called vaccines? They changed the definition of the word vaccine before they started pushing this, not after the usual 8 years but 8 months, meanwhile refusing to even listen to quite convincing evidence of the efficacy of therapeutic cures, not only Ivermectin and Chlory wats it, but a mass of evidence (from Bengal for instance) that they work. Did I say "refusing to listen"? it was censored for no scientific reason.
"Unknown scenario" the way this virus has developed was perfectly predictable, what's happening now is normal, the more infectious but less dangerous strain, the one we all want to get as it gives you better immunity than "vaccines", has now appeared. Predicted two years ago.
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1 hour ago, scorecard said:
I doubt that's true, however is anything totally accurate about a deadly virus? NO. Is the world learning about the virus on the run? YES. Is nature keeping the whole world guessing while trying to get the details correct, but nature moving/changing the little devil all the time the good folks are trying to get on top of it? YES.
You haven't been paying attention. Sweden followed the WHO guidelines (before they changed them) and as far as they are concerned, Covid is over. This guy is NOT a conspiracy theorist:
Reality... https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v4/streams/free/Australia-Covid-Update-The-Reality-with-Dr.-Robert-Brennan---No-Aussie-Should-Miss-This/c7cd26c99129f0d66a10da196c312a8ce4f94036/53df0b
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" I know you guys will think this post is stupid"... dead right.
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The omicron variant is, according to medical authorities (not politicians) relatively harmless, fatalities and ICU treatments hardly present. The booster shot doesn't help against it. So why all this worry? Leave it up to the politicians to gain maximum profit from this latest paranoiac episode and delay getting any more shots as long as possible.
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18 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:..... The other issue from reading about omicron is that many folks are not being seen in the hospitals for it but going because of some other medical reason that could be related to Omicron or not related and once tested are found to be infected with Omicron. This is worrying also as those folks will be going to the general side of the hospital before being diagnosed instead of the more specialized Covid locations set up at the hospitals.
Why does this worry you? All indications at present are that the omicron variant is pretty harmless, furthermore, catching it would be a good thing if it does indeed give you natural immunity to further infection with Covid.
The mainstream media seems to be determined to continue with their "we're all going to die" thematic.
Of course we're all going to die, but I don't think I'll die from Covid.
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Germinating your cannabis seeds the easy way.
in Thailand Cannabis Forum
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I was at the Buriram cannabis fair on Sunday and was offered 10 seeds (whisper, 10% THC sir) for ฿100.-. If I do decide to plant I certainly won't be doing it this year, fantasy prices and uncertain police reactions prompt me to wait.