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38 minutes ago, mikebell said:
It's a national characteristic - it starts with the cops and goes up to the tops.
It starts far below the cops.... bureaucrats in low level positions just to do simple seeming job requiring "incentives"
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Bring in millions of migrants from countries even worse off than Thailand rather than pay a decent living wage to Thais for the work. Yeah, makes sense.
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They may seem "disorganized" but being a fan of free market capitalism and "the invisible hand", my view is that they go where the customers are rather than some bureaucrat deciding where they should sell. Seems those bureaucrats can't stop themselves from gumming up the economy with all sorts of interferences
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Never heard "Miss Universe Thailand" referred to as MUT, let alone MUT22.... I know the term mutt aka some stray dog, but clearly does not apply here. Is it that hard to use full name Miss Universe Thailand rather than MUT?
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1 hour ago, ezzra said:
I'm a long time resident of this country and in Pattaya for business at the moment and i can see many foreignness milling about in Pattaya klang many of whom don't wear face masks and i'm thinking that this could be a problem if someone would see it as breaking Thailand's health rules will make an issue out of it...
amen to that. I've been physically threatened for politely asking foreigners to wear masks when on baht buses. Morons. No one enforces the "rule".
Am in Bangkok right now: have seen two foreigners walking about either without masks or below the nose in two weeks. Thais all wear the masks.
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7 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:
"...it should be a rather simple task...."
Who said it was anything other than a simple task? The police didn't, neither did the OP.
I would guess that if they say they are "beginning an investigation into who was behind it" that perhaps they don't know, or know and don't want to say....
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22 hours ago, kidneyw said:
Maybe they thought it was now legal in Thailand.
have they tested the potency? Maybe it falls within the "near beer" Thai guidelines...
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3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:
Word from the, rather clear, OP...
"...the authorities begin the investigation as to who was behind it, reported Daily News".
seems it should be a rather simple task.... most items shipped indicate recipient.... unless "junk mail" to "resident" I suppose
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No word on who these were destined for.... "post restante" or some code word?
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Is this the barely measurable THC stuff again? Placebo central
Might as well toss homeopathic in there for good measure. Equally useless, other than making some folks a bit of cash
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Oh, where to begin? Looked at a couple of those cited sites: 123 supposedly has a quick, do it yourself test (no IQ test online would qualify as a valid, reliable, culture free test... this on the level of "click bait" ads "Only people with IQ over 130 can see the red unicorn in this photo..."), another has list of high IQ celebrities.
This SPM test... is it the Raven's SPM? They don't say, other than Quick and sloppy, multiple choice (that right there eliminates any chance at validity).
When I was high school student teaching, one class i taught was psychology. Had section about IQ, tests, etc. To demo how useless multiple choice IQ tests are, I handed out answer sheet one day. "Where's the questions?" one student asked... "No questions. Just fill in the slots with what you think may be the best guesses." Gave back results next day, a range from may 30 to 150 IQ. The surprising result (to me) was those that had high scores were very proud, strutting about & those with low scores embarrassed. IT IS PURE CHANCE!....hahah
In training for special education masters, much time is spent learning about validity and reliability of a wide variety of tests, including sampling bias etc. To have 10% of student population about 130 is a red flag something is off (2.1% is std for above 130). Who administered the tests is first on my list. Regular classroom teachers of these students? Seems they would want their kids to score well and may have "influenced" results, consciously or not.
"Noting the high ratio of students with an IQ above 130....the figures reflect an inequality in Thai society and further studies are needed to tackle the gap." I reckon easier to dumb down than smart up.... Bell shaped curves by their nature show differences.... jeeze!
An ideal IQ test would have no tasks or questions that depend on prior learning. Should be equally valid if given to Bangkok person or Amazon native who's never seen a phone or TV. When reviewing tests, you do check which populations test have been "normed" to, cross checking to other accepted valid tests, etc... I found that interesting, but then again, I do have mild Asperger's.
Stanford-Binet was the accepted gold standard for IQ tests back when I took it. Friend was getting her school psych certificate, had to give X number of tests. I got 137. I wish I had tried more, but I was watching a Monday Night Football game at the time, Miami v Buffalo.... I think Dolphins won, but could be wrong
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2 minutes ago, Robert Tyrrell said:
Even Neutral Countries like Finland and Sweden want to consider membership in The United Nations !!
NATO, not the UN. They are already in that org
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8 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:
I think he was stationery.
Explains why cops went to "letter of the law" as they "enveloped" him with officers. Time to "stamp" this sort of behavior out! Sorry... having petite mal seizure, maybe
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Numbers I heard were 100k Asians died building the railway and only 7 are in marked graves. Thailand was complicit, but do remember it was the Japanese that ran the show. Take it up with them.
I don't like double pricing, but I reckon until foreigners demand to be paid same as Thais, they don't have solid grounds to complain...
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Assume chaos, inconsistency and you are less likely to go wrong. If you go to report and they say you don't need to, I'd suggest asking if you could voice record that statement, with name of officer. Or maybe don't ask, just have it running...
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I feel for anyone trying to get work permit here. If they required transcripts from me, I'd have to look elsewhere for employment. I have a master's degree plus 105 graduate credit hours beyond that, many of those credits coming from weekend seminars, summer classes accredited by numerous US universities (15? 20?). Running all those down and getting verification.... that would be a full time job.
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I have noticed a precipitous drop in Bhutanese tourists compared to previous years. Way to jump right on it and get this problem sorted!
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2 hours ago, BritManToo said:Never met anyone, Thai or foreigner, that mentioned America who wasn't American.
What you lot get up to just doesn't bother the rest of the world.
I'm American, and plenty of folks from other countries have asked me about Trump. They seemed surprised when I tell them I think he is an existential threat to democracy and the world (if he gets his way). I ride baht buses. I don't go to bars.
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My ex (thank god) once said to me "Why don't you just beat me and then we can be over it?" after one of her more egregious behaviors. Told her "I don't beat women" (or men, for that matter). Besides she would always have that hanging over me...
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Get a US passport. ??? I sent mine thru wash (yes, I did it), and after dried out was fine. US expects us to be idiots, and we seldom fail meeting that expectation.
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I take attitude "whatever I bring, it won't be enough". Picked up form other day, girl at desk said "fill out and bring photo" and sure enough when I showed up they told me must have photocopies of pages Ubonjoe mentioned. Now they have copy office at Jomtien immigration, still got out of there in about 15 minutes, so I'm only complaining nit noi. Save that for bigger fish
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The wife loves her little farm project: usually a little pepper plant and basil (krapow). Makes her happy, actually can use result. What's not to like?
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"beautiful Thai girl" myth?" is incorrect from the git go
It is about your preferences, nothing to do with "myth"
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In Pattaya it depends on how much influence you have with local cops and admin. I've done charity gigs here, used to play at open mic at now gone Bristol Bar. Cops would come by regularly. Pattaya orphanage had some pull, but hard to get word to local fuzz looking for income. Used to raise money for Banglamung home for boys. Lady that ran it had power, was never bothered.
Local bars... make sure they have the juice. You don't want a black mark and 20k baht fine.
I agree it is a bummer we can't go out and make noise... Why do they do it? Because they can
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Secret Service deleted texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after watchdog sought records
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and the request for the texts was made before many of the phones "replaced". Also, secret service are supposed to back up whatever info they had from previous phone onto new one. What happened with that?