Daily Moan

[Stinky]

Learning how to fight is definitely on the cards now, Ive steered him away from those sports so far in favour of gymnastics but I reckon he could do with learning it now.

[panama hat]

My youngest, age nine, has been doing Tae Kwon Do for four years now - no bullying her either.

It's sad, but a fact of school life

[VocalNeal]

^ Suggest he responds with "my mother is Thai (or), so I get to go there during the summer holidays, while you stay here.
Martial art training will never be wasted. I didn't do it for long as a child but if i fall during cross-country running all the onlookers comment on how well I fall

[Dillinger]

Suggest he responds with "my mother is Thai (or), so I get to go there during the summer holidays

thats when all the ladyboy taunts will come

[Stinky]

I've just signed him up forTae Kwon Do classes at a center just down the road from us, he will be pleased.

[Dillinger]

Great, now he can get beat up outside of school time too

[Stinky]

Great, now he can get beat up outside of school time too

Errr, I never thought about it that way, heh

[Davis Knowlton]

My twins, now 16, started Karate at 6, and are both black belts. My daughter is also on the High School varsity Tae Kwan Do team. Good stuff for kids. Wasn't around when I was a kid, but we had Golden Gloves and wrestling in school.

[Pragmatic]

Whilst sitting having a beer at the village Friday weekly market a car accident happens in front of me. A car tries to cut across the road in front of oncoming traffic. The car takes out an old guy on a motorcycle.

I know full well Thais won't get involved, in basically anything unless they have to, so up I get. The guy's on his back stareing up with no signs of life. He was dead from what I could tell. As I said 'Thais won't get involved' so I went over to my car and gets out a blanket to cover the guy up. Still no help when I returned. As I'm covering him up he starts to show signs of life. Nothing I can do apart from preventing him from moving. The guy clearly has an eye injury, a busted cheek bone and a large cut to the back of his head but I couldn't move him to check it out.

10 minutes post accident a guy bends down next to me. Great someone to help or so I thought. He pulls out one of those nose clearing inhalers and stick it up the victims nose. I can't believe what I'm seeing. On top of that there was a queue, I kid you not, of women wanting to take photo's with their phones. No men, just women.

20 minutes post accident the police arrive. They stayed well clear of the victim and just seemed concerned about marking the road with white paint and taking photo's. They never so much as come over to get the name of the victim or give first aid.

25 minutes post accident the ambulance arrived and I was relieved of my involvement. I looked over to the car that was involved and the driver was just sitting talking to other as if nothing had happened. Are they callous fookers or what?

[nidhogg]

Suggest he responds with "my mother is Thai (or), so I get to go there during the summer holidays

thats when all the ladyboy taunts will come

Or worse. Much worse.

[Latindancer]

He pulls out one of those nose clearing inhalers and stick it up the victims nose.

Classic !



I just quizzed my wife about this kind of non-involved behaviour and it is not always the case.
For instance, her family (Isaan) helped a motorcyclist after an accident. All the same, I could not elicit any real reason why others do not get involved. Or maybe I could not elicit the kind of response I expected, such as "don't want to get involved in their karma" or something.

[nidhogg]

Are they callous fookers or what?

As has been said, there are NO "good Samaritan laws" in Thailand. Get involved, and you may find yourself financially and legally liable.

[panama hat]

Are they callous fookers or what?

Pretty much just ghouls, these people. I'm surprised, though, that no-one else helped

[Bettyboo]

a queue, I kid you not, of women wanting to take photo's with their phones.

I looked over to the car that was involved and the driver was just sitting talking to other as if nothing had happened.

Are they callous fookers or what?

Sorry to hear this, and I can understand your stress due to their lack of compassion/empathy - par for the course, unfortunately.

Two quick stories:

1) Lived in ThongLor about 10 years ago, coming home one day I get off the boat and there's a crowd of 200+ people laughing and joking; 1 woman crying. Turns out a young boy had fallen in the water and drowned, nobody tried to help him, the mother distraught and the rest waiting for the frogmen to turn up and find the body; great day out for them...

2) A close Thai friend (one of the marchers on suthep's parades...) told me one Monday morning that there was a serious accident where she was shopping, she walked past with her husband, a doctor, but he wouldn't help because it might 'cause him a problem'...

...fukers.

[Pragmatic]

I'm surprised, though, that no-one else helped

I'm not really as I'd been involved in a cycling incident a while back. Plenty of people stand looking but that's it. Hence why I got involved as I knew if I didn't then this poor guy was going to be on his own.
We live in a village and within an hour or so word gets around was that I caused the accident and my missus started getting phone calls from friends.

[panama hat]

Pathetic . . .

Good for you for helping out

[Troy]

Left wife in Thailand to look after her mum...Alcohol alert!

[Pragmatic]

Household rubbish hasn't been taken away for 2 weeks now. Why, cuz the dumb fcukers never bothered to find another one before they'd filled the usual one.

[Stinky]

I got a letter back from the Local Education Authority telling me that the racism and the violence and verbal abuse I'd complained about had been properly addressed by the school and no further action would need to be taken, in the meantime there has been gang fights where kids have had their teeth kicked out and a little girl in nipers class refusing to come to school because of the relentless bullying, her father who is a care taker at the school told me that he's been told by the head not to discuss the incidents with his own daughter as his position would make it inappropriate.
The school isn't fit for purpose, its staff are incompetent and negligent, they are also most likely lieing to the LEA about the serverity of the violence and bullying.

[Bettyboo]

^ education in the UK/US has become administration lead, and those morons just fill in spreadsheets to achieve bonuses. There is no education, no common sense, no thinking done anymore - it's an impossible place for teachers to teach or students to learn.

Good luck with it, but I can imagine that you'll just get brandished as a trouble maker, maybe even asked to remove your kid, and nothing will be done to deal with the real issues.

[thaimeme]

^ education in the UK/US has become administration lead, and those morons just fill in spreadsheets to achieve bonuses. There is no education, no common sense, no thinking done anymore - it's an impossible place for teachers to teach or students to learn.

Good luck with it, but I can imagine that you'll just get brandished as a trouble maker, maybe even asked to remove your kid, and nothing will be done to deal with the real issues.

Up the revolution, Bets..
Nothing relevant will come unless the masses act. That won't happen any time soon, as the masses are zombies that follow the systems of manufactured convention.

Be the change.
Live the change.
Perhaps many will follow suit.

[Stinky]

^ education in the UK/US has become administration lead, and those morons just fill in spreadsheets to achieve bonuses. There is no education, no common sense, no thinking done anymore - it's an impossible place for teachers to teach or students to learn.

Good luck with it, but I can imagine that you'll just get brandished as a trouble maker, maybe even asked to remove your kid, and nothing will be done to deal with the real issues.

You are correct in all you've said Betty but they would look pretty stupid branding me as trouble maker just for demanding that they do their jobs and ensure the safety of my lad, especially as I'm just one of a long list of concerned parents.
This is a school that has failed year after year and the change in management has only made things worse.

[Bettyboo]

^ increasingly, it seems that the education is there to make sure folks do NOT get a good education. Things have changed a lot since we were at school when there was a real attempt to educate...

I hope it ends well for you, Stinky.

[Stinky]

I'm very proactive with his learning I think if you want your kids to get well educated these days you have to be, as you say the schools seem to dumbing kids down and when I mentioned that to his teachers after he bought home books he could read when he was four, there were a few fireworks, there response was "well the reading curriculum has changed so all of the books have been.reclassified". My lad is one of the best readers and spellers in the school and there are three years abouve him, can't wait to get him out of there.

[panama hat]

I hope it ends well for you, Stinky.

Yup, I'll add to BB's sentiments. Life is difficult enough for kids without the added stress of a bad school environment

Best of, mate