Smeg has his flaws (as we all do), but sticking his hand in your pocket while he tells what a helpful and good guy he is isn't one of them.
Smeg has his flaws (as we all do), but sticking his hand in your pocket while he tells what a helpful and good guy he is isn't one of them.
Smeg has always been ok with me, even in the days when I was "required" to follow the ajarn troops.
Me too.
Carry on, smegster.
i put it to you that smeg is intensely obsessed with money.
^ I don't know or care.
But he isn't selling anything and that's the difference between him and the snake oil boys.
I appreciate Smeg's continuous effort to point out to us the gross error of our ways and his unflinching commitment to lead us all to a more fruitful life by telling us all just how shit it is at the moment.
Indeed. Retailers are the Devil in disguise!Originally Posted by pai nai ma
Well summarized, Khun Marmite -- especially the chinks, paki's and niggers, eh?
Anybody who expects to be paid for anything is a devil worshipper and a con artist. Only those people who work for now't can be trusted. I have learned this much from other people ever since I went into business.
I strongly suggest burning Wayne Rooney and Christiano Ronaldo at the stake now. Use Margaret Thatcher for kindling.
I see fish. They are everywhere. They don't know they are fish.
What about my needs! Damn you, damn you all to hell for not thinking of my needs!!!!!Originally Posted by pai nai ma
Can you give me ONE SPECIFIC example of how TEFL International has ever done anything dishonest or disreputable?
There are people who will complain about anything. Luckily, our actual students have very rarely complained about our course. We have had approximately 13,000 students worldwide in the last 10 years. Five percent of them have failed to complete the course. If you think about it, the internet should be flooded with complaints just from those 5 percent.
If we have never met HOW IN HELL can you remember me? LOL
No, that pretty much pertains to you and a very few people who have been making baseless accusations based upon no evidence whatsoever for a few years now. I think you and a few others are stupid. Most people have moe than a few brain cells.
I deal with sane people fairly. All of TW was crap. there were two real complaints in the whole 100 page crapfest.
You admit you have never met me and speak as if you do. Is there a better definition of "idiot" than that?
To quote Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does"
Camel, stupid is as stupid does. you JUST PROVED IT. What a moron.
Everyone sells something. If you go to work every day, you sell your ability to do your job to your boss and co workers. You sell yourself when you try to meet (or keep) a girl. I could go on and on.
Some of you few just seem to think the fact that TI sells something and has done it successfully is proof enough we are doing something dishonest. it isn't.
Others point to accusations and rumors. Give me some facts, boys. I am happy to discuss facts.
right now 90 percent of the crap on the internet is from Whitey and quotes from TW. Very few people actually complain about our course. Most are very happy with it and thats why we are brave enough to have our end of course feedback available ONLINE and UNEDITED.
Good for you, I adore Ebonics!Most people have moe than a few brain cells.
I know, like Maddox selling his book and living off the proceeds so he could molest four more children. And B&N and Amazon turning a blind eye to make sure he was doing it in high style.Everyone sells something.
All of TW was crap.Others point to accusations and rumors. Give me some facts, boys. I am happy to discuss facts.
I didn't go to TW much but I saw quite a few schools on the posting I knew from experience were spot on. I posted two schools myself. I like black listings. They're a counter force.
I have no dog in this fight, but will throw my two baht in anyway.
Bruce seems like a bit of a used car salesman (snake oil salesman might be a closer description actually) to some extend, and yes he and others have tried to make everyone believe a four-week wonder course makes a common dolt into a “teaching professional.” But, hey whatever, I say let the market decide. If people find value in Bruce’s product he will stay in business and prosper, it not, his business will fail. Just because I would find no value in it does not mean others won’t.
Appears most of the anti-Bruce crowd are just the usual bunch of loser-whiners whose main complaint is Bruce has made some money while they have not. I sure there are both satisfied customers and dissatisfied customers of these four-week wonder courses, but a few rants by the “usual suspects” is hardly evidence one should base a decision on.
The market seems to be turning to L2s.I say let the market decide.
I think Bruce, with all his admiration for Holt, should turn his business around to a non-school teacher training program. If the school systems are damaging and boring children why be part of it by training teachers who will only damage and bore kids, instilling in them a fear of attending classes?
Well said.Appears most of the anti-Bruce crowd are just the usual bunch of loser-whiners whose main complaint is Bruce has made some money while they have not.
If people really cared about business ethics so much, they wouldn't be living here pumping their £'s $'s and B's into the Thai economy.
They'd be setting up a non-profit TEFL course that donates it's proceeds to the poor and only accepts customers who already have a MA in Education to ensure the high quality of it's graduates. Couldn't have 'teachers' with only 4 weeks of training working with students now, it just wouldn't be ethical.
Why don't retirees stay home and pump their money into their economies? Cause they can't afford it?
Ask me again in 40 years when I'm of retirement age.
Mind you, I'll already be retired here well over 20 years at that stage.
And I'd say possibly, but more than likely the quality of life £1000 a month gives 'em here is better than the quality of life of being 70, divorced, living in Aberdeen and living on the same amount.
Not exactly too trivial mate. Whatever that's got to do with a service provider providing a service that's in demand, and people who aren't bickering like a child about it only you know.
Last edited by Chairman Mao; 25-08-2008 at 05:25 PM.
Cameltoe, the very fact that you have twice compared me to a known pedophile shows a lot about you.
Relax, Bruce.
Like this post? God, are you thick or what.No way you're a child molester Phat Bruce, but you have mastered some of arts Karl Mark Maddox has.
Am I thick? Exactly the opposite.
Don't think of a pink elephant.
Regardless of your crap one-line admitting I am not an pedophile, you still spent 100 words comparing me to the guy. If there was disinformation like that on my website I would be arrested.
It shows how you work.
Mods, this idiot deserves to get banned for that crap.
Last edited by bruceveld; 25-08-2008 at 06:38 PM.
Of course this could all just be a bunch of bitter 'can't do anything else to stay in Thailand teflers' who can't stand their job, and thus their life being bitter at someone someway more successful than them.
Could be more too of course, but given that at least 2 of the 3 haters in this thread have mental issues, obsessive disorders and quite a lot of anger inside them is a bit of an indicator.
Sorry, wrong response, Chairman, or Mr. Mao, whatever you prefer, sir.If people really cared about business ethics so much, they wouldn't be living here pumping their £'s $'s and B's into the Thai economy.
Exacto! And go figure a guy who owns businesses in other nations would pick this one as a base of operations, when he could live in much hipper places. And I wonder if a person in that situation has a rented town house, #17 in a row of 30, with barking dogs all night long and a Honda Dream in the driveway.
Do you teach, Mao?
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