Flashermac Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 There were very few villages in LOS that did not have electricity by the time Takky came on the scene, plus the minimum schooling by law has long been grade 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Ah, grade nine by law! I've always wondered how those Isaan girls were so darn well-educated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 ....and how many make it to grade 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Goes to show it's not formal education necessarily that makes a girl smart and effective - there's some geniuses in the bars who didn't make it past first grade, and many who can keep three guys wrapped around her finger while juggling a near infinite number of others despite no school. If you had a comprehensive Connect Four championship involving all the best players in Pattaya, I would not be surprised to find a couple of girls applying phD level math and psychology... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 There used to be nationwide tests to pass to the next grade, but that went out decades ago. Nowadays, you move through the grades on a conveyor belt and finish up at grade 9 even if you can't read or write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 So that's what the conveyor belt in Firecats was for! Learn something new every day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Firecat? Upstairs in Patpong? I'd almost forgotten that bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My Penis is hungry Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Sure, we're in a shit hole 3rd world country that's getting worse, but the difference he made enabled him to keep getting elected, To ignore the fundamental change he made, which many in power do, is to wonder WHY THE FARK do people keep electing him. To defeat your enemy, you need to understand WHY he's popular. Abhisit was actually liked more than the fat bugger Takky put in place, but they elected that fat bugger, because Democrats didn't learn the lesson, deny all you like, he made significant change, you want to get voted in Democrats? Then visit the rural areas, ALL OF THEM (they don't but it'll beat Thaksin who ignored areas) and then also make real changes, not the bullshit re-paving an already paved road and claiming you got rid of a dirt one, and pocketing the change, but actually building more and better roads, really improve education Flash, the idea of grade 9 was there, but not enforced, schools only went to Bor 6, then it was a long bus ride on dirt roads to a high school. he built, sad to admit maybe, high schools and roads that allowed bottom up commerce to flourish. You want Thailand to get better, bitch about how no one is coming up with a real plan to include everyone in the path forward. Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, fark, even Myanmar are all going to leave Thailand behind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Firecat? Upstairs in Patpong? I'd almost forgotten that bar. Forgotten? Not me - that was my first TG, out of Firecats in '95... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 One of my favourites in the mid to late 1980s. The manager knew I was an editor and could give him free publicity, so I always got a few free drinks in Lipstick and Firecat. p.s. I was given a tour of the bars even before they opened. Sigh ... those were the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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