ExoticMatter

giddyup, on 2012-03-25 12:23:35, said:

Have just asked Thai Wifey,and she says thats exactly what would happen,as in the said pump attendent(and for accidents) would run off fearing to pay the bill(and face consequences and look bad). And the next morning would check in to work as if nothing has happened at all-that is the Thai way.
Btw am told even if have insurance it rarely covers the costs hence still must run away!

This was the first website we came across (b4 doing the test and finally passing on the 4th attempt btw). We found it well meaning but inaccurate. For example there are many numbers and % related questions, in the actual test we only found 2 out of 24 like that. Do not be misled by the number of questions available thinking that they are all there, there are many syntax style types completely missing, get the home office approved life in the uk book and a couple of test question books and do them until your prospective knows every last bit by rote. My wife could usually score 24/24 on these hirem examples but was no way upto speed for the real thing incidently.

Have hope, my wife passed on the 4th attempt. We thought the test is really difficult- there is a lot of potential questions and the syntax is written in a really sly double negative type way in order to catch people out. The Thai language doesn't have double negatives (or conditional tenses for that matter) and it really confuses them.
We did many many online (usually free) questions and bought books of questions, until your wife regularly hits that 21 or 22 (out of 24) level I wouldn't advise she do test again.
Btw my wife's teacher at the college paid to do the test(just to see-hes english born) and he actually failed it, can you believe that!

Nice one to Thaivisa for the updates, we were not in Bangkok at the time but the wife's family were moved to a rescue centre there and we couldn't always reach them.And a big thanks to all those who did help out during the floods.
Happy new year mods and to all TV members :-)

This is dumbed down on the lamestream media so much. There are signs up in parks in Fukusima city saying dont stay in this park for more than 1 hour per day and thats 60 kms away from ground zero, what you think its like just outside the 20km exclusion zone?
Youtube has videos of foreigners with geiger counters tens of kilos away and they are going off the scale. In Japan private companies operate their nuclear industry and this is what happens when profits are put first. Radiation splits the double helix into a single helix of DNA and on the third copy (each take 4-5 years) it produces cancer so I give it 15 years before the really nasty stuff shows up. Radioactive isotopes have got in the water table and the food chain (from this years crops). The terrible tragedy is they've had all these birth defects and fallout before with Hiroshima but this time is a lot worse (lots more uranium). Btw I heard Japan were giving away ?10000 free plane tickets to boost tourist numbers.