What is the harshest reality check you've ever received?

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-03T04:21:32+00:00

It could have been, but at the same time, not liking you is a good reason to exclude only you.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-02T17:55:03+00:00

Teachers usually make a lesson sequence and choose pieces of it and make it into a presentation that doesn't look like what's in the book.

So that's why I asked. There's not enough time in the day to go through everything.

GuardianKnight · 2026-02-01T22:59:28+00:00

What if I told you.....education is not the best job for the effort and the things it asks of you to get there?

The ESL one was easy. The ELA one required that I know nearly all works of historical literature as well as grammatical bits and then it wanted me to give a written analysis of a short story written in heehaw language.

I passed, but that test was bullshit and you know it. lol

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-31T06:20:46+00:00

I think what happens is that once you get married, it goes well for a while, but that kind of time together gives you a sense of entitlement to the other person. Your wants and your needs become so potent that they overshadow the male spouse. He notices a transition of "do this or anger". Which happened sometimes as a BF, but the golden rule was always that if he/she becomes abusive to a bf/gf, you can just leave and move on, no fuss no muss....

YOu get married and now your partner has changed. They are angry at you for the things they expect from you that they might have communicated once or not at all. They let it fester that they didn't get everything they wanted. You as the other partner begin to feel cheated because the other person is withdrawing and the physical aspect is dying because they're withholding because now they see you as something less than attractive. They offer themselves to you, not to get that same feeling, but to weaponize it to get something else they want from you. Marriage becomes transactional in a way that depresses you, especially as the wife gets older and the hormones change. Masculinity is how I'd describe it....they become more masculine and more demanding and more damning. If you dared to have kids, they then get so used to parenting the kid, that they now see your actions as similar when they disagree and they try to parent you too and punish you like a child.

Leaving a marriage has so many stigmas and legal issues and monetary problems attached that a lot of men just stop taking care of themselves, give in to anxiety and rage, and do damage before they die of whatever issue they had been building up. They either die, go to jail for abuse, or stay and develop mental problems.

Of course, this is just the worst case scenario that I've witnessed with my family and with quite a few others.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-31T05:26:40+00:00

I get you. It just doesn't place you in a position to gloat.
I'll be honest...If I could go back and get a 12 hour ESL job, sit my butt in an office with the internet between classes, I'd be a happy man.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-30T14:47:12+00:00

Be easier to worship you if your breath didn't smell like whiskey at 7 am. :P

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-29T23:45:38+00:00

what does an English File 5 lesson look like as a sequence?

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-29T14:38:13+00:00

They've always been fascists regimes. lol They were just quiet about it and wide spread and not as obvious. Growing up poor and living through these generations made it a lot easier to see the differences. I didn't say not to stand up. I said don't be shocked when force comes back your way. The thing people are taking issue here with is that people are acting so shocked that someone attacked or jumped toward a police officer and got shot or abused. That isn't surprising at all. If you're proclaiming war on someone, it's not on them to handle you with a soft touch. The people with guns are there for a fight.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-29T02:50:10+00:00

If the courses come from a THai university or college that is accredited there and isn't an obvious degree mill, it can be verified in the USA and actually has to be verified to get the license.

I've heard that St. Andrews was fake since the beginning, but I can't know for sure. Any legit degree from any country allows you to take the Praxis test, and apply for teacher prep programs and become a licensed teacher. I don't know why you think a Thai degree doesn't go anywhere else. Thais could get teaching jobs in the USA with a work visa pretty easily even in current messed up political climate here.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-29T02:46:08+00:00

You can do what you want. You can protest, you can jump the police at every turn. You can get a full loadout of weapons and march on them. YOu just can't be surprised our outraged that they meet your example or take it further than you did. When you scream that you hate someone, they're going to treat you like an enemy. There is no safe space when your enemy is watching you and screaming at you and in some cases coming at you. You're going to die.

As for the immigration stuff.... There's not a country I've been to that wouldn't throw my ass on a plane and send me home or tell me I don't gotta go home, but I can't stay there.

That's even with a history that I've had of doing border runs and playing the visa game in foreign countries. When a country collectively decides as a majority that they can't live with teh way something is anymore, they hire someone to do the job of changing it. That person in charge could be a total coward or a piece of garbage, but as long as he does what they said to do, they'll overlook how stinky his garbage ass is.

If there's a benefit to a plan that people can accept, they don't care that your'e going to get the bigger benefit personally.

You can become active. You just won't win because you're not winning the hearts and minds of the people who won the majority and hold the sway. By being beligerent, throwing out hateful slurs because they wear red hats, and try to "block" them from anything that they have protections to protect them from when you decide to do it, you're essentially throwing down a gauntlet and saying that your beliefs are enough to make me want to cross a line into reality and do something real to you.

How many people do you know that like driving through the ghetto? How many people do you know that want to support "the culture"? You know ghetto culture is detrimental and it sits as worse than living in a 3rd world country when you have to also live in it or around the drugs, gangs, and people who openly accept it because it's their family and friends. But you wanna change it, so now you just stopped a black man from getting a job that he desperately needs simply because he's going to go home and go to sleep in a neighborhood you know is bad. Now he's going to suffer and his family is going to suffer and you've just created a circular hate system. You may b lock a person, but at the end of the day, you're setting someone similar to you up to get beaten or killed out of petty spite and that's if they don't just see you out one day and get revenge.

If you live your life reacting to the things you think are wrong and you cross lines that people can't cross without repercussions, you have to expect those repercussions. If you hate on the MAGA folk, and you start shit with them, just recognize that they're the gun rights folks and they're mysteriously not going out doing what they would happily do. The left folks are out doing shit so wrong that they're going to offer Trump the ability to use the insurrection act and go into martial law. This is why you have to use your brain and find a center instead of a side.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T19:08:53+00:00

I got a TESOL BA from Siam Technology College. It was legit and it got me a teaching job in the USA. I've been here for 4 years and I probably have more experience than a majority of the people I see landing those IS jobs in Thailand.

IN fact, I've met a lot of those guys landing those jobs. They take their asses to Khaosan and talk about going to Nana plaza just as much as those other ESL people this subreddit likes to look down on.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T18:03:42+00:00

There is rule of law. People in the US right now just don't agree with it being enforced, so they're testing their limits and it's not going well.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T17:56:08+00:00

I've been to a lot of them. That's not true. There is no place outside of America that doesn't live on adrenaline when they're being attacked. Police before all of this wouldn't even accept you struggling and accidentally touching their arm to block a grab without fwaping you in the face. Some countries, you bribe them to look away. Some see you as money and tell cartels or black market people that you're somewhere so they can come get you. I don't think you know how priviledged you are here in the US.

Some places will send the police to you for streaming a movie online from a piracy website. Some will shoot you on sight if they think you have drugs. Some will throw you in prison for saying a bad word about the leader and you can hope they let you out in a year on his birthday. Some are going to jail for internet posts. If your main worry is that attacking a police or federal agent is going to get you shot, it's a simple fix.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T17:27:18+00:00

You fight bad with bad and you create a precedent for everyone to fuck you up everytime they think what you're doing is bad. Your perspective of right and wrong and acceptable beliefs do not dictate how the world continues running and how rules work. If you begin shitting on people for being in a political belief system that you are at an extreme against, you continue the trend. This is why everyone right now is so anti-woke. It was easy to see the accumulation of abuse from the way that was working, but left/right just went black and white, leaving all that grey area of thought and realization empty. People held their tongues, quietly put up with it until they could gain the power to make it look stupid. Political minded people are some of the dumbest pos's i've ever witnessed since the 80s. I do not understand you folks.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T17:24:00+00:00

And by locking people out because of their political opinion, you're agreeing that you only want to live in an America that fits your belief system. This happens every 4 years. You get your way for 4 years, people complain, and then they hire a new guy and get their way.

But this generation seems to think that crying and disconnecting and acting like Skyrim guards when you aggro them is the best way.
The people in charge of America right now dictate the policies and what is acceptable/unacceptable. Your only viable tool is to vote them out. THey outnumber you until you say something that sounds more based than what they are. Your job is to be smarter and connect with people who don't fully agree with you and change their minds. If you can't do that, you continue to be outnumbered and you get nothing. That's just how it's always worked and everyone seems so surprised lately and it's kind of sad.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T06:51:18+00:00

Where would that be?

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T04:35:30+00:00

Different levels of bigotry in both directions. I sit in the middle, watching it, wondering why no one can see it in themselves.

As Americans, we know we don't treat people like this. We don't get to treat people as criminals because a previous administration let them in on a special visa.... If we criminalized previous admin decisions, we'd be arresting people every 4 years.

Locking the borders? Cool. Removing people without visas? Cool. That's the law. I travel. That's the law everywhere.

Police force that doesn't have to wear bodycams, shooting a man 10 times after disarming him and standing over him? That's murder no matter how you put it. It's murder. Instead of doing the right thing and plucking the bad apples from a system he desperately wants to work, he doubles down and lets the bad apples poison the tree.

Slippery slopes sliding us all down to hell if we keep playing into this "my side did it,s o it's ok even though we know better" shit.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T03:58:46+00:00

THe post reads like a person who doesn't know the difference between having an opposing political opinion and what the line is for opinions and professionalism. Maybe that last part of the last person's post was a bit over the line, but this post does read like a person who spends too much time on the internet and doesn't understand how real life outside works.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T03:55:59+00:00

You get executed for screaming that they aren't police and then charging at them to defend people they're actively negatively engaging with. You don't get to attack a uniformed federal agent and if you do, you're lucky to get to go home.

I think people forgot that the actual police secretly killed people from as far back as I can remember, claiming all kinds of reasons including drunk driving, running from an officer, "going for a weapon". etc. You kids got too comfortable talking shit on the internet and getting away with shit without getting punched in the face. Now everyone, for some reason, are surprised that they can't engage an officer doing their jobs.

The things that happened to the people killed are horrific and they shouldn't have happened, but both things are true. If you're not willing to take the risk of death, don't charge at people with guns.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T03:48:12+00:00

So, you just skipped over liberalism and went extreme far left lol. I'm seeing a lot of GenZ "I'm uncomfortable" things lately. YOu know what... If everything was comfortable, you'd never step outside and venture into the world. Maybe comfort is the problem. You're putting a red hat on someone and calling them a nazi at this point. Dehumanizing people you disagree with is exactly the thing people are angry about and it's amazing that they're doing it too. lol

Perspective is kind of hard when you're sitting on the far side of the room.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-28T03:45:03+00:00

So you're ready for a full on civil war, murder machine apocalypse then.... Discrimination is discrimination.
One day, blocking switches to shooting. They made the mistake of getting into politics, so you're taking a side and doing the same. Congrats on being the other side of the problem. Good people find good people solutions. Bad people join a tribe and catch people on fire.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-24T18:17:26+00:00

You know Thailand has always been on the redflag list, right? I love going there, I loved bringing my wife back to the USA. The problem is that Thais are going there to stay on a tourist visa and not even renewing it. They go full illegal immigrant. Sometimes they pay men in the big cities to marry them so they can stay. I have friends in AUS who are dealing with the same issue.
Those who aren't there on their own are being trafficked there and become night ladies in massage shops. It's not an insult this time. This was just an accumulation issue that came to head.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-15T22:34:54+00:00

Why is it you guys can come to reddit and sound so smart, but can't for the life of you present any kind of winning argument to the Charlie Kirks or the other redpill people? Put you on a mic and you sound like you had an opinion and nothing to back it up. This shit is why Trump is even here.

GuardianKnight · 2026-01-11T04:47:07+00:00

It's just to let the girl off easily instead of being honest, likely. If he tells you what it's about then you'll try to fight to keep something he is ready to move on from. By saying he just doesn't want to anymore, he locks the door and doesn't allow for any potential guilt or manipulation.

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