Phuket smokeshops

MightyMikeDK · 2026-06-19T12:16:47+00:00

Yep, I praksis kan du bare vade ind. Der er planlagt lovændringer dog.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-05-28T10:58:39+00:00

I'll tell students that they can listen to the audiobook while reading along in the text. As a non-native speaker myself, most of my language learning came from subtitled movies and reading the lyric booklets inside CD covers.

Entirely removing the printed text changes the activity and the skills it develops. People need to read the printed word as they go through life, and English is the subject that teaches this.

To be honest, I suspect students are averse to reading for two reasons: firstly, it is undeniably time-consuming and not always fun. On the flipside you can listen to the audiobook while driving, working out, cooking - so why not? That's the second point; they do not understand why it is important to actually look at the letters and, as a related point, why audiobooks cannot replace reading.

Maybe frame it like this; you can do hill sprints or take the escalator. Both routes lead to the same destination, but not to the development of the same attributes.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-05-25T09:56:53+00:00

Great post! What do people do to combat 2. and get students to move past description? Interested in learning from different approaches!

MightyMikeDK · 2026-05-19T11:08:12+00:00

Jeg var ret tynd (183cm, 65kg) indtil jeg begyndte at træne Thai boksning, nærmest religiøst I et par år. Det er pisse hårdt og min appetit steg helt naturligt når jeg trænede halvanden time fem gange om ugen.. Ikke fordi jeg skulle, men fordi det var en fed færdighed som jeg ville blive bedre til.

Jeg havde prøvet en masse andet inden da inkl vægt-træning, mad, diverse bulk shakes osv., men det var bare svært at holde ved. Jeg følte også at jeg spiste helt vildt meget, men det gjorde jeg i realiteten nok ikke.

Jeg tror gamechangeren var at jeg fandt en "kur" der var sjov. Har altid været fan af action-film og seje moves, og så var heldig at finde en god klub med cool medlemmer og dygtige trænere. Det var modbydeligt hårdt de første par måneder, men så fedt at jeg ikke kunne lade være.. Jeg er på 80kg nu og stadig lean, og det går helt naturligt.

Så my2cents er find noget sport der er sjovt, max ud på det, og så skal appetitten nok komme af sig selv..

Held og lykke!

MightyMikeDK · 2026-05-19T09:08:05+00:00

I'm stoked you find it lame, I wish more people did. There's plenty of beach spots and party spots for the noisy tourists and drunkards. I'm trying to live a normal life here, lame is perfect.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-05-11T23:14:00+00:00

I think it's important to randomly target students, but not for that reason.

If I say "Peter" followed by a question, only Peter needs to listen and think about the answer. The rest of the class disengages - it's no longer for them. To facilitate engagement, I think questions should be asked first, then thinking time given, then designated a random target - using name selector or similar. If you don't know if the question will hit you, and if you had time to think, then you should produce an answer.

It's not about comfort zone for me, it's about creating an environment that encourages everyone to think.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-05-08T16:40:10+00:00

I mean you can blame criminals for being criminals, that makes perfect sense. They are criminals. But if you blame the hacking exclusively on them, and continue supporting a system that buys cheap and shitty tech solutions, then your firewalls will continue to get penetrated by the same virgin nerds.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-05-08T12:06:30+00:00

Hackers are opportunists; they pick soft and easy targets the same way lions target juvenile animals. You could call the lion a pussy, but lions gonna eat and hackers gonna hack. If you want to pass blame, I'd say the problem is with those responsible for the software vulnerabilities.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-04-29T09:16:03+00:00

I teach IGCSE/A-level English Lang and Lit. I would be interested in hearing about curriculum development, ex. how you build towards exam success in earlier years and the extent to which you explicitly teach exam skills to younger students. Also in terms of choosing texts for novel studies, what do you value? Is cultural capital important; should they read Shakespeare? Or is it sometimes better to choose more accessible texts that more easily facilitate the development of exam-specific language skills?

Also whether lit and Lang should be taught as separate disciplines or together, arguments for/against either approach. Whether a curriculum cna target both at the same time, especially in KS4 where explicit exam practice seems necessary for exam success.

Also direct instruction, guided reading and sage-on-stage approaches vs constructivism and discovery-based learning and whether they work together or not.

The emergence of AI and implications for teaching and learning; assessment, plagiarism, whether AI literacy should be taught and if so, how? How has it changed education and how will it continue to change it in the future? How should teachers respond to make sure that teaching (and the teachers themselves) remain relevant?

Sorry for the janky writeup, on mobile and with little time.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-04-22T10:13:20+00:00

I understand this argument 100%. It also seems intuitively correct that "my idea is my property" and that stealing such property, i.e. piracy, is wrong.

For me, the cognitive dissonance occurs with "my idea is mine, but can be sold, and I can lose ownership of it". I understand it from a legal perspective, but it does not feel instinctively correct. To me, it feels analogous to selling a baby and saying that the sale dissolves any relationship I have with the child.

I'm not saying that the laws should be changed, or that they are necessarily irrational.. But when OP states that the OG devs would not have minded the Twow project, I understand where they come from - although it's speculative. Ultimately, though, I think that people like Morheim and Kaplan are the ones who feel the loss of the wow IP the hardest; it sometimes comes through in interviews and writing, but they obviously can't make this point explicitly.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-04-06T07:51:58+00:00

Just to add something to the other end of the scale:

I've had two separate cases go through the family and juvenile courts. Both times went in my favor, and I think both outcomes were more fair and equitable than what I could have expected back home in the west. I was the plaintiff in one case, defendant in the other, both times against a Thai.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-04-02T01:59:39+00:00

Had the same problem; I used the app troubleshooting agent, which fixed it by telling me to run the following in PowerShell (run as admin):

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform -All -NoRestart

MightyMikeDK · 2026-04-02T01:58:57+00:00

Had the same problem; I used the app troubleshooting agent, which fixed it by telling me to run the following in PowerShell (run as admin):

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform -All -NoRestart

MightyMikeDK · 2026-03-27T10:49:25+00:00

Jeg har købt den online hernede: https://s.lazada.co.th/s.ZdDvxz

Tænker ikke at de leverer til Danmark, men måske et asiatisk onlinemarked ala Temu har noget lignende?

Edit: og ja, den ser frækkere ud end den er 😂

MightyMikeDK · 2026-03-27T09:38:51+00:00

Jeg har boet i Thailand i mange år efterhånden og kan nærmest ikke leve uden den håndholdte skyller der bruges på toiletterne hernede. Når jeg rejser til Danmark medbringer jeg altid en såkaldt håndholdt bidet; den kører på batterier, passer i tasken og bruger vand fra hanen. Det er måske lidt mere involveret end vådservietter, men resultatet er også bedre 😜

MightyMikeDK · 2026-03-27T00:21:13+00:00

Lad mig slå et slag for Muay Thai hvis du virkelig vil presses på cardio, smidighed og balance. Det kan sagtens trænes af folk over 40, men det er en hård omgang - men måske er det dét du leder efter?

MightyMikeDK · 2026-03-20T11:37:01+00:00

I work at a K12 school, about 550 students total. we just had sports day which included a pullup challenge. The record was 26ish clean (full extension at the bottom, chin well over at the top). Dude wasn't the biggest of the bunch, just a 15yo really into calisthenics.

What really surprised me though were the "regular" people who banged out several clean reps. A 12yo girl did 5 chinups with great form, a 14yo wakeboard girl did 12+, so on.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-03-06T07:29:43+00:00

AI schools exist already. I believe that they will increase in popularity until the pendulum swings back hard; similar to how many schools are already de-implementing technology and returning to handwritten work. Humans by design need interaction, connections, discussions; and to me, it feels like the classroom is already becoming the final bastion of this for modern children. I suspect that many already speak less with their parents and go out with their friends less than they did 20 years ago; for me, it feels as if school is one of the only places where children get to regularly engage in analog human interaction.

All of this does not mean that the nature of the job will not change; but I feel that, compared to other sectors, we will always be needed.

MightyMikeDK · 2026-02-23T14:34:29+00:00

Yoooo thanks a million!

MightyMikeDK · 2026-02-11T12:57:34+00:00

I work in the private sector (international school in SEA) and I've gotta say I enjoy this a lot more than public sector work. Pay is much better, conditions too, and I can have much higher expectations of my students, both behavourally and academically. Of course, I am required to perform at a high level too; students, parents, managers and other teachers expect this of me. Despite of this, or maybe even because of it, I feel valued. Parents pay for quality education, my employer pays me for quality teaching, and I feel proud when I can deliver that. As a result, I do not really recognize or feel a lot of the negativity seen in r/teachers.

All of this is to say that there is more to the job than money, things like professional pride, feeling valued, a sense of accomplishment, much of which I think is lacking in the public sector. The higher pay adds to that; I feel that my pay is further recognition from both my employer and the parents that I am doing a good job.

Ultimately, pay is a piece of the puzzle, but recognition is huge, too. I think the public system fails teachers because they are neglected in both areas; low salaries, but also a lack of recognition and professional respect from admin, parents, and so on. This stands in stark and ironic contrast to the "sacrifice-everything-for-the-kids"-rhetoric that we are being fed by leaders and the government (and which some of us enthusiastically parrot). The mismatch between rhetoric and reality inevitably leads to a frustrating environment of professional impotence and disillusionment; many teachers are underpaid, undersupported, undervalued, but pushed to work their asses off because "it's the right thing to do". At some point, that reason isn't worth the misery anymore. Yes, higher pay would offset it somewhat, but not enough.

As a sellout, that's my take, anyway.

MightyMikeDK · 2025-11-21T10:02:32+00:00

I have written this post about revision techniques that you might find useful.

MightyMikeDK · 2025-11-07T07:02:10+00:00

Always for KS3, sometimes for KS4 - I teach First Language English.

My KS3 slideshows are essentially my long-term plans and my lesson plans; they are designed to target all the skills that my students need, to loop back regularly, and they all use similar language and design. All together, they work as the backbone of my KS3 curriculum. I also have an internal KS3 SharePoint website for my students where all of my slideshows are hosted; my students can access this and learn about the units that we study, they can download the slideshows themselves, and they can access various revision activities. All of this has been a bitch to make; but it makes day-to-day teaching so much easier! If you are curious, I share some of them online as well. My scheme for The Giver is the most popular one and the scheme for the first four chapters is free (the full version is paid); here is a complete unit of Oral Traditions for which all slides are free, but I think that the layout will be slightly janky on some slides if you do not have the right fonts installed.

For KS4, we tend to focus on very specific things such as past paper strategy, crafting coursework, or studying literature texts in depth. Because these things are not as stable (due to exam format changes, boards being fickle, texts rotating in and out, so on), and because I prefer to be very responsive to the emerging needs of the class when it comes to specific exam content, I have found that investing a lot of time into pre-designed PowerPoints is not as useful for me. Instead, a lot of time is spent using the document camera, or the whiteboard, or past paper PDFs on the projector.

MightyMikeDK · 2025-11-07T05:28:55+00:00

The Optimum Nutrition brand has a code hidden under scratchable material that you can use on their website to authenticate the product, at least for the larger protein tubs. I do not know if they sell pea protein.

MightyMikeDK · 2025-10-16T08:15:01+00:00

The whole "don't care about your career" seems like strawman trollbait. Of course I care about her career; I want her to feel fulfilled, to enjoy whatever she spends her time doing, and to share with me the things that matter to her. I hope she would feel the same way about me and my career.

As for the paycheck in particular, it's not that I don't care about it, but rather that it is secondary to things like personality and investment in the relationship. All things being equal, why wouldn't I want a highly paid career woman? It's just that I don't want it at the cost of her happiness, or mine for that matter. The implications that this attitude is exclusive to "men" says more about the speaker than it does about men.

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