Thread: Why do Thai people think rain water is dirty....

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Originally Posted by piwanoi

How do you stop the sparrows and Mynahs from crapping on your roof which is then washed into the gutterings and then into your water butts?

By eating them before they get the chance to crap!

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

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Hey Mick seriously, have you ever known a thread that has?

That's a tough one Pi.

Mick , The whole point is Many Thai's can drink water that is nothing less than mildly polluted sewerage and survive , they can also ride or drive their chosen mode of transport like they are on a Kamikaze mission for decades and come out unscathed , tell me just what does it prove? fuck all is the answer

The wife always washes her hair in rain water,she says "its makes her hair really soft,manageable and soft to the touch "

I replied " why don't you wash your old Brillo pad of a **** in it then ! "

Originally Posted by piwanoi

tell me just what does it prove?

We, farang, are mommy coddled?

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by piwanoi

tell me just what does it prove?

We, farang, are mommy coddled?

Yep.
Conditioned.

Pussified.

Piss and shit and chemicals they spray on their farms will scare anyone.

If I was a Thai I would be scared of anything that was fluid that could contaminate the system that we all know is shite and created by corruption and greed.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

To be 'scared' you have to be educated.

A simple test kit can make you educated.

But you have to be educated to understand it. They don't teach kids out in the villages that over indulgence of chemicals cause harm to whatever. All they know is what they see their elders doing. So it must be correct. Thais don't question.

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Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by boloa

My friend and his Thai wife live next door to a Temple/crematorium.She wont drink the rain water as she say's " It has ghost's in it "

My daughter suffered from ear infections. It's taken years to cure the problem and my MiL genuinely wanted to find a pregnant woman to spit into our daughter's ear truely believing that would cure it. Bless her.

Westerners do stranger things and they work - like taking earwax from a healthy ear & putting it in the infected one. Urine is also used as a home medicine cure.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Piss and shit and chemicals they spray on their farms will scare anyone.

If I was a Thai I would be scared of anything that was fluid that could contaminate the system that we all know is shite and created by corruption and greed.

I think you'll find most rural Thais are...They certainly don't trust out of season or non local grown market proďuce. Even the veg they buy is washed thoroughly, which they didn't used to do.

I was told it's a bit like spotting a ladyboy; if it looks too good to be true, don't touch...

I reckon it's because they see all the roundup and other chemical shit that's spread all over the country due to farming, understand that the ground water mixes with these chemicals then evaporates and rains back down on them.

Acid Rain might be the right name for (even if not technically accurate) name of what they fear.

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Thai's can drink water that is nothing less than mildly polluted sewerage and survive

Mildly polluted intakes have a cleansing effect on Thais. Dilutes the intrinsically heavy pollution already there inside. Works like a vaccination.

Originally Posted by Troy

Even the veg they buy is washed thoroughly, which they didn't used to do.

And what do they wash them in? Water that has no proof of being free of contamination.

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Piss and shit and chemicals they spray on their farms will scare anyone.

If I was a Thai I would be scared of anything that was fluid that could contaminate the system that we all know is shite and created by corruption and greed.

I think you'll find most rural Thais are...They certainly don't trust out of season or non local grown market proďuce.

Yep. More commonplace than not.

Those whom talk as if they know the peasantry lifestyles, almost always have very little experience with this setting.

Originally Posted by Dapper

Acid Rain might be the right name for (even if not technically accurate) name of what they fear.

Acid rain? You really think a rural Thai knows about acid rain?

Originally Posted by boloa

I won't eat local freshwater fish caught out in the rice field ( or fresh water fish from anywhere to be honest )

Me neither.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Acid rain? You really think a rural Thai knows about acid rain?

No, I'm using the term so you understand the concept.

Rain water is naturally acidic but not as acidic as say Fresh Orange Juicy

The freshwater fish we catch are put in a large bowl of water for the day, with the water changed a couple of times....That's the way i was taught by the locals and it seems okay. I still gut the fish I cook but then I'm a farang pussie....

Originally Posted by wackyjacky

Urine is also used as a home medicine cure.

Dr Earl swore by it ...Drank a few cups every day...I hope he's okay, as he's left this channel...

Pompous wants to drink my piss...Strange fck, he is...

I think they're more worried about ghosts, like someone mentioned here...Funny though, because water is used to chase them away, na?...

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Originally Posted by boloa

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Originally Posted by boloa

If you do a bit of Googling most sites will tell you rainwater is safe to drink. ( You don't want to drink rain water from hot radioactive sites, like Chernobyl or around Fukushima though )
I have a few rules I keep to
#1 Clean your urns /tanks every year.
#2 Wait until the rainy season is in full swing before you start collecting.
#3 What for at least 30 minutes of very heavy rain before you divert your your plumbing to your storage tanks,this allows for your roof and guttering to have a good flush through .

Then......free drinking water for the whole year .

How do you stop the sparrows and Mynahs from crapping on your roof which is then washed into the gutterings and then into your water butts?

Thats why you wait for 30 minutes for the heavy rain to clean the roof and give the guttering a good flushing .

Really ? so after 12 months you do not have to clean about an inch of sediment /shit from the bottom of your rain butt before the next rainy season?which you BTW have already admitted too

I never said there was an inch of sediment/shit in the bottom of the urns,just that I clean them yearly ( but there is a thin layer of sediment ) . My old Mum back in the UK always used a carbon filter jug for tap water to make tea/coffee or for water just to drink.If you was to see the sludge that builds up in those filters in a month you would never drink the tap water and that's from a country that come in at number 7 in the worlds cleanest tap water poll. ( This is worth a read Tap Water Content - chemicals and contaminants in water )

I'm quiet happy drinking rain water thank-you very much