Thread: Things you could never like about this place however long you stay here

In the last week:

Being expected to pay a limbless beggar 100 baht just because I'm the farang.

I overheard two women at Mo Chit BTS talking in Thai behind me and criticising me thinking I didn't understand them, because I gave nothing to the obviously mafia owned beggar at the bottom of the escalator who holds a microphone with two hand-less stubs for wrists whilst singing crap songs.

A motorbike taxi that pretends not to have change of 100 Baht because he thinks I'll give him the whole note instead of going to 7-11 to get him the change needed to pay him his 20 Baht.

Ditto a taxi.

Then again, I blame the tourists who have set the precedent for that kind of behaviour by giving massive tips, then these pittance-earning-monkey-peasant-attiuded tossers wouldn't assume as such.

Those small ants that smell.

Fucking ruin your morning muelsi if a few of them get in.

Taste foul they do.

^We don't have those. I could do without the fat, red-brown centipedes though.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Those small ants that smell.

Fucking ruin your morning muelsi if a few of them get in.

Taste foul they do.

Never thought Ants could smell..and how could you get close enough to smell one.....

^ They smell when you crush them

They are very small. The really small ones that appear from nowhere and march across the room.

Squash one and they let off a strange pong - smell your fingers.

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Not true. In many instances my Thai friends won't let me pay even though everyone knows I make more money than them. In many others, they take the initiative to split the bill evenly. No offense meant, but if all your Thai acquaintances let you pay all the time, perhaps you should try to find some new ones.

I agree, can't remember when a Thai let me paid for anything (except for family).

I have several Thai "aunties" who enjoy buying gifts for me and my family (even my Mum, Dad and Grandad). They even give my kids a small sum of money at the start of every school term.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

^ They smell when you crush them They are very small. The really small ones that appear from nowhere and march across the room. Squash one and they let off a strange pong - smell your fingers.

Yep, they're called smelly ants (mot men I think) and they are small and black.

Originally Posted by Smeg

- Parents who retire in their 40s and expect to live off their struggling kids

- Sinsot - security deposit and materialistic face-building excercise in showing "Look, I could have gone for a soapy every day for a month with this money, but I didn't".

These are the two that piss me off the most. I finally ended it with my g/f recently (might post about it later), and these were the two main reasons.

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Originally Posted by Texpat

Richest guy pays for everyone -- and it's ALWAYS the farang.

Not true.

It is around here. Thight-ass Vietnamese-Thais make Scottish gits look downright philanthropic. They can grub among themselves -- I don't care to partake of their ... company.

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

Face.
It explains most of the OP's complaints.

agreed!
the biggest problem of them all.
it must be very stressfull to live the kind of life where showing face is always uppermost in your mind.

Karaoke in general, and Acadamie Fantasia in particular. Every prick with a microphone thinks he's Elvis.

The "psst. sexy movie" [at][at][at][at] in Panthip. They try it when Ive got my Ipod on and even when Im with the mrs kids.

That horrible martial music and patriotic propaganda which blares from poor-quality speakers at 6.00am in up-country villages (and even some more urban places like Bangsaen).

Originally Posted by kingwilly

getting ripped off man, erm, i heard it was only 1500 these days.

you only get the mingers for 1500 these days, even the ladyboys want their 1000 or 1500 a short time, and the successful ones usually ask for 2500 THB. Not that I would know from experience of course

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by NickA

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Not true. In many instances my Thai friends won't let me pay even though everyone knows I make more money than them. In many others, they take the initiative to split the bill evenly. No offense meant, but if all your Thai acquaintances let you pay all the time, perhaps you should try to find some new ones.

I agree, can't remember when a Thai let me paid for anything (except for family).

I have several Thai "aunties" who enjoy buying gifts for me and my family (even my Mum, Dad and Grandad). They even give my kids a small sum of money at the start of every school term.

Same here, although my family never ask me to pay for anything either. Unless I insist I pay, and I mean insist heavily, we always split bills. Thai people I know as friends and relatives are extremely generous.

Same here.

One Thai girl my wife knows was just complaining about her farang boyfriend being stingy.

It was not that he does not take care of her at all, he does. He provides for her 100%.

The complaint was that she is embarrassed that he only leaves 2- or 3- baht for a tip when the eat out - when the bill is 15- to 200 baht.

My wife asked her how much she tips when she is alone and she said "nothing, but he's a farang!!!"

^ I agree. If you can't be happy in Thailand, you can't be happy anywhere.

I complain from time to time, but then I come to my senses and realize that back in Chicago I had just as many complaints, just different ones!

Chicken claws/feet in the curry!

Originally Posted by Smeg

Flashing car lights means "get out of MY way"

What like in Germany, Italy, Holland and fuck it Europe.

Originally Posted by Smeg

Pedestrians being expected to give way to car drivers because they are probably poorer

see above

Originally Posted by Smeg

The superficial craving to buy the largest flashiest car possible via years of debt regardless of the practicalities of whether such a car size is needed.

see above

Originally Posted by Smeg

Sinsot - security deposit and materialistic face-building excercise in showing "Look, I could have gone for a soapy every day for a month with this money, but I didn't".

True, this is shit.

Still, on balance it's not a bad spot to camp.

Oh, all right. I'll play. Pavements you can't walk on for fear of falling down a hole, walking into a pole, tripping over a cart or braining yourself on an awning.

I liked the pavements in Vientiane when I was there.