Daily Moan

[ootai]

Well there's another moan right there...

I taught my daughter to whistle a long time ago and she's pretty good... but every time she walks around the house whistling the wife tells her to stop. She says that girls shouldn't whistle in Thailand... it doesn't look good.

Has anyone else come across this strange belief?

Mendip
My missus whistles but only to call the dogs. She seen them come when I whistled, cause they know its time for a bone, and must have thought it was a good idea.

[ootai]

Now my moan for the day.

Why do the f**kers at tesco Lotus think it is a good idea to change where everything is in the store?
Just when I was starting to know where evrything I wanted was located.
Pricks

[HuangLao]

One person can.

Yet, that person doesn't.
Never has.
Deep tradition and deeper conditioning.

[armstrong]

My phone crashed when updating this morning and now the SIM isn't recognised. It works in my tablet so must be something wrong with the phone but fucked if I've been able to fix it.

Took the opportunity to order a new phone and kid can use this one for her shitty games she makes me install.. but still. Very annoying.

[happynz]

Took the opportunity to order a new phone

I suppose all the empty shops in Pantip Plaza are a result of people ordering their electronic purchases online. I was in Pantip this afternoon and it looked as if two-thirds of the shops have shuttered their business.

Strolled to MBK and they looked like they were doing alright. That may be because they're a bit more diversified.

[Dillinger]

must be something wrong with the phone but fucked if I've been able to fix it.

Have you tried rebooting it or gone into sim card manager?

[Pragmatic]

Why do the f**kers at tesco Lotus think it is a good idea to change where everything is in the store?

Thais being lazy fcukers need a shake up now and again. So it's to keep their staff on their toes? Maybe?

[armstrong]

I suppose all the empty shops in Pantip Plaza are a result of people ordering their electronic purchases online. I was in Pantip this afternoon and it looked as if two-thirds of the shops have shuttered their business.

Strolled to MBK and they looked like they were doing alright. That may be because they're a bit more diversified.

Far easier to order online from a reputable retailer during my break than traipse into town

[armstrong]

Have you tried rebooting it or gone into sim card manager?

No that never occured to me.


/s

[Dillinger]

Is that s for sarcastic?

[armstrong]

Yes....

[Chittychangchang]

My moan for the day is people dying on Facebook!

Yes I've had to unfriend three friends from 30 years ago for their constant updates on their process and pain of dying.

FFS I didn't join Faceache to get depressed evey day.
That and the shit addverts every 5 posts.

Seriously considering deactivating my account....

[HuangLao]

My moan for the day is people dying on Facebook!

Yes I've had to unfriend three friends from 30 years ago for their constant updates on their process and pain of dying.

FFS I didn't join Faceache to get depressed evey day.
That and the shit addverts every 5 posts.

Seriously considering deactivating my account....

Thinning the herd.
A good thing.

[Chittychangchang]

FOJ .

[Chittychangchang]

Why carnt people clean their own mess up in the kitchen.
I just wanna get on and cook, not clean.
Jeez ...clean as you go...it's not fvcking rocket science.

[Dillinger]

^ take the hint and get the fam a pizza delivery

[jabir]

Got home around midnight after a regular event, wifey on the floor working the computer on the bed. Nothing unusual, she sometimes works into the early hours. I finally nod off around 1.30, up for a piss at 3, she's still at it but about to close down, annoyed grunt for me and back to sleep.

Phone rings, I'm instantly awake and alert, check my watch, 4.57, it can only be an emergency, then I realise it's her phone not mine, and this is still Thailand. She answers in a sleepy voice, yak yak kaa yak kaa, hangs up.

Me: Who was that?
She: A friend.
Me: Which friend?
She: <silence, 'ere we go...>
Me: Huh?
She: <reluctant grunt>
Me: That means what?
She: Pui.
Me: What does she want at 5 in the morning?
She: Nothing.
Me: <head on pillow, blood on simmer> She called to say nothing, yes?
She: She finish.
Me: Finish what?
She: What I was doing.
Me: She called at 5 to say she just finished her work?
She: <grunt>
Me: And that can't wait?
She: She want to know what time I finish.
Me: <lost it, rant about Thais pimping grenjai (consideration for others) as part of their wonderful 'culture' when they're the most inconsiderate beings on the planet, and on and on, culture was the topic and it wasn't very polite>

Woke up grumpy this morning, more politely asked her why Pui couldn't wait for a civilised fcuking hour, and inadvertently triggered that other masterful Thai trait, cunning plan B, say first thing in the head that might defuse the situation even if it's so transparent that it will escalate, but that would be after a few seconds cursory examination of evidence not immediately, so that's good enough.

She: It was 6, not 5.
Me: 6 is still early, especially because she's going to see at 8 anyway; but my watch said 5.
She: <Thai cunning plan C, refute the self evident> Your watch is wrong.
Me: <checked against phone, spot on, showed her>
She: <Thai cunning plan D, ignore the evidence piling up, inadvertently create more> You want to check the time she call on my phone?
Me: Yes.
She: <logical and therefore unexpected, which calls for immediate implementation of Thai cunning plan E, reach for phone, realise you're about to bury yourself, and execute Thai cunning plan F, think of Thai cunning plan G but fast, which she executes with "Look!" by shoving her phone into my face for a split second not realising I was already scuppering Thai cunning plan W and snatched it from her.

Me: It says here 4.58.
She: Ok I tell her not to call 5 oclock anymore.
Me: <no breakfast or dinner or much else for the next 3 days>

[Bogon]

Me: <no breakfast or dinner or much else for the next 3 days>

We've all been there mate.

You've won the battle, but not the war.

[Neverna]

Me: <lost it, rant about Thais pimping grenjai (consideration for others) as part of their wonderful 'culture' when they're the most inconsiderate beings on the planet, and on and on, culture was the topic and it wasn't very polite>

Ah jabs, you no unnersatan' Thailand. You missed your opportunity to show grengjai (by ignoring the minor annoyance of your wife getting a telephone call in the early hours). It wasn't her that made the call, but you still ranted at her for something someone else did.

Me: <no breakfast or dinner or much else for the next 3 days>

Was it worth it?

[jabir]

We've all been there mate.

You've won the battle, but not the war.

I conceded the war more than a decade back, still hoping to survive a battle without severe bruising.

[jabir]

Ah jabs, you no unnersatan' Thailand. You missed your opportunity to show grengjai (by ignoring the minor annoyance of your wife getting a telephone call in the early hours. It wasn't her that made the call, but you still ranted at her for something someone else did.


Was it worth it?

Well spotted, but the main issue is not that someone called at 5, and not for the first time either, but that to her it's perfectly normal.

At times I do think it's not worth the hassle, though the alternative to establishing some sense of civilised values is abject surrender to an often bizarre thought process, and just as painful.

[Bettyboo]

Jabir?

Respectfully, why do you bother? They are all insane, just leave them to do what they do; they cannot be reasoned with...

My mad missus was on the computer, pissing around on facebook and other shite to about 5am Sunday night, then I started to hear the front door opening and closing and just weird, and loud, noises. So, after about a couple of hours of trying to sleep and ignore it, I got up and found her outside the door trying to bring a huge desk in... The situation: she'd popped out in the early hours to get some spicy chilli from the 24hour shop, as she needed spicy food at that moment. On the way, she'd noticed a student apartment building was refurbishing and had thrown out some decent furniture (probably for them to collect in the moring, sold to somebody else, tomporarily stored outside overnight?), so the wifey thinks, 6am, I'll have that desk. It's big, it's heavy, but that won't deter her when she has an idea, so she rotates it corner upon corner for about 300 metres, into our apartment building, into the lift, and was outside our door when I found her - it was bloody heavy on my side when we lifted it into the apartment, so she did well to get it here as she's only a little monkey...
So, I says: "Why didn't you ask me to help you?"
She says: I didn't wanna wake you up."

I mean, she didn't do anything wrong, showed some skills n all, but it would have been much quicker and easier if she had woken me up at 5:30 to carry it home with her - yes, I would have whinged, but it would have been easier for her and I'd've gotten to sleep earlier. Nonetheless, the dog, her dog, woke me up early in the morning for it's walk...

[Neverna]

So, I says: "Why didn't you ask me to help you?"
She says: I didn't wanna wake you up."

How about doing a wife-swap with Jabir, Betty?

[jabir]

I won't ask the obvious.

[HuangLao]

Got home around midnight after a regular event, wifey on the floor working the computer on the bed. Nothing unusual, she sometimes works into the early hours. I finally nod off around 1.30, up for a piss at 3, she's still at it but about to close down, annoyed grunt for me and back to sleep.

Phone rings, I'm instantly awake and alert, check my watch, 4.57, it can only be an emergency, then I realise it's her phone not mine, and this is still Thailand. She answers in a sleepy voice, yak yak kaa yak kaa, hangs up.

Me: Who was that?
She: A friend.
Me: Which friend?
She: <silence, 'ere we go...>
Me: Huh?
She: <reluctant grunt>
Me: That means what?
She: Pui.
Me: What does she want at 5 in the morning?
She: Nothing.
Me: <head on pillow, blood on simmer> She called to say nothing, yes?
She: She finish.
Me: Finish what?
She: What I was doing.
Me: She called at 5 to say she just finished her work?
She: <grunt>
Me: And that can't wait?
She: She want to know what time I finish.
Me: <lost it, rant about Thais pimping grenjai (consideration for others) as part of their wonderful 'culture' when they're the most inconsiderate beings on the planet, and on and on, culture was the topic and it wasn't very polite>

Woke up grumpy this morning, more politely asked her why Pui couldn't wait for a civilised fcuking hour, and inadvertently triggered that other masterful Thai trait, cunning plan B, say first thing in the head that might defuse the situation even if it's so transparent that it will escalate, but that would be after a few seconds cursory examination of evidence not immediately, so that's good enough.

She: It was 6, not 5.
Me: 6 is still early, especially because she's going to see at 8 anyway; but my watch said 5.
She: <Thai cunning plan C, refute the self evident> Your watch is wrong.
Me: <checked against phone, spot on, showed her>
She: <Thai cunning plan D, ignore the evidence piling up, inadvertently create more> You want to check the time she call on my phone?
Me: Yes.
She: <logical and therefore unexpected, which calls for immediate implementation of Thai cunning plan E, reach for phone, realise you're about to bury yourself, and execute Thai cunning plan F, think of Thai cunning plan G but fast, which she executes with "Look!" by shoving her phone into my face for a split second not realising I was already scuppering Thai cunning plan W and snatched it from her.

Me: It says here 4.58.
She: Ok I tell her not to call 5 oclock anymore.
Me: <no breakfast or dinner or much else for the next 3 days>

An all too common and varying scenario.
Some can relate.

Chagrined.