Originally Posted by
Seekingasylum
Without doubt, right across the entire social spectrum from gormless peasant to uncivil servant mandarin, the Thai are the most childish, petulant, unthinking, reckless self-absorbed people on the planet.
Their sheer capacity for infinite fuckwittery is without par.
Truly, amazing Thailand.
I recall a somewhat unnerving experience in Big C, OnNut I think it was, when I was queuing for the ATM where a large line had built up, no doubt caused by the vacuous bimbette at the head of it who was evidently taking the opportunity to conduct a multiplicity of transactions with her entire social network that would challenge a bank clearing house settling up on a Friday. The Thai in front of me, a middle aged bloke, was fiddling about pulling pieces of paper out of his pocket and examining them but in the course of his preoccupation he had managed to drop one of his bank cards on the ground. I picked it up and tried to gain his attention with a khor tot or two but the ambient noise level was too loud and he was in another place where Thai go when they stare into the middle distance waiting. In the end I tapped him on the shoulder to gain his attention. He whirled round as if someone had fiddled with his arse and on seeing me his eyes narrowed into slits, nostrils flared and teeth were bared. For a moment I thought the fucker was going to strike me. I held up his card and, pointing to the floor, I handed it back to him. He simply gawped at me as his enfeebled mind swapped cogs trying to compute what had just happened when it eventually dawned on the prick what he had done and thanks were eventually proffered.
The point was, and I learned a valuable lesson here, Thai, if caught unawares, are hard wired to defcon 3 defensive violence and it can be their default setting, particularly within an urban environment which in truth is still, in evolutionary terms, a challenge for the little fuckers.
The sheer fury in the man's eyes was a sight to behold not least because it was just so damned inappropriate.