Which UK decade is Thailand stuck in?

[Smeg]

Trains that run at 70kmh - 1930s
Wooden buses - 1930s
Girls who are expected to be virgins on their wedding night - 1950s
Introduction of alcohol licencing hours - 1910s
Ownership of a car being a status symbol - 1960s
Commonplace use of racial slur labelling in public - 1970s
Undrinkable tap water - 1950s
Infantile slapstick comedy in movies and tv programmes - 1980s
An average education of less than 12 years duration - 1950s


Hard to find an average there!

[Sir Burr]

2020's. Britain still has to go down-hill a bit more to catch up with Thailand.

[Smeg]

2020's. Britain still has to go down-hill a bit more to catch up with Thailand.

True, the place doesn't seem to be improving much any more

[Mister Fixit]

2020's. Britain still has to go down-hill a bit more to catch up with Thailand.

True, the place doesn't seem to be improving much any more

Improving? It stopped doing that a long time ago. It's been going downhill for years and the process accelerated at least 10 years ago.

[Jarvis]

Smeg....interesting thought.........though fuk off and do one...thread of the year

[EmperorTud]

A corrupt, unaccountable and inept Police force - 1870s
Censorship and rating of cinema films - 1950s

Britain had passenger trains running at 50 to 100mph in the 30's, not to mention Mallard broke the World Steam record @ 125mph in 1935. To see British passenger trains running as slow as 70kph you'd have to go further back than 1910 I'd reckon so your estimate of 1930's needs amending.
Thai railways uses second hand multiple unit locomotives that were active in Britain during the 60's, 70's and 80's but because of superior track infrastructure they could run a lot faster in the UK.

[Sir Burr]

^
Do I smell an anarak wearing train-spotter?

[madjbs]

These days the British train system is a disgrace, inefficient, always delayed, not convenient and expensive. Thai trains may be slower but they 100 times the value for money.

[Smeg]

These days the British train system is a disgrace, inefficient, always delayed, not convenient and expensive. Thai trains may be slower but they 100 times the value for money.

I'm not sure that whoever has to bail out this mess would agree with your value for money claims

Enormous bail-out for key agencies

Enormous bail-out for key agencies

Rescue plan for MRTA, SRT and BMTA

The Finance Ministry is planning, at huge cost, to rescue major state enterprises including the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand, the State Railway of Thailand and the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority, caretaker Deputy Finance Minister Chaiyot Sasomsub said yesterday.

According to Chaiyot, the amount of assistance to major state enterprises is expected to be high. To help the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) alone the ministry will have to inject about Bt40 billion to reduce its accumulated debt, he said after a meeting with senior officials of the State Enterprise Policy Office. SRT's debt is estimated to be about Bt100 billion, of which Bt50 billion is a pension obligation for employees and the other half debts incurred from operation of its rail network.

[zorin]

Thailands caught up in the 60's-70's Vietnam era.
Which when you think Vietnam had to kick France arse out & was bombed to fook by the yanks. Nam is steamrolling ahead of Siam.

[EmperorTud]

^^sounds like you have not been on a train since the 1990's.

Some of the rail services in the UK now are first class, if you excuse the pun.

The GNER services on the East Coast are brilliant (it is now National Express). They even serve champagne in First Class and have free WiFi.

A World away from anything Thailand can offer.

[bkkandrew]

I guess everyone missed the obvious comparison - Governmental change by force...

Thailand - Military Coup 2006.

UK - (attempted) 1605 (Guy Fawkes), sort of Thailand's equivelent of the mystery man driving his bomb-laden car around Thaksin's house a couple of years ago....

UK - (realised) mid-1600's civil war, with Oliver Cromwell's lot getting uppity, possibly a prediction of the Issanites finally falling out with the Bangkokonians to come?

[English Noodles]

UK - (realised) mid-1600's civil war, with Oliver Cromwell's lot getting uppity, possibly a prediction of the Issanites finally falling out with the Bangkokonians to come?

Well there is the on going troubles in the South, though the UK went through similar up until very recently and for a lot longer in Northern Ireland.

[bkkandrew]

UK - (realised) mid-1600's civil war, with Oliver Cromwell's lot getting uppity, possibly a prediction of the Issanites finally falling out with the Bangkokonians to come?

Well there is the on going troubles in the South, though the UK went through similar up until very recently and for a lot longer in Northern Ireland.

Similar in which way?

[bkkandrew]

UK - (realised) mid-1600's civil war, with Oliver Cromwell's lot getting uppity, possibly a prediction of the Issanites finally falling out with the Bangkokonians to come?

Well there is the on going troubles in the South, though the UK went through similar up until very recently and for a lot longer in Northern Ireland.

NI issues never threatened the integrity of the UK as a whole at any time....

[Smeg]

UK - (realised) mid-1600's civil war, with Oliver Cromwell's lot getting uppity, possibly a prediction of the Issanites finally falling out with the Bangkokonians to come?

Well there is the on going troubles in the South, though the UK went through similar up until very recently and for a lot longer in Northern Ireland.

Not about 5 bombs per week and no teacher beheadings in NI though.

[The Ghost Of The Moog]

Monarchy: 17th century (parallels with Charles 1st)

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Trains that run at 70kmh - 1930s
Wooden buses - 1930s
Girls who are expected to be virgins on their wedding night - 1950s
Introduction of alcohol licencing hours - 1910s
Ownership of a car being a status symbol - 1960s
Commonplace use of racial slur labelling in public - 1970s
Undrinkable tap water - 1950s
Infantile slapstick comedy in movies and tv programmes - 1980s
An average education of less than 12 years duration - 1950s


Hard to find an average there!

I've seen this thread before, but it is worthy of a comeback.

Infantile slapstick comedy in movies and tv programmes

This doesn't count, because in Britain it was only pre-school programmes that were peppered with Hannah Barberaesque cartoon sfx and fat men in silly costumes over-acting, whereas in Thailand adults are entertained by pretty much the same and very little more - unless you include child popstars in makeup and lipstick.

[English Noodles]

This doesn't count, because in Britain it was only pre-school programmes that were peppered with Hannah Barberaesque cartoon sfx and fat men in silly costumes over-acting, whereas in Thailand adults are entertained by pretty much the same and very little more - unless you include child popstars in makeup and lipstick.

So what was Benny Hill then?

[Smeg]

This doesn't count, because in Britain it was only pre-school programmes that were peppered with Hannah Barberaesque cartoon sfx and fat men in silly costumes over-acting, whereas in Thailand adults are entertained by pretty much the same and very little more - unless you include child popstars in makeup and lipstick.

So what was Benny Hill then?

Very outdated, but not in Thailand

[The Ghost Of The Moog]

Have you ever seen those Thai television comics who are diminutive, bald toothless lunatics. Its some sort of genetic disorder, but they go into television vaudeville.

Plus there's that fat bloke who looks like a child and does slapstick.

Presenters have a thing for wearing black suits, with black shirts and black ties

[kingwilly]

while I agree with some of the sentiments here sometimes. is it not a little Eurocentric to consider that Thailand is 'behind' UK and therefore going to follow the same path??

Perhaps thailand is not a model copy of england 50 years ago ... ?

[AntRobertson]

^I think the whole comparison exercise completely fatuous. Why bother?

[The Gentleman Scamp]

So what was Benny Hill then?

Un-comparable to anything else on British TV.

[colourful-era]

Commonplace use of racial slur labelling in public - 1970s

you've hit the nail on the head there - I'm surprised that the apologists haven't yet come out in force to tell you that 'farang' and the like are not racial slurs.

farang, wog, paki , gook = the same.