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

My List:

- The slow, sloppy, pretentious, underhand, short-term opportunism, couldn't-give-a-fuck way which most things are done (or never get gone)

- Lying as the easiest and laziest way to make money or fix problems

- The belief in reincarnation and the resulting "if you grin and bear it without complaining this time it'll be better next time around" lazy mai ben rai attitude to life

- Bubble-brained airheads who behave as if their small world revolves around them

- The unfortunate sensation that the only reason many thais behave kindly is to build up a stock of favours

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

- No difference between criticism and an insult, or love and money

- Handicapped people expected to beg for a living

- The constant "them and us" differentiating and labelling of foreigners, and common view of foreigners as a means to financial gain

- Flashing car lights means "get out of MY way"

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

- Inability to use a car's accelerator in a smooth comfortable manner.

- 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.

- Buildings constructed to last only one generation.

- Shop assistants that follow and watch you

- Knowing that there is good reason behind 99% of migration between the west and asia in recent history being from asia to the west

- 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".

Better pass on this one smeg.

Buat Hor

Wow, although valid point, it seems as though the longer one stays in LOS, the more cynical they get. "not that it is bad or onthing is wrong" with being aware of these idiosyncrasies. It is probably best to at least have this awareness of the idiosyncrasiese of the country they have chosen to reside in....

- Shop assistants that follow and watch you

i quite like it when they follow me I normally take them on a tour of there shop asking daft questions or take the piss out of them depending on how i feel at the time:)

The heat.
Bangkok is just too hot.

Food made with guts and innards
My FIL
Green Mirinda
lots of others to come

the low worth/cost of human life.


edit: hang on, much the same in the west too, aint it? :(

The smell of pooh coming from an open drain on a hot day:sorry1:

^ or is it from an Issan food stall?

Soundtrucks blasting out adverts at any time of the day
Cockroaches
Being looked at as a walking ATM by anyone in the family regardless of how much money they have.

whinging farangs :rolleyes:

being expected to fork out 2000 baht every time i fuck a chick

2000 ??

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

^ i believe they charge according to the quality of the trousers

Terrific. A What I hate about Thailand thread from Smeg, just like a breath of fresh air. :p

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^ i believe they charge according to the cleanliness of the trousers

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scampies fcked then, no wonder he has only had 3 roots in the past 6 months.

- Listening to Smeg and his fellow whingers constantly complaining about the place. The flight out is cheap enough, and you are here through your own choice.

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The flight out is cheap enough

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that's relative.
:(

nice list in the op, smeg.

i will return later to add to it. feeling uncharacteristically upbeat today.

ok -- i'm here i will add one.

treating the burmese, laos, khmer and malays like third class shit.

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Inability to use a car's accelerator in a smooth comfortable manner.

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some can and some can't - I was first exposed to this skill by a taxi driver in aust , I thought he was dancing to his own personal beat.

been here a long time. The only thing I will moan about, is the banning of motorbikes on expressway & motorways...

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

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being expected to fork out 2000 baht every time i fuck a chick

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TEFler......

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

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Not entirely true. Always found that the Thais wants to pay for me as apparantly it gives them great face.
To date have not paid for a single massage parlour visit. and there have been many....:)

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

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Those small ants that smell.

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

Taste foul they do.

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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.

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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.

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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.:)

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^ 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.

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

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- 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".

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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.

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

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Not true.

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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. :rolleyes:

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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.

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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.:)

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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.

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

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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).