Thread: You smell. you need a shower and other rants

An old wise man once said, 'You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family'... Nice rant Q, I understand completely...

Yeah, Mrs Quirrel is the master of amusing rants. I luv 'em.

Originally Posted by filch

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Is that supposed to be English? Try and construct a proper sentence.

So what's the cleaniness and general hygienic status of the folks in Rural Surin? Bet it's not quite so easy to get some toothpaste, shampoo, deoderant down in those parts?

Washing in a bucket of water hardly constitutes a shower now, even if you do put holes in it and turn it upside down.

Needn't be a knee-jerk unknowledgable apologist Filch. 'Tis well known that Westerners {generally speaking} have less than desirable hygienic habits. Chances are my poor peasant-ridden farmer type next door is better equipped to lend themselves to cleaniness than your average Farang soap dodger. Facts is facts. Fool.

Nice one Q.
Happy to say I don't feel your pain -- often.

Try teaching a rural Thai the dynamics of how air with low-energy electrons (cold) naturally migrates to areas of high energy-electrons (warm). And how leaving doors and windows wide open in an air conditioned room will result NATURALLY, with no input or combinations of buttons switched on the hand remote, in the cold air mixing with the warm air in a homeostatic equilibrium.

Try highlighting the fact that while, yes, it might be colder in the AC room even though the windows are open, the compressor is ineffectively trying to chill the entire planet. To the extent that you can stop the high-energy electrons (warm air) from mingling with the conditioned air, there is savings to be realized in lower compressor usage.

They will exhibit their absolute grasp of this phenomenon by scampering into the kitchen for more bugs and fish heads -- leaving the door open, of course.

Chin up Q. Three more days.

Sounds like you mob need a real father in law.

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Needn't be a knee-jerk unknowledgable apologist Filch. 'Tis well known that Westerners {generally speaking} have less than desirable hygienic habits. Chances are my poor peasant-ridden farmer type next door is better equipped to lend themselves to cleaniness than your average Farang soap dodger. Facts is facts. Fool.

Could you point me in the right direction where these facts are? Tit.

Also I am still waiting for you to edumucate me on the birth place of capitalism in another thread.

I doubt I am going to get any solid 'facts' or evidence on either topic to substansiate your drivvel.

Originally Posted by melvbot

There this myth Thai Thais are ultra clean, personally and in their house. I dont think Ive ever come across a more unhygenic place than rural Thailand. A land of contrasts where they go for a shower then walk back through what most people would call an open sewer.

and the well they pump the bathing water from is often situated right next to the cesspit, so the solids kinda get seperated but they are often showering in sewage water.

Oh look, RS proves himself to be retarded yet again... how surprising.

My in-laws seem ok at the moment and they only live about 15 mins away (or about 4 hours in the old man's tuk-tuk). They are of course, as dumb as a box of frogs, but they don't give me any shit, only come round when its been arranged and go home at a sensible hour.

The dad thinks it's funny the the Midget goes there to eat Isaani crap, but he seems concerned about her welfare as he keeps asking questions about my sobriety, domestic violence skills and other similar things.

One thing they have noticed is how much better behaved the little lad is as well as his eating & sleeping properly now.

Anyway, what was this thread about?

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Needn't be a knee-jerk unknowledgable apologist Filch. 'Tis well known that Westerners {generally speaking} have less than desirable hygienic habits. Chances are my poor peasant-ridden farmer type next door is better equipped to lend themselves to cleaniness than your average Farang soap dodger. Facts is facts. Fool.

Yes, you never see any Thais walking around picking their noses then serving up someone some food.

You stated "facts is facts" but you also put in the wrong type of bracket (generally speaking).
Please provide more of your "facts" they are very amusing to laugh at. Idiot.

My in-laws seem pretty good too, the old man is a hard worker and does his best for the family but i still want to be a good distance away from them when the time comes

^^^^ When you try to assess specific heat, you must account for all the energy possessed by the molecules, and the temperature as ordinarily measured does not account for molecular rotation and vibration (caused by ...? yep, that's right)

The kinetic temperature is the variable needed for subjects like heat transfer, because it is the translational kinetic energy which leads to energy transfer from a hot area (larger kinetic temperature, higher molecular speeds) to a cold area (lower molecular speeds) in direct collisional transfer.

Originally Posted by Texpat

^^^^ When you try to assess specific heat, you must account for all the energy possessed by the molecules, and the temperature as ordinarily measured does not account for molecular rotation and vibration (caused by ...? yep, that's right)

What? Spell it out T - molecular vibration is caused by what...?

Originally Posted by Texpat

The kinetic temperature is the variable needed for subjects like heat transfer, because it is the translational kinetic energy which leads to energy transfer from a hot area (larger kinetic temperature, higher molecular speeds) to a cold area (lower molecular speeds) in direct collisional transfer.

No argument there, although I think you should list the source when you are quoting. Before you cut & pasted this, did you actually read it? - because it basically states exactly what I said - that air (or any gas, for that matter) temperature is a function of molecular energy, it has nothing to do with electron energy.

If it had, the air would give off light (photons) when it cooled down.....

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Her father and brother are perfect examples of that.

Had to go use the downstairs bog for a piss before taking the dog out for one.

Seat was down with piss all over the seat. I understand if there was a young kid in the place, but there are two adults downstairs using the toilet.

Three days and I'm out of here. It's made me realise how much I dislike these people.

My missus spent an afternoon scrubbing caked on SHIT off her families toilet, as it was so disgusting, she could not use it.
The strange thing to me was that neither, Mother, Father, Son, Cousin, Nephew, Sister in Law found this to be a problem...they were quite happy! (pigs in shit)

I once remarked (after seeing the state of their place..and it originally was a NICE house, that you could take Buckingham Palace, and fill it with pigs, and in not too long a time, it would be back to a pigsty...I thinks she seems to have got the message!)

Yes, the more KM's between you and the in laws, the happier you will be, there must be an equation for this...KM Home-KM Inlaws=Misery.

And, never letting them over your front door certainly will help, mine don't get upstairs EVER, they remain outside, or at worst, can visit the kitchen, but that's it...once inside, they will feel they have the right to change your life, and will end up walking in on you whenever they feel like it...THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN, and NEVER EVER CROSSED! Give an inch..take a mile (or 500)

^ The missus grafted hard when she was young, got a mortgage and paid for a house and an apartment.
The apartment was always hers alone. The house was meant to be for her parents to live in but everybody in her family took it as theirs as well.
The plan all those years ago, according to her, was that there were two bedrooms, one for her folks and one for her. That worked out for about 6 months, then her mum kicked her dad out and her fat older sister took it that she could move into the missus's room for a couple of weeks and live there. 7 years later she left it, to move to the town where the missus and I were living.

Missus got so fed up with not having any privacy she bought an apartment about 5km's away. Nobody was ever allowed to stay there without her say. Her younger sister shared it for a bit with her, but that was for about four months.

The house would be quite a nice town house. The village is quiet. It's well located for Bangkok. There is a BTS due to open sometime near by.

The family though, have fucked the house up, they just don't take care, dirty bathrooms. broken sofas, broken washing machines.
We talked about tarting the place up last year, there were a couple of cracked floor tiles and the ceiling needs replacing. Missus wanted to build an extension over the car port for a room for us if and when we needed it (never fucking again unless 7 of 9 are dead)
We realised that it would be a waste of money. That no matter what we did to make it nice again, it would turn to shit in no time because of the ignorant cunts who live here.

Fuckem. They can live in shit if they want.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

The family though, have fucked the house up, they just don't take care, dirty bathrooms. broken sofas, broken washing machines.

typical, like locus on a corn field

Originally Posted by melvbot

Their solution was for me to buy a new washing machine every 6 months, hows about fuck off and take care of what you've got.

priceless !!!

Originally Posted by melvbot

They dont deserve anything nice,

they are peasants, they are used to live in the jungle or in rice field shacks, having a urban house is basically the same as living there for them, and why shouldn't it be ?

Originally Posted by melvbot

Yes, you never see any Thais walking around picking their noses then serving up someone some food.

Better is when the stick that sniffer all the way up their nose and tickle their brain with it whilst serving food.

Or that my wife says that 95% or more of Thai women don't wash their hands after taking a crap or whizzing.

Yes Rural Surin - Thais are picture of cleanliness

Originally Posted by melvbot

You stated "facts is facts" but you also put in the wrong type of bracket (generally speaking).
Please provide more of your "facts" they are very amusing to laugh at. Idiot.

No facts from hum. Just pecking away from Surin, the cultural pearl of the world.

I remember being around a Thai's house once when her son pissed on the living room floor.

As usual that T shirt they keep in the kitchen was pushed along the floor with her foot to mop it up, then shuffled back to the kitchen where it is used to wipe the kitchen floor regularly.

Of course you know what happened when some of the food being prepared was dropped to the floor.

Yup, back in the pot.

Yup, washing in a muddy river more often than everyone else does not perfect hygiene make.

My g/f and I are both expats so we are free of parental and in law influence. I am planning on going to meet the in laws for a fortnight in October and then not seeing them again for a very long time.

We've no problems with the In-Laws, even when they reside a mere 2 kms away. I get on with them quite well.....we're only 6 years and 10 years apart, respectively. Perhaps 80% of the blood kin {on both sides} lives within a 10 km radius. Extended family up my ass. Our bunch are different {really}. Different class - much more akin to country sophistication. Though, I have lived within the boundaries of the sub-cultures that posters are ranting about. I've an ex in Sri Satchanalai {Sukhothai} that fit the stereotype. That's why I've insisted and have agreeed upon that my daughters {from her} live with us half the year. Like night and day for them. Raising them with their 'half-sisters' here.

country sophistication

Originally Posted by Texpat

country sophistication

Yep...thought you'd like that