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When you start crossing busy streets without looking because you just know Buddha is watching over you as you made merit yesterday by feeding some soi dogs some left over, hardened, dried out white rice with fish sauce essence.

When you start trying to console Farang friends and family using concepts/terms like 'jai yen yen'.

When you start to think 60 - 70% of a goal 100% is pretty good.

When you start using vinegar for everything including ailments.

When you accidentally take off your shoes before entering a supermarket.

When you have a Thai nickname that you use when introducing yourself to other Farang.

When you notice you really don't care about details anymore.

When you notice yourself becoming quite a lazy person and are OK with it.

When you are so used to 17 - 25 year-old girls walking around in nearly see-thru tops and short skirts that you are often more interested in just getting home out of the heat to have a good beer and check TV for the latest updates.

When the only criteria you consider when judging a woman's beauty is how light or dark her skin is.

When you see roaches crawling on the open meats you're about to buy and just brush the roaches aside before picking your pieces of meat unfazed.

When you start looking forward to rainy season because the temperature is 'cooler'.

When you think nothing of someone behind you in line constantly hitting and pushing you even though there's nowhere to go.

When your goal for walking is always to walk as slowly as humanly possible so as not to do that disgusting thing called sweating.

Thai wannabe HiSo or real one:

"My 15 year-old Mercedes looks utterly classless and silly after I have dropped the body and put 26 inch cheap rims on it."

Thai driver at a light:

"No, 180 seconds is not really a long time to wait to drive 1 km to the next light."

"Hey, for all these U-turn places, let's put in some of those light things that tell people when they can walk, go, turn etc."

Thai young adult guy walking in sun:

"I wonder if I still look tough and manly while holding a cartoon magazine over my face to block the sunlight while I'm walking?"

Food vendor looking at Farang who just ordered noodles to go:

"I'm not going to twist this rubber band onto this bag of noodles so tight that only a native Thai can take it off. I mean, there just noodles."

"Not inside."

"Not in my mouth."

Where does the Nation get the almost uniformly irrelevant pictures from for their articles?

Young Thai Guy:

"These pants are too dam_n tight."

Otherwise Beautiful Thai Girl:

"I don't have to take care of my feet because Thai Buddhism teaches us that the feet are the dirtiest, lowest part of the body."