MisterTee

On ‎11‎/‎21‎/‎2019 at 9:58 AM, CMHomeboy78 said:

Thanks for the song.

Keep working at English as a medium to express your intelligent and perceptive take on Farang/Thai relations.  You do it in a very interesting and personal way.

The complaining, hypercritical malcontent who is so prominent nowadays is - in such large numbers - a fairly recent development among farangs in Thailand.

Certainly, there have always been misfits in the expat communities, but what you see and hear so often now is much worse than it has ever been since I first came here in the late 1970s.

Age means a lot.  Most of them come here too late in life.

Too late to master the language and achieve functional literacy.

Too late to attract anything better than a mercenary woman out for all she can get, and then go on to become a cash cow for her greedy relatives.

Why don't these dupes just do everybody a favor and go away?

I think in many cases lack of money - after being repeatedly scammed by Thais - is one reason, and not wanting to return to home countries that have become essentially failed states is another.

Cultural isolation produces much of the hatred you see so often expressed on this forum where they are rewarded with hundreds of "likes" and supporting posts that make them feel justified in their twisted views.

Your feisty observations on these "guests that would be gone" are always worth reading.

Keep posting and good luck Yinn.

That's a bit of a rant, but it would be hard to gainsay the points you make.

When a music topic like this brings the Thai-bashers out of the woodwork you know the situation has gone from tragedy into the realm of farce.

There was recently a Chiang Mai news topic on Thai Visa about a country airshow that elicited an unbelievable amount of verbal abuse directed against Thais and Thailand.  The show had been advertized but had not yet taken place.  The posts were all conjecture of the nastiest kind.  It seems that anything is now fair game for these pitiful losers.

Legitimate grievances like air pollution and the government's conspicuous failure to deal with it is where they should aim their vitriol... not at the chao bahn with their tolerant and welcoming culture.

We don't even qualify as guests here.

I wasn't invited... were you?

We're more like party-crashers who have blundered in too late and found a banquet-hall deserted, whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead, and all but he departed.

57 minutes ago, dexterm said:

Again Trump has done more to harm Israel by his bull in a china shop diplomacy.
And Netanyahu , whatever points he scored with Trump, has handed a megaphone to the BDS movement. The genie is out of the bottle: any criticism of Israel, once taboo and political suicide, is now open debate.

 

Bernie Sanders summed up the furore perfectly:

“But the idea that a member of the United States Congress cannot visit a nation which, by the way, we support to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, is clearly an outrage and if Israel doesn’t want members of the United States Congress to visit their country to get a first-hand look at what’s going on, and I’ve been there many many times, but if [Mr. Netanyahu] doesn’t want numbers to visit, maybe he can respectfully decline the billions of dollars that we give to Israel,” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/16/bernie-sanders-israel-can-decline-the-billions-in-/

 

And the last word from Omar:

“As many of my colleagues have stated in the last 24 hours, we give Israel more than $3 billion in aid every year. This is predicated on their being an important ally in the region, and the ‘only democracy’ in the Middle East.
Denying visits to duly elected Members of Congress is not consistent with being either an ally or a democracy."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-day-netanyahu-helped-anti-israel-democrats-gain-resonance-and-credibility/

The point you make about criticism of Israel in the US is spot on.

It's no longer taboo and Jewish support for radical Zionism is no longer to be taken for granted.

5 hours ago, MisterTee said:

French journalist Adrien Jaulmes  neatly sums up the shifts that have already happened saying that "The UK has built its power on two principles: keep the British Isles united and the European continent divided. Today it is close to succeeding in doing the opposite."

Economic disaster may or may not be around the corner, but Brexit has already produced irreversible political turmoil and disintegration which will not go away whether or not Britain is inside or outside the EU.

The economic aspect is just one side of the coin. The more important failure is the seeming inability of the Brits to govern themselves.

Welcome to the Third World.

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

French journalists might better report the state of their own country before criticizing others.  

Since the fall of the Bastille, French journalists have been criticizing the state of their own country with alacrity.

The peevish tone of your post suggests that you may be hearing some unpleasant home truths.

French journalist Adrien Jaulmes  neatly sums up the shifts that have already happened saying that "The UK has built its power on two principles: keep the British Isles united and the European continent divided. Today it is close to succeeding in doing the opposite."

Economic disaster may or may not be around the corner, but Brexit has already produced irreversible political turmoil and disintegration which will not go away whether or not Britain is inside or outside the EU.

The economic aspect is just one side of the coin. The more important failure is the seeming inability of the Brits to govern themselves.

Welcome to the Third World.

A new political party for Thaksin?

It reminds me of the old Thai proverb: "A snake that sheds its skin is still a snake."

44 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

Surely if you willing wish to disfigure your body it does not matter which country you choose ?

Spot on.

Before getting any kind of a tattoo it's always a good idea to get a check-up from the neck up.

There might be a screw loose somewhere.

12 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Agree Trans but a bottle of HP does last a year in my gaff , so HP price goes up and down if you shake it.

You're so right.

Anyone who has been here since before '97 knows there is a whole lotta shakin' goin' on. 

Welcome to the forum, Vikas.

Your education is just beginning.

If you have a sense-of-humour try not to lose it.