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sz1a

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  1. I've met plenty of farangs who have gotten into altercations in Thailand. They have one thing in common: making a Thai loose face by being verbally aggressive.

    What's funny is that Thai's pride themselves on being soft spoken and polite. But once you break this fragile state of equilibrium all hell breaks loose. In the west we pride ourselves on being outspoken and direct which gives us a broader set of acceptable behavior before violence happens.

  2. First they came for student visa holders, then they came for the back-to-back visa tourists, then they came for over-stayers, then they came for the elderly bridge players, then they came for the marriage visa holders, then they came for the business owners, and then they came for me, but there was no farrang left in Thailand to speak for me.

  3. This isn't the problem, it's about cause and effect. A non-violent person playing GTA will not go out and suddenly do drive-bys. An already violently predisposed person will turn violent from any trigger, be it movies, alcohol, GTA or being provoked on the street. The problem isn't GTA, the problem is knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing neanderthals that still roam freely in our society and cause havoc. Just consider that Scottish guy who went berserk in Pattaya, he didn't play GTA to turn violent, he got drunk. So did others without causing a disturbance.

  4. Thai's have a weakness for beauty and vanity. We should start a news story about a middle aged Thai woman who, after acquiring a few child angels, started falling sick, vomit, her cat was killed in an accident, and people started fighting around her home. It turned out the child angel doll was possessed with a demon that wanted to give people pain. So buddhist monks had to come and clear the demons by ritual and then sacrifice the child doll as it had some connections to a very dark spiritual place. Let's see how many dolls they sell then.

  5. what happened to the days of a fare fist fight ? caught at the airport that got to be an admission of guilt

    I presume you mean a fair fist fight, those days are long gone. 50 years ago as a schoolboy i watched a fight between two 17 year old students, when one went down the fight stopped, he got up, they shook hands and that was the end of the matter, that was UK 50 years ago, now a knife would be pulled out or the guy on the floor would have his head kicked in. In some segments of social behaviour we have moved forwards in many others we have moved backwards.

    I am somewhat surprised that the Egyptian didn't just hit the guy with his shoes...no joke. What happened to his culture here? OK to attack me now (with your shoes) but that is the way things were done in that culture when I was there. (I won't mention drinking alcohol which is 'haram'-forbidden).

    Obviously an Egyptian in a bar isn't adhering to his culture, hence the booze and knife instead of tea and shoe.

  6. Every year, every month the junta takes further steps away from freedom and democracy and towards totalitarianism and censorship. Spending 5 billion on Internet censorship in the year 2016 is wrong. This country is gonna fail. They should be investing in the future, making brighter students, accepting foreign investment, developing technology, science and research. This will force the Thai's to remain consumers of western products instead of being the creators of it. I am not moving back. God I miss 2013 pre-junta Bangkok.

  7. sz1a, on 09 Jan 2016 - 20:07, said:

    I'll bet they'll call it a suicide unless of course they find cigarette butts on the scene.

    The cause of death is pretty much sure and you make this comment, get a life.

    The cause of death is the island Koh Tao where foreigners perish at a higher rate than other locales.

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