Rangsitreppin

blenders are quite cheap here top of the line maybe 1500 baht with warranty better by the blender here

I dress in clothes covered in paint, shoes with holes in the bottom and shave once a month.

I love to see their assumptions about me, farang kee nok etc

My local policeman knows the score though he actually sees why Im like this asks me when I can build his house

Now if we can turn it round and go see the smartly uniformed persons living accommodation you might see something else?

Proof in that people in a poorer come up are all for show and will never really know what matters until the hit the western world and go back home and realise how backwards there world actually is

Thats just racist

Not like your implication that the natives need to visit the west in order to find out how 'backward' their own world is then?

Really naive response seeming what decade that photo was taken just shows your childish side.

I live in sydney and bangkok you know and my thai friends in sydney dont have as good a cell phones as my friends in bkk because they figured out how stupid keeping up with the jones really is and you wouldnt catch one of them dead in a uniform flexing as they would be too embarrassed to be seen in one.ere

You're calling a whole country backwards because of the cell phone models your mates own?

Can you read what year this is written ?

http://m.theage.com.au/business/how-thailands-evolution-into-a-stable-democracy-has-gone-into-reverse-20081104-5hqd.html

I dress in clothes covered in paint, shoes with holes in the bottom and shave once a month.

I love to see their assumptions about me, farang kee nok etc

My local policeman knows the score though he actually sees why Im like this asks me when I can build his house

Now if we can turn it round and go see the smartly uniformed persons living accommodation you might see something else?

Proof in that people in a poorer come up are all for show and will never really know what matters until the hit the western world and go back home and realise how backwards there world actually is

Thats just racist

Not like your implication that the natives need to visit the west in order to find out how 'backward' their own world is then?

Really naive response seeming what decade that photo was taken just shows your childish side.

I live in sydney and bangkok you know and my thai friends in sydney dont have as good a cell phones as my friends in bkk because they figured out how stupid keeping up with the jones really is and you wouldnt catch one of them dead in a uniform flexing as they would be too embarrassed to be seen in one.

I don't get the OP at all. So if a security guard takes pride in looking sharp in his uniform, you take offense? Conversely, a lo-so tourist walks into a department store without his shirt on, and you applaud that? What freakin planet are you from?

What someone decides to wear out in public is darn well a reflection of him/herself in any society. Do I judge someone at first impression based on how they're dressed? Damn right. It's natural. If someone doesn't bother to take a moment to dress decently for the occasion, it does reflect badly on them. Don't understand how some farangs can't grasp this basic concept.

are u thai?

I dress in clothes covered in paint, shoes with holes in the bottom and shave once a month.

I love to see their assumptions about me, farang kee nok etc

My local policeman knows the score though he actually sees why Im like this asks me when I can build his house

Now if we can turn it round and go see the smartly uniformed persons living accommodation you might see something else?

Proof in that people in a poorer come up are all for show and will never really know what matters until the hit the western world and go back home and realise how backwards there world actually is

Thats just racist

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Is that how they really dress on the left to go to the pub?

In the decent restaurants and drinking establishments, yes. Those who prefer to hang around beerbars and fast food joints can expect the types of clientele as seen on the right.

Unlike in the west, most Thai people are taught to hold respect for those in authority that carries through to their homes, working and social life. Respect and politeness is a part of Thai culture, get used to it.

Ah yes those high up un-corruptible people eh, oh yes mucho respect

You have no idea what incorruptible means, you can`t even spell the word. Mucho? Are you from Barcelona?

What`s your point exactly and the point of this whole thread in fact?

we are talking about how thais are quick to flex Either it be a thai in a bouncer unifom , security guard, bus driver or the damn bts change giver . BTW bangkok uni girls are one of the worst for this facade game its like as soon as that uniform goes on they are miss god damn universe these days.

If you still dont get it beetle you never will ,its about face been more important than life its self.

There is a German saying that roughly translates as "Clothes make the man".

Thai society is at least 50 (to a 100?) years behind western countries in these topics.

Impartiality is widely unknown in Thailand. Master/servant relation is common.

No hiso Thai greets a hotel room maid, will not even notice the presence of a gardener.

And sure he will not appear half naked in public as pictured above.

Uniform, stripes and stars make a person.

More than a 1000 (!) highly decorated generals.

A world record maybe?

Don't they look nice?:

http://www.rta.mi.th/command/command-36/command-37.html

(and thats just the four(!) and three star rank of the army)

Do you know the story of "Captain of Köpenick"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Voigt

Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 3 January 1922) was a German impostor who, in 1906, masqueraded as a Prussian military officer, rounded up a number of soldiers under his command, and "confiscated" more than 4,000 marks from a municipal treasury. Although he served two years in prison, he became a folk hero as The Captain of Köpenick (Der About this sound Hauptmann von Köpenick (help·info)) and was pardoned by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Maybe still doable in Thailand today.

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I just looked at the link with the Thai army officers. Why in the lord do they have so many medals? Thailand has not been in any serious combat for along time. Are these just tallied up from their days as a boy scout/army cadet??

Reminds me of this, and just as hilarious

LMFAO

Looks like Canarysun has some real competition in being The Cheapest of The Charlie's.

LOL.

I don't know why I'm so cheap, I think it comes down to the fact that when you don't have a job or money coming in you have to make what you have last. Even though I would be a multimillionaire in Baht, It is still a fixed income.

The guys who have pensions and fixed incomes are in a much better position to spend, jeez, they don't have to make say 5 million baht last a lifetime. If you're on some kind of pension/retirement then you really wouldn't understand about having to make your money last.

I'm as cheap as they come, but not so cheap with everything. I have a note 3 cell phone for example. I usually try to buy high quality products, but that is being frugal because high quality products will outlast a lot of cheap quality products so you save in the long run.

I have 100000 baht to last a life time and 28 years old .

I think op can splurge on the medium sized slurpees .

I think it is the same the world over, a uniform tends to bolster one's self importance.

Agree, a good example being those that Expats that like to dress up as Volunteer Police.

congratulation mrtoad 18000 posts

OP I know what you mean about "alternatives" ... The economists refer to it as OPPOUTUNITY COST.

I do it even more so in Vietnam. I drink those large Saigon green 10k dong. About 50cents aud. Then everytime I go to buy something for about $1..... Find myself tripping over the fact that means two big Saigon.

Bit same here.

So saigon green is 1100 percent cheaper that a vb in an aussie bottle shop

I dress in clothes covered in paint, shoes with holes in the bottom and shave once a month.

I love to see their assumptions about me, farang kee nok etc

My local policeman knows the score though he actually sees why Im like this asks me when I can build his house

Now if we can turn it round and go see the smartly uniformed persons living accommodation you might see something else?

Proof in that people in a poorer come up are all for show and will never really know what matters until the hit the western world and go back home and realise how backwards there world actually is.

Like in australia we dont even have uniform for uni and students are considered the poorest of society next to welfare recipients.

well how doea op know about the posts of 18 year olds unless he is a stalker

The confidence and attitude says it all from police officers ,uni students to railway staff it feels like as soon as a thai person puts on a uniform they are automatically higher up more important and able to look down on everone not in uniform .

all of a sudden i like prayuth.