Freddy42OZ

When I was around 15 years old during my "Heavy Metal Phase" I flew back from boarding school in the UK, to Hong Kong, wearing a machine gun bullet belt around my waist, made up of USED bullet casings I'd collected at the Army firing ranges we sometimes went for shooting practice. Security personnel at Heathrow commented on the belt but after checking the bullets were all used they let me on my way. Security at Kai Tak said nothing when I strolled off the plane wearing it. However, security at Kai Tak went onto full alert when I tried to fly out of HK wearing it at the end of my school holidays. After a bit of checking they let me board the flight but the belt had to go in the hold and was handed back to me when I arrived in London.

Congratulations on living under a rock.

How can any AI answer this question when you've not specified their class. If you are middle class or above, why would you even consider someone lower class, especially when you'll most likely also have to deal with language issues and their low education.

Nonsense. I'm 100% male and straight. I shave my chest and genitals because I think loads of body hair is ugly. My hair has never been very dark, thankfully and I'm not excessively hairy. I have an aesthetically pleasing amount of lower arm hair and leg hair, but no back hair and minimal chest hair. My pubes are starting to go grey which is gross and another very good reason to get rid of it. Anything that makes me look old is bad. Looking young, slim and fit for as long as possible should be everyone's goal. Even if you are too old to attract attractive women, why not have some self respect a maintain your appearance anyway. Yet so man men clearly don't care that they don't look good. I see fat old men everywhere who don't even groom their eyebrows, nose hair and ear hair!

This one is very good - https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt

Yes, far too many racist comments on these forums. A lot of older people just can't accept the way the world is changing. Eventually there will be no distinct races. Most people will be interbred with other races. Also eventually all the old racists will be dead and forgotten.

WTF does being slim have to do with being bald? As for often seeing Brits wearing flipflops outside, what are you on about? They are for wearing outside, why would you wear them indoors? And every nationality wears them, especially the Thais.

He's not tall enough. He'd need a step ladder. 😂

Would be funnier still if Fiat (the company) still owned Ferrari (the brand).

In flames.

Where did the Thai wife come from? There was no mention in the OP of any Thai Wife. Or are you just someone who assumes all Western blokes in Thailand are interested in Thai women.

I definitely don't think we should be allowed to do anything we want, that is just ridiculous. Just this morning a friend from New Zealand called me and greeted me with "Jo San" when I answered his call. But I don't see why anyone would be offended, if someone, used ANY language to greet them. I can say Hello in multiple languages. My friends can all understand hello in different languages. Most educated people (from the West at least) can understand a few words in multiple languages, even just from watching TV and Movies. There is no reason why I should be forced to say hello in English only to English people, hello in French only to French people and hello to Thais only in Thai. If a Thai person doesn't understand Bonjour or Gutentag then they also probably have no idea whether I'm English, French or German. Maybe those Italian tourists had heard people say 'Ni Hao' and weren't aware it was Mandarin, but though it was Thai. What if they had said "Ciao" ? I use "Ciao" a lot and I use "Hey Esse!" with some friends even though we are not Spanish speaking gang members. We say "Whassup!" to each other a lot too.... like the famous Bud commercial.

Bob and his mates.

Even better is to delete ALL Windows files and replace them with Linux.

Do you never use any other languages in Thailand other than Thai? I'm a Brit, when I'm talking with people I know we greet each other in all sorts of languages and ways. I might decide I want to say Bonjour to people, or maybe greet them with 'Jo San' (Good morning in Cantonese). I choose words I know my friends will understand. I studied French, Latin, Spanish and Ancient Greek at school and I have friends from more countries than I can remember, which means I've picked up a few words and even sentences in lots of languages. Most of us know how to say hello etc in multiple languages, why do we have to limit ourselves to using our own language, or saying it in Thai if we speak to a Thai person? Why can't we say hello in French to a Thai person, or say hello in Italian, Chinese, German, Russian? Regular Thais probably don't get enough exposure to lots of other languages, so they don't understand hello in multiple languages, but that is their problem not ours.