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An example of two extremes of behaviour. Self-sacrifice to save someone you care about and wanting to destroy someone's life simply because of rejection. His eyes don't appear to be bandaged, so hopefully that's a good sign. I hope he fully recovers and the perpetrator spends a lot of time in prison.

Yup. It's up there with rape and murder, worse in many ways.

I don't think so either, but I wondered if someone who knew of how well some foreigners assimilate into Thai culture had witnessed such a thing. We've all seen many, many stories of Thais jumping on foreigners to defend/assist a fellow Thai, even where the Thai is the guilty party. Surely if some foreigners are able to assimilate so successfully, there must be some examples of Thais siding with foreigners.

I'm a little curious. Have you ever witnessed an argument between a Thai and a foreigner where other Thais take the foreigner's side

There's definitely more to it. The number of people they splash with water who want nothing to do with it has to indicate something. Especially the water directly to the face of motorcyclists just going about their day. Obviously people tolerate it, and it's presented as fun, but they are assaulting people and get some pleasure from that, which isn't normal.

Alcohol doesn't release your subconscious mind. It changes the way you think. It isn't your true self being shown as it literally makes you do things you otherwise would not do. Even if it did allow your subconscious to rule your brain, it wouldn't be your "true self" popping out, as your conscious mind is part of who you are.

It literally changes how you behave, a way that you would not behave if you had not consumed the alcohol. How could that possibly be your true nature?

Even if he did, it's still not OK for a gang of people to attack someone. Quite sad that this is all it takes for a literal mob of people to almost kill someone.

It was clearly mentioned in the post he quoted. Check the original comment again. The post he quoted included a quote about mental health, it then added a further comment on mental health by commenting on that quote.

There's normally a reasonable Samsung phone in ?Big C for around 5k Baht.

Noooo. How could anyone be irritated by harmless water splashing?!! ????

Why are people with mild symptoms being admitted to hospital?

Is this a warning or an advert?

Probably not a great idea to advertise it indoors either.

Not really. They likely would have taken care of their own parents. It's just the way things are. it's a cultural thing. Developing countries simply don't have the same level of care for the elderly so the family needs to provide it.

Most of my life was in the construction industry and yes drinking for most was a way of life and as you say they are not all like that. In UK to bring class into bad behavior I don't agree they can come from any class me having spend a lot of time in pubs and witnessed on many occasions throughout my work life. I think he meant class of people as in a type of person, rather than "social class".

Perhaps for some, but many people have no choice in who their friends are. They simply find themselves thrown together with some people they lived near as a youth, people they went to school with, or people they work with. I guess in Thailand we would add people that they happen see in a bar regularly. For many, friendship is a kind of reciprocal tolerance. There's certainly an element of obligation, the way a lot of people discuss friendships. Plenty of tales of people who have friends that they don't like all that much. A lot of men hardly have any friends as they get older and rely on their partner for a lot of social interaction.

You give two reasons that "creepy creep trash" have to marry prostitutes. 1, because women in the North of Thailand are afraid of most foreign men due to their reputation. 2, because decent Thai women don't want anything to do with "creepy creep trash". If most Thai women are scared of foreign men, why would only the "creepy creep trash" have to "hang out in boozer bars with prostitutes"? Surely all foreign men would share this fate?

Do you need a new criminal record check from your home country whenever you switch schools?

It's interesting how he wasn't really able to do that, but no one really cared.

Does "no money no honey" count as fraud?

Not true in the slightest. In fact, I wish people would forget it. The calls of "decolonise this and that" and the attempts at guilting White people over imperialism and colonisation are a near constant thing in certain communities.

What an incredibly depressing life.

I wonder if the mom ever blamed the kid or held him responsible. Maybe she thought it was your friend's fault for getting involved. Sounds like her parenting made everything worse for everyone involved. Understandable. Sometimes the only way a man can "win" is to simply leave, and I think that is even more true in a foreign country.