BangkokReady

Are you seriously suggesting that people blasting sound out of their phones in public places like bars, cafes or busses is fine and normal, and to object to it is to be a "grumpy old man"?

Lol. Sure thing, Grandpa. I guess all us whippersnappers should quit complaining and get off your lawn, huh?

Part of the modern world we live in. Breath-taking levels of selfishness and entitlement. I take it you haven't seen the video where some maniac plays his Bluetooth speaker on a packed train. Another passenger does the same thing in protest, so the first guy attacks him. That's the kind of mindset that this comes from.

Let the foreigners complain about the thing they want to complain about. They were complaining long before any foreigners arrived and many come especially for the society that it creates.

It's amazing the lengths some people go to complain about complaining, yet they don't realise how negative they are. 🤔 Grumpy old men, complaining grumpily about people they think are grumpy old men!

A lot of people think, "I like this, I see some other people like this, therefore everyone likes it and anyone who doesn't is bad". If everyone was on the street at the same time, it would be insane.

Can you contact the guy somehow? Maybe he can send you a sticker, then that chat will be at the top?

Thought what? A world of research is at your finger tips!

https://www.google.com

Slow news week, just recycle old stuff and hope no one figures it out It says arrested yesterday. Did it take them a year to find him?

Insane. Wasn't one of the few unintentional plane crashes due to a fire started when someone smoked in the toilets?

Nobody likes wet jeans. No matter the weather.

Yes. People, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation, like to drink a lot and often end up injuring themselves, peaking at "home time". I'm sure plenty of local Thais ended up in the hospital last night due to drunken injuries.

It's apparently quite common for people attempting suicide to back out due to the survival instinct. They go on to regret this, where they are determined to die, and do things like tying their hands or blindfolding themselves to try to beat the instinct. She also could have changed her mind after she jumped.

Very unfortunate, but not worth killing yourself over. I'm sure there must have been other options. I wonder if it was about loss of face.

A total waste of three lives and probably destroyed three families. And for what? These are educational establishments, not street gangs.

No one. It was a motorbike. You ride a motorbike.

If they're alone all the time anyway, why is the increasing number of old people a problem? This is sad. That's the one real advantage people have in these kinds of societies. A "free" house that stays in the family and live-in day-care and cleaning services. I guess the elite want everyone to follow the West and believe that each individual person must have their own home and car or else they're failures.

More than that, the nationality of citizens of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is literally British. There is no other name for that nationality. Also, GBR (Great Britain) is the country code for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Or where criticising it simply isn't "Thai bashing" at all. I think they're just used to driving like someone would through a herd of sheep. They'll slow down, they might even stop if they have to, but they're trying to push through the herd, and it's the sheep's fault for being in the road anyway.

Thai bashing [taɪ ˈbæʃɪŋ] Noun phrase The act of saying something factual but negative about any element of Thailand or Thai people which the user of the phrase finds unpleasant to hear due to their self-esteem being attached to their perceived image of Thailand. Used primarily to deflect genuine criticism of Thailand or Thai culture, so the user does not have to face reality. "What do you mean the roads in Thailand are dangerous? That's just Thai bashing!" See also: cognitive dissonance, logical fallacy, thought terminating cliché

There are two hands. OP knows to whom the first hand belongs. It remains a mystery to them, however, to whom the second hand belongs.

I see three hands...

It's tricky. In most Western countries pedestrians pretty much always have right of way, and you aren't allowed to just drive into people. In Thailand, it's more that pedestrians never have right of way and are obligated to move out of the way of any vehicle, whether at a zebra crossing, a red light, or on a sidewalk. It takes a little time to adjust to this and people can get very angry at having their perceived right of way violated. Possibly something that should be explained on the flight over.

Nah. Lots of people who like most things about Thailand dislike Songkran. You don't need to be old, grumpy or hate your life to object to the many unpleasant things that happen during Songkran. Consensual partying or water fights are fine, it's the non-consensual water splashing, the drunk driving and the sexual assaults that people object to, and they are right to do so. You're lying because you don't like to hear the negatives being pointed out.