BangkokReady

the experiment was for treats. They weren't starving the monkeys.

Some people will say anything in order to reply, even if it makes no sense, as long as it seems like it's contradictory or feels like a rebuttal. This chap's a bit of a troll who writes nonsense a lot, so when asked to explain something, he clearly finds it difficult and then insults people. Obviously it's easier to just say "What would you know? You're X." than to try and explain something which you cannot (or for which doing so makes you look foolish). It's fun to look for logical fallacies in comments:

Or it was programmed that way by the left-wing programmers... ????

Or it's just programmed to give certain answers. How can you not know this??? ????

You can't turn emaciated mongrels into sniffer dogs. ????

People call for culling of soi dogs and dangerous dogs. This is far from hating dogs or want them to all be killed. You're the one being hateful here.

I thought there were suggestions that PTP is allowing the military to stay in power in exchange for Thaksin being allowed to return?

Why not speculate on what actually happened if you suspect that the article is inaccurate in its reporting?

Clashed? Or the moto taxi guys attacked the Bolt guys? Many Thais don't like fair and free competition... ????

Flower

You are embellishing though. She didn't set herself up as anything, nor did she "make lots of tokens". It was an isolated incident which the researchers prevented from reoccurring. "During one chaotic incident, a researcher observed what appeared to be a monkey exchanging a disc for sex. The monkey that was paid for sex immediately traded the silver disc for a grape. The researcher subsequently took steps to prevent any possibility of coins being traded for sex." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals

Do they? Not the worst or most dangerous offenders first? Foreigners are more of a danger simply by the fact that they are foreign? Do you have any evidence of that?

I don't think anyone is joking about it. They're suggesting that it wasn't him simply entering the area that made the wasps attack him, but that he might have interfered with the bike and that the disturbed the nest.

Ridiculous. I wonder if he watched the Thai dramas where "raping someone just shows how much you love them" and then the perp and victim end up together.

Didn't some immigration officers just get "reassigned" for doing the same for a foreign celebrity?

I wonder if they're doing the same for Thai online criminals? Will the second largest sex for sale website now be in their sights? Or is that Thai run and therefore OK.

It is possible. If you understand enough words in Thai, even if you aren't sure about the tones, you can guess from the context and the words in the sentence what is meant. Or you might be able to recognise a specific sentences. Either way, this can make a word clear that might otherwise be ambiguous. When it comes to speaking, you have to get the tone and pronunciation perfect, otherwise Thais will not understand. So speaking is quite different from understanding. ESL speakers have the bonus that even if words in English are mispronounced, incorrectly stressed, and - in some cases - in the wrong order, it's still likely that they can be understood. Hence you have "Thinglish", where Thais can speak broken English with a Thai accent, Thai stress and Thai grammar, and still be understood.

But can you be sure that you don't subconsciously alter the way you talk when you use the phone in a way that you are unaware of, making your Thai understandable? You would need to record yourself in conversation with a Thai who cannot understand you, then play the same words to a Thai over the phone and see if they can.

We could simplify it as something like: "Person A feels that their knowledge of Thai elevates their social status, and by refusing to validate this, person B is lowering their social status, which angers person A."

People doing bad things to someone that they feel has wronged them is not an example of karma. It's just revenge.

The same reason that foreigners in Japan who speak Japanese lose their <deleted> when they get given a menu in English... (They didn't go to the great effort of learning the local language to not be made to feel special for it.)

They don't seem particularly proactive in any matter.

Research suggests that highly intelligent people are less happy and prefer to spend time alone. ????‍♂️

Even without the typo it's still really bad writing. When would any drowning not take place in an unnerving manner? Are there reassuring drownings? It's really a meaningless addition to the sentence. Similar where the author writes that he was found "in a distressing condition". Just meaningless garbage. "What's his condition?" "Hmmm... I would describe it as one that causes others distress." Wow. So descriptive. What makes it worse, is the fact that the author is described as "a successful freelance journalist who worked with international news organizations before joining Thaiger. With a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from London".