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It's visible on the RHS at the top, posts by you and total posts. I suggest you work on your peripheral vision.

Seems to me recent generations confuse quantity with quality.

The OP has 35 posts out of 101 on the subject of pizza prices. Damn, there are some deep thinkers on ASEAN.

I've had enough of your put-downs, on ignore now. You were talking about wais being good manners on another thread, singularly lacking here.

This is Thailand, not Australia. Get used to it.

You've never seen a dirty hospital, and you don't spend much time in hospitals. Perhaps you are incapable of perceiving how the two statements are contradictory. Naming the hospital would be defamatory. Of course you won't see dirt in the private hospitals. Affluent patients would desert them if there was. When patients are paying 30 baht for treatment at a government hospital, it's not surprising standards are lower. For someone who purports to know everything about Thailand, there does seem to be quite a few gaps in your knowledge base.

Having spent 14 days in COVID quarantine in a provincial hospital, your second comment is blatantly wrong. The ward had no cleaning staff. Test equipment was not sterilized between patients, who had to provide their own soap and bedding. No insect screening, mosquitoes and flies had free reign. I am starting to wonder if you only open your mouth to change feet.

I have no such anxiety, my GF loves shopping in secondhand stores with her friends. What baffles me is how they can spend 4 or 5 hours in there, and come out with nothing, or less than 100 baht in purchases.

The OP seems to be unfamiliar with the concept of bait and switch. Which happens all over the world, not just Thailand.

Apology accepted, a misunderstanding of my post. I apologize too.

Thanks for the confirmation you've lost the plot. Do you have someone to "take care" of you?

I am making no assumptions, just applying a reductio ad absurdum to a somewhat fatuous post. There are more ways to be polite with Thais than a wai, and I don't see why I should adopt the practice just because you say so.

Likewise, I know you have impaired cognition, unable to recognize sarcasm.

Agree. Refusing to shake someone's hand is either extremely rude, or an indication of not wanting to have anything to do with the person. I don't think Thais get upset when I don't wai, they probably just think farang.

You know this how? Ah, I see. You polled a statistically significant sample size of Thais, and they all told you they appreciate the effort. And you believed them, because Thais are always truthful, and never tell an interlocutor what they think said person wants to hear.

I am polite to others, that is the way I was brought up to be. Although some posters on ASEAN do make that quite difficult at times. Without knowing the social status of Thais, and whether I should be wai-ing first or second, it's simpler to not do it. Life is complicated enough without such trivia. I am not interested in social status anyway. I have been with some very humble and poor people, and rubbed shoulders with very rich and powerful people. At the end of the day, everyone has to sit on a toilet. I have made the effort to learn the Thai language, which I regard as more important. Is there anything more ridiculous than a farang who does not want to learn Thai, offering a wai to Thais? I shake hands in my country of origin. Thais are not used to doing that, every handshake I have had from a Thai here is like gripping overcooked spaghetti. I am not protesting about adopting cultural mannerisms, I simply don't regard them as significant to me. I adopt the parts of a culture I find useful.

It would be rude behavior from a Thai. I am not Thai, and consider a nod or wave sufficient acknowledgment as a response. IMO adopting a wai to fit in is a waste of time, and is not going to work anyway. I'd bet many Thais sneer inwardly when they see a Westerner do it. I am always going to be a farang, better that I am true to myself.

Elite Smile had a clinic at Pantip Plaza, I don't know where they have moved to. 55,000 baht per implant. Very professional, and their equipment was state of the art. I had three implants there, still rock solid after 8-10 years.

I speak Thai well enough to communicate with Thais.. I have no desire to assimilate, it's more appropriate to say I am adjusted to Thailand. Be polite, and learn to ignore acts of egregious stupidity.

Don't see too much avoiding of farangs on ASEAN threads.

A classic illustration of the First Law of Thermodynamics. Thanks for the laugh.

There are facts and logic behind what I post. Your posts are good examples of vacuity, coupled with a know-it-all mindset. That's why the approvals lag your posts by a good margin, and will always do so while your posts remain annoying.

It's his specialty.

Thais do not regard lying as such, more protecting themselves and the listener from an uncomfortable truth. It goes back to the days when the bearers of bad news were beheaded. My GF is a very good housekeeper. I guess it is different when Thai women are in a rental property, it's not theirs so they don't care about it.

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.