Speedhump

Thank you for your concern. Did you have any comment on the actual content of my post?

If someone screamed unexpectedly at me I could certainly lose my concentration through shock. Why is that hard to believe? I don't even know if that happened here, but that's not what your saying, is it? Anyway, it's utterly insane that because I said it's wrong to single out Thai people for being a nation that tries to deflect blame more than others, that I'm then accused of defending this driver. Some members of this forum really are hard of thinking....

No dummy, my point was that it's just stupid to say that THAIS like to deflect blame when it's just the human condition, worldwide. Got it now? I don't defend Thais, I just prefer some actual intelligent comment.

No, it's sometimes just jewellery, sometimes a display of their faith. Not an amulet.

Just check 'down under' before agreeing a takeaway.

"Else Majesty" ????????????????

How could you miss it? It was in the post I quoted. On the Chang early today?... Its a forum about Thailand, NOT a Thai-bashing forum. And especially when the remark was so ridiculous. Thanks for the chat....

Because trying to shift blame is only a Thai thing. Jesus.... ????

Totally true, ignorant but unrepentant foreigners are very often insensitive to local culture all around the world. Europeans wearing skimpy beachwear to the mall in the UAE for example. It's illegal, but security guards rarely say anything. It's usually an old local lady who will shout at them eventually. Also I had words with a Chinese man shopping topless in Lotus Hua Hin a long while back. Not my job I know (I'll say it before the usual fools jump on me), but I was actually offended.

I forgot how much you like to quibble. Do you see the name of the establishment? No. Do you see the name of the owner or manager? No. Do you see any names of those involved other than the person attacked. No. Do you see any names of the collection of other local business owners who have rallied around to close this n matter down quickly? No. The media got a sniff of the matter but don't have these details because they have been kept quiet. Shhh. So just leave it, eh?

It's like working at the BIB!

Enjoy your fois gras.

It has been hushed up. The local businesses got together to make sure no names leaked out. The guards were sacked from their jobs to appease the man attacked and the authorities. I trust you see the difference.

I've never heard of costs being awarded in Thai courts (I could be wrong), but this wasn't a court case anyway. Damages were agreed and paid to hush this all up for the local businesses.

And where exactly does it say he's seeking damages? It doesn't.... He's seeking justice and a lesson learned by over-zealous private security goons. ????

And who exactly are 'they' and do tell me how you know what 'they' are thinking? ????

I think the word 'many' is completely wrong. I know 'many' farang here, and I don't know one that outwardly displays any worries of inferiority (which is the word you were looking for). They all seem quite at ease in their dealings with Thais. Perhaps you meant to say 'some', and to qualify it with the fact that you're not speaking from personal wide experience of seeing farang being nasty to Thais....

I agree. My comment was itself sarcastic. ???? Not all countries have an elevated system of humour. In many the general level hardly gets above basic slapstick, with lots of screaming and if on TV, with silly sound effects.

Not surprised, satire can be clever and witty, but sarcasm is just the sharp tool of a blunt mind. ????

Can it translate sarcasm?

You're quite literal aren't you? ???? To cut someone dead in English means to pointedly ignore them.

I'm sorry to say there IS a problem with cutting farang dead when the interaction clearly involves them. If I have to spell it out then that's a problem too. I'd say it crosses the line from rudeness into racism. 'Comfort zones' have nothing to do with this.

The car park around the cockfighting stadium just down the road from me has been full of trucks on Saturdays for a lot of weeks already now. Are you telling me they were going there to play Scrabble?

You mean Strine is English? ????

You mean buy an air rifle? How could a farang legally to that? I wish I could have brought my beauty in my completely full 40' container when I moved here, it would have snuck through customs easily, but the removal company spotted it and wouldn't pack it.