2009

10 minutes ago, JCauto said:

Oh, so suddenly you are saying he DID provoke these people? I don't believe you mentioned that previously. In fact, you said

 

"The evidence is he got violently assaulted by a gang.

It's fact. What more do you need to know?

Nowhere has it mentioned he threw the first punch or any punch. 

He was just attacked."

 

Now he was not "just attacked", he insulted the villagers by calling them buffalo, something that anyone who lives in Thailand knows is basically inviting fisticuffs or worse.

You are engaging in sophistry in your zeal to hate on the Thai. Why do you live here?

I don't know your nationality, but if a Thai guy in the UK who didn't speak English came up to a group of partying locals and everyone was pissed up, and he said "w*nkers", I'm guessing he's going to end up like the friendly Finn. If a similar thing happened in the USA, same result (although you'd have to substitute a different word).

What I am saying is: what they did was WAY over the top and in no way justifiable. 

They could have just called him a name back in return. No need for violence.

You don't seem to comprehend this. Why are you condoning and justifying thug behavior?

1 hour ago, Toby1947 said:

10 onto 1, with wooden sticks and knives sounds about the right odds for Thailand 

Yeah, it's a classic:

1. Get charged 10 baht extra for something cos you are a falang.

2. Get annoyed and say the worst word imaginable to a Thai (buffalo)

3. Get set upon by 10 guys and a woman with weapons while everyone else around smiles, laughs, and says, "Mai pen rai"

They could make it a tourist advertisement, ????????

46 minutes ago, JCauto said:

Really? You believe he was standing there quietly, didn't say a word, and suddenly ten locals set upon him and beat him up with sticks? Had he started studying at the local Vocational College?

No, I believe he said the word, "buffalo" as the news says.

I'll be waiting here for you to justify the 10 man beating. Go ahead.

47 minutes ago, ningnong said:

There's not a single Issan villager who doesn't understand that if you intentionally insult another villager, even slightly, you are inviting a violent response. That's just the way it is. And I assume the vast majority of Farangs living here understand that but apparently this guy didn't get the memo.

You are painting a very civilized picture of the locals. Lol

2 hours ago, Goat said:

i have contemplated it. Not so much the load that concerns me, though I do concede my usual litre does impress them. 

It is more the testosorone. I had a dog fixed up once and he was never the same. I dont want to end up being a grumpy old man.

But dogs get the entire testicles removed. They are castrated.

It's not really the same

2 hours ago, pomchop said:

.he got a beating for being a belligerent idiot that did not have the common sense to not return to a place where he obviously was not welcome

So, it's ok then?

5 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Your assumptions are infantile at best. Big difference between an ugly Finn getting back some of what he has likely been dishing out for years, and a gang rape. 

You are cheering someone being assaulted by a gang.

Do you have any idea how sick that is?

And you are literally making up reasons to try to justify it.

You are even making up the story that this Finn has a long history of offending these people before they finally choose to maul him.

Doesn't matter what kind of assault it is. It's not right.

17 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

He didn't get the memo that beer tax went up. 

I've certainly never known a bottle of beer to cost 70 baht in a mom n pop shop upcountry (or in Bangkok), or in 7eleven.

He got the farang price. He knew it.

He got a beating for opening his mouth.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

He likely said some very nasty stuff, and likely said it to someone who had heard it before, and was not in the mood for his disgraceful nonsense.

It took a lot of imagination to write this, didn't it?

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

He got what he needed.

Truly a vile thing to say. Victim blaming at its best.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Only the wife, who has the bad fortune to be stuck with this louse, cannot accept reality. 

Bad fortune? She is likely with him as she hasn't met a better suitor yet.

Though, she has the decency to know that he didn't deserve a gang beating, unlike others.

I suppose you'd applaud a gang rape, or is that not popular in the colosseum at the moment?

15 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

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 don't think we can assimilate; we will always be foreigners to the locals.

Doesn't matter if you are their teacher, husband, boss, neighbor, a monk etc. etc.

I don't think it even matters if you aquire Thai citizenship.

Even mixed race Thais are not viewed as actual Thais by most of the population.

3 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Where the heck are you living? 

 

We have been here 17 years and lived in 3 different rural villages in CM.  Never been anyone beaten to swather by an angry mob in any of them! 

 

 

I lived up country.

It's actually a common occurrence when you have those big village parties where all come to gather to watch the dancing girls on the stage.

28 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

It strikes me that you have no idea what life is really like for Farangs living here.

 

You do realize everyone has a different experience here, right?

I've had friends whose GF would take his ATM card without asking and go around withdrawing money as she pleased.

I've known farang here to be treated much worse than that too. Terrible treatment in the workplace, casual racism, and so on...

Hell, just last night I saw a south Asian person walking down the street minding his own business when a street walker offered her wares to him and he politely refused. To which, she replied, "Poor country, smelly people, I don't like" while wafting her air from her nose.

It reminded me of when I invited my EX wife to go for an Indian meal (which I knew she'd never tried before). Her response, "Indian people smell. I don't like"

And when you consider, this is just the tip of the iceberg, the mind boggles as to what else is submerged.

I don't think you can assume every farang's experience living here.

Just now, BangkokReady said:

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

That would never happen, not in a million years.

9 minutes ago, bogs smith said:

why are you so sure the finnish man abused the locals?

 

is it not possible that the thais were just drunk and looking to start a bit of trouble?

The Thai apology is strong in this one.

5 minutes ago, pomchop said:

wow you sure seem to know a lot about exactly what happened

It's says in the article that she hit him with wood and then called on others to "finnish" him. ????

What "wood" you you call that? ????

(I'm on a roll this morning, hehe)

"Jarae later came back to her shop and asked to buy a bottle of alcohol, but he only wanted to pay 60 baht instead of the 70 baht it cost."

Highly likely: she was doing the favorite local sport of charging the farang 10 baht more than the Thai price.

He knew he was being ripped off and treated with racism.

He screams buffalo and gets beaten by the pack.

"Thainess" is fascinating.

They tolerate and exhibit the shiftiest and most dishonest behavior, but if you use a curse word it's like you've broken all 10 commandments at once.

11 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Thai’s having a very short fuse and were easily triggered ganging up on one person. 

One of the facets of "Thainess" that really fascinates me.

8 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

Many years ago my sister fostered kids who came from situations where children had been sexually abused. One rule was that.no male was supposed to be alone with those kids at any time. That was as much for our protection as it was for theirs. 

It's amazing how it's socially acceptable to treat all males like they could be a danger, but not any other demographic group.

40 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Would you go out drinking with your wife, and then beat your wife up, or pack and leave her when you knew the truth, or if your appartment, kicked her out? 

I'd would do none of that.

40 minutes ago, Hummin said:

There is many good ways to escape wife physical and psychological abuse then get drunk and beat her up.

Wouldnt you agree? 

Of course, didn't I say right at the start of my post that I don't condone violence?

40 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Still his fault for letting her taking advantage of you!

You mean 'him'?

Nah, I'd say if she's taking advantage of him, it's her fault.

40 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Every day I read topics like this, there is always excuses for not doing the right things, and lay all the blaim on everyone else, especially the women.

I don't see women getting the blame for anything............ever.

The fact that you'd blame a man for a woman taking advantage of him is ironic here. Lol.

40 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Are you responsible for what you do and your mistakes or not? 

I'm certainly a responsible person, lol, and obviously I make mistakes. ????

Not sure how this is relevant though.

2 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

same rule pretty much anywhere. You dont get involved in domestic disputes as you dont jnow the whole story. 

Exactly,

While I can never condone violence, there's a fair chance she's not innocent either.

Guys on here like to talk about Somchais like they are the world's worst men, and put Ploys up on a medistal like they are angels from heaven.

It couldn't be further from the truth.

I reckon they are as bad as each other, Ploy and Somchai. 

For all we know, they're married and she's gotten them into a million baht worth of debt with loan sharks for online gambling and lost it all. I've actually personally seen this a handful of times, it's more common than you think.

On 4/17/2023 at 12:14 PM, bogs smith said:

i did initially. then she said mai pen ri,

i said are you sure? she said yes.then the thug started laughing like a child.

So you didn't really do anything then?

3 hours ago, ozimoron said:

"Pegged" doesn't necessarily mean what you think it does.

 

In majority white nations they are.

I think this is off topic too, then.

I just responded to this with a source. ????