Andre0720

Thai culture is the best. we should all follow their lead. honestly. no kidding. bob. And you even add your first name at the end of your drivel. Oh well. We must have quite a different definition of a civilized culture. And if you tried a sarcasm, you are not very good at it... Not bob

Five Thai men, with knives. Part of the culture. Including the numerous 'wai's', and Kaw Thots, hopefully after the beating and the stabbing. Also part of the culture. To indicate their respect and politeness. Also part of the culture...

I thought I remembered being drunk in my teen years. On second thought, I was only feeling good...

Society, going downhill again..... Heads looking down on their mobiles, certainly not about learning anything. Men, except for the elite, mostly hooked on tobacco. Now marijuana legalized, oh let's open a shop, space available close to a 7-11. Or any shop not lucrative enough shut down to be replaced by a cannabis shop. Let's add a bit of Kratom to the hemp juice, just to get a better kick. I see them getting their bottle of hemp juice, and going in the back to get the dose of Kratom to add to the mix. When ideally people should aim at increasing their level of 'awareness', in order to better their life. The opposite is happening to the cohort of younger people. Not like this country is a the top of the list of civilized countries. So for those who will use alcohol as a comparison point, let me add that I can have only one beer every evening, but a smoker cannot have one cigarette a day. Tobacco is a highly addictive drug. So a large percentage of Thai people can see this, but the culture is all about 'shhhhh'. But a poll, oh, finally some privacy in expressing an opinion... What are the effects of Kratom? At low doses, kratom produces stimulant effects with users reporting increased alertness, physical energy, and talkativeness. At high doses, users experience sedative effects. Kratom consumption can lead to addiction. Several cases of psychosis resulting from use of kratom have been reported, where individuals addicted to kratom exhibited psychotic symptoms, including hallucinations, delusion, and confusion.

If one is a 'cheap Charlie', the answer of a generous empathetic person this person will not like... And conversely....

Give this guy a break. He certainly does his best at writing English, as he is at handling large sums of money....

Me... No refined sugar for me. Reason, I try my best to avoid eating poison...

Thanks for the info. But I still think that she should be treated better than how she treated people. Society criticized her, judged her, punished her, but at the very least, society should appear to be better than her. Treat her humanly. Incarcerated, with a bed, a toilet, and food. Just the way I am.

WOW, just calm down. Whoever wrote that phrase, Dostoevsky or someone else, I do believe that is has merit. This lady in this instance was not a career criminal. Ans should be punished, according to Thai law. That is not what the debate is about. It is about how the punishment is handled... If own son had made that mistake, involving a small quantity of drugs, and you would still believe that he deserves no better, then I would simply not like your morals. People should be punished, but in a civilized manner. Just check how Germany does it... If it was a career criminal, having lead a group of gangster, selling large amount of drugs, or a gangster having killed people randomly, I would still think he he deserves the death penalty, but carried out in a civilize way. Just the way I am...

I do not seem to share the popular views on this. When I listened to this video some days ago, I thought that de Niro should stick to acting. And this is what I wrote on the subject at the time: "All I see here is a plethora of negative adjectives aimed at Trump. With no facts to support any of those adjectives. Perhaps because Stephanie Ruhle is not very good at conducting interviews of a political nature, or she just loves to hear bad adjectives. Wish she could have said just once: 'Can you give us some examples of the Armageddon that you foresee if trump is re-elected?'' If de Niro had to speak about Biden, how much hate would he have spewed. This guy is a phony. If anyone cares about some better narrative, I suggest listening to something with 'no hate'. You have to listen to this video. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Anti-Hate' Message. Well, since he was a politician in California, governor that is. So nothing as stupid as what Robert de Niro said. Nothing as stupid as what Denzel Washington said. No reference to God, to Jesus, to the Devil. No hate like what Robert de Niro had to talk about.

Many sellers still use this outdated type of scales, because it allows them to give a guess at pricing. Always a rounded number. Lots of work there for controls of seller prices...

“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky So yes: The treatment of prisoners is one of the tests of civilisation of a country.

Still working on reaching age of maturity...

'Sorry' is the favorite word used by people who never feel 'sorry' about anything....

Hehehe. When most Thai dishes are laced with the slow acting poison, the refined sugar that is, and with added MSG, so as to make people eat more of it, get fatter, contribute to the rise of diabetes, one could ask if these salads are an exception. These food should be in a class of its own, competitive wise....

Find help, find hope. Suicide cannot be an answer to your griefs...

"lit incense sticks in hopes of divine assistance in locating her missing animals" Always the same problem. Finding the right God to pray to....

Quite right. Thailand is working hard at making imported items 'expensive', and now even more expensive is a new objective. A pack of Italian coffee, with all the added costs of the imported items in my country, costs about 100 bahts ($4. Can). And I can buy regularly Lavazza coffee on sale at home for 75 bahts ($3. Can.) Thailand managed to tax this coffee brand until it reached 500 bahts. And now more. Oh well.... How about a cup of nice coffee from Chiang Mai...

I would think that this site is already more respected than the Thai people are. Just that most members on this forum know very well about Thailand. And we all wish that Thai people would at least try to behave in a more civilized manner, so that in return, foreigners would find more to be respected in this culture...

Just a few comments, particularly as it relates to 'education'. As I observed 'education' and 'civilized society', I came to the conclusion that being civilized is a prerequisite to education. I remember thinking about the Vikings, and thinking about 'educating' these people. Nah, no way, must get civilized before. "What is civilization in simple words? A civilization is generally defined as an advanced state of human society containing highly developed forms of government, culture, industry, and common social norms. Of course, not all scholars agree with this definition. In fact, there is much debate over what constitutes a civilization and what does not." And as it relates to Thailand: "highly developed forms of government", coup after coup after coup. Then "culture and common social norms", as they intertwine. Common social norms, application of laws of the land, hummm. Courtesy on the roads, hummm. Fairness in the application of the laws, hummm. The freedom of one stops where the freedom of the other starts, hummm. This country is simply not civilized, even though the highly educated people certainly are.... And regarding socio-economics, I remember as a child, living in poor areas, farmers, blue-collar workers. Civilization was there, we could not see thrash everywhere. The culture was there. We put thrash together, and leave them for collection, governed by an already developed form of government. In Thailand, just large bags of thrash, with small garbage items thrown close by on the ground. And poor people driving by collecting plastic and recyclables, having to sort them out of the thrash bags. I still look at them thinking that people, all of them, do not care a bit about the people collecting the recyclables. Not a bit, the level of selfishness is right there for everyone to see. I am definitely the only one who separates recyclables from thrash. And I see people coming out of the 7-11 with their goods, and throwing on the ground their purchase bill, right next to the supplied garbage bins. India and the Philippines have the same level of civilization, based on pics available...

Just a few comments, particularly as it relates to 'education'. As I observed 'education' and 'civilized society', I came to the conclusion that being civilized is a prerequisite to education. I remember thinking about the Vikings, and thinking about 'educating' these people. Nah, no way, must get civilized before. "What is civilization in simple words? A civilization is generally defined as an advanced state of human society containing highly developed forms of government, culture, industry, and common social norms. Of course, not all scholars agree with this definition. In fact, there is much debate over what constitutes a civilization and what does not." And as it relates to Thailand: "highly developed forms of government", coup after coup after coup. Then "culture and common social norms", as they intertwine. Common social norms, application of laws of the land, hummm. Courtesy on the roads, hummm. Fairness in the application of the laws, hummm. The freedom of one stops where the freedom of the other starts, hummm. This country is simply not civilized, even though the highly educated people certainly are.... And regarding socio-economics, I remember as a child, living in poor areas, farmers, blue-collar workers. Civilization was there, we could not see thrash everywhere. The culture was there. We put thrash together, and leave them for collection, governed by an already developed form of government. In Thailand, just large bags of thrash, with small garbage items thrown close by on the ground. And poor people driving by collecting plastic and recyclables, having to sort them out of the thrash bags. I still look at them thinking that people, all of them, do not care a bit about the people collecting the recyclables. Not a bit, the level of selfishness is right there for everyone to see. I am definitely the only one who separates recyclables from thrash. And I see people coming out of the 7-11 with their goods, and throwing on the ground their purchase bill, right next to the supplied garbage bins. India and the Philippines have the same level of civilization, based on pics available...

Oh, when I started reading your post, I thought you were offering to send money to help this unfortunate lady.

It is all about the 'culture' here, not the race.

This is an instance where I will rephrase, to avoid an obvious bad interpretation. Yeserday, I was with my friend playing.

The problem seem again to originate from the selfishness of people here. The will stop anywhere, for any useless reason, including picking up a call, with total oblivion of other drivers on the road. I would thing that this is the origin of this accident, even if the motorbike was driving way too fast. His great driving skills were not match for the selfishness of the owner of the parked vehicle... Thai drivers are very good drivers. Just driving in the absence of road laws, in the absence of the resulting need for discipline while driving, will have lethal consequences...