"You're an animal!" - " Really? - well you're a buffalo" - five minute Thai insult rant wows internet

[rooster59]

"You're an animal!" - " Really? - well you're a buffalo" - five minute Thai insult rant wows internet

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

A video is going viral on the internet as three Thais square off at a Rachada juristic person office.

 

There is no violence on this occasion but there is plenty to learn about the Thai vernacular!

 

It involves a man sitting in the juristic person office handling complaints from two irate women - one of whom may be what Thais refer to as a second gender woman.

 

Insults are bandied about like confetti as no one is prepared to give way or compromise.

 

At one point there is an exchange of "Ee sat" (you bloody animal) and "Ee khwai" (you bloody buffalo) like a game of insult tennis.

 

The official keeps calm but enrages the complainants with a string of sexist references and comments about the women being brainless and having had facial surgery.

 

The women say they will go to lawyers or the police - the official says "be my guest".

 

He doesn't seem to be even slightly worried that he is being filmed.

 

The footage is being commented on by thousands on social media after it was posted on the Facebook page of "Nang Fa Neung Neung".

 

Most questioned the "customer service" of the man but many thought both sides were as bad as each other.

 

Thai Rath said the argument was over a receipt. The mother of one of the complainants said she had paid the maintenance fees but did not keep the receipt. When the juristic person asked for the fees again the trouble started.

 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-11-18

[Bluespunk]

3 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The official keeps calm but enrages the complainants with a string of sexist references and comments about the women being brainless and having had facial surgery.

Is he a member of the TV family? 

 

Sounds like he’d fit in nicely...

[greatwhitenorth]

7 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

It involves a man sitting in the juristic person office handling complaints from two irate women - one of whom may be what Thais refer to as a second gender woman.

 

She was probably trying to steal his gold necklace

 

[ratcatcher]

12 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

what Thais refer to as a second gender woman.

I thought Thais referred to some of  these people as katoeys?

[darksidedog]

I was hoping he was going to pick up the power drill on his desk and put it through the forehead of the people ranting. Mind you the intelligence level of the conversation suggested a lobotomy had probably already been performed.

[KittenKong]

26 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

... she had paid the maintenance fees but did not keep the receipt.

 

Then she is indeed a complete khwai.

[trainman34014]

Normal child like behaviour from the Natives !

[lemonjelly]

I like the way he kept totally cool and wasn’t baited by the katoey and accomplice


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[Smiles]

4 hours ago, lemonjelly said:

I like the way he kept totally cool and wasn’t baited by the katoey and accomplice


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Agree that His body language and tone of voice is cool. However, those words he spoke are totally lowly.

 

As a person handling the front line, it is very sad to see such person facing directly and speaking in this manner.

[Stargeezr]

Yes do not use stupid buffalo when you are insulting someone, or especially , really stupid buffalo

as  in Ngo Jing Kwai.  Very insulting.

Geezer

[nausea]

1 hour ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Yes do not use stupid buffalo when you are insulting someone, or especially , really stupid buffalo

as  in Ngo Jing Kwai.  Very insulting.

Geezer

Yeah, you may hear Thais using these words among themselves, often as a joke, but don't be misled, they are highly insulting; as a Farang, never, ever, call a Thai a buffalo or a water-monitor (hee-ah); Also, a useful all-purpose phrase for de-escalating confrontational situations is: "Jai Yen, Jai Yen" - cool heart, cool heart.

[Stargeezr]

Yes I have heard Jai Yen Yen, when a bar owner was taking a large knife out of the hands iof a

rather drunk Thai man who was going to use the knife on an older German tourist who

had deliberately threw some Thai money on the ground and who has shoved a little girl who

was trying to sell gum and garlands in the bar area. Insulted people can be very dangerous.

If they also lose their face.  Got to behave and stay calm, not get too drunk.

Geezer

[PAIBKK]

What happened to the word "monkey"?
Is calling someone  "monkey" a complement in Thailand ? Looks like it.

[impulse]

On 11/18/2017 at 10:25 AM, darksidedog said:

I was hoping he was going to pick up the power drill on his desk and put it through the forehead of the people ranting. Mind you the intelligence level of the conversation suggested a lobotomy had probably already been performed.

 

He very well may have, if only the battery were there...

[Katia]

Speaking of bad names to call someone... a friend was talking about this, and mentioned "eh haa" or "eh hai" (sounded like mid-tone).  If he told me what it meant, I can't remember.  Anyone have any idea?  (Not "hia."  That one I know.)

[Bluespunk]

8 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Yes I have heard Jai Yen Yen, when a bar owner was taking a large knife out of the hands iof a

rather drunk Thai man who was going to use the knife on an older German tourist who

had deliberately threw some Thai money on the ground and who has shoved a little girl who

was trying to sell gum and garlands in the bar area. Insulted people can be very dangerous.

If they also lose their face.  Got to behave and stay calm, not get too drunk.

Geezer

Pesky foreigners...

[dddave]

10 hours ago, nausea said:

Yeah, you may hear Thais using these words among themselves, often as a joke, but don't be misled, they are highly insulting; as a Farang, never, ever, call a Thai a buffalo or a water-monitor (hee-ah); Also, a useful all-purpose phrase for de-escalating confrontational situations is: "Jai Yen, Jai Yen" - cool heart, cool heart.

I was walking with a GF one day, trying to get around a guy slowly ambling as he texted on his phone.  I muttered something in English about a buffalo with an attached adverb as we passed and he both heard and understood it.  He was clearly very PO'd and started to come at me...my GF started apologizing like crazy and pulled me away as fast as she could.  Later, I got a stiff lecture on words that can get you killed...buffalo, lizard and cockroach among them.  Also, never try to be like a Thai and use Guu, addressing another Thai.

[Klong Song]

I was walking with a GF one day, trying to get around a guy slowly ambling as he texted on his phone.  I muttered something in English about a buffalo with an attached adverb as we passed and he both heard and understood it.  He was clearly very PO'd and started to come at me...my GF started apologizing like crazy and pulled me away as fast as she could.  Later, I got a stiff lecture on words that can get you killed...buffalo, lizard and cockroach among them.  Also, never try to be like a Thai and use Guu, addressing another Thai.

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[tifino]

 

'empty headed animal food trough wiper' is safer,

 

as there's no actual 'buffalo' word