What makes Thailand so unique?

[poanoi]

for me it was the go-go bars that blew me away,

i regret every last satang i spent on booze & disco in home country,

worthless shit in comparison

[ratcatcher]

26 minutes ago, KiwiKiwi said:

 

Indeed, still believing in the myth of the 'noble savage' - primitive, relatively unintelligent, dirty and with a limited life expectancy yet somehow dignified and spiritually advanced and actively practising Buddhism as Buddha intended. I saw that film as well.

 

And not looking for cheap sex or HIV at all.

[RichardColeman]

Dunkirk re-enactments on Pattaya beach every day by Chinese tourists is pretty unique. 

[ratcatcher]

It's easy to whine about the place, but harder to leave

 

Edited May 22, 2018 by ratcatcher

[poanoi]

for me it was the go-go bars that blew me away,

i regret every last satang i spent on booze & disco in home country,

worthless shit in comparison

[poanoi]

lag as usual

Edited May 22, 2018 by poanoi

[Artisi]

42 minutes ago, Justfine said:

Hotels

Day tours

Massages

Food

Bgs

Water

Rent

Electricity

Buses

Planes

Trains

Ferries

 

 

That's 12

12 without even raising a sweat …..

[tso310]

Ten things to experience before I die. I've ticked off experiencing a military coup as it happened. 

[Justfine]

11 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

It's easy to whine about the place, but harder to leave

 

Farangs love to whine

[Sir Dude]

I always like the irony regarding the word Thai in the Thai language meaning free, but we seem to be increasingly all the time further away from Freeland than ever before. It's "unique" in many ways but not even close to in the way TAT are trying to infer. Thailand peaked in it's positive uniqueness and hospitality in the 90s and early 2000s...all downhill really after 2005 ish.

Edited May 22, 2018 by Sir Dude
Typos

[Justfine]

5 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

I always like the irony regarding the word Thai in the Thai language meaning free, but we seem to be increasingly all the time further away from Freeland than ever before. It's is "unique" in many ways but not even close to in the way TAT are trying to infer. Thailand peaked in it's positive uniqueness and hospitality in the 90s and early 2000s...all downhill really after 2005 ish.

People in 05 were complaining it was better 10 years prior and in 1995 they said 1985 was better.

[tomta]

The amazing level of cognitive dissonance is what makes Thailand unique.

[Aforek]

1 hour ago, ratcatcher said:

An opinion,.....very good. I am sorry for your disillusion, however, if you can manage to get away from the

tourist areas of the islands, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pattaya etc, you may find that the pleasant Thailand still exists, albeit under the benevolent care of a junta.

Many on this forum live in areas far away from the pimps, prostitutes and paedofiles often found in the above mentioned areas, which act as a magnet for the "low - lifes" you mention..

Paradise isn't lost, it's just harder to find. I'm pleased you found a good wife.

Right; again, the usual Thai bashers ( you are never tired ? ). Go and live outside tourists places like me and others: Thailand is unique, yes, and I love it … with it's good and bad sides 

[theguyfromanotherforum]

1 hour ago, 55Jay said:

Silly tourists will lap this up and flock to Thailand on a "spiritual journey" to "find themselves" in the ancient ways. 

 

Or you could simply Google "how to make sticky rice w/mango", and save yourself a lot of money.  ?

 

 

 

I'm lazy cutting a mango

[Puwa]

Uniqueness is overrated. 

[Misterwhisper]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Dunkirk re-enactments on Pattaya beach every day by Chinese tourists is pretty unique. 

Those lucky Chinese b*st**ds. Had they amassed on that beach only 10 years earlier, they'd found themselves completely surrounded by Germans - and there wouldn't have been nearly enough boats from Koh Larn to evacuate even a quarter of them. 

[55Jay]

8 minutes ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

I'm lazy cutting a mango

To the joy and relief of said mango.

[Get Real]

Oh dear! Where shall we start?

 

• Black waste water on tourist beaches! I guess that a unique experience for all tourist that comes for sun and bath.
• That some cities criminality is buildt up of 70% gold snatching ladyboys, that won´t hesitate to beat you and hack you half to death with high heels if you do not calmly depart from you valuables.
• The only country in the world that call criminal infestation, a power drinking society and one of the worlds biggest sexual industies for a world class family resort.
• If you want to se how real corruption works totally out in the open without anybody protesting, the country is truly unique.
• The high risk of dying in traffic before you even reach your hotel. If not you can get ripped of by the driver on all your travel savings.

Yeah, yeah! We can go on forever, but have to stop somewhere, right?

[55Jay]

Just now, Misterwhisper said:

Those lucky Chinese b*st**ds. Had they amassed on that beach only 10 years earlier, they'd found themselves completely surrounded by Germans - and there wouldn't have been nearly enough boats from Koh Larn to evacuate even a quarter of them. 

Bull Sharks and Chang-fueled Vikings await them on the shores of Hua Hin.

 

[faraday]

Warm rain, none of the persistent & often freezing stuff that I endured for too many years in the UK.

[Richard Pumpaloaf]

Hottest ladyboys in the world!!!!

I know half of you guys know what I'm talking about!!!

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, tso310 said:

Ten things to experience before I die. I've ticked off experiencing a military coup as it happened. 

Military coup, hardly - a friendly pre-arranged take-over, commonly referred to as rearranging the Titanic deck-chairs.  

[Orton Rd]

The millions of stray dogs, along with the lack of any action to get rid of them

[notasmartassknowitallfarag]

A lot of pessimism on this thread?

 

 

[AntDee]

^^ arrogance and incompetence

Edited May 22, 2018 by AntDee

[mok199]

the locals sure think its unique ,most actually think the universe revolves around Thailand...

[Lacessit]

Occam's razor says the simplest explanation is the most probable. Fairly obvious - its' women.

[KiwiKiwi]

17 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Occam's razor says the simplest explanation is the most probable. Fairly obvious - its' women.

It's probably an age thing but I haven't used my dick for thinking with for such a long time. It's quite liberating really, the whole world is half full of men responding only to whichever hormone drives them to stick their dick in all sorts of dank places, and then there's me scoffing at the lot of them for being slaves to their perpetuation instincts. Even my dog can do that and he's a really stupid dog...

 

 

[Justfine]

1 minute ago, KiwiKiwi said:

It's probably an age thing but I haven't used my dick for thinking with for such a long time. It's quite liberating really, the whole world is half full of men responding only to whichever hormone drives them to stick their dick in all sorts of dank places, and then there's me scoffing at the lot of them for being slaves to their perpetuation instincts. Even my dog can do that and he's a really stupid dog...

 

 

Did you cut it off?

[holy cow cm]

Big P and small p? Nope, those 2 clowns sink the unique boat.