Why are so many expats oddballs?

[Blue Muton]

Not all expats are oddballs, just the ones who spend too much time on here!

[55Jay]

For the ones who are really out in orbit, not always sure if they were like that before, or have gone off the deep end being in Thailand too long.  Maybe drinking, especially the rot gutt krap, will do a number on the old brain, among other organs.

At any rate, I'll take any of them over the nutters back "home". 

 

Just spent 2 months back in Murica.  Pulled up to a bank branch, closed, but just needed the ATM.  Lady who was obvioulsly living in her car, parked two empty spaces away, was at the ATM.  Serious frustration vibe, she was animated, then calm, then error beeps from the machine and she would lose it again.   I stood way back by the front of my car, waiting, and I could tell she became more aware I was back there, waiting.

 

She turned around suddenly and yelled at me, "GO TO HELL !!!!". 

 

Oh s**t!  She started flailing and yelling incoherently, so I check binned, got in the car and pulled away.  She ran a few steps toward the parking lot, holding up her cell phone, like filming me, screaming at me as we drove away.  

 

My wife was like, WT Ef was that?   

 

"Welcome back to California, babe."

 

[colinneil]

ODDBALL, oddball, who you calling an oddball?

Certainly not me, its the rest of you that are oddballs.????

[GalaxyMan]

1 hour ago, Vacuum said:

I'd say it's the oposite. They realised that there was something  wrong with their countries/governments.

Agreed. The most dynamic people I have met in my life are long-term travelers. The sheeple can keep their boring, vanilla lives; I'll take the chaos and dealing with exceptional people, even the oddballs.

[Essex Reject]

6 minutes ago, Blue Muton said:

Not all expats are oddballs, just the ones who spend too much time on here!

Erh, yes, hence why I termed it 'so many' and not 'all' Wakey, wakey.

[Matzzon]

3 hours ago, Essex Reject said:

I mean compared to normal folk back home.

Really. You must feel good with yourself. Don´t see anything wrong there, do you?

 

Just maybe, you´re an oddball in someones opinion. Never thought about that, have you?

[rumak]

To be honest, i think the whole world is completely screwed up...... and find my hide-out here in rural Thailand to be the safest and least stressful of all other alternatives.

[Essex Reject]

Just now, Matzzon said:

Really. You must feel good with yourself. Don´t see anything wrong there, do you?

 

Just maybe, you´re an oddball in someones opinion. Never thought about that, have you?

Haven't I? If you say so. You sound very angry, go and have a lie down. I'd wager you're an oddball btw, just based on averages of expats here and who post on here.

[HLover]

1 minute ago, Essex Reject said:

Haven't I? If you say so. You sound very angry, go and have a lie down. I'd wager you're an oddball btw, just based on averages of expats here and who post on here.

Paging Dr. Phil....

[giddyup]

1 minute ago, Essex Reject said:

Haven't I? If you say so. You sound very angry, go and have a lie down. I'd wager you're an oddball btw, just based on averages of expats here and who post on here.

What makes you a good judge? Like being in an asylum and protesting you are the only sane one.

[rumak]

4 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Really. You must feel good with yourself. Don´t see anything wrong there, do you?

 

Just maybe, you´re an oddball in someones opinion. Never thought about that, have you?

Defintely has to be Jack playing the part of Matzzon in the upcoming movie....

 

 

[NightSky]

 

 

17 minutes ago, Thomas J said:

 

 

 

I used to love wearing that hat though before it got rained on --awww shucks

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

3 hours ago, Essex Reject said:

normal folk back home

What are those "normal folk back home"?

Discuss!

 

I just googled "normal folk". Yeah, sorry, I am guilty, I am different.

[HLover]

3 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

many are rejects from their own country, so there's usually something wrong with them

Your confession is safe with us.

[giddyup]

Just now, OneMoreFarang said:

What are those "normal folk back home"?

Discuss!

 

I just googled "normal folk". Yeah, sorry, I am guilty, I am different.

Vive la difference!

[Matzzon]

8 minutes ago, Essex Reject said:

Haven't I? If you say so. You sound very angry, go and have a lie down. I'd wager you're an oddball btw, just based on averages of expats here and who post on here.

Not angry at all. Just pointing out that it´s very narrow minded to see all the fault on other and not on yourself.

 

Btw, I have even rounded balls.

Edited August 24, 2019 by Matzzon

[Essex Reject]

1 minute ago, giddyup said:

What makes you a good judge? Like being in an asylum and protesting you are the only sane one.

This really is straightforward, there are normal folk and folk who are just plain odd, of which there are many here. If you are genuinely in denial of that then I can only conclude one thing.

[Essex Reject]

Just now, Matzzon said:

Not angry at all. Just pointing out that it´s very narrow minded to see all the fault on other and not on yourself.

 

Btw, I have even rounded balls.

I have faults, but I am NOT odd. Many are here, it's not complicated to understand.

[rumak]

1 minute ago, Essex Reject said:

If you are genuinely in denial of that then I can only conclude one thing.

I am in Egypt ?

[giddyup]

Just now, Essex Reject said:

This really is straightforward, there are normal folk and folk who are just plain odd, of which there are many here. If you are genuinely in denial of that then I can only conclude one thing.

Once again, what makes you a good judge to decide what constitutes odd behaviour? Hippies were considered to be odd by so-called normal folk, but were they?

[giddyup]

1 minute ago, Essex Reject said:

I have faults, but I am NOT odd. Many are here, it's not complicated to understand.

Me thinks he protests too much.

[HLover]

2 minutes ago, Essex Reject said:

I have faults, but I am NOT odd. Many are here, it's not complicated to understand.

What an odd thing to say...

[balo]

It depends where you meet them. Bangkok expats are mostly normal hard working people with a business.
In Pattaya you will find all the oddballs, but there are a few normal ones among us. 

 

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, Essex Reject said:

And why are they so nosey and want to know your business when it has absolutely nothing to do with them?

 

Discuss.

Ah, the irony...

[Mavideol]

3 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

many are rejects from their own country, so there's usually something wrong with them

maybe you speak from your own experience, which country rejected you

[Mavideol]

2 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Yes, I am tritesticular!   LOL

555... like the other guy claiming to be 3 half's

[Pilotman]

Expats here, in my view, are no more 'odd' or dysfunctional than anyone else at home, just perhaps more adventurous, curious, sometimes outrageous and perhaps with views and modes of living a life, that is uncommon among so called 'normal folk' back home.  At 'home', people normally stick to close friends and family and don't necessarily move outside their own little sphere of living.  Here, people may be more inclined to talk and ask questions of complete strangers, something they would probably never do at 'home'.  There are idiots, odd balls, morons, everywhere in the World. Singling out those who choose to live in Asia, as part of that list, is not really appropriate. 

Edited August 24, 2019 by Pilotman

[Odysseus123]

I never met an "adventurous" expat in Thailand

 

Sure I thought they would all be kitted out with pith helmet,cholera pad and rhinoceros whisk...

 

But all they ever talked about was their pensions,their investments,their existential misery (a la Victor Meldrew) and the fact that their girlfriends/ wives,their homelands and their ex-wives were doing them wrong..

 

I ended up adopting a posture similar to Edvard Munch's "Scream"

 

Jean Paul Sartre's 'No Exit' comes to mind...

Edited August 24, 2019 by Odysseus123

[Essex Reject]

43 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Yep, In your opinion and little bubble of life. That´s what you have problem to understand

Yep, MY opinion, and you crack on with YOUR opinion. Understand that.

[JAG]

2 hours ago, wgdanson said:

tritesticular

I thought that was the name of the new SUV from Toyota!

 

Industry sources have leaked that the backing music for the launch is to be:

" Hitler, had only got one ball,

Wgandson, it seems has several more..."

Edited August 24, 2019 by JAG