Are Thais smarter than us?

[Lacessit]

Consider the following items which to me indicate Thais could be smarter:

 

1/ Thais avoided colonisation. The Dutch had Indonesia, the French had Indochina, the British had Burma and India. Even Portugal got in on the act with part of Timor. And the Japanese in Thailand built things for the Thais, like an oil field and railways.

 

2/ We may bitch about Thai laws concerning property. The fact remains Thais are very good at ensuring their lands don’t get into foreign hands, and maintaining majority control.

 

3/ Thais are smart at getting someone else to do the work. The Cambodians and Burmese do the grunt work, the Chinese do the major projects. Thais supervise.

 

4/ Thais have next to no social welfare. No dole or gyros. A very modest age pension. That’s a major cost saving, and it encourages everyone to find work, or starve. There is also the escape hatch of becoming a Buddhist monk or nun.

 

5/ Thais are master manipulators. How else could a semi-literate girl from Issan persuade a much older foreign male to shell out their life savings on a dream house and car, when they can barely communicate?

 

6/ Food. The chili in food here serves a useful purpose. It’s an effective bactericide. The Thai diet is better balanced. Big on cereal and vegetables, small on protein. Thais can even collect free food from roadside verges, or in the forests. Bamboo is an excellent source of fibre and minerals, without calories.

 

7/ Toilet paper. We have serviettes, tissues, paper towels and handkerchiefs. Thais use toilet paper as a catch-all for all these functions.

 

8/ Kitchens. Most Thai kitchens in Thai villages are external. No stinking up an enclosed room with cooking smells.

 

9/ Scooter lanes. Travel on the side in Australia in the emergency lane, and you will cop a heavy fine. Here, it’s a method of travelling safely while the faster traffic roars past.

 

10/ The bum washer. Westerners spend unnecessary time clogging up sewage treatment systems, giving themselves hemorrhoids, and achieving a lower standard of personal hygiene than most Thais.

 

Face it, people. We may be batting out of our league.

[Fex Bluse]

Popcorn ???????? ????

[Tayaout]

Yes

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, Fex Bluse said:

Popcorn ????????????

Are you seated comfortably as well?

[Fex Bluse]

Just now, Lacessit said:

Are you seated comfortably as well?

Yes, with a coffee and biscuit. 

[Chazar]

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Consider the following items which to me indicate Thais could be smarter:

 

1/ Thais avoided colonisation. The Dutch had Indonesia, the French had Indochina, the British had Burma and India. Even Portugal got in on the act with part of Timor. And the Japanese in Thailand built things for the Thais, like an oil field and railways.

 

2/ We may bitch about Thai laws concerning property. The fact remains Thais are very good at ensuring their lands don’t get into foreign hands, and maintaining majority control.

 

3/ Thais are smart at getting someone else to do the work. The Cambodians and Burmese do the grunt work, the Chinese do the major projects. Thais supervise.

 

4/ Thais have next to no social welfare. No dole or gyros. A very modest age pension. That’s a major cost saving, and it encourages everyone to find work, or starve. There is also the escape hatch of becoming a Buddhist monk or nun.

 

5/ Thais are master manipulators. How else could a semi-literate girl from Issan persuade a much older foreign male to shell out their life savings on a dream house and car, when they can barely communicate?

 

6/ Food. The chili in food here serves a useful purpose. It’s an effective bactericide. The Thai diet is better balanced. Big on cereal and vegetables, small on protein. Thais can even collect free food from roadside verges, or in the forests. Bamboo is an excellent source of fibre and minerals, without calories.

 

7/ Toilet paper. We have serviettes, tissues, paper towels and handkerchiefs. Thais use toilet paper as a catch-all for all these functions.

 

8/ Kitchens. Most Thai kitchens in Thai villages are external. No stinking up an enclosed room with cooking smells.

 

9/ Scooter lanes. Travel on the side in Australia in the emergency lane, and you will cop a heavy fine. Here, it’s a method of travelling safely while the faster traffic roars past.

 

10/ The bum washer. Westerners spend unnecessary time clogging up sewage treatment systems, giving themselves hemorrhoids, and achieving a lower standard of personal hygiene than most Thais.

 

Face it, people. We may be batting out of our league.

1 avoided colonisation........ would  have been better off  with it, they just bow  to whom ever demands it

2 Huh Chinese own a  lot as do Japanese

3 They are lazy period

4 Yeah no system at all for support, great plan just have sprogs and make them pay for your old age, dont set up a system where you pay in all your life and get something back later

5 mater manipulators , comical, some ole  slapper cons a trusting foreigner, thats not manipulation its deceipt lies and whatever

6 Ignore the sugar and msg and chemicals in the food?

7 wow......just wow, have they patented this genius idea  yet?

8 extractor fans?

9 scooter  lanes many are not for scooters they just use them, if their driving skills were zero theyd be fine on the normal roads

10 Thai waste  pipes out of their bogs are ridiculously small 2.5 inches  yet the waste  pipes are 4 inches  + a properly designed system copes  just fine

If we are  batting out of  our league why didnt Thailand land on the  moon, invent a myriad of  useful  things we  all rely on daily  etc etc etc

They can use a bat  we  wield nuclear weapons, no contest

[BritManToo]

14 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

4/ Thais have next to no social welfare. No dole or gyros. A very modest age pension. That’s a major cost saving, and it encourages everyone to find work, or starve. There is also the escape hatch of becoming a Buddhist monk or nun.

You forget it's a tropical country, food grows on trees and bushes all year round.

Nobody needs to starve when there is no winter.

No need to develop thinking and planning for the future.

 

You might as well claim monkeys (or fish) are more intelligent than humans as they never work at all.

Edited October 29, 2019 by BritManToo

[Chazar]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

You forget it's a tropical country, food grows on trees and bushes all year round.

Nobody needs to starve when there is no winter.

Why give them free  blankets  every year then oooop  north

[steven100]

14 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

5/ Thais are master manipulators. How else could a semi-literate girl from Issan persuade a much older foreign male to shell out their life savings on a dream house and car, when they can barely communicate?

Could not agree more on this one. They are number one when it comes to telling porkies to suit the situation.

[Lacessit]

32 minutes ago, Chazar said:

1 avoided colonisation........ would  have been better off  with it, they just bow  to whom ever demands it

2 Huh Chinese own a  lot as do Japanese

3 They are lazy period

4 Yeah no system at all for support, great plan just have sprogs and make them pay for your old age, dont set up a system where you pay in all your life and get something back later

5 mater manipulators , comical, some ole  slapper cons a trusting foreigner, thats not manipulation its deceipt lies and whatever

6 Ignore the sugar and msg and chemicals in the food?

7 wow......just wow, have they patented this genius idea  yet?

8 extractor fans?

9 scooter  lanes many are not for scooters they just use them, if their driving skills were zero theyd be fine on the normal roads

10 Thai waste  pipes out of their bogs are ridiculously small 2.5 inches  yet the waste  pipes are 4 inches  + a properly designed system copes  just fine

If we are  batting out of  our league why didnt Thailand land on the  moon, invent a myriad of  useful  things we  all rely on daily  etc etc etc

They can use a bat  we  wield nuclear weapons, no contest

Basing a claim to superiority on the ownership of nuclear weapons doesn't seem to be much of an advance in civilization. Just means the caveman got a bigger club.

The bog pipes are smaller because paper goes in a bin. Bigger pipes are not needed, unless you happen to be producing turds bigger than 2.5 inches. In diameter. I'll leave it there.

Edited October 29, 2019 by Lacessit

[Lacessit]

28 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

You forget it's a tropical country, food grows on trees and bushes all year round.

Nobody needs to starve when there is no winter.

No need to develop thinking and planning for the future.

 

You might as well claim monkeys (or fish) are more intelligent than humans as they never work at all.

How would you say your thinking and planning went in your country of origin?

[Bluespunk]

Gone Fishing...

[Lacessit]

39 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

Yes, with a coffee and biscuit. 

Plus popcorn? Mind your waistline.

[faraday]

5 minutes ago, SenorJorge said:

Of course they are if you idiots keep going over there and spending money just to get and spread around STDS with nasty whores and thots

 

 

I think it's time you went to sleep, it's way past your bedtime young man.

[PatOngo]

Of course they are smarter than us, the minimum wage is 300 baht per day! ????

 

 

Edited October 29, 2019 by PatOngo

[Matzzon]

16 minutes ago, SenorJorge said:

Of course they are if you idiots keep going over there and spending money just to get and spread around STDS with nasty whores and thots

Ok, fair enough! What country are you going to to get all that?

[Matzzon]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Consider the following items which to me indicate Thais could be smarter:

Actually a very good list. There are much more that could be added to it, but it´s enough to not aggrevate the sleeping superiority posters and all the entitled on this forum.

 

I agree, of course they are smarter. It could just be summed up in one sentence.

 

They do the things needed to be done for them to be able to live their life in the comfort they can afford with a smile.

Just compare that to all the things that only foreigners on this forum constantly complain about. If the Thais know about that, they are the ones laughing at us.

[NCC1701A]

Silly Rabbit, Trix is for kids.

 

 

[mauGR1]

Interesting question,it can be answered in a thousand ways.

One reason why the Thais seem to be smarter than us, is that we take individualism as a precious achievement, while the stubborn unity of a nationalistic country like Thailand takes advantage from that.

 

 

[Sticky Wicket]

The only reason Thailand wasn't colonised was because it was used as a buffer for the two Empires.

It was nothing to do with any kind of power.

In WW2 the Allies bombed all around the palace (without killing the Royal Family) as a warning not to side with the enemy again.

Thais should be taught this and then they would have more respect for the Brits in particular

[Sticky Wicket]

Thais will also tell lies about things that we think are morally reprehensible i.e. child has cancer or family member has died, just to get cash

[Chazar]

53 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Basing a claim to superiority on the ownership of nuclear weapons doesn't seem to be much of an advance in civilization. Just means the caveman got a bigger club.

The bog pipes are smaller because paper goes in a bin. Bigger pipes are not needed, unless you happen to be producing turds bigger than 2.5 inches. In diameter. I'll leave it there.

talking s**t i  see????

[Chazar]

55 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Basing a claim to superiority on the ownership of nuclear weapons doesn't seem to be much of an advance in civilization.

they  arent  going  to  colonize  anywhere  soon  with  a  club  though

[Sticky Wicket]

Western cultures had industrial revolutions that pushed everybody away from the farms into the cities.

This never happened in Thailand and thus many people families have land that they can grow basic foodstuffs off and live a very basic subsistence lifestyle

Edited October 29, 2019 by Sticky Wicket

[Dmaxdan]

If Thais were that smart then surely they would try and make it as difficult as possible for us grumpy Farangs to live here........Oh wait a minute, what I'am I saying!!! 

[Sticky Wicket]

Very apathetic people too with the feudal mentality still evident.

Sakdina still reigns supreme.

I'm British and have studied my history at great lengths.

We would never have allowed as a nation of people to be subjugated like this.

It took 1000 years of toil and innovation.

[Lacessit]

12 minutes ago, Chazar said:

talking s**t i  see????

Obviously, mine went through to the wicketkeeper.

[Chazar]

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Obviously, mine went through to the wicketkeeper.

Thais thru the eye of a needle from what Ive seen????

[clarky cat]

definitley smarter with regards to immigration

 

look at the state of merkels west, beyond repair

[Lacessit]

17 minutes ago, Sticky Wicket said:

Very apathetic people too with the feudal mentality still evident.

Sakdina still reigns supreme.

I'm British and have studied my history at great lengths.

We would never have allowed as a nation of people to be subjugated like this.

It took 1000 years of toil and innovation.

Such a shame the Brits lost their empire. Then they could still say "To be born British is to win the lottery of life".