Speaking of the Mug from Melbourne who championed this topic, there’s a revealing pattern with certain forum regulars like that geezer: they’re online all bloody day. Not just having a quick look, but replying within minutes, dropping another post and checking back constantly. And when they’re still hammering away at 1 or 2am, you do start wondering what they’ve actually got going on in the real world. At some point, it stops looking like being “active” and starts looking like having bugger-all else to do. Then there’s the constant misery and sniping they persist with. Every topic is rubbish, everyone else is an idiot, and some harmless discussion inevitably becomes another excuse for a moan or a row. They seem to need the next argument almost as much as the next notification. The forum starts looking less like a hobby and more like a substitute for an actual life. You also get the endless “foreigners in Thailand are all bloody awful” routine from them. Apparently every other expat is a prat, a sex tourist, a cheapskate, a drunk, a retiree with no social skills, or some other variety of human detritus, while they alone are the exception. Every foreigner becomes another opportunity for a sneer, a generalisation or a smug little lecture about how everyone else is doing Thailand wrong. It’s quite a talent, really, to live among thousands of other people in a foreign country and apparently dislike every single one of them. Then comes the binge-and-disappear routine. Post like a bat out of hell for an hour or three, disappear for forty five minutes to have another pull, then return and start the circus again. They rarely seem interested in what anyone else thinks either. It’s more like an open microphone for whatever grievance is rattling around their head at that particular moment. And so the vitriol of trolling topics like this one, seemingly little more than another expression of the OP’s own misery and depression, will no doubt continue.
