For the Thai bashers - RANT:

[moontang]

But, the helmets they sell here aren't as strong as mum's Tupperware, so what's the point? 

[SomchaiCNX]

Just now, PatOngo said:

Not hard to see why your posts are so popular! 

Correct, because most of them make sense, and I'm not part of a pssing contest, enjoy your day and I hope you get a lot of likes keeps your dopamine in balance ???? 

[polpott]

20 hours ago, ctxa said:

 

You are, go ahead. Just after you are done driving. Don't come home to start bashing Thais on TVF for not wearing helmet 

I never wear a helmet in Thailand, I don't feel the need in a car. The best driver I know is my Thai wife, used to own her own truck company and drives like a chauffeur which has pretty much eliminated my need to drive at all.

 

With the above in mind, do I have your permission to Thai bash now?

[Lacessit]

I don't care if it's a helmetless farang or Thai, it's just Darwinian selection at work. Statistically, that is.

[Natai Beach]

21 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

most of the folks who bash other races are those whose parents were dumb as rocks..

It is fairly apparent to me that most of the “Thai bashers” 
 

1) wouldn’t actually have the baแs to actually bash a Thai, in fact most of them seem quite intimidated by Thai men

 

2) consider themselves morally and intellectually superior than the general population, however have married or are in a long term relationship with a prostitute, often helping to raise her children. The irony.

 

3) are socially quite isolated as being married to a prostitute certainly restricts who will socialise with you and they often have built a house in the village of the prostitute for her and somehow think they should be loved for it. And they base their views on all Thais as the same of their experiences living with the extended family of a prostitute.

4) no matter how good something is about Thailand, they will try to turn it into a negative

5) can’t read, write, speak or understand Thai language even if they have lived here for 10+ years. Despite that they like to mock Thai pronunciation of Thai people’s English who have never been to an English speaking country. “Tink too mutt” 

 

I find them quite amusing. I enjoy meeting them in real life, being positive and happy confuses them. It is funny to watch them complain and carry on and the Thais not actually care what they are harping on about which further compounds their misery and frustrations.

 

[Natai Beach]

50 minutes ago, SomchaiCNX said:

Correct, because most of them make sense, and I'm not part of a pssing contest, enjoy your day and I hope you get a lot of likes keeps your dopamine in balance ???? 

I think that is a very valid point. It seems there are about 20-30 on this forum who spend their days living for love heart stickers from each other. 

For me, I have never sent a love heart sticker to male strangers on the internet. Nothing wrong with being gay, but I am not gay, so it just isn’t something I would do.

 

Some seem to live for it, and use it as a score of their self worth and popularity.

 

i have one fella I disagreed with once who sends me a lot of sad stickers. He must be depressed.

[ctxa]

10 minutes ago, Natai Beach said:

It is fairly apparent to me that most of the “Thai bashers” 
 

1) wouldn’t actually have the baแs to actually bash a Thai, in fact most of them seem quite intimidated by Thai men

 

2) consider themselves morally and intellectually superior than the general population, however have married or are in a long term relationship with a prostitute, often helping to raise her children. The irony.

 

3) are socially quite isolated as being married to a prostitute certainly restricts who will socialise with you and they often have built a house in the village of the prostitute for her and somehow think they should be loved for it. And they base their views on all Thais as the same of their experiences living with the extended family of a prostitute.

4) no matter how good something is about Thailand, they will try to turn it into a negative

5) can’t read, write, speak or understand Thai language even if they have lived here for 10+ years. Despite that they like to mock Thai pronunciation of Thai people’s English who have never been to an English speaking country. “Tink too mutt” 

 

I find them quite amusing. I enjoy meeting them in real life, being positive and happy confuses them. It is funny to watch them complain and carry on and the Thais not actually care what they are harping on about which further compounds their misery and frustrations.

 

I must say that this is by far the best post I’ve read in a long while. You’ve nailed it. I don’t think anyone else could have said it better ????????????????????????

Edited March 4, 2021 by ctxa

[Bradmeister]

22 hours ago, ctxa said:

So the title of the post is pretty clear in itself, right? This post is meant for those which bash Thais all day for not wearing helmets while riding their bikes, for not respecting traffic regulations, for driving like cocks. And specially for those farang which are such amazing drivers, that they would easily beat Lewis Hamilton at a F1 Track driving a Renault Twingo..... 

 

Picture taken today near Rama 9 in Bangkok. Helmetless farang, riding his bike, passed me on the LEFT through a very narrow space, and when a pedestrian suddenly attempted to cross the road, he swerved right and was inches away from falling into my car..... 

 

Needless to say, the only accident or rather incident which I've personally had after many kilometers of driving in Thailand, was when I was completely stopped at a red light, and a drunk farang rear ended me with his bike. Luckily I had no more than a few dents in my bumper which his insurance took care of anyway..... 

 

But my point still stands, if you wanna be Thai bashers because of how they drive or because they don't wear helmets then you must set a good example yourself. 

 

How easy it is to rant all day about drivers in Thailand, road deaths, how good it was back at home.... And then you ride your bike helmetless while driving like a <deleted>.

 

But again after all, as it happens with face masks. Asian people tend to be much more compliant than us Western people. And from what I see the same happens with Traffic regulations, we only comply with them back home because otherwise our monthly salary would be gone just by paying traffic fines isnt it?. But as it seems many when they come to Thailand they forget about the traffic rules (only when they drive, tho), because they very well remember them while lecturing others....

 

RANT OVER.

Stop saying Farang.  Its a man.  

 

As far as "bashing" all counties have responsible and irresponsible drivers and riders. 

 

Been in the Eastern Block lately? South America or even Nepal?  

 

Need I remind you, that if this man wishes to break the law and kill himself from a front lobe impact....thats his business. Not ours, mine or even yours. 

 

I've been run over here by, (in no particular order) A Japanese woman, a Thai woman, a Thai man, an Australian man, and a Elderly Burmese woman with her 3 wheeler.

 

End the name calling. 

 

 

[polpott]

1 minute ago, Bradmeister said:

I've been run over here by, (in no particular order) A Japanese woman, a Thai woman, a Thai man, an Australian man, and a Elderly Burmese woman with her 3 wheeler.

So only one ferang then? 555

 

In Thailand, farang is not a pejorative word, its in common usage. I often refer to myself as a ferang. Would baxida be preferable? You need to get over it.

[ctxa]

13 minutes ago, Bradmeister said:

Stop saying Farang.  Its a man.  

 

As far as "bashing" all counties have responsible and irresponsible drivers and riders. 

 

Been in the Eastern Block lately? South America or even Nepal?  

 

Need I remind you, that if this man wishes to break the law and kill himself from a front lobe impact....thats his business. Not ours, mine or even yours. 

 

I've been run over here by, (in no particular order) A Japanese woman, a Thai woman, a Thai man, an Australian man, and a Elderly Burmese woman with her 3 wheeler.

 

End the name calling. 

 

 

Mate, I am farang myself. White European. I am no expert in Thai language. But I consider it to be the same thing as laowai (老外) is in Chinese. Which I know it’s in no way racist, just an informal word for the term ‘foreigner’. I am willing to bet it’s the same exact thing in Thai. (As it is in Japanese with the term gaijin 外人）

So nope, it doesn’t bother me to be called farang and/or laowai. And I call other foreigners by those terms.

 

However if it does bother you, I’ll take note of it and try to avoid it in the future. ????

 

Edited March 4, 2021 by ctxa

[polpott]

1 minute ago, ctxa said:

Which I know it’s in no way racist, just an informar word for the term ‘foreigner’.

If its racist then I'm guilty of being racist on a regular basis. If I ask for chewing gum in a 7/11 I ask for "kanum ferang", if I ask for a kilo of potatoes in the market I ask for "man ferang". If you speak Thai the word ferang is pretty unavoidable.

[Surelynot]

14 minutes ago, ctxa said:

I've been run over here by, (in no particular order) A Japanese woman, a Thai woman, a Thai man, an Australian man, and a Elderly Burmese woman with her 3 wheeler.

Have you tried looking before crossing the road?

[GarryP]

39 minutes ago, polpott said:

If its racist then I'm guilty of being racist on a regular basis. If I ask for chewing gum in a 7/11 I ask for "kanum ferang", if I ask for a kilo of potatoes in the market I ask for "man ferang". If you speak Thai the word ferang is pretty unavoidable.

Bet you get a few confused looks when asking for "kanom farang". Even I'm not sure what that is as chewing gum is "mak farang". 

[polpott]

1 minute ago, GarryP said:

Bet you get a few confused looks when asking for "kanom farang". Even I'm not sure what that is as chewing gum is "mak farang". 

Can use either word. You do know what kanum is don't you?

[Surelynot]

2 minutes ago, GarryP said:

kanom farang

Bakery on banana leaf....

[polpott]

Just now, Surelynot said:

Bakery on banana leaf....

Kanom covers many things. Potato chips, cakes, Thai sweets even bread.

[DBath]

On 3/3/2021 at 3:21 PM, ctxa said:

So the title of the post is pretty clear in itself, right? This post is meant for those which bash Thais all day for not wearing helmets...RANT OVER  

How do you know said rider rants at Thai people? Seems to me you are upset with his lousy driving, which I can understand...but why are you judging him for not wearing a helmet? Why do you care? It’s not really your problem is it?

Edited March 4, 2021 by DBath

[canthai55]

6 minutes ago, DBath said:

 It’s not really your problem is it?

Hear Hear

Live your life - let others live theirs

[ctxa]

1 hour ago, DBath said:

How do you know said rider rants at Thai people? Seems to me you are upset with his lousy driving, which I can understand...but why are you judging him for not wearing a helmet? Why do you care? It’s not really your problem is it?

 

I couldn't care less about what he does. Because considering he is driving a motorcycle and I am driving a car. He is gonna have a hell hard of a time trying to injure me in the slightest. And even if his lousy driving causes an accident and my car is damaged, he or his insurance are gonna pay for repairs anyway. So I don't really care. 

 

I just used him as an example of how funny it is to see farangs bashing Thai people here in TVF (for many things, not just driving skills). And then you see farang doing same or worse. I don't know whether that guy comes to TVF to bash Thais, but it doesn't matter. Point is, not everything is as bad here in LOS as the typical bashers claims, and not everything is as good back in the west as they believe. And not every farang wear helmets like they seem to believe. 

 

Anyway, truth is someone a few posts behind, made a very detailed and accurate depiction of the typical racist Thai bashers dumb as rocks. Of course, that doesn't include all farang here in LOS, and neither does it include all TVF members, many nice people both in TVF and in LOS. My rage was just directed towards the bashers. Not more not less. 

Edited March 4, 2021 by ctxa

[Cricky]

On 3/3/2021 at 3:21 PM, ctxa said:

Rama 9 in Bangkok. Helmetless farang

Come down to Soi Buakhao, they're all helmetless.

I reckon its immaturity, childish, juvenile.

 

You see the bald middle aged guys with heaps of tattoos thinking they look cool.

Then you have the geriatrics with their grey receding hair and wrinkly skin,.

These guys ride past the bars expecting the bar girls to yell out sexy man.

 

Its hilarious.

[DBath]

35 minutes ago, ctxa said:

 

I couldn't care less about what he does. Because considering he is driving a motorcycle and I am driving a car. He is gonna have a hell hard of a time trying to injure me in the slightest. And even if his lousy driving causes an accident and my car is damaged, he or his insurance are gonna pay for repairs anyway. So I don't really care. 

 

I just used him as an example of how funny it is to see farangs bashing Thai people here in TVF (for many things, not just driving skills). And then you see farang doing same or worse. I don't know whether that guy comes to TVF to bash Thais, but it doesn't matter. Point is, not everything is as bad here in LOS as the typical bashers claims, and not everything is as good back in the west as they believe. And not every farang wear helmets like they seem to believe. 

 

Anyway, truth is someone a few posts behind, made a very detailed and accurate depiction of the typical racist Thai bashers dumb as rocks. Of course, that doesn't include all farang here in LOS, and neither does it include all TVF members, many nice people both in TVF and in LOS. My rage was just directed towards the bashers. Not more not less. 

Well, that said...I’m not a fan of Thai bashers either. I do get touchy when people try to judge me for not wearing a helmet though, because I’ve put well over 200k miles on all kinds of motorcycles and have not had an accident that would require one. I guess there’s always tomorrow and I fully understand the risks, but at the end of the day it is my choice to not wear a helmet. I also try to drive as tactically as possible to mitigate some of that risk, unlike the idiot in the picture you posted. I also would never consider getting on a motorbike in Bangkok - helmet or not. 

[Sujo]

59 minutes ago, ctxa said:

 

I couldn't care less about what he does. Because considering he is driving a motorcycle and I am driving a car. He is gonna have a hell hard of a time trying to injure me in the slightest. And even if his lousy driving causes an accident and my car is damaged, he or his insurance are gonna pay for repairs anyway. So I don't really care. 

 

I just used him as an example of how funny it is to see farangs bashing Thai people here in TVF (for many things, not just driving skills). And then you see farang doing same or worse. I don't know whether that guy comes to TVF to bash Thais, but it doesn't matter. Point is, not everything is as bad here in LOS as the typical bashers claims, and not everything is as good back in the west as they believe. And not every farang wear helmets like they seem to believe. 

 

Anyway, truth is someone a few posts behind, made a very detailed and accurate depiction of the typical racist Thai bashers dumb as rocks. Of course, that doesn't include all farang here in LOS, and neither does it include all TVF members, many nice people both in TVF and in LOS. My rage was just directed towards the bashers. Not more not less. 

Do you have a hobby? I suggest you get one.

 

Do you have issues with falangs leaving a mouthful in the bottom of their beers? Now thats an issue worth UN intervention.

[Sujo]

57 minutes ago, VYCM said:

Come down to Soi Buakhao, they're all helmetless.

I reckon its immaturity, childish, juvenile.

 

You see the bald middle aged guys with heaps of tattoos thinking they look cool.

Then you have the geriatrics with their grey receding hair and wrinkly skin,.

These guys ride past the bars expecting the bar girls to yell out sexy man.

 

Its hilarious.

And the girls do. No problem

 

[Natai Beach]

4 hours ago, polpott said:

If I ask for chewing gum in a 7/11 I ask for "kanum ferang",

Do they look a bit confused when you ask them for “kanum farang”?

 

https://dict.longdo.com/search/chewing+gum

[holy cow cm]

The absolute worst and most dangerous riders I have encountered in my decades living in CM were the Chinese when they were here. Most insane idiotic careless irrational people doing everything that was incorrect and contrary to safe riding. But have to say they did wear their helmets, and thank goodness because they either caused accidents or were in them. I do not miss them being here, and this is for the safety of the Thai and all other foreigners. 

[ctxa]

26 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Do you have a hobby? I suggest you get one.

 

Do you have issues with falangs leaving a mouthful in the bottom of their beers? Now thats an issue worth UN intervention.

Not sure what your even trying to say. 

[Lacessit]

22 hours ago, ctxa said:

 

I couldn't care less about what he does. Because considering he is driving a motorcycle and I am driving a car. He is gonna have a hell hard of a time trying to injure me in the slightest. And even if his lousy driving causes an accident and my car is damaged, he or his insurance are gonna pay for repairs anyway. So I don't really care. 

 

 

You may be making a quite risky assumption. I have been told of several examples where the car driver was deemed to be automatically at fault in a collision with a motorcyclist. Particularly if it's a situation where it's a farang, obviously wealthy, and a poor Thai.

One of my friends was in his car, and hit by a drunk Thai on a scooter. His fault, according to the police.

Permit me to doubt there are many provincial/rural Thais on scooters that are insured against damage to other vehicles. Can't get blood out of a stone.

True, the likelihood of yourself sustaining injury is low. Damage to your wallet is another matter, which is why I am extra careful in the car when anything on two wheels is near me.

[ctxa]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

You may be making a quite risky assumption. I have been told of several examples where the car driver was deemed to be automatically at fault in a collision with a motorcyclist. Particularly if it's a situation where it's a farang, obviously wealthy, and a poor Thai.

One of my friends was in his car, and hit by a drunk Thai on a scooter. His fault, according to the police.

Permit me to doubt there are many provincial/rural Thais on scooters that are insured against damage to other vehicles. Can't get blood out of a stone.

True, the likelihood of yourself sustaining injury is low. Damage to your wallet is another matter, which is why I am extra careful in the car when anything on two wheels is near me.

 

I mean. You are absolutely right on that statement. And it is to be expect, if a poor old man crashes you in a rural place and he has no money or insurance, well, how can he pay when he has no money? I recon that so long as there are no major injuries, it would be best to let them place you at fault and then very likely your own insurance will take care of it, (if you have premium coverage that is ofc, not only third party coverage. Which I would say is a must in Thailand). 

 

However I reckon things would be different in a farang-farang collision, specially since I have both front and rear facing dash cams mounted on my car. So if a crash happened and if it actually was his fault it wouldn't be hard to prove. 

 

Last point, it is probably the best advice you could give to anyone driving in Thailand. Be extra careful with anything in two wheels. It's not that difficult to kill someone on two wheels, even if the accident happened as a result of his lousy driving agains traffic rules, you will still be in a huge mess shall the person on two wheels die. 

Edited March 5, 2021 by ctxa

[Golden Triangle]

The law exists, wear a helmet, people decide not to, their choice, I don't really care, I have driven millions of miles or kilometres since I started driving at age 16 in the British army, driving huge trucks, tracked vehicles all over Germany at age 17, I've driven most of Europe, even the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and more, North America, and now Thailand & SE Asia, the Thais are so far the only people who can drive into the rear of a stationary vehicle or even the rear of a moving vehicle and kill themselves on a regular basis, they need a good bash on the bonce to be reminded that others are on the road at the same time as them.

 

Good lord they are atrocious.

[ThailandFoodExpert]

On 3/3/2021 at 3:21 PM, ctxa said:

So the title of the post is pretty clear in itself, right? This post is meant for those which bash Thais all day for not wearing helmets while riding their bikes, for not respecting traffic regulations, for driving like cocks. And specially for those farang which are such amazing drivers, that they would easily beat Lewis Hamilton at a F1 Track driving a Renault Twingo..... 

 

Picture taken today near Rama 9 in Bangkok. Helmetless farang, riding his bike, passed me on the LEFT through a very narrow space, and when a pedestrian suddenly attempted to cross the road, he swerved right and was inches away from falling into my car..... 

 

Needless to say, the only accident or rather incident which I've personally had after many kilometers of driving in Thailand, was when I was completely stopped at a red light, and a drunk farang rear ended me with his bike. Luckily I had no more than a few dents in my bumper which his insurance took care of anyway..... 

 

But my point still stands, if you wanna be Thai bashers because of how they drive or because they don't wear helmets then you must set a good example yourself. 

 

How easy it is to rant all day about drivers in Thailand, road deaths, how good it was back at home.... And then you ride your bike helmetless while driving like a <deleted>.

 

But again after all, as it happens with face masks. Asian people tend to be much more compliant than us Western people. And from what I see the same happens with Traffic regulations, we only comply with them back home because otherwise our monthly salary would be gone just by paying traffic fines isnt it?. But as it seems many when they come to Thailand they forget about the traffic rules (only when they drive, tho), because they very well remember them while lecturing others....

 

RANT OVER.

 

 

Don't you think that Benz are nicer with the star on the front grill ?

 

 

 

 

Edited March 7, 2021 by ThailandFoodExpert