Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Thailand News and Discussion Forum | ASEANNOW

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Shaking Hands?

Featured Replies

  • Replies 59
  • Views 2.9k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • I've always found shaking hands to be a revolting tradition. Fortunately nobody has wanted to shake my hand for years. The fluorescent green mankini and socks with sandals look works perfect

  • If you ever eat in a restaurant where food is cooked or prepared by a Thai....you see how they clean their a$$ with a dunk bowl and their fingers, with many other people touching it / using it. Shakin

  • OneMoreFarang
    OneMoreFarang

    Do you touch any girls in those bars? Do you think anybody else touched them before? What is a higher risk?

Posted Images

On 6/29/2022 at 7:51 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

Do you touch any girls in those bars?

oh no no no no!!

 

And shaking a sweaty hand, cold, wet, fishy... is also really disgusting... 

On 6/29/2022 at 7:51 AM, OneMoreFarang said:
On 6/29/2022 at 3:44 AM, pomchop said:

I have been in many bars where guys would want to shake hands

Do you touch any girls in those bars?

Do you think anybody else touched them before?

What is a higher risk?

I try not to touch the girls THERE.

  • Popular Post
On 6/29/2022 at 11:01 AM, connda said:

If I at a pub, I'll go wash my own hands the next trip to the hong naam. 

I never wash my hands at a public rest room... I always assume my thing is much cleaner than the faucet.. at least I know where it has been and who might have touched it, as opposed to a public faucet.. 

Was in the restroom at a Tex-Mex restaurant in the States last year, peeing while holding my breath, before being seated....

 

Sounds from a stall that defy description, then a roll being yanked on repeatedly, then the door opened, a guy walked out, bypassed the sinks, and left.

 

I did too, except I wasn't wearing a cook's uniform.

On 6/30/2022 at 9:29 AM, proton said:

Get one of those small flat sanitisers to spray your hands with. Wai ing other foreigners always looks idiotic to me

Do you really care what others think?

 

1 hour ago, Reposed said:

Was in the restroom at a Tex-Mex restaurant in the States last year, peeing while holding my breath, before being seated....

 

Sounds from a stall that defy description, then a roll being yanked on repeatedly, then the door opened, a guy walked out, bypassed the sinks, and left.

 

I did too, except I wasn't wearing a cook's uniform.

And I bet he never used a bum gun. 

 

I haven't used toilet paper for 30 years, it's a disgusting way to wipe your <deleted>. 

Not many here notice that Thais seldom use their left hands for touching other things/people. 

 

Why the <deleted> can't I write AR.SE, is anyone offended?  What a <deleted> of <deleted>. 

8 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Why the <deleted> can't I write AR.SE, is anyone offended?  What a <deleted> of <deleted>. 

What's wrong with 'bottom'?

On 6/30/2022 at 9:29 AM, proton said:

Get one of those small flat sanitisers to spray your hands with. Wai ing other foreigners always looks idiotic to me

No problem for me, I ignore foreigners.

If they say 'hello', I look the other way.

On 6/29/2022 at 7:27 AM, Kenny202 said:

If you ever eat in a restaurant where food is cooked or prepared by a Thai....you see how they clean their a$$ with a dunk bowl and their fingers, with many other people touching it / using it. Shaking hands the least of ur problems lol

You need to change the class of restaurants you patronise.   How do you know what all Thai chefs do, anyway?

On 6/30/2022 at 1:04 AM, pomchop said:

or just when in thailand follow the thai practice of a simple wai...seems to me they got it right and much more civilized and sanitary than the western handshakes...all the fist bumping and elbow bumping gets a bit goofy and awkward after a while IMO

Westerners using the wai to other westerners is even more goofy.

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Westerners using the wai to other westerners is even more goofy.

Not when there is a pandemic. 

 

Do you know what assimilation/integration mean?

 

 

 

On 6/30/2022 at 9:23 AM, Neeranam said:

How about in the UK, people blow their snot on their handkerchief and stick in in their pocket?

Er, some may do that but, these days, I'd suggest that the majority don't, most wouldn't even know what a handkerchief is.  

On 7/2/2022 at 9:32 PM, BangkokReady said:

Speak for yourself.  Many people hate touching doorknobs/handles.  Worst is having to touch one to get out of the toilet, having just washed your hands.

But we still need to do it!

  • Popular Post
On 7/3/2022 at 8:14 AM, actonion said:
On 7/2/2022 at 9:29 PM, BangkokReady said:

Clasped?  Isn't that grasping, as in griping something with the hands?  I think the wai would be hands pressed together, rather than clasped 

Yes Teacher Clasped  is Grasping, as in the Rright hand grasped the Left hand as seen many times  while working for a Japanese company, but this isnt about an English language lesson is it ? Oh by the way,    its "Gripping"  not "Griping" 

this isnt [sic]about an English language lesson is it ? Oh by the way,    its [sic] "Gripping"  not "Griping".

 

5555.  Seems as though you're making it an English lesson!  Oh, by the way, it's "right hand", not Rright hand".

15 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
19 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Westerners using the wai to other westerners is even more goofy.

Not when there is a pandemic. 

 

Do you know what assimilation/integration mean?

Pandemic or no pandemic it looks ridiculous and, yes, I know what both of those words mean.   I've assimilated and integrated here for the last 27 years but, not being Thai, there's no way that I'd ever do anything as daft as to wai a foreigner which has nothing to do with assimilation or integration.

 

7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Pandemic or no pandemic it looks ridiculous and, yes, I know what both of those words mean.   I've assimilated and integrated here for the last 27 years but, not being Thai, there's no way that I'd ever do anything as daft as to wai a foreigner which has nothing to do with assimilation or integration.

 

Looks ridiculous to whom?

 

  

Just now, Neeranam said:
12 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Pandemic or no pandemic it looks ridiculous and, yes, I know what both of those words mean.   I've assimilated and integrated here for the last 27 years but, not being Thai, there's no way that I'd ever do anything as daft as to wai a foreigner which has nothing to do with assimilation or integration.

 

Expand  

Looks ridiculous to whom?

Everyone...except you, I suppose.

24 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

this isnt [sic]about an English language lesson is it ? Oh by the way,    its [sic] "Gripping"  not "Griping".

 

5555.  Seems as though you're making it an English lesson!  Oh, by the way, it's "right hand", not Rright hand".

You missed a ".

2 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Everyone...except you, I suppose.

Touch of allodoxaphobia perhaps?

 

 

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

And I bet he never used a bum gun. 

 

No, he was Mexican. I lived in Nayarit for years and you cannot even flush paper; it is tossed in a trash can next to the toilet. Some lack lids which only enhances the olfactory experience.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love Mexicans. Most are genuinely nice, and their houses are spotless and their clothes always smell of detergent. For the life of me, I cannot understand their thinking when it comes to toilet practices.

 

I have never had food poisoning in LOS. In Mexico, I lost count. One of the reasons I left.

 

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

No problem for me, I ignore foreigners.

If they say 'hello', I look the other way.

But for some reason, I expect you have a slew of mirrors in your house.

20 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

You missed a ".

Deliberately.   

 

You omitted the inverted commas from around that inverted comma.

23 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
24 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Everyone...except you, I suppose.

Touch of allodoxaphobia perhaps?

No, not at all.  Opine away, fill your boots!  I don't suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobi, either.

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Deliberately.   

 

You omitted the inverted commas from around that inverted comma.

For a reason. """ looks a bit confusing! 

2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
5 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Deliberately.   

 

You omitted the inverted commas from around that inverted comma.

For a reason. """ looks a bit confusing! 

Albeit correct which you were admonishing me for not being!  

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobi

I bet you think foreigners speaking Thai to each other is foolish too?

 

Btw, I speak Thai to my German friend. I know it's weird but he's a decent guy ???? 

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Albeit correct which you were admonishing me for not being!  

You made a mistake, which I find funny as you were being a grammar policeman! 

Create an account or sign in to comment

Recently Browsing 0

  • No registered users viewing this page.

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.