Intoxicated Man Beats Friend to Death in Phuket Over A Rude Comment

[Keep Right]

38 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

I doubt there will be any reports after this initial one...........but it would be interesting to see what the sentence might be.

 

Mentioned this before on here...............my wife's uncle (drunk) murdered his neighbour,  mistakenly thinking the neighbour was having an affair with his wife.

 

Her uncle was sentenced to five years!!!!

Life is cheap in Thailand. You can see it in the way people live and drive.

[bignok]

13 minutes ago, Lucky Bones said:

Thai people seem to me to be uneducated and that goes hand in hand with common sense.

Some aren't, millions are. Mask wearing is very high in Japan yet Japan is a highly advanced economy.

 

 

[bob smith]

23 minutes ago, bignok said:

Some aren't, millions are. Mask wearing is very high in Japan yet Japan is a highly advanced economy.

nothing to do with an 'advanced economy.' its about the amount of common sense/critical thinking skills they possess. 

 

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[bignok]

30 minutes ago, bogs smith said:

nothing to do with an 'advanced economy.' its about the amount of common sense/critical thinking skills they possess. 

 

Depends who they are. I've met lots of dumb farangs with drinking issues and I've met some very clever Thais.

[GarryP]

7 hours ago, steven100 said:

and the other guy needs to choose his friends better.

A bit too effin late there.

[LogicThai]

2 hours ago, bignok said:

So doctors and dentists are 13yos too?

It is a good question. Many, if not most, are actually sino-thai, whose Chinese cultural heritage seems to differ from other Thais in many ways, and lead them to be a tad more responsible and forward-thinking. But since they tend to be considerably wealthier than average, they might instead behave badly in the belief/certainty that money can get them out of trouble.

[bignok]

2 minutes ago, LogicThai said:

It is a good question. Many, if not most, are actually sino-thai, whose Chinese cultural heritage seems to differ from other Thais in many ways, and lead them to be a tad more responsible and forward-thinking. But since they tend to be considerably wealthier than average, they might instead behave badly in the belief/certainty that money can get them out of trouble.

Chinese women in China let go of their human waste in public.

[bob smith]

23 minutes ago, bignok said:

Depends who they are. I've met lots of dumb farangs with drinking issues and I've met some very clever Thais.

your perception is so skewed. 

 

Thai people really aint that great mate. are you new here ?

[bignok]

Just now, bogs smith said:

your perception is so skewed. 

 

Thai people really aint that great mate. are you new here ?

Most farangs ain't that great mate. Read the news.

[ningnong]

5 hours ago, PJ71 said:

Look at how they live, nothing more than  savages.

Care to share the name of your native country which is apparently free of savage acts?

[transam]

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

Most farangs ain't that great mate. Read the news.

Hey, that is quite a sweeping comment.....

 

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, bignok said:

Most farangs ain't that great mate.

do you include yourself in that statement? surely you do?

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[bignok]

3 minutes ago, bogs smith said:

do you include yourself in that statement? surely you do?

No I would include badly behaved people with no respect for others. People who can barely think things through or act in a responsible manner. Selfish people.

[transam]

1 minute ago, bignok said:

Yes like Thais are all primitive and with no thinking skills. 

Really, another sweeping comment...........

[BritScot]

3 hours ago, Will B Good said:

I doubt there will be any reports after this initial one...........but it would be interesting to see what the sentence might be.

 

Mentioned this before on here...............my wife's uncle (drunk) murdered his neighbour,  mistakenly thinking the neighbour was having an affair with his wife.

 

Her uncle was sentenced to five years!!!!

One murder in the village I lived in was one guy giving advice to his friend about who his wife left him. Stabbed to death and another was giving a couple of baht to a singer at a karaoke again Stabbed to death. None went to prison as they paid the family death money.... wild wild west has nothing on village life.

[bunnydrops]

2 hours ago, Keep Right said:

Life is cheap in Thailand. You can see it in the way people live and drive.

That is true. A Thai word for "life" is ชีพ pronounced "cheep"

[bob smith]

1 hour ago, bignok said:

No I would include badly behaved people with no respect for others. People who can barely think things through or act in a responsible manner. Selfish people.

that is a pretty accurate description of the average Thai. well done!

[PJ71]

2 hours ago, ningnong said:

Care to share the name of your native country which is apparently free of savage acts?

What brings you to the conclusion my native country is free from savage attacks, what a strange comment.

 

Also, whilst i'm sure similar incidents do occur they seem to be almost daily here ( and these are the ones we hear about on english websites ), you can only imagine ones that occur and are 1. not reported or 2. reported in only Thai mediums, the mind boggles.....

[giddyup]

7 hours ago, Adumbration said:

More than a decade ago I used to live near this lake.  I know this exact spot.  There was a walking trail in through the jungle to a spot where you can jump off a small cliff into the water.  It was a real gem to find something like this in Phuket.  The lake backs onto a mountain, is entirely surrounded by jungle, and has very clear water.  I often used to take Thai girls that I dated there on the first date to have a picnic and a swim.  It was lovely, serene, and like the modern world never existed.

 

About a year after I discovered this spot, Thai youths started coming there to cook kratom.  They built a couple of humpies out of scrap iron and wood.  And then the tiny spot atop the cliff, and the surrounding jungle, was transformed into a giant trash heap. For those that do not know, when they make the kratom drink, they make a fire and boil the leaves, cool the resulting tincture with ice, and then add cough syrup for its Pseudoephedrine and Coke to sweeten the brew.

 

A beautiful and secluded spot was transformed into a garbage tip of plastic bags, hundreds of coke and cough medicine bottles, mostly smashed, and pieces of innertube used to start the fires. 

 

Thai society is on its last legs.

 

 

Take Paradise and put up a Parking Lot. It's pretty much universal.

[Bkk Brian]

7 hours ago, 2009 said:

This is why we shouldn't stay in the (typically rural) low socioeconomic areas.

 

This type of thing is far less common in more civilized parts of the country, like Bangkok.

Phuket, the richest Province in Thailand you mean.............

[Andre0720]

8 hours ago, bignok said:

So doctors and dentists are 13yos too?

Ever heard about the "Exceptions that confirm the rule".

If you go to a hospital for example, you will be shocked not to see outside cigarette butts. None.

So yes, there are people who develop their brain, and go beyond age 13.

Thanks for pointing it out...

[ningnong]

3 hours ago, PJ71 said:

What brings you to the conclusion my native country is free from savage attacks, what a strange comment.

Your comment: "Look at how they live, nothing more than savages" As if how they live had something to do with this attack.

 

Therefore I assumed you come from a country where you don't live like savages so therefore lack brutal attacks. I was just curious which country that might be.

 

I come from the US and pretty sure that any brutality in Thailand pales in comparison by a long shot.

 

But really I'm much more curious as to why you think Thais live like nothing more than savages.

[bignok]

1 hour ago, Andre0720 said:

Ever heard about the "Exceptions that confirm the rule".

If you go to a hospital for example, you will be shocked not to see outside cigarette butts. None.

So yes, there are people who develop their brain, and go beyond age 13.

Thanks for pointing it out...

Lots of people smoke outside hospitals

[NanLaew]

11 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

That's step two thinking, which Thais are unable to do. Any potential consequence of his action would not have occurred to him. They only live in the moment. We read of this every day when people kill or maim others over next to nothing.

This is unique to Thai people?

 

I see.

[Bangkok Barry]

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

This is unique to Thai people?

 

I see.

Is it? I haven't read that, but you do know this a forum about Thailand don't you?

[spidermike007]

It comes down to perhaps the single most significant weakness most Thai people have. The pathological fear of losing face. Who cares what people think of you? For those of us with high self esteem, it just does not matter. It means nothing what they think, nor what they say about you. Nothing, less than zero. They count for nothing. They are just people, and people you do not know, nor will ever see again. With friends it may be different, but most of us can laugh off an insult or a joke.

 

Face is rife with self doubt, and by subscribing to this weakness, and man or woman is made a far lesser person. I consider the practice of face to be the polar opposite of the practice of Buddhism, which teaches the need for introspection, contemplation, owning up to a problem, and taking responsibility for issues, problems and tragedies that you create in life.

 

As many of us know, a percentage of the Thai population lives within fairly small boxes, of social convention, traditions and expectations, especially on the part of the family. That is not a life that some of us choose. Those that are bold and courageous, will find a way to break past conventions, and live a fulfilling life, based on their own choices, independence, and esteem.

[bignok]

1 hour ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

ive been known to be a barstool philosopher......my book is coming out next month ????

$1.99?

[freedomnow]

 = Don't make a Somchai lose face.