Is Thailand really the 'Land Of Smiles' in 2024?

[nikmar]

22 minutes ago, ChumpChange said:

Politics has been a big issue and a major point of unhappiness for the last 15 years.

 

Prayut recognised this and brought "happiness to the people."  He even wrote a song about it!!!   😆

[ChumpChange]

Just now, nikmar said:

 

Prayut recognised this and brought "happiness to the people."  He even wrote a song about it!!!   😆

Did it have a "happy ending"?

[ChumpChange]

Another thing is the massive rise in methamphetamine use. It's not a happy drug. It makes people more edgy, violent, aggressive, etc. And it wasn't something that was as heavily used 15-20 years ago. 

[bob smith]

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  I was asking about your clothes 

No. 

 

You said Thais wear new clothes all the time. The Thai guy next to me looks like he bought his clothes in the 1930s.

 

So what is your point? 

 

Bob. 

[bob smith]

6 minutes ago, nikmar said:

 

Prayut recognised this and brought "happiness to the people."  He even wrote a song about it!!!   😆

He's been quiet since he got the boot, hasn't he? 

 

Haven't heard a peep from uncle tu for months...

 

Bob.

[Hummin]

3 minutes ago, ChumpChange said:

What I said about Soi 6 was a joke based on the recent violence where a guy was kicked in the head and is lucky not to have been killed. 
 

Yes, smartphones and social media are all part of the new antisocial movement. Thais are really bad. But most other Asian countries are equally as bad.
 

Part of the issue about Asians is they never find it impolite, even at social gatherings with other people, to pull out their phones and doom scroll forever at any given moment. 
 

 

Soi 6 was also mentioned as a joke from my behalf, since I got some heat when I said soi 6 could not be a quality tourist destination or quality tourist who frequently visited there. 

 

Using smart phone everywhere with sound. Even at 5 star hotels, they (thais and chinese do not care when having breakfest or around the pool. 

[Nick Carter icp]

7 minutes ago, bob smith said:

No. 

 

You said Thais wear new clothes all the time.

 

  No, I didn't say that . 

[ChumpChange]

10 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Soi 6 was also mentioned as a joke from my behalf, since I got some heat when I said soi 6 could not be a quality tourist destination or quality tourist who frequently visited there. 

 

Using smart phone everywhere with sound. Even at 5 star hotels, they (thais and chinese do not care when having breakfest or around the pool. 

The smartphone phenomenon is the same in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, etc. 

[ChumpChange]

12 minutes ago, bob smith said:

Haven't heard a peep from uncle tu for months...

 

Bob.

So much money, so little time. 

[BangkokReady]

https://impactgrouphr.com/individualpost/thailand-the-land-of-the-smiles/

[PJ71]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Same reason as people stopped smiling everywhere. The world we live in is <deleted> and it's not going to get any better. My generation had it at it's best in the late 50s and early 60s,till Vietnam ruined it all, and it's gone, IMO for good.

IMO we are doomed, but most don't want to admit it.

You sound like a barrel of laughs....

[ChumpChange]

2 hours ago, bob smith said:

Is Thailand still deserving of its famous slogan 'The Land Of Smiles' in 2024?

'The Land Of Vertical Smiles'?

[worgeordie]

Bob , Every post you make you are dissing Thai's ,I don't know why you

you still live here , You said once you were leaving and never coming

back .....when in reality you were a away for couple of days ......and

came back  🙄    sitting next to a man with dirty clothes , you in 3rd class

again Bob ,

 

regards worgeordie

 

[ChumpChange]

1 minute ago, worgeordie said:

Bob , Every post you make you are dissing Thai's ,I don't know why you

you still live here , You said once you were leaving and never coming

back .....when in reality you were a away for couple of days ......and

came back  🙄    sitting next to a man with dirty clothes , you in 3rd class

again Bob ,

 

regards worgeordie

 

True dat. But most likely he never even left for a couple of days, nor can he ever really totally leave because they "lubb heem too mutt neh". 

[TroubleandGrumpy]

We have travelled a lot around Thailand this year. It seems to me that some Thais in Bangkok are not doing as well as they hoped after the pandemic and are not smilling as much. They are the same in Hua Hin and I hear the samne in Phuket etc.  But in Isaan they are pretty much smilling as much as they were before the pandemic.  My Wife's smile always brightens up my day, and the same thing for most of the family and people people I meet in Isaan. 

[it is what it is]

 

they smile when i'm around, so it's probably you. reason? a fair bet they're fed up with negative threads being started by bored, miserable foreigners

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, it is what it is said:

 

they smile when i'm around, so it's probably you. reason? a fair bet they're fed up with negative threads being started by bored, miserable foreigners

That is a real daft reply fella. 

 

Bob. 

[Fat is a type of crazy]

I like fun Bob. Not have a whinge Bob. In Thailand and everyone seems happy and see few masks. Maybe it is a regional thing. 

[bob smith]

5 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

I like fun Bob. Not have a whinge Bob. In Thailand and everyone seems happy and see few masks. Maybe it is a regional thing. 

I travel to many regions throughout the month, in fact I am on a train to a different region as I type. 

 

All locals are wearing masks. 

 

Bob. 

[ChumpChange]

2 minutes ago, bob smith said:

I travel to many regions throughout the month, in fact I am on a train to a different region as I type. 

 

All locals are wearing masks. 

 

Bob. 

different region? lol. Taking the BTS from Nana to Cowboy and back to Patpong doesn't count as many different regions matey. 😂 

[bob smith]

2 minutes ago, ChumpChange said:

different region? lol. Taking the BTS from Nana to Cowboy and back to Patpong doesn't count as many different regions matey. 😂 

Don't call me matey. 

 

I am not your mate. 

 

Bob. 

[ChumpChange]

4 minutes ago, bob smith said:

Don't call me matey. 

 

I am not your mate. 

 

Bob. 

Do you prefer a more fitting name?

[bob smith]

2 minutes ago, ChumpChange said:

Do you prefer a more fitting name?

Do one, Chump. 

 

Bob. 

[ChumpChange]

3 minutes ago, bob smith said:

Do one, Chump. 

 

Bob. 

It's Khun Chump. 

[bob smith]

Just now, ChumpChange said:

It's Khun Chump. 

E Chump more like! 

 

Bob. 

[ChumpChange]

3 minutes ago, bob smith said:

E Chump more like! 

 

Bob. 

oooo, that's nice. 
 

Boss is probably what most people call you, based upon the type of places you normally go. 
 

Bawt, Bawt...

 

[bob smith]

Just now, ChumpChange said:

oooo, that's nice. 
 

Boss is probably what most people call you, based upon the type of places you normally go. 
 

Bawt, Bawt...

 

The ladies call me daddy. 

 

 

[stoner]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOS hasn't been smiling since this century started, IMO. My GF had a wonderful smile last century, but come 2000 it vanished.

 

she met you around that time. 

[ChumpChange]

2 minutes ago, bob smith said:

The ladies call me daddy. 

 

 

Sticking to underage girls, aye? 

[stoner]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Same reason as people stopped smiling everywhere. The world we live in is <deleted> and it's not going to get any better. My generation had it at it's best in the late 50s and early 60s,till Vietnam ruined it all, and it's gone, IMO for good.

IMO we are doomed, but most don't want to admit it.