No matter how long I live in Thailand there will be things I'll never be able to understand.

From the home page of the Bangkok Post on 30 July:

About 10,000 people in yellow shirts and caps walk from the Royal Plaza to the Democracy Monument yesterday morning to celebrate His Majesty the King’s 80th birthday, which is on Dec 5.

???????

I couldn't read the rest of the Bangkok Post because, at 9.40am on Monday they still had Sunday's paper on their website. In contrast, the UK Daily Telegraph has Monday's paper up on their site at around 1am that same day. Now there's an original concept - Monday's paper on view on a Monday!

To further confuse things, the print edition of at least some of the Thai-language papers (and maybe the internet edition too, I don't know) can be bought on the afternoon of the day before (Tuesday's paper can be bought on Monday afternoon).

I remember going into a store for a print edition of the Post and finding the previous days edition on display. When I queried where today's paper was they said they wouldn't sell it because they hadn't sold out of yesterday's yet.

Banging head against the wall time again.....

No matter how long I live in Thailand there will be things I'll never be able to understand.

From the home page of the Bangkok Post on 30 July:

About 10,000 people in yellow shirts and caps walk from the Royal Plaza to the Democracy Monument yesterday morning to celebrate His Majesty the King’s 80th birthday, which is on Dec 5.

???????

I couldn't read the rest of the Bangkok Post because, at 9.40am on Monday they still had Sunday's paper on their website. In contrast, the UK Daily Telegraph has Monday's paper up on their site at around 1am that same day. Now there's an original concept - Monday's paper on view on a Monday!

To further confuse things, the print edition of at least some of the Thai-language papers (and maybe the internet edition too, I don't know) can be bought on the afternoon of the day before (Tuesday's paper can be bought on Monday afternoon).

I remember going into a store for a print edition of the Post and finding the previous days edition on display. When I queried where today's paper was they said they wouldn't sell it because they hadn't sold out of yesterday's yet.

Banging head against the wall time again.....

"they wouldn't sell it because they hadn't sold out of yesterday's yet"

love it!!

mate of mine ordered a breakfast in a leeds cafe, he complained about no mushrooms they said they hadnt any left, he said ive just seen you put them in that cupboard there, her reply same, "there tommorows mushrooms silly, weve sold todays!!!

!

I have no answers.

Google "polychronic" + "culture" or "Thailand" for the general explanation.