Do you get on well with Thai People?

[scottiejohn]

7 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Oh your the new generation of "woke" Scotsman,no wonder the Proclaimers walked the 5000 miles and left for Australia!

More pointless drivel from you as usual!

I assume you only make these pointless posts to keep your post and confused/laughing emoji counts up!

[1happykamper]

I'm very social guy and meeting farang in chiang mai is easy enough... some are still acquaintances some become friends. 

 

Thai women.. Same 

 

Thai men... In the 10 years I've been in Thailand.. I have one friend. 

 

I'm retired and old so no work contacts that are Thai. So how do you retired guys make friends with Thai males? 

[1FinickyOne]

sure.

[soalbundy]

17 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Just curious as to how AN members get along with their thai counterparts in general on a daily basis.

 

Feel free to answer the poll if you so wish!

 

Thanks and have a nice day 🙂 

Yes, extremely well. The first few years not so much but I have adjusted. In Isaan I find the people very friendly, probably because there aren't so many tourists, money has a corrupting influence on the psyche. I go with the flow. I don't believe in organized religions, although I consider Buddhism to be the most logical, so I don't attend the Buddhist services at our village temple but I meditate a lot and have found a secluded place in the temple grounds near some old Stupas where I meditate every day. Despite being secluded my wife tells me the monks and the locals are aware of this and this simple action has earned me enormous respect.

[newbee2022]

18 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Just curious as to how AN members get along with their thai counterparts in general on a daily basis.

 

Feel free to answer the poll if you so wish!

 

Thanks and have a nice day 🙂 

It's bar stool conversation.

To have Thai friends you need to speak Thai language. I doubt it's very common to farangs. And speaking English fluently isn't very common either to Thais.

[BarBoy]

13 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

And speaking English fluently isn't very common either to Thais.

Indeed.

 

They always rank consistently low in the English speaking league tables..

[tjintx]

This topic went rather well, I think.   How about you?

[jvs]

18 hours ago, RSD1 said:

I'm voting by just being on my way. There is nothing more to add on this tired old topic for the umpteenth time already. Do you want me to link the other half a dozen topics you've already started on this whole "Thai friends" thing?
 

Sorry, I'm also totally bored of the whole Collin/Bob identity game.  Enough is enough already. Not one person on this forum believes that you aren't the same poster as bob smith. So man up and stop trying to play everyone for a fool.

Now you are on to something,why not start a poll on that?

"Do you believe Barboy and Bob are the same person?"

[Callmeishmael]

Do I get along well with most Thai people?  Yes, absolutely.  They are, by and large, polite and friendly and easy to get along with.  Do I have any close Thai friends?  Well, honestly, no.  Partly it's the language barrier - I speak and read Thai well enough to get by, but not well enough for friendly conversation.  But partly it's also my own personality.  I get along well with people and have lots of friendly acquaintances, but I don't make close friends easily.

[theshu25]

19 hours ago, BarBoy said:

...but you will leave a reply!!

 

just can't help yourself, can you?

You are the one that cannot help yourself,Stupid pathetic crap every day. Now barred.

[bkknirvana]

20 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Just curious as to how AN members get along with their thai counterparts in general on a daily basis.

 

Feel free to answer the poll if you so wish!

 

Thanks and have a nice day 🙂 

I get on well while I am pumping them!

[BarBoy]

51 minutes ago, tjintx said:

This topic went rather well, I think.   How about you?

But what about the combined 37% of voters who don't get along well with them?

 

Shall we just ignore them?

[fondue zoo]

 

Judging by the photo, and she is no doubt a lovely person, I suspect she is not unused to being handcuffed and her ponytail being gripped.

She seems like a lot of fun.

[Will B Good]

5 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

But what about the combined 37% of voters who don't get along well with them?

 

Shall we just ignore them?

 

 

Yes...it's what you do to minorities......all over the world.....ignore or even better suppress. 

[Yagoda]

5 minutes ago, bkknirvana said:

I get on well while I am pumping them!

Thats an excellent point! Conversation is limited to "Oh Daddy, it hurts so good", but we get on just fine

[daveAustin]

Didn't read replies as it will likely be the standard fare from people in tourist spots that don't speak a lick and think Thais as some kind of alien race. Have many genuine Thai friends that I know would have my back if the stuff hit the fan, and I likewise. Prefer to surrounded by them than my own to be honest, who seem to have turned into a bunch of prissy wokish numpties.

Want to meet genuine Thais?: get out of the tourists spots, be kind, don't lord it up, learn the F language a bit! 🙃

[RSD1]

1 hour ago, jvs said:

Now you are on to something,why not start a poll on that?

"Do you believe Barboy and Bob are the same person?"

Great idea. But the mods would likely shut it down. I think it's against site policy to create topics and polls about other members.

[SenorTashi]

Since moving to an area with almost zero farang, I noticed that Thais are not

particularly friendly here, even if I smile, say hello and bow.

But when I go to touristy places, everyone says good morning Sir,

how are you? etc etc.

That made me realise why tourists always go away with such a positive

opinion of the country.

So to answer OP, basically the only Thai 'friends' I have are 

people whose services I've used when I revisit tourist areas.

I've been living alone in a non touristy area for a year and only one guy

ever speaks to me... and that's just to take the piss.

 

[Will B Good]

3 minutes ago, SenorTashi said:

I've been living alone in a non touristy area for a year and only one guy

ever speaks to me... and that's just to take the piss.

 

 

I know I shouldn't have......but that really made me laugh.....cheers

[Will B Good]

4 minutes ago, SenorTashi said:

Since moving to an area with almost zero farang, I noticed that Thais are not

particularly friendly here, even if I smile, say hello and bow.

But when I go to touristy places, everyone says good morning Sir,

how are you? etc etc.

That made me realise why tourists always go away with such a positive

opinion of the country.

So to answer OP, basically the only Thai 'friends' I have are 

people whose services I've used when I revisit tourist areas.

I've been living alone in a non touristy area for a year and only one guy

ever speaks to me... and that's just to take the piss.

 

 

 

Have you considered move away from "Mind your own Business".......and maybe try living in......."Hi. How are you doing" near Pattaya.

[The Cyclist]

7 minutes ago, SenorTashi said:

Since moving to an area with almost zero farang, I noticed that Thais are not

particularly friendly here,

 

Might be you or the place you are located.

 

Out where I am ( in the sticks ) most people are friendly.

[SenorTashi]

5 minutes ago, The Cyclist said:

 

Might be you or the place you are located.

 

 

Bit of both tbh but also, I haven't been here the whole time. I moved in a year ago but I've been coming and going a lot

[The Cyclist]

1 minute ago, SenorTashi said:

Bit of both tbh but also, I haven't been here the whole time. I moved in a year ago but I've been coming and going a lot

 

That probably answers it then.

 

Relax, smile, say hello in Thai or English, and let the locals get to know you.

 

 

[BarBoy]

33 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

and think Thais as some kind of alien race

...you mean the same way they think of us?

 

Doesn't immigration refer to us as aliens? 🤔

[SenorTashi]

12 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

Have you considered move away from "Mind your own Business".......and maybe try living in......."Hi. How are you doing" near Pattaya.

I've lived in Pattaya a few times and it always ends up doing my head in. I'm alright where I am really.

Was just commenting on my observations from different perspectives.

[Will B Good]

1 minute ago, SenorTashi said:

I've lived in Pattaya a few times and it always ends up doing my head in. I'm alright where I am really.

Was just commenting on my observations from different perspectives.

 

Agree.....Pattaya/BKK, entertaining for a while, but then they start to weigh you down.

 

Trying to strike a nice balance is the trick.......we visit BKK three or four times a year and I spend two or three months back in the UK. spring/summer

 

Isaan does my head in after a week.

[SenorTashi]

10 minutes ago, The Cyclist said:

 

That probably answers it then.

 

Relax, smile, say hello in Thai or English, and let the locals get to know you.

 

 

I was eating just now so didn't want to type much but nearly all my neighbours seem to work every day.

They all get up between 5-7, work all day, come home, get pissed (or not) then go to bed early.

They have a lot of drinking sessions around here and years ago, I'd have walked in there with a bottle 

and made friends with them all, but being a reformed alcoholic means that I don't want to do that and basically I just can't hang around with drinkers anymore because I'll probably start again.

[The Cyclist]

3 minutes ago, SenorTashi said:

Yeah. I was eating just now so didn't want to type much but nearly all my neighbours seem to work every day.

They all get up between 5-7, work all day, come home, get pissed (or not) then go to bed early.

They have a lot of drinking sessions and years ago, I'd have walked in there with a bottle 

but being a reformed alcoholic means that I don't want to and basically can't hang around with drinkers.

 

When I first came here many years ago, I rented a house in a moobahn that had a front garden like a jungle.

 

Transforming that Jungle into an actual garden, had people stopping and attempting to talk. My Thai then was virtually non existant, but an effort was made on both sides, and developed from there.

 

It took a while as I was back and forth to work.

 

Find something similar where you are, and give people a reason to stop, look and try to converse.

 

 

[SenorTashi]

1 minute ago, The Cyclist said:

 

When I first came here many years ago, I rented a house in a moobahn that had a front garden like a jungle.

 

Transforming that Jungle into an actual garden, had people stopping and attempting to talk. My Thai then was virtually non existant, but an effort was made on both sides, and developed from there.

 

It took a while as I was back and forth to work.

 

Find something similar where you are, and give people a reason to stop, look and try to converse.

 

 

Yeah I did something similar in France but here I'm in a condo so I just see whoever's outside when I get there. Normally it's the same guy every morning who says 'Hello' then laughs.. every time.

I think most of them are just making ends meet and don't have much time for anything else. 

Learning more Thai would definitely help but I spend my time between several different countries and my brain seems very reluctant to learn thousands of new words.  

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, SenorTashi said:

Normally it's the same guy every morning who says 'Hello' then laughs.

 

Might be worth checking he's not wired into to your electricity meter if he keeps laughing every time he sees you....555