Ah Pattaya, where self appointed experts go to continue their grand delusion.

[StandardIssue]

How many times have you ran into these self appointed experts on virtually every topic under the sun? To me it could be a daily occurrence in the many beer bars.

 

Sometimes I think to myself that the crack pots I run into have finally found a place where people understand just how important they think they are. Just look for the ever nodding Thai girlfriends!

It's a running joke amongst the more grounded and rational individuals I've met.

 

A constant source of free entertainment. Much of it on this board!

[TedG]

You must be glad to have that off your chest. 

[rattlesnake]

32 minutes ago, StandardIssue said:

Just look for the ever nodding Thai girlfriends!

 

Classic! The hand gestures to enliven conversations otherwise burdened by limited vocabulary (20 English words on the Thai side, 0.5 Thai word on the farang side) are also a sight to behold.

[ukrules]

What do you do if you run into an actual expert in their field?

 

Do you dismiss them immediately?

 

How would you know the difference

[Lucky Bones]

I have never run into a "self appointed expert" in East Pattaya.

Maybe your holiday plans need to change from central Pattaya.🙃🙃

[thaibeachlovers]

Sounds like the OP needs a change of scenery if Pattaya is too traumatic for him.

[scubascuba3]

Yes I've definitely noticed it, in fact i avoid eye contact as that's an invite for them to talk garbage, the classic is when they ask how long have you been here, they are desperately waiting to score points here, one crazy swede said 1978 arrived

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes I've definitely noticed it, in fact i avoid eye contact as that's an invite for them to talk garbage, the classic is when they ask how long have you been here, they are desperately waiting to score points here, one crazy swede said 1978 arrived

Standing in bars talking <deleted> is a standard pastime.....now we get them on Youtube too!

[StandardIssue]

2 hours ago, TedG said:

You must be glad to have that off your chest. 

 

Yea, it's been eating at me for years!!

 

Pattaya: A narcissists paradise! I've finally found a place where they recognize just how important I am! These girls really get me!

[StandardIssue]

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

What do you do if you run into an actual expert in their field?

 

Do you dismiss them immediately?

 

How would you know the difference

 

Rarely happens and I'd like to think I'm not easily fooled. Anyways with AI and Google search at your fingertips fact checking is a snap!

[redwood1]

I suggest for you to take up heavy drinking......Then the experts will not bother you so much...

[rough diamond]

45 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

I suggest for you to take up heavy drinking......Then the experts will not bother you so much...

He probably has already.

[JackSinclair]

People still go to beer bars?

[newnative]

  Luckily, I have better things to do with my time, and more enjoyable for me, than hanging out in beer bars--in Pattaya or anywhere else.  

[Cameroni]

6 hours ago, ukrules said:

What do you do if you run into an actual expert in their field?

 

Do you dismiss them immediately?

 

How would you know the difference

 

Exactly. The same problem with the honest bar girl that truly does love you, would you write her off just because she spent 4 years banging 488 guys`?

 

How to know the difference?

[Andyfez]

On 3/18/2025 at 3:30 AM, ukrules said:

What do you do if you run into an actual expert in their field?

 

Do you dismiss them immediately?

 

How would you know the difference

Ask for a certificate? Mind you in Pattaya can get copies!

[Kenny Boy]

On 3/18/2025 at 3:40 AM, Lucky Bones said:

I have never run into a "self appointed expert" in East Pattaya.

Maybe your holiday plans need to change from central Pattaya.🙃🙃

You make it sound like Beverley Hills dear.

Are you saying you get a better class of farang on The Darkside or is it where the ‘normal’ farang migrate to ? 

Same same but different I would say.

 

[jippytum]

On 3/18/2025 at 5:23 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Yes I've definitely noticed it, in fact i avoid eye contact as that's an invite for them to talk garbage, the classic is when they ask how long have you been here, they are desperately waiting to score points here, one crazy swede said 1978 arrived

Lots of expats some on this forum have been living in Thailand,  myself included long before 1978.

[Thingamabob]

Nothing special about 'experts' in bars in Pattaya. They exist in every bar I've ever been into, all over the world.

[Cameroni]

2 hours ago, Andyfez said:

Ask for a certificate? Mind you in Pattaya can get copies!

 

Exactly! You get the credentials!

[norsurin]

I have meet some foreigners that been living in Thailand for decades.Everyone been nice so far.

I ask if they learn to speak thai and some say yes.. speak well they say until i start speaking thai with them and after 1 minute i know the truth.It also happens that their wifes or gf tell them that their lying about their thai skills 

I meet a guy from Norway in surin some years ago..he said he could speak thai wery well..

I sat with him and his thai wife I started speak thai to him and everything i said or asked him in thai he said KAP.

I asked him in thai if he want me to knock out his teeths and even then he said KAP.His wife start laughing and told me he didn't understand anything i talking about.So we turned over to english speaking.

[scubascuba3]

2 hours ago, jippytum said:

Lots of expats some on this forum have been living in Thailand,  myself included long before 1978.

Maybe so but they definitely like talking about it