2 minutes ago, ujayujay said:

Someone seems to feel offended🤣

Oh calling the pot kettle black or whatever the saying is....you Sir were offended at others....Farting !

4 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Oh calling the pot kettle black or whatever the saying is....you Sir were offended at others....Farting !

18 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Please speak softly on the phone. We don't need to hear you 15m away.

And you can politely tell the people concerned and not generalize in an open forum.

 

1 hour ago, pchansmorn said:

It’s all about Manners and Consideration for others, Thai people do not have either of these qualities. 

Nor do Indians or Chinese

Same,SameWhere I Live,Thai & Lao People Don't TALK To Each Other .....They Bloody SHOUT !!

I quoted that earlier on already. Once I was in a crowd of people and a girl was talking to her hubby/boy friend by the nature of her discussion. Extremely loud, the whole thing on speaker so everyone could share the pleasure while she was talking directly into the microphone of her phone which she held horizontally in front of her face. 

Enough of this rubbish I went closer to the girl (who could have been in the age of my grand daughter) and said equally loud in Thai, that she should stop now and come back to bed. 

Priceless; I am absolutely sure that she never ever did that again while onlookers looked at me with a smirky smile - one of the rare occasions when all those by standing Thais must have just loved, what the Farang did this time 😉 

20 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Please speak softly on the phone. We don't need to hear you 15m away.

Extremely racist to our American and Chinese members on here.

I hear you loud and clear. 

I was on my own in a gym cycling on a static cycle when 3 Chinese came in. One sat on the bike next to me and his two buddies came over and held a conversation with him as if he was 20 metres away. I had been listening to a podcast on my mobile phone with my ear buds in, but couldn’t hear it properly with their shouting. After a while I took the ear buds out and played some music at the highest volume on my mobile. They moved off to other gym equipment after a while, so went back to ear buds and podcast.

On 4/9/2025 at 2:47 PM, Harrisfan said:

Please speak softly on the phone. We don't need to hear you 15m away.

 

On 4/9/2025 at 6:52 PM, jerrymahoney said:

What happens at times for me is that I am using an ATM and maybe an involved transaction and there is (usually) a woman at the ATM next to me talking so loud on the phone I can barely think.

Try taking a tour for a day with 8 Thais in a minibus. I am deaf at the end of the day.

Thai people in general are totally unaware of what is going on around them, and they never give a second thought to common courtesies that we practice in the West. Here it's all about "me, me, me" and to he** with how it affects anyone around them. You can see it in the way they drive, the way they walk up/down stairs or on a sidewalk bumping into people like a line of marching ants or even lining up in a queue or paying at a cashier counter. They have absolutely no regard for their fellow man, and the streak of selfishness runs deep in most all of them. It is no stretch to say it's even coded in their DNA. For me this is one of the hardest things to adapt to in Thailand. Total chaos rules the day in this country, and living here is not for the faint hearted!