Things that annoy you in Thailand

[SAFETY FIRST]

3 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

You sound like a brown tongue 

 

Yep, that's me Georgie. 

I like you to 😘

 

I know you've recently come out of the closet, you just wanted a kiss 

[Woke to Sounds]

Loud pipes and other noise pollution.

[georgegeorgia]

2 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yep, that's me Georgie. 

I like you to 😘

 

I know you've recently come out of the closet, you just wanted a kiss 

Someone like you can't be  trusted in a workplace ,

the 'boss's left testicle" as I heard a work colleague describe another work colleague who he caught having lunch with the boss , a boss this guy ran down every single day , UNTIL he was caught having lunch and a beer with him at a local Club 

 

[Ralf001]

17 minutes ago, ravip said:

Loud mouthed foreigners with an entitled attitude,  in public places - BTS, restaurants etc.

Americans ?

[SAFETY FIRST]

6 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

9 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yep, that's me Georgie. 

I like you to 😘

I know you've recently come out of the closet, you just wanted a kiss 

Someone like you can't be  trusted in a workplace

I'd like to be in your workplace. 

 

We could work the hospital night shift and share the mopping. 😙

 

[georgegeorgia]

Just now, SAFETY FIRST said:

I'd like to be in your workplace. 

 

We could work the hospital night shift and share the mopping. 

 

No thanks !

I put my headphones on with my music and don't like to talk to colleagues

"Hello ...goodbye is all I say 

I can get through my 8 hour shift without a conversation 

 

[Ralf001]

Just now, SAFETY FIRST said:

I'd like to be in your workplace. 

 

We could work the hospital night shift and share the mopping. 

 

 

I wonder if georgie boi sneaks down the morgue at night to have a look at Penes on the dead dudes?

[SAFETY FIRST]

4 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

I wonder if georgie boi sneaks down the morgue at night to have a look at Penes on the dead dudes?

@georgegeorgia 

Is this true Georgie? 

Is that what you do break time? 😂

 

[ravip]

18 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Americans ?

LOL never checked on that!!!

[DrPhibes]

16 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

No thanks !

I put my headphones on with my music and don't like to talk to colleagues

"Hello ...goodbye is all I say 

I can get through my 8 hour shift without a conversation 

 

 

[Ron Micheli]

Unregulated motorbike riders. Being a pedestrian is dangerous in Thailand. The muscle bike riders are insane and a menace to our well being. Vietnam has more motorbikes and less structure than Thailand but they ride at decent speeds and no where near the danger to pedestrians. 

[save the frogs]

16 hours ago, JaxxBKK said:

Then there are the tattoos 🙄

 

Improve your life immediately dress better, shave and wear shoes in BKK ffs

 

Actually, young people might think you're not cool if you don't have tattoos in this day and age.

 

Also, shoes were an office apparel. If you're not working, why do you need to wear shoes in a hot climate? If you don't want to look broke, maybe invest in a good pair of high quality leather sandals instead of the cheapest plastic flip flops. 

 

[Mason45]

After being married for nearly 25 years my wife still leaves her foot ware in the middle of our front door way.

[Task Master]

I'm not annoyed but the annoyer.

[georgegeorgia]

1 minute ago, Task Master said:

I'm not annoyed but the annoyer.

Lol.. very interesting saying 

There is another similar but can't think of the top of my head 

Thankyou for your service Sir 

[olongapo]

15 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

They love and respect their country so much they treat it like a toilet. 

 

Its sad.

Yes same in the Philippines,they go to a beautiful beach and leave garbage everywhere even baby's diapers 

[JaxxBKK]

49 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

Actually, young people might think you're not cool if you don't have tattoos in this day and age.

 

Also, shoes were an office apparel. If you're not working, why do you need to wear shoes in a hot climate? If you don't want to look broke, maybe invest in a good pair of high quality leather sandals instead of the cheapest plastic flip flops. 

 

 

I don't disagree. It's very difficult to find good looking sandal type footwear especially in Thailand.

 

Just look at the Thai young men and more or less dress like that. That is THE style here. They mostly wear long pants and that's proper in Asia and big city - but I've lived my life in short pants. Not going to change. Even when I wore long pants and a long sleeve shirt to work it was still not that uncomfortable going and coming from work even in the hot season.

 

Many from UK and Northern Europe really suffer the heat and I've got that but you can still dress smartly. Some guys from the UK absolutely love the weather here.

 

I understand that tourists are going to feel uncomfortable in heat. If you've not acclimated to the miserable weather here and it drives you to a singlet and flipflops in BKK you're in the wrong place. Slides not flipflops and dear God no hiking type, thick sandals (Keen, Merrill, especially Teva).

 

If you purchase the right clothes they are not much warmer. A light collar shirt more comfortable than heavy t-shirt. I actually find shoes feel much better on the pavement than my slides.

 

The real problem is that many of these guys have just like slobs are entire life. They feel totally uncomfortable in a collared shirt. I imagine they feel comfortable just wearing a nice shirt and a decent pair of shorts. Like it's "not them" . But I would urge this lot to try it. Just buy a decent collared shirt. Go to the regular watering hole and I guarantee you any female service staff that regularly takes care of you will remark that you look smart. 🌞

 

Agreed on the kids and tattoos, just because they think it's cool doesn't make it so. I was never a fan personally. They don't age well both in style and appearance. Can't say I'm wrong here. So many heavy inked tattoos as well. The tribal tattoos of yesterday are perfect examples of mistakes made

 

Clean yourself up, take care of your skin, exercise, wear a smile (Thai women love smiles), give tips - watch your life change 👍👍👍

[DonniePeverley]

12 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

 

You're not being entirely fair here. Clearly you should be keeping the Indians out of the UK then? You've made your opinion very clear about Indians so you should be in agreement with them on this one issue at least.

 

 

To get into the UK from India you need to go through a torturous visa process, meaning you tend to get a better quality of visitor. Thailand lets anyone in. 

[JaxxBKK]

I was once told by Israeli in India that after Israeli military service the best and brightest go to visit and possibly emigrate to US. The next batch to Europe and SA mostly on holiday ... the working class and scrum go to India and Thailand to party and smoke weed. Thailand has had huge problems with this lot as long as I can remember. India as well. I'd had numerous run ins with them when I was backpacking many years ago. You never find this lot doing anything cultural they're always in little party ghettos.

 

[georgegeorgia]

3 minutes ago, JaxxBKK said:

I was once told by Israeli in India that after Israeli military service the best and brightest go to visit and possibly emigrate to US. The next batch to Europe and SA mostly on holiday ... the working class and scrum go to India and Thailand to party and smoke weed. Thailand has had huge problems with this lot as long as I can remember. India as well. I'd had numerous run ins with them when I was backpacking many years ago. You never find this lot doing anything cultural they're always in little party ghettos.

 

And do they haggle over the prices ,that's what I want to know ?

[cdemundo]

19 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

I'll start

 

old bald guys with bandanas 

You don't think they look hip and cool?

I would also include old guys with turned around ball caps and with earrings.

 

Sad attempts to be "cool"/

[cdemundo]

7 hours ago, JaxxBKK said:

 

1. It's not a quid pro quo.

2. You have control over what you wear and your appearance.

 

I absolutely guarantee appearing and smelling clean and being better dressed will greatly change outcomes in interactions with people and especially Thais.

 

Even paying full price at Uniqlo short and shirt around b1500. If you shop about paying 400b for a shirt, 400b shorts easy. Uniqlo just had sale on shorts 500b. Decent looking, proper shoes 1200-2500b.

 

Trouble is they don't care.

 

This also projects: I have no women in my life.

 

In Bangkok no less the vast majority of western men are roaming around Sukhumvit in tired, black t-shirts and worse singlets. Cargo shorts complete the farang starter pack. One drunk about 60 I see regularly who is absolutely trash wears a tired black singlet, cargo shorts and flip flops. Of course, he's a broke drunk. Women just as bad. Always overweight (as many men), overexposed. They seem to think bc they're uncomfortable in the heat it's license to wear next to nothing. If they were hot no complaints, but they're gross.

 

Black has been exhausted, it's not a cool color when everyone is wearing it. Sometimes I see idiots in Thailand usually UK wearing all black and long sleeve shirt. In they mind probably thinking they're cool like Johnny Cash. Look like a joker from the 80s.

 

Then there are the tattoos 🙄

 

Improve your life immediately dress better, shave and wear shoes in BKK ffs

 

"Then there are the tattoos"

 

I think a dull-witted old guy thinks a tattoo will make him look "hip and dangerous".

Maybe give him that "bad boy" vibe that chicks dig so much.

To me old guys with tattoos look like twits (or is it tw?ts?).

 

Re: vocabulary has AN been acquired by "The Lady's Home Journal"?

[Thingamabob]

Be nice if Thais could find the energy to screw down bottle tops firmly.

[cdemundo]

15 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

 

If I dress more nicely will that stop the streets of Bangkok from smelling like shìt and clean up all the discarded cooking oil? Will it increase wages for the downtrodden serfs and increase the price that rice farmers can get for their crops? Will it mean less annoying white-skinnd hi-sos in ads and on the telly? Yeah, didn't think so. I could go on but you get the picture. 

I'm sure you could go on but it has already been pointless so good that you stopped.

[cdemundo]

2 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

No thanks !

I put my headphones on with my music and don't like to talk to colleagues

"Hello ...goodbye is all I say 

I can get through my 8 hour shift without a conversation 

 

Hey I have an idea:

Try that here.

[ronnie50]

Aedes mosquitos (the daytime ones that can transmit dengue), aggressive drivers (especially the self-entitled ones in expensive cars), poor food hygiene/handling, the pooyai/poonoi system that holds the country back from social and economic development.

[Hummin]

2 hours ago, ravip said:

Loud mouthed foreigners with an entitled attitude,  in public places - BTS, restaurants etc.

Thai or Asians look news or lakon on their phone in public places.

 

Worst place breakfest area in hotels

 

 

[cdemundo]

1 hour ago, JaxxBKK said:

 

I don't disagree. It's very difficult to find good looking sandal type footwear especially in Thailand.

 

Just look at the Thai young men and more or less dress like that. That is THE style here. They mostly wear long pants and that's proper in Asia and big city - but I've lived my life in short pants. Not going to change. Even when I wore long pants and a long sleeve shirt to work it was still not that uncomfortable going and coming from work even in the hot season.

 

Many from UK and Northern Europe really suffer the heat and I've got that but you can still dress smartly. Some guys from the UK absolutely love the weather here.

 

I understand that tourists are going to feel uncomfortable in heat. If you've not acclimated to the miserable weather here and it drives you to a singlet and flipflops in BKK you're in the wrong place. Slides not flipflops and dear God no hiking type, thick sandals (Keen, Merrill, especially Teva).

 

If you purchase the right clothes they are not much warmer. A light collar shirt more comfortable than heavy t-shirt. I actually find shoes feel much better on the pavement than my slides.

 

The real problem is that many of these guys have just like slobs are entire life. They feel totally uncomfortable in a collared shirt. I imagine they feel comfortable just wearing a nice shirt and a decent pair of shorts. Like it's "not them" . But I would urge this lot to try it. Just buy a decent collared shirt. Go to the regular watering hole and I guarantee you any female service staff that regularly takes care of you will remark that you look smart. 🌞

 

Agreed on the kids and tattoos, just because they think it's cool doesn't make it so. I was never a fan personally. They don't age well both in style and appearance. Can't say I'm wrong here. So many heavy inked tattoos as well. The tribal tattoos of yesterday are perfect examples of mistakes made

 

Clean yourself up, take care of your skin, exercise, wear a smile (Thai women love smiles), give tips - watch your life change 👍👍👍

Some cannot consider a collared shirt with short sleeves as they don't want to deny the world the sight of their lovely tattoos.

[Lemsta69]

12 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

I'm sure you could go on but it has already been pointless so good that you stopped.

 

Look, here comes another boot licker 🤣

[terryofcrete]

Cheap Charlie ‘s chips !