Things that annoy you in Thailand

[cjinchiangrai]

10 hours ago, rumak said:

 

Those guys ...and the ones still wearing masks and posting 3 year old covid articles at least make it easy for me to know :  avoid this person !   

Thank you

[Bruce Aussie]

18 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

What did these people used to do before they got access to the electric speakers and amplifiers? they should start doing that again.

Boom boom without the speakers.😀

[saintdomingo]

On the BTS, people who stand 5 feet back from the yellow line and then the one who comes up and stands 2 to 3 feet behind them.

[ujayujay]

20 hours ago, proton said:

Soi dogs

Pleng String

Foreigners

Restricted booze sales time

Tax on wine

The Mrs

Proton....

[saintdomingo]

11 hours ago, rumak said:

 

Those guys ...and the ones still wearing masks and posting 3 year old covid articles at least make it easy for me to know :  avoid this person !   

Some of the ones wearing masks had radiotherapy for throat cancer, their throats are still in recovery and are keen for the air pollution not to make things worse. Plus they may have a wife who "encourages" the wearing adding dire warnings about covid.

[ujayujay]

- Know-it-alls Foreigner
- Pattaya

- Grumpy old farangs
- Everything is better in my country, farangs
- Phuket
- Bob
- Cheap charlies
- Barstool philosophers

- Koh Samui
..................

[roo860]

2 hours 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 👍👍👍

Bloody hell, I didn't know Gok Wan was an AN member.🙂

[Look Chang]

Girls with a penis . . .

[Hummin]

9 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

 

If you have a normal decent Thai women, she want let you out in a wrinkled T-shirt, and need to iron it first. She want be looked down on because of you. At least my experience 

[Hummin]

Grab/taxi can't use the seat belts,

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Hummin said:

If you have a normal decent Thai women, she want let you out in a wrinkled T-shirt, and need to iron it first. She want be looked down on because of you. At least my experience 

 

Some of the slickest criminals on Wall Street have 5000 dollar suits. 

 

Clothing can mask the real person, so giving it too much importance is a bit silly. 

 

 

[scubascuba3]

2 hours ago, cdemundo said:

You don't think they look hip and cool?

No, Bandanas look lame, I once saw a guy 75+ coming out of the restaurant with young clothes and bandana, looked ridiculous, 30 seconds later his father followed behind, same outfit, hilarious, that's Buakhao for you

[ronnie50]

4 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

No, Bandanas look lame, I once saw a guy 75+ coming out of the restaurant with young clothes and bandana, looked ridiculous, 30 seconds later his father followed behind, same outfit, hilarious, that's Buakhao for you

 

Who remembers this guy and his Union Jack bandanas? He was not old (then) it's true - still... his bandanas were mocked.

 

https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/03d0f200-b9ae-11e3-baad-4d11941dc6bc_rusedski-bandana-1398522397.jpg

[harryviking]

21 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

I'll start

 

old bald guys with bandanas 

......and drunk! 🤣🤣

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

Who remembers this guy and his Union Jack bandanas? He was not old (then) it's true - still... his bandanas were mocked.

 

If you can't wear a bandana when you're playing tennis, then what kind of world are we living in?

 

Bandanas actually protect sweat from rolling down into your eyes and face. 

 

And so what if it's a flag? Jesus. Fashion police is scary. 

 

[Hummin]

9 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

If you can't wear a bandana when you're playing tennis, then what kind of world are we living in?

 

Bandanas actually protect sweat from rolling down into your eyes and face. 

 

And so what if it's a flag? Jesus. Fashion police is scary. 

 

A baseball cap is better 

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Hummin said:

A baseball cap is better 

There's no baseball in Thailand.

Maybe in Japan it might look cool.

But never ever backwards or sideways. 

 

[Ralf001]

4 hours ago, Ron Micheli said:

Unregulated motorbike riders. 

What is an unregulated motor bike rider?

[JoeRan]

18 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

This is a very sad comment. 

 

I can only assume that you are one of the many angry, nasty, disrespectful foreigners I see everyday. 

 

Perfectly stated. Almost every comment in this post has been negative towards either the Thai people or Thailand as a country. If you are that miserable here, please leave and go back to your idealic country you came from.

it is a privilege that Thailand has accepted me to live here.

[Hummin]

18 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

There's no baseball in Thailand.

Maybe in Japan it might look cool.

But never ever backwards or sideways. 

 

Huh, what? 

[newnative]

Tattoos

Stray dogs

Loud motorcycles

Smelly farangs

[BillStrangeOgre]

Motorbike drivers who have taken out the baffles (silencer) in the exhaust and make a serious amount of noise!

I f*****g hate it!! 😉

[unblocktheplanet]

18 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

You must be kidding, I can get it all day long.

Yeah, but you have to pay her for it.

[scubascuba3]

52 minutes ago, ronnie50 said:

 

Who remembers this guy and his Union Jack bandanas? He was not old (then) it's true - still... his bandanas were mocked.

 

https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/03d0f200-b9ae-11e3-baad-4d11941dc6bc_rusedski-bandana-1398522397.jpg

Not a bandana, that's similar to what Pat Cash used to wear

[JakeC]

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Tattoos

Stray dogs

Loud motorcycles

Smelly farangs

 

How can tattoos annoy you? That seems weird.

I cannot state that I meet any smelly 'farangs'. Where do you meet them?

Stray dogs are cool 😊 Are you?

Loud motorcycles are fleeting. Are you following them around?

 

😊

[JakeC]

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Perfectly stated. Almost every comment in this post has been negative towards either the Thai people or Thailand as a country. If you are that miserable here, please leave and go back to your idealic country you came from.

it is a privilege that Thailand has accepted me to live here.

 

 

There are just annoying themselves. There are always those who try to place the blame for their hatred and irritation on things outside of themselves. There are those who express hate for other foreigners. But it's really mostly just their inability to adapt. Reflections of themselves.

Indeed the noisy bikes can be a distraction, but that's what they love. Live and let live, as long as you don't harm anyone else. 

As you say, it's a privilege. Treat it like that and reap the benefits.

[Dirk Z]

Noisy tuk-tuks

The plus plus

[SpaceKadet]

22 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

I'll start

 

old bald guys with bandanas 

But it's practical.

You're bald, you wear a bandana. It's hot, your head sweats, bandana gets wet. Bandana gets cooler due to normal water evaporation. Your head gets cooler.

Air conditioning on the go!

[Felt 35]

When road users (90%) include some foreigners in / on a motorized vehicle, whether they are on a two-wheeler or a four-wheeler, etc. drive with the front of the vehicle halfway into the roadway where there is an intersection. Which in turn makes other road users unsure about their intention and whether they stop or continue driving out on the road even if they have the duty to yield 

Felt

 

[faraday]

8 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Rainy season, mosquitoes, gnats and ants, reckless drivers, H Pylori, meat left out uncovered, greedy expectations of some women, schools passing children who fail and not teaching English properly, trash thrown everywhere, neighbors stealing your produce, poisoning of animals, lack of care for children, demeaning of women, and foreigners that trash talk other foreigners, assuming they know all by just a few.

Just a few things then...😁