This incident is very revealing as to how Thailand is quite crude in many respects compared to Japan, Singapore and Korea.

 

A Thai citizen, basically clueless as to the cultural differences ( probably never being educated about them) conducts himself in just the same manner as he would at home.

 

Thailand: 

Public urination: for the most part accepted. 

Bribery of the boys in brown: very common practice

 

Singapore

Public urination: well known legal offense

Bribery of police: well known legal offense

34 minutes ago, StandardIssue said:

 

This incident is very revealing as to how Thailand is quite crude in many respects compared to Japan, Singapore and Korea.

 

A Thai citizen, basically clueless as to the cultural differences ( probably never being educated about them) conducts himself in just the same manner as he would at home.

 

Thailand: 

Public urination: for the most part accepted. 

Bribery of the boys in brown: very common practice

 

Singapore

Public urination: well known legal offense

Bribery of police: well known legal offense

 

I'm a white boy from a "1st world country" but I'd probably have done the same thing as this Thai boy. When ya gotta p1ss, ya gotta p1ss.

 

Actually, I stayed in Singers for six weeks in late 1997. I remember getting really drunk and going for a wander and needed a p1ss. There were no toilets nearby so I just p1ssed up against a tree. No shame in that, better than p1ssing my pants.

 

I'd wandered very far from home and wasn't prepared to pay the stupid taxi prices, assuming they'd even stop for whitey. So I stuck my thumb out and hitched a ride back to near my hostel with a lovely Singaporean bloke who was driving a security company van. He told me I could have gotten arrested for hitchhiking if the coppers had spotted me. We ended up having a good laugh about the stupidity of the situation.

 

Needless to say I got the puck out of that nanny state PDQ and headed to Thailand. 

 

So, in conclusion,  go the Thai boy.

 

5 hours ago, zz4096 said:

A man's gotta do what at a man's gotta do. I've urinated in "public" before because there were no toilets nearby and I had to go

 

Yer of course---even Prince Phillip  (before he became a Royal)  and 4 of his shipmates,were arrested for it  in the 40s-- In red light district of  Kings Cross Oz, near where their Greek warship was docked.

But in Oz they call it indecent exposure---sounds a lot worse---so of course it was all expunged from the records , but not from the notes of one of Australia's top crime reporters---who then as a young cub reporter was sent along every morning to see if there was anything of interest in the early court sessions....  

 

 

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7 hours ago, zz4096 said:

 

A man's gotta do what at a man's gotta do. I've urinated in "public" before because there were no toilets nearby and I had to go. Or I was on a train in a "1st world" country that didn't have toilets and I had to p1ss in between the cars, or even worse after they stopped leaving a gap between carriages I had to p1ss in the vestibule area. Hopefully one day you will experience such a lack of toilet facilities and you will p1ss your pants. 

 

FIGJAM waste of time that you are .

A healthy man can hold it in for a couple of minutes until the next stop on a train. Anyways, any wise person would not consider pissing between cars on a moving train a “public” place. So your explanation and logic (or lack of) fails and does not apply to this case. The idiot was caught pissing in public areas as we see them do here in LOS. They think turning their back to traffic on the side of a road is OK as long as the public cannot see the flow or their Willy. This is the 3rd world country mentality. On a related matter you seem to exhibit such mentality me thinks😂😂😂

On 6/3/2025 at 9:42 PM, NickyLouie said:

 

Ain't nothing nice there , execute ppl for marijuana ....

 

Place is joke oh lah 

 

Is that your only subject of comment on Singapore.

Time you broadened your horizons.

 

My Thai son went to School in Singapore, his personal development from student centered learning, being prompted all day to ask questions and realising that the teacher was listening to his (all students) questions, teacher often turned discussions into quick (30 minute) small team based research activities, etc... great value. And he helped coach the school's soccer and swimming teams.

 

He did his bachelor degree in Singapore at NUS (National University of Singapore - highly ranked in Asia and globally) then returned to do a similar bachelor degree in Bangkok (Thai gov't would only accept degrees earned outside of Thailand - he asked if it was possible to do the degree (in Thailand) in English. Response was abuse. Then he did his Ph.D. in Thailand in English.

 

His time in Singapore opened many doors and I'm very proud of him. Nowadays he's not interested in any way in gunja or any other drugs. Just loving and caring for his wife and the development of his 4 great kids. 

6 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

 

My Thai son

 

 

What does this even mean ? 

Somchai's kid ?