1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

You mention 'nasty' and in the same post mention anyone speaking Thai is debasing themselves - once again showing your true colours... 

 

Well done - you 'farted' in your own face - yet again !!!...   not even sharp enough to see it... 

 

Some people understand humour, others, like you Richard, are too dim for it.

Is this loser lewie 3.0 we are being blessed with now.

6 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Some people understand humour, others, like you Richard, are too dim for it.

I think myself and Richard have read a lot of your stuff over the months, so I think you should refrain from using the word, "dim"........

1 minute ago, transam said:

I think myself and Richard have read a lot of your stuff over the months, so I think you should refrain from using the word, "dim"........

Yup. Always has to be someone with a personal sledge each day.🙃🙃

12 minutes ago, transam said:

I think myself and Richard have read a lot of your stuff over the months, so I think you should refrain from using the word, "dim"........

 

Well, you two make a very suitable intellectual pair, one tedious as hell, the other with an IQ of 54 . And transam is not too bright either. Enjoy the show.

7 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Is this loser lewie 3.0 we are being blessed with now.

 

Looks like it can't be anything but that:

 

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Right then, lads.

 

"Cultural Identity - Are You Confused?"

 

No.

 

 

I have read tons of Romeo's crap. Can you imagine how much fun these girls have with him not only for pure comedy but also for monetary gain. Honestly does not know any Thai at all. Hard to play the game if there is no way in the world you can  understand it. Basically oblivious. 

6 minutes ago, marin said:

I have read tons of Romeo's crap. Can you imagine how much fun these girls have with him not only for pure comedy but also for monetary gain. Honestly does not know any Thai at all. Hard to play the game if there is no way in the world you can  understand it. Basically oblivious. 

But, folk like me don't care what those speaking their own lingo are saying, even if I did, after I/you have left the area, they will still talk about me/you.

 

I've been here long enough to see/hear it daily. 🤗

1 minute ago, transam said:

But, folk like me don't care what those speaking their own lingo are saying, even if I did, after I/you have left the area, they will still talk about me/you.

 

I've been here long enough to see/hear it daily. 🤗

Agree, again ...........Grrrrrrrrr!

20 minutes ago, short-Timer said:

 

Looks like it can't be anything but that:

 

 

 

Do what's needed for clicks i guess.

"When immigrants move to a new country, how they connect with both their original culture and the new culture can have a big impact on their mental health. Research shows that there are a few common patterns (...)"

 

This is irrelevant, as, probably, 98% of forum members here are not immigrants, but tourists, or "non-immigrants" (i.e. having glorified tourism status), with no citizen rights whatsoever.

 

 

bob smith - is that you??? 

People on this forum are judgmental and mean-spirited.  Why do white guys from the West spend all this time trying to bring each other down? Why is that?

5 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

Do what's needed for clicks i guess.

Got to keep feeding the beast. 

12 hours ago, JimCM said:

Why do you think that? I am not anti west at all, I still have a house in the UK.

If youre pro muslim youre anti west

10 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

On the 'language' side of the subject.

 

Without question, knowing the local language makes life infinitely easier. Yet, there are many levels to that knowledge - from simply getting by to being able to express yourself clearly, even eloquently.

 

Any foreigner who makes the effort deserves credit. Thai is not an easy language to learn, and to be fair, it’s of limited use outside Thailand. But for those of us who live here, it’s the foreign language we encounter most often, and it shapes much of our daily interaction.

 

What I can’t agree with are those who make no effort at all, none whatsoever. Even a small attempt goes a long way. A few words, a basic greeting, or a polite phrase can completely change the way people respond to you. It’s a gesture of respect, in my view - a way of showing that we’re not just living in Thailand, but living with Thais.

 

At the end of the day, fluency isn’t the point. It’s the willingness to try, to bridge the gap, to show you care enough to meet people halfway. That effort often speaks louder than the words themselves.

I speak thai well..my exwife learned me.Her english is wery good after she teached it in a language school in Thailand.Now I feel confident when i meet thais when im in Thailand.Easy for travel alone or ask about fex direction to a shop or place I want to go.I been hired in a language school in my country for fresh up the language in my country for thais about 6 months before they had the exams.They all passed.The big problem is that they only speak thai with echother in the phone..at work and so on.So actually they lost alot of the skills they had before.I also speak khmer and have been on CHANNEL 3 in Thailand because of that.I stayed around thais in surin for about 6 years and when u listen thai it's easier to learn it.I know many foreigners not interested learn thai and that's up to themselves I think.I don't blame anyone for that.My kids and my exwife moved to my country about 18 years ago and still living here.My kids learned my language wery fast after moving here because they was wery young and played with local kids everyday.They speak thai fluent also.Now at age 21 and 19,They prefer to speak my language on daily bases.My daughter work at a local hospital and my son studying national safety at a university.

Language skills open many doors and let u in to a world that makes it more interesting and understand how people in other cultures think.This is my opinion.

33 minutes ago, norsurin said:

I speak thai well..my exwife learned me.Her english is wery good after she teached it in a language school in Thailand.Now I feel confident when i meet thais when im in Thailand.Easy for travel alone or ask about fex direction to a shop or place I want to go.I been hired in a language school in my country for fresh up the language in my country for thais about 6 months before they had the exams.They all passed.The big problem is that they only speak thai with echother in the phone..at work and so on.So actually they lost alot of the skills they had before.I also speak khmer and have been on CHANNEL 3 in Thailand because of that.I stayed around thais in surin for about 6 years and when u listen thai it's easier to learn it.I know many foreigners not interested learn thai and that's up to themselves I think.I don't blame anyone for that.My kids and my exwife moved to my country about 18 years ago and still living here.My kids learned my language wery fast after moving here because they was wery young and played with local kids everyday.They speak thai fluent also.Now at age 21 and 19,They prefer to speak my language on daily bases.My daughter work at a local hospital and my son studying national safety at a university.

Language skills open many doors and let u in to a world that makes it more interesting and understand how people in other cultures think.This is my opinion.

 

This is surely a wery much funee windup...

On 9/26/2025 at 5:45 AM, JimCM said:

 

Right then, lads. I’ve been watching the usual chorus of moaning about Thais, Thai ways, and “how things were better back in Blighty.” And it got me thinking: is it really Thailand that’s the problem… or is it you?

You’ve been here 10, 20, 30 years. You’ve got a house, a wife, maybe even a soi dog or two. But somehow you’ve managed to go that whole time without learning more Thai than “chang beer, two glass.” Not a single Thai male mate to your name (bar the motorbike taxi guy who pretends to know your football team). And yet you bash the country daily like it’s your job.

Here’s the question: have you lost your cultural identity? Or are you desperately clinging to some Union Jack beach towel of the past, shouting about warm ale and “proper sausages” as if it keeps you anchored?

Because honestly, you’re living in Thailand, but some of you still behave like you’re on extended leave from the local Wetherspoons. You don’t speak the language, you don’t understand the humour, and you treat the locals like background extras in your own little expat soap opera.

So - cultural identity check:

Are you genuinely part of Thai society?

Or are you just squatting in it, confused and homesick, while insisting you’re “well integrated” because you can eat som tam without crying?

 

As someone who’s worked in psychology, I can tell you this behaviour looks like a classic case of Expatus Stagnaticus - the tragic condition of men stuck between “old Blighty nostalgia” and “new Thai reality,” unable to move forward.

What do you reckon - have you found your identity here, or are you still wandering the Tesco aisle in Pattaya muttering about how much better baked beans used to taste back home, how there would be no migrant issues if the Krays were still alive?

 

What follows isn’t a political comment, just a small reflection. For me, acculturation and the negotiation of identity often feel like an elevating experience. I was reminded of this when Donald and Melania Trump got stuck in an elevator at the UN — forced to take a few steps themselves, not backwards or sideways, but upwards. That small act is a neat metaphor for cultural adaptation: progress comes less from effortless lifts, more from the conscious climb.

 

21 hours ago, angryguy said:

If youre pro muslim youre anti west

Im not pro Muslim, what are you on about?

On 9/26/2025 at 3:15 PM, short-Timer said:

By far some of the most poorly written AI drivel I’ve seen dumped on here yet. For someone who claims to be a professional in psychology, this is an insult to basic intelligence. You’d think anyone supposedly educated could manage to string together a few coherent paragraphs without leaning on an LLM and ending up sounding like a bargain-bin chatbot spewing clichés while pretending to be witty. Absolute joke.

Are you trying to be funny?

On 9/26/2025 at 4:38 PM, BritManToo said:

Lanna mainly.

Had trouble at the petrol station this morning, "e-yee-seep, nung roy baht cap" ..... the guy starts pointing at various options, probably Burmese.

You said you had an EV in another post.

No wonder the guy was confused.

11 hours ago, JimCM said:

Im not pro Muslim, what are you on about?

You’re pro Hamas, you don’t care if they’re Muslims, as long as they kill Jews.

34 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

You said you had an EV in another post.

No wonder the guy was confused.

Honda click 160 scooter ...........

I rarely drive a car into Chiang Mai, nowhere to park and a traffic nightmare.

Scooter, in and out of the cars, can park directly outside anywhere I want to go.

17 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Honda click 160 scooter ...........

I rarely drive a car into Chiang Mai, nowhere to park and a traffic nightmare.

Scooter, in and out of the cars, can park directly outside anywhere I want to go.

Kept a Honda Wave when I lived outside of Udon Thani for same reason.  When going too town, way to congestions and no parking.  Move to PKK, and rarely drove the MB, since traffic & parking is no problem here.   Driving the Wave was for enjoyment.

 

MB are essential for metro areas.

 

Did get a E-MB, and drive that weather permitting, and riding quite enjoyable again ... go figure.

On 9/25/2025 at 8:45 PM, JimCM said:

Cultural Identity – Are You Confused?

No, not in the slightest. I’m an American manly man who does man things with confidence and doesn’t flinch living in th being myself and don’t give a hoot about the perceptions of others.

7 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Honda click 160 scooter ...........

I rarely drive a car into Chiang Mai, nowhere to park and a traffic nightmare.

Scooter, in and out of the cars, can park directly outside anywhere I want to go.

Your EV is a push bike if I recall correctly.

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

Your EV is a push bike if I recall correctly.

I have a MTB with a 500w assist, and a Neta V EV car.

10 hours ago, mogandave said:

You’re pro Hamas, you don’t care if they’re Muslims, as long as they kill Jews.

Go away, I am not pro Hamas, nor Prp Netanyahu, who helped form Hamas 

On 9/26/2025 at 12:13 PM, transam said:

I have probably been here longer than you, and I don't speak Thai, because I am Dyslaxative.........😝

Probably more just to do with laziness and a lower than average IQ I would think.

So people just are not that bright.