Thais don't have a monopoly on nonsense products.

I bought one of these things….Second hand, the guy I bought it from said it was for polishing your front teeth! Dam….That would explain the tangy taste.

Edited August 15, 201114 yr by Tonto21

One product that I find amazing is those concentrated chicken stock things that cost an arm and a leg-thais love em and not sure why-what benefits? Super intelligence?scale large buildings with a single bound?

Somebody please fill me in on these-perhaps I am missing something incredible here.

I know the stuff you mean. My son loves it. I don't know why.

And yes, it's expensive.

I think the idea is that it increases your IQ.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's supposed to make your skin whiter. Then again, maybe it's supposed to make you slimmer.

Or ......... maybe all three.

Or get you giants gold eggs falling from a giant chicken ...

The last nonsense product I bought was a smartphone. It was nonsense because I only used it to make calls

are shoes nonsense products?

from the UK:

World's first 24-hour footwear shopping channel

05 Apr 2011

SHOE lovers will be glued to the TV tomorrow — as the world's first 24-hour footwear shopping channel launches.

A spokeswoman said: "This is what shoe lovers have been waiting for - 24-hour shoes."

more

Edited August 15, 201114 yr by Atmos

There's some kind of spa near me that advertises a height booster program, Id love to know what they do in there

So.. I think it's safe to say that nonsensical products aren't unique to Thailand.

It's called capitalism, and marketing.

Yup. As Charles Revlon said, "In the factory we make cosmetics, in the drugstore we sell hope."

are shoes nonsense products?

from the UK:

World's first 24-hour footwear shopping channel

05 Apr 2011

SHOE lovers will be glued to the TV tomorrow — as the world's first 24-hour footwear shopping channel launches.

A spokeswoman said: "This is what shoe lovers have been waiting for - 24-hour shoes."

more

Most definitively not!

However, I've never understood the online shoe shopping, I need to try them on to see if they fit so probably wouldn't be buying any shoes from a shoe channel either.

Well if I was going to con sell to the public the channal I would use is Fox news which has it's own audiance of crack pots that actually believe the crap they spout .So should make record sales selling any crap

Many here seemed to have overlooked that the Brand's Essence of Chicken is a UK product.

http://www.brandsessence.co.uk/about.asp

Wifey bought some sort of supplement last week from a friend that is supposed to cure monthly girlie pains. Her friend said that a side effect for her was that the first week she felt very horny.

Something I can confirm as the wife is exhausting me this week.

Seems some products really do as advertised.

Wifey bought some sort of supplement last week from a friend that is supposed to cure monthly girlie pains. Her friend said that a side effect for her was that the first week she felt very horny.

Something I can confirm as the wife is exhausting me this week.

Seems some products really do as advertised.

I guess if she's pregnant as an indirect result of this then it's 9 months of no more 'girlie pains'. However....

by the way the nonsense product I originally talked about is Swiss but seems only to be sold in Thailand.

It seems to contain a non-digestable sugar that passes through the body. However bacteria in the gut will metabolise it producing gases.

A quote from wiki

'Inulin-containing foods can be rather gassy'

So maybe the gf will want whitener. For the washing....

Wifey bought some sort of supplement last week from a friend that is supposed to cure monthly girlie pains. Her friend said that a side effect for her was that the first week she felt very horny.

Something I can confirm as the wife is exhausting me this week.

Seems some products really do as advertised.

...does she still suffer [girly pains]???

In my experience, if you can get a Thai to tell her its nonsense she may well believe it.

The "falang" doesn't understand Thai products

How very,very true, I've experienced this a few times myself. I was left open mouthed once, I was having some work done at my home, Some structural welding, I saw the guy doing the welding had it all wrong, the set-up, I explained to, my then wife, (my Thai was crap then) what they need to do. My wife started to explain how I wanted it doing, the guy looked at her then me gave her some old <deleted>, she just walked off, and he did what he wanted. I spoke to her, "whats' happening" I asked; "you think too much' she said!

Fact is, I'm a welding engineer, the whole set-up was wrong on the welding set, they couldn't make it work……3 times that day I re-set the unit, each time they would watch me, I would walk away, the guy would change the setting back to what he had on there, try and weld, (no joy) then laugh, (I presume at this dumb farang) in the end I feared I would punch this fookers lights-out.

I couldn't take it anymore, I walked over to the welding set, (with them sniggering and obviously talking about me) I re-set it and started doing some welding, (putting down some test 'stringers' on a piece of old steel)

Did they think, Ok, maybe this farang knows one thing, how to make the welding set work? No the frigging wasters, had a bad case of 'lose of face' I had to get a new crew in to do the work, fine, there loss

That was one of the most frustrating stories I'd read on TV. I was getting angry for you!

In my experience, if you can get a Thai to tell her its nonsense she may well believe it.

The "falang" doesn't understand Thai products

How very,very true, I've experienced this a few times myself. I was left open mouthed once, I was having some work done at my home, Some structural welding, I saw the guy doing the welding had it all wrong, the set-up, I explained to, my then wife, (my Thai was crap then) what they need to do. My wife started to explain how I wanted it doing, the guy looked at her then me gave her some old <deleted>, she just walked off, and he did what he wanted. I spoke to her, "whats' happening" I asked; "you think too much' she said!

Fact is, I'm a welding engineer, the whole set-up was wrong on the welding set, they couldn't make it work……3 times that day I re-set the unit, each time they would watch me, I would walk away, the guy would change the setting back to what he had on there, try and weld, (no joy) then laugh, (I presume at this dumb farang) in the end I feared I would punch this fookers lights-out.

I couldn't take it anymore, I walked over to the welding set, (with them sniggering and obviously talking about me) I re-set it and started doing some welding, (putting down some test 'stringers' on a piece of old steel)

Did they think, Ok, maybe this farang knows one thing, how to make the welding set work? No the frigging wasters, had a bad case of 'lose of face' I had to get a new crew in to do the work, fine, there loss

I agree with your wife

I have to laugh at the American informicals they run at night with the thai voice over.