Watching People Snap In Thailand

[WebBangkok]

I have been here almost 3 years and have seen quite a few people totally snap or in other words have a brain explosion over the smallest things.

I have to admit sometimes I look away and have a little school girls giggle as I do find it to be funny.

What funny things have you seen people "snap" over?

One of the funniest was in Asoke McDonalds when a guy went berserk over them not giving him a discount for 3 large meals. Who the hell baragins for a discount at McDonalds? lol

[Soutpeel]

Was the guy at McD's Thai ?.....indian or russian ?...

[WebBangkok]

Was the guy at McD's Thai ?.....indian or russian ?...

He wasnt Thai or a farang.

[Pedzie]

Was the guy at McD's Thai ?.....indian or russian ?...

He wasnt Thai or a farang.

I thought any non Thai was a farang!

[doji]

Ordering 3 large meals?..............got to be at least 1/2 farang !

Edited November 14, 2011 by doji

[Jingthing]

Was the guy at McD's Thai ?.....indian or russian ?...

He wasnt Thai or a farang.

I thought any non Thai was a farang!

You're joking, right?

[Kilgore Trout]

Was the guy at McD's Thai ?.....indian or russian ?...

He wasnt Thai or a farang.

I thought any non Thai was a farang!

Well, you thought wrong

You must be a newbie

[Pedzie]

I thought farang = foreigner ? Non Thai !

[Tywais]

I thought farang = foreigner ? Non Thai !

Doesn't quite sound right for Cambodians, Vietnamese, Laotians, Burmese does it?

[Semper]

Ordering 3 large meals?..............got to be at least 1/2 farang !

Big family.

[doji]

I thought farang = foreigner ? Non Thai !

This is not the same as

(A = B , B = C),………therefore (A = C)

Edited November 14, 2011 by doji

[astral]

The Thai's have specific names for each of the Asian nations,

the rest are lumped together as Farang.

[Ijustwannateach]

People who have mental health issues, from what I've seen, will find that those issues are magnified here, sometimes to the point of their destruction (and almost always to the effect of their isolation). There's a great deal of personal irresponsibility and denial operating.

[elliss]

Was the guy at McD's Thai ?.....indian or russian ?...

na, him be a big fat , tite arse jock.

:jap:

[Jingthing]

The Thai's have specific names for each of the Asian nations,

the rest are lumped together as Farang.

That's rather a gross simplification. How often do Japanese Americans get called f-rang? It's racial. Face it.

[MrJohnson]

Don't people normally have brain explosions AFTER they eat McDonalds?

[WebBangkok]

Don't people normally have brain explosions AFTER they eat McDonalds?

Nah, but I sometimes have an ass explosion. Sorry if anyone is eating while reading this.

[Semper]

The Thai's have specific names for each of the Asian nations,

the rest are lumped together as Farang.

Maybe those are the only nations they have learned in school.

[bkkjames]

I lost it at a fat old scottish farang at mcd's on silom one morning two months ago. The guy was yelling at the staff about his order and then started calling the poor girl a stupid XYZ expletive.

Then he turned to me and said "Why don't these ____ people learn English - it's an American Restaurant, been here for 20 years and sick of it".

To which I replied in a not so calm manner, "if you have been 20 years why don't you learn how to speak some Thai - I can barely understand your scottish accent, it's no wonder the girl rolled her eyes at you mumbling away".

Hope the guy is a member of TV by the way_ dick-head.

[Jingthing]

Not sure about McD's but actually I do think Thai staff at a place like Starbucks in a tourist area should speak basic customer English around the topic of coffee orders.

Next ...

[F1fanatic]

Its one of those embarrassing secrets.... Those of us who have lived here for a few years v rarely do actually 'snap' about something completely un-important .

[WebBangkok]

I lost it at a fat old scottish farang at mcd's on silom one morning two months ago. The guy was yelling at the staff about his order and then started calling the poor girl a stupid XYZ expletive.

Then he turned to me and said "Why don't these ____ people learn English - it's an American Restaurant, been here for 20 years and sick of it".

To which I replied in a not so calm manner, "if you have been 20 years why don't you learn how to speak some Thai - I can barely understand your scottish accent, it's no wonder the girl rolled her eyes at you mumbling away".

Hope the guy is a member of TV by the way_ dick-head.

lol yeah I hate seeing shit like that. I mean your in Thailand for christ sake.

Yeah I am half Scottish and know what some of us are like. A lot of us are total tools, but not me ofcourse.

[bkkjames]

I lost it at a fat old scottish farang at mcd's on silom one morning two months ago. The guy was yelling at the staff about his order and then started calling the poor girl a stupid XYZ expletive.

Then he turned to me and said "Why don't these ____ people learn English - it's an American Restaurant, been here for 20 years and sick of it".

To which I replied in a not so calm manner, "if you have been 20 years why don't you learn how to speak some Thai - I can barely understand your scottish accent, it's no wonder the girl rolled her eyes at you mumbling away".

Hope the guy is a member of TV by the way_ dick-head.

lol yeah I hate seeing shit like that. I mean your in Thailand for christ sake.

Yeah I am half Scottish and know what some of us are like. A lot of us are total tools, but not me ofcourse.

Nothing against Scots - just his accent and moreover the fact that he was screaming at the girl with the whole restaurant watching amazed me. Then he turns and basically calls them all a bunch of uneducated _expletive. This is a guy in a shirt and tie by the way. I mean we all get frustrated at times but the way he was going on about it is like his wife just sold his house and ran off with her cousin.

[Soutpeel]

I lost it at a fat old scottish farang at mcd's on silom one morning two months ago. The guy was yelling at the staff about his order and then started calling the poor girl a stupid XYZ expletive.

Then he turned to me and said "Why don't these ____ people learn English - it's an American Restaurant, been here for 20 years and sick of it".

To which I replied in a not so calm manner, "if you have been 20 years why don't you learn how to speak some Thai - I can barely understand your scottish accent, it's no wonder the girl rolled her eyes at you mumbling away".

Hope the guy is a member of TV by the way_ dick-head.

If he cant be understood in his native tongue, what chance is there he would be understood in Scottish/Thai

See you Jimmy Khrap....

[Soutpeel]

but the way he was going on about it is like his wife just sold his house and ran off with her cousin.

Maybe she did.... cos she couldnt understand <deleted> he was talking about..

[Moonrakers]

Once saw an American guy lose it at the airport.

He was going ballistic because there were no seats left on the plane and he was demanding to be on it. Don't quite understand what the girl at check-in was expected to do, take a ticket from somebody else and give it to him?

[Thaddeus]

I've witnessed several instances of westerners venting, it's usually quite funny to witness and no one really gets hurt, apart from 'feelings'

IMO it is way better to vent a bit of steam out of the pressure valve every now and then, rather than the typical Asian attitude I witness of storing up every little frustration inside until it gets to an explosive point, then people can get really hurt.

But that said, if the westerner makes too regular a habit of it, they are usually born jerks.

[Jingthing]

I certainly lose it ... sometimes.

The other day I ordered pak boong fai daeng at a restaurant, said it in Thai, pointed to the item on the menu and was brought chicken with cashew nuts instead. I figured out why, there was a PICTURE of the cashew nut dish above the veg dish on the menu. But I knew for sure it was just plain stupidity, laziness, and stereotyping of the waiter to give me the cashew nut dish. So when it came, I rather let it loose. In this case, the waiter was so cool and friendly about it (bringing me the corrected dish) that the anger came and went. The anger I felt wasn't about an order mistake, but the ignorant f-rang stereotyping.

[melvinmelvin]

The Thai's have specific names for each of the Asian nations,

the rest are lumped together as Farang.

like farangs from Africa and Arab countries?

[F1fanatic]

Once saw an American guy lose it at the airport.

He was going ballistic because there were no seats left on the plane and he was demanding to be on it. Don't quite understand what the girl at check-in was expected to do, take a ticket from somebody else and give it to him?

Presumably he had a 'booked' seat? its hard to imagine anyone going ballistic otherwise.

Edit - Airlines have a nasty habit of 'over-booking', assuming that some will not turn-up.

Edited November 14, 2011 by F1fanatic