Forum Top Five "pet Hates". What're Yours?

[Chicog]

One thing that gets my goat is ignorant foreigners who complain bitterly about service and berate staff for not speaking English perfectly - usually they are semi-educated chimps who haven't so much as bothered to learn how to say "Please" or even "Thank You" in Thai.

How hard is it?

[StreetCowboy]

One thing that gets my goat is ignorant foreigners who complain bitterly about service and berate staff for not speaking English perfectly - usually they are semi-educated chimps who haven't so much as bothered to learn how to say "Please" or even "Thank You" in Thai.

How hard is it?

Iget fed up with people who can't offer a reasonable criticism without adding rude and offensive abuse of those they criticise. I find that such abuse makes the person offering the criticism appear ignorant and prejudiced. I find it better to offer criticism in measured terms, and I generally try (perhaps not hard enough) to avoid mixing criticism with abuse, lest people ignore the criticism and respond only to the abuse.

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[7by7]

People trying to convince others that Pattaya is a family resort.321 go

People who have never wandered away from Walking Street or Beach Road, or even worse never been to Pattaya at all, who insist that it isn't.

[BookMan]

1) Bigots

2) Bigots

3) Bigots

4) Bigots

5) Bigots

And, sadly, there are quite many of them.

Need I say more ?

It couldn't hurt to add a bit more detail

[marshbags]

English is not my first l language. Sometimes when I want to make a little bit longer comment I pass because I just don't want to take the risk to be corrected all the time. So for me " the teachers" on the board are not my favorites..

you will probably find they were at the bottom of the heap in their working life. This is their way of feeling like a somebody." look at me, I can spell".

I,d love to expand on my like this but I would fall foul of the no commenting on moderating judgements.

Respect is seemingly going downhill fast for certain members of our forum if certain repetative references on the various threads are anything to go by.

They are certainly not isolated.

By the way there is a very good modern word now referenced in the English dictionary ....

Kidult meaning " an adult behaving like a child."

marshbags

Edited September 8, 2012 by marshbags

[pistachios]

Englisn isn't my first language, but whenever I see someone write "would of" or "should of" it makes me think of this guy

[StreetCowboy]

Englisn isn't my first language, but whenever I see someone write "would of" or "should of" it makes me think of this guy

Its a family thing; Moran is quite a common surname

SC

[HeavyDrinker]

People who, having now "moved on" from the bar scene, see themselves as pillars of society all of a sudden and get outraged at the mere mention of the word "beer"...

People (often the same as above) who seem to see themselves as some sort of moral flagbearer to which all others should adhere to or "go home"....

Retired middle aged men suddenly becoming "Bikers"...

Instant "experts" on all things Thai who lecture/preach at you (usually in a bar) without even stopping to ask or consider your own experience or knowledge of Thailand...

Edited September 8, 2012 by HeavyDrinker

[jackspratt]

Inane topics which continue for 6 pages.

[StreetCowboy]

Inane topics which continue for 6 pages.

You nearly got it onto the seventh, and you should let that dog alone, by the way

SC

[jackspratt]

Inane topics which continue for 6 pages.

You nearly got it onto the seventh, and you should let that dog alone, by the way

SC

People who post without wearing their glasses.

It's a horse by the way.

[canuckamuck]

Looks like a Great Dane; the guy is pulling huge splinters out of his dog but they keep growing back. So the emoticon is about repeated actions that are pointless. What's the saying? Stop pulling eternally reoccurring splinters from your dead dog.

[aussiebebe]

I don't have any pet hates - the only thing I used to hate when I joined this forum in 2008 was people starting threads with questions that they could have answered for themselves using Google, but this is now addressed by replying with a 'Let me Google that for you' link. Ironically, these links could now be other peoples' pet-hates.

[chrisinth]

Looks like a Great Dane; the guy is pulling huge splinters out of his dog but they keep growing back. So the emoticon is about repeated actions that are pointless. What's the saying? Stop pulling eternally reoccurring splinters from your dead dog.

I thought it was a labrador and a midget vertically challenged person. Labs do tend to sleep a lot and I thought he was waking it up. Must be a saying for that as well: If the dog doesn't wake after a beating it is likely just ignoring you. Confusing emoticon!

It would be like flogging a dead horse trying to explain it to a sane person!

[StreetCowboy]

Inane topics which continue for 6 pages.

You nearly got it onto the seventh, and you should let that dog alone, by the way

SC

People who post without wearing their glasses.

It's a horse by the way.

Horses have longer necks. I agree with the bloke that says its a great Dane.

If you want to flog a dead horse, by the way, a raffle may be the best option

SC

[Chittychangchang]

" Flogging a dead dog" seems more apropiate in Thailand!

[chris2004]

People who use apostrophes on plural words e.g. condo's, girl's

[chiangmaikelly]

People who use apostrophes on plural words e.g. condo's, girl's

Hate really? Do you really hate people who make a grammer mistake even though you completely understand the meaning communicated?

[tinfoilhat]

and, apropos of a recent experience, morons who threaten you bodily harm via PM.

[somtampet]

Guys who come on here and use the word cheap charlies,cheap skates,small pensions,then in the next breath they talk about booking a cheap flight heheheheheheheh

[tinfoilhat]

People who use apostrophes on plural words e.g. condo's, girl's

Hate really? Do you really hate people who make a grammer mistake even though you completely understand the meaning communicated?

grammer?

i do not hate people who make such mistakes, i pity them though.

[Soutpeel]

People who use apostrophes on plural words e.g. condo's, girl's

Hate really? Do you really hate people who make a grammer mistake even though you completely understand the meaning communicated?

My guess his is an English teacher bringing his work home...

[chiangmaikelly]

People who use apostrophes on plural words e.g. condo's, girl's

Hate really? Do you really hate people who make a grammer mistake even though you completely understand the meaning communicated?

grammer?

i do not hate people who make such mistakes, i pity them though.

Pity, really. I know a lady who speaks 6 languages fluently. She calls me occasionallyfor grammar help. Pity her? I have nothing but admiration for her. I pity you.

[sangfroid]

People who write "bath" instead of 'Baht"

[StreetCowboy]

People who use apostrophes on plural words e.g. condo's, girl's

Hate really? Do you really hate people who make a grammer mistake even though you completely understand the meaning communicated?

grammer?

i do not hate people who make such mistakes, i pity them though.

I hate grammers who measure everything out with unnecessary precision

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[chiangmaikelly]

People who write "bath" instead of 'Baht"

The spell checker does that and if you don't read it again before you paste it comes out as bath. Since I switched to Ubuntu the TV spell checker does not work. And I have all sorts of other quirks too. But I like Ubuntu so I put up with it. Plus people who use Ubuntu are a lot brighter than the luddites who still use windows.

[chris2004]

People who use apostrophes on plural words e.g. condo's, girl's

Hate really? Do you really hate people who make a grammer mistake even though you completely understand the meaning communicated?

This is exactly WHY i hate it. People who think illiteracy is OK "so long as you understand the meaning".

[robblok]

People who use apostrophes on plural words e.g. condo's, girl's

Hate really? Do you really hate people who make a grammer mistake even though you completely understand the meaning communicated?

This is exactly WHY i hate it. People who think illiteracy is OK "so long as you understand the meaning".

So what you are saying is that you are not allowed to communicate in a language that might not be your native language until your fluent in it and don't make any grammar mistakes. I wonder how people will ever learn an other language then.

[dazk]

Inane threads.

LOL

LOL

[TwoDogz]

I hate my pet when it bites me.