What frightens you most here in Thailand

[Timwin]

There's absolutely nothing about these rascals that appeals to me and I have become very confrontational. The Thai males in particular are so unpredictable and a wrong comment at just the right time could lead to a disastrous outcome. Leaving Thailand is not an option for me, so I either need to cut out my tongue or find a good natural treatment for stress. Any ideas!

Get out of condo and buy/adopt a big dog and lots and lots of bar girl visits. Thailand is very strict pyramid society underneath and you are the odd man out. Especially if you do not have a good Thai girlfriend smoothing things out patiently.

Most Thais do not understand farangs at all either. They just see a big farang gorilla man shouting and moving his big hands in a threatening manner. You might as well speak Klingon to them. Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!

[ianf]

What I dislike most is the sheer duplicity and dishonesty of the Thai people.

[NoshowJones]

Just crossing a busy street is life threatning here...

Yes, particularly a one way street.

[NoshowJones]

The thing that scares me most about living in Thailand is "me". When I retired here in 2010 I was a cool, calm and collected guy who was ready to enjoy this "magical" experience for the rest of my life. After three years of trying to adapt, transition and fit in with the locals and understand "Thainess", I have become one stressed out and frustrated "basket case" of a guy with a hair pin temper. There's absolutely nothing about these rascals that appeals to me and I have become very confrontational. The Thai males in particular are so unpredictable and a wrong comment at just the right time could lead to a disastrous outcome. Leaving Thailand is not an option for me, so I either need to cut out my tongue or find a good natural treatment for stress. Any ideas!

Yes, don't get drunk and always mind your own business, and you will always be 99.9% safe here.

[John_Betong]

Being sick and having to stay in a Thai hospital.

[NoshowJones]

What I dislike most is the sheer duplicity and dishonesty of the Thai people.

I have came across a lot of honest Thai people. There are some dishonest people in every country.

[Emdog]

Lawlessness. Top to bottom

[HUAHIN62]

The foreigners scare's me the most.

[TomTao]

What scares me the most is the thought of someone who can't be bothered looking coming out of a side street and under my car while I am driving down the highway, equally scary is thought of it being a truck doing the same.

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[sunshine51]

Nothing scares me in LOS...however there are a couple of things that concern me greatly.

One is a drunk cop waving his gun about and the other is being blindsided when I'm

on my bike by a large truck that has just stormed out onto the road without even

bothering to slow down to check the traffic beforehand.

That's about it...save for warm Beer Sing....

[ExpatJ]

It's the farangs in Thailand that scare me far far more than Thais - surely Thailand must have the largest selection of duplicitous, lieing, dodgy, mentally disordered foreign expats in the world ?!

[sunshine51]

What scares me the most is the thought of someone who can't be bothered looking coming out of a side street and under my car while I am driving down the highway, equally scary is thought of it being a truck doing the same.

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TT...

Hope you weren't driving while texting this....!

[sunshine51]

It's the farangs in Thailand that scare me far far more than Thais - surely Thailand must have the largest selection of duplicitous, lieing, dodgy, mentally disordered foreign expats in the world ?!

Nah....Saudi has LOS beat hands down.

[Mur]

sick buffalo for sure

[johntren]

Banded kraits, spitting cobras.

(No, not Ang Lee's next big film....)

[wprime]

I find the scariest things are the farangs telling me Thais are dangerous and someone is going to shoot me one day.

[pizzachang]

"What frightens you most"? That would be the 'black' crab somtum. Those bacteria do not like me at all.....

[Dararasmi]

Would be the drivers for me too. I just can't see how an entire nation cannot properly know how to drive. Why is there no health and safety laws?

On a light note another thing which scares is me is the fact that non Asian women no longer turn me on.

Yep, I heard that's how it starts. Before long, it will be ALL women.

[robhufton]

£1.00 = 30 Baht

[catweazle]

Forums

[Phronesis]

Banded kraits, spitting cobras.

(No, not Ang Lee's next big film....)

I grew up in the bush in Australia and so in the past I had a good deal of respect for, but no fear of, snakes. That all changed when I moved into my current house in northern Phuket which backs on to jungle covered mountain on one side and a massive rubber and palm plantation on the other. The place is alive with snakes. I have already had three separate instances of opening the kitchen door to find a cobra on the floor tiles. It is a high end house with proper doors, screens and rubber strips so I have no idea how they keep getting in. There is a third toilet in a room off my kitchen and one bloke suggested perhaps they are coming up through there??? My cat has already caught (and killed) at least four snakes (that I actually saw...maybe she has caught many others I didn't see). She loves to bite the heads off and play with the dead bodies like rope... I have vast range of different snakes here and they all worry me. Not because I am scared of snakes but because here I have no idea whether a snake is harmless or lethal.

Last year I was riding early one evening back from the beach. I cut through a dirt track short cut that runs through the plantation back to my place. I was motoring along amongst the rubber trees and ran over a large snake (circa 2m plus). It flicked up and bit me on the inside of my heel on my left foot. I was wearing flip flops. I freaked and rode the short remaining distance about 500m back to my house. I screamed out to my Thai neighbor (who is also a very good friend) that I had just been bitten by a snake. He came out with a spot light and trained the beam onto my ankle. To my horror there were two perfect fang puncture marks weeping a little blood on the smooth skin on that part of my foot. I went over to my garden and used the hose to wash the bite. I then jumped into my friends Merc and he tore up to Thalang Hospital. After checking in at reception I was jumped to the head of the line went in to see a very young male Thai doctor. My friend explained to him what had happened. He took my blood pressure and asked me what kind of snake it was. I said I have no idea...but it was big and (the best I could see in the darkness) greyish black in color.

Anyway I was ushered to the room where the nurse administer injections and put in a chair. After a half hour or so wait the doctor came around and checked my blood pressure again, listened to my heart and then told me to go home. I put some betadine on the two puncture marks and they healed up rapidly in a couple of days.

So yes...I am also very afraid of snakes here, at least until I learn which ones are actually dangerous...

[Suradit69]

Knowing that I had now lived in Thailand full time for more than four years, one the guys in the group turned to me and said "[Phonesis] you are the only one that lives here full time. What frightens you most?

If these guys called your Phonesis rather than Phronesis, either they were mocking you or they thought your elocution was more impressive than your wisdom.

[Phronesis]

Knowing that I had now lived in Thailand full time for more than four years, one the guys in the group turned to me and said "[Phonesis] you are the only one that lives here full time. What frightens you most?

If these guys called your Phonesis rather than Phronesis, either they were mocking you or they thought your elocution was more impressive than your wisdom.

Typo well spotted sir

[Tchooptip]

What frightens you most here in Thailand...

...Many many posts on Thai Visa forums

For my every days life...nothing

[TomTao]

What scares me the most is the thought of someone who can't be bothered looking coming out of a side street and under my car while I am driving down the highway, equally scary is thought of it being a truck doing the same.

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TT...

Hope you weren't driving while texting this....!

 

Too much happening on the road for that, hard to even have time to check the mirrors without someone screaming out of a side street or slowing rapidly because of a small bump in the road.

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[MILT]

I guess what scares me the most is the member's on this TV Forum. Just brutel! What with Opinions, and thoughts and comments, advise good and bad.

Yep! That is what frightens me alright.

[Tchooptip]

What I dislike most is the sheer duplicity and dishonesty of the Thai people.

I have came across a lot of honest Thai people. There are some dishonest people in every country.

3 month ago I moved to a slightly bigger bungalow (foolishly) I forgot 1200€ in an enveloppe under the mattress.

The next day the old Thai owner brougth it to me, 1200€... you can count he told me... not sure 100% of Westerners owners would have done it

[sirchai]

What I dislike most is the sheer duplicity and dishonesty of the Thai people.

Bashing through the snow.....my wife's Thai and I do have some good Thais as friends.

What would you think if I wrote " xxxxxxx of the British. American or whatsoever people?=

[hanno]

What I dislike most is the sheer duplicity and dishonesty of the Thai people.

I have came across a lot of honest Thai people. There are some dishonest people in every country.

3 month ago I moved to a slightly bigger bungalow (foolishly) I forgot 1200€ in an enveloppe under the mattress.

The next day the old Thai owner brougth it to me, 1200€... you can count he told me... not sure 100% of Westerners owners would have done it

On the other hand, hiding your money under mattress was not exactly smart. I believe they do have banks in LOS???

I have never knowingly been cheated, duped, or lied to in LOS.

But then I don't hang out in dodgy ladybars......

[NoshowJones]

What I dislike most is the sheer duplicity and dishonesty of the Thai people.

I have came across a lot of honest Thai people. There are some dishonest people in every country.

3 month ago I moved to a slightly bigger bungalow (foolishly) I forgot 1200€ in an enveloppe under the mattress.

The next day the old Thai owner brougth it to me, 1200€... you can count he told me... not sure 100% of Westerners owners would have done it

I took my motorbike to the local Honda agent as the engine was making a knocking noise and running poorly, as it has over 50.000 Kilos on the clock I asked for an estimate to supply and fit a new engine, he said 4000 Baht, I said OK, just do it. 2 hours later the bike was bought to my house, it was running great. I was told it did not need a new engine and some part had been replaced. I said How Much? He said 850 Baht. The bike has been running well ever since.