What New Skills Have You Acquired In Thailand?

[tifino]

tink too much give me headache

[happydude303]

I don't live here but come here quite a lot and stay for a good length of time with my Thai mrs . And I have learnt how to eat spicy and what the bum spray is meant for... Not washing your marks away

[h90]

how to dodge those pesky tailor salesmen on Pattaya beach road

Why dodge them just walk through them....they move...

had one who needed the shake hand with me. But I had a cigarette in my hand. It was worth it.....

[ripstanley]

I have learned a lot more patience since being here, some of the things that used to really set me off don't any more, so guess some of that Mai pen rai, has rubbed off on me

I am still trying to learn this but getting there and the concept of Thai time.

[tom21]

I have learnt that farang is stupid and knows nothing

[Yooyung]

Can now speak Thai pretty well. My reading of Thai is ok, and improving all the time. I have become a lot more tolerant. I now expect the worst and am happy when I get a good outcome.....in pretty much anything here. My level of patience has gone up a lot, I still get angry with myself and my wife has also learnt that when this happens that its NOT her I am angry with....its the situation/ me. I think this is something that Thais have to get used to with farang, we tend to let the anger out more easily, and then its gone.

[tifino]

learnt to appreciate 'khee kiat'

[kannot]

I built two houses alone as watching the locals do it I immediately saw I could do it way better.............and did, something I always wanted to do but never had the time/opportunity, so now I can lay blocks correctly, do all the plumbing correctly, electrics, roofs, etc etc.

[kannot]

I have learnt that farang is stupid and knows nothing

Which one as you have stipulated singular?

[tifino]

maybe so, as a thai wife should really only have one farang husband at a time, to accost...

[namdocmai]

The mai ben rai is what i learned here, not that i 'm proud with it though. But in the heat sometimes i can't be bothered to do things perfect. It's for myself though so who cares.

Yes patience but it's hard, that's why i won't buy a car, i 'm not going to wait all day for people who can't control that stupid thing. Motorbike is much easyier but on that i still have to learn to be more patient.

Also i learned to take the easy way, as a farang i used to only look at the goal, never looked for the easyiest way to get there. Quality first was my motto but here i learned to not take it too serious.

Also i learned that everything is just temporary and that you never know what might be around the corner.

Time goes very fast in Thailand, much faster then in the west.

[HeijoshinCool]

What New Skills Have You Acquired In Thailand?

How to form a flawless escape plan.

It took seven years, but it worked.

[Berkshire]

Ok sure, I can play this game. What new skills have I acquired in Thailand?

I can now spot a deadbeat, lowlife, good-for-nothing farang just from the constant negativity and irrational hatred of Thailand in nearly all of their posts.

A useful skill, actually.

[Thaddeus]

I can spot a Thai arse kisser.

Not useful, but satisfying.

[Thaddeus]

And I learned the secret of good comedy timing.

Dammit, forgot the comma after comedy again.

[BKKdreaming]

smiling when I do not mean it

knowing that "be there in an hour" can be 2 hours or more , or never , but not 1 hour

looking behind to check if motorbikes want to run me down on the sidewalk !

the "truth" is a moving target

being stupid is a plus, acting stupid is a minus

logic is not

ohh so many more , but really its more about the good stuff , the real thais away from the tourist areas and the smart ways they do things with nothing but street smarts

[eeeya]

I learned that living in Thailand is nothing like what's written on Thai visa ... Or stickman

[namdocmai]

I learned to look first who is asking before giving an answer. The same goes for the price. I learned it's smart to not tell the price if trying to sell something, i didn't know that.

[Thai at Heart]

How to bribe a traffic policeman.

[watcharacters]

Having the patience to the degree i never thought was humanly possible

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But actually internalizing and really wanting to choke the S.it out of someone.

[baabaaloo]

I learned that getting frustrated and angry just makes things worse!

[namdocmai]

Today i learned how to get a tough beefsteak more tender. I had been studying that for a while, the magic trick is in a bottle called "meat tenderizer" from Mc Cormick.

[RandomSand]

Like water in a still lake... Hide my feelings and not act out. ....was like that before & now I'm just totally aloof

Edited November 7, 2014 by RandomSand

[namdocmai]

Like water in a still lake... Hide my feelings and not act out. ....was like that before & now I'm just totally aloof

I learned the Thai solution for that. It is in a bottle and they call it Whisky. After drinking that stuff you won't hide your feelings anymore, if it doesn't work then drink more of it.

[Somsrisonphimai]

I have learned a lot more patience since being here, some of the things that used to really set me off don't any more, so guess some of that Mai pen rai, has rubbed off on me

Could the age have something to do with it too and not just living in Thailand?

[Somsrisonphimai]

The ability to smile when really I want to rip their head off...

Really? How surprising that you don't do this in your country.

[Kitsune]

Cure Lyme Disease

[phutoie2]

Do not require a knife when eating my food. Just a spoon & fork like everyone else around me. As for chop sticks - getting there.

[Derek M]

Ability and skill to say "uuggh" at every conjecture or silence and nod head acordingly is an aquired skill as is thinking of westerners as cash machines!

Oh and to understand I am but a mere lowly insignificant farang.

I have however completely failed to aquire the skill of understanding that Thailand is far superior country to anywhere else in the world while

attempting to cope with water shortages, a lack of clean fresh drinking water from taps/fawcet, frequent power outs, slow goat track like internet

, shit on/in 3rd world squat toilet, wipe kitchen surfaces with old dirty rag, generally fail to keep a clean and tidy house, all while trying to live on a daily salary

that some inferior stupid farang gets in an hour!,, Some skills are best left for others (locals) to master and master well!..

Edited November 8, 2014 by Derek M

[morrobay]

How to fry an egg without breaking the yoke , via long times.