You know you have been in Thailand too long.......

[Laza 45]

You shouldn't have come in the first place.. stay at home where things are nice and comfy.. and predictable..

[pgrahmm]

When it all makes perfect sense to you.....

And you don't even speak Thai.....

[kannot]

You drive along a motorway kilo after kilo where the road has been rutted the full width of it, and there have been no workmen

there since the week before to do the resurfacing.

and a week after its done its full of holes again

[pgrahmm]

When you put your Vodka/______/Rum in your ice cube trays - and your mixer in your glass.....

Then wonder in the morning why your freezer didn't make ice cubes.......

[Liquorice]

You know you have been in Thailand too long.......

When you wonder who the guy on your passport photo is?

[NoshowJones]

You drive along a motorway kilo after kilo where the road has been rutted the full width of it, and there have been no workmen

there since the week before to do the resurfacing.

and a week after its done its full of holes again

Yes, that is if it ever gets done.

[jadee]

My own watershed moment happened in Starbucks. I always dress down in T-shirts, shorts and flip-flops and rarely go to Starbucks. After taking my order, the cashier tried to strike up conversation with his robotic-English he'd probably learnt from a computer program. He asked me "Where you come from?' and after I answered he came back with the epically harsh: 'Sorry sir, you don't look like a foreigner'.

[bbbbooboo]

I couldn't be bothered reading it all, so I will never know, but I sense that I have been

[manfredtillmann]

You drive along a motorway kilo after kilo where the road has been rutted the full width of it, and there have been no workmen

there since the week before to do the resurfacing.

no, this is when you know you are in australia

[1FinickyOne]

When you go back to your home country for a visit and find it frustrating that you can't bar fine the waitresses… [yes, that was "you" not "me" - I don't go back.]

[bazza40]

When someone in a pickup overtakes you on a blind curve up a hill, and you simply shrug.

[emilymat]

....when you no longer regard the light switches as being upside down.

[masuk]

You know you have been in Thailand to long when you read a thread on TV entitled "you know you have been in Thailand too long" for the millionth time....

A sign outside a well-known Gaelic pub in Chiang Mai.

Hores racing tonight. 20:00

[Gillyflower]

I had a laugh at the Op and many of the replies.

[puukao]

When you say, "kap, kap.....kap, kap, krap" and everyone thinks you have mastered the language.

[Loeilad]

When you've been in the country for years and still understand so little about the place you resort to Thai-bashing and bigotry to compensate for your growing feelings of insecurity, insignificance and impotence

[Dap]

You know you are a typical expat if after all the time (probably too long) you've spent in Thailand you have learned so little that you think that writing down this list of cliches has any value other than confirming one's own prejudices

One man's prejudices, another man's life's experiences.

No sir, it is thinking that these are one man's experiences that shows that they are in reality just confirmation bias of one's prejudices......

That may be ... but, they're still funny

[Dap]

When you've been in the country for years and still understand so little about the place you resort to Thai-bashing and bigotry to compensate for your growing feelings of insecurity, insignificance and impotence

Bad hair day?

[rgs2001uk]

when you think the shitty crappy internet your using is normal ..

When you think the shitty crappy CTH signal is normal, then you go back to farangistan and realise Sky doesnt just dissapear for minutes on end.

When you can access the internet without some crappy shitty excuse like, line flom Singapol down again ka.

[lvr181]

because if you are a member here long enough (and you visit frequently) you see a lot of threads that have been posted a "zillion" times already. Like for example the "Bumgun thread" <- I think that is the number 1 question asked here on TV

Bumgun?

[Soutpeel]

because if you are a member here long enough (and you visit frequently) you see a lot of threads that have been posted a "zillion" times already. Like for example the "Bumgun thread" <- I think that is the number 1 question asked here on TV

Bumgun?

The implement you use to irrigate and wash your anus of faecal matter

[rjcampbe]

You know you are a typical expat if after all the time (probably too long) you've spent in Thailand you have learned so little that you think that writing down this list of cliches has any value other than confirming one's own prejudices

And the same endless rant goes round and round.

It's humor, and it is no different than any list of blond jokes or any other kind of joke you aren't allowed to tell in America anymore because of the politically correct crowd.

OF COURSE they are stereotypes... of course they are generalizations... But we all know that we have all experienced these things, or similar, and that means that we can collectively find humor in them.

Maybe you are one of the PC folks that are easily offended, and I do agree that it is possible to cross the line and be offensive in making a joke, but there is nothing on this list like that. It's a benign list of everyday occurrences. There is nothing vulgar in it.

I just don't see what you are blowing your top over.

1 - I'm not "blowing my top"

2 - "PC" isn't an argument

3 - "humour" - It isn't funny

You mean "It isn't funny to you."

And on the basis of the fact that YOU don't think it's funny, apparently no one else is allowed to think it's funny... and by extension, any individual who does think these things are funny isn't allowed to discuss them with others and they are a "bad" person because they are prejudiced against Thais.

Sounds like the definition of PC to me.

Most of us have seen this list dozens of times by now. I remember the first time I saw it, and I laughed my ass off.

And, yes... there was a guy on here then saying it was expat prejudice and Thai bashing... Some things never change.

But I've experienced almost every one of these things, most many times, and I'm sure you have too. I really don't see why we can't recognize those little cultural and social differences with a laugh without it having to be "racism" and "prejudice" and all that shit.

[CharlieH]

When you answer the girl at the checkout in Tesco in Thai.........then you realise you're in the UK !!

[Soutpeel]

You have been in Thailand too long when you think wearing white socks with sandles, a chang wife beater, a big buddah medallion on your chest and dirty shorts is an acceptable mode of dress

[Mudcrab]

because if you are a member here long enough (and you visit frequently) you see a lot of threads that have been posted a "zillion" times already. Like for example the "Bumgun thread" <- I think that is the number 1 question asked here on TV

Bumgun?

The implement you use to irrigate and wash your anus of faecal matter

And clean your teeth.......

[Mudcrab]

When you start fancying the mother in law, or when you ask for your beer to be put on ice, just to see the waitress pouring the contents into an ice bucket.

RE: When you start fancying the mother in law.

Huh?

Many TV posters are more then 10 years older than their mother in laws.

[Fabricus]

When you start fancying the mother in law, or when you ask for your beer to be put on ice, just to see the waitress pouring the contents into an ice bucket.

RE: When you start fancying the mother in law.

Huh?

Many TV posters are more then 10 years older than their mother in laws.

Yep. My mistake. I overlooked that.

[Mudcrab]

When you start fancying the mother in law, or when you ask for your beer to be put on ice, just to see the waitress pouring the contents into an ice bucket.

RE: When you start fancying the mother in law.

Huh?

Many TV posters are more then 10 years older than their mother in laws.

Yep. My mistake. I overlooked that.

Sad state of affairs when the wife's mum starts to look good.

[Cylon]

You know you have been here to long when the the smell of raw sewerage in a restaurant does not put you off the food

[laislica]

An excellent thread - Thanks.

When you stop taking things personally,

finally realise that electricity in Thailand is not the same as in your home country

and that Mai bpen rai means that everything is OK.