2 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

 

 

We all know that the automatic Thai smile isn't genuine, but it mostly becomes genuine when people are friendly back.

 

 

We all know?  Speak for yourself.

The stabbers were Arabs......they are already back in Kuwait.

It's all part of the "cut and thrust" of life in the land of smiles.  Bangkok has an edge that many people like, makes it all the more exciting for them.

3 hours ago, little mary sunshine said:

"LOS". . ."Land of Savages"

land of suppressed [rage]...

5 hours ago, halloween said:

Apparently not. Any reason for suggesting it other than your phobia?

 

Nothing wrong with his statement. Liven up.

33 minutes ago, Americano555 said:

The stabbers were Arabs......they are already back in Kuwait.

 

An Sherlock where did u get this info from?

Reminds me of the fatal point-blank shooting of a Thai cop at a Bkk nightclub years ago.  The cop was purportedly caught off balance, stepped on a Thai man's foot.  The shooter was the son of a VIP and super rich politician; CHALERM.  Immediately, the shooter ran and hid at a general's house.  Soon after, he ran off to Cambodia for several months.  Then his rich daddy escorted him back to Thailand to get a cushy job:  TEACHING COPS HOW TO SHOOT GUNS !

Edited August 21, 20169 yr by boomerangutang

5 hours ago, halloween said:

I found nothing humorous in your post. Any links to tourists being prosecuted for posting " video etc they don't like "?

 

Phuketwan, Andy Hall, Andrew Drummond.

This is the way Thais settle disputes, your money is not safe in Thailand

But Thais are such wonderful peace loving people ! Lucky for Baris that he was not a farang, in which case he would have been stabbed many more times

1 hour ago, Reigntax said:

 

Phuketwan, Andy Hall, Andrew Drummond.

Which one of those is a tourist?

37 minutes ago, halloween said:

Which one of those is a tourist?

 

Why, is there a different set of rules for foreign tourists rather than foreigners who decided to permanently reside?

 

Predictable in the round if not in the fine detail, The crime rate is up, with crimes of violence at the top of the list, followed closely by thefts/swindles/etc.

 

The deteriorating political and economic situations are bound to push these up further, and foreigners are not so untouchable as they used to be. Thais are not educated in principles or the value of law, plus they have a hair-trigger where face is concerned, plus a lot are under financial or other stress at the moment and that isn't going to change. Not a good mixture...

 

Be careful out there guys, it's not going to get better just yet.

 

Winnie

Edited August 21, 20169 yr by Winniedapu

11 hours ago, trogers said:

 

Fangs?

 

knives.

Wonder why he wasn't taken to Bumrugrad Hospital since the stabbing happened very near the hospital.

10 hours ago, joeyg said:

I hope the man was not seriously injured.  I would guess there is more to this story than stepping on someone's foot.  Just a hunch...

 

No, his foot was fine.  Just needed a shoe shine.  

 

Oh, you mean the other guy . . . 

50 minutes ago, Winniedapu said:

Predictable in the round if not in the fine detail, The crime rate is up, with crimes of violence at the top of the list, followed closely by thefts/swindles/etc.

 

The deteriorating political and economic situations are bound to push these up further, and foreigners are not so untouchable as they used to be. Thais are not educated in principles or the value of law, plus they have a hair-trigger where face is concerned, plus a lot are under financial or other stress at the moment and that isn't going to change. Not a good mixture...

 

Be careful out there guys, it's not going to get better just yet.

 

Winnie

 

I couldn't agree more.  

 

For all the bashing of Thais and their supposed quickness to anger, one has to put this into the proper socio-economic context.  Are the poor areas of your countries any safer?  Can you go into the ghettos in your own countries and step on someone's foot and not expect a confrontation?  

 

So much of what people condemn Thais for is just natural behavior for people who live in oppressed, economically depressed conditions.  When pride is all you have, you defend it with everything you've got.  

 

Thai's are no more prone to violence than anybody else living under the same socio-economic conditions.  

 

Now let's just compare this this to what people say about blacks or latinos in the US (I'm sure it applies equally for minorities in other countries as well):

 

Lazy

Dishonest

Quick to resort to violence

Materialistic

Intellectually inferior

Lack of interest in education 

Alcoholics / Drug addicts

 

The list starting to sound suspiciously close to what people say about Thais?  

 

 

 

 

8 hours ago, Agent Sumo said:

 

Pure horse shit

 

I've personally seen this kind of shit happen in London. It happens in Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles and many other cities around the world

 

It's certainly not exclusive to Thailand. 

 

Opinions like this are so out of touch with reality and only serve to highlight the innate hostility so many long-stayers have towards the country

 

 

When conversing with other intelligent people, it pays to think in straight lines. What he said was not horsesh|t, and he didn't say violence was exclusive to Thailand so your experience in London, sad and disturbing though it doubtless was, is irrelevant. Every subsequent abuse that gushed out from the faulty platform of your not thinking in straight lines is of no value to thinking people.

 

An apology would be due but I doubt it will be forthcoming.

 

Winnie

37 minutes ago, Winniedapu said:

 

 

When conversing with other intelligent people, it pays to think in straight lines. What he said was not horsesh|t, and he didn't say violence was exclusive to Thailand so your experience in London, sad and disturbing though it doubtless was, is irrelevant. Every subsequent abuse that gushed out from the faulty platform of your not thinking in straight lines is of no value to thinking people.

 

An apology would be due but I doubt it will be forthcoming.

 

Winnie

yeah London is vely vely dangelous.... In the UK you had 527 murders last year, its vely dangelous. Please believe Agent Sumo

 

On a serious note, you have certainly more murder in Bangkok alone than in the whole UK.....

Edited August 21, 20169 yr by Bender

7 hours ago, Americano555 said:

The stabbers were Arabs......they are already back in Kuwait.

So why does the article say the police are looking for several Thai men in connection with this case? If what you say isn't just something you made up, shouldn't they be looking for several Arab men?

13 hours ago, Caveat Emptor said:

Yes.   Are you saying the authorities don't threat to prosecute anyone who posts a video etc they don't like  ?

Anyway I did post with tongue in cheek which seems beyond you to understand so it must be difficult being a hugger as you've so much to defend and humour is banned too unless you approve perhaps   ?

now you say tongue in cheek but really it was not funny-not clever and just vacuous silly Thai bashing foe the sake of it. You will find senseless crime happens all over the world as does - what some people might perceive as your immaturity, leading to crass unhelpful comments. 

14 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Not much to do with the story.  But everything to do with the Thai bashing reaction here on TVF.

 

The vast majority of violence in Thailand is perpetrated by Thais.  As you'd expect.

 

That doesn't mean the vast majority of Thais are violent people.

 

Lots of posters here don't seem to be able to differentiate the two statements.

My problem is that the "this happens everywhere" brigade are as blinded by their obsessive need to defend all things Thai are as bad as the bashers.

  Steptoe and sons gun misfired when he opened his mouth to change feet after uttering 'Don't tread on me!'

22 hours ago, Clamhua said:

The reaction to the smallest perceived sleight causes a massive over reaction for many people. Land Of Stabbings 

I thought that was the UK

They were blue sued shoes, he'll get let off

8 hours ago, The manic said:

<snip> You will find senseless crime happens all over the world as does - what some people might perceive as your immaturity, leading to crass unhelpful comments. 

 

The fact that something happens elsewhere in the world is not a reason to minimise it's destructive capability when it happens in Thailand. I recall an article last year which said that Bangkok sees more murders each year than New York,

 

People need to get out of the habit of whiting the sepulchre. If there is a problem i Thailand, then deal with the problem in Thailand, don't deflect attention to problems elsewhere. Don't whine that other people are immature or crass just because they do not have your blind spots where Thais and Thailand are concerned, or your ability to pretend that Thailand is some kind of Shangri-la, full of noble and spiritually advanced but primitive and unworldly people (not what you said, a natural extension of what you meant and a description of what some folk seem to think). 

 

It's important to think in straight lines.

 

Winnie

Edited August 22, 20169 yr by Winniedapu

15 hours ago, Reigntax said:

 

Why, is there a different set of rules for foreign tourists rather than foreigners who decided to permanently reside?

 

Are you on long term overstay, or are you abiding by those different rules?

21 hours ago, sahibji said:

a very serious reaction to an apparently minor incident of stepping on foot. unless of course there was a lot going on underneath the surface and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.

 

It could well be that he had a corn on his big toe, now that mould make you stab someone twice in the stomach, if they stepped on it, would it ?

1 hour ago, Winniedapu said:

 

The fact that something happens elsewhere in the world is not a reason to minimise it's destructive capability when it happens in Thailand. I recall an article last year which said that Bangkok sees more murders each year than New York,

 

People need to get out of the habit of whiting the sepulchre. If there is a problem i Thailand, then deal with the problem in Thailand, don't deflect attention to problems elsewhere. Don't whine that other people are immature or crass just because they do not have your blind spots where Thais and Thailand are concerned, or your ability to pretend that Thailand is some kind of Shangri-la, full of noble and spiritually advanced but primitive and unworldly people (not what you said, a natural extension of what you meant and a description of what some folk seem to think). 

 

It's important to think in straight lines.

 

Winnie

 

Go Winnie.................

10 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

My problem is that the "this happens everywhere" brigade are as blinded by their obsessive need to defend all things Thai are as bad as the bashers.

 

No that's not it at all but when people with a siege mentality use moronic exaggeration to describe the country as the LOS - Land of Stabbings - you have to point out and laugh at their ignorance.