Treading A Dangerous Line?

[Brewster67]

Like many parts of Thailand, our city has an local expat's group page on facebook..

 

If you are a member of one of these groups, then like me you will have noticed that some farangs seem to stand out more than others. But on our group page there is one farang in particular who seems to like to put his head above the parapet a lot more than others.

 

This guy seems to have an opinion of his own on most posts other members make, and that is all well and good, everyone has an opinion right? But this person's opinion is pretty much flawed every time he comments, he is always in disagreement or at odds with the consensus and he riles people up all the time.

 

He also likes to send personal messages to people asking very probing questions, usually relating to their immigration status... Are they working?.. what do they do?.. He also likes to quote immigration rules to all and sundry. It is almost like he is building a dossier on other farangs in the community, and he certainly has people very wary of his intentions. He has been the talking point down the local bars on more than one occasion.

 

As an example... I mentioned that me and the wife have several small businesses, I basically invested in equipment and give her guidance on setting up and running these. I have no hands on involvement other than that, she runs the lot with a small staff. In return, we both live quite a good life off the profits. When I mentioned one of these businesses in the group he was straight in asking me questions about my visa status, I tell him to go do one, then he starts reciting immigration laws to me, when I say I don't actually do any of the work, he then says something like "You can't even tell your wife what to do, that is management".... blah blah blah... Another example...  Guy asks about a border run, he chimes straight in... "Last month you said you were teaching... why are you asking about border runs?.. ". You get the picture.

 

Well now he appears to be taking it to a whole new level... We have a handful of Thais who are members, and every now and then they pitch us their goods and services, they are nice people and nobody minds. But this farang has now turned his attention to them.. No matter what they post, for sale, rent, whatever. He chimes in with things like "5000 baht?... dream on" or "I can get that cheaper in town"... Even to a farang, this would be embarrassing face loss.

 

In summary, I won't name the town or his name, but this is quite a closed knit community and with much less expats than the likes of BKK, Pattaya etc... and farangs stand out here like a sore thumb. I am personally surprised he hasn't been belted in one of the bars yet, or even worse... Because once you start annoying the locals, who knows what can happen.

 

I give the guy a totally wide berth, I won't go near him and I have even blocked him from my facebook since he made a comment on info you can only get from my facebook account which means he has been stalking me... I believe this chump is on borrowed time.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 1, 2017 by Brewster67

[55Jay]

Clucking like a hen in a sewing circle about the guy on ThaiVisa is, IMO, about as low brow as the nonsense you say HE gets up to.  But...... yep, seem to be a few of these kind of plonkers about in Thailand, there's one in my area as well.   Might get a dose of Karma later.  Try not to gloat when it happens.  

Edited April 1, 2017 by 55Jay

[sipi]

Blocked by the facebook page administrator.

End of story.

[Brewster67]

3 minutes ago, 55Jay said:

Clucking like a hen in a sewing circle about the guy on ThaiVisa is, IMO, about as low brow as the nonsense you say HE gets up to.  But...... yep, seem to be a few of these kind of plonkers about in Thailand, there's one in my area as well.   Might get a dose of Karma later.  Try not to gloat when it happens.  

With a bit of a difference though, at least on TV we are afforded a little bit of anonymity, on facebook people are a lot more exposed than they think.

[Brewster67]

6 minutes ago, sipi said:

Blocked by the facebook page administrator.

End of story.

The admin are there every day posting, but I suppose technically he isn't infringing the rules. Because he is still there.

[Brewster67]

I remember one one occasion he messaged one member asking him all sorts of probing questions about what he does, how he survives in Thailand.. etc etc etc..

 

The guy then copied the convo into images and posted them on the group page.

[55Jay]

Just now, Brewster67 said:

With a bit of a difference though, at least on TV we are afforded a little bit of anonymity, on facebook people are a lot more exposed than they think.

Agreed.  But I'm trying to understand why you decided to post so much detail,  banging on and on about it.   What's the point?

[CharlieH]

If you dont fuel a fire it will burn out.

Stop fuelling it!

 

[Brewster67]

18 minutes ago, 55Jay said:

Agreed.  But I'm trying to understand why you decided to post so much detail,  banging on and on about it.   What's the point?

Look... TV has gone from an alexa rank of 4,800 a few short years ago to now almost 16,000.

 

that means it has lost about 70% of its traffic/pageviews and I now know why.

 

If you don't like people posting in the forum either don't use it, or just scroll past the posts you don't like. But when you start mocking and insulting people, then as far as i am concerned, this forum is dead on its feet.

 

If you don't post DETAILS then people don't know the full back story and then jump to conclusions and make inaccurate evaluations.

 

Why are you assuming the moderator role by going after the poster?..

 

Why do TV members ALWAYS seem to attack posters until they have post scores of over 2000 and earn respect????

Edited April 1, 2017 by Brewster67

[55Jay]

Wow.  You are very sensitive.  Reminds me of the man-child types in my group - some are in their 60's and 70's, and it's incredible how some conduct themselves like spoiled children, quick to offense, anger, and will trash a decades long friendship over a trivial disagreement or perceived slight.  

 

I wasn't grassing you up, I was agreeing with you, but trying to suss out what you seek by posting like you did.  I agree, engaging in this type of thing is, in fact, a Dangerous Line when living and socializing within the dynamics of a small farang community.  It can be like walking on egg shells at times.

Edited April 1, 2017 by 55Jay

[Brewster67]

I'm done with this forum... It has gone way downhill from years ago when I used it...

 

It is now at a stage where people are scared to post anything without being instantly attacked.

 

Unless of course you are a known face and are considered in the loop.

 

[ukrules]

There's always at least one <removed> like this around somewhere, I wouldn't be surprised if the guy is also on ThaiVisa as well.

 

I generally don't use facebook for anything Thai related.

[CharlieH]

As the OP "is done with this forum"

I dont see any point in this continuing.

 

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