Pilotman Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Try to stop your wife eating durrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandito Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 22 hours ago, oldhippy said: Never ask for information. Always make sure you have all necessary information beforehand. Then present the information and ask for what you need. Better still, let your Thai wife deal with the incompetent staff. She is better at fake smiling and grovelling then you! I don't grovel for a Thai, likewise for nobody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfokevin Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Enter a designated crosswalk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW72 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, Naamblar2014 said: Roll cigarettes by hand What's wrong with roll ups? Her niece's husband rolls his own. They do smell a bit funny though! Edit: Just read the 39 jobs you can't do thread. Who'd have known Edited July 16, 2017 by MW72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmarlin Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 23 hours ago, billd766 said: 1. Rarely use a motorcycle taxi as I live upcountry now. 2 . I have 2 motorbike which I don't ride so much but I still ride quite happily. 3. I always give money to beggars especially the local 1 or 2 up here as I used to when I lived in BKK. Sorry if you don't. PS Beggars are people too. In Bangkok most of the beggars money goes to the mafia of the cops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juice777 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Don't Assume the bum gun is working before you use the toilet Sent from my SM-G900F using TapatalkSent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juice777 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Sorry double post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juice777 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Don't Assume the bumgun is working before you use the toilet Sent from my SM-G900F using TapatalkSent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 22 hours ago, sandemara said: Marry a Thai citizen or make any serious investment. The country is a swamp full of crocodiles perfectly camouflaged for the existing environment. You're just another herd animal with unjustifiable pretensions. . Never kid yourself that you're a predator, or even in control. Total and absolute rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55Jay Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) Never.... let your guard down, especially but not exclusively, in the countryside - always keep critters in the back of your mind. Don't walk around garden areas at night without a torch or plenty of lights on. When entering a dark room, wait for the lights to come on fully and do a quick visual scan for snakes, scorpions, centipedes... and always wear sandals outside, and slippers inside the house. And never sit down on the crapper without visual scan around the dunny and under the seat, and as we've seen in the news several times lately, a quick look in the bowl as well. Thar be dragons in the Shire. Edited July 16, 2017 by 55Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tapster Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 32 minutes ago, billd766 said: 23 hours ago, sandemara said: Marry a Thai citizen or make any serious investment. The country is a swamp full of crocodiles perfectly camouflaged for the existing environment. You're just another herd animal with unjustifiable pretensions. . Never kid yourself that you're a predator, or even in control. Total and absolute rubbish. @billd766 Obviously, Bill, you're entitled to your opinion, however sandemara's post isn't far off some people's experience of Thailand. I can identify with the sentiment. If you're fortunate enough to to speak Thai and to be as integrated into society as is possible for a farang, you might be lucky and not have had a whiff of these aspects of the Western experience here, but I think many people have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeCeDe Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 1 hour ago, juice777 said: Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Don't Assume the bum gun is working before you use the toilet Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk As an addition to your very valid comment, I would add, always take a small pack of Kleenex with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryasimight Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) 7 hours ago, Tapster said: Thanks to everyone, this is a very useful thread, full of some of the deeper truths about Thailand. My 'never' is....... Never wait until the end of a tradesman's job to point out what you have found wrong with it. Always monitor the progress and micromanage as necessary. Before I realised this rule, a painter drew a knife on me when I asked him to redo some areas after he thought he'd finished. An Asian descendent of Vincent? Did he go for your ear? Not hansum enough picture? Edited July 16, 2017 by tryasimight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno Viking Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Self pleasure whilst watching pornographic material on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meljames Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Eat cockroaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wake Up Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Don't live in Thailand if you hate all things Thai. Find a new place to hate. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rijb Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Grab the dinner table toilet paper roll on your way to the bathroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 believe Thai history for the last 70 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno Viking Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 10 minutes ago, Wake Up said: Don't live in Thailand if you hate all things Thai. Find a new place to hate. ? I suspect many here do not have the financial freedom to pick and choose where they reside and can now only piss and moan about Thailand to justify their own bad decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meljames Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 16 minutes ago, Wake Up said: Don't live in Thailand if you hate all things Thai. Find a new place to hate. ? Not doing something in a place is the same as hating it? Pretty constricted outlook isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morch Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 2 minutes ago, Meljames said: Not doing something in a place is the same as hating it? Pretty constricted outlook isn't it? I don't know that moaning about issues on an expat forum amounts to "doing something". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 10 minutes ago, Techno Viking said: I suspect many here do not have the financial freedom to pick and choose where they reside and can now only piss and moan about Thailand to justify their own bad decisions. Yes me.........Oh, except the moaning thingy......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meljames Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 11 minutes ago, Morch said: I don't know that moaning about issues on an expat forum amounts to "doing something". Not sure what your post means. I was referring to the thread's topic in connection to a post about people hating Thailand. Not doing something in a location is far from the same thing as hating it. There's plenty I like about my home country but there are still many things I would not do there, same holds true for Thailand; or anywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morch Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 12 minutes ago, Meljames said: Not sure what your post means. I was referring to the thread's topic in connection to a post about people hating Thailand. Not doing something in a location is far from the same thing as hating it. There's plenty I like about my home country but there are still many things I would not do there, same holds true for Thailand; or anywhere else. I think I need that coffee refill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 On 7/15/2017 at 10:34 AM, oldhippy said: Don't ask the police for help - or any official. On our first trip to Europe, one day we could not find our hotel. I said to my wife "I will go and ask that policeman over there". My wife just about freaked out.... LOL, that reminds me of the first time I went to Phuket. I had a friend's recommend for an hotel and the street, but I made the mistake of asking a policeman who told me the hotel had closed and gave the taxi driver an address of a "good hotel". The "good hotel" was miles away from where I wanted to be and I later saw the cop in the hotel- obviously knew the owners. The hotel I wanted was not far past where I asked the cop, so he must have known where it was and that it was open. Never again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Recommend Pattaya to western women, or western couples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Been there done that Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 To question why one can be so unintelligent to make Thailand his/her new home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surangw Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 never go out without a supply of toilet paper ( just in case) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InMyShadow Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) Date the cashier because she said she is just cashier Edited July 16, 2017 by InMyShadow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhippy Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 (if you live in the countryside) Put your shoes on without checking whether there is someting inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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