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06-25-19 00:11 #10612
Posts: 3040Originally Posted by RobertLong [View Original Post]
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06-24-19 22:37 #10611
Posts: 15922Originally Posted by RobertLong [View Original Post]
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06-24-19 21:41 #10610
Posts: 641Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
OMG, she went off the edge. Got crazy and started to tell me her life story, crying and sobbing about some crazy shit. Calling her son in Issan and crying with him. I tried to sleep but she was so loud and unruly that I had to get angry with her. By a few hours she was falling down drunk and loud at 2:00 am. Complaining about farangs and how she hated us and our money that ruined her life.
At 6:00 she finally left with out half her clothes, her purse and many of her items. She must have had her phone as she texted me later asking to come get her items and get paid? I replied that her items would be at security in a plastic bag. Payment denied.
Warning, never buy a lady a bottle of Thai whiskey to take to the room. A few drinks in the bar is enough.
RL.
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06-24-19 15:47 #10609
Posts: 3682Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
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06-24-19 15:06 #10608
Posts: 128561991 - Coffee in Thailand
Back in 1991, I used to drink a lot of coffee (same as now), white coffee (with milk) but no sugar, back home. Milk makes a coffee very slightly sweet due to lactose.
Coming to Thailand, was a shock. They did not have Starbucks or the equivalent. There was a chain called black canyon, but a coffee is only as good as the ingredients, the machine, and skills of the staff. In short I tried, but was horrible.
I don't think Thailand heard of Arabica coffee. A lot of Robusta coffee tasting like brewed iron filings. There may have been non-dairy whiteners (from corn syrup or whatever. Never heard of in my country) around but getting real milk was a big problem. So I would be somewhere, maybe a soapy of caf and order a coffee with milk, no sugar. It came back and was disgustingly sweet. "I said no sugar". They would answer that they did not add sugar. So how come was so sweet? It was the can of milk. "I wanted real fresh milk". The answer always, yes "Nom sot (fresh milk) in the can" Ha ha. Not many here may realise than condensed milk cans here are not the same as in Farang countries. They contain at least 80% sugar and less than 10% dairy products. So "condensed milk" in Thailand is hardly milk at all, and mostly syrup. Completely useless stuff, and possibly would be illegal to label condensed milk in some countries.
Even today, non-sweetened iced coffee does not really exist in Thailand, but is possible for them to make it if the sales person is smart. I have occasionally managed to get it with no sugar, increased milk and greatly reduced ice.
Even today, on some Thai domestic airlines, they do not have any real milk, only coffee whitener powder (not made from milk). I don't drink sugar filled drinks, not even so called "fruit juices" (sugary), so actually can't really drink anything on some airlines other than water. Half the time their food snack served is not really decent enough to consider eating either. Thais are being served up a hell of a lot of junky stuff (sugary, starchy or factory processed), out on the street, whether it is a bowl of noodles, bbqed fish balls on sticks (whose knows what they are made from), Sweet Thai desserts, corn on the COB, pancakes with syrup, etc. Nothing available in the whole Soi I could consider eating tonight. The main food cart "to order" has Mondays off, it seems.
Thais really do eat a lot of rubbish and I suppose the farangs do too.
One day I was at a Mango shake stall. I said, hold the sugar syrup, hold the ice, don't add anything, don't need to put it in a plastic cup, don't wiz it, and don't add anything. I just wanted the sliced mango. One serving person refused, but the other was willing for the right price. Ha ha
Newbies may need to learn that if you order a sandwich in Thailand, they will always toast it unless you say otherwise. I thought a sandwich and toast were different things. LOL. Even a coffee scroll with icing on it, they will try to warm it up unless you say otherwise. A lot of culture shocks to over come. They would then serve the coffee scroll on a plate with a knife and fork, and maybe give you sachets of mayo and ketchup. All things in a coffee shop may be eaten with mayo or ketchup. I am always careful to specific no mayo on all sandwiches, Pizzas, burgers, salad, etc. whatever. Thailand is Mayo and Ketchup crazy. You could be served some salad swimming in a lake of Mayo. yes it happened to me at the Grand Business Inn in Soi 11, and I don't like mayo at all.
I have found the odd place where I can buy ground Arabica beans at a reasonable price (not easy) to make my own coffee in the hotel room with a funnel and filter papers and jug to boil water. So in the end I can manage some cheap reasonably drinkable coffee. Back in 1991, I did not have it solved at all, and even now arrive in Thailand with a lot of coffee in the suitcase from OS.
Fortunately fucking in Thailand works somewhat like in other countries, just we get a much longer session with the girl for the same price. In 1991 we got the whole night with a girl for what now maybe pays for a quick BJ only, even does not quite pay for that.
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06-19-19 14:46 #10607
Posts: 105Crows.
Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
Possibly the worst I have heard.
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06-19-19 10:35 #10606
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
No comments on the uppercut video? I have always said never hit a woman, but I had no sympathy for that woman getting a hard uppercut from that bus driver after she was loud, obnoxious, rude, then spit on the driver. Unfortunately, there are quite a few black women just like that one in the USA. I avoid them like the plague.
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06-19-19 08:35 #10605
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
I do value peace and quiet, not just in public libraries. Discos not fun for me. Too loud and many Thai discos have very poor quality sound and a very irritating DJ as well. Can't stand listening to 30 seconds of a good song, and them find it being blended into the next one. We were lucky to get some good song in the first place. Surely we could have nearly all of it, barring long introductions.
Once I bought ticket at Morchit bus station at Chinese new year in a pushing and shoving crowd. Fortunately I am tall enough to be still getting air when the shorties could be suffocated. After getting ticket, I barged my way out of the throng, and found that a puny Thai guy was being dragged along with me (without him having got to ticket counter yet), his arm was caught tangled in my backpack straps (no clue why his arm was there), so he got pulled long with me. A funny incident for me, but not for him. One would not think was possible but true. He probably weighed 55 Kg at most and me close to 90, so he could not stop my progress out of the crowd, and I did not notice the extra drag at first. Thought it was just the crush.
In stores we always find Thais trying to get served before their place in the queue and the serving staff accept it easily. Very normal. Even in Germany I notice staff prefer to serve the locals first, out of turn, at some places. So who gets there first wins philosophy does not always apply. Don't see thoroughly polite in turn systems much. At least at the Red Cross blood testing, and Immigration, we get queue numbers assigned. Think of the chaos without that.
With advancing age, we are less and less able to tolerate all the shit going on, without getting irritated. Remote quiet life maybe best.
I ask girls what their favourite foreign nationalities are. I guess I don't know the girls that like the Japs and Koreans that much. Most say they like Americans, Aussies, Kiwis, Danes (if they happen to have met any), but Europeans are less preferred overall. Maybe seen as more arrogant, selfish, stingy, impolite, black-hearted, or whatever.
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06-19-19 07:39 #10604
Posts: 463Great video.
Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
I don't believe he was arrested and didn't get fired LOL.
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06-19-19 07:22 #10603
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRQI2DEtu2I
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06-19-19 07:04 #10602
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
Thais consider Chinese (from China not American Chinese) and Viets to be very ill mannered. Manners matters more in Thailand for sure. Thais abhor the hoiking and spitting and nose blowing accepted in other cultures. However nose picking in public is accepted.
In the sports pub, in general conversations, the Americans are louder than the Aussies in my perception, but the Aussies go bananas (loud) when cheering their sports team, which can be like a lightning strike when they yell. The English have easily the most foul language (that I can understand) from mid to lower classes with the "c*nt" word coming out a lot, so I wish they could keep their foul language to a much lower volume. It's embarrassing for other farangs. In general I find americans to be polite but loud. Being on a long train journey with a loud American woman talking non stop and in southern drawl was quite an annoyance for those wanting to nap.
Out in an Isaan province, all the locals speak in a very loud excited manner for general conversation, than I am not used to, and quite unlike Bangkok. Any quieter and you know it must be something secretive or furtive. In old days I did experience very loud southern Thais when drinking and partying too, so not just Issan people.
Working in Italy, I find them very loud and over excited too. Germans quiet. Scandinavians the best in the world in all aspects of manners I think.
One work colleague was Australian, and spoke so softly in a noisy environment, I could rarely hear him. Another Brit always spoke very fast with low mouth movement (like a ventriloquist) similar to Indians but with lower pitch and English accent. Probably more like Irish who speak with a closed mouth a lot. He was very hard to understand at times, and non native English speakers had little hope. Americans are easier to understand, if they stay away from slang, Ghetto vocab, and not deep south, as tend to speak slower and higher volume levels.
I think we all get irritated by behaviour well outside what we are used to in our own cultures. I like my personal space, which groups of Indians seem to stuff up in Billboard bar. They party too much in your face or nearly on your lap. Don't notice any other ethnic group annoying me as much. I can't be near groups that stink (whatever the origin or ethnic group), so could not queue at the money exchange with Arabs and could not be in a lift with them. So that rules out Soi 3 and Soi 5 Hotels quickly, any of the low odd Sois through to Soi 9 most likely.
I don't have a problem with those that are exceptions to the stereo type. I have Chinese, Japanese, English and Indian buddies, no problem. These would all be somewhat non typical for the group.
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06-18-19 17:57 #10601
Posts: 15922Originally Posted by CzarNicholas [View Original Post]
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06-18-19 17:43 #10600
Posts: 162That spray is disgusting, irritating, but the active ingredient is usually permthrin which is essentially non-toxic. http://www.travelstart.co.za/blog/ai...abin-spraying/ Don't know about the toxicity of the propellants etc in the spray can.
For preventative measures to avoid getting sick from a fellow passenger, probably best is a well-fitted N99-rated face mask. I like this one, comfortable, with ventilation valves so the insides doesn't get soggy and has a type of carbon fiber that specifically helps catch and kill bacteria and viruses https://cambridgemask.com/.
And wash your hands often with soap and water before, during, and after the flight. Especially after passing though immigration with those fingerprint readers that so many countries now use.
Originally Posted by CzarNicholas [View Original Post]
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06-18-19 17:02 #10599
Posts: 17Originally Posted by CzarNicholas [View Original Post]
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06-18-19 12:14 #10598
Posts: 3682Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]