Thailand Lounge and Chat area

[Engine Driver]

I saw some footage of the Womens World Cup qualifier match between Thailand and Australia. My god those Thai women were ugly. A team full of butch lesbians. Yikes.

[Syzygies]

No seriously, I get what you mean. They would seem to be low class people with no morals, shamelessly and openly cavorting with prostitutes.

You got it wrong. Thai men have no qualms about cavorting with prostitutes and low standard of morals (for some views), however more behind closed doors. It is the standard of behaviour of Farangs (and way they dress) that makes them looks bad. Lacking politeness, arrogance, looking for trouble, very loud discussion of things not suitable in public, and the British are champions of loud foul language in my experience here. Then there is the issue of how often foreigners might take a shower to get rid of their stink.

Americans can also be very loud as can the Thais, however it tends to be when having fun and choice of words matters.

I have had to learn to try to be more polite than normal, when someone irritates me.

[FL Hawk]

Don't forget. What happens in Asia, stays in Asia.

Unless perhaps you are British. A number of them seem to make the news periodically.

[Engine Driver]

Imagine what Thai people think of men in other countries given the quality, or lack thereof, of men visiting Thailand, especially Pattaya.

They're probably very envious of them. Able to travel to warm climates, pockets full cash, banging an endless number of hot, young girls, drinking and generally leading a very decadent life!

No seriously, I get what you mean. They would seem to be low class people with no morals, shamelessly and openly cavorting with prostitutes.

[Syzygies]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.

I this what you intended? Auto corrector stuffs it up.

[BionicMan]

Imagine what Thai people think of men in other countries given the quality, or lack thereof, of men visiting Thailand, especially Pattaya.

👏128079;128079;128079;128079;128079;128079;.

[BionicMan]

Can someone tell me why Thais have no commonsense, logic, general knowledge or intellectual curiosity. Is it their poor schooling, culture, laziness or what? Their average IQ of 90 is around 10 points below the average American, which is a lot.

I would not venture into such a debate.

Similarly I might not be impressed by the average education and culture in your country.

Thais, and other so called third world, suffer of a wide spread poorness that doesn't help in the development and improvement of the average status, social, economic, cultural.

Nevertheless there are tons of well educated Thais running corporate, establishing businesses, investing into entrepreneurship and sophisticated industries or activities.

The same in other poor countries.

Some sort of laziness belongs to "climate areas". Maybe, a scientist can tell better, a natural defence for the local human kind.

How do you fight the effects of super high humidity, very hot temperatures, if not by slowing down and reduce the resources needed by the body for not challenging it?

[Banana Boi]

Imagine what Thai people think of men in other countries given the quality, or lack thereof, of men visiting Thailand, especially Pattaya.

[Syzygies]

Can someone tell me why Thais have no commonsense, logic, general knowledge or intellectual curiosity. Is it their poor schooling, culture, laziness or what? Their average IQ of 90 is around 10 points below the average American, which is a lot.

555. You might be meeting the lower educated part of the population. My dentist clinic had guys with US Qualifications.

I must admit I get astonished by how slow and inefficient Thai workers are, e.g. in the coffee shop, so it is part of the culture.

Thais may only get a distorted view of the world from Farang movies dubbed into Thai. Also where the princess was visiting today, and prime minister's propaganda.

Can you tell me why Americans know so little about other countries? LOL OS News used to be exclusively focussed on where president was visiting today. LOL.
"Do the beaches in my country have any sand? One asked me.

Plenty of posters on this forum could be accused of being quite illogical, and over imaginative of extremes that might happen (but don't).

One bad girl met, and the poster says he will never return to that place. Ha ha. That is what I call emotional and illogical. Can get a bad experience absolutely anywhere. Tempers interfere with sensible thought processes.

[Engine Driver]

Can someone tell me why Thais have no commonsense, logic, general knowledge or intellectual curiosity. Is it their poor schooling, culture, laziness or what? Their average IQ of 90 is around 10 points below the average American, which is a lot.

[Engine Driver]

You might want to factor in the population, and so sales rate per million persons, otherwise it is a nonsense to compare to China. LOL.

Maybe Thailand does have a lot of wealthy people per million. Not like my country where there is a huge percentage of in between people neither very rich not very poor.

The myth promotes absolute numbers, not per capita.

[Syzygies]

There's an urban myth that Thailand has the second highest annual sales rate for Mercedes Benz cars in the world. This myth has been circulating for over 30 years. It's spread to make Thailand look like a rich country. The sales figure for Mercedes cars in Thailand is only a few thousand units a year and they have an assembly plant in the country. The leading countries for Mercedes sales are China, Germany and USA.

Thailand does sell a high number of pickups, second only to the USA.

You might want to factor in the population, and so sales rate per million persons, otherwise it is a nonsense to compare to China. LOL.

Maybe Thailand does have a lot of wealthy people per million. Not like my country where there is a huge percentage of in between people neither very rich not very poor.

[Engine Driver]

There's an urban myth that Thailand has the second highest annual sales rate for Mercedes Benz cars in the world. This myth has been circulating for over 30 years. It's spread to make Thailand look like a rich country. The sales figure for Mercedes cars in Thailand is only a few thousand units a year and they have an assembly plant in the country. The leading countries for Mercedes sales are China, Germany and USA.

Thailand does sell a high number of pickups, second only to the USA.

[Syzygies]

I have an 18 hour layover in Bangkok tomorrow before I go to UAE which is my final destination.

You could have got better answers by asking well in advance. Tomorrow is very last minute.

[Banana Boi]

Facial scanning now required to get a SIM card in Thailand. Coinciding with this, another headline in the news today is "7-Eleven in Thailand to start scanning customer's faces".

BIOMETRIC DATA NOW REQUIRED TO BUY A SIM CARD IN THAILAND

According to reports the governments new laws surrounding the purchase of SIM cards here in the kingdom has now gone into force meaning people wishing to purchase one now need to either have their fingerprints recorded or their face scanned, the new measures have caused quite a stir among privacy advocates.

According to the National Broadcasting Telecommunications Commission head Supakarn Boonjan the biometric measures are the final phase of new SIM card registration which came into effect in February.

Speaking about the new registration procedures a spokesman for the NBTC also said it is the governments wish that everyone who has purchased a SIM card prior to the new measures being in place also submit their data, however a means of carrying this out has yet to be established.

The government claims the new measures are to improve security and stability in the kingdom in the wake of unrest in parts of the kingdom over recent years where SIM cards purchased anonymously have been used to carry out crimes and in extreme cases used to detonate bombs such as the Erawan Shrine bomb in 2015.

Many have stressed concerns over privacy of users as a result of the new regulations with some stating authorities could monitor a user’s movements using GPS from their device, though the government has stressed this is not their intention.

According to Supakarn all Pattaya based vendors of SIM cards are now equipped with devices capable of recording the necessary biometric data of both Thai and foreign customers.

Thai citizens will have their fingerprints checked with those taken for their national identification card or their face scanned and checked against the picture on their ID card.

Foreign citizens will have their face scanned and matched against their passport to prove their identity.