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Post by Fletchsmile on Aug 10, 2015 19:57:20 GMT 7
Before I came to Thailand, my nickname was just Fletch. Here in Thailand there's loads of stuff that makes me smile. Here's one from today. Some doors have recently had new security swipe pads fitted. You need to swipe a card to get in. Now opening doors isn't fun for Thais and a useless waste of precious energy. Opening doors with a swipe card even less fun. If you leave the door open an alarm sounds after a while and comes on until closed. Solution: Open the little part at the side of the door, and leave that open instead... ![]() ![]() 
Now everyone squeezes thru the small part at the side of the door so they don't have to swipe the card and physically open the main part of the door  . Except of course the odd farang who is too big too fit thru So what things make you smile in Thailand? (or laugh/cry?) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2015 20:05:13 GMT 7
My girls.
Morning coffee by the river.
...connections [in general]
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Post by pgrahmm on Aug 10, 2015 20:56:08 GMT 7
 Just about everything - but lately our neighbors new garden gnome.... |
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Post by cc1 on Aug 10, 2015 20:56:28 GMT 7
The local labor force makes me laugh/smile and cry in once...
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Post by pathumseb on Aug 10, 2015 21:05:22 GMT 7
So many little things meld into one big smile. I like waking up and having my breakfast on the porch, having time for another coffee before work. I like going into work. Goofing about with my students. Those light bulb moments in class, my first graders becoming literate. Aimless wandering and grazing around the local market. Floating about the pool without a care in the world smirking about those back home with a 30 year mortgage. Made a new expat friend recently, shes infectiously positive which is a welcome change form newbies who think that Thailand should change for them. I love train rides here; most notably the slow train to Ayutthaya (sp/too lazy to google)followed by drifting around temples and dinner by the river.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2015 21:09:26 GMT 7
.....newbies who think that Thailand should change for them. Certainly applies to long-timers, as well. More established in a rather dark manner.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Aug 10, 2015 22:06:00 GMT 7
Reading another forum populated by bitter and twisted my girl done me wrong type pensioners from the UK that thinks the world owes them a living.
Heres a tip for these coffin dodgers, you chose your partner, you were no doubt smiling when you paid the bar fine which was an indicator of things to come.
She led you to some ban nork village in the ass end of nowhere, where you were more than happy to build a farang macmansion, complete with 3 metre high walls.
She then introduced to her baggage aka her worthless hammock swing sons, who then moved into your castle.
You then spend all day on some other forum venting your spleen about the UK Gov't ripping you off for your 15 and a tanner pension, the exchange rates, when you never saw 36 or 38 to the pommy quid.
You drink Chang all day to get maudlin and convince yourself, that yes, your girl really was different.
Welcome to your own personal hell.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2015 22:10:07 GMT 7
Wife's lovely breasts.
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Post by Fletchsmile on Aug 10, 2015 22:12:11 GMT 7
That sort of sounds like she has more than one pair you like the lovely breasts but not... |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Aug 10, 2015 22:31:55 GMT 7
Having a wander round such places as Tesco/Lotus On Nut and playing spot the FNG, usally to be found at either the gold shop or mobile phone counter where his hoe du jour will sweet talk him into buying her the latest samsung Galxy S6.
Talking to said newbie who then tells me " she isnt a bar girl", oh really.
Its 3 in the afternoon, so why isnt she at work?
Those 6 inch spikes, Daisy Duke shorts and boob tube tell another story but never mind.
Those bar girl sak yants and the fact she never wia ed me are another indicator, but never mind Gramps, you keep deluding yourself.
Watching the looks of the regular girls working in Tesco etc as they watch the latest buffalo to the slaughter being led by.
Watching the look on his tee raks face when you start speaking to them in Thai.
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Post by smokie36 on Aug 11, 2015 1:46:08 GMT 7
I love my gf's exasperation at all the little thigs like a thread coming out of the sofa or the curtains are a centimetre too shortvor there is a squeak in the new bed etc....
While she is right of course I love the seriousness with which these issues are dealt with....compared to my complaining that a driver with no lights on his bike just tried to mow me down and everyone laughs or a mass brawl which is shrugged off as horseplay it just sums up Thailand as a country same as every other...but with more general patience and fun.
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Post by Soutpeel on Aug 11, 2015 9:21:58 GMT 7
A smiler yesterday in my local Tesco's
We spend a lot of time on forums propagating certain Thai cliches about various things and what did i see yesterday in the above mentioned shop ?
2 scandi dirty old big fat farangs, (yes they stunk) in sandals with white socks, dirty old shorts and both had wife beaters on and prominent buddah medallions on their chests, giving everyone the evil eye and muttering things under their breath
The only thing that was missing was neither had splayed toed young Isaan teeraks BG's with them, but one suspects any self respecting BG would require the pair of them to be hosed down with dettol and wire brushed before going anywhere near them
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Post by Mango Fletchsmile on Aug 11, 2015 10:47:21 GMT 7
Got in the lift this morning - about 20 people. Had a message from our youngest daughter on that Line app so I opened it. Clicked on it and it went: "Love you na. Joop joop..." (= love you  - for non Thai speakers) - most people smiled and laughed in a friendly way, before I tried to recover saying "jaak luksaow" (=from my daughter). Some situations are just more comfortable in Thailand. |
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Post by siampolee on Aug 11, 2015 11:14:38 GMT 7
Very nice and from the heart from your daughter. But just think. If that had had been in the U.K you would by now probably be in the police station being questioned about pedophile tendencies and leanings. Children would by now have been whipped into care so the professional P.C. pedophiles could then play with them Yes Thailand does give us a smile ,sometimes for the strangest of non P.C. reasons.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 19:35:51 GMT 7
A smiler yesterday in my local Tesco's We spend a lot of time on forums propagating certain Thai cliches about various things and what did i see yesterday in the above mentioned shop ? 2 scandi dirty old big fat farangs, (yes they stunk) in sandals with white socks, dirty old shorts and both had wife beaters on and prominent buddah medallions on their chests, giving everyone the evil eye and muttering things under their breath The only thing that was missing was neither had splayed toed young Isaan teeraks BG's with them, but one suspects any self respecting BG would require the pair of them to be hosed down with dettol and wire brushed before going anywhere near them Must be quite stimulating residing in locales with Farang circles.
I've counted my blessing in choosing areas that I've never had to have such exposure.
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. Except of course the odd farang who is too big too fit thru 
- for non Thai speakers) - most people smiled and laughed in a friendly way, before I tried to recover saying "jaak luksaow" (=from my daughter). 
