Things I have contempt for about working in Thailand

**LDMA** · 4th July 2007 15:26

Call me a miserable old burn out who needs a career change but....

I feel nothing but contempt for....

Students that copy.
Teachers that don't care about it.
School directors that think that students can effectively study languages in outdoor classrooms with no means of displaying information, and who think INCREASING class sizes is the way forward.
Ink colour orthodoxy...we can't send your permissions slip, you used blue AND black ink!
Activities encroaching into my class which I have no prior knowlege of.
Thai teachers who believe we earn a fortune
Strangers that try and grab my daughter for 'bei tiaw".
Strangers hallooing me just because I'm a foreigner.
Parents who don't chastise their kids from yelling "farrang" in my face.
Parents who don't bat an eyelid as their young kids run in front of car in my soi as I drive past
Drivers who don't look as they change lanes.
Colleagues who badger my wife and I about having a second child...mind your own friggin business.
Restaurants who assume I don't like spicy food because I'm a farrang
Waitresses that ask what you want before handing you a menu.
Shop assistants that would "mai mee" even if the item was sitting next to them.
The notion that if it's not been done before it can't be done.
Xenophobic military Juntas
People with no concept of the Internet being made Minister of Technology.

.....there...I feel better now..carry on...

**kenkannif** · 4th July 2007 15:28

Easy going old Loooweee huh!

Maybe start smoking again huh?

**Jellybean** · 4th July 2007 15:30

Originally Posted by LDMA

Call me a miserable old burn out who needs a career change but....

Nah! You just need a smoke.

Beat me to it KK!

**natalie8** · 4th July 2007 15:33

Good thread!!! Where's S&O???

Originally Posted by LDMA

Shop assistants that would "mai mee" even if the item was sitting next to them.

To this I'd love to add: Those who say "Yes" or "No" to anything you say or ask.

People who ride side by side on their motorcycles either gabbing to each other or (I really don't get this on) putting their foot on the other person's motorcycle.

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On the topic of smoking - Freakin' Thais who smoke inside elevators!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**blackjack** · 4th July 2007 15:34

Originally Posted by LDMA

School directors that think that students can effectively study languages in outdoor classrooms with no means of displaying information, and who think INCREASING class sizes is the way forward.

It is the way forward mate.....for their bank accounts.

Anway Louis, besides all that, how's your day been?

Originally Posted by kenkannif

Maybe start smoking again huh?

**likewise** · 4th July 2007 15:34

Louis you think tooo mut. Do something fun and relax dude. But I understand working amongst all them old tarts, beware you don't become one of them.

**stfranalum** · 4th July 2007 15:37

one of those classic thai moments where you know youre right. know its the internationally right thing to do- but youre still, personally, better off going home and giving it a good 'ol

and letting it all go.

where to go then? well, you'll be buried somewhere nice and people will miss you. your shit will be put into a box and everything will continue as planned in the world. we cant change things, albiet one mind at a time. all the rest, is us wrestling with our reality.

you my man, have conjured a beast there to wrestle with.

look at it from another angle, and its merely a kitten you have to stomp

one is an impossible task. the other is easier and attainable. your perspective is your choice.

but i love kittens. though sometimes they just need a good stompin'

**LDMA** · 4th July 2007 15:40

Well, that was bloody cryptic Frannie....

...actually it was the ink orthodoxy thing that triggered the rant...

**kenkannif** · 4th July 2007 15:42

Actually you're young ain't you? Shit what about when you really ARE old?

**LDMA** · 4th July 2007 15:43

I'd just like to add to my list

The concept of "kreng jai"
People who don't fill the friggin' staffroom kettle when it's empty.
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I'll be dead from lard abuse by then Ken, I'm moaning while the gittin's good!
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...and no I can't go home yet...got idiots coming for re-tests.

**likewise** · 4th July 2007 15:46

Start yelling at ajarn Su.... that always helps.

**kenkannif** · 4th July 2007 15:47

I find a lot of it funny.....a tad annoying...but sabai sabai and all that...go with the flow...get a full frontal lobotomy etc.

Is lard good to abuse then? I generally use shampoo bottles!!!

**likewise** · 4th July 2007 15:47

Don't fail them

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**LDMA** · 4th July 2007 15:49

Teenagers who think that garments with images of Japanese children's cartoons are examples of high fashion.

Hello Kitty in general.
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Aj Stu....abuse got you far eh LW?

I totally forgot the shampoo bottle thing ken....you have an innate talenmt of putting horrid images in my mind.

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Ok...I'm on a roll..

Wai Kru Day
Single direction English > Thai dictionaries
School haircut regulations enforced in place of my class.
Chinese cakes that look nice but turn your mouth into the Sahara.

**kenkannif** · 4th July 2007 15:57

Actually in all honesty I could moan and moan and moan along similar lines....Jesus some of the things you have to put up with/go through here....but I just prefer to use them as amusing albeit infuriating anecdotes (sp?)!!!