Why do Thais like noise so much

[Elvis]

I think the noisy vehicles are down to the novelty of rice monkeys being able to afford motorised transport and wanting everyone to notice.

They purposely fit loud aftermarket exhausts to cars bikes and pickups, and the way some of them blast around with their foot to the floor in pickups belching out black fumes is jaw dropping.

Is there anyway to block or mute offensive turds like this racist bigot ??

[Elvis]

I also learned to deal with it, just like I am now dealing with it back in Oz when every weekend it is a constant noise of lawnmowers and edge trimmers. Why do Aussies have to have a big lawn and garden that no one even uses these days, and which has to be mowed/cut nearly every weekend in Summer? Years ago us kids would all play in the backyards, but these days the kids dont do that much. Concrete or Garden/Mulch it is my view.

In Thailand those loud Trucks and PA systems in Malls were hard to adjust to but I did - sort of. But the one thing I never could, and never will I think, is that many Thais (in fact most Asians) have a complete lack of understanding about being quiet at golf. Whether at the driving range or on the course, they just have no idea about being quiet while someone else is playing a shot. But what is absolutely amazing is that in a group they can all chatter away on the tee, while one guy is getting ready to hit his drive, and they all dont stop. Even the guy hitting the ball only pauses during his downswing, and is right back into the conversation/joking before he even picks up his tee. But they sure do enjoy themselves. I couldn't count how many times I was about to play a shot and someone would start screaming on another fairway, or one of the workers would drive their bike/cart straight passed me, or a caddy would make/answer a call on her phone. The better and more expensive the course, the quieter it is, but nothing like back here in Oz now. Sometimes I have to look around to make sure there are other people playing golf - not used to the quiet

[Exexpat]

Why just pick on the Thai? Cambo's, Chinese, Filipina's like, or are inured to, noise just as much. It's a part of Asian life- like it or lump it. You certainly won't change it.

Not picking on, discussing, and the clue's in the name of the forum.

It means "white person" and I just don't think of that as a negative thing, no matter what it means to the person referring to me that way.

In its original English language usage, nigger (then spelled niger) was generally a neutral word for a dark-skinned individual.

I think there is more behind the word farang than you do, in the same way that some westerners don't see anything xenophobic about the national anthem.

[Exexpat]

Is there anyway to block or mute offensive turds like this racist bigot ??

Joining a forum and then whining about one of its long-term members a few weeks later doesn't seem sensible. Use the ignore function if your skin is too thin.

[Exexpat]

My particular hates are those trucks that go around with blaring loudspeakers selling stuff (it's worse around election time, although we've not had to bother about that for a while), or those ridiculously noisy little motorbikes ridden by young idiots, with the bafflers taken out of the exhaust pipe- yet nobody will do anything about it. Actually, in Pattaya several idiot farangs are just as guilty- although they tend to ride bigger bikes.

The sales trucks sum up the problem quite well. Many Thais don't mind having the advertising blasted through the walls of their homes because they see the benefit of knowing a mobile market is outside. They wouldn't be allowed to do it in the west. Mobile election loud-hailers were outlawed decades ago.

As for the motorbikes, yes, they are annoying, hence my colourful language about them and shouting security guards. A lot of those young idiots blast around with no exhaust pipe on, in the middle of the night, and either aren't aware that they may have just woken the entire street they rode through, or they actually enjoy doing so.

[crazy dog]

My next door neighbor goes to work on a bike and leaves at 6.45 am. But the bike gets taken out and left with the engine running at 6.30, then he goes back in the house. Why he does it we have no idea but it's the same very morning, unless he's late then he does not bother with the warm up.

[Jose]

^^ All down to perception, again.

It isn't perceived as impolite, or anything negative by all the locals.


It's your perception that is causing you so much anguish and aggravation.


Look within, where the real problem is.

[Exexpat]

^^ All down to perception, again.

It isn't perceived as impolite, or anything negative by all the locals.


It's your perception that is causing you so much anguish and aggravation.


Look within, where the real problem is.

Mao, you don't know what "all the locals" think, and you're imagining 'much anguish and aggravation' on a discussion thread.

There's a thread to discuss your view that anyone who sees things in Thailand in a dimmer light than you has something wrong with them

http://thailandchatter.com/showthrea...-love-Thailand

[Jose]

Mao, you don't know what "all the locals" think, and you're imagining 'much anguish and aggravation' on a discussion thread.

There's a thread to discuss your view that anyone who sees things in Thailand in a dimmer light than you has something wrong with them

http://thailandchatter.com/showthrea...-love-Thailand

You're a bit touchy.

All the issues you're seeing/finding are simply a result in your different perception of events, compared to what the locals and others perceive them as.


Similar to how Thais would be horrified at moving to England, and 2 security guards walking into their house and all over their carpets with their big boots on. How disrespectful!!!


See, that would be their perception of disrespect, and they'd be wrong to think that there was any disrespect, lack of self-awareness or awareness of others on the security guard's part.


How you're perceiving their actions is completely different to how they and others perceive them.


The issues you face are within you.

Look inside.

Self-heal.


Good luck with it.

[Boon Mee]

Why just pick on the Thai? Cambo's, Chinese, Filipina's like, or are inured to, noise just as much. It's a part of Asian life- like it or lump it. You certainly won't change it.

My particular hates are those trucks that go around with blaring loudspeakers selling stuff (it's worse around election time, although we've not had to bother about that for a while), or those ridiculously noisy little motorbikes ridden by young idiots, with the bafflers taken out of the exhaust pipe- yet nobody will do anything about it. Actually, in Pattaya several idiot farangs are just as guilty- although they tend to ride bigger bikes.

But as far as village celebrations, mor lam concerts, weddings, funerals etc go- I like it! To this farang, it is certainly a welcome contrast to the sterile suburbs that most westerners choose to call home.

A minor pet peeve of mine is people pronouncing Farang - Falang.
And when I play pronunciation cop and tell them that Farang is spelled with a ro rua (ร) not a loo ling (ล) they just look confused!

[Exexpat]

^^ Thanks for importing your 'wisdom' from TD

Aren't they keeping you busy enough?

[Jose]

See the issues with your perception?


You perceive the answers to your questions as some sort of 'attack' of some sort.


Bizarre.



Good luck with your inner journey, to where the issues that you find with the World reside. Hopefully you'll be able to perceive the World around you correctly, as normal people do, and be at peace.

Good luck.

[Exexpat]

Yes mao, the next stage of gaslighting is to make accusations of being defensive.

Yawn....

[Exexpat]

A minor pet peeve of mine is people pronouncing Farang - Falang.
And when I play pronunciation cop and tell them that Farang is spelled with a ro rua (ร) not a loo ling (ล) they just look confused!

They drop the r sound on lots of words, and some seem embarrassed when a westerner pronounces it correctly in response.

[Jose]

For what is supposed to be a charming and graceful culture, why are their school parks and shopping malls polluted by offensively loud PA systems, and why do they seem to enjoy driving around with unbaffled vehicles exhausts?

It isn't offensively loud to them. You just perceive it as such.


You're welcome.


The next stage is viewing the World openly, looking within, and changing your perceptions.