Annoying KSR Types at breakfast on Sukhumvit…

[Old Hippie]

So we were having breakfast a few days back and in come these 2 American girls, good looking I guess, for white chicks. They were seated at the table touching ours and said hello etc…then they started… ‘…Thai guys keep hitting on me and staring at me, it makes me UN comfortable…” Could it be that when you bend over, I can see full tit,nipples included? Has she a clue..? Or is it her right to display her boobs and no one should look? They were staying up by KSR, had the big but empty back packs, down this way to check out the shopping and a tattoo shop because they want to get “traditional Buddhist tattoos called “SKY Yants or something” (their mispronounced and exact words)…”  They were slightly annoyed that the wait staff at the restaurant did not fully understand English as fast as they spoke it “…you’d think they’d brush up a bit if they want tourist business …” 

Back to the tattoo shop, apparently, there is a shop on Soi 4 that does the sacred “SKY Yants.”  I informed them there was a temple outside of Bangkok, Wat Bang Phra, maybe an hour or so by car that does them the true traditional way and maybe they should check it out if they want the real deal… they informed me that this shop has an “Ajarn (they pronounced the J hard)” I asked if they knew what an Ajarn was and they informed me “…it is a Buddhist holy man…” at this point my head was ready to explode… they informed me they had read up on this on instagram the internet etc…and had a bit of that 20+ year old “enlightened know it all” aire about them…it was clear they were “…intelligent independent strong women…” so yeah…

Now You have to really appreciate these types, they travel thousands of miles to experience the real Tghailand and have a deep experience by hanging around an area known as a farang/backpacker ghetto, partying with other farang, going to a full moon party (these 2 had that planned as well) were asking for advise, but weren’t going to take it. They were going to have a deep spiritual experience by getting tattoos at 11pm in a tattoo shop located in a red light zone full of the types of people they resent/hate (they couldn’t stand “…all these miserable old men with girls half their age…”  then in a few weeks, go back to the USA or UK or Where ever and wear their Elephant print pants telling everyone how connected they are to “the real Thailand…”

Never liked these types, and the older I get the more I dislike them yet find them amusing…. All I can really say is “Damned kids..!” Or “…These kids today…” I must be getting old…

[bust]

Know the type. I avoid KSR like the plague but know exactly what you are talking about. What really annoys me is the fact that seem to be under the impression everyone within a 50 foot radius need to hear their conversation as well. I have told a table of them to tone it down during breakfast once.

Any of the Thai staff use the word "kwai" in their casual chats. Heard it often referring to western girls.

[Mekong]

1 hour ago, Old Hippie said:

Never liked these types, and the older I get the more I dislike them yet find them amusing…. All I can really say is “Damned kids..!” Or “…These kids today…” I must be getting old

Partly, I think deeps down inside one realise that you used to be a know it all twat as well in ‘The Early Day” or think to oneself was I this stupid. / annoying 

Even though I find these types entertaining in small doses, I absolutely refrain from being engaged in conversation with them, after all you do not try and have meaningful conversations  with the exhibits  when you visit the zoo 

[Old Hippie]

Each generation is, I suppose, different, yet the same. Yes, we were “know it alls” but know it alls relative to certain limits.  Many of us sought out the true places early on, and did maybe know a thing or 2 WHEN WE WERE FINISHED, and may have been a bit “twatish” about it at times. These kids just know, because they read something someone like them wrote on line.  The “Spiritual tattoo experience” has apparently become so jacked up that Wat Ban Phra has now become a farang ink seeking KSR type of scene, so much so that Thais who really believe in this stuff cannot get in. Basically another thing ruined.  One “old well known punter”  had a good take on it, he basically said  todays traveler is most likely a 1 time tourist, he or she will only be here once and will leave their mark, unknowingly, in a bad way. He, and others, maybe including myself, think the current crop of KSR douche bags are much worse than years back, they simply don’t really give a shit about what they claim to seek. They are here to party with other farang, hook up with other farangs, eat shitty over priced street food and banana pancakes thinking it is “real Thai food…” and just generally being annoying. I occasionally run into them at the temples in the San Francisco area, Berkeley being the worst, and they always, as Bust said, want to pontificate their knowledge, even going as far as to correct Thais about their own culture…127 style…

     A few years back, pre wife and covid, a group of us, the old board guard as it were, were out in our usual haunt on Soi Cowboy, in came a group of kids from KSR and proceeded to be douche bags, this group was mostly British. You could see 1-2 of the guys liked what they saw, the others maybe just hid it better, the girls in the group had real attitudes. Suadam (RIP) and I struck up a conversation with them when they started asking us all kinds of questions. One of the girls had the audacity to ask “…how can you exploit these poor girls like this..?”  I asked “do you want to fuck? “ she of course said no (obviously a lesbo) so I said “…Jeab, you’re up honey…” and left. Suadfam continued to annoy them a bit more…

 

[Mekong]

It must be over 10 years since I have socialised around Farang tourist or KSR types, so I can’t comment on the current generation but it sounds like I have dodged the bullet on this one.

The internet is supposed to make people more intelligent,,where as in fact in it has made people stupider. An idiot post an opinion online, someone buys it hook line and sinker and posts something even stupider and the downward spiral continues. 
And I can bet you a pound to a pinch of shit that they are not getting their info from travel websites and other knowledgeable places, oh no they go to the font of all knowledge Facebook, Instagram and Twitter claiming “it is true, I read it on the interweb thingy” 

 

[bust]

19 hours ago, Mekong said:

The internet is supposed to make people more intelligent,,where as in fact in it has made people stupider.

Agree 100%

I have 2 sons who I guarantee have relied on the internet for all their knowledge/information from the time they left school. The most dangerous types on the net IMO are the "Influences" whatever that is. And most of them are probably narcissists. I recently asked the younger one his thoughts on Andrew Tate. To my surprise he thought he was a great guy. I explained to him the guy was a misogynistic pig to which he expressed his disagreement.

Moment of concern for me as a parent considering the way we brought him up. Zuckerberg is a despicable human being.

[Old Hippie]

Mark “Suckaturd” is a hated man around these parts and increasingly more so. Every day and damned near everywhere he goes.