"Thailand is a bunch of lightweights and they ought to know it" said the bald, ruddy little Brit, looking straight at me without the slightest hint of shame.

 " NO. Listen to what I'm saying. I don't mean that they're bad people, just that they're lightweights. They can't stand up to moral scrutiny and most of them's corrupt." 

I think we all have a ruddy squat little brit in us who wants to call out Thailand for what it is. A corrupt and architecturally ruinous nation screwing itself over multiple times a day with massive acts of self-directed destruction. 

"That's what it is and the Thais can't handle it. They can play that anthem day in and day out. They can bow before monks and holy sepulchres. At the end of the day the streets crawl with garbage and smell of noxious fecal waste anyway, because there aren't proper bins and there aren't proper water treatment facilities. That shit gets papered over. All the women want is money and the men all cheat. That, after all, is how the game is played.

Of course, there is a certain jadedness about the Thais that wasn't always there, but now that it's in the fabric of the nation it's there to stay. They work hard compared to the west, but in the final analysis, they are a bunch of monkeys toying with the physics of reality. Buddhism is anti-philosophical. It promotes lack of thinking. They want to do things a certain way based on whim, but there's no planning, and the lack of foresight bites them in the ass every time.

I can smell the Thai crap and the garbage from a mile away. Literally. Everything is touched by the Cheap odor of masked shit. The Thais are completely opposite to the Germans in that they will choose a low-gauge material like gladhanding and good intentions to build a relationship, a business, a building, or actually anything. They will always try to get something for on the cheap. Take the new tax laws: They never thought it through, did they? They want to tax retirees who aren't taxed in their own countries to pay tax in Thailand right now. This is chasing many back home.

As we all know, you can't build a place based on "good intentions" and total greed. There has to be a certain quality of thought that goes into it. The Thais simply don't plan far enough or believe in an overarching fabric of reality other than the kind they can bend by will and merit-making. This is a pre-enlightened civilization in its full glory.

I'm thinking, and I'm fueled specifically by a girl I met who had a stanking handbag and a stanking taste in food that made me ill to think of her afterward. I saw both of these things in one bloody go on an evening out in Samui. It was on a night when she took me out in her car. I used to be fond of her. I told her this every day. 

I'm not fond of her anymore. She doesn't fit the bill and she ought to know it. I flirted with her for 3 solid weeks and nothing came of it. I also taught her English online during that time. Apparently she was happy to take the English lessons because we hung out a few times and she often apologized for being late for class. 

At first it was a lot for me when she used to be unannouncedly late, and I made it clear, and she apologized and we had to iron things out emotionally between us. I thought that meant we were growing closer. 

But as it turns out, the Southern Thais are actually pretty elitist. They also put too much emphasis on politesse and too little on warmth of heart. That by itself wouldn't be so bad, except that for all their ignorance and stupidity about real life, philosophy, and basic logic, they still think they're a cut above everyone else. If you get caught in their crosshairs, they probably want something from you. Pay them no heed. Simply walk on and make use of the arbitrage of living in a cheap country.

This girl for instance; I went on 3 separate dates with her. They all turned out hollow in the final analysis. I paid for most things and she was too thick to take it as a compliment. She took this ridiculous video montage of the day with neither of us in it; which hearkened back to our first date in Samui, which when I asked for a photo of both of us, she flatly refused. So as I say, this stupid, sanitized montage, she sent it to me without either of us in it, just a bunch of scenery and said "I made this for you." 

What a load of crap. I want your hugs, your body and your family association. I want to make you my girlfriend and my wife. I want more than a stupid video montage.

Everything transactional like that. Everything meaninglessly bland and without emotion. When all was said and done I realized all the Thais are like that. They only care about looks and status. Forget about romance. The rest they leave up to chance. They get their fill and are polite as hell but don't expect love off of them, least of all the southerners. My boss is married to a witch from somewhere else. She's not a Southerner originally, but in my estimation she's the hag of Surat. The one that even the crazy Thais wouldn't marry, but he did in the end only because he's led by his c###.

To the girl who kept brushing me off: I  simply wanted to be around someone instead of arbing around Surat Thani all by myself, which gets old pretty quick. A hug wouldn't have hurt. I have a bad living situation here. I am a teacher with a parasitic client who thinks nothing of taking more and more free hours off me at no extra charge. The same goes with the other Thais I work for. They are not good people, and they only like loud obtrusive people, not thoughtful individuals with a heart. Sincerity is nothing to them. And if you're not willing to associate your body with someone - as a girl - that's the ultimate way of saying "you don't meet my specifications," which is just laughable in my opinion."