andy72 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 the BBC just published this:https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50015982y now i guess they are only talking specifically about one group for as many can attest walking behind Asians OMG no spatial awareness now though its ten times worse coz they are usually glued to their phone i could swear the chinese couple in front walking single file on the thai pavements weaving through the strategically placed posts and signs were texting each other plus this whole fast walking thing does it take into account of ambient temperatures or footwear as flip flops are the footwear of choice in Asia in general and footwear also dictates which muscles become defined Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirineou Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 "Doctors often measure gait speed to gauge overall health, particularly in the over-65s, because it is a good indicator of muscle strength, lung function, balance, spine strength and eyesight.Slower walking speeds in old age have also been linked to a higher risk of dementia and decline. " https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50015982 Amazing discovery!! some were in such a bad shape that they moved awkwardly, when poked with a stick refused to react and showed terrible spatial awareness.All they did was mumble something about "Brains " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebumbu Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 So, people who are not in a hurry will live short lives and have small brains. Got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyNets Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 That's why they drive so fast, to make up the time from walking slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 21 minutes ago, andy72 said: plus this whole fast walking thing does it take into account of ambient temperatures or footwear as flip flops are the footwear of choice in Asia in general and footwear also dictates which muscles become defined From my many years of association with Asia, I have concluded that they do indeed tend to walk much slower than those of us from temperate climes for the very reasons that you state. We are, I feel conditioned to walking faster simply to keep warm and it has become an ingrained habit. But oh yes, the bloody smart phone. Grrrr! Just yesterday I had to prod a young lady from behind who was stood texting at the bottom of an elevator in the mall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 6 minutes ago, Ebumbu said: So, people who are not in a hurry will live short lives and have small brains. Got it. But will the quality of their shorter, unhurried lives be any any worse than the frantic frenzy that is associated with a western lifestyle? There are two sides to every story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 wife often says to me "why you walk same run" ...???? I call it walking with purpose not dawdling(sp) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HLover Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 1 hour ago, andy72 said: the chinese couple in front walking single file Not 3 abreast (Indian style) soi spread mode? Consider yourself lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Ebumbu said: So, people who are not in a hurry will live short lives and have small brains. Got it. Life has become short. No time to think. ( Thinking is dangerous ! ) 555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeTallFarang Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 This is Thainess personified. I can’t tell you how many times two Thai women out together will completely shut down a sidewalk with slow ambling and less than casual sauntering while they chat and hold hands like a couple of aliens who infiltrated earth and stole some human bodies. The entire concept that their slow, snails pace walking might inconvenience others is as foreign a concept as quantum physics is. Not only that, they don’t step aside, they don’t give way, they just continue in their own little world, completely oblivious to others around them. I have just reached a point where I make sure they lose face and tell them loudly in Thai, if they are really blocking badly, “you are preventing others from passing you, you are blocking our way with your slow movement” and not even giving a damn what they respond with. There’s no way these toxic cultural norms will change if someone doesn’t regularly shame them and call them out. ???? on the reverse though, I have seen many Thais power walk past me even though I don’t walk slow, so not all Thais are guilty of this at least. It’s usually just the women who are with friends and engaged in conversation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeTallFarang Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 1 hour ago, CharlieH said: wife often says to me "why you walk same run" ...???? I call it walking with purpose not dawdling(sp) Absolutely correct. The slow walking, glued-to-the-phone obliviousness is maddening here. If someone on their phone is about to collide directly with me, I stop dead in my tracks and look them straight in the face. When they finally get a few inches from me and realize they’re about to collide with someone because they aren’t watching where they’re walking, the look they give is always priceless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy72 Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 22 minutes ago, HLover said: Not 3 abreast (Indian style) soi spread mode? Consider yourself lucky. when i drove round india watching some folk cross the road was like a video game they see traffic start going back a few steps change their mind go forward back its like a first gen video game. they cant judge speed distance or even in Thailand country folks first time to a shopping mall and the moving stairs im not slagging anyone its these things we take for granted but even if you watch kids those first tentative steps on the moving stairs. but i was in bangkok a month ago early morning and was really surprised they are like any major city now i think the coffee beans are kicking in it wasnt like that about three years ago it was still just a little more relaxed this time around it just felt different im not sure its a good thing they have lost their chill maxxed out the mastercard/visa work work you know like eight years or so ago the BTS was empty and they started the cheap cards for the uni kids and so forth so that's like they have matured done their schooling got the degrees and now its the norm bts work driving towards what we in the west term as developed yet intrinsically losing just a little bit of their own identity along the way maybe we all do in the long run. i found that i was the one in the way tables turned but then again i was not going to work i was a watcher of them doing that of which i had escaped yet where i had escaped from had now came here damn i was the slow walking zombie but in a way i feel sorry for them, for us all most of my time is in CM it still runs a little slower all around someone is trying to walk fast the inevitable developed status be it good or bad someone mentioned in another post about the onslaught of meeting dick heads and how that is leveled by meeting one diamond i think the same can be said for many places ive got a lot of experience of india and its the same formula just in differing ratios many on this forum have found a happiness with a thai woman, its a predominately male forum as for the others lets just equate it to living in amsterdam but cheaper the whole walking thing the start of this topic it equated slowness to iq levels like any test conclusions it is specific to region, race education try not to judge others by your standards until you understand who and what they are i won't go is down the politics route that determination i would like to say is down to country choice but this is a global world and history has repeated itself in this way many times tvf is a small cosmos and by being overly cynical in that which is not yours is a fundamental flaw. if i direct my cynicism back home its omg usa d,trump i guess there is no perfection and you know what they say about people who live in green houses it goes something like this; dont indulge in a lot of chang and start on the internet ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 20 minutes ago, HandsomeTallFarang said: Absolutely correct. The slow walking, glued-to-the-phone obliviousness is maddening here. If someone on their phone is about to collide directly with me, I stop dead in my tracks and look them straight in the face. When they finally get a few inches from me and realize they’re about to collide with someone because they aren’t watching where they’re walking, the look they give is always priceless. Being tall is obviously to your advantage. Handsome? Ok. I will acknowledge the declaration. I too have big nose . 555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeTallFarang Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 9 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said: Being tall is obviously to your advantage. Handsome? Ok. I will acknowledge the declaration. I too have big nose . 555 It’s a bit of a tongue in cheek name, although I am pretty handsome, not gonna lie. Although being tall with blue eyes automatically makes you handsome in Thailand, it seems. I was in a cheeky mood when registering ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Christmas13 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 3 hours ago, Ebumbu said: So, people who are not in a hurry will live short lives and have small brains. Got it. I must be dead then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinnock Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 If you walk too fast in Bangkok, you get a wet shirt, then you freeze on the BTS, in the office and in the malls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny1990 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 How long can u stand on one leg with ur eyes closed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 At work I've noticed a direct correlation with the speed and focus with which people do every day activities (such as walking around) and their general intelligence and capacity to do their job... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atyclb Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 15 hours ago, HandsomeTallFarang said: There’s no way these toxic cultural norms will change if someone doesn’t regularly shame them and call them out. that doesnt work, they dont learn. what u r proposing would require a new edu and culture syatem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soalbundy Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 wear jesus shoes for speed, 3,000 Dollars for trainers containing holy water and we laugh about their amulets ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pdavies99 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 I have alll my life walked quite quickly, however spare a thought to people who have health issues, for example I have back issues and muscle atrophy and literally cannot walk quickly at all, if I try then over I go! So please just remember its as annoying for me as its it might be for you. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shy coconut Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 19 hours ago, HandsomeTallFarang said: Absolutely correct. The slow walking, glued-to-the-phone obliviousness is maddening here. If someone on their phone is about to collide directly with me, I stop dead in my tracks and look them straight in the face. When they finally get a few inches from me and realize they’re about to collide with someone because they aren’t watching where they’re walking, the look they give is always priceless. You seem to have anger issues, you should chill a little about things that really don't matter that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX1 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Appreciate that some people have health issues, but although I’m in my sixties, I walk so much faster than 99% of people in Thailand that it almost seems that I’m living in a different time dimension. On the very rare occasion that I see a Thai lady moving fast, I make sure to completely get out of her way, as it must be a matter of life-or-death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotpoom Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 "no spatial awareness" What's that when it's at home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy72 Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 1 hour ago, dotpoom said: no spatial awareness" What's that when it's at home? youve heard of google right ? if not google is a web page where people like yourself can go and ask questions to things they would like to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HLover Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 21 hours ago, CygnusX1 said: although I’m in my sixties, I walk so much faster than 99% of people in Thailand that it almost seems that I’m living in a different time dimension And my dimension let's you pass quickly to your destination because your likely going to die sooner than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy72 Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 21 hours ago, CygnusX1 said: Appreciate that some people have health issues, but although I’m in my sixties, I walk so much faster than 99% of people in Thailand that it almost seems that I’m living in a different time dimension. On the very rare occasion that I see a Thai lady moving fast, I make sure to completely get out of her way, as it must be a matter of life-or-death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nausea Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 16 hours ago, andy72 said: Synchronicity or what, 10 mins ago I was looking at this. Slow walking in Thailand is obviously a climate thing, watching the Farangs rushing from air-conditioned environment to air conditioned environment is a bit of a spectator sport with me, it gets especially interesting when they meet that motorsi coming down the road the wrong way. Ten years here has made me a sloth, a lizard; do I lose by it, probably not. Like, as a retired guy, I have all the time in the world. Now ain't that strange, as a young guy, with all the time in the world, almost immortal really, I was rushing everywhere; and as an old guy, with mortality pressing on me, from deaths of family and loved ones, I take my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamesgplayemail Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 I walk so fast when young, that even slower when old I will still be faster than 90% people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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