Thais are told: Stop expecting foreigners to clear up your filthy mess!

[EVENKEEL]

6 hours ago, pmarlin said:

Not only Beach areas but also McDonald's, burger king and any other fast food joint in Thailand.

Why would you clean up after yourself in a fast food joint?? Not same as the beach....

[LivinginKata]

32 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Why would you clean up after yourself in a fast food joint?? Not same as the beach....

 

??? While some do not tidy away their tray in a fast food place (I do) what has that  to do with a beach.

[moe666]

My neighbors boy and his friend were walking along our common drive and the friend threw a plastic drink bottle into the vegetation. A big Oiiiiiiiiiii from me and I pointed at the bottle and said pick it up he got the hint and went pack and picked it up and took it into my neighbors townhouse. you just got to speak up.

India is the same trash everywhere they will throw it at the base of a garbage bin instead of in. They expect some untouchable to pick it up for them

[EVENKEEL]

2 minutes ago, LivinginKata said:

 

??? While some do not tidy away their tray in a fast food place (I do) what has that  to do with a beach.

Exactly, completely different. Please keep up.

[jethro69]

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

Can we the foreigner get some positive mileage out of this proclamation like printing it on a large banner and posting it in front of the immigration offices around the country...

First question asked. "Did you have a work permit" ????

[Inn Between]

During my years in Thailand, I saw Thai people drop their litter on the ground countless times when virtually standing next to a waste bin. Thinking in a communal way just doesn't seem to be part of Thai culture. One person will sweep their problem onto the neighbour's property because that's just the way it's done. "I drop this garbage on the ground, so it will become another person's problem and burden, and there's nothing wrong with that because that's just the way it's done."

 

I don't recall ever seeing a farang drop their packaging or wrappers on the ground. They'd look around for a waste bin, and if none were available they'd just hold it until one came along. I used to think Thais must feel some weird shame or embarrassment by holding on to that food wrapper until a waste bin comes along, but now I realize it's just Thai culture -- unburden yourself at other's expense and give it NO thought. 

[elliss]

7 hours ago, zhounan said:

Mr.Ooi have a work permit to clean the rubbish around the beach??

(ironic post)

 

    Deportation awaits, working without a permit .

 We dont want that type of farlang , giving us a good name , nuff said..

 

 

[Isaanbiker]

For the married guys on here. Have you ever seen your wife cleaning windows?

 

  That doesn't seem to matter if you can't see the world outside anymore. Perhaps because the whole world is too dirty these days? 

 

Last week it was a german, not this guy. We're usually only in the negative press mentioned.

 

What annoys me and isn't Anti Thai, is the fact that at most of these tables are trash cans.

 

But too many people are just too lazy to stand up and walk three meters. The same guys then do aerobic or running. 

[poohy]

Living in the countryside Nearest house to me daughter is a teacher

she has 2 kids  i caught them throwing rubbish on my drive 

Ok  shouted you !!(pick an expletive, they ignored me) simple followed them and chucked rubbish over the fence at them ... they called mommy i called her and her  kids ignorant filthy pigs (and some more colorful adjectives  from memory)

Next step mommy teacher came to complain

Mrs Poohy (BKK born an bred not a fan of country "baanork" people especially this young woman  said  the gist being after swearing at her in Thai  .....Farangs are brought up in clean countries and are clever not like you  dirty stupid country people like you and your family

Not entirely sure any of that that helped but they certainly dont speak to us any more! 

 

And to cap it all after that Mrs Poohy told me off for upsetting the ******rs i mean neighbours 

[Inn Between]

1 hour ago, Isaanbiker said:

But too many people are just too lazy to stand up and walk three meters. The same guys then do aerobic or running. 

It definitely appears to be nothing more than laziness, but I've suspected it has as much or more to do with the importance of status and being cool in Thai culture. The rich can leave their mess for their servants to handle, but most Thais don't have that luxury, so heedlessly dropping their trash on the ground for someone else to handle gives them that feeling of having a servant and some higher status. Also, it's just not cool to be walking around with your food wrapper. Imagine the embarrassment if your friends saw you?! ????

 

 

 

[Inn Between]

10 minutes ago, poohy said:

Living in the countryside Nearest house to me daughter is a teacher

she has 2 kids  i caught them throwing rubbish on my drive 

Ok  shouted you !!(pick an expletive, they ignored me) simple followed them and chucked rubbish over the fence at them ... they called mommy i called her and her  kids ignorant filthy pigs (and some more colorful adjectives  from memory)

Next step mommy teacher came to complain

Mrs Poohy (BKK born an bred not a fan of country "baanork" people especially this young woman  said  the gist being after swearing at her in Thai  .....Farangs are brought up in clean countries and are clever not like you  dirty stupid country people like you and your family

Not entirely sure any of that that helped but they certainly dont speak to us any more! 

 

And to cap it all after that Mrs Poohy told me off for upsetting the ******rs i mean neighbours 

I gave your story a haha because of the way you finished -- not because of the frustrating situation you encountered.

 

Talk about a rock and a hard place! There's nothing right about just letting the little misguided delinquents dump their garbage in your drive, and you can't berate them appropriately without incurring the wrath of the wife. That's tough! It sounds like your mission was accomplished in the end, though, and they'll probably keep clear of you and your property line.  

[ubon farang]

My villiage interesting place  They have an area where the rubbish is taken by people who live in the villiage About 20 or more blue plastic bins Wonder ful idea but before everybody gets excited hooray the Thais are trying to keeep the place clean Think again? The thais are so lazy they dont put the rubbish in the bins They store the rubbish in front of the bins or if they are driving a car they just throw it from the car

So all the bins are empty because its a big job you know lifting the rubbish bags and actually putting them in the rubbish bins

[RJRS1301]

1 hour ago, ubon farang said:

My villiage interesting place  They have an area where the rubbish is taken by people who live in the villiage About 20 or more blue plastic bins Wonder ful idea but before everybody gets excited hooray the Thais are trying to keeep the place clean Think again? The thais are so lazy they dont put the rubbish in the bins They store the rubbish in front of the bins or if they are driving a car they just throw it from the car

So all the bins are empty because its a big job you know lifting the rubbish bags and actually putting them in the rubbish bins

Is it laziness or because of the ancient collection system being manual they think it better to leave them on the ground, to pick up easier?

 

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, keith101 said:

That's because they expect someone else to do it for them but if rubbish bins are placed close to the tables maybe just maybe people would use them . LOL TIT .

Doubtful, where I live there is a table outside on a grass area where people can sit to eat outside of their room, within 3 meters is a large bin for waste.

I actually watched a a neighbour who lives here walk past the bin to throw her rubbish bag and drink bottle in the hedge that's twice as far?

She sat back down at the table & continued talking with her friend.

I was so annoyed at her polluting where I & she live that I walked down, picked up her bag with her watching and put it in the bin next to her, slammed the top closed so that she noticed.

She looked at me as if to say "what's your problem" shrugged her shoulders & carried on talking.

 

[BigC]

Is it possible  to have giang hoovers attache to trucks that sucks the road and payment  dry?

 

Om serious note does anyone know anything  about  these big rubbish  recycle  machines 

 

Inam interested in then

[poohy]

9 hours ago, Inn Between said:

I gave your story a haha because of the way you finished -- not because of the frustrating situation you encountered.

 

Talk about a rock and a hard place! There's nothing right about just letting the little misguided delinquents dump their garbage in your drive, and you can't berate them appropriately without incurring the wrath of the wife. That's tough! It sounds like your mission was accomplished in the end, though, and they'll probably keep clear of you and your property line.  

Yes but i may point out  she was ruder to them in thai than i was but i still got the blame.

It was about 18 months ago

I do remember the day well and me and mrs p do laugh about it now

Neighbours still dont speak

[Damrongsak]

18 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

...  left over food ...

Left over food?  Didn't think it was possible.  555

 

You not gonna eat that?  Pass it over!

 

[Redline]

14 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

 

I disagree. I find most Thai are very clean in their personal washing. 

I agree that they are generally personally clean.  Men however, do not wash their hands with soap, and barely was with water after using the toilet 

[pmarlin]

We live in a new housing area and when we took possession of our house the builder warned us not to put our trash bin outside our gate on the soi because everyone else on the soi  will put their trash there. We leave the bin inside the gate/fence and have problems.

[Tradewind777]

Better to collect it and dispose of it responsibly before it endS up in some endangered turtle’s stomach. Thais are generally pretty good at cleaning inside their houses but for some reason out in public they don’t seem to GAF.

[KenKadz]

Education, Education, Education, is there education in the villages and jungles?

Okay maybe government sponsored educational cartoons demonstrating how to clean up after themselves!

[poohy]

3 minutes ago, KenKadz said:

Education, Education, Education, is there education in the villages and jungles?

Simple answer NO

Villages schools provide a very basic education obviously complete with obligatory indoctrination

re litter outside our local school its horrendous the locals, adults and kids......they dont even notice

 

The so called elite, the teachers care even less

 

[johng]

Local children's playground after the grass had been cut..no one cleaned it up, the rubbish just blew to another location

"naturally"  ????

[Yinn]

51 minutes ago, johng said:

Has @Yinn   seen this thread yet ???

Yes.

already Thankyou sticker for this great man. Love it.

[CharlieH]

Reported bickering posts removed.

[simtemple]

What is wrong with Thai people? Drive around the back roads of Pattaya and you find rubbish dumped at every isolated location. It is little wonder that Pattaya smells like an open sewer.