pinkpanther99 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 This video is actually quite nice but clearly staged. A clever marketing ploy by TAT do you reckon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iReason Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Yes. Clearly a scripted professional production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappie1207 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Very realistic and totally believable; well at least that's what my Thai friends are all saying!!! What a complete load of tosh!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costas2008 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Please, spare me the thought........not in my wildest dreams this will come true. But again there are gullible people out there that believe whatever you tell them........ Good for TAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauGR1 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 uhm.. some 10 years ago i would have believed that, but, nice video nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeforeTigers Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I didn't know they made so much cheese in Thailand.heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyp Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I made it through the first 3 minutes and then nausea sent me to the toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrahamzvi Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I made it through the first 3 minutes and then nausea sent me to the toilet. It is absolutely disgusting to read comments like yours and others above. To me, as someone who has been living here for quite a while and loving it here, the clip is so really refreshing and encouraging as opposed to the moaning and groaning of many Farangs - some tourists, but mostly people who hate this beautiful country and its lovely people, but for unknown reasons have been living here for ages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAMMartin Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 oh you cynical bastards - it's a great video and totally believable. of course they forgot to mention that all that time without his passport meant he was on overstay and actually learned Thai in the detention centre!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siampolee Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 perchance a jspill production or remake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigt3365 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 It's possible. But if he threw a rock at a truck, the consequences would have been pretty bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iReason Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I made it through the first 3 minutes and then nausea sent me to the toilet. It is absolutely disgusting to read comments like yours and others above. To me, as someone who has been living here for quite a while and loving it here, the clip is so really refreshing and encouraging as opposed to the moaning and groaning of many Farangs - some tourists, but mostly people who hate this beautiful country and its lovely people, but for unknown reasons have been living here for ages! "... the clip is so really refreshing and encouraging..." It's a commercial. A cartoon depiction. Smiling Faces Around The World! While selling rot-gut... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Very realistic and totally believable; well at least that's what my Thai friends are all saying!!! What a complete load of tosh!! "that's what my Thai friends are all saying" Speaking of loads of tosh ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godden Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 This happened to me last week, i kid you not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneday Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I can see both sides. I think the video is a little too optimistic, but in remoter parts of Thailand where they don't see stupid, angry rude tourists or expats I can see something like this happening on a smaller scale. We read so much in the news about bad things Thais and falang do and we also read this in our own country. So little is ever reported about good things that happen. If you have lived here long enough you HAVE experienced good Thai people...people that seem to be filled with nothing but goodness. My wife's father is one such person and even among Thai people he is loved for his good, kind nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennypowers Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I made it through the first 3 minutes and then nausea sent me to the toilet. It is absolutely disgusting to read comments like yours and others above. To me, as someone who has been living here for quite a while and loving it here, the clip is so really refreshing and encouraging as opposed to the moaning and groaning of many Farangs - some tourists, but mostly people who hate this beautiful country and its lovely people, but for unknown reasons have been living here for ages! My life is still like that after 6 years. Every morning I leave the house and step foot in the soi - saying hello with all the usual characters going about their business - is an absolute joy. It's funny how all the moans and grumbles are usually from those who learnt about Thailand from hookers and bar owners, then ended up living in Nakhon Nowhere supporting an extended family they have nothing in common with. You make your own bed. Lie in it. And don't think that the misery you landed yourself in represents everyone's experience of Thailand. Great video and absolutely representative of the large majority of Thai people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaywalker Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I made it through the first 3 minutes and then nausea sent me to the toilet. You made it 2.5 minutes longer than me. [bARF] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackJack Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 James how could you be in Thailand 2 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotpoom Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I liked it..................if you look for and expect the good and beautiful in people and life...it will find you. If you look for and expect the con artists and ugliness in people and life....it will find you too. Take an inventory today, look around you and see which one you have been looking for and expecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I think it's a pretty good video, very unrealistic but good all the same. People liked the mm is "the beach" and that was just as corny as this one, if not more so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyp Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I made it through the first 3 minutes and then nausea sent me to the toilet. It is absolutely disgusting to read comments like yours and others above. To me, as someone who has been living here for quite a while and loving it here, the clip is so really refreshing and encouraging as opposed to the moaning and groaning of many Farangs - some tourists, but mostly people who hate this beautiful country and its lovely people, but for unknown reasons have been living here for ages! jay yen yen, Abraham. I like living in Thailand, I just found the video very silly, shallow, and shooting for the lowest common denominator. It sounds like it hit the mark with you, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socksy01 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Good promo video by TAT. Hope he had the relevant visa for acting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyp Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 It's possible. But if he threw a rock at a truck, the consequences would have been pretty bad. I was thinking exactly that! I thought for sure he would be confronted by a furious driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KED Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I totally believe this video and don't understand why more monkeys are not arrested for the thefts and murders that take place here in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makkam Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Plenty of Thai haters on this forum. Miserable tosspots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullstop Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I don't hate Thailand...but I do hate the buffaloes that run the country and educate the population. If only they had been colonised..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orac Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Odd twist there blaming the theft of the bag on monkeys rather than the Burmese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavrix Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 It's possible. But if he threw a rock at a truck, the consequences would have been pretty bad. I was thinking exactly that! I thought for sure he would be confronted by a furious driver. ....l thought the next scene after the rock throw was going to be in a local ICU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskfish Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I left my passport at a restaurant after going to immigration once. A Thai couple drove 80km to deliver it to my home with a smile and refused to allow me to pay to fill their fuel tank. Yeah sure the video is staged and maybe it's a bit of "perception management" - but hey Thailand probably needs it right now. And in most cases, they deserve it. If you spend your life focusing on the negative, your life will be negative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullstop Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 As soon as I saw the girl wearing a helmet on a dusty back road... I knew it was fake. Funny ripoff of the movie "Somtam" though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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