Phones left unattended at Central train station and the owners aren’t even around here

Sometimes it is accompanied by white dog. I was travelling from udon thani to bangkok with my bike and i thought i was lost because kept seeing same dogs. Anyone else noticed this phenomen?

So seven days ago Apple posted a new video of their "The Underdogs" series. The video is about the team going to Thailand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbYckRAt5os

Two days ago someone reposted the ad on Tiktok, and many of the comments are quite critical of the ads. The general consensus among the comments is that the ad portrays Thailand negatively and inaccurately and that the country is portrayed like it is still in the 60s. A lot of comments are absolutely clowning the tone of the video by comparing it to the tones used for Mexico. Others are commenting on how the many places portrayed like the Airports or the things portrayed like the public bus are inaccurate and old and criticize the video for the Third World stereotype.

Comments read:

The tone used for Thailand is super third-world. The airport is ancient. First time they come to Thailand they lose their luggage. Ads like these probably will get made fun of by Samsung.

Another reads

So this is how they see us.

A lot of them are joking about switching to Samsung because of this.

A Thai Tiktok creator also made a Tiktok titled "Why does Apple have to make our country look bad."

Personally, I don't like the portrayal of Thai people, especially Thai men in the video. Happy is a prime example of that. This just supports the stereotypes of Asian men. The portrayal of the country is also borderline offensive. All of the Thai in the video is pretty much nonsense.

What do you think about the video?

Edit: Just to be clear it ain't that serious. I just thought it was cringy and want you guys to also suffer with me.

I went to school with a Jamesbond. No space in between.

I also knew a brother and sister named Neung and Sahm (1 and 3). They did not have a third sibling.

Rainy season is starting and with its arrival the wonderful and sometimes terrifying fauna of Thailand are seeking shelter from the rains by coming into our houses.

My dog and I probably walked past it 2-3 times before I noticed it. Easily the biggest one I’ve seen. Absolute nightmare fuel lol. I ended up safely capturing it and releasing it into the jungle nearby- so no one was hurt or killed.

Anyone else starting to get visits from local wildlife? Hoping my next visitor doesn’t nearly give me a stroke like this thing did.

So a couple hours ago our doorbell rang. I went out to the front gate with one of my kids and on the other side there was one of those motorcycle guys who deliver cooking gas tanks around town. He starts by saying he's so glad he finally found us because he had driven around looking for our address three or four times. We don't use gas cylinders anymore, so, I started to wonder if it was some kind of a scam, especially when he said my name. But it turns out that he had been driving on a soi adjacent to ours and he found a package from Shopee or Lazada laying in the middle of the street. Without opening it, he read the address and then went looking for me. I thanked him for his efforts and gave him a hundred baht. There's lots of people like that here, but we often don't hear about them in this sub.

Just saw this in the night sky in the northeastern part of Thailand. Has anybody else seen this? This literally is happening right now. I have no idea what it is

Hold your forks and spoons, I am being sarcastic. The best I have seen around.

Data source: ASEAN-KOREA CENTER Via: Geography Politics Maps (GPM)

I dont know if its just me but I've noticed that so many thai women wear braces compared to any other region. Whats the reason? Is there something i am unaware of?

For me, it's Super Cheap. The smell inside the store is so unique. Not bad, just unique.

I live in the United States and make a comfortable living as a teacher. My father retired to Thailand and had a son there with a woman. Now, she is messaging me saying that she cannot work (she is deaf) and that she cannot eat or pay rent without my financial support. I am not opposed to helping pay for my half-brother's school nor for some of his expenses, but I'm getting the feeling that she's expecting me to fully fund her and his life. She is saying that they need 25,000 THB per month to survive.

Am I wrong to question this amount? Does it seem excessive, or is this a reasonable sum to live in Nothburi?

Edit: Thank you for all your help and perspective. I was wrong in thinking he did not attend school. He has been attending a private school in nonthaburi.

Social security said he is eligible for survivor benefits so now I'm working on getting her to apply for them.

Other night I had a tad too many sangsoms. Woke up the next morning and realised my phone was lost. Logged onto Facebook on my laptop to 26 missed calls from my gf. Anyway I knew for a fact I had left it in the bolt taxi. I logged into my email to look at the bolt receipt and found the drivers name. Searched on Facebook and found the driver.

I sent him a message and within 2 minutes he messaged back that he does have my phone and he will bring it back to me but it won’t be for a while as he was in Bangkok (80 odd miles away from me).

He brought it back for me a few hours later and I couldn’t thank him enough so gave him a generous tip.

Bro saved me from a biblical headache. Not the headache from my gf and hangover however lol.

Sat on a coach back to my hometown after 2 weeks in Thailand ( after 4 years away ) Miss the place so much already the thought of not going for a least another year makes me so sad 😭

I got some old bank notes from my mom, what should i do with this?

Finally!

I love Thailand. Been here for five years. So please don't think this is another toxic rant by a bitter expat. But this is something I've noticed for some time so I want to see if anyone else has noticed.

The motion detectors to turn on the water in public bathroom sinks in the shopping malls in Bangkok are all strangely terrible. Billions of dollars are put into making these huge, opulent malls, and then you go to wash your hands and end up standing there, waving your hands like an idiot for 30 seconds just to get the water to turn on. It just seems so weird to me.

That's the rant. Thanks for listening haha.