Hotdigr wrote:

Jamie_Lambo wrote:i never get any problems haha

Famous last words mate. With that attitude, it's just a matter of when, not if.
A good mate of mine,a Scotsman,one of the hardest men I have ever met, in fact the only man I have met here that actually WAS ex para, was targeted one night. He came out ok, but only just. Don't fall for your own legend mate, you have no where to go but down if you do.
To many barangs here at the moment falling in to the trap of "We are bigger, so we are tougher". This is what caused the problems starting in Indonesia 15 years ago and more recently Thailand. Guess who is winning in Indo and Thailand today? Not us.

The delightful paranoia of a complete cretin. Yes, Thailand is a haven of anti-farang violence and it's a miracle that we manage to walk the streets unscathed. Of course, the fact that Sihanoukville is a violent hot bed of human scum in which you are far more likely to be attacked by a white guy than a brown one will now be brushed aside too.

Thailand was never a safe place, mates of mine sometimes got into scrapes with people like taxi drivers. I remember one fight when the driver was using a wheel brace as a weapon. But neither country is as dangerous as Australia or NZ on a Saturday night. NZ has always been very violent going back to the sixties. And then there is Glasgow back in the day with lots of thugs with knives.

Hotdigr wrote:

Jamie_Lambo wrote:i never get any problems haha

Famous last words mate. With that attitude, it's just a matter of when, not if.
A good mate of mine,a Scotsman,one of the hardest men I have ever met, in fact the only man I have met here that actually WAS ex para, was targeted one night. He came out ok, but only just. Don't fall for your own legend mate, you have no where to go but down if you do.
To many barangs here at the moment falling in to the trap of "We are bigger, so we are tougher". This is what caused the problems starting in Indonesia 15 years ago and more recently Thailand. Guess who is winning in Indo and Thailand today? Not us.

LOL
what attitude?
were taking about if any khmer have been violent towards me, they havent
near enough all my friends here are khmer, im always surrounded by khmers
i go out and spend a lot of time in my friends villages etc,
im always well liked, looked after and respected
whether theyre friends of friends or complete strangers
i dont ever get any problems?
anyone that knows me or has met me knows i dont go around with any attitude, or give it the big hard man thing
im a fun guy and when i go out, i go out and have a good time, im street smart,
i respect the cambodians and they respect me in return, im not in no trap,
dont tar me with the same brush as a bunch of idiots

im in my 4th year here now, if ive not run into any trouble yet, im sure its nothing to do with me as a person...

willyhilly wrote:Thailand was never a safe place, mates of mine sometimes got into scrapes with people like taxi drivers. I remember one fight when the driver was using a wheel brace as a weapon. But neither country is as dangerous as Australia or NZ on a Saturday night. NZ has always been very violent going back to the sixties. And then there is Glasgow back in the day with lots of thugs with knives.

And I am pretty sure that most of the time it was the Farang kicking off shit. Plenty of times I have seen some foreigner trying to shove it down some local's throat, only to get beaten to the ground. But that is not violence towards foreigners, that is violence towards dickheads.

And some really paranoid people on this thread, more than 20 years in SE Asia and the only times I got into scrapes was with fellow whiteys.

hanno wrote:

willyhilly wrote:Thailand was never a safe place, mates of mine sometimes got into scrapes with people like taxi drivers. I remember one fight when the driver was using a wheel brace as a weapon. But neither country is as dangerous as Australia or NZ on a Saturday night. NZ has always been very violent going back to the sixties. And then there is Glasgow back in the day with lots of thugs with knives.

And I am pretty sure that most of the time it was the Farang kicking off shit. Plenty of times I have seen some foreigner trying to shove it down some local's throat, only to get beaten to the ground. But that is not violence towards foreigners, that is violence towards dickheads.

And some really paranoid people on this thread, more than 20 years in SE Asia and the only times I got into scrapes was with fellow whiteys.

Classic barang way of thinking is "it won't happened to me " i'm different .
Wonder if that's what all the barangs who got wacked were thinking, Some for as little as a camera by a Khmer junkie who needed drugs.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /23297191/

bkktrapper wrote:

hanno wrote:

willyhilly wrote:Thailand was never a safe place, mates of mine sometimes got into scrapes with people like taxi drivers. I remember one fight when the driver was using a wheel brace as a weapon. But neither country is as dangerous as Australia or NZ on a Saturday night. NZ has always been very violent going back to the sixties. And then there is Glasgow back in the day with lots of thugs with knives.

And I am pretty sure that most of the time it was the Farang kicking off shit. Plenty of times I have seen some foreigner trying to shove it down some local's throat, only to get beaten to the ground. But that is not violence towards foreigners, that is violence towards dickheads.

And some really paranoid people on this thread, more than 20 years in SE Asia and the only times I got into scrapes was with fellow whiteys.

Classic barang way of thinking is "it won't happened to me " i'm different .
Wonder if that's what all the barangs who got wacked were thinking, Some for as little as a camera by a Khmer junkie who needed drugs.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /23297191/

I bow to your superior expertise, seeing how you have worked the highs and lows (OK, mostly the lows) of SE Asia

hanno wrote:

bkktrapper wrote:

hanno wrote:

willyhilly wrote:Thailand was never a safe place, mates of mine sometimes got into scrapes with people like taxi drivers. I remember one fight when the driver was using a wheel brace as a weapon. But neither country is as dangerous as Australia or NZ on a Saturday night. NZ has always been very violent going back to the sixties. And then there is Glasgow back in the day with lots of thugs with knives.

And I am pretty sure that most of the time it was the Farang kicking off shit. Plenty of times I have seen some foreigner trying to shove it down some local's throat, only to get beaten to the ground. But that is not violence towards foreigners, that is violence towards dickheads.

And some really paranoid people on this thread, more than 20 years in SE Asia and the only times I got into scrapes was with fellow whiteys.

Classic barang way of thinking is "it won't happened to me " i'm different .
Wonder if that's what all the barangs who got wacked were thinking, Some for as little as a camera by a Khmer junkie who needed drugs.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /23297191/

I bow to your superior expertise, seeing how you have worked the highs and lows (OK, mostly the lows) of SE Asia

Has anything to do with the topic at hand.

I do agree asshole backpackers and loud obnoxious wankers attract more negative attention.

Me myself never had dramas in 7 years of South East asia.

hanno wrote: And I am pretty sure that most of the time it was the Farang kicking off shit. Plenty of times I have seen some foreigner trying to shove it down some local's throat, only to get beaten to the ground. But that is not violence towards foreigners, that is violence towards dickheads.

Actually no Hanno, these falangs weren't drunk or stupid. Altercations happened in daylight and it was often over taxi fares. We had lived in Thailand for a long time and spoke Thai pretty well but we were young and didn't cop any shit. The taxi mafia in Thailand have always been vicious and didn't like being called out, it's still the same today I think. I like the Thai, they are aggressive.
We had a mate who had been in Long Bay and killed a warder in the riots, he didn't cop any shit from Thais at all. He used to steal cars and race the police, he never got caught. These were the days before mass tourism in Thailand and it was a totally different world to anything we see today. The Americans had been gone for only a few years but the Germans filled the gap. Most residents and tourists were German in the late seventies, those bastards are always in first. So many girls went to Germany at that time.

Yeah well, I have been a regular in Thailand for 20+ years and never even had a hint of trouble. But then I tend to try and avoid trouble and have often times left a place as I felt things were getting hot. And for every fight between Thai and foreigner, I have seen 10 foreigner on foreigner.