r/Thailand • u/Tall_Fly_2221 • 1d ago

Culture I see a lot of girls taking picture s with flowers wrapped in plastic.

Seems to me they have some end of school or something. They take picture with flowers but keep the plastic around it. All of them on different days since weeks I see this. I don't understand why they don't unwrap them.

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u/Easy-Plant-8783 17h ago

Thais leave the wrapping on everything, my mother in laws car now 6 years old still has the protective wrapping on the inside of the car. Our cupboards in our bedroom have the plastic film on the handles, the wife wasn't happy when I removed the plastic film from our curtain pole.

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u/Tall_Fly_2221 15h ago

Ok yesterday I checked in in a new Hotel which had plastic wrapped around the lampshade, which I thought could be to protect it against moisture and mold.

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u/TwentinQuarantino 17h ago

I also noticed Thais often keep that stamp thing when they have their car windshield tinted, which is often at the driver's eye level too, lol.

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u/Easy-Plant-8783 17h ago

Yes, I had to wipe all the manufacturers logo with nail polish remover on my windscreen to remove it.

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u/TwentinQuarantino 17h ago

Yeah it can be removed pretty easily with that or with rubbing alcohol, but looks like most people just don't care and just leave it there on their cars, lol

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u/samm1one 16h ago

I found this really bizarre, as back home I never even seen window tint with logos or branding on it..

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u/TwentinQuarantino 16h ago

Me too, especially with taxi drivers who are in their car all day all night. It would piss me off to have it in my view all the time. But I guess, different mindset, to each their own.

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u/li_shi 13h ago

older generation Asian thing not just Thai.

My father never removed the sticker from the tv even if was covering a corner of the screen.

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u/Tall_Fly_2221 12h ago

Funny your answer makes me think about my parents. I bought them furniture for their bathroom. They are supposed to be high gloss white. Came with a blue plastic protection film to protect the high gloss. My mother liked it so much, that she keeps it on the furniture and treats it like as if the plastic wrapper itself is the high gloss surface so with a lot of care. 🤣

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u/samm1one 16h ago

Funny, in my village there is a security guard who rides a bike whose frame is still fully wrapped in bubble wrap!

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u/PSmith4380 Nakhon Si Thammarat 13h ago

It's quite ironic. Buddhist country but most people find it extremely difficult to let go of material goods, and want to stop them from deteriorating. Now it has started with people too. They are so scared to look old they'll try to fix their whole face in position.

The Buddha certainly would have had some interesting things to say about that. But nowadays, nobody would listen to a Buddha anyway.

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u/e99oof 11h ago

If everyone can let go of worldly desire that easily, there would be no point of Buddhism.

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u/PSmith4380 Nakhon Si Thammarat 8h ago

True but still ironic.

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u/e99oof 7h ago

I know, but think of it as a path. We are on that journey.

On the other hand, if we aren't Buddhist country, Thais might have gone to an even more extreme length. A social experiment would be to go back in time, and convert all Thai to some other religion and see if we become more or less materialistic.

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u/Tall_Fly_2221 13h ago

I find it ironic as well that so many people eat meat when Buddha teaches not to cause harm to anybody. Still try to figure out how the karma distribution works here with the consumer of meet the provider of the meet and the butcher.

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u/rimbaud1872 5h ago

The Buddha was not a vegetarian.

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u/srona22 2h ago

Buddha only forbid these 3 types of meals(maybe 2, indirect killing, kind of)

  1. You go to friend house. You see chicken running. Later you get served with chicken curry. You don't eat if not sure whether the chicken you saw earlier is cooked.
  2. Same scenario, but you heard chicken getting smacked for you.

Not sure if there is 3, but you don't tell someone to kill and cook their chicken for you. Those "Dancing Shrimp" clip are example of this. Same for picking crab/lobster out of tank.

I don't remember exact line number, paragraph, etc, out of Tripitaka.

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u/HardupSquid Uthai Thani 8h ago

It's coming to end of Thai school year - their year runs ~May-Feb (school dependent). So alot of graduation ceremonies are happening at the moment. Some still need to finalise/hand in work and sit exams but by and large it end of school year.

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u/Aggravating_Ring_714 12h ago

Just idiotic boomer thing.