Photos from เสานี้ไม่ว่าง เสาหน้านะน้อง Facebook page
By Terry Fredrickson
Behave yourself. If you don't, there are cameras everywhere and your bad manners may be shown to the world on Facebook. Let's take a look at one popular Bangkok-based page.
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Behave yourself. We're watching
Behave yourself. If you don't, there are cameras everywhere and your bad manners may be shown to the world on Facebook.
A few weeks ago we visited a page named "I park like an idiot" that takes aim at selfish people who park their cars in inappropriate places. It invites netizens to send in photos of offending motorists and their vehicles.
Now, there is an even more popular page focusing on our behaviour on the BTS and MRTC trains. It isn't good.
Entitled "This pole isn't free. Use the one in front" (เสานี้ไม่ว่าง เสาหน้านะน้อง ) it focuses on all types of bad behaviour on our mass transit systems, but interest focuses on the safety poles used by people who don't have a seat.
Some people seem to think that it is one pole per person. The pole they grab is for their personal use only.
The BTS recently introduced a new style of safety pole which allows a large number of people to use it to steady themselves, but it hasn't had much effect on passenger behaviour.
Post Today has a long story on the page plus analysis by academics. If you can read Thai, click here: http://bit.ly/1raeM3c
Vocabulary
aim: to have as your target - เล็ง
behave: to do things in a way that people think is correct or polite - ประพฤติดี
behaviour: the way that someone acts or behaves - พฤติกรรม, การกระทำตัว
effect: a change that somebody/something causes in somebody/something else; a result - ผลกระทบ
entitle: to give a title (name) to a book, play, etc - ตั้งชื่อ
grab: to take or hold somebody/something with your hand suddenly, firmly or roughly - จับ,ฉวย,คว้า,แย่ง
idiot: (informal) a very stupid person - คนโง่เง่า (คำหยาบ), คนทึ่ม, คนปัญญาอ่อน
inappropriate: unsuitable - ซึ่งไม่เหมาะสม
invite: to ask somebody formally to go somewhere or do something - เชิญ
manners: behaviour that is considered to be polite in a particular society or culture - มารยาทสังคม
mass transit: the system of moving large numbers of people around in a city, including buses, trains, subways, etc. - การขนส่งมวลชน
netizen: a person who uses the Internet a lot - พลเมืองเครือข่ายคอมพิวเตอร์
offending: causing you to feel annoyed or upset; causing problems - ซึ่งขุ่นเคือง
passenger: someone who travels in a motor vehicle, aircraft, train, or ship but is not the driver or one of the people who works on it - ผู้โดยสาร
personal: your own; not belonging to or connected with anyone else - เป็นส่วนตัว
pole: a long thin stick, or piece of wook, often used for holding or supporting something - เสา, หลัก, คาน
popular: a situation in which someone or something is liked by many people - เป็นที่นิยม, เป็นที่ชื่นชอบ
selfish: caring only about yourself rather than about other people - เห็นแก่ตัว
steady: to stop yourself/somebody/something from moving, shaking or falling; to stop moving, shaking or falling - ทำให้มั่นคง
