[chuecaloversvvp]

diplomats have to put a smiley face on so often, going to receptions, meetings, charm they way through, maintain good connections with people they would like to punch.... no wonder the first time they can safely speak their minds, they take the opportunity to vent....
(teachers, or other professions working with clients that need to be pleased at all costs probably do the same, just not on a national scale. I could write pages and pages and pages of crap venting about Thailand.)