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Fritz
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Maybe somebody can help me with this...
I'm planning to come back to BKK this year, and would like to play some Badminon matches while being there.
Is there any decent club or location where one can contact other players? Any Badminton aficionados in this forum?
Cheers,
Fritz
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:08 pm on May 7, 2003
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chilli
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not really helpfull, but I play occasionally & once met a TG who had the rackets & feathers so we played outside her apartment complex. you'll see a lot of locals doing the same in the 'hoods 
I'm sure there's plenty of formal clubs around in the fancy hotels & apartments just like the gyms...
I'm there 17may-9june so maybe we can meet up for a game(I'm very average skilled!) 
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 3:11 pm on May 8, 2003
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Thin White Duke
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Any Badminton aficionados in this forum?
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Fritzy- I thought nobody would bring this important topic up. Thank you. Lately I've been having difficulty sleeping thinking about the old days and badminton.
As a child growing up on the farm in Iowa my afternoons were spent on the badminton court. It wasn't unusual at all to see the farm hands and my brothers teaming up after slaughtering and butchering a hog or two.
Head to toe in hogs blood, with matted hair, and hog shit and guts covered shoes, we'd often grab our rackets for the afternoon game. Towards sunset, the visibility waning, the rackets put away, the farmer boys and the farm hands would call it a night.
As most of you know, slaughtering and butchering hogs and playing several rounds of badminton can render an otherwise normal farm boy quite hungry. Once showered and changed, the farm boys would sit down to a nice meal of porkchops, pork rinds, ham, and freedom fries.
Fritz, I want to thank you for sparking the pleasurable memories of my childhood. The howls and squeals of death from the hogs, the smell of blood in the air, blending so nicely with the racket swinging swoosh and the cock sailing like a shining diamond in the sky. Those were the days.
Other aficianados? Please lets' hear your stories.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:12 pm on May 8, 2003
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expatchuck
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TWD: It is truly amazing the memories your story wrenched from the depths of my bottom. I was not raised in Ohio, er... Iowa.....wherever, but was raised in the backwaters of West Texas, where it was often said.."We will travel 500 miles to go swimming!!"
We did not play badminton in those days. Soccer, badminton, tiddly winks, golf and cricket were considered girl's sports so none of us he-men would be caught alive playing any of them. Instead what we did for exercise and recreation was kill bunny rabbits.
Now you may think this is a savage, cruel and inhumane form of recreation but the truth is it could almost be a religious experience. To see those little fluffs of fur burst into a cloud of nothing when they were hit by the 12 gauge with double ought buckshot was mind boggling. They were there one minute and ...poof...gone the next minute. You can imagine how it left us speechless.
When we ran out of bunnies (We always had to ease up around Easter time), we would go out and murder birds. We were not particular what kind of bird or how large they were. The murdering was the thing.
Anyway, enough about my happy childhood. Those thingies you hit with the badminton racquet are called "birds" if I am not mistaken, thus the story of my own version of badminton is told.
I envy you, TWD. Your story of pig blood everywhere brought tears to my eyes and regurgitated those memories posted above.
Please don't stop posting just because PETA has put a contract out on you.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 3:38 pm on May 8, 2003
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Fritz
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@ chilli:
... thanks. Hmh, playing outside in a courtyard with a TG is not quite what I'm looking for...
@ the ugly rest:
Yes, these splendid childhood memories - Me myself, I was used to kill and slaughter rednecks and US white trash - you know, good clean fun in the the old fashioned way... Actually, it was much more fun to slaughter them alive without killing first...
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 4:40 pm on May 8, 2003
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Future Park
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As chilli says, there are plenty of badminton courts in the suburbs. There is one a couple of blocks from where l live. It's a very popular sport in S.E. Asia so l imagine that there must be courts in downtown Bangkok somewhere. Maybe do a google search for the Thai badminton federation/society etc?
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:45 am on May 9, 2003
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expatchuck
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TWD: Have we been insulted??? Methinks the Fritz just called us rednecks and trailer trash.
Fritz:
I'll have you know my trailer has had the wheels removed and the aluminum skirt replaced with concrete blocks, painted a vivid fushia with yellow polka dots. I no longer consider myself trailer trash.
As far as being a redneck is concerned. I guess as long as I drive a 1968 Ford pickup with one red fender and a green body, a rifle rack in the window with a whip on it and a bumper sticker that says, "I'd rather be a roper than a doper", I'll have to adjust to being called a redneck.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:13 am on May 10, 2003
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Fritz
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Hey guys,
how come you think that I meant you?? Of course not, to the contrary!
Cheers,
Fritz
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:02 am on May 10, 2003
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Fritz
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..to take this thread even more off-topic...
You Know You're a Redneck When. . . .
1. You take your dog for a walk & you both use the same tree.
2. You can entertain yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.
3. Your property has been mistaken for a recycling center.
4. Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.
5. You burn your yard rather than mow it.
6. You think the Nutcracker is something you did off the high dive.
7. The Salvation Army declines your mattress.
8. Your entire family sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.
9. You offer to give someone the shirt off your back and they don't want it.
10. You have the local taxidermist on speed dial.
11. You come back from the dump with more than you took.
12. You keep a can of Raid on the kitchen table.
13. Your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat.
14. Your grandmother has "Ammo" on her Christmas list.
15. You've been kicked out of the zoo for heckling the monkeys.
16. You think a subdivision is part of a math problem.
17. You've bathed with flea and tick soap.
18. You've been involved in a custody fight over a hunting dog.
19. Your kids take a siphon hose to show & tell.
20. You think a hot tub is a stolen indoor plumbing fixture.
21. You took a fishing pole to Sea World.
22. You go to the stock car races and don't need a program.
23. You know how many bales of hay your car will hold.
24. You have a rag for a gas cap.
25. Your father executes the "Pull my finger" trick during Christmas dinner.
26. Your house doesn't have curtains but your truck does.
27. You wonder how service stations keep their rest rooms so clean.
28. You can spit without opening your mouth.
29. You consider your license plate personalized because your father made it.
30. Your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
31. You sit on your roof at Christmas time hoping to fill your deer quota.
32. You have a complete set of salad bowls & they all say Cool Whip on the side.
33. The biggest city you've ever been to is Walmart.
34. Your working TV sits on top of your non-working TV.
35. You thought the Unibomber was a wrestler.
36. You've used your ironing board as a buffet table.
37. You think a quarter horse is that ride in front of K-Mart.
38. Your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home.
39. A tornado hits your neighborhood and does a $10,000 worth of improvement.
40. You've used a toilet brush as a back scratcher.
42. You missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.
43. You think fast food is hitting a deer at 65 mph.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 7:27 am on May 10, 2003
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Thin White Duke
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Forty three points-
Fritzy, so many more, in the rich redneck traditions. I'd like to blather on about rednecks some more, though suffice it to say inbred is the way to go! Now back to the thread.
As a boy, I remember the library book I read about the upper ruling classes wearing the tradional white uniform for badminton. As a boy on the hog farm, the farm hands and myself loved the afternoon games and relished and katsuped the opportunity to send the Birdy on it's lofty journey. Does the Birdy really fly better when one wears white?
The topic was discussed at length, during the long hot afternoons of hog slaughter when the older farm hands, my cousins, brothers, and myself, would debate the issue, then play. The killing ground, badminton field, slick with hogs blood and entrails, not easy to play on, provided hours of unbridled badmintoning nonetheless.
When the birdy sailed for it's final flight, and the sun slowly set in the west, the farm hands, cousins, and myself, would often debate the merits of whiteness. We determined the best way to test the premise was to don the gay uniform of the classes and send birdy to its heightened heights.
Weeks after the order had been placed we eagerly dressed in the morning. The shiny pure pristine whiteness was intoxicating. The electric buzz of excitement built throughout the day. Despite the squeals of dying hogs, blood spurting from severered necks, and intesines and gall from the bladder spattering our new clothes we continued to labor toward the days end and the reward of badminton.
With the air thick with the pungent odor of death and hog shit, the slaughter boys, the farm hands finally ended the days work. Slipping amongst the entrails, with blood covered badminton outfits the results dismayed and depressed the earlier elation. Not only had the uniforms been permanently stained, the birdy flew neither better or worse than before.
Undaunted the Slaughter boys began to discuss poetry and ballet..........but that's another story.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:13 am on May 10, 2003
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