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nk888
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interesting comments. I read the book last year also and thought it a good read. doesnt change anything about my attitude on relationships with thai girls.
I read it as someone elses experience and their difficulties from their own perspectives. then again I have no intention of getting serious with any tg.
Something tells me that a girl half my age is never going to be in love with me if I am poor and hit hard times. I havent met any farangs that have hit hard times and their tilac is out hustling to support them, unlike the great willingness to support their thai bf's.
maybe as a newbie ive yet to learn different.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:52 pm on Dec. 14, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from LocalYokul on 8:06 am on Dec. 15, 2005
but the tone used in the English version just rubbed me the wrong way, did not like it at all, and I think the male author needs to grow some balls
Well, then your issue is with the male author, who (if I interpret you well) just goes along with the 'Thai way'.
But, isn't the whole point of the book to have the English side explain the 'Thai way' in a matter that a farang understands, and the Thai side explain the 'Farang Way' in a matter for the TG to understand - consequently, both sides present the other side in an ethnographic manner -- and hopefully both sides can learn an understanding for the other side's idiosyncrasies (at least that is how I interpreted the book, and that is how several of my friends interpreted it as well - and it helped them)
Quote: from LocalYokul on 8:06 am on Dec. 15, 2005
maybe we can each learn something from it, but we are certainly not going to use it as a road map, as the authors suggest
I really don't see where you get that the book presents a roadmap, as it is, if anything, a guidelines to navigating cultural differences, on both sides of the fence. As such, I believe, it works very well.
Surely, though, it's quite possible for someone to mis-use the book as a roadmap, but there's no 100% solution for everyone. It's more like the 'Pirate Code' - a suggestion...
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 8:48 pm on Dec. 14, 2005
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LocalYokul
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 10:26 am on Dec. 15, 2005
I really don't see where you get that the book presents a roadmap
ahem,,,
on the COVER of the book it says :
A Road Map for Thai-Western Relationships
now when I walk around with TGs smiling at me, I wonder if they are thinking about how I can support them financially, i.e. X-Ray vision into my wallet
they got a little too intense on the BG aspect of the thing too, there's whole sections I would tear out if it would go unnoticed by the TGF
don't need her thinking that my Mother will be secretly asking herself if she's an ex-BG
just harshed my mellow, and I'm going to tape those pages about BGs together right now, so TGF doesn't read them, LOL
and NO, I'm NOT kidding
BTW, they have a Thailand Fever forum
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:57 pm on Dec. 15, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from LocalYokul on 8:35 am on Dec. 16, 2005
A Road Map for Thai-Western Relationships
You're talking about the publisher's caption to sell the book, I'm talking about what they are saying INSIDE the book - either way, it doesn't matter. Seems to me like everyone that reads it, has their own interpretation.
Maybe it should be called 'A Bible for Thai-Western Relationships'
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 1:33 am on Dec. 16, 2005
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