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Basher
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The irish are Celts too
and the shared language and bread is Garlic
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 3:21 pm on Feb. 6, 2006
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Brocher
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Quote: from Yurune on 2:01 am on Feb. 7, 2006
but the scots are Celts
All o' them? Yu (rune) sure!
Cheerio
PS: Some o'the Welsh are Celts too, allegedley!
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:05 pm on Feb. 6, 2006
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Shredded Wheat
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Quote: from factorx on 1:05 pm on Jan. 6, 2006
"Mong eek diaow dthop na!"
Or try:
"Mong eek nidt diaow dthop na!"
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 5:01 pm on Sep. 9, 2006
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vox
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it is NOT rude to stare in thai society, especially at all the funny looking foreigners. if you have a problem with this, perhaps you consider not spending so much time here that it gets to you.
vox
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 7:29 am on Oct. 8, 2006
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Shredded Wheat
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Quote: from vox on 1:47 pm on Oct. 8, 2006
You're not wrong Vox. Even better manners is to point. All the top Thais do that.
Those Thais with the best breeding will sometimes, while pointing and staring, say something like "Meung die neh" for additional polite emphasis.
There is so much that Thailand can teach us.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:58 am on Oct. 11, 2006
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What's wrong with stares from the masses? Who can blame them?
I daresay that if a well-heeled sharp dressed playboy pulled his enormous gut and drunken leering face out of a taxi followed by two squawking black hookers in front of a street laden with expensive bars and restaurants in your home city, you'd probably want to have a good look too.
And to use a further illustration of the power of the exotic foreigner I'm sure more akin to sirtitus the OP's situation: because I dress and groom myself acceptably decent looking, according to the notions of contemporary society, when I am tooling about the distant air-conditioned shopping centers with my pretty little girlfriend the only stares I'm getting are from other women. Are there any others?
Anyway, those women are the ones I'm looking back at, so if there are other people staring they certainly have made no impression on me. Who are they? Dried up old women with their heads full of gossip--they're probably just remembering happier days when they were desireable with their little envious minds--who cares? Rich Thai people? They're too busy staring at themselves and trying to show everyone how cool they are...
You're probably just not used to getting stared at. But, as someone pointed out, it's going to happen in a lot of countries, much more than here--and in some cases (like the way men stare down men in Mexico for instance) in a much more confusing way. In our own, it probably doesn't.
And then for some other guys, maybe they are just a bit on the sensitive side... which is not in itself a bad thing as it can lead to a greater awareness of oneself, however it becomes uncomfortable when insecurity about one's own obvious activities which are no longer hidden in the dark of one's personal fantasies are now displayed before other humans. So, as I say, you learn what is appropriate in complex society, and so do it. And if you happen to have more money than the average joe, and you can have a party with the means (the chicks etc) available than you are probably doing what is appropriate for you (like luckily for the service people that's just what foreigners like to do) then do it in the appropriate places, but don't be surprised if people for whom it is not appropriate or is impossible will stare. What else would they do?
Thai society is pretty tolerant in that they don't want to expend the energy to really care what you do unless they are getting something out of it, such as prestige or money. Asiatics generally already have enormous amounts of self-love and their identity is pretty well defined for them at the earliest possible age. They don't need to stare and form judgements--it's hard for them to form judgements--even if the definitions that spring to their minds don't quite fit, they don't care about words that much, things are already clear what's going on for them. So they want to see it. Just like they stare at a TV every living chance they get... even though the unreal acting and plots would be obvious to a mental retard... I think they like to suspend their reality in a fantasy stare.
Anyway, you go back to your own country... and all the magic is gone. Nobody stares, nobody cares. How can I exhibit myself properly?--what a wasted life!
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:26 pm on Oct. 11, 2006
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Often it's just real curiosity. Like when I'm upcountry, and I walk by the schoolhouse in my TGF's village, and the kids are all getting out for the afternoon, I find myself immersed in a sea of little faces staring at me, bolstered by regulation shorts and skirts, some scared to death, some smiling, some gawking. And always a chorus of chirping little "hello, hello, hello!" though from a safe distance.
To which I always reply with a smile, "Hello, how are you?" With the usual response being a very nervous laugh 'cause they actually got a noise to eminate from the strange farang walking along the dusty road. Followed by them skidaddling outta there, as fast as their fleet little feet will wing them, their false bravado escaping in a big whoosh.
Nope, I don't mind being stared at. And sometimes, it's even endearing.
- Balls
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:48 pm on Oct. 11, 2006
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Shredded Wheat
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There are no doubt many nuances to Thai society similar to the staring and the pointing described in the earlier posts. It was interesting also to read the post from Seajohn in which he says that Thais do not care about words too much.
This tale is about some language nuances and to my mind I think it demonstrates that some Thais are very careful with their choice of words.
Earlier today Mrs Shreddie and I were walking to our local shop to buy our lottery ticket. As we walked we talked about how we would spend the jackpot, which we have still to win. Inevitably our thoughts turned to Thailand and our dreams and hopes for a future happy life in the land of smiles.
As we talked we were passed by a large black lady walking in the opposite direction. Suddenly Mrs Shreddie started to whisper in my ear "Madam, Madam". She said "Madam" in a slow, drawn out way. She pronounced it the same way we might all have heard it said in Thai bars, when a service girl addresses a farang lady customer, or when a service girl is talking to one of her close friends who is drinking with a farang customer. Although we were talking about Thailand it still came as a surprise to me to hear Mrs Shreddie start to say "Madam" out of the blue like this, in a very Thai way.
When I asked for an explanation it turned out that Mrs Shreddie was not saying "Madam" at all. She was actually saying something like "Mar-Dam" which as you may already know could translate literally into English as "Black Dog". To my untrained ear, however, it sounded like "Madam".
Lucky for us the large black lady neither heard Mrs Shreddie's "Madam" comment nor was she aware of its overtly racist nature.
Mrs Shreddie was feeling particularly talkative this day. She went on to explain to me that some Thais will play a similar trick with words on the male farang. Often a male customer will be called "Darling" by the service girls. This word, too, can be pronounced in a uniquely Thai way, "Da-Ling". How many times have we all been the darling of some Thai lovely or other?
"Da" I am informed is Lao for bottom/anus/arse, and I am sure many who visit this site will already be aware that "Ling" is Thai (and Lao) for monkey. So "Darling" (English) or "Da-Ling" as spoken sometimes by Thais, can translate literally as "Monkey Arse".
It seems all this "Madam" and "Darling" business in Thai bars could just be a little joke the Thais are playing on farangs. But that would just be one interpretation.
No doubt in polite Thai society the use of "Madam" and "Darling" is much more prevalent and the meaning is less open to confusion in those circles.
Next time you are sitting in some Thai bar enjoying a cold beer and the company of a pretty Thai lady and she chooses to call you her "Darling" remember to keep smiling. You are in the land of smiles.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 9:40 am on Oct. 12, 2006
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Baskoy
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I always thought it was Dark Ling that meant Monkeys Arse
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:32 am on Oct. 12, 2006
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