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Quote: from Hermanolobo on 2:27 pm on April 1, 2004
So have you had those words turned into deeds and proved. Has your tilac proved her words of love rather than just gazed in your eyes, melted you and said,"I lub you!"
I must have missed the part where this is supposed to matter somehow?
Harry
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:23 pm on April 1, 2004
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hzink
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Quote: from Vancouver Jay on 8:56 am on April 2, 2004
- The complete culture is constructed from concepts and practices originating elsewhere.
Oh, you mean like the United States, or Europe, or all of Western Culture...?
Harry
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 9:44 pm on April 1, 2004
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hzink
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Quote: from caronte on 9:26 am on April 2, 2004
Let's not forget that when Columbus was navigating around the world, Thais were still hanging on the trees......
...and let's not forget that when the Egyptians were building pyramids, and colonizing the nile delta, the Europeans were still hanging in the trees..
Your point being...?
Harry
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:45 pm on April 1, 2004
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caronte
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...and let's not forget that when the Egyptians were building pyramids, and colonizing the nile delta, the Europeans were still hanging in the trees..
Your point being...?
Harry
hanging from the trees - not with a rope around your neck - is nice!
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 10:20 pm on April 1, 2004
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Quote: from Vancouver Jay on 4:56 am on April 2, 2004
Thailand didn't, etc., etc. etc...
So what, of what they didn't do?
While some of your points are technically correct, in some respects, as might be expected, they are also relativistically immaterial, as has been pointed out so well by others.
The incredible statement that:
"The Thais have this culture among themselves as not to be too good at anything"
is both rascist and dumb, and still begs for a legitimate defense (which you have wisely avoided doing) particularly when, what Thailand has accomplished, 'since they came down from the trees', is compared to the 'accomplishments' of its neighbors, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, and even Korea, and Vietnam.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 12:55 am on April 2, 2004
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Quote: from Vancouver Jay on 8:56 am on April 2, 2004
Nope.
- Thailand didn't fight off colonization as much as they were rejected for it. France and Britain recognized the value of a buffer state.
- The borders of the Thai state were largely set by France and Britain as regards the portions of Laos west of the Naam Mae Khong and the southern provinces respectively.
- The location of the Thai capital was largely determined by the militarily superior Burmese.
- The local faith, writing system and high culture are all borrowed.
- The architectural heritage is far more a matter of intricate ornamentation than any novelities in construction.
- The complete culture is constructed from concepts and practices originating elsewhere.
- Master craftsmen? Maybe, but the world no longer runs on bamboo mats and ceramic urns. Thai labor is far less efficient than almost any other manufacturing pool in the world for the things the modern world wants and needs.
Thanks for the imput VJ,
It was Thais who made the points to me !
I remember walking around the temples in Bangkok and overhearing a guide say to some clients in English-
"None of this culture is actually Thai, it all comes from India." He was of course talking about the temples.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:18 am on April 2, 2004
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Hermanolobo
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Quote: from hzink on 10:23 am on April 2, 2004
Quote: from Hermanolobo on 2:27 pm on April 1, 2004
So have you had those words turned into deeds and proved. Has your tilac proved her words of love rather than just gazed in your eyes, melted you and said,"I lub you!"
I must have missed the part where this is supposed to matter somehow?
Harry
'Arry Boy Zink the board's resident socially dysfunctional member
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:22 am on April 2, 2004
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Hermanolobo
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And now back to the thread
Actions and deeds as proof of love rather than words?
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:09 am on April 2, 2004
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ringthebells
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Master craftsmen? Maybe, but the world no longer runs on bamboo mats and ceramic urns. Thai labor is far less efficient than almost any other manufacturing pool in the world for the things the modern world wants and needs.
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very strongely disagree here.
very efficient and filigran work here.
rtb
and now back to hormono...
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 5:14 am on April 2, 2004
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hzink
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Quote: from CiaoCiao on 1:55 pm on April 2, 2004
...particularly when, what Thailand has accomplished, 'since they came down from the trees', is compared to the 'accomplishments' of its neighbors, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, and even Korea, and Vietnam.
Thanks for making that point - the 'arguments' of how terrible the Thais are at everything would hold a lot more weight if they were surrounded by 'superior' neighbors - yet, seeing as how they are a 'very nice' country, surrounded by sh_tholes, I would think that much of what makes them 'nicer' can be attributed to whatever it is they are doing - and since we are comparing, it certainly is more than 'not being good at anything'.
Now, granted, Thailand is certainly no superior 1st world, high civilization by a long shot, but comparatively speaking when contrasting to neighboring countries, they are certainly doing quite a lot better. I think it's more than dumb luck, or blessed intervention by benevolent farang that led to that.
Aside, they were building temples and had monarchies when Europeans were still hanging from the trees...
Harry
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:27 am on April 2, 2004
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