admin Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Yep, while "Paparazzi" is a farang's word which even no exact difination in THAI. Well, Thailand might not have a word for 'paparazzi' (good word, by the way - Italian origin) but Thailand has these people. Any journalist who specialises in gossip about rumours about famous people. I think you will agree there are many of those publications - Thai people are very interested in celebrities' lives. I didn't mean it as an insult - it's just an observation. When Thai people ask me about my rent - I tell them. When they ask about my salary - I say "Por kin khao..." When they ask why I'm not married - I tell them because I didn't find the right girl yet. I don't get offended by these questions, but I can see how it would be a shock for unprepared farangs. I don't get offended but I also tend to handle the questions like a politician or diplomat and give answers that really don't answer the question a lot like what EB suggests. But that has nothing to do with Thai people. I do it anytime a stranger asks questions that I don't feel are any of their business. Just a side note, one of the first phrases we learned in my Thai class (I think it was on page 2) was "Are you married?" and the list of possible responses. According to the book: Yes, I'm married already No, not yet One of the students asked what if you simply want to say "No, I'm not married"? The teacher just looked at him like the words didn't compute. He tried to clarify by saying "I don't want to get married. If you say 'not yet' then you're implying that you want to get married. How would you tell someone that you aren't married without saying not yet?" The blank stare from the teacher continued and she finally said "Who doesn't want to get married?" and turned around and kept writing on the board. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyper223 Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Throwing massive amounts of human resources at problems. For instance, when you go to checkout in a department store there are at least 3 people involved in this procedure... Isn't that mostly a status thing for the manager? The more staff one manages, the more important they are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieGuy Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 YES! I know exactly what you mean. Thanks for saying that out loud. It's kinda embarrassing feeling. (Thai) People always glares at who gets out at NANA station. Checking you out from head to toe. If they are women and a little too much make up, dress a little slutty, it's a guessing game who selling a*s in Nanaplaza or if partying in soi 11. *shrugs hahaha So, why do you go to the NANA station? haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CocoaBrotha Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 Street Vendors on Lower Suk: I don't beget anyone trying to make an honest living but do you really need to narrow every sidewalk down to a narrow passageway that nobody can walk down? The upside is that if I'm ever in the market for pirated DVD's, brass knuckles, or a laster pointer I know where I can find one. The disapproving looks I think I get when getting off the BTS at Nana station. I have no idea whether I get disapproving looks or not but in my mind I'm embarrassed to get off the BTS at Nana. It could be my imagination getting the better of me. But, that part of Suk has some of the greatest stuff. You've got the best Mexican food in town at Charlie Brown's, Climax, Bed, QBar, The Australian Bar, The German Beerhaus, etc, etc, etc. Just get off at Asok and walk back. Works wonders. :salute: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 Just get off at Asok and walk back. Works wonders. :salute: if they see u getting off at asoke they probably think "dirty bugger's heading to cowboy !!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 Just get off at Asok and walk back. Works wonders. :salute: if the see u getting off at asoke they probably think "dirty bugger's heading to cowboy !!!" Ok...I'm forever getting off at Phloen Chit station now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Just get off at Asok and walk back. Works wonders. :salute: if the see u getting off at asoke they probably think "dirty bugger's heading to cowboy !!!" Ok...I'm forever getting off at Phloen Chit station now. I just take it to On Nut and walk about. Nobody can track me that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Just get off at Asok and walk back. Works wonders. :salute: if the see u getting off at asoke they probably think "dirty bugger's heading to cowboy !!!" Ok...I'm forever getting off at Phloen Chit station now. I just take it to On Nut and walk about. Nobody can track me that way. I know where you are at all times...I also know what you are thinking at all times. Please make it stop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 I know where you are at all times...I also know what you are thinking at all times. Please make it stop! That's because most of the time you're with me! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeMarc Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 I know where you are at all times...I also know what you are thinking at all times. Please make it stop! That's because most of the time you're with me! :-) have you guys become 'bum chums'? so the rumours are true? :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingLing Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 I know where you are at all times...I also know what you are thinking at all times. Please make it stop! That's because most of the time you're with me! :-) Wait a minute ......... Who is with who ???? You are with him ????? Or he is with you all the times ?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieJR Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 I know where you are at all times...I also know what you are thinking at all times. Please make it stop! That's because most of the time you're with me! :-) Wait a minute ......... Who is with who ???? You are with him ????? Or he is with you all the times ?????? They're the same person, that's why you never see both of them in the same bar at the same time ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carz79 Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 I know where you are at all times...I also know what you are thinking at all times. Please make it stop! That's because most of the time you're with me! :-) Wait a minute ......... Who is with who ???? You are with him ????? Or he is with you all the times ?????? They're the same person, that's why you never see both of them in the same bar at the same time ! Is Rob Superman?? and Clark Kent? Whoa! Too much info to process! :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drlovelife8 Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Yep, while "Paparazzi" is a farang's word which even no exact difination in THAI. Well, Thailand might not have a word for 'paparazzi' (good word, by the way - Italian origin) but Thailand has these people. Any journalist who specialises in gossip about rumours about famous people. I think you will agree there are many of those publications - Thai people are very interested in celebrities' lives. I didn't mean it as an insult - it's just an observation. When Thai people ask me about my rent - I tell them. When they ask about my salary - I say "Por kin khao..." When they ask why I'm not married - I tell them because I didn't find the right girl yet. I don't get offended by these questions, but I can see how it would be a shock for unprepared farangs. I don't get offended but I also tend to handle the questions like a politician or diplomat and give answers that really don't answer the question a lot like what EB suggests. But that has nothing to do with Thai people. I do it anytime a stranger asks questions that I don't feel are any of their business. Just a side note, one of the first phrases we learned in my Thai class (I think it was on page 2) was "Are you married?" and the list of possible responses. According to the book: Yes, I'm married already No, not yet One of the students asked what if you simply want to say "No, I'm not married"? The teacher just looked at him like the words didn't compute. He tried to clarify by saying "I don't want to get married. If you say 'not yet' then you're implying that you want to get married. How would you tell someone that you aren't married without saying not yet?" The blank stare from the teacher continued and she finally said "Who doesn't want to get married?" and turned around and kept writing on the board. :-) Firstly...That is awesome. Secondly I hate but wouldn't change is the way girls check each other out. They can't help it. Especially fats chicks just staring at hot chocks from behind. They just stare.......... But i thought that was rude in BKK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetieBabie Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 And for farang guys in Thailand there is one question we NEVER ask - "Where did you meet your wife?" .....Awkward.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoBeIt Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 And for farang guys in Thailand there is one question we NEVER ask - "Where did you meet your wife?" On TF? I can understand why... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympos Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 And for farang guys in Thailand there is one question we NEVER ask - "Where did you meet your wife?" On TF? I can understand why... I did'nt meet my wife yet on TF but i am looking forward to it. To those who wish to marry a farang: please PM, i am in Bangkok permanently :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 And for farang guys in Thailand there is one question we NEVER ask - "Where did you meet your wife?" .....Awkward.... probably because we all already know her !! not her name mind U .... just her number !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 And for farang guys in Thailand there is one question we NEVER ask - "Where did you meet your wife?" On TF? I can understand why... I did'nt meet my wife yet on TF but i am looking forward to it. To those who wish to marry a farang: please PM, i am in Bangkok permanently :wink: Sorry, I'm already married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBatch Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I did'nt meet my wife yet on TF but i am looking forward to it. To those who wish to marry a farang: please PM, i am in Bangkok permanently :wink: Hoeing yrself............ again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazel Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 The uncountable number of pigeons which seldom fail to land on my bread that's still in my hands when I am just about to feed the catfish outside Wat Rakang opposite Tha Chang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drlovelife8 Posted December 4, 2010 Report Share Posted December 4, 2010 And for farang guys in Thailand there is one question we NEVER ask - "Where did you meet your wife?" On TF? I can understand why... I did'nt meet my wife yet on TF but i am looking forward to it. To those who wish to marry a farang: please PM, i am in Bangkok permanently :wink: I have a mate (he is still just barely a mate) and whenever one of his boys would have a new bird who spoke good English he would ask the following. Why do you seak good English? Where did you learn? Who was your teacher? If she was from Isan she had no chance. He would constantly try to get them to fall into "I learnt English from sleeping with 50 guys a year".... To be fair, he was right quite a lot of the time and you never met a guy who f**ked so many hookers in your life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted December 4, 2010 Report Share Posted December 4, 2010 To be fair, he was right quite a lot of the time and you never met a guy who f*cked so many hookers in your life. to be fair .... f**king hookers isn't much of a challenge !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 4, 2010 Report Share Posted December 4, 2010 To be fair, he was right quite a lot of the time and you never met a guy who f*cked so many hookers in your life. to be fair .... f**king hookers isn't much of a challenge !!! And how would you know?? :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted December 4, 2010 Report Share Posted December 4, 2010 To be fair, he was right quite a lot of the time and you never met a guy who f*cked so many hookers in your life. to be fair .... f**king hookers isn't much of a challenge !!! And how would you know?? :shock: ehhhhhhh .... u told me !!! :roll: :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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