Bangkok Mar 12-14

[beej]

Actually all the Reds really want is a real, intelligent voice in the Democratic system.

how many of the reds protesting in bkk actually really knew what they wanted ???

Money

duhhhhh

[PiAnt]

I think Dave's pretty much got it right.

It's Westerners who are attributing it to some deeper, underlying cause.

Of course there is a huge gap between the haves and have nots, and at first, perhaps, that's what most thought they were protesting about, but what happened later, and as far as the violence and destruction is concerned, is nothing more that wanton destruction, because that's what uneducated people not in control of their senses like to do, especially when egged on by those who hold power over them.

There's no doubt in my mind that the old dear (you may have seen her) who was beating her chest and screaming like a martyr's mother straight into the camera was doing so merely under instruction.

(And a few extra baht into the bargain for a good performance.)

[Andy_bkk]

1,000 baht a day, everyday.

Not only this, but I believe there is also social pressure, you can't just cash in and go then come back and go freely as you wish. These guys probably get threatened or really beat up as I have read here.

[Loburt]

Civil conflict is not inevitable, I do not believe there is very much difference in the underlying philosophies of both sides. Actually, I think Anand's words are as relevant today as they were in 1992. Freedom of speech, transparency, accountability and political tolerance are actually I believe what both sides wish for.

I agree it is not inevitable, but these are dangerous times.

Your sentiments are quite noble, and I believe we, and especially our leaders, should always appeal to what Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature."

Unfortunately, my conversations with a range of people of both colors has left me struggling with a more cynical outlook.

All too often what I hear is: Freedom of speech and political tolerance for my side, but not yours.

Transparency and accountability for your side, but not mine.

There is an ugly and foolish willingness to believe the most outlandish lies in order to demonize the other side. Matched by a stubborn and tragic unwillingness to acknowledge or admit the wrongs of your own side.

"We didn't do those things. Those were fake Reds."

At the moment I can't think of any person or group who can bridge that divide.

[PiAnt]

1,000 baht a day, everyday.

Not only this, but I believe there is also social pressure, you can't just cash in and go then come back and go freely as you wish. These guys probably get threatened or really beat up as I have read here.

Well maybe, I can only speak from my experience. If you've had much experience with Thai employees, you'll know that they'll drop a job, even a good job, for what might appear to you to be a worthless opportunity, seemingly on a whim.

And fully expect to be able to walk back into the job when it inevitably doesn't pan out. Just as he did.

No stories of threats at all by the way, just big smiles.

(EDIT: Oh just noticed that was my 7-11 post. Sorry. Do go on.)

[LakeGeneve]

(EDIT: Oh just noticed that was my 7-11 post. Sorry. Do go on.)

Free slurpees for life! (See head office for conditions)

[robbie36]

Actually all the Reds really want is a real, intelligent voice in the Democratic system.

how many of the reds protesting in bkk actually really knew what they wanted ???

Money

duhhhhh

Really? Do you think it comes down to that? And I could take any of the last 3 posts.

To assume they were there for Bt500 a day is to assume they are stupid and naive. Individuals might seem like that but they are not. Groups of people - aggregating sentiment often are stupid - but we really have gone through 4 million years of evolution to produce stupid individuals, however stupid they appear to you.

If you wish to demote the Red Shirts to paid stupid peasants working on behalf of Thaksin you are the one who is being stupid in my opinion because underlting conflict is never based on stupidity. If people wish to state that the underlying sentiment behind those protests was without an underlying cause they should really think again. To the extent that Thaksin was involved you should worry about his payments to say, the police, rather than the protestors.

Always a dispute has two sides but just because you believe in one do not demean the others.

The real key to a solution here is to understand why people like/liked Thaksin. And on that basis you will avoid conflict and win.

[PiAnt]

I believe "bump" is the correct word when this happens.

[Karnie]

someone should set up an event to celebrate when this tread reach to 300 or 500 of page! we are getting there.

[LakeGeneve]

@robbie36 Good post.

Many, including most recently Pasuk and Baker have commented that it is a mistake to characterise all the redsupporters as ignorant, naive and stupid. But I don't really think any of the above three posters you refer too subscribe to that view at all. However, substantive issues of injustice and neglect are severely undermined by that ubiquitous human trait of greed when so many are so willing to accept payment to turn up. (As Loburt reminded us 150 pages ago, the Assembly of the Poor conducted a long term BKK protest and I sincerely doubt any of them were paid for their time). In terms of the political protagonists motivation in this drama does that word not represent their true motivations?

I also think it be naive to discount that ordinary greed did not play a part in attracting people even if it was limited to making it easier to manipulate/coerce some of the crowd into the leaders agenda by entering into a contract when receiving monies.

I though that this was a great article today in the Post,

http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/37714/a-guide-to-the-perfect-thai-idiot

[robbie36]

I agree it is not inevitable, but these are dangerous times.

Your sentiments are quite noble, and I believe we, and especially our leaders, should always appeal to what Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature."

Unfortunately, my conversations with a range of people of both colors has left me struggling with a more cynical outlook.

All too often what I hear is: Freedom of speech and political tolerance for my side, but not yours.

Transparency and accountability for your side, but not mine.

There is an ugly and foolish willingness to believe the most outlandish lies in order to demonize the other side. Matched by a stubborn and tragic unwillingness to acknowledge or admit the wrongs of your own side.

"We didn't do those things. Those were fake Reds."

At the moment I can't think of any person or group who can bridge that divide.

I actually agree with your sentiments 100%.

I spoke to someone who literally said to me 'Thais do not really know what other Thais think of them nowadays.'

It isnt a strong statement but you are right that I think that Thais have lost faith in themselves and in each other. That is sad, because I do not believe that the underlying conflicts are much.

I do have quite a lot of faith in certain people in Government. As the military control the TV I do not believe the Governments underlying understanding of the situation was properly presented.

So I agree based on past experience, there is little to look forward to but further conflict. I am simply hoping that a faith in certain people brings fruition.

[PiAnt]

Actually all the Reds really want is a real, intelligent voice in the Democratic system.

how many of the reds protesting in bkk actually really knew what they wanted ???

Money

duhhhhh

Really? Do you think it comes down to that? And I could take any of the last 3 posts.

No, there are cellphones, flat screen tellies, big houses and flash motors involved.

To assume they were there for Bt500

Personally, I didn't assume anything, I was told. And 1000, not 1500. He had no reason to lie.

The real key to a solution here is to understand why people like/liked Thaksin. And on that basis you will avoid conflict and win.

Because the poor got more money.

Mate, you're deluded.

[LakeGeneve]

I believe "bump" is the correct word when this happens.

300th post - party at Karnies place :wink:

500th post - party at the closest evacuation point for those that make it! :roll: (sorry folks)

[PiAnt]

I believe "bump" is the correct word when this happens.

300th post - party at Karnies place :wink:

500th post - party at the closest evacuation point for those that make it! (sorry folks)

Ok, that's it.

I ain't gonna bump no more.

(Joe Tex - Clickable pic.)

[Karnie]

I believe "bump" is the correct word when this happens.

300th post - party at Karnies place :wink:

500th post - party at the closest evacuation point for those that make it! :roll: (sorry folks)

my place is absolutely welcome for you guys but only 1 condition.... dont do anything LOUD coz my cats are scare of noise.....

[steevolution]

Off the Middle Path

New York Times

May 24, 2010

By KARUNA BUAKAMSRI

BANGKOK — Last Wednesday, the television station where I work in Bangkok was attacked and set on fire by an angry mob while I was anchoring the news. The men who invaded the building were members of the red shirts — protesters who had seized control of the center of Thailand’s capital for more than two months with the goal of bringing downing the government.

Shaken by an explosion, I telephoned a government official and pleaded with him to send soldiers to evacuate us. But there was no time to wait. Through choking fumes and flames, my colleagues and I ran down nine flights of stairs, not knowing if the mob would be waiting for us at the bottom. We made it to the basement, burst out through a back door, scrambled over a wall and dashed into the sanctuary of the winding alleys of a poor neighborhood.

Exactly 18 years earlier— May 19 at 3 p.m. — I was also running for my life. Then I was the protester: a student leader demanding democracy and opposing military rule. Soldiers had opened fire on us. I fled in pure terror, scaling a wall to escape the gunfire. Many were killed that night.

More than a date connects these two events. Many of the leading figures are also the same. In 1992, I joined hands with Jatuporn Promphan, Veera Musikapong and Dr. Weng Tojirkan — now leaders of the red shirt movement. I also joined hands with Pipob Dongchai, Somkiat Pongpaiboon, Suriyasai Katasila — now leaders of a group of protesters known as the yellow shirts, bitter enemies of the reds. Also among us were two promising young politicians: Abhisit Vejjajiva and Jaturon Chaisaeng. Abhisit is now prime minister, while Jaturon opposes Abhisit.

Then we were all united in wanting democracy. Today we are divided over what we believe democracy is or should be. What drew these leaders down divergent paths is complex. But the flashpoint for their explosive opposition to each other is a man who in 1992 was consumed with making money rather than fighting alongside us for democracy: Thaksin Shinawatra.

A telecommunications tycoon elected prime minister in 2001, Thaksin won the hearts of the poor with his social programs and the enmity of many others for his graft and authoritarianism. Toppled in a bloodless coup in 2006, he now lives abroad rather than serve a prison sentence for corruption. Red shirt protesters are calling for his return. Thaksin is the fault line that has fractured our country. My own family reflects the divide. My uncle, a rural villager, supports Thaksin because he distributed one million baht ($25,000) to every village for local development projects and for his universal health care program.

My uncle never asked about Thaksin’s attempts to crush the free press — a battle I fought personally against him. He didn’t dwell on how Thaksin enriched himself at the public’s expense while holding office. Nor did he ponder the fates of the thousands killed in Thaksin’s “war on drugsâ€; the community activists who were murdered; or those massacred at Tak Bai in the Muslim south — even though most of them were poor just like him, or fighting to improve the lives of poor people just like him.

Some have called Thailand’s crisis a class struggle. But it’s hard to take such portrayals seriously when powerful politicians and wealthy businesspeople are calling from the red shirt stage for the overthrow of “the elite.†Among those fiery speakers was my old colleague Jatuporn Promphan, wearing a shirt with a silkscreen of Mahatma Gandhi. The protest site was defended by red shirt guards who were armed.

From 2006 through 2008, my old colleague Pipob Dhongchai, a leader of the yellow shirts, spearheaded mass rallies against Thaksin and subsequent governments he controlled by proxy, culminating in the occupation of Bangkok’s airports. The yellow shirts also had a corps of armed guards. In 1992, none of us were armed. We suffered through bullets and batons with our ideals as our only defense.

Watching the spiraling political violence of the past few years I wonder what has become of my old friends, the veterans of 1992, and where they are taking our country?

Back then, I was inspired by their oratory in support of democracy and justice. Today, these same orators inflame crowds with hate and distortion. Yellow orators goaded their followers into ransacking the prime minister’s office. Red orators fired mobs to burn Bangkok. I can’t see any justice or democracy in what they have done.

In Thailand, most people are Buddhists, and in Buddhism we believe in moderation and the middle path. How have my friends become so extreme? The events of the last few weeks have left me shaken. But I am determined that the men who burned my building will not burn away what we fought for in 1992: A Thailand where we can differ and yet not destroy; where we can criticize yet not demonize; where we can fight for our ideals without dealing out violence and death. A Thailand where never again will I be running in fear.

Karuna Buakamsri is a news anchor and reporter at Channel 3 in Bangkok.

very interesting what she says. why did she never put commentary of this quality out over the airwaves?

for a few short days, channel 3 was the only Thai TV that's ever been worth the watch.

no idiotic ass-whitening cream schemes.

no idiotic dramas to serve as supporting lifesyle scenes in support of the ass-whitening schemes.

did the logo painted on the piece of cardboard shimmer and melt for you like it did for me?

three days of 3, not nearly long enough.

best Thai TV that never was, and i fear, that ever will be.

thank you freedom fighters, for the first fresh Thai TV ****... it was worth the wait.

[steevolution]

http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/technews/37744/why-the-govt-lost-to-the-udd-on-the-tech-battlefield

Why the govt lost to the UDD on the tech battlefield

The protesters' movement was bolstered by a surprisingly sophisticated media campaign to make sure its followers were kept informed - and emboldened - over cyberspace,

* Published: 26/05/2010 at 12:00 AM

Digital technology has become the weapon of choice in times of conflict. During the recent political unrest in Thailand, an intense war of information has been waged between the government and its opponents, the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), in cyberspace.

Both have the knowhow, but it is believed that the UDD has adopted more advanced technology than even the government.

While the government has been attempting to block controversial websites via the traditional URL filtering approach with co-operation from ISPs, the UDD responded by developing a browser toolbar to enable less tech-savvy users to circumnavigate the usual typed URL approach and facilitate access to the movement's Internet radio and TV broadcasts and chat rooms.

Furthermore, connectivity for the UDD's applications do not utilise the same general ports commonly used by Internet browsers, namely TCB 80 (http) or TCP443 (SSL/https). This renders the traditional URL-filtering blocking mechanism ineffective since it only works well when blocking web pages, not Internet multimedia streaming.

The URL filtering technology has further drawbacks still. For example, the top-level http://www.xyz.com can be blocked, yet subsequent pages inside the website, such as http://www.xyz.com/abc, are still accessible. That's why websites such as http://www.prachathai.com/xxx cannot be blocked, because the whole address does not match with any flagged string. The current system employed by the ICT Ministry in conjunction with ISPs can do nothing to resolve this case.

The UDD has effectively employed the Internet as tool to spread its ideology and increase the psychological impact of the information it distributes. The group has trained its followers to access its broadcasts and media across several channels, such as Internet, GSM, 3G, VoIP, Wi-Fi, terrestrial television, satellite TV, cable TV, IPTV, analogue radio and Internet radio.

Viewers can download and install the UDD's Norporchor toolbar to access dedicated websites, or the UDD Thailand Player to view IPTV broadcasts.

When the government's expert team analysed the network with the aim of identifying the source and thereby blocking access to, and broadcasting from, the UDD Thailand Player, they found that the Red Shirts had intelligently applied Cloud Computing technology by running Google Appspot and Microsoft Horizon from two locations of servers in the US - Mountain View, California; and Redmond, Washington.

The UDD also has identified how to access blocked web sites via anonymous proxies. Viewers simply download the proxy application, which will run through the browser and enable users to access any banned content.

"With this software, users can prevent the government from identifying their IP address," said the source.

Based on in-depth correlation technical analysis of the UDD network, it was found that Norporchor IPTV transmissions have been made via different Prachathai domains registered with the GTLD (general top-level domain), including prachatai.com, prachatai.net, prachatai1.com, prachatai.org, prachatai board.com, prachathai webboard.com and sameskyboard.com.

Security experts analysed the correlation betweeb the web servers of the Prachathai domain and other domains and found four IP groups that have no association with each other. So they further explored the correlation between the DNS server and the mail relay server.

Based on the intelligent data gathering with correlation technical analysis at the DNS server, they found that the four IP groups comprised of one big group and two small groups.

At mail relay server level, they found the UDD technical team had applied Web 2.0 technology via Google applications, with only one big group and one small group, and they identified the webmaster of Prachatai and finally the correlation with the Norporchor network.

To tackle the matter, the government's security team suggested using a new technique called "In-depth intelligence information gathering" and the established in-depth IP package analysis technique. It has been suggested to the government that it considers setting up a cyber security intelligence team to support in-depth correlation analysis and also implement Common Lawful Interception Architecture (CALEA) at Thailand Internet Core to facilitate in-depth analysis of malicious Internet communications. This would be carried out under the umbrella of the national-level cyber security council.

What does this mean? Unfettered censorship by ICT without any right to free speech for Thai citizens.

very doubtfull the fossils will be able to keep up.

so they figured out what was done to them. yeehaw!

now they're only three jumps behind.

the internet is a genie that's gonna b very difficult for any powers that b to put back in the bottle.

in bkk as we speak there are chinese spammers operating. they spam for the Falun Gong cult. they were the first to set up networks difficult for govts to silence. during the iranian elections the iranian opposition made use of infrastructure the Falun Gong teams had set up. here in bkk what they do is set up servers in a downtown area with lots of wifi accessible. they can crack wifi but often they don't have to. their servers switch wifi access points every few seconds, thereby they are untraceable while they spam the Falun Gong propaganda 24hrs a day.

there are programs that can examine millions of electronic communications per minute, looking for certain subjects and key words, but all that is necessary is to speak a little obtusely (ez for the more intelligent among us), substituting Big-Assed Black Woman in the Sky for Opressive Govt XYZ, and suddenly the Carnivore has nothing it can consume but it's own crapola.

the only way to stop people from using tech against evil govt is to keep them in the stone age, as in Burma.

they should stop trying to regulate it, they won't win on that front. but of course they can get stupid citizens to pay them good money to sit in front of screens and finger themselves... so they will.

[steevolution]

as you may have noticed, time has weighed heavy on my hands. but i've been enterprising.

i've got some t-shirts made up. "i survived the (tire)Burning of Bangkok"

they are in red, of course, although reversible to yellow if the need arises. the yellow side is the standard "i love the King" with hearts and bunnies.

the red side (outer side) we've got Toxin Squarehead (only head and ferocious finger visible) saying, "The moment the first bullet flies, i will be there! I am willing to fight to the last drop of your blood!"

on the back is Weng, in one of those vietnamese caps with a red star, dressed in khmer rouge blackpants and top, hoisting an AK47 aloft and proclaiming, "You have nothing to fear from my defensive gun!"

the shirts are only 35GBP (Weng says, "Special price for you, folang).

beej is handling the orders for me, so contact him. we're givin a 10% dozen order discount if you want to send some home to friends and family.

pics of the product soon. (the price is high because it is 100% organic cotton grown by contented farmers. seriously, look at the label. it's genuine.)

sorry, now that i look closely at the label, the farmers are barefoot and abused like subsistence farmers everywhere. it is the __cotton__ that is contented. every individual fluffy white round soft fist-sized cotton boll has been raised with plenty of fresh clean water (of some frenchified name), and had soothing folky peaceful banjo music played to it while being bathed in lungfulls of high quality Green Maine Madness. also uplifting lectures of well-meaning, often informative, but sometimes mushandmuddlebrained reasoning (reasoning in a Green Maine Madness sense), lectures of reasoning were applied.

WORTH TOP DOLLAR: contented cotton. keep the line orderly please. we can't disturb the (navel) contemplative serenity.

[English_Bob]

1,000 baht a day, everyday.

Yep... same for my Step-uncle (my Dad's Thai wife's brother...) He went down a couple of weeks ago - same wages. He's as dumb as rocks, but he knows 1000 baht a day for sitting in Bangkok is good money.

(unless you get shot of course)

[koolbreez]

Actually all the Reds really want is a real, intelligent voice in the Democratic system.

how many of the reds protesting in bkk actually really knew what they wanted ???

Money

duhhhhh

Really? Do you think it comes down to that? And I could take any of the last 3 posts.

To assume they were there for Bt500 a day is to assume they are stupid and naive. Individuals might seem like that but they are not. Groups of people - aggregating sentiment often are stupid - but we really have gone through 4 million years of evolution to produce stupid individuals, however stupid they appear to you.

If you wish to demote the Red Shirts to paid stupid peasants working on behalf of Thaksin you are the one who is being stupid in my opinion because underlting conflict is never based on stupidity. If people wish to state that the underlying sentiment behind those protests was without an underlying cause they should really think again. To the extent that Thaksin was involved you should worry about his payments to say, the police, rather than the protestors.

Always a dispute has two sides but just because you believe in one do not demean the others.

The real key to a solution here is to understand why people like/liked Thaksin. And on that basis you will avoid conflict and win.

You make the assumption that they are stupid for being there for bt500 a day. That is naive on your part. For many there bt500 a day is good wages. There is also a group that simply signed up as a redshirt, turned over their ID card, got the money, then went home, and filed for a lost ID card. They were not alligned with any side, they just saw an oportunity to make some extra money, and were smart enough to take advantage of it.

Everything about the liking of Thaksin revolves around money, and intimidation, to think differently IS stupid. He gave away small sums of money, and killed those that disagreed with him. All the extra-judicial killings during the drug wars were in the North, and NorthEast, with only 500 of the 2500 actually atributed to drugs.

These demonstrations differ greatly from the '92 demonstrations. First you have people involved in the past demonstrations, fighting for Democracy, unarmed. Next you have leaders on both sides of these demonstrations that were all on the same side in the '92 demonstrations, fighting for the same thing. What divided them in these demonstrations? Money maybe. I think so. Without money, you are a nobody in Thailand.

These are just my observations.

[DJTX]

You make the assumption that they are stupid for being there for bt500 a day. That is naive on your part. For many there bt500 a day is good wages.

You have to wonder how many were there because they thought "hmm, I make 250 a day now, I can double that by going..."

[PiAnt]

1,000 baht a day, everyday.

Yep... same for my Step-uncle (my Dad's Thai wife's brother...) He went down a couple of weeks ago - same wages. He's as dumb as rocks, but he knows 1000 baht a day for sitting in Bangkok is good money.

(unless you get shot of course)

Safety in numbers mate.

Kinda like seal clubbing I suppose.

But with less/more* red.

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[eagle]

1,000 baht a day, everyday.

Yep... same for my Step-uncle (my Dad's Thai wife's brother...) He went down a couple of weeks ago - same wages. He's as dumb as rocks, but he knows 1000 baht a day for sitting in Bangkok is good money.

(unless you get shot of course)

Safety in numbers mate.

Kinda like seal clubbing I suppose.

But with less/more* red.

bumped

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[PiAnt]

1,000 baht a day, everyday.

Yep... same for my Step-uncle (my Dad's Thai wife's brother...) He went down a couple of weeks ago - same wages. He's as dumb as rocks, but he knows 1000 baht a day for sitting in Bangkok is good money.

(unless you get shot of course)

Safety in numbers mate.

Kinda like seal clubbing I suppose.

But with less/more* red.

bumped

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Hey I wasn't gonna bump no more! How'd that get in there?

[steevolution]

i hope you don't mind beej, but as Joanie Mitchel sang about Cat Stevens (or it mighta been James Taylor, i'd haveta consult the Infallible Word of Wiki. i'll leav that 4 others), as the lady said, "you probly think this song is about you." well whether it was written for me or not, like a horoscope or "Savage Love" it speaks directly to me. so i hope you don't mind me doing a little editing. i'll do my best to stay true to the spirit of the piece while making it speak more directly to me.

Frustrated by his impotence and lack of voice and influence within Thai society the farang turns to his only known outlet ... the forum. [cant touch this. brilliant opening. poetic but factual.]

Here, he can stand on his very own cyber soapbox and offload his steaming, pentup opinions with venom and vitriole amongst his fellow farang [see comment above] ... verbally lashing out from behind the safety of his double bolted bedsit doors,[not sure about this, but the power of what preceded it warns me off] the only casualties here are his computer screen, from his ejaculated [fetid spittle? no way. as i said previously, you have no idea how much pleasure i have derived] from his ejaculated fistfulls of semigelatinous jism, and his keyboard as his pidgeon pecking stubby fingers dance angrily across the tabs ![i'll allow you "dance" as i admit we may be working at cross purposes. i really would prefer something more martial... at least "jab" "slam" or "stab". "stab venomously down deep into the crevices between the tabs" would be my preference... but as i say it is your piece.]

Years of silence and deaf ears are unleashed and ['Bob the builder'. sorry, B. Builder sounds fat and impotent. cant allow it.] "Wolverine of the keyboards" is now Thailands Guru within his very own cyber community[i hope that still pleases you] ... he is the leading light, the path to righteousness, he is the way, he is ['da man'...i'm sorry. i realize, i think what you are trying to achieve. linking me with golf fan (and may i say is there a more pathetic "sport" about which to be fanatic?) trying to link me with whiteboy golf fanboy pitiful attempts at asslicking ebonics. well sorry i can't have it. i never liked T Woods. what i have to say on T Woods is that "T Woods is what happens to the world when the World cares about golf" (copyright steevolution 2010). i mean he was barely sufferable before. when he came crawling on his belly to lick the proffered balls of Crapitalisman, for the "sin" of stirring and dipping his sword... well "lick these here balls, Tiger". and could a man with unlimited money not collect a smoother harem? he didn't pick those skanky skinks in Hooters, they came from the dungheap behind Hooters! KEERIST!!! a collection of Jersey Shore rejects and wannabes. i thought he went to Stanford? couldn't he have collected at least a little of that California neopsuedo class? TOOLATE TIGER!!! (ask momma what it means).]

so i'm sorry. damages the piece in your eyes, but "he is the masterly meisterous masterful man" is what i'm lettin thru. don't whimper. that's as heavy handed as i get.

Delusions of grandeur rise within his world as quickly as the the water in a sinking ship and soon he is pontificating and obfuscating to all and sundry .. the collateral damage is high amongst the other members of the forum as they are exposed to his tirade ... his inner demons are released[starting another paragraph with awesome ****. wouldn't touch it if they held a gun to my head!] and as he rises to the point of [a virtual cyber orgasm... sorry gonna sex it up] slinging streams of cream upon his screen [ his screen goes blank and his room dark.... no no no. this is how it went] IT GOES DARK. THE ALL KNOWING, ALL POWERFUL, VENGEFULL, MANEVOLENT, CAPRICIOUS, BIG-ASSED BLACK WOMAN IN THE SKY BRINGS HER FURIOUS FURIES DOWN UPON HIS IMPUDENT HEAD and stiff neck. [like that. more fact checks to follow]

"WE CANNOT WORK THIS WAY !" he screams in fury ... ["I AM A FARANG !"no no no. sorry emo boy. utter bs.]

I AM a halfjapanese punk redneck. both my dog and wallet live on a chain. i've got a gun in my hand and PST in my brain!

But silence is all that answers him ... [he has forgotten to pay his electricity bill again and standing in his off white baggy underwear and a growing pool of his own sweat]

[none a this will be poetic. my poetry and lyricism has petered out. i'm in "Joe Friday Journalist factcheckmode]

he considers aircon to be a foul obscene middle finger for mother Earth. and even if you get past the for-the-girls greeny posing, he's just to f***in cheap to pay for it, so this day, worked to a sex crazy frenzy as he was, he stands in a pool of his own sweat. he looks across at his shadow upon the opposite wall .. a [stooped bent stick like figure with rotund belly... no no no. you'v met me in person. you should remember i have impeccable posture (when a guy is 5'9",no matter how athletic and muscular, stooping is not a good look. it's bad for the back. my ramrod straight posture is a habit from a youth spent in manual labor. the following is more accurate (though i understand probnot to ur likin]

this chiseled body of Adonis, fortunes gift of fantastic combination of genetic hybrid vigor, a steady diet of cappucino, croissant, freshsqueezed oj and unfiltered Camels by day, and vodka-and-realcranberry, Davidoff Ultimate, and as much dancin and the "breakfast of champions" as an ageing body can stand by night. he catches sight of the moonlit shadow of masculine perfection on the wall, thick long silent snake slung in 100% cotton budgysling

[greets him and his head then drops as he whispers quietly this time ... "but I am a farang ...!"...NO NO NO i'm takin a hatchet to it. apologies. but i do have more experience at this type of thing and it is necessary for me to ASSert myself here]

he knows he is beaten. by an unseen, faroff, overpowering unstoppable force.

i am woman, big-assed, black, SHE ROARS!

and that my little oysters, is the real story of how it all went down.

YOURS IN SPORT, St Eevolution