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    Quote Originally Posted by koman
    NO Roman would have green columns......but white....promotion to Tribune stuff.
    Actually, the columns of the big gladiator arenas were very brightly coloured. Just sayin...

    Anyways, Koman, I thought you like unusually, unconventionally colourful things!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by koman
    NO Roman would have green columns......but white....promotion to Tribune stuff.
    Actually, the columns of the big gladiator arenas were very brightly coloured. Just sayin...

    Anyways, Koman, I thought you like unusually, unconventionally colourful things!
    I'm Sorry peoples . I do think it was me what changed the colour because I was aware of them everywhere . Even in the loo .

    And bits of Dead Romans being attached to rice barns , chicken coops and dirty old homes .

    A nice image that !

    So I suspect me .Trying to disappear a few Romans .

    I mean Look !! ...........








    ....... and Bettyboo - long before you carefully planned that column bang in the centre of where you don't want it - we already had the concept ......






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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by koman
    NO Roman would have green columns......but white....promotion to Tribune stuff.
    Actually, the columns of the big gladiator arenas were very brightly coloured. Just sayin...

    Anyways, Koman, I thought you like unusually, unconventionally colourful things!
    I was referring to their houses, not the bloody gladiator arenas. I'm fairly sure no respectable Roman would have wanted their house looking like a cheap circus tent.

    In fact, I'm having all kinds of trouble with colours at the moment. The suppliers send out a batch of paint samples in half liter cans; for testing. We had selected them a while back....all decided from a bullshit computer design thingy. They looked great on the monitor in the shop.....but they look like shit when you put them on the walls. Some of them look nothing like what I saw on the computer screen..

    Back to the drawing board. One step forward, two steps back....

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    Koman : " I'm fairly sure no respectable Roman would have wanted their house looking like a cheap circus tent. "

    I don't think Missy is going to like you saying her house looks like a cheap circus tent .

    In fact there will be tears .

    Not nice from little koman .




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    Quote Originally Posted by Wasp View Post
    Koman : " I'm fairly sure no respectable Roman would have wanted their house looking like a cheap circus tent. "

    I don't think Missy is going to like you saying her house looks like a cheap circus tent .

    In fact there will be tears .

    Not nice from little koman .




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    Huh??? I never said anything of the sort....I was replying to Bettyboo and saying that a respectable Roman citizen would not want his house looking like a gladiator arena which would have been garish and tasteless in the extreme.

    ..... I think Missys house looks fine.....and now that I take a second look at the latest photos, maybe painting the columns green on the inside was not such a bad idea after all....

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    Just poking you for the fun of it .

    And you're right about the confusion of colours . I was catching up on Building stories and was reading bankaodreamer's story .

    I wasn't sure about those Thai teak houses . Then he put them up and I loved them .

    Then he built all sorts of heavy cement block additions and extensions and I loathed the whole thing .

    And THEN he painted those cement constructions in a kind of Italian Burnt Sienna colour and I loved it all over again . The right colour ..... brilliant .

    I don't like the green walls that Missy did ..... but there's too much sunlight to paint the walls Magnolia .


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    Well ..... I left off standing looking into the upstairs extension and I was about to swivel 180° to look into what used to be the old upstairs .
    But I wanted to show how the old upstairsused to be - because it was terrible .

    I know the photos exist .... because I took 'em . But it can't be difficult to imagine what a dirty room looks like .

    Anyway I'll just look at how it is now ---

    Doors on the Right leading to the Balcony.







    This was the day when some oldish birdy dressed in white turned up to say nice things to the ' Spirits ' .
    Hence the feast of cherryade , coconuts ,bananas and water gathered around the central column.

    At your foot here is where the new part ( Brown tiles ) meets the old part ( polished wood ).

    Lurking over in the corner is the paint stripper that they drink and call whisky .

    That room was the whole living space for 4 people . It had plyboard separating the areas and was just soul-destroying to look at .






    The floorboards have been sanded and treated . Skirting has gone in and walls have had plasterboard put on . It will get a sofa , chairs , a rug , a tv and a computer point .







    This photo appeared earlier but it completes the set for this room .

    We had no choice about the central Roman King . It was the original old support tarted up .

    Through the right-hand window you can see the cement rice store which became the home of the grandad .
    Through the windows on the left you would be above the downstairs living area .

    I'm hoping to expand out that way too with a floor above the living / kitchen .... as originally proposed by Bettyboo

    For clarity ... this room is shown here with a yellow cross .







    Just turning around again .....

    .


    To your immediate left is the double sliding door to the balcony.

    The glass door is the stairway down to the family's living area though there's not really a family .

    Through that glass door you can just see a little white shelf of shampoos and toothpaste .

    Which is obviously ---





    The Bathroom .

    Loo to the right and to the right of the loo is a handy Roman for leaning-on purposes .






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    @wasp: I wonder, what do you need a Roman king in the loo for? To lean on while you're contemplating on the meaning of life? And waiting for your loofah soup to go down?

    I'm glad I don't have to remove Hello Kitty and friends from the former page. I think they made a nice splash of color there. lol I'm serious about wanting to go to Legoland, though - it's in my bucket list. One day I WILL go there. Btw, I think the green loofah soup looks nice with your green walls.

    And wasp, I am not a farang, since I'm a Filipina, presently living in Las Islas Filipinas (as the Spaniards called it), or the PHilippine Islands (as the Americans later called it). I'm also not old, white and overweight. lol I have been to Thailand, though, twice, and both times, mistaken as a local. I came to TD to initially ask for travel advice (I made a thread in the Cambodia forum).

    Thank you for noticing my English skills! Many Filipinos speak good English; we learn English from grade school - a legacy from American colonization. There are many Filipinos who work as TEFLers in Asia, but their salaries are lower than those of farangs. Even those with low education have moderate English skills and can communicate with foreigners. From what I've read here on TD, even the "ladies of the night" speak good English.

    I grew up bilingual - spoke English with Viet mom, Tagalog/Filipino with my Fil dad. It was an interesting childhood - being the product of a biracial union.

    Cheers and thanks for the pics!

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    Hi katie .

    Near my home in England there's a huge hospital and probably 80% of the nurses are Philipina .Who look exactly like Thais .

    So my wife walks around the shops and asks all the time " Kunn Thai mai ? " hoping to make new friends .

    But no . They are all from your country .... and they speak poor English because they just stay together all the time .
    Maybe 12 of them sharing one rented house and speaking always to each other in their native language .

    Understandable .

    You on the other hand DO speak { write } at a standard way above an ordinary English person . Or a Bettyboo or a Marmite .

    But the soup still looks yucky .

    Why have a Roman King in the loo ?

    I'm sure even Roman Kings had loos .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wasp
    Near my home in England there's a huge hospital and probably 80% of the nurses are Philipina .Who look exactly like Thais .

    Quote Originally Posted by Wasp
    and they speak poor English because they just stay together all the time
    I wonder if there is some confusion here. It's the English that don't speak good English these days. I can't understand half of what most of them say and they use so much slang I don't think anybody else does either. I've been away from the place so long now, they seem to have developed a whole new version of the language.... Coon hunting hicks in Alabama speak better English these day....

    I've worked with many Philipina's and in fact a good percentage of my own staff was Philipina at one time, and they all spoke excellent English. Mostly very good workers too. They were well educated and seemed to know more about the world in general than many of the locals. I'm talking about fairly professional staff here, but event the girls who babysit and clean houses seem to be quite fluent in English for the most part.

    If all the Philipina's decided to go home, Canada would grind to a halt overnight.... Probably a few other countries as well.....I mean who else could give you instructions on Loofa soup.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by koman
    I wonder if there is some confusion here. It's the English that don't speak good English these days. I can't understand half of what most of them say and they use so much slang I don't think anybody else does either.
    You're right Koman, much of it is now incomprehensible gibberish.

    It's similar to when my wife is chatting with her friends in Thai. If I tried to listen then I could probably understand the gist of what they are wittering on about, but having mistakenly done it once or twice in the past I also know that, having broken down the language barrier, the general subject matter discussed is just as alien to me. It means the whole exercise is really not worth the effort.

    Good god. I've just re-read that and realised that I might be getting old...

    Actually, come to think of it, have you noticed that all the UK policemen do now seem to be getting younger. If you ever see them that is. It's not like it used to be ba.....

    ... mumble mumble mumble.

    Humph. I'm off down to see my chums at the club. At least they can still string a comprehensible sentence together what?

    Scotch? Don't mind if I do old thing. Nearly lunchtime and all that...





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    I think I was trying to compliment katie on her perfect English and I made a poor comparison with the Philipinas here who don't use their English skills .
    They stick together and as a result their English doesn't get used and it deteriorates.

    But Missy is the same .
    She gets to a reasonable standard ( if somewhat warped ) but then she goes down to a big group of Thais in Portsmouth and when she returns she's talking utter crap .

    Maybe Heineken has some responsibility there .

    However she does try ...... Christmas Dinner with the neighbours and totally English food ( Roast potatoes et cetera ) .So no chilli . Nothing Thai .
    Concerned lady asked Missy afterwards how she liked the food .

    " Religious!! " she said .

    I went into 2 shops within 30 minutes yesterday . The Latvian girl in shop 1 spoke flawless , clear English ... with a lovely manner.
    The teenage , grunty, barely literate shop trainee in shop 2 - was English of course .

    Yoonoworrameeen ?

    It was just a heavily-expressed compliment to katie .


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    Quote Originally Posted by Wasp View Post
    I think I was trying to compliment katie on her perfect English and I made a poor comparison with the Philipinas here who don't use their English skills .
    They stick together and as a result their English doesn't get used and it deteriorates.

    But Missy is the same .
    She gets to a reasonable standard ( if somewhat warped ) but then she goes down to a big group of Thais in Portsmouth and when she returns she's talking utter crap

    I went into 2 shops within 30 minutes yesterday . The Latvian girl in shop 1 spoke flawless , clear English ... with a lovely manner.
    The teenage , grunty, barely literate shop trainee in shop 2 - was English of course .

    Yoonoworrameeen ?

    It was just a heavily-expressed compliment to katie .


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    Some new pics arrived today and I seeks opinion .

    First .... a new angle at the side ....



    All looking rather ropey ...... but like Bettyboo and Roobarb are always saying, when I get there myself there'll be some sorting out to do .

    This area will be built out 7 metres to your Right here and then come the full length down this side .

    And I will heed any opinion on the next .

    Here's a corner upstairs showing Roman painted green.




    And here's the other room with the columns left white .




    We're stuck with the columns ...... but there was small discussion on here about hiding them or not .

    So ..... hide or not ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Wasp
    So ..... hide or not ?
    Not

    Roobard ah poisoness monkey, there was a lorry load of interesting cheeses but I was very very drunk

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    Impossible to hide. I prefer the white.

    Will this talk of being here does that mean life changing decisions have been made?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BKKBILL View Post
    Impossible to hide. I prefer the white.

    Will this talk of being here does that mean life changing decisions have been made?
    I don't understand it myself but I suddenly had a massive surge of decision .

    To go to Thailand .

    I can't do it yet . I won't see Thailand until maybe November and even then it will be for perhaps 5 months .

    But yes . Solid in the decision . And its reading this Forum that has helped .
    I'm as ready as anyone to give out advice but I do concentrate when advice comes back .
    Which it did .
    Advice about perspective for example but also looking at how the usual suspects look at Thailand .

    Now - I have to look at what I need to do to sell my home and there must be at least 300 things that need doing .
    Gaps in floorboards that have annoyed me for 6 years . Crappy damaged bits of skirting . Rawlplugs left and painted over but still visible .

    If I spend £1000 and do the hours it will add £10 000 to the sale price .

    I hope .




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    Quote Originally Posted by bankao dreamer View Post
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    Good fellow
    Your TurtlesDriveways , your sister , your bil had a say in this bankao .

    Nothing heavily decisive ..... but they reminded me of plenty of others who met far greater hardship than the problems I make for myself .

    My mum had Alzheimer's . When I went to see her there was a bloke in there - 29 !!! - 20 bloody 9 and he had Alzheimers !! Jesus !


    Perspective you know .


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    ....... and the results are in .

    Stay with White Roman Kings ...... 2 Votes .

    Hide them in the green camouflage ..... 0 Votes .


    Disappointing turnout but the Whites win .


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    Add my vote from a different timezone, so a bit late! I'm all for leaving the romans white.

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    ^ Wasp - try with painting them an off white colour, make them look like sandstone or something - I guess the infamous Magnolia might do it...?

    Call it three quarters of a vote for white.

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    2 3/4 votes white 0 votes green I’d say that is a landslide.



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    Re: the columns, I vote for white or off-white, maybe "ecru". I've said before that I liked the columns; I think they gave the house character. Btw, I passed by a house yesterday (not my usual route). The house also had Roman columns. I smiled and remembered Wasp's house. Apparently, they like Greco-Roman columns in this part of Asia too.

    Re: my English skills, no insult taken, compliment accepted. I have quite thick skin and am not easily offended. I'm also not offended by puns, jokes, criticisms about my country or countrymen, since I consider myself pretty well-travelled (for a third-worlder), and I have seen more of the world than my own little archipelago. My travels have been on my own steam - work-related or I saved up for them, and not due to family money, as I/we don't have that. My parents just made sure I had a good education. Part of that education was to learn English well.

    Learning a second language (or a 3rd & 4th) is a talent and a skill. That talent is harnessed better when one learns it at an early age. My circumstances were a bit unusual, since I was a product of a biracial union, and grew up bilingual. I've been reading English books, watching American shows and films since I was a kid, so I've been exposed to English all my life. My jobs have also required me to speak/write in English all the time.

    Re: the Filipinas near Wasp's place in England, yes, if they were always speaking in their mother tongue, then their English skills would go south after a time. I experienced the opposite - I found that my mother tongue suffered when I stayed in a Western country for a time, and I was required to speak in English. I even thought in English most of the time. But after returning to the motherland, mother tongue and English skills are equal once again (I think).

    @koman - some of those babysitters or house cleaners have college degrees, so it's no wonder that they have good/moderate English skills. I have a classmate whose mom was a schoolteacher but later opted to be a housemaid in Italy because of better pay... that's the way it is...

    For the guys reading this drivel, if you have half-breed kids, please let your kids be fluent in English, as well as their mother's mother-tongue. They'll be smarter and richer (in life) because of it. This comes from a half-breed too. Cheers!

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    Quote Originally Posted by katie23 View Post
    whose mom was a schoolteacher
    Oh Katie !

    Your first mistake !!!

    Please don't say " mom " .

    It's horrible .

    Horrible . Horrible . Horrible . Horrible . Horrible . Horrible . Horrible . Horrible . Horrible .


    xx Wasp

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