Isaan father in-law: director's cut
I recently happened upon a publication documenting the life of the author's Isaan father in-law.
I quote:
" Isaan father in-law is a biography of the author's father in-law, Mr Rin. It draws on family and historical sources to uncover his career. Mr Rin is revealed as a teacher, farmer, community leader, rural development activist and conservationist."
Call me a cynic but that bushy-tailed preface bears no correlation whatsoever to my considerable firsthand experiences of the archetypal Isaan gent. I suggest a slightly more accurate portrayal of your typical provincial adult male would read something a long the lines of:
"Isaan father in-law is a biography of the author's father in-law, Por. It draws on family and historical sources to uncover his career.
Por is revealed to be a degenerate drunk with a propensity for soiling his underpants. His hobbies included sweeping, chain-smoking cheap tobacco, and hurling unintelligible abuse at his 14" portable television set.
As well as boasting the hygienic proficiency of a dung beetle, Por could invariably be found shod in a mish-mash of thread bare attire, giving him the air of a man who'd just been dragged backwards through a Spastic Society outlet.
He had no time for small talk; opting to speak only in laconic sentences: " 30 baht", "20 baht" or "10 baht" being amongst his most oft uttered repartee."
Despite these shortcomings, Por remains quite possibly the most dangerous and powerful man in Thailand's northeast. Should he catch a whiff of the ensuing shindig in Bangkok; well... I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
That broom could potentially oust the entire Thai military... look at the speed of the fucking strokes!
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