When I was married to a Thai girl, Part 2

[Marmite the Dog]

ou may well be curious, well it goes back to my childhood where the white kids at school, this was the late 1970s remember, would be fascanated by where I came from. I was a bit Chinese, they thought, so they called me a Chinese. Nobody had heard of Thailand, especially white kids in north London in the '70s. The black kids still got a bit of grief, and during playtime when everyone wanted to play football together, the white kids thought of a black vs. whites format. After much squabbling I played for the 'black' team and most of my early school friends were the local black kids. Ditto my older sister, she hung with their older sisters two years above. Growing up was also interesting on a council estate, but that is not why you are reading this.

I was wonderin' why you is a bit gangsta!

[DJ Pat]

ou may well be curious, well it goes back to my childhood where the white kids at school, this was the late 1970s remember, would be fascanated by where I came from. I was a bit Chinese, they thought, so they called me a Chinese. Nobody had heard of Thailand, especially white kids in north London in the '70s. The black kids still got a bit of grief, and during playtime when everyone wanted to play football together, the white kids thought of a black vs. whites format. After much squabbling I played for the 'black' team and most of my early school friends were the local black kids. Ditto my older sister, she hung with their older sisters two years above. Growing up was also interesting on a council estate, but that is not why you are reading this.

I was wonderin' why you is a bit gangsta!

Well, I'm ashamed to say that said estate is now the scene of pitched battles between gangs of chavs, male and female.