Thread: Where's the farang??

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

I haven't read posts 3 to 18 because I'm browsing to a deadline but have you brought this up with your wife and what did she say?

She told me to tell Scampy to stop being such a lazy bastard.

^ Come on mate, It'll take me an hour to read all that and it's not as if I can Google it. My missus wants to watch Jurassic Park.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

My missus wants to watch Jurassic Park.

I hope this doesn't mean that you married "Sandra". Poor girl.

Not at all, 'missus' is a figure of speech that isn't exclusive to marraige, though technically it should be.

I've bumped this thread because it might be fun to continue. Now I'll read it from start to finish, and it'll probably be shit

i was just searching for it so as i could link it to you as it seemed relevant.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

I get this every day down at the mini mart when I go for my daily pack.

Really not insulting. Just the only label they have for me Don't know my name, I'm the only farang in teh neighborhood.

Why do they need a label? In my opinion you are either a person or something else, i.e. a dog, a car, a farang, a tree. Hence it is dehumanizing. Thais, all of them (for some weird reason) seem to have the attitude that other Thais are people "kon nee", and foreigners need a different label to show that they are something else "farang nee".

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
Bit I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
Keep smiling through just like you always do,
Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away.
So will you please say hello to the folks that I know, tell them I won't be long.
They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go, I was singing this song.
We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.

Originally Posted by MeMock

You choose to live in Thailand not England.

You cannot compare the two equally.

Why waste energy over such a trivial matter?

Why is it trivial? Is considering the way the 65 million people who were born in the country you now live in refer to you, think of you, classify and label you trivial? It is trivial if you force yourself to ignore it and want to continue life in blissful ignorance; but humans have the ability to think, so they should use it.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

Would you really accept someone in England calling your wife.."the Thai?"
why should it be any different here.

are our expectations that low?

Or "Where is the Asian?"
"where is the mongoloid"
"Where is the chink?"

Originally Posted by benbaaa

Hey Nooners, I arrived in this thread late, but Mrs Benbaaa says it depends entirely how he said it.

This is a really fucking wank excuse that is used all the time by the sneaky sods to save face regarding their impolite social habit. The sad thing is that we usually fall for it.

As they say, you're not in Idaho anymore Dorothy.
Maybe they just aren't as enlightened as your average westerner or maybe they're just rude or maybe they're not aware they're being rude, either way, crying to mummy isn't going to change anything.

Kansas, Cujo, Kansas. And it was Dorothy who said "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, TOTO." I'm redding you for that.

Originally Posted by Smeg

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

Would you really accept someone in England calling your wife.."the Thai?"
why should it be any different here.

are our expectations that low?

Or "Where is the Asian?"
"where is the mongoloid"
"Where is the chink?"

erm, i think that does happen.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Kansas, Cujo, Kansas. And it was Dorothy who said "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, TOTO." I'm redding you for that.

Damn, she did too. That's a bit brutal.
(to be fair I've never read the book or watched the whole movie)
But you get what I mean.

Originally Posted by Smeg

Why do they need a label? In my opinion you are either a person or something else, i.e. a dog, a car, a farang, a tree. Hence it is dehumanizing. Thais, all of them (for some weird reason) seem to have the attitude that other Thais are people "kon nee", and foreigners need a different label to show that they are something else "farang nee".

Reaching. You come to my neighborhood and ask, "Where's Somchai live?"
"Somchai who?"
"Oh, yeah, where's that dude with one leg live?"
"Oh down the street..."
You read too much into the folks with a 3rd grade education using the only word they know for "white man"