Thread: Differences between Thais and Farangs

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

The only beggars I have seen here in months have all been on Sukhumvit,

Aren't they Cambodians?

5555 nice one

Nearly every thai who I've been with when we've seen elderly beggars have come out with this line. Thing is, I talk to elderly beggars when i give them food and drinks (never money) and they are all fluent accented thais. Strange, that.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

The only beggars I have seen here in months have all been on Sukhumvit,

Aren't they Cambodians?

I never stop to ask. I did give one a corn cob once and she gave me a disapproving look then put it on the ground behind her. She clearly wasn't at all hungry.

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

I remember an old boy I saw every day in Essex collecting dog-ends in the centre of a dual carriageway so that he could make his own roll-ups. He was 72 I think when he got run over.

Just what the fuk are you talking about??

^
It's funny how Amercans can't understand English sometimes.

OK just for you.

This old hobo who slept in bus shelters and pushed a shopping cart about which contained all of his life's valuables used to pick up used cigarettes from the roadside to make up his own smokes. Then one day a car ran him over. Dude.

Originally Posted by Smeg

I have a very nice life here... I can vent about shit I don't like here

Which, on the evidence of your posts, is everything.

Would you like some cheese with your whine?

Originally Posted by blackgang

Just what the fuk are you talking about??

old boy = elderly gentleman
dog-ends = cigarette butts
dual carriageway = freeway

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

There are two Thailands, the Thai side and the Farang side. What we get to know about this place is probably around 25% of what really goes on at best, although there are fools who think otherwise and are continually surprised when things don't fit their perception.

Oh dear, you are one of those types, farangs who spend their time here in awe looking up at thai society like some geeky kid trying to hack into the FBI or Area 51 database or like david attenborough looking down on an ant's nest, trying to learn as much as possible but feeling that you "only get to know about 25% of what really goes on" as if thais are some other species of endless amazement.

You sado!

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by Smeg

I have a very nice life here... I can vent about shit I don't like here

Which, on the evidence of your posts, is everything.

Would you like some cheese with your whine?

You have given out too much reputation in the last 24 hours, please try again later - will be back to you later with a green Ant

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

Did I put Dude in the right place? I'm never sure but I feel it is a tad like "khrap".

Actually the khrap comes out of your dude

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

The only beggars I have seen here in months have all been on Sukhumvit, and one at Mo Chit BTS. In a population of sixty million they are a tiny speck, but I can understand how tourists get a different impression.

There's elderly beggars all over the place. Outside my Moo Baan on the overpass crossing Ram Inthra there's an old guy in his 60's who sits with a plastic cup. I always give him 20THB when I pass which is infrequently.
No tourists here to speak of.
Plenty beggars though.
At the market 100 yards along the road there are many. Not to mention the destitutes that I see frequently sleeping in shopfronts, raking bins and being attacked by packs of stray dogs along the way.

deleted, can't be arsed

Lets be real. Most of these begggars have 2 arms and two legs. Not all, but most.

My wife won't give an able bodied beggar 25 satang. She says it is about laziness, nothing more and nothing less.

Originally Posted by Smeg

The sad thing it that they are the ones you seem to keep meeting. No wonder you are so downright unhappy. You poor miserable sod. You need to get away from Sukhumvit.
Speak for yourself. I've never heard of decent thais giving farangs a wide berth. I work for a top multinational company and spend most of my socialtime with my colleagues. And you?

What multinational TEFLer out source company is it that you work for?

Originally Posted by Smeg

I've never heard of decent thais giving farangs a wide berth.

That's because they're giving you a wide berth.

See, it is true!

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

This old hobo who slept in bus shelters and pushed a shopping cart about which contained all of his life's valuables used to pick up used cigarettes from the roadside to make up his own smokes. Then one day a car ran him over. Dude.

Well shit, if you would speak english it would be no problen to translate it.

""Like there is this ol bag dude thats always shooting snipes on the freeway and a car smeared his ass"".

See how simple that was??

Originally Posted by chitown

^ Smeg hates Thailand. He hates Thais, Thailand and everything associated with the place. He never has anything nice to say about the place.

He just lives here because it is the only place in the world where they let him Tefl.......

Smeg hate everybody except himself, selfcentered a$$hole that this country should get rid of.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

The only beggars I have seen here in months have all been on Sukhumvit,

Aren't they Cambodians?

With some Dutch and Canadians thrown in.

Noodles.

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I was passing through Asoke/Sukhumvit BTS/MRT recently when I noticed a Farang sitting beside the entrance begging for work. Large cardboard sign with something like "Work Needed" at the top and then about 100 words underneath which nobody is ever going to read.

^ I think I have seen that same person. I stopped to read his sign twice.
It goes on the theme that his Thai wife (ex-BG no doubt) has cleaned him out and taken the kids, house, money etc.. and all he needs now is a job or money (6K Baht) to get home. He says he is a Vietnam vet and also used to work in the merchant navy but the downturn in the economy has finished all the jobs off.

He even has photos of his Thai wife and kids on the sign.

Sad old fuck if you ask me but I did give him 20Baht.