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Trat is rad. You can go around there and eat seafood, there's a row of homes that European exiles have taken over but made the bottom floor into halfassed stores so it's like waking around in Eurohomes, there's a rinky dink Chinese temple, and best of all if you wanted to disappear from society forever you could easily do that in Trat and no one would care. Oh also you can buy that one Lady's yellow medicinal oil magic potion all around town.
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Morricone posted:Thank heaven for 7-11.  On a separate note, Southeast Asia is currently having loony tunes weather, so while the broad strokes of "it's rainy season" or "it's dry season" apply, the weather patterns of the last two years really have been bizarre to the point where even Thai people (who normally set their watches by the weather) are like YEAH OKAY I GIVE UP. Rainy season started like 3 months early this year, stopped just before it normally starts and then started again a month later. We've had torrential downpours, flooding, droughts and all kinds of crazy poo poo throughout the region.
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I will buy an umbrella and bring a raincoat. Rain is sure better than ice and snow, I really hate ice because I slip in it and look like a fool.
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http://news.yahoo.com/cambodians-ask-magic-log-lottery-numbers-153854573.html I love it when the Cambodians find some magical cow that births kittens or snake that used to be a little boy or something - this go round doesn't disappoint: quote:Cambodians ask 'magic log' for lottery numbers imnotinsane posted:I will buy an umbrella and bring a raincoat. Rain is sure better than ice and snow, I really hate ice because I slip in it and look like a fool. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jul 26, 2012 |
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Jul 26, 2012 20:14
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If you're of average height you'll find that most Thai ladies with their umbrellas open is at perfect eye-gouging level. Also, I was on the bus today and it was raining. At the last stop all the people waiting for the bus quickly formed a tight half circle around the door with no gap for passengers getting off the bus (It rains! Want to get on bus!). I was the first to get off and just dived into them, pushing them aside. Maybe insulted some of them but hey, people need to get off the bus. I want to slap all the people who stand right in front of opening Skytrain doors. And those who stop before getting on an escalator. /ThaiVisa Poster
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Haha, that is a TV response, but I actually do just walk right into Thai people who block doorways. You have to go along to get along here and all that, but for gently caress's sake, what am I supposed to do when Nan and Lek are too loving stupid to leave even the slightest gap for my comparatively gigantic American rear end to exit the bus or train? Just stand on the train? I've never seen a culture where such polite people so pervasively do not get the concept that you have to let stuff out of the contained area of the train car before you can put more stuff in. It's not exactl rocket science. Unless it's an old lady or old man I just walk through them like I didn't even see them. Also, schoolkids are the absolute worst here. What the gently caress is that about? Heh. They're not mean-rude, they're just completely oblivious to anyone around them.
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They're busy updating their Facebook status! I like to peek at what people do on their phones on buses/trains/whatever and it's been nothing but: Unlock phone entering long password Slowly scroll through apps Open Facebook app Slowly scroll through posts Lock phone, stare at bus window for 0.5 seconds, repeat step 1. /ThaiVisa Poster Level up! Level 2 (+2 Creepy Expat, +1 Angry Me Missus, 50% more likely to jump from Pattaya condo)
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The wacky weather is a real problem for me now because i'm staying at a friend's condo which happens to be located in a soi that magically becomes a stream even in a mediocre rainstorm. So I can become trapped at various times unless I want to sink my feet into possibly poo water to get somewhere. The special happy time bonus is that taxis don't like to go here too even though it's located by embassies. ^_^ Plus there's a few hi-so townhouse sois along the way and during school hours they clog that poo poo right up with their suvs and big mercedez.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:08
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Ringo R posted:They're busy updating their Facebook status!
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ReindeerF posted:pets dressed up humiliatingly. god bless thailand
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I quite enjoy seeing Thais move to New York and slowly begin to de-retard their online presence. First they get rid of the six or seven emoticons before and after their cutesy nickname, then they such to their real name, then they start posting pictures of places they went to that are pictures of the place instead of a picture of them pointing at said place, but the food pictures never stop and if there's a dog in a pumpkin outfit its going to get instagrammed.
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Haha, I'd never thought of that, but it's true. I watched a Thai chick I used to work with do that after moving overseas to Seattle. Within a year it almost looked like an adult's Facebook page.
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ReindeerF posted:Thai girls making puffy faces in close up shots What is the go with this? I have seen full facebook profiles with only puffy face close up pictures. Surely after a while one would realise they ain't getting any more mileage out of it?
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Jonnymonster posted:What is the go with this? I have seen full facebook profiles with only puffy face close up pictures. Surely after a while one would realise they ain't getting any more mileage out of it? My favorite exception is when some girl is having a breakup with her boyfriend or something and it goes all passive aggressive. EDIT: Thai women carry pillows like this around the office into their thirties - true story. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jul 27, 2012 |
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A few weeks ago there was a post from a fairly well educated Thai friend of mine on Facebook, who it seems has broken up with her European fly in boyfriend. Normally when she gets upset its all lyrics and song posts from random US R&B artists, but this time she went on a rant about some girl basically being mutton dressed up as lamb, and how she can put all the makeup in the world on but she is still a whore! I think this is the first time i've actually seen a Thai girl go off in a public domain. ReindeerF posted:EDIT: Thai women carry pillows like this around the office into their thirties - true story. A friend of mine has this as her Facebook profile pic.... I think hers might even be a fake, because this one looks of far better quality and hers looks more of what you would expect at a market. What it is meant to be?
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Jonnymonster posted:A few weeks ago there was a post from a fairly well educated Thai friend of mine on Facebook, who it seems has broken up with her European fly in boyfriend. Normally when she gets upset its all lyrics and song posts from random US R&B artists, but this time she went on a rant about some girl basically being mutton dressed up as lamb, and how she can put all the makeup in the world on but she is still a whore! I think this is the first time i've actually seen a Thai girl go off in a public domain.  I saw this once when half the office quit and one girl got really pissed, but even then it was all third person. "I guess SOMEONE doesn't...[etc]"Jonnymonster posted:A friend of mine has this as her Facebook profile pic.... I think hers might even be a fake, because this one looks of far better quality and hers looks more of what you would expect at a market. What it is meant to be?
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ReindeerF posted:Cambodia's pretty much the same from what I've seen. Just thousands and thousands of fish-face internet disease poses. FYI, same thing in Vietnam. Close-ups of face or doing the "peace sign", etc. All the time. ReindeerF posted:EDIT: Thai women carry pillows like this around the office into their thirties - true story. In my office, men carry those. The guy sitting next to me has a pink pig pillow he hugs while working.
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Senso posted:In my office, men carry those. The guy sitting next to me has a pink pig pillow he hugs while working. I'm guessing if Laos had offices it'd be like this, but everyone there is asleep under their stilt-house.
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Senso posted:In my office, men carry those. The guy sitting next to me has a pink pig pillow he hugs while working. You can't say that without taking a photograph... and sharing it with us.
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Finch! posted:You can't say that without taking a photograph... and sharing it with us. Seconding this! Pics or it didn't happen 
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Doreamon is robot. He help the people. He friend with the boy. He is on cartoon show name Doreamon. I wish he real. Doreamon Japan people robot. ^^ My best recollection of an essay I got in response to an assignment I gave to college age students when I taught in Thailand. My further Doreamon research via NYC Thais tells me that: 1) He has an infinite front pocket from which any useful item can be instantly extracted, 2) if you get into his desk there is a time machine cum teleporter in there, 3) he is a cat robot who is scared of rats because a rat chewed off his ears, 4) he had a beanie with a propellor that he freely distributes allowing for manned flight, 5) he is especially popular in Thailand because his cartoon has been on there forever, 6) most Thai people can basically sing the theme song even though it's in Japanese. Oh and he has a yellow girlfriend called Doremi. Many plot lines involve Doreamon helping the lead human character with his bully problems or his love interest. raton fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jul 27, 2012 |
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Leave it to the Japanese to build a robot cartoon monster that teleports cum.
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I bet if you wanted to scar Thai minds forever just find some Doraemon porn somewhere and post it up.
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I've made it to Bangkok, and today (my fifth day) I climbed Wat Arun and saw some monks with iPhones. Is this a thing? I thought monks had to give up all possessions. Also nobody will help me practice my lovely Thai because they all speak a little English anyway. 
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Pinball posted:I've made it to Bangkok, and today (my fifth day) I climbed Wat Arun and saw some monks with iPhones. Is this a thing? I thought monks had to give up all possessions.
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So for Vietnam, should I bring boots or should I wear dress shoes? I'll be in Saigon for 5 days. On the one hand I probably won't leave the city, but on the other it's the rainy season and I hear the roads suck.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:So for Vietnam, should I bring boots or should I wear dress shoes? I'll be in Saigon for 5 days. Is this a joke?
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Get those waiter shoes I tell people to get in the Travel Gear thread. No boots. No actual dress shoes.
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Yeah, I had just woken up. Meant gym shoes.
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I got the skinny on the fish face photos. It's called "ab baew" in Thai, which is a mashup of "ab" from abnormal (the English word) and "baew" which is something like appearing to be cute. Anyway, if you search ab baew in Thai you get like 1.5 trillion results all of whom are Thai chicks, but for some reason the first result is a hairy farang dude. There is also an ab baew association on Facebook and ab baew forums and guides on how to make ab baew faces. No poo poo. Also, I saw one of my Thai pet peeves in action today and it reminded me to post about it. I'm not a big animal lover, but I don't like to see otherwise non-threatening or non-annoying animals having problems. On that note, average Thai people (speaking generally) love to give snacks to dogs that follow them around. If you notice, anytime you're carrying a plastic bag a dog will start following you and trying to sniff it. Most of these snacks come on a stick - sausage balls, grilled pork, whatever. I give dogs here this kind of stuff, but like anyone with half a second's thought between impulse and action I remove the meat from the stick. Not our Thai friends, heh. I have watched countless dogs sitting there trying to chew through a stick and often ending up swallowing it, part or whole, to get the meat. Mind-boggling. I'm surprised that average Thai people don't just leave cans of pet food outside and expect the dog to chew through it to eat it.
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At least they don't go out of their way to harm them like in Georgia. Kicking dogs is practically a sport in the caucuses.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:At least they don't go out of their way to harm them like in Georgia. Kicking dogs is practically a sport in the caucuses. The solution is just to let the immigrants openly hunt them instead of prosecuting them for it, heh. I love it when some story hits the news about a Burmese laborer or a Laos dog rustler stealing someone's dog and eating it. Every Thai dog owner goes ape poo poo.
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ReindeerF posted:Every Thai dog owner goes ape poo poo. There are Thai dog owners? I haven't seen a single one so far, just a lot of street dogs that make me sad to look at. I figured Thailand just didn't have a pet-owning culture.
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Pinball posted:There are Thai dog owners? I haven't seen a single one so far, just a lot of street dogs that make me sad to look at. I figured Thailand just didn't have a pet-owning culture. Thai people love their dogs but the idea of ownership is a bit different. They generally own their dogs like a farmer here owns his barn cat. ReindeerF posted:The Korean thread reports a lot of dog abuse there. Here, we have the opposite problem. The majority of the dogs in this country, at least as far as I can tell from extensive travel and running around random neighborhoods and rural areas, should be exterminated and the rest neutered and spayed. Of course, this is Thailand, so that won't happen. They are a legitimate public nuisance and problem here, though, beyond anything I've ever seen anywhere else in my life. There's a short list of daily life annoyances that go beyond the piddly stuff we bitch about when we're just commiserating. Like the BTS behavior and sidewalk stuff is annoying, but not a real problem. The dogs are a real problem, like the lack of clean water distribution is a real problem (causing enormous waste to ship containerized water around) and like the plastic bags that litter the country are a real problem and the 13 year-olds driving motorbikes are a real problem and so on. Thai chicken shacks usually keep the leftover chicken carcass at hand after all the edible bits have been removed, then bread it (sometimes) and deep fry it. As far as I know this doesn't have a name in Thai or it's called something stupid that I refuse to accept as a name (like "chicken body" or whatever). They make popular treats for the family dog, although people eat them too. Upon voicing my concerns about feeding a dog a bag of what amounts to fried and coarsely chopped chicken bones (Dad was perpetually worried that our golden retriever would "choke on a bone") I was told by a Thai person that it was quite okay, that Thai dogs are tough and can eat anything, and that they like it a lot so therefore it's fine. This person also had a dog that would shimmy up the space between the fence and a tree exactly like that one video on the internet so it could get out and contact mange and probably screw a lot of Thai bitches. Dog video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXkTUyDxE04 Geng makkkkkkk Also dog theft is a problem in Thailand. If your dog is cute people will steal it and either keep it or take it to JJ and sell it. Also nobody will be mad at them. The dog is cute, how could they be expected to resist the urge to steal something that is cute? raton fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jul 29, 2012 |
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ReindeerF posted:I love it when some story hits the news about a Burmese laborer or a Laos dog rustler stealing someone's dog and eating it. Every Thai dog owner goes ape poo poo. A Russian woman in Siam Reap told me a story about a Cambodian who used poison to kill a neighborhood dog, so it could be fed to the family. Apparently dog liver is some kind of delicacy? They knew no better and decided to eat the liver which contained the toxins from the poison and it wiped out the group of them. Not sure if this was some kind of Urban myth though.
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Pinball posted:There are Thai dog owners? I haven't seen a single one so far, just a lot of street dogs that make me sad to look at. I figured Thailand just didn't have a pet-owning culture. Fortunately, dogs here (99% of the time) aren't very big and are easy to back down if you get aggressive. I've had to jog through packs of 10-20 before and just run at them like herding cows to keep them at bay. Most of the time, just pointing at them keeps them from coming too close. Watch out, though, they're cowardly backbiters who love to sit still 'til you pass and then sneak up on your ankle. Sheep-Goats posted:I was told by a Thai person that it was quite okay, that Thai dogs are tough and can eat anything, and that they like it a lot so therefore it's fine.
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Great success. Earlier today I picked up my passport with a big fat "NON-IMMIGRANT VISA CLASSIFICATION 'ED'" stamp.  Any Bangkok goons keen for a beer this time next week? Edit: Also, eviljelly, what's the best company for 3G on Koh Tao these days? I'm going to put my Australian SIM in my Thai phone and put a Thai SIM in my iPhone... Finch! fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Hey, Sheep-Goats! I'm living in Lub d Silom for the next two weeks, and today I went to Tukta's food stall across from Wat Kaek. Holy balls that stuff was good. Thanks for the tip!
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Finch! posted:Great success. Earlier today I picked up my passport with a big fat "NON-IMMIGRANT VISA CLASSIFICATION 'ED'" stamp.
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Pinball posted:Hey, Sheep-Goats! I'm living in Lub d Silom for the next two weeks, and today I went to Tukta's food stall across from Wat Kaek. Holy balls that stuff was good. Thanks for the tip! Did you get that cabbage thing? I love that cabbage thing.
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