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sattahip-old
May 6th, 2006, 07:59
I just had to share this colourful name for the professional attenders that you see here in Pattaya at anything free. Talk about "round up the usual suspects", a bar anniversary, a proprietor's birthday, whatever, there they are plate overloaded, eking out a free drink if they can't cadge a second, comparing notes on the next bludging opportunity.
If you live here you know them all. They are not hard to avoid though, just go someplace where you have to pay.
May 6th, 2006, 08:13
I mean, I understand the term and your definition of it. I just don't understand why attending free events is a bad thing. I don't live in Thailand, but when I get there, I may attend them. If someone offers me something for free, why shouldn't I take it?
May 6th, 2006, 16:09
...comparing notes on the next bludging opportunity.

What is, bludging?
May 6th, 2006, 16:14
Definition from a dictionary of Ozzie slang (http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/ozwords/December%202001/Bludger.html)

People who wear white shoes, of course, are rarely bludgers, unlike those who winge about them interminably.