Pathetically bad skits like one kids would put together at camp.......ummmmmmmmmm, well to each his own!Quote:
Originally Posted by Oogleman
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Pathetically bad skits like one kids would put together at camp.......ummmmmmmmmm, well to each his own!Quote:
Originally Posted by Oogleman
I think it's very probably me - but I don't ask, because I'd rather suspect that than know it!! :colors: :colors:Quote:
Perfectly fine since I speak limited english myself as an American....but, ceejay, what do they find funny in your opinion?
What common Thais really like (IMHO) are those stupid (IMHO) shows where sarcasm and stupidity is the main part of the script; disabled Thais, fat Thais, ugly
Thais, katoeys are the ingredients and apart from the speeches (I don't understand those) it's mainly the way the 'players' in the shows: kicking, slapping, basically everything that's not very polite (IMHO).
I think that one of the video's in a previous post shows this kind of stupidity.
I went to the movie theater with a Thai guy last time I was there
to see a comedy in Thai with English subtitles. Can't remember
the movie's title but it was typical cheesy, corny comedy.
Everyone in the theater was rolling laughing including my boy...
Cast of characters included typical fat guy, katoey, etc. Sterotypical
stuff but the locals seem to love it. My guy was rolling!!!
Sexual inuendo...
When I chat online with some of my friends I get tons of it...
Thai Boy: "hello tee rak! eat yet?"
Me: "Hi sweetie. No not yet. How about you."
Thai Boy: "Not hungry. But maybe I want eat you! oops! hehe
Can't tell you how many times I've had a Thai guy in the hotel
room in the afternoon or morning and they turn on the TV to watch
cartoons. They laugh out loud at the simplest humor. Pretty cute
actually. I'm usually laughing just as hard because they're so
adorable!
One time at a kareoke bar with a group of boys from a go-go bar
they were singing the typical Thai love songs along with the videos...
you know the kind with the syrupy ballad of some heartbreaking
story with the lead guy getting killed or the girl committing suicide.
I was pretending to cry and wiping away artificial tears and acting
all sad mocking the story, and I had the boys literally in tears
laughing so hard at the funny farang crying at the Thai love songs.
Thais are light hearted and fun 90% of the time. The other 10%
is intense DRAMA which more than makes up for the other 90%,
but in general, I think Thais enjoy the simple things in life and
enjoy when their foreigner friends don't take things too seriously.
Thais have their own form of humour with the spoken language - not quite a pun, but ...
For example one of the mem'sahibs is always trying to get me to say the Thai word for "banana" because it's so close, tonally, to the word for ... yes, you got it, cock. When I get it wrong (as I always do), it provokes gales of laughter. And then there are other, less friendly, such "games". The word for "Korean" is, apparently, pretty close to the term for "itchy cunt" - not that Thais are racists, mind you; oh dear me no, only white (men) are racists!
However, most humour is slapstick, as others have rightly said, including the Thai village vampire movies - all about intestine-loving women (Thais are not sexist, either!). But drag queens/camp actors do get the loudest laughs, just as they do in the UK with Julian Clary or the late Dick Emery. That doesn't make them acceptable in mainstream society - "they have their own little niche and it's best they stay there" is the general view
Naughty boy!Quote:
Originally Posted by homintern
I always do my best. As you may know, when peple ask me if I'm homosexual I reply "I help out when they're busy"Quote:
Originally Posted by topjohn5
Funny Thai commercial
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orar4QLzgjU[/youtube]
Homi, you've changed your quote. However, I must admit it is entirely appropiate for the current world financial conditions. I like Seneca but, if we are going to quote Stoics, I think Marcus's thoughts are much more germain.
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
OR
"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."
MANY ON THIS BOARD (NOT ME) THINK THIS QUOTE WOULD BEST DESCRIBE THE DANGER YOU PERSONALLY FACE
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Emperor Marcus Aurelius
CHOC DEE
Yes - they'd tried to give me one coated in chocolate - or at least I think that's what its coating was. I'm tone deaf; perhaps the similarity isn't as great for those who can "do" Thai tonesQuote:
Originally Posted by fattman
More in keeping with the times, don't you know :idea:Quote:
Originally Posted by Khor tose