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Learning the local language and an "intellectual debate"
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Originally Posted by
scottish-guy
In Arsenal's case the "ignore" function is complete bliss and I recommend
I have a real life one for Bangkok called “don’t learn Thai”. Given the banal conversations I can hear in English around me together with the posts of the third-rate minds of some that lurk here (on my Ignore list) I’m confident I miss nothing of importance
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
frequent
I have a real life one for Bangkok called “don’t learn Thai”. Given the banal conversations I can hear in English around me together with the posts of the third-rate minds of some that lurk here (on my Ignore list) I’m confident I miss nothing of importance
Or maybe you don't know everything under the sun like you seem to think you do. Who knows, maybe if you opened your eyes a little more you may learn a thing or two.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
Or maybe you don't know everything under the sun like you seem to think you do. Who knows, maybe if you opened your eyes a little more you may learn a thing or two.
Remind me - aren’t you the person who consistently “knows better” for every piece of advice anyone has ever offered you on this Forum?
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
frequent
Remind me - aren’t you the person who consistently “knows better” for every piece of advice anyone has ever offered you on this Forum?
Well, at least I listen. It's not my fault many of you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, lol. :)
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
Well, at least I listen. It's not my fault many of you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, lol. :)
Wrong - you hear, you don’t listen
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
Well, then at least I hear. You just try talking over everyone.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
Well, then at least I hear. You just try talking over everyone.
But not in Thai
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
Yes, sometimes I will talk in Thai, because unlike you, I didn't isolate myself in a farang ghetto that consists of a 3 block radius.
That's only what really intelligent folk like yourself do, I guess.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
Seems like all you gentlemen are talking shit!:devilsh: Isn't that the topic of this post, sort of ?
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
Yes, sometimes I will talk in Thai, because unlike you, I didn't isolate myself in a farang ghetto that consists of a 3 block radius. That's only what really intelligent folk like yourself do, I guess.
Actually you inhabit an Anglophone ghetto, you just fail to recognise it as such - it's called the Internet
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
frequent
Actually you inhabit an Anglophone ghetto, you just fail to recognise it as such - it's called the Internet
You're not very good at come backs, sir.
I'm pretty sure I'm better at this than you. Or did you maybe want to try again?
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
Or did you maybe want to try again?
No, I'm pretty much filled my quota of dealing with third-rate minds for today
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
frequent
No, I'm pretty much filled my quota of dealing with third-rate minds for today
Excuse me, but you're the one who started a thread about Squatty Potty, and now you're just too god damn intellectual to talk to us mere plebs? Is that right?
Well, let's get into something more interesting than your original topic starter of how we position ourselves when we take a shit.
What's your take on string theory or the various theories out there regarding paralell universies? Or if you want something more recent, the war in Yemen and the cholera outbreak there seem to be making the rounds in the news, eh? Or how about the 85 investigations Democrats plan to open Jan 20th once they take control of the house again? That should make for quite a shit show, don't you think?
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I don’t think of you as a pleb Matt. Look at your life.
You followed your first “husband” to some European hell-hole where you settled down with him, followed the immigration laws, paid taxes and of course learned the local language
Then you arrived in Thailand where you settled down, followed the immigration laws, paid taxes, met “husband” number two (without divorcing #1) and of course learned the local language
Having been so so unjustly thrown out of Thailand you’re going to Laos to settle down with “husband” #3, where you will follow the immigration laws, pay taxes and of course learn the local language
So what’s that? Four languages so far? And all those taxes you contribute. So admirable
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
Now you're just not making any sense. Lay off the drugs, freaqy.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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cdnmatt
Now you're just not making any sense. Lay off the drugs, freaqy.
Which section is untrue? You’re surely not going to shatter my illusions? You haven’t learned the local language everywhere you have lived? You don’t pay taxes?
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
What are you talking about? I learned all the Hungarian I needed.... "nem baesalik madjrahoul" = "I don't speak Hungarian". Good enough.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
Ok, then since you are oh so more intelligent than the rest of us, can you please transcribe the Thai version of "I don't speak Thai"?
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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cdnmatt
@NIrish and @arsenal -- Would you two love birds get a room already? :)
@CDNMatt and @Freekyl -- Would you two love birds get a room already? ( touché Matt :) )
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
It's heartening to see that the imaginary sex couplings of Nirish & Arsenal and Matt & Frequent continue the great Thailand sex tourism tradition of one partner being on average 30 years older than the other.
:p
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30 years? I don't know if that's much of a tradition, as that would mean I need to have sex with a 7 year old, and gotta admit, that type of thing doesn't really fancy me.
On the other hand, a cute 22 year old gay guy can sit on my face any time.
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Well I did say "on average" and I wouldn't necessarily put you in the "sex tourist" bracket, buy hey - if the cap fits....
Actually, I was alluding to both you and NIrish being "on average" 30yrs younger than your suggested partners.
Maybe I'm too subtle.
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Yes, I'm aware of that. I was just being a smart ass.
Where the hell did freaqy go? Come on freqy, freqy, let's have an intellectural debate if you want one. Pick a topic.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
...I was just being a smart ass.
You'll be glad to know you succeeded !
:D
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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cdnmatt
Come on freqy, freqy, let's have an intellectural debate if you want one.
Hang on, wait ! I want to go and get some popcorn made for the big match off - but don't worry I won't be long as I'm guessing a small bowl of the stuff will be all that's required ! :-)
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
scottish-guy
It's heartening to see that the imaginary sex couplings of Nirish & Arsenal and Matt & Frequent continue the great Thailand sex tourism tradition of one partner being on average 30 years older than the other.
:p
Ha, I wish. You can add 50 % to that figure...
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
Ok, then since you are oh so more intelligent than the rest of us, can you please transcribe the Thai version of "I don't speak Thai"?
How is learning Lao going? Have you started that already, or you'll wait until you're settled in Vientiane?
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Nice deflection. Seriously, you don't know how to say "I don't speak Thai" in Thai, but yet you live there? What happened to this great intellect of yours?
And I don't need to learn how to speak Laos. They all know Thai. From the time they're babies, they watch Thai cartoons and TV, read Thai books, play Thai video games, etc. I'll learn a few more Laos phrases than I already know, not because I want to speak Laos, but just so everyone knows I'm not just some tourist, nor am I an idiot who has isolted himself in a farang ghetto, hence I'm much less likely to be taken advantage of.
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BTW... if you want to know, it's "puut pasa Thai mai dai kap" to say "I don't speak Thai".
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
And I don't need to learn how to speak Laos. They all know Thai. From the time they're babies, they watch Thai cartoons and TV, read Thai books, play Thai video games, etc. I'll learn a few more Laos phrases than I already know, not because I want to speak Laos, but just so everyone knows I'm not just some tourist, nor am I an idiot who has isolted himself in a farang ghetto, hence I'm much less likely to be taken advantage of.
What utter hypocrisy. You’re going to expect the people among whom you live to use a foreign language when they converse with you, but you believe that I am wrong because I do precisely the same thing
By the way in Laos they are Lao people and speak Lao. They do not speak “Laos”
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
They all speak Thai just as well as they speak Lao. Communication with locals will be just fine.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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cdnmatt
They all speak Thai just as well as they speak Lao. Communication with locals will be just fine.
As I say, utter hypocrisy. Exactly the same argument can increasingly be used about urban Thais yet you keep insisting that ex-pats should use Thai so as to "fit in"
In my local coffee shop, once I've placed my food order, they give me a number on a stand. The number they give me is always "1", to signify my rightful place in the natural order. It is a lesson you would do well to learn
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Ok, then keep your communication limited to coffee shop barristas, store clerks, waitresses, and money boys. If that makes you happy, go for it.
Or you could just learn the language, and talk with ordinary folk who are just living their day-to-day lives, and enrich yourself. Up to you.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
Ok, then keep your communication limited to coffee shop barristas, store clerks, waitresses, and money boys. If that makes you happy, go for it.
Or you could just learn the language, and talk with ordinary folk who are just living their day-to-day lives, and enrich yourself. Up to you.
"Ordinary folk" have no interest for me. Let's face it, there's no-one more ordinary than you, and you can't even work out that through a series of posts I'm leading you to admit your own hypocrisy. As for striking up a conversation with a money boy, I usually pre-empt such a thing by sticking my cock in his mouth. He's already struck up a dialogue about price with me in English before we get that far
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No, I'm pretty sure I have the upper hand on this one.
What a sad life you must lead, if you do indeed live in Bangkok. Can't even leave the confines of your little farang ghetto, because if you did, you'd be totally lost. Whereas at least with me, you could drop me off in any small Thai village, and I'd be able to find my way around no problem, and I'm blind.
I thought being blind was quite isolating, but the life you made for yourself must be really isolating.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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cdnmatt
I thought being blind was quite isolating, but the life you made for yourself must be really isolating.
You'll never know until you try it. I note you've never lived in Bangkok nor, with the exception of the Immigration prison, have even been there recently so your knowledge of what life "must" be like is non-existent. And before you suggest I've never been outside Bangkok I suggest you re-read my Isaan post from May last year - https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?18598
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You made a tourist trip to Issan. Good for you, buddy! Keep up the good work.
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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cdnmatt
You made a tourist trip to Issan. Good for you, buddy! Keep up the good work.
With some Thais. English was spoken between us for the entire trip
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Re: Every home should have one - the Squatty Potty
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Originally Posted by
cdnmatt
... let's have an intellectural debate if you want one. Pick a topic.
Certainly - an “intellectural” debate is always interesting. Here’s a topic for you - “Those who live and carry out work in a particular location have a moral imperative to pay income tax there”. Perhaps you could illustrate with examples of your own income tax paying experiences across 3 continents
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Technically, I don't owe any taxes at the moment. I guess the Canadian government can come after me for the 2018 tax year, but that's about it. Revenue Canada can only come after you for taxes for the last 10 years, and since 2005 I've only lived in Canada for one year -- 2008 in Vancouver. So I'm scott free when it comes to the Canadian government.
In Europe I was on tourist VISAs the entire time, and tourists aren't legally obligated to pay taxes. Then in Thailand I was an illegal immigrant, and they black listed me for 5 years, so pretty sure they're not expecting any tax money out of me either.
I might have to pay Revenue Canada for 2018, because I've been in Canada majority of the year hence am considered a resident now, but that's about it.
What's your stance on paralell universes? There's quite a few theories floating around, but I'm going for the multiverse theory personally. Our universe is just one of many, and each universe is just floating around out there in its own circular bubble.
How long do you think it will be before quantum computing is available to the mainstream public? That's really going to fuck up things like online security, eh? All the encryption algorithims we currently rely on will be useless. AES, RSA, DSA, ECDH, SHA, PGP, all out the window.