Re: What I have learned in 20+ years of visiting Thailand...
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Originally Posted by Rainwalker99
- Nurture Farangs because they are your greatest resource in Thailand. Remember that favours require reciprocation.
Friendship with Farangs is mostly situational.
Hmmm. I'm sure it's sound advice ... if only I could understand what it means. Use other people as you want to be used?
Re: Well, let's pick out the overriding issue
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Originally Posted by jaafarabutarab
I should add that I wake up in the morning speaking Thai and go to bed at night speaking Thai, which is a situation I regard as normal because I am living in Thailand.
What a bizarre notion. Do you also dream in Thai? Accept Thai precepts about the nature of the world? Consider the king to be truly a demi-god?
Re: What I have learned in 20+ years of visiting Thailand...
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Originally Posted by Rainwalker99
" ... Nurture Farangs because they are your greatest resource in Thailand. Remember that favours require reciprocation.... "
My greatest resource ~ by a country mile ~ in Thailand is my Beloved ... bar none. So I nuture that above all.
I doubt my farang friends in Thailand would begrudge me that ... as they know who they are, and who we are.
I wouldn't be quite so dramatic & negative as jaafarabutarab's post regarding "farang social circles" . . . as I'm sure Rainwalker did not mean that kind of cliched, gossipy ~ often sozzled ~ aquaintance.
Cheers ...
Re: Well, let's pick out the overriding issue
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Originally Posted by jaafarabutarab
Of course, I should add that I wake up in the morning speaking Thai and go to bed at night speaking Thai, which is a situation I regard as normal because I am living in Thailand.
OK, if that's fine with me but what are you doing here on an English speaking farang message board? There are Thai boards.
www.postjung.com/
Rainwalker's Question about learning
I have been visiting Pattaya since the early 90s. I don't put all the eggs in one basket and do other vacations
(read holidays if you are from Europe or Aussie land) when I can. Love to cruise the Caribbean at least once a year and do enjoy a brief trip to Puerto Vallarta every year or so. The Thing I learned about Thailand and Pattaya in particular, is it is more fun to be in Pattaya than any other place I travel. I have a few Thai boxer friends, and a couple of special friends who seem to wait for my return ( read Thai guys who don't mind older farang). I seem to have learned this after the first visit. I spent most of the time in Bangkok and loved every moment, but that first stay at Ambiance and meeting Gordon and Jim, Wow, what an introduction to the city. That time I even had a long haired cycle guy who loved taking me to the beach. Moan and grouch all you want guys, but there really is not place like Pattaya, at least that I have found. No doubt I will drop into Amor Restaurant two weeks from now and start up a conversation with Richard and it will be like we are continuing a chat we started only yesterday.
Re: Well, let's pick out the overriding issue
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Originally Posted by jaafarabutarab
My greatest resources in Thailand are my Thai friends. They understand the Thai laws, the Thai system, and all the rest of it. Of course, I should add that I wake up in the morning speaking Thai and go to bed at night speaking Thai, which is a situation I regard as normal because I am living in Thailand.
See, I think this is the healthy way to approach living in the Kingdom. What's the sense in leaving the miserable country you came from to live in Thailand, only to bring the misery with you? If you're in Thailand, at least *try* to learn some Thai, eat normal Thai food, and have real friends. Why all the fear about learning a new culture? I have often noticed that the retiree/expat crowd who whine and bitch about everything (usually Brits), know little or nothing about the culture or language. Then as they get older, they end up alone and pathetic (like the above poster with the consistently-negative comments (no, not Brad)). If you become integrated into the culture, you'll be able to develop a real support structure, instead of having to find it in farang bars or resorting to molesting little boys just to get some human contact.
Dboy
oh well..like attracts like
"Lots of scumbags wash up in places like Pattaya, and over the years I have befriended many of them"
water always find it's own level..etc etc :cheers: :cheers:
smiles, actually I sometimes agree with you too.
I appreciate it when posters I rarely agree with, point out the times when we are in agreement.
Thanks smiles and actually I sometimes agree with you too... you do have a warm fuzzy side.
Would you mind telling Brad the Imp that you find five finger relief, like all normal gay farangs do when
home alone, without an outlet. Brad the Imp seems to think I have nothing to do but search thru the
archives to prove my inane points to him. The Internet Court of Truth and Justice has only the owners
and or moderators to be the judges. I confess to self abuse and wacking when I was back in the
home country andwas an avid fan of erotic videos. No lightning strikes from heaven, so I guess it must be ok..
Is there anyone out there in cyberland and not in Thailand who isn't sexually frustrated and has to take
matters in their own hands for sexual relief? Maybe a lucky few are still sexually active past 40 or 50,
but the vast majority of us come to Pattaya/Jomtien and the rest of Thailand for what we cannot find in
our home countries....