Dear Edith ...

Love your posts and I believe you have a great understanding or knowledge of Thai. Can you or your significant other explain the word(s) which sound like 'Pum-Pooey'. I think it means fat belly, tub of lard, fat bastard or some-such. As I have been referred to this on several occassions I would like to know the true translation. :geek:

Anyone else who knows this please feel free to reply.

kind regards
Fat bastard

"chubby"

[elephantspike]

"pleasingly plump"

[Smiles]

Off topic . . . but if you are "chubby" or "pleasantly plump" you might try cruising some young Japanese guys ( if you can find them outside Japan :blackeye: ). For some reason a goodly number of Japanese gay guys seem to love fatties (not Sumo wrestler-types necessarily, but "rolly-polly").

I had a very hot intense affair with a 23 yr old Japanese guy ('Shinji') in Vancouver back in the late nineties. It was really all-about-sex frankly, but it was quite the experience for the short year it lasted. He was a cracker (Let Me Tell You), and it was glorious while it lasted.

One night lying in the sack ('after' ... again!!! This guy wore me out, let me tell you!) we were talking about this and that and he said - in the very blunt manner he had - that really, I was not his "type" (Japanese being into "types" for their sex flings). Bemused ... I asked what his "type" was and he answered something along the lines of " ... I like very chubby, and some hairy ... ". Now, I am neither, so I was wondering why he was with me, but by then we had gone slightly beyond "looks" or "type" so I guess the answer lay there.

But it all ended sooner or later (drifted away as they say), and he ended up with ~ I found out later ~ a slightly older man, chubby and a bit hairy. He got what he wanted.

Cheers ...

Lord, I am pleasingly plump or chubbby. I know Thai people like to have a little fun so I thought that Pum-Pooey might mean something with a little more bite to it, however, where else in the world will you get strangers calling you chubbby and smiling and joking with you. Oh, I can get called chubbby or lard arse back in the east end of London, but that would also normally occasion me ducking out of the way of a flying brick.

[cottmann]

Off topic . . . but if you are "chubby" or "pleasantly plump" you might try cruising some young Japanese guys ( if you can find them outside Japan :blackeye: ). For some reason a goodly number of Japanese gay guys seem to love fatties (not Sumo wrestler-types necessarily, but "rolly-polly").

The Japanese term is "debusen." There are actually bars catering to debusen, such as Momo Ru ("Perfectly Round") in Osaka. The type sometimes includes bears.

Yes, but please note that the Japanese "debusen" ideal does NOT include guys with bird legs, twig-like arms, and giant beer bellies.

[cottmann]

Yes, but please note that the Japanese "debusen" ideal does NOT include guys with bird legs, twig-like arms, and giant beer bellies.

True - the debusen ideal is more like the average overweight westerner - I suspect Boygeorge might be a big hit here! Not only are there bars here catering for debusen but also specialised magazines. Other Japanese guys are into gaisen (or foreigners), or garisen (thin guys), or fukesen (old guys) and so on. Because bars here are small, they tend to cater to one sort of group - or sen - only. It is one of the weirder things about living here.

Yes, but please note that the Japanese "debusen" ideal does NOT include guys with bird legs, twig-like arms, and giant beer bellies.

Especially if they are wearing long-sleeved shirts, and shorts, and short socks, and shoes

Double that if the shoes are white. So I guess all the hope the denizens of this board had of attracting the chubby chasers of Japan have now been completely dashed.