Wild Boars on Ellen Show

[arsenal]

Brad wrote.
"...Roger Crutchley... think he had a regular and entertaining column in the Bangkok Post in the 70's"

You think! Which bit are you struggling to remember?

[kittyboy]

Interesting (ie highly sarcastic) Letter to the Editor in the Post today about the relative merits of paper plane design V's cave squatting for the remaining stateless persons in Thailand



Postbag, Bangkok Post 18 October, 2018

bkkguy

My take on this is the boys are being used by the military government and whoever else can get a piece of the action. The government ships them off to TV appearances and a world tour to show off the feel good story of how the boys survived - and the government gets a bit of a positive spillover by being associated with the soccer team boys and the warm feelings being generated towards them.
I read that the team is negotiating (with the help of the government) a movie deal and they are currently on a tour of the US and other parts overseas. The Ellen show gets a ratings bump and everyone gets something.

They are essentially a commodity to be used and then discarded. If they can get something out of this process of their 15 minutes of fame then good for them.

[Jellybean]

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[kittyboy]

As a continuation of the feel good story about the Wild Boars soccer team - "the boys were seen training with the LA Galaxy team and even played football with the team members. The boys were also given a tour to Galaxy's StubHub Center stadium and the meet was set up by US television star Ellen DeGeneres." - cut and pasted from the linked article below. Good for them - As a sometimes cynic - they will be old news in a few months - Get the freebies while you can boys.

https://www.latestly.com/sports/foot...eo-446047.html

[latintopxxx]

why r they famous???

[latintopxxx]

oh wait...i know...because they were stooopid enough to go into an underwater cave during the rainy season...and their parents let them do it...and oh wait...big surprise...it rained....and now they r trapped...oh wait...now the whole fucking world has to drop whatever they are doing to go save these dim wits...yay...and now they r famous...and will sign a movie deal...and become billionaires (except for the reject non buddist one whos not welcome)...
Moral of the tale...if u r a dim wit ...u succeed...

[neddy3]

Latin, you're just a nasty person.

[snotface]

Latin, you're just a nasty person.

True, but our resident dim-witted psychopath is harmless on a board like this where the only weapon he has is insults. He who insults everybody insults nobody.

[latintopxxx]

thanks snotface for coming to my defence...

[latintopxxx]

...relax....i git it...just winding u up...