Learning the local language and an "intellectual debate"

[frequent]

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

[cdnmatt]

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.

[frequent]

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?

[cdnmatt]

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.

[frequent]

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

[cdnmatt]

Well, then at least I hear. You just try talking over everyone.

[frequent]

Well, then at least I hear. You just try talking over everyone.

But not in Thai

[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.

[francois]

Seems like all you gentlemen are talking shit! Isn't that the topic of this post, sort of ?

[frequent]

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