Jatayu

LOL, great comment tomyummer.

Don't mock! The great white defender of the poor has shown up on this thread to set things right! -cue music- -triumphantly, of course-

Why not give it all to the poor in the North?

Yes, great idea. I'd like to see the elephants wearing full body cd-armor on the streets, not just the 3-4 dangling reflector cd's.

Bad grammar--Well that means it could have been a Thai person or an American!

I hope they catch the person responsible for this. Very inconvenient for a lot of people.

I am glad, however, that it was a message and not a real bomb.

Were their any righters from The Nation on that plain?

At first I thought you were being sarcastic, with the use of "righters", as opposed to writers. Then I saw "their" instead of there, plain instead of plane. You really shouldn't be critical unless you have all your ducks in a row. It seems to be great sport on TV to put everything and everyone down. We are not kids, act your age and give people a break. Unless we are talking about Thai ad agencies, who seem to have the motto "Wenotnidanyhelprightingenglishadz Kup"

wow, this forum never ceases to amaze me.

At first I thought you were being sarcastic with the one obvious mistake, but then I saw the other two obvious mistakes with a smiley face and I was POSITIVE you were being sarcastic.

That is how your post should have read. You were so close to not being an idiot.... and then you fell short.

And the high tone really makes it funny.

The others that didn't pick up on it and then fell into the trap by commenting on it.. I'm at a loss.

Act your age.. lol.

You shouldn't be so critical when you lack rudimentary powers of observation.

How obvious does it have to be?

My good friend here is named Bomb. I'm dying to go traveling with him. This puts the old "Hi Jack" joke to shame. No joke aside it is illegal to say his name on a flight.

funny.

"Education! Do you have any idea how many textbooks I'd have to buy to skim enough off the top to support my mistress and her weekly binges at Paragon!

Have some sympathy man!"

~random cabinet official

what about investing rather in something that makes sense for the future: education, modern railway network...?

Check out guatemala and mexico.. miss T doesn't stand a chance.

Yeah, I knew that would come up instantly.

Groongtep - not my first post, since switching computers rediscovering what my last or current password is/was was much harder than just signing up anew. As far as I'm concerned I care not whether I'm tagged advanced member or newbie.

I agree it can be a mildly offensive word in certain context, even plainly descriptive, but still should be dropped from educated people's vocabulary. And there lies the meaning of my post, usage defines the word, and IMO more often than not the context points to the "white devil" I'm not offended by it as much, as I'm honestly not generally offended by anything, because I don't care.

What I do think is criminal is people in authority positions using the word in front of students and children - like teachers, PhDs etc.

The damage done, I think, is that using the word only makes the user seem ignorant and propagates the stereotype that Thai people are simple-minded and so ignorant that they think all western-looking people come from Falangland.

Then they teach the kids to say it. And this place never gets anywhere, the cycle repeats.

Thus the image of natives running about in the bush of Africa screaming "white devil!"

just my .02 satang

Really sucks this young man is dead at 23.

From what I read, the Brit stole the knife from the 7-11, went to Dashawn's apartment building and waited in ambush. The second knife mentioned most probably is the one Dashawn grabbed after fleeing the initial stabbing - into his apartment to arm himself to fight back.

No reason to make wild statements like all foreigners training at boxing camps need to be sequestered out by the airport or that they are all animals etc. There are bad apples in every bunch, and in fact professional athletes are quite a boring bunch, no drinking, no partying, always training for an event and getting up early in the morning.

If every time I read a story about a grumpy old white guy molesting a child in Pattaya or Chiang Mai I called for all grumpy old white guys to be castrated or caged I think I'd be regarded as foolish.

""Yes I also picked up that hint of naivete that often results from over exposure to post-modernist blather lathered onto impressionable minds in institutions of higher learning throughout the Occident. Also, the OP has clearly lived a rather closeted life in Thailand if they have not encountered any racism. That being said, the vast majority of Thais do not seem to have any issues with white folks. The numbers change a bit in regards to black folks and escalate dramatically when talking of either Burmese or highland minorities.""

well put.

Farang = White Devil.

For years I've challenged anyone to rebut this argument convincingly.