bkk barney

i dont think i have anything against gays, its not something i have put a lot of thought into, but to allow gays same sex marriages is a disgrace.

marriage is a religous thingy, and is something i personally would never do with my gal friend, now as there are still religions that ban same sex marriages, i think they maybe right, i mean who wants to see pics of two obese americans males marrying each other, yep its pretty sick.

so i for one will vote against these sickoes

gas and electric bills are expensive here.

"THAI PEOPLES PRIDE IN THEIR COUNTRY" ermm yep ive watched erm most days throw their rubbish into the road as they drive along, h.ell of a lot of pride there as they treat their country as a rubbish dump

marco. goto www.ajarn.net and speak to djpat, hes a dj here..in thailand that is

so as i said. thais in issan speak a lot of laos, but use thai script in writing, and also speak thai aswell as laos.

thai is a language. laos is a language, issan is not a language, yet i got 10 idiots telling me issan is a dialeact, who the fuk mentioned dialects b4 my post??? we were talking languages, or at least i was.

yes there are dialects of every differant language in the world, there also the hill tribes up north that speak completely differant to anybody else, as for one of the earlier posters, yes i speak thai fluently, i have more trouble understanding someone from newcastle than someone from issan..

h.ell my galfriend earns more money during the tourist season teaching privates than most farang teachers in bkk with a proper job, ok she has 8 months of low season, so she works a lot less hours, but h.ell that gives her time to study for her next degree, and she never works saturday or sundays, unlike me, actually life can be so unfair, the things i could do if i didnt work weekends, did i tell u about ban chang and the bars there, they got this great deal where u get 2 gals and......aaahhh this is thai visa, oh well its a good story but u lot aint allowed to know it, anyway i dont want fat ginger going down there and spoiling it for everyone so its best i keep quiet about it

up2u. unfortuneately i am sure, there are two types of spaghetti eaters, the twirlers of which i am and the chopper uppers, every time i go there which was often, my spaghetti came last as it took ten minutes to cook the spaghetti,

on my last visit there, there were no long bits plus the sauce and meat were all over the plate, which is quite unusual.

anyway onto nicer thoughts, any of u lot tried big joes frozen curries, these i got to recommend, available in most supermarkets i think, also johns grill, his frozen stuff is a bit more expensive and it does make me wonder why i dont just goto a restaurant and pay a little bit more and get the service etc, but ###### i got to work and sometimes just cant be bothered, anyway both are good and real handy as long as u got a microwave.

although i got to admit one of em does sell frozen mash potatoe, i mean who the ###### buys frozen mash potatoe?am i behind the times or something?

toni,

nakon nowhere has some nice places that are real cheap and good free internet connections

^Now, these two, Harry and BKBarney- just what type (from above) would you guess THEY are??

"Steven"

well young harry aint allowed back to the uk, i would tell u all but i was sworn to secrecy, but if that farmer catches him again with his sheep im sure that the threat will be carried out,

me, im allowed back

so issan is secretly building up their navy as we speak, ###### things aint looking so good..

if bulldog was banned how could he post he was banned?? that would defeat the object of banning posters if u could still post, harry pls try to keep up and dont drink so much when u post..

young harry gets confused easily, pls bare with him,

howard is a member of the pvt forum, and has been since before he moved to thailand, yep we are all doomed lol.

since when did a dialect become a language?

harry u are not allowed to give them to urself, an admin has to give u them u ginger haired obese freak.

this is not a womans car, its a car that makes women hot,hot,hot,and really hot.

any diplomats out there that want to be my friend?

In my travels in various countries, I've come across the notion that there are two main types of foreigner leading this semi-permanent exile life that many of us do.

1. THE SELF-EXILE: This type has voluntarily left a position in his home country, often but not necessarily a position of some advantage, to live abroad in a nation which is not his own- in which the language, the culture, and the physical environment are unusual to him and cause endless trouble as he adapts- but where he finds any or all of the following:

a. interesting new kinds of people and things

b. freedoms (and restrictions) unlike those in his own country

c. the psychic freedom to escape an identity entangled with the citizens of his home country

d. an absence of the noxious elements of the home country

2. THE EXILED: This type has run away or escaped from his home country, usually either to escape a bad situation or after repeated failures of various sorts, sometimes resulting from psychological or sociopathic problems. It's usually not perceived as being his own fault- "all these Brits have it in for me"- but acknowledged that the change of scene will lead to personal advantage. The good points for this type are:

a. Nobody knows exactly how screwed up they were back home

b. It's very hard for foreign nationals to tell how screwed up they are when speaking a second language

c. The opportunity to disguise sociopathy as "foreign difference"

d. There's always another country to run to when [country name] doesn't work out.

The ironic result of this is that most long-term expats avoid meeting unfamiliar faces, because they're afraid of meeting the opposite type. The Exiles don't want to run into the chronically sociopathic Exiled, who don't want to meet the Exiles in turn (whom they secretly know expose them for the screwed up types they are- even if the Exiles are too polite to say anything, the feeling of exposure seems bad enough for some of the Exiled).

Some of my best and most interesting friends have been among the former group. And some of the worst and most troubled, nightmarish souls I've encountered were among the latter.

EXAMPLES:

The Exiles:

1. My friend A., a talented teacher, painter, and martial arts student I met in Japan. He's one of the most socially attuned people I've ever known; he can read people in seconds and is almost always right. He's funny and articulate, and one of the most loyal and dependable people I know.

2. My friend R., a musician and composer of some note, who has spent most of the last decade or so running around in various parts of Asia. He's devastatingly witty and bright and British in that old style that's getting hard to find (so I hear) even in England- and a warm, wise fellow.

The Exiled:

1. I once met a fellow, D., in my apartment building in Japan. He was the first full-blown schizophrenic I think I've ever met (excepting the homeless in the big cities in the U.S.). When he knew other people were around, he seemed more or less normal- when no one was in sight the conversations with (others?) started. Sometimes he would be walking along shouting to no one in particular. We would hide around the corner in the lobby of the building and listen to him sitting talking one side of a conversation- scary stuff. The Japanese in the building became so frightened of him he was evicted (a very unusual event). The sad thing is that he was still seriously applying for jobs (he'd just arrived) and had a resume set up as a former journalist- I can imagine the chain of events. He becomes unstable at work in the U.S. and they're forced to fire him, but no one's close enough or rude enough to tell him the truth about his problems. At subsequent interviews, the interviewer can see he's unsuitable and probably ill- so he eventually decides it's the COUNTRY that's the problem, and heads off to Japan!

2. A whole crowd of the people I've met abroad are completely socially dysfunctional in various ways- abusive, withdrawn, unable to maintain friendships, keep jobs, manage their money, keep a relationship going- in a chronic fashion, month after month, their whole life seems more about damage control (and damaging others) rather than living. I've been forced to work and live with a few of them, and it's not pretty. How about another D., whom I worked with in a Japanese school for 2 years, and at the end of that time none of the Japanese nor I were speaking to him unless it was absolutely necessary? He didn't understand the words "cooperation" or "negotiation," and in meetings if he didn't get all his way he would throw a shockingly childish temper tantrum. I met his wife and she seemed to know there was a problem- I felt sorry for her. I don't think he had any friends after all his time there (though he didn't seem particularly eager to go back home either). Or what about Lars, a German intern who would fart and belch loudly in public (and comment on it) and blow his nose on the lobby dustcloths when he felt like it? Guess what his internship was for- DIPLOMATIC TRAINING! [he once commented- one of the few things I liked him for- that his country and Japan "went way back together."] Or the American ex-marine who shouted at his new Japanese boss on the phone for "not being able to speak ###### English?"

Sorry for being so long winded. Do you guys agree that the people who stay abroad for long periods of time tend to divvy up into these two groups, or is my generalisation too simple? Examples, comments?

"Steven"

have one of these ijwt, ginger aint got one, i shall read the rest of ur post over the next week or two

axel if he was a returning thai why would he have a thai work permit??

am i missing something here??

na, he has a work permit so he is exempt from a lot of the taxes as they are personal possessions, and as long as he dont sell erm for a certain period he should be alright, but he will still be metaphorically speaking be held up at gun point by the customs ppl he is dealing with and how greedy they are..

begs has bit the dust so to speak, and is forever more banned from this forum, anyway if anybody wants to donate money or food for begs homeless childrens projects feel free to pm the admins for details.

its generally very problematic dealing with thai customs so i will think u will find most ppl try to avoid it, basically in the law everything is all fair, but unfortuneately in life with thai customs it aint fair and basically anything can happen, anyway good luck

are you a scumbag lowlife?

erm, but of course

chon pls try to be nice

rooboy is obviously an employee of the cigarrette conglamourate, he advocates smoking to ppl that cant afford it, he is filled with evil, admins pls ban somebody that is that evil...

harry, i thought ur boyfriend took it???