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but for this thread why dont you boys just 'fess up and tell us what you did over the weekend

Added 40+ pages to a website.

Burnt a bunch of cds.

Cleaned the bathroom.

Bought some DDR2 on sale.

Went out friday and inhaled some crab, salmon, prawns and a couple pints of Rickard's Red

Backed up wife's laptop.

Being a geek with a seafood fetish (and a clean bathroom) is still better than being a teacher on a pole.

You sound like the life and soul of the party (not).

All over the country young male students will be adding Thammassat to their list of potential universities, thanks to her. TU's PR department should make her an exgratia payments for services rendered.

I doubt anyone in Thailand has a problem with knowing Thammasaht University despite young Amy's efforts.

For her, beckons a lifetime of 'dtua eechar' and 'puan nung ek' roles. Effectively, she has probably relegated herself to the ignomony of VCD films and other low end drivel currently played by people like Nong Balloon and Nong Ying.

Worse still, she may have eliminated a chance of marrying up in the world, and may be forced to follow in Ying's footsteps and merely become a 'meea farang' in the future; all from one rather poor choice in clothing. Ah well, she won't be the first; at least once she is married to a foreigner, then all the THai guys can do her behind the foreign guy's back. I hope I am not too late in that queue; I missed the boat with a few other 'meea farang' types in the past.

Then again, maybe all will be forgotten. She looked pretty bad in that outfit though; nice rack though.

Why on Earth would you want to queue up in line for any woman? Especially one that has been stretched by a farang?

I would have thought that "missing the boat" on such women was a good thing, not a regrettable thing... but if "sloppy thirty-fourths" are your thing, then by all means... slop away.

Ouch, that definitely left a mark! I imagine that if he could become acquainted with her now he would but clearly he can't so he has to wait until she's been married off to a foreigner. Evidently he's not some second rate, washed-up tennis pro who can get the goodies early on (Mr. Tata Young, Mr. Natalie Glebova) so he's got to wait for the cast-offs.

I think steve mentioned he's a Luk Kreung in Thailand.

Most probably caught (or lost) between two cultures and trying to ingratiate himself to his Thai 'friends' with that post.

Sad lol.

Can anyone explain the LAE แหละ final sentence particle, perhaps with a few examples.

Thanks.

The author of that video apparently has a 45 min DVD of the festival dancing. Can contact via the youtube profile.

Am looking for a Thai language teacher in London, UK.

Please contact through my Profile if can do.

Thanks.

Thanks Meadish_sweetball. Makes sense!

I read somewhere that final sentence particles can be used in Thai to express emotion and feeling

eg

adding JA จ๋า makes it cuter sounding and shows caring.

วะ/โว้ย can show annoyance/anger etc.

I was wondering why Thai has so many particles and English seems to lack them.

One explanation I came across puts this down to Thai being a tonal language where the tone of a word determines its meaning.

In english we can change the tone/stress of words in a sentence to add feeling/emotion, but Thai can't do this so easily.

I also wondered, if Thai had no particles, could Thais still express emotion/feeling in their voice? Or does it become harder/impossible? Would be interesting to hear from some native Thai speakers on this last point.

Hope that all makes sense.

Thanks in advance for any info.

I have had exactly the same problem when visiting Thailand despite taking every precaution possible with food hygiene and water. After a few days, I get diarrhoea and feel really weak and awful. Initially I thought it was just a matter of getting building up resistance to the different bacteria in their food but I found that trying to ride it out just meant the diarrhoea got worse and I eventually got blood in my stool. The only thing that worked was a course of antibiotics which clears things up within hours but after about 10 days or so of finishing the antibiotics, the diarrhoea gradually returns and I am back to square one. This was a repeating cycle.

My theory (for what it's worth) is that there's some bacteria in Thailand that colonises your gut and some westerners have difficulty coping with. A likely candidate is Escherichia coli which the Thais are are largely immune to having been exposed to it from birth, but westerners with their stricter food hygiene standards are not exposed to.

I recently read about a traveller's diarrrhoea medicine called Dukoral which claims to offer some resistance to Escherichia coli, and I intend to try next time I visit LOS. Whether it works remains to be seen.

Would be nice if it did.

Thanks for the detailed reply Mike. A lot clearer now!

Thanks for your reply Bambina, especially the กิ๊วๆ one. Couldn't find that word in any dictionary, but looks like I could have fun with that one..อิอิ

it depends on  the world b4 ไง

One example I came across is: ให้แล้วไง - I've given it to you already.

Is there a difference between ให้แล้วไง and ให้แล้ว (with no ไง)?

Does anyone know what the particle NGAI ไง means when placed at the end of sentence?

Also, in chat rooms, I sometimes see the word GEW GEW กิ๊วๆ. Any ideas on the meaning of this one?

Thanks in advance for any advice/help.

Just spoke to a doctor from the UK. Apparently Dukoral is marketed in Canada and Sweden for both travellers' diarrhoea and as a cholera vaccine (and has been for a few years). But in the UK, the regulatory authorities looked more closely at the test data and decided that it didn't really work for travellers' diarrhoea so it's only marketed over in the UK for Cholera.

In the last few years there seem to have been several pharmaceutical companies marketing travellers’ diarrhoea vaccines.

One vaccine I’ve seen is Dukoral http://www.dukoral.com/ which claims to give protection against one of the most common causes of travellers’ diarrhoea, enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC).

Has anyone one used any of these vaccines for travellers' diarrhoea? Do they work? Any bad reactions?

Thanks in advance for any advice/help.