ProfessorFart

Or maybe all the educated Thais he's just been chatting with.....

Only UG actually has a source albeit iffy!

But JD with his PHd in Thai will enlighten us more I'm sure.....minus the smileys......

I'm so glad I read this thread!

All day to find a tin of beans!

It's official! I'm the second most stupid #*#* in Thailand!!

Scrabble....you must be from Cha Am...?

I drink and beat the Cha Am Scrabble Mafia hands down a few years ago thanks to QUATRO. BELLY (TLS) and BAR+KING (TLS)

What made it better was that I was 'on my way' when I won. I then shagged one of the player's daughter who was visiting, but she was a bit ropey and didn't like Megadeth but any port in a storm eh?

Well drink then sir!

You'd never had sex before you were a virgin!

Good but rather lame troll! This'll be on LP tomorrow!

Blimey! I can't believe so many people actually had to wank over the 'na' concept which has all been copied......

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Jopha ---

While the Sakdina caste system was not exactly the same as India's caste system was they are in many ways more similar than anything from feudalism in the West.

India's system with jobs and relative value of people in the society based upon those jobs is closer in many ways than any other similiar caste system. Similarities could also be drawn between pre 1650 Japan and the Sakdina system. The issue with using any type of analogy between systems is that the goals of those systems are often not the same. It really does boil down to apples and oranges. They are certainly both fruit and may be discussed in terms that work, but they are in essence vastly different.

JD, how else would you describe a 'caste' system?

It's a bastardisation of the Portuguese word used for 'class' or 'race' the early explorers to India, befuddled by the fact that one person could cut their hair but another had to cook their food or clean their room. They were a tad confused.

Does that sound like sakdina? Remotely?

You are qualified in Asian Studies....I fear not.

Johpa has really offered the best explaination to date bar my own but as I am better qualified than he (he may PM me for my credentials or indeed other members of the forum for back up) I will do so for all in simple 'pub' terms' so I can listen to you all yak about it tomoz when I go to the Crossbar to see if I can nab her with the big tits!!

1) Sakdina in easy terms is a 'system' of gentrification.

2) If you have the cash you are in.

3) That's it.

It's an old concept which has been replaced by the word 'class' or 'elite'

Its that easy although those 'academics' for whom such a simple explanation would be on the dole prefer to disagree (but JDinAsia isn't one of them)

Sorry I never made it up there pal...to Surin that is....

Never met him but will never forget that Aussie hammering Ricky Hatton Vs Kostya Tswhatever thread we had going and also the 2005 Ashes...on that 'future ashes post'

We hammered a nation Dude! Twice

RIP Lamps!!!

Just goes to show. You say you'll head up at some point and meet a pal...but somehow shit gets in the way and you miss the chance to meet a possible mate...

Lets be taking those trains and buses fellas....and not missing out.....like I did....

Oh dear! May he get well soon. One of Thailand's more reliable political figures.

I guess so CDN but the problem seems a tad more deeply rooted than that....

Acoustic, you need therapy not amulets.....

Seriously. The amulet merely acts as a placebo in your subconscious.

And well, why does the Professor care about where we met our wife?

I thought it would be a romantic theme for St. Valentine's Day as I'm sort of back in tow with my long term other half now that she has forgiven me for missing our anniversary to play cricket.

Romance isn't a dirty word. Buttocks is though.

Do you do anything which to you seems the most natural thing in the World, but the Thais just can't seem to fathom?

There seems to be 2 things I do which really fogs them.

I get into town on average twice a week to drop off work from clients or to collect new work. Naturally enough when I go I'm 'suited and booted' but as soon as I'm done with the boss I'm straight in the bogs and slamming on my funky shorts, Nikes and T Shirt before I leave.

The two girls on reception in one place always pull me on it. They just don't get the fact that I can't be doing with going around town looking like Bertie Wooster especially as my next port of call is usually the boozer.

"Before you handsome now you're not" they cry although this is tosh as I look like a million dollars in my Rock togs.

My second is that when I get to the boozer, at least for the first hour, I like to blow my brains out with some quality metal and not really talk to anyone until the cobwebs are blown away.

Pals appreciate this and tend to leave me be but the staff just come in a stream yak yakking away. When I politely explain that I'm listening to a bit of Slayer or Opeth and will chat later, they take umbrage and get all huffy but I've done this for years and most of the staff know this yet still they come week in week out....

Rummy!

I prefer the term "previewing" the music.

Infact I just previewed Fear Factory - Mechanised.

Top Man! Good to see them back!

As a businessman here in Thailand, I think I would not be taken seriously if I wore a big-assed amulet to a meeting.

Brilliant!

I still say #1 had it right...

Chuan does speak English flawlessly. He's the only Thai (bar my GF) who has ever corrected my English.

Just out of interest. Why do you want to contact him? He is in good health as far as I know.

Well, you know Confucius saying, PF, "Experience is a light hooked on your back that only lights up the way you went through"

LOL

Confucius said too much....

He'd have struggled with a Thai lass......

Some great tales here!! Perfect for St. Valentine's Day.

I really liked the chap whom met his wife in 1969....I was born in 1969 and now feel young again!!

Throw it away and live your life how you want to. If you err, then you will learn from your mistakes. Be tolerant of your wife's mistakes and ask that she is tolerant of yours and you'll be fine.

Communication is the key. Don't be afraid to ask her questions no matter how trivial it may seem.

Best way pal.

Don't live your life according to someone else's 'gospel' or you'll wind up like a load of bitter folks on here who live their lives according to Stickman, Thailand Fever etc....

Usually she'll make out she does't know you but sometmes not...

If she's in the 'Public Domain' as it were, I'm sure anyone with half a brain would know theres a chance she'd been with a few other blokes...

My Uncle B*** once turned up at our Hotel in Patters with a lass whom his pal J** had 'Boofed' - to use a rather crude but apt colloquialism - a couple of nights before. It was amusing to see to men over 55 bickering over a lass for whom anyone's cash would do.

'Kin 'ell!

Dreams are caused by electro magnetic impulses spurred on by the closing down of the nerve centre (center for yanks)

Your thoughts, may well be involved.

However, what we see in our dreams are nothing more then a nervous bodlily reaction with no more meaning than a twitch of the leg or a huge throbbing perk on of a morning.

They really have no meaning.

Go home! You no longer have to answer to Thai Law. Could I be any simpler?

I'll lead off.

I met her in a disco honest!

So where did you meet her......?