SoiBiker

On 14/11/2017 at 5:52 PM, MaeJoMTB said:

Many men claim that, but they nearly all seem to be banging a local ........ Naam excluded, he's different. 

Not me. Not most of the guys I know here, either.

On 09/08/2017 at 1:37 PM, rott said:

He specifically referred to Lower Sukhumvit.

Not the poster I was quoting. 

On 02/08/2017 at 3:47 PM, taiwanatoa said:

Sukhumwit is not in Pattaya, Sharpie!


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Er, yes it is. It's also in Chonburi, Rayong, Chanthaburi and a bunch of other places on the way to the Cambodian border. 

On 2017-5-8 at 2:31 PM, jim cortesos said:

Soi Nana and Sukumvit..One reason why I never go there..Don't even think about it.I rather get on the BTS and get off at some station...

This is pretty good advice in general. 

How can you tell if someone is a PC gamer?

Because they'll tell you that you should be one too. 

(double post)

Even by sandal standards, those are ugly.

1 hour ago, thehelmsman said:

I'm sure you do SB, oh not saying there's anything wrong with that. Think before you type.

You dug up a 6 month old post for that?

40 minutes ago, Naam said:

i wish i were rich too 

This is Thailand. You don't need to be rich to eat out.

A rolled R is actually more like an L than an 'English' R. If, like me, you can't roll your Rs, substituting an L often makes you better understood than an 'English' R would.

2 minutes ago, MichaelBates said:

I am not married to her. Please keep up.

You didn't read my post very carefully, did you?

Sometimes this place is like slipping through a time portal back to the 1950s.

I don't pay my wife a stipend. I've never given any girlfriend I ever had an allowance or pocket money, and I think they'd have been bemused if I'd even suggested it. You guys seem to live in an entirely different world. 

On 26/01/2017 at 2:08 PM, eldragon said:

 

You ever seen a foreigner do the exact opposite? Go out for western food and then start passing their plate around the table so everyone can have a nibble of their pasta or a corner of their sandwich? That's going way native.


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Yep. My wife and I do that all the time.

5 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

Whilst I agree that it would be great if all expats could learn Thai, its not that easy when 1) you don't live with a Thai and 2) you're tone deaf....

I don't live with a Thai...

59 minutes ago, Naam said:

i have priorities what information i absorb and process. reading street signs and menus do not belong to my priorities.

or reading anything apart from whats available in the farang ghettos I guess. 

23 minutes ago, bannork said:

They need detail SB.

That's why they should go and learn some Thai. 

That's kind of the point I was making halfway up the page there. 

Still, thanks professor. 

3 minutes ago, Naam said:

whatever i see when i leave my home is quite interesting and "new world enough". besides... our Thai driver is literate and our cook does not write menus 

Ignorance is bliss, eh?

The idea of young people enjoying themselves seems to stick in the throat of some. 

1 hour ago, dick dasterdly said:

 

1 hour ago, rott said:

In a local eating house I ordered Pat Khapow Moo as I had done numerous times before. The lady said to a colleague next to her "Khowshai Pad Khapow, mai khowshai Moo" I had obviously used the wrong tone. As they only make it with moo or gai I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to get my drift. Plenty of context there.

 

But perhaps they were tired of my apparent mispronunciation and teaching me a lesson. 

 

Also irritating is having ordered a latte lon I am then asked if I want it hot or cold.

 

I have also learned the hard way that getting a motorsy to the local Fairyland shopping mall I have to specify "Ferrylirn".

The latter is an example of how helpful some knowledge of Thai can be in unexpected ways. Once you understand the rules of which sounds are used in Thai and how they are modified by their position in a word, you can anticipate the ways in which Thai speakers will pronounce (and hear) words spelt with the English alphabet. Which is why it also sometimes helps to ask to be taken to 'Centran' rather than Central.

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

Hey you!  Where you go??

That is one I cannot understand, you are walking down the road, not carrying a case or bag, there are at least four taxis sitting together across the road, the guy who is shouting is so stupid, he cannot see that if I wanted a taxi, I would cross the road towards his taxi, not be walking down the street.

Maybe he just suspects you might be stupid?

6 hours ago, JaySonic said:

Me: What would you like to do today? (or, "you can choose a restaurant tonight", or whatever)

 

Her: "Up you you, Jesaaarn"

 

<deleted>, have some input from time to time ! I'm not the boss man ! I feel it's out of courtesy to me, but I like my companions, friends or otherwise, to have an equal say, and it's infuriating to get the 'Up to You' all the time

 

Also: "No can go out sun, make skin too black". Ugh, alright, I'll go out alone ! To which she then comes, and makes every conceivable effort to stay in the shade. 

Maybe you should have chosen your partner more carefully?