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2 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Probably but I'll bet Church's Chicken is safe.

Nobody's safe . . . Muhahahaha . . . says the BLM. Los Pollos Hermanos? We're comin' after you too, white chickens.

One thing as a Yank I have noticed in this largely British TVF forum is that British people seem to be a lot more sensitive to the defacement of their own cherished monuments than they are to their American counterparts, which it seems they could care <deleted>-all about. Lots of moaning here about defaced Brit symbology. Not too much previously when the same thing was happening in the States. And then spread across the pond.

2 hours ago, torturedsole said:

What utter guff.  Maybe Boris can appear on a section of Ant & Dec and issue a grovelling apology for the past.  Ridiculous, isn't it?

 

Would that appease the left?  Erm, no.  

Tear the garments off your back and mercilessly flagellate yourself for the sins of your forebears, and it still won't make a difference. Not even a little. So all you blokes out there that subscribe to hereditary sin, be my guest and we'll see where that gets you.

1 hour ago, Tie Dye Samurai said:

So if I am reading this correctly, The Commander In Chief should send elite American military forces because the "soy boys, purple-hairs and Beatniks" are turning Capital Hill into a "Latter Day Woodstock". Its that damn M-TV, warping their minds....I think they all might be on The Marijuana too...maybe we should send the Navy Seals for good measure...since Seattle is a port of entry and all. The only reason I would even hint at buying into that is because that would look so horrible on TV and the internet that it would make Trump's Lafayette Park Bible Rally look like Romper Room and would be the nail in the coffin for his re-election. HOOAH!!!!!!!

 

Delta Force was present during the Branch Davidian debacle (which is why I ironically made mention of it). Why should Chaz get a free pass? Maybe, unlike Clinton, the Orange Man is loathe to burn down a compound full of innocent women nd children. And obviously I am not seriously suggesting that he should actually do this. Only left-wing presidents can get away with things like this, and only if the victim is right of center.

18 hours ago, earlinclaifornia said:

Beatniks? Wow really ages you well lol

Well, I just turned 50. Is this "movement" that we're seeing in these protests really that different that we need an entirely new nomenclature to characterize it? Take away the goatees, the berets, and the terrible poetry, what you end up with is basically a pitiful Beatnik movement any other name ????

10 hours ago, uhuh said:

"ma meh lai"

/mai mi: alai/ or /mai mi: lai/ 

( :  indicates long vowel; "mai" has falling tone, so to an English speaker it sounds as if the whole phrase is stressed on "mai")

ไม่มีอะไร

"not have something" = "it's nothing" as in "what's wrong with you? " - "Nothing, I'm fine"

 

Hear it pronounced:

Oasis pronounces the ร as /r/, not as /l/

In Bangkok and in Issarn you will hear /l/ more often

 

This is not the same as mai bpen rai. There is no "slurred bp" here - there just isn't any bp.

The meaning is not quite the same, either. 

I've tried to say "mai bpen lai" as rapidly as possible to see if I can replicate something vaguely to what I'm hearing in these films, but it doesn't quite jive, since there is no hint whatever of ป, so I think your explanation is most likely the correct one. It's weird how often I do hear this locution in Thai films. All so far have been Netflix movies so I can't post an example. If you have Netflix this phrase happens in "Sleepless Society: Two Pillows & a Lost Soul" S1: E3 @ 37:00 (the roommate walks in on our hero slitting his wrists).

After listening to this again, yet again, I do now think I can hear the "b'lai." The ป. Although the whole phrase sounds like "moo b'plai." This is perhaps a bad example as the actor is speaking frantically and so, as with any language, the intonation is going to be blurred. And to be fair, Hash Brown Hary may have a point--not that I need to get my ears checked but that my listening experience needs to improve, will try to find a different example, not so frantically intoned.

17 hours ago, johnpetersen said:

What we can expect is that if Trump loses the election he will launch volley after volley of angry tweets alleging voter fraud. And given his support of a mob of armed supporters who invaded the Michigan state capitol, - he actually urged Michigan to negotiate with them! -I doubt he would discourage angry supporters all too liable to believe nonsensical conspiracy theories -from taking similar actions

You want to talk about Trump's support of angry mobs? Where have you been the last week? At least he didn't make a martyr out of a career criminal and then sublimate the involuntary and armed co-opting of the new "autonomous" zone of Chaz into a latter-day Woodstock of "peaceful protestors." Trump should send Delta Force into that zone, although probably not needed to oust a bunch of soy boys, purple-hairs, and Beatniks. Just cut off the supply of humus. That should be sufficient.

Hello all, new student of the Thai language here. I keep hearing in Thai movies what sounds like a corruption of the well known mai bpen rai and was wondering if someone could help me make sense of it. I'm going to transliterate it as best  as my ears can interpret. In the subtitles this phrase gets translated as 'it's okay,' 'I'm fine,' 'nevermind.' So mai bpen rai, right?

This is what my ears hear. It's usually said very rapidly by a Thai speaker, repeated, sometimes to console or reassure a panicked person:

"ma meh lai"

"muh mah lai'

"m' m' lai."

"m' m' lai m' m' lai m' m' lai . . ."

I never hear the "bp" (ป) consonant for any "bpen". Is this just as very rapidly abridged mai bpen lai?

6 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:

Yes, by an metric irrelevant to how we elect presidents, Hillary won. That's like complaining about one team losing the Super Bowl when they had more yards on offense. IRRELEVANT.

Irrelevant because YOU LOST. But wait . . . Let's instead reverse the entire logic of our founding forefathers because in the last two decades the electoral college has proven politically detrimental to the Democratic Party.

1 minute ago, Crazy Alex said:

Well, the topic IS what Nancy Pelosi said. And she IS a Democrat, correct?

Topic is actually what Pelosi said about Trump, without whom no one would care what Pelosi has to say, and no media outlet would bother to report.

13 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Do you think this is something specific for the DEMs? Or do GOP politicians use similar language? 

And what about Trump and his language, especially on Twitter?

Trump uses stupid language, there's no doubt about that. But he does so transparently. Are you really so threatened by some guy who can't restrain his adolescent compulsion to post on the likes of Twitter? Really, this is what disturbs you? Meanwhile, as you're indulging in the cult of personality--which may very well lose you 2020 election--you're just going to lose more and more independent and swing voters.

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Name calling, huh? Stay classy. Goodbye.

Jingthing. Who, exactly, is indulging in the name-calling? I'd encourage you to examine the TVF Archives in this respect 

Just now, Jingthing said:

The headline factually represents the facts based news story. Nothing fake about it. Just because some people might not like the facts in a news story does not make it fake.

Factually represents. Ha. Somehow I doubt you'd feel the same way if the headline were coming from Fox News. Hypocrite.

You have to love how politically neutral TVF is where Trump is concerned. The very headline presupposes the mob response, which is hardly based on science. Maybe there is a deal in the future making betwixt TVF and CNN? Whose news is going to be the faker?

I guess this is what American politics has been reduced to from the Democrat perspective. It's all now about baby-talk. Being worth 120 million can give one that luxury.

On 5/20/2020 at 6:38 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

The language of American politicians. Amazing. And they pretend to be the leading democracy in this world. Crazy!

And obviously the American people elected all their leaders. Yeah, great work...

So the democrats now need to resort to actual juvenile language  where the juvenile sentiment apparently wasn't enough. Anything but argument! Like an actual adult might deem appropriate given the gravity of the situation. But you're the Dude, man! I mean you've based your entire TVF avatar and identity on being The Dude. Congratulations.