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I have become interested in the extraordinary and growing popularity of the 'manosphere' in the internet e.g therationalemale and Chateau heartiste ( both sites are crude but intellectual). These are web pages that are expanded versions of the Pick-Up Artist websites.
They ask us to rethink female nature and place it in the changes of modern life.
Two books I've read as a consequence were a polemic by the brilliant writer H. L. Mencken: surely, his reputation proceeds him, and the female argentinian E. Vilar.
Mencken's 'In defense of women' is superb in his writing style and fairly convincing in the engrossingly ironic way he sets out to show women are the better sex, and so men deserve help.
By way of contrast, Vilar's 'Manipulated Man' goes too far. My jaw dropped several times at the level of disgust she has for her fellow women. And it's just too long.
I recommend them both. You can read them both in around 4 hours. They are free to download off the internet. The Mencken dates back to before the roaring twenties.
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I have become interested in the extraordinary and growing popularity of the 'manosphere' in the internet e.g therationalemale and Chateau heartiste ( both sites are crude but intellectual). These are web pages that are expanded versions of the Pick-Up Artist websites.
They ask us to rethink female nature and place it in the changes of modern life.
Two books I've read as a consequence were a polemic by the brilliant writer H. L. Mencken: surely, his reputation proceeds him, and the female argentinian E. Vilar.
Mencken's 'In defense of women' is superb in his writing style and fairly convincing in the engrossingly ironic way he sets out to show women are the better sex, and so men deserve help.
By way of contrast, Vilar's 'Manipulated Man' goes too far. My jaw dropped several times at the level of disgust she has for her fellow women. And it's just too long.
I recommend them both. You can read them both in around 4 hours. They are free to download off the internet. The Mencken dates back to before the roaring twenties.
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Good post WC. I too am lucky to have some good workers in our village that we can call on to do some work. Unfortunately they are always busy, for the simple reason that everyone knows how good they are....so there is always a waiting period.
But this does not just apply to Thais......in my former life, I came across many workers who just weren't up to scratch, and then there were others that were like a breath of fresh air.
It's a human trait to be lazy or conscientious, some of us can be changed, many can't.
Cheers.
This attempt to universalise won't wash. Just contrast almost all japanese with almost all thais.
If your education system is a trained incapacity then you will be useless.
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Download DVD Decrypter. Save processed files onto external hard drive.
My pleasure.
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Is the removal of 7 day leeway for the address 90 day report valid new procedure.... Or is that bad advice?
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Worst thing that happened to me was a dog bite at 2 am in the park next to the bridge.
Apparently a lady was raped on the stairwell 2 years back.
The decision to add a sign seems unprecedented. Amusing it is in thai as at least 10% of foot traffic is farang...
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why is that amusing ? this means 90% can read it, plus those Farang who are not too lazy or stupid to learn to read and speak the language of their newly adopted country
It's amusing because it fails in the endeavour that it sets out to achieve.
The thais mostly know about the violence through reading Dara Daily, it is unfair to expect farang to be able to read such high-level vocab in a tricky font in a badly lit area on the 'wrong' side of the bridge. I've never noticed the sign before....
Has anyone seen such signs for other areas. The heroic narratives of forum members through slum districts always lit up my day.... Surely they have seen something.
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Worst thing that happened to me was a dog bite at 2 am in the park next to the bridge.
Apparently a lady was raped on the stairwell 2 years back.
The decision to add a sign seems unprecedented. Amusing it is in thai as at least 10% of foot traffic is farang...
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The signage is new... That's the sizzle for this topic.
Have you ever seen warning signs anywhere else in Bangkok...?
I've walked through 'congested communities' (i.e. slums) and gone to Pattani and Narathiwat.... And never seen signs warning of violent attack.
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Somdet Phra Pinklao Bridge (nr. Sanam Luang)
Is this the only place in Bangkok with signage warning off pedestrians of entering after 10pm because of risk of violent crime...?
I always felt on edge at the stairwells...
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There are special procedures ti deal with this. A room inside the 90 day area is set aside just for this @ chaeng wattana
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The salty egg somtam at platinum mall is superb.
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I agree. If you require an old age home, this would be the place to be.
Really? Have you seen some of these residences? There are minimal occupational and physical therapy services available. Thailand does not have a cadre of geriatric care specialists. Unless one has a personal advocate to monitor care, one may end up sitting in a soiled diaper in deplorable conditions. Do you know what the treatment facilities are for those with age related dementia? To the best of my knowledge, unless one can pay a small fortune, there are none.
In any case I doubt Germany is sending its elderly to Asia. More likely to former east bloc locations in the Eu such as Poland and Hungary where German language services are available.
My snide remark of course would be to mention Pattaya is a place for ........... but, it's christmas time and I am overcome with goodwill.
I saw a german TV documentary on one of these made-for-germans care homes in Thailand. The service level was extraordinary. One nurse for each patient 24 hours a day. A beautiful setting with old style thai architecture and a canal to swim in every morning. I was stunned. There was even a nice wine bar for those moonlight evenings.
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Try this: http://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/location1.html
I saw a recent post on the visa forum that stated that there was a new buss from Victory monument directly to immigration, but can't find irt.
Yes there is. 166 direct to the door of the immigration office.
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It made my Xmas Day.
An old Thai man walked up to me and in regular speed, regular Thai asked:"The bus stop is over there but you're standing over here. There's nobody over there... Is this where the bus stops...?"
I answered him and he contendly waited for the bus. He didn't act surprised, he didn't compliment my Thai, he just .... Understood.
Bliss. No forethought, no pretend-to-not-understand-farang-so-i-can-practice-English.... Just an everyday chat.
When are your moments of language bliss?
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0R4MNjZWaEM&feature=related
Octopussy.
Doesn't get more Christmassy than the afternoon Bond film.
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You would laugh yourself to death if you heard me... those vowel lengths and tones...
link?
Too dangerous. You might die.
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I heard something rare the other day:
In a snooker club an old-timer Siamese-Thai attempted to mimic the English i was speaking. He literally knew not a word of English to copy or parody. It was just sounds...
At least that joke won't work among the young...
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Yep, there's one reactor on the 3rd floor (i think) of the atom research centre in north bangkok....
Don't worry: even Chernobyl wasn't Chernobyl.
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Terry's Old Gold and the like are as much part as the british xmas as the Mary Poppins movie....
But where to get in Bangkok..?
In Foodland, it is the aimed-at-kids chocalate for those with an immature palate.
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A different world - a different time.... but! ....
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After the conclusion of conducting some teachers training course in the south, I retired to the seaside town of Hua Hin, on the west coast of the Gulf of Thailand, to lick my wounds.
I had taken no reading material with me other than the technical manuals but found an old copy of 'Spy Hook' from the Bernard Sampson trilogies, at Hotel Reception reception, by Len Deighton.
Not sure if you are familiar with his writings but he was an inspiration for me as a teenager. Like many of us I enjoyed Ian Fleming's books but somehow the unnamed anti-hero (later to become Harry Palmer) in 'The Ipcress File', and later novels, rang home.
Deighton is quite a multi-skilled character and apart from being an excellent fiction writer - is an accomplished military historian, an artist and a great cook. In fact his book - 'The Action Cook Book', for men - based upon his series in 'The Observer'' and Ou Est Le garlic, inspired me to try my hand at culinary skills.
Gladiator[*]
Deighton's gorgeous non-fiction analysis of the German invasion of France -- "Blitzkrieg"-- still sticks in the mind even though i read it when i was about 11 years old....
I still remember how UNmechanized Hitler's forces were ... with all the horses....
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The kids at school try it with me, pronouncing all the tones wrong... and the final word or sometimes all the words in a sentence usually have the falling tone, and are drawn out.
ขอไปห้องน้ำได้ไหม would become something like ข้อป้ายห้องน่ามด้ายม้าย
I pretend not to understand anything until they speak correctly... Sometimes it takes a while
I simply play this recording....
Often their friends need to explain i am parodying their parody...
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Can you copy and paste from this app?
Yes.
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Ok. Second attempt to attach file...
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Most people who do this are girls in their 20s.
But this very person recorded here did this, and she is in her late 30s.
A smart lass and as soon as I called her on it she pointed out how common it is.
What amuses me is that I sound nothing like the flat tone impression since I go out of my way to exaggerate my tones to kill the possibility of this response.... it is just such a common response in Bangkok.
I've only ever heard middle class do it (and that might explain why Mikenyork in the post above has never heard it... since I believe he lives up country).
Young Men Giving Up On Marriage.
in Ladies in Thailand
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Oddly, i have become one of the world's experts on this topic area.
I have ended up published in a peer-reviewed journal on the rise of the shaming of men to man-up and marry. I have analysed the extraordinary growth in the 'manosphere' on the internet (google it) and looked at the desperate situation for female graduates in the anglo-saxon settler states.
The dominant framing in a death spiral of silence remains oblique on the obvious point of marriage: it is a cartel on the access to sex. The intellectual gymnastics required to come up with other stories won't change this core point.
Thailand is part of the cartel-breaching process of globalization. Men can do travel to break the cartel that hinders male desire.
Obviously this is far more nuanced and complicated than I've written, but once my article is on Google scholar you can read all about the complex confluences of factors that mean Anglo-saxon settler state women can't find men to marry.