2 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

even though i live in thailand i must accept the fact that there is a reputation/ infamy reality about thailand and its association with sexpats and sexual deviants (pedophiles)

 

musk was just expounding on this, an already long established fact.   i dont feel personally slighted or defamed in the least.

So because I am a Brit it is OK to call me a lager lout...?

1 hour ago, atyclb said:

 

even though i live in thailand i must accept the fact that there is a reputation/ infamy reality about thailand and its association with sexpats and sexual deviants (pedophiles)

musk was just expounding on this, an already long established fact.   i dont feel personally slighted or defamed in the least.

Are you a Western guy living in Thailand ?

Musk has suggested that the only reason why you live in Thailand is because you are a pedo .

   Do you find that to be acceptable ?

13 hours ago, tryasimight said:

Is he a pedo? 

I don't know and neither do the Posters here. Might be... Might not be.

Nonsense , he's got a wife and kids . He does not fit the profile.

 

Musk probably just googled Thailand and think all of us are pedos for living here. 

 

 

 

38 minutes ago, sanemax said:

2 hours ago, atyclb said:

 

even though i live in thailand i must accept the fact that there is a reputation/ infamy reality about thailand and its association with sexpats and sexual deviants (pedophiles)

musk was just expounding on this, an already long established fact.   i dont feel personally slighted or defamed in the least.

Are you a Western guy living in Thailand ?

Musk has suggested that the only reason why you live in Thailand is because you are a pedo .

   Do you find that to be acceptable ?

 

 

i am a westerner living in thailand.

 

imo the diver-musk escalation is akin to "bar stool banter" although seen publicly.   diver initiated the "stick sub up the arse" inference and musk expounded on bar stool banter.

10 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

 

i am a westerner living in thailand.

 

imo the diver-musk escalation is akin to "bar stool banter" although seen publicly.   diver initiated the "stick sub up the arse" inference and musk expounded on bar stool banter.

Making pedo allegations isnt bar stool banter .

That is fighting talk

2 minutes ago, sanemax said:

13 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

 

i am a westerner living in thailand.

 

imo the diver-musk escalation is akin to "bar stool banter" although seen publicly.   diver initiated the "stick sub up the arse" inference and musk expounded on bar stool banter.

Making pedo allegations isnt bar stool banter .

That is fighting talk

 

 

for you perhaps.

 

for me it would go in one ear and exit out the other

16 hours ago, atyclb said:

 

even though i live in thailand i must accept the fact that there is a reputation/ infamy reality about thailand and its association with sexpats and sexual deviants (pedophiles)

 

musk was just expounding on this, an already long established fact.   i dont feel personally slighted or defamed in the least.

Perhaps you should do. Thailand is a sanook culture, very friendly and flirtatious, and income disparities here often see younger ladies seeking older foreign men, who for their own reasons (divorced or widowed perhaps) are more than happy to enjoy the attentions of younger more attractive women than they'd ever find back home. The fact that it's always been a promiscuous sort of place doesn't denote sexual deviance, just that it's a looser, freer part of the world. Some more uptight people in the west may disapprove of this, but they would have been the same types of people who disapproved of the sixties.

 

Thailand's saucy reputation is one that it's fine to take on the chin for expats here and roll with the punch - but it's way out of line to conflate this reputation with paedophilia. I'm fortunate never to have encountered anyone with such tendencies here, and I find it hard to believe it to be widespread. When paedophiles are caught here (as with any other place) they get the book thrown at them, you only have to read the other thread this week on the teacher who was caught to gauge the sentiments of other expats on this subject. Musk could have thrown just about any other insult in existence back at the British caver and it would have been small potatoes (even the c word would have been mild in comparison), but this particular piece of character defamation can't just be let go, and the stereotype should be consigned to history. 

Musk could have said many other things besides 'pedo' but that's what he said. Whether that amounts to libel under US/California law given the totality of circumstances is another matter.

6 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

On 7/19/2018 at 12:31 PM, atyclb said:

 

even though i live in thailand i must accept the fact that there is a reputation/ infamy reality about thailand and its association with sexpats and sexual deviants (pedophiles)

 

musk was just expounding on this, an already long established fact.   i dont feel personally slighted or defamed in the least.

Perhaps you should do. Thailand is a sanook culture, very friendly and flirtatious, and income disparities here often see younger ladies seeking older foreign men, who for their own reasons (divorced or widowed perhaps) are more than happy to enjoy the attentions of younger more attractive women than they'd ever find back home. The fact that it's always been a promiscuous sort of place doesn't denote sexual deviance, just that it's a looser, freer part of the world. Some more uptight people in the west may disapprove of this, but they would have been the same types of people who disapproved of the sixties.

 

Thailand's saucy reputation is one that it's fine to take on the chin for expats here and roll with the punch - but it's way out of line to conflate this reputation with paedophilia. I'm fortunate never to have encountered anyone with such tendencies here, and I find it hard to believe it to be widespread. When paedophiles are caught here (as with any other place) they get the book thrown at them, you only have to read the other thread this week on the teacher who was caught to gauge the sentiments of other expats on this subject. Musk could have thrown just about any other insult in existence back at the British caver and it would have been small potatoes (even the c word would have been mild in comparison), but this particular piece of character defamation can't just be let go, and the stereotype should be consigned to history. 

 

 

it seems income disparities and greed also fuel all types of exploitation including that seen with migrant labor. as long as i can recall there have been new stories about arrests for underage procurement and pedophilia both foreigners and nationals involved. one can assume a % get caught and the remaining % does not. it is a simple fact thailand is a country with a reputation for such as is pi and cambodia. if musk or whomever conflated that simple reality in a heated escalated exchange of words as i said it would enter one ear and exit the other.

 

now if someone told me my mother wears army boots that would be another story.

 

does the "c" word mean . cockney?

Edited July 20, 20187 yr by atyclb

37 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

 

it seems income disparities and greed also fuel all types of exploitation including that seen with migrant labor. as long as i can recall there have been new stories about arrests for underage procurement and pedophilia both foreigners and nationals involved. one can assume a % get caught and the remaining % does not. it is a simple fact thailand is a country with a reputation for such as is pi and cambodia. if musk or whomever conflated that simple reality in a heated escalated exchange of words as i said it would enter one ear and exit the other.

 

now if someone told me my mother wears army boots that would be another story.

 

does the "c" word mean . cockney?

This is also true of many countries in the west. I may be wrong, and I don't live out in the sticks to see how things are there, but my sense is Thailand has substantially cleaned up this kind of thing compared to a few decades ago. Pedo is a disgusting slur and it should be challenged any time some idiot uses it.

 

The c word is at the extreme end of the spectrum of English swear words. Can't repeat it on here obviously, but since you mentioned cockney, berkeley hunt is the proper rhyming slang for it. 

Edited July 20, 20187 yr by lamyai3

 hey it could have been worse for EM...

 

 

what if he'd beeped his horn at a Thai d(r)iver!

 

 

 

 

hmm... any ideas how long we might wait until the Stocks price lowers enough, for us to pounce?

   (thinking of speculating on tweet futures)

 

Edited July 20, 20187 yr by tifino

1 hour ago, atyclb said:

 

 

it seems income disparities and greed also fuel all types of exploitation including that seen with migrant labor. as long as i can recall there have been new stories about arrests for underage procurement and pedophilia both foreigners and nationals involved. one can assume a % get caught and the remaining % does not. it is a simple fact thailand is a country with a reputation for such as is pi and cambodia. if musk or whomever conflated that simple reality in a heated escalated exchange of words as i said it would enter one ear and exit the other.

 

now if someone told me my mother wears army boots that would be another story.

 

does the "c" word mean . cockney?

Your mother wears army boots.

11 minutes ago, dundee48 said:

Your mother wears army boots.

 

 

damn you,  meet you in the ring mf

4 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

 

damn you,  meet you in the ring mf

but... she might have been a Girl Grunt 

1 hour ago, lamyai3 said:

berkeley hunt is the proper rhyming slang for it. 

 

 

i got the rhyming with  hunt.    berkeley  ???

14 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

 

i got the rhyming with  hunt.    berkeley  ???

Berkeley Hunt is a centuries old fox and hounds hunt... Aside from the rhyming slang, its also the source of another much milder British insult, berk.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/berk

1 minute ago, lamyai3 said:

Berkeley Hunt is a centuries old fox and hounds hunt... Aside from the rhyming slang, its also the source of another much milder British insult, berk.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/berk

 

EM wouldn't give a Tinker's Cuss about this fuss - if the world hadn't heard about it

3 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

4 hours ago, atyclb said:

 

 

i got the rhyming with  hunt.    berkeley  ???

Berkeley Hunt is a centuries old fox and hounds hunt... Aside from the rhyming slang, its also the source of another much milder British insult, berk.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/berk

 

mini education in english slang

 

very interesting

 

so there are some academics here after all

 

thanks

Edited July 20, 20187 yr by atyclb

In normal usage the typical cockney slang wouldn't include the rhyming bit... So the Berkley hunt would usually only say "berkley".... hence the shortened version "berk"

In the same way, a "whistle" is a whistle and flute, meaning suit (of clothes).

 

The actual rhyming bit was superfluous.

On 7/18/2018 at 3:58 PM, sanemax said:

That is a media mistake .

Which is still being repeated.