Diary of a farang in Isaan

[Bredbury Blue]

2 hours ago, Kadilo said:

It should be “Free the Ban Dagen One. 

Think that one flew over a few heads but I likey.

[bluesofa]

4 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

.......as in “Banned Again. Say it slowly it kinda works. Even more so as he comes from Dagenham. 

I just had a flashback of DB crying uncontrollably. I don’t think I will sleep tonight now. 
 

Ha ha ha! That was excellent.

My specialist subject: Missing the bleedin' obvious.

 

[Bredbury Blue]

10 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

.......as in “Banned Again. Say it slowly it kinda works. Even more so as he comes from Dagenham. 

I just had a flashback of DB crying uncontrollably. I don’t think I will sleep tonight now. 

 

 

 

 

About 6 years back I was visiting Songkhla for work and I stayed at the big rundown hotel next to the mermaid statue on the beach. I checked the tv channels and coronation street was on (I think it was on an Ozzie channel). I hadn't seen coronation street in decades - had to tear myself away from it to get down to the Irish bar. Is Ken Barlow still in it?

[bluesofa]

9 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

 

About 6 years back I was visiting Songkhla for work and I stayed at the big rundown hotel next to the mermaid statue on the beach. I checked the tv channels and coronation street was on (I think it was on an Ozzie channel). I hadn't seen coronation street in decades - had to tear myself away from it to get down to the Irish bar. Is Ken Barlow still in it?

He's still in it. Longest running actor in any soap in the world I think.

[Kadilo]

26 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

 

About 6 years back I was visiting Songkhla for work and I stayed at the big rundown hotel next to the mermaid statue on the beach. I checked the tv channels and coronation street was on (I think it was on an Ozzie channel). I hadn't seen coronation street in decades - had to tear myself away from it to get down to the Irish bar. Is Ken Barlow still in it?

I’ve no idea, haven’t set eyes on it for years but seems so according to Bluesofa. 

[Kadilo]

16 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

He's still in it. Longest running actor in any soap in the world I think.

Can’t see it being beaten. He must be around 120 now. 

[Andrew Dwyer]

13 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Can’t see it being beaten. He must be around 120 now. 

Ken Barlow is 88 and celebrated 60 years as the world’s most boring actor last year. He left Corrie in March this year as he fell ill with Covid but should be back in the Street anytime soon !!

 

My god ….. is this what my life has become ??..… googling Ken bloody Barlow to post on a thread about farming in Thailand !!   ………………………. someone put me out of my misery ????

[Kadilo]

11 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Ken Barlow is 88 and celebrated 60 years as the world’s most boring actor last year. He left Corrie in March this year as he fell ill with Covid but should be back in the Street anytime soon !!

 

My god ….. is this what my life has become ??..… googling Ken bloody Barlow to post on a thread about farming in Thailand !!   ………………………. someone put me out of my misery ????

Blimey is this what this thread is about?

 

<deleted> am I doing here! 
 

Someone put me out of mine too please! 

[bluesofa]

22 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Ken Barlow is 88 and celebrated 60 years as the world’s most boring actor last year. He left Corrie in March this year as he fell ill with Covid but should be back in the Street anytime soon !!

 

My god ….. is this what my life has become ??..… googling Ken bloody Barlow to post on a thread about farming in Thailand !!   ………………………. someone put me out of my misery ????

Well if Owl wasn't so irresponsible to get a holiday we wouldn't be discussing this now. Pretty good side-track of mine though....

[faraday]

Last time I watched Coronation Strasse ( my father called it that????), Ena Sharpies wuz in it. 

 

Is she still alive? ????

 

Anyway, back on topic...????

 

Having my morning cuppa PG.

 

Temperature is 25°C, feels cool outside, a bit of fon rin last evening, but nowt like the storms of the last few days.

Not much to say really; life goes on. Contented, happy.

 

Pint of Guinness wouldn't go amiss, though.

 

 

 

 

 

[bluesofa]

47 minutes ago, faraday said:

Last time I watched Coronation Strasse ( my father called it that????), Ena Sharpies wuz in it. 

 

Is she still alive? ????

 

Anyway, back on topic...????

 

Having my morning cuppa PG.

 

Temperature is 25°C, feels cool outside, a bit of fon rin last evening, but nowt like the storms of the last few days.

Not much to say really; life goes on. Contented, happy.

 

Pint of Guinness wouldn't go amiss, though.

 

 

 

 

 

Yup, Ena Sharples was in the Rovers only last week,

It's 26°C here - that's from weather.com, I've not even looked outside yet, curtains still drawn (had a pencil handy).

 

P,S, Waiting for a visit from the fake news gestapo.

 

Edited May 3, 2021 by bluesofa
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[rumak]

6 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

My god ….. is this what my life has become ??

 

These are now the extra years we have .......... for taking such good care of ourselves 

 

used to be scrabble,  in the old days ( before internet)

now ...... its google 

[Odysseus123]

6 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Well if Owl wasn't so irresponsible to get a holiday we wouldn't be discussing this now. Pretty good side-track of mine though....

The wonders of social media...we went from Rumak's stirring "Give me liberty or give me death!" to 'Coronation Street' in only a couple of posts.

 

I refrain from commenting on Jason and Kylie and hope that Old Badger emerges from his burrow soon...

[bluesofa]

29 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

The wonders of social media...we went from Rumak's stirring "Give me liberty or give me death!" to 'Coronation Street' in only a couple of posts.

 

I refrain from commenting on Jason and Kylie and hope that Old Badger emerges from his burrow soon...

That's funny, I thought about throwing a reference in to those two in for good measure.

The link between the two soaps? Bishop - we've had Harold Bishop and Emily Bishop.

[Andrew Dwyer]

2 hours ago, rumak said:

 

These are now the extra years we have .......... for taking such good care of ourselves 

 

used to be scrabble,  in the old days ( before internet)

now ...... its google 

Mr Google has a lot to answer for !!

Despite being a jolly good source of knowledge it has turned a lot of ( high ) school dropouts , like myself, into smart quick thinking intellectuals, not !!

The playground for Mr Owls recent demise I am guessing, the most debated current subjects ( masks and vax ) on the forum , is a furiously fast game of fact ping pong “ ,  the object of the game is to trump ( not the orange one ! ) your opponents facts or links with a more superior version damning their feeble attempt into the ground !!

I often think the top players playing this game of “ my Google is faster than your Google “ have two devices open, a laptop and a smartphone for faster replying, the winner usually spent a few baht on an additional monitor for his computer so as to enable the TVF thread and Google are open simultaneously and in max screen size so he can come back with the ultimate rebuttal in a nanosecond !!

The loser goes a link too far and posts a “ reliable “ attachment from some flatearthers , or similar, website and …….. well …. we all know what happens next !!

But don’t despair !, his lieutenant picks up the flag and charges forward relentlessly ????

I read a lot of these threads, I could stop at the title and opening post as that is usually all the info i need but usually continue on for the novelty value alone .

I wonder how many school kids of today realise how lucky they are to have Mr Google to assist in homework ?

Most of us on here we’re schooled in an era when a common calculator was unheard of and arithmetic had to be done at the expense of a pencil and sheets of paper, the answers to “ name the capital of Peru “ or who wrote Beethoven’s 5th Symphony” ( ???? ) meant we had to search our options .

A quick stroll down to the library was the most reliable way to achieve the answers but that meant physical exercise and it was raining outside !!

Dads or Grandads were another option but not always reliable or willing to offer the answers if they had to trudge down to the library ….. in the rain !!

The smarter witted kids knew that a couple of Spangles would be enough to persuade Spotty Johnson to supply the answers to some of these questions on the school bus home ( or back to school the next morning for the lazier ones ) . Of course, threats of physical violence were always a back up plan !

“Write an essay on …. “ was a dreaded phrase for many kids and meant hours spent plagiarising library books or death threats for Spotty Johnson !!

Art homework !!, well that was an impossible task unless you had siblings willing to help, I dared not even ask my two older brothers as it would have surely ended up with an Indian burn or a “ dead leg “ !! Obviously getting on the school bus with a monstrosity made from Weet-a-bix boxes and lolly sticks was not going to happen so after the “ sorry Miss , my dog ate my homework “ ploy had failed miserably I had to run the risk of detention or a visit to the “ Head “( headmaster for our American readers ! ).

 

I have seen some younger Thai relatives making some art projects as homework so I guess things haven’t moved on too far in that respect. But the older ones are usually seated at the family laptop or scrolling furiously on mums Android looking round to see if “ I can see your voice has started yet !! “.

 

The debate on whether kids nowadays are more intelligent due to the facility in obtaining answers from the Net or it is all just fleeting knowledge that doesn’t stick is a large one and not for here .

 

Maybe I will start a thread on it  ????

[rumak]

2 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

3 hours ago, rumak said:

 

These are now the extra years we have .......... for taking such good care of ourselves 

 

used to be scrabble,  in the old days ( before internet)

now ...... its google 

Mr Google has a lot to answer for !!

Despite being a jolly good source of knowledge it has turned a lot of ( high ) school dropouts , like myself, into smart quick thinking intellectuals, not !!

The playground for Mr Owls recent demise I am guessing, the most debated current subjects ( masks and vax ) on the forum , is a furiously fast game of fact ping pong “ ,  the object of the game is to trump ( not the orange one ! ) your opponents facts or links with a more superior version damning their feeble attempt into the ground !!

I often think the top players playing this game of “ my Google is faster than your Google “ have two devices open, a laptop and a smartphone for faster replying, the winner usually spent a few baht on an additional monitor for his computer so as to enable the TVF thread and Google are open simultaneously and in max screen size so he can come back with the ultimate rebuttal in a nanosecond !!

The loser goes a link too far and posts a “ reliable “ attachment from some flatearthers , or similar, website and …….. well …. we all know what happens next !!

But don’t despair !, his lieutenant picks up the flag and charges forward relentlessly ????

I read a lot of these threads, I could stop at the title and opening post as that is usually all the info i need but usually continue on for the novelty value alone .

 

and thus......"keyboard warriors"  are born.      good summation AD  (Anthony Davis ? )

[Andrew Dwyer]

2 minutes ago, rumak said:

 

and thus......"keyboard warriors"  are born.      good summation AD  (Anthony Davis ? )

Not AD !!

He has a few inches on me ????

[CharlieH]

17 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Mr Google has a lot to answer for !!

Despite being a jolly good source of knowledge it has turned a lot of ( high ) school dropouts , like myself, into smart quick thinking intellectuals, not !!

The playground for Mr Owls recent demise I am guessing, the most debated current subjects ( masks and vax ) on the forum , is a furiously fast game of fact ping pong “ ,  the object of the game is to trump ( not the orange one ! ) your opponents facts or links with a more superior version damning their feeble attempt into the ground !!

I often think the top players playing this game of “ my Google is faster than your Google “ have two devices open, a laptop and a smartphone for faster replying, the winner usually spent a few baht on an additional monitor for his computer so as to enable the TVF thread and Google are open simultaneously and in max screen size so he can come back with the ultimate rebuttal in a nanosecond !!

The loser goes a link too far and posts a “ reliable “ attachment from some flatearthers , or similar, website and …….. well …. we all know what happens next !!

But don’t despair !, his lieutenant picks up the flag and charges forward relentlessly ????

I read a lot of these threads, I could stop at the title and opening post as that is usually all the info i need but usually continue on for the novelty value alone .

I wonder how many school kids of today realise how lucky they are to have Mr Google to assist in homework ?

Most of us on here we’re schooled in an era when a common calculator was unheard of and arithmetic had to be done at the expense of a pencil and sheets of paper, the answers to “ name the capital of Peru “ or who wrote Beethoven’s 5th Symphony” ( ???? ) meant we had to search our options .

A quick stroll down to the library was the most reliable way to achieve the answers but that meant physical exercise and it was raining outside !!

Dads or Grandads were another option but not always reliable or willing to offer the answers if they had to trudge down to the library ….. in the rain !!

The smarter witted kids knew that a couple of Spangles would be enough to persuade Spotty Johnson to supply the answers to some of these questions on the school bus home ( or back to school the next morning for the lazier ones ) . Of course, threats of physical violence were always a back up plan !

“Write an essay on …. “ was a dreaded phrase for many kids and meant hours spent plagiarising library books or death threats for Spotty Johnson !!

Art homework !!, well that was an impossible task unless you had siblings willing to help, I dared not even ask my two older brothers as it would have surely ended up with an Indian burn or a “ dead leg “ !! Obviously getting on the school bus with a monstrosity made from Weet-a-bix boxes and lolly sticks was not going to happen so after the “ sorry Miss , my dog ate my homework “ ploy had failed miserably I had to run the risk of detention or a visit to the “ Head “( headmaster for our American readers ! ).

 

I have seen some younger Thai relatives making some art projects as homework so I guess things haven’t moved on too far in that respect. But the older ones are usually seated at the family laptop or scrolling furiously on mums Android looking round to see if “ I can see your voice has started yet !! “.

 

The debate on whether kids nowadays are more intelligent due to the facility in obtaining answers from the Net or it is all just fleeting knowledge that doesn’t stick is a large one and not for here .

 

Maybe I will start a thread on it  ????

Ehjoyed the very familiar walk down memory lane with that one ! ????

[rumak]

3 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Not AD !!

He has a few inches on me ????

 

any jokes regarding that would surely violate SOME "rule "  on this very sensitive site

 

[CharlieH]

8 minutes ago, rumak said:

 

any jokes regarding that would surely violate SOME "rule "  on this very sensitive site

 

Dont need a "rule", havnt you read the red paragraph ? ????

[rumak]

Just now, CharlieH said:

Dont need a "rule", havnt you read the red paragraph ? ????

 

I used to have everything down on paper so I could be sure not to get caught out on rule 23 paragraph 4   subsection 3 b 

 

then covid hit and the big rush on toilet paper happenned ,  all shops were out ,  so I had to use what i had at the time

 

please send me a copy again, sir                  

[CharlieH]

1 minute ago, rumak said:

 

I used to have everything down on paper so I could be sure not to get caught out on rule 23 paragraph 4   subsection 3 b 

 

then covid hit and the big rush on toilet paper happenned ,  all shops were out ,  so I had to use what i had at the time

 

please send me a copy again, sir                  

Only if you (without googling) can give me a link between neighbours and TVF. Cant seem to wotk out what the.....this thread is about, seems to be Coronation St !

[rumak]

Just now, CharlieH said:

Only if you (without googling) can give me a link between neighbours and TVF. Cant seem to wotk out what the.....this thread is about, seems to be Coronation St !

 

the only answer that comes to mind, sir charles, is............ "don't worry,  be happy ! "

[CharlieH]

2 minutes ago, rumak said:

 

the only answer that comes to mind, sir charles, is............ "don't worry,  be happy ! "

Quoting the Mods handbook, clever !

[faraday]

Gentlemen of Isaan, I have grave news for you...????

 

Last night, I was sent this picture from a gubmint sauce, showing our beloved Owl being sucked up by a UFO!!

 

Please pray for his speedy return to planet Tvf... ????

 

 

[FarFlungFalang]

40 minutes ago, rumak said:

 

I used to have everything down on paper so I could be sure not to get caught out on rule 23 paragraph 4   subsection 3 b 

 

then covid hit and the big rush on toilet paper happenned ,  all shops were out ,  so I had to use what i had at the time

 

please send me a copy again, sir                  

The Great Dunny Paper Shortage of 2020 I remember it well.

[Andrew Dwyer]

30 minutes ago, faraday said:

Gentlemen of Isaan, I have grave news for you...????

 

Last night, I was sent this picture from a gubmint sauce, showing our beloved Owl being sucked up by a UFO!!

 

Please pray for his speedy return to planet Tvf... ????

 

 

It is also reported that the UFO was spotted parked behind the Ban Dung 7-11 as a strange figure was buying the jumbo size KY !!

 

So Owl should be returned to us safe and sound shortly ………… as long as he survives the anal probing of course ????

[Odysseus123]

26 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

The Great Dunny Paper Shortage of 2020 I remember it well.

Yeah man..it was heavy man..all the millennials suddenly decided to vacate the internet for 57 seconds and take a dump whilst their Gen Xer parents commenced to dial for the Prozac man...

A true crisis in which Western civilization disappeared down the boghole..

[Bredbury Blue]

4 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Harold Bishop and Emily Bishop

Their love child is the football (soccer) writer Oliver Holt.

[Golden Triangle]

47 minutes ago, faraday said:

Gentlemen of Isaan, I have grave news for you...????

 

Last night, I was sent this picture from a gubmint sauce, showing our beloved Owl being sucked up by a UFO!!

 

Please pray for his speedy return to planet Tvf... ????

 

 

I had to read that twice, just to be sure it said 'up'................. I'll get me coat.