Diary of a farang in Isaan

[Bredbury Blue]

36 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

That would be 'pulling my Hampton' or 'jerking my Gibraltar'.

My older lad, watching Pesky Blinders, was trying to wind me up last night being a bit cheeky and trying to take the mickey. I asked him "are you trying to pull my plonker?". I then had to explain it as he was clueless. Having lived here all his life he's still learning something new all the time about his british side. Just recently introduced him to proper coffee and colmans mustard after years of asking him to try them: still turns his nose up though at Piccalilli.

[faraday]

Then of course there's having Farmer Giles...555

[bluesofa]

37 minutes ago, faraday said:

Then of course there's having Farmer Giles...555

Just stop piling it on now.

[Assurancetourix]

1 hour ago, faraday said:

Then of course there's having Farmer Giles...555

I went to see on Google what it is ..( Tolkien ) 
and since you are talking about Giles ...
I offer you another one ( Giles Ji Ungpakorn ) who is a Thai academic with two nationalities: Thai and English
He is the youngest son of former Bank of Thailand governor and Thammasat University rector Puey Ungpakorn.
And Puey Ungpakorn was one of the founders of Seri-Thai, the organized resistance against the Japanese during the 2nd world war.

To understand and better understand what Thailand is today, reading him is almost compulsory.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Ji_Ungpakorn

[chickenslegs]

6 hours ago, owl sees all said:

One that springs to mind is the saying for 'joking' or 'having a laugh'' when it's not obvious. That would be 'pulling my Hampton' or 'jerking my Gibraltar'.

My former M-i-L was a true cockney, but she didn't use rhyming slang in normal conversation.

However, I was interested to learn quite a bit about it from her.

For example: A cockney might say "I've got a terrible case of the farmers" or "I'm just going for a jimmy, won't be long".

The rhyming word (i.e.- giles for piles, or riddle for piddle) was not spoken.

So, Owl's Hampton, and Gibraltar would be understood as "wick" (dick) and "rock" (cock) respectively.

Sorry to sound like a nerd, but I don't get many opportunities to show off my knowledge of trivia.

Must go now, my treacle will be mum if I spend too much time on the pistol.

 

 

Edited April 26, 2020 by chickenslegs
clarity

[sotonowl]

The reason I asked @owl sees all was whilst we're locked down I've started learning German. Unfortunately they don't do a Thai course or I'd have had a go at that.

https://www.duolingo.com/learn Is the site I use, not sure why German but it keeps the brain working I suppose. I'd recommend the site should you wish to make the poor girls life a misery.????????

I'd recommend she learn Welsh, you just never know when you'll bump into a Welsh speaker, it must come in handy at sometime.????

Edited April 26, 2020 by sotonowl

[pineapple01]

An Issan Diary would make Mrs Dales Diary look like a Roman Orgy.

[Assurancetourix]

15 hours ago, GarryP said:

Cockney rhyming slang. Stairs and phone. 

Sandshoe ...

I am learning and seeing my great age it will not be ham & cheesy ..

[Assurancetourix]

We could reply to a certain person with this language, like that, to see ...

Capishe ?

[Assurancetourix]

Yesterday, Sunday April 26, 2020, a short 36 km balade on my MTBike.
I went to see the progress of the widening of Route 22

 

On leaving the village I stop to chat a little with one of my sister-in-law who is in the process of transforming her house.
and to please sotonowl, I photographed my MTBike in front of the house.

 

 

On road 22, coming from Udon and going to Sawang ;

At the very end in the dust a bridge under construction ( really sorry sotonowl, i forgot to put my MTBike on the photo )

 

 

On the way back

 

 

[Bredbury Blue]

25 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

balade

I googled it. French for promenade, stroll, etc. Correct or is it a French cycling term?

[Assurancetourix]

8 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

I googled it. French for promenade, stroll, etc. Correct or is it a French cycling term?

Until the beginning of the 20 * century, the English aristocracy spoke only French.

This word "stroll" with a single "l" is sometimes used in its French form by English poets;
sorry, no example before my eyes.
As for ballade with two "l" it is a form of medieval poem .

 

Next time I'll try to find a cockney rhyming slang translation? 

[bluesofa]

11 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

Until the beginning of the 20 * century, the English aristocracy spoke only French.

This word "stroll" with a single "l" is sometimes used in its French form by English poets;
sorry, no example before my eyes.
As for ballade with two "l" it is a form of medieval poem .

 

Next time I'll try to find a cockney rhyming slang translation? 

OK, my old china.

[Assurancetourix]

Just now, bluesofa said:

OK, my old china.

I beg your Osama  ....

[bluesofa]

4 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

I beg your Osama  ....

I've not heard that before, but I understood it.

Did you look that up, or have you just made it up?

[AndyAndyAndy]

I drove on the road from Udon to Sakon twice last week and both time I didn't see a single worker. On the road between Si Songkhram to Nakhon Phanom you at least see a few guys aimlessly driving tractors, although nothing seemed to progress in the past year too. ????

[Assurancetourix]

1 minute ago, bluesofa said:

I've not heard that before, but I understood it.

Did you look that up, or have you just made it up?

for the moment it's ABC ;

I use the link you offered me;
I will have to learn quickly and well, at 71 it seems difficult but not insurmountable.

[Assurancetourix]

2 minutes ago, AndyAndyAndy said:

I drove on the road from Udon to Sakon twice last week and both time I didn't see a single worker. On the road between Si Songkhram to Nakhon Phanom you at least see a few guys aimlessly driving tractors, although nothing seemed to progress in the past year too. ????

Yet they are there and well there, but not before 8 am .. Oh! they are Thai;
first a good somtam then we go slowly;

should not be a contracture by starting the job ...

 

as for Sri Songkhram to Nakhon Phanom, there, we are on secondary roads very far from road 22

[Assurancetourix]

8 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Did you look that up, or have you just made it up?

look that up ;

not yet good enough to invent an expression;
I hope that I will be able to do so soon.

[Assurancetourix]

13 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

I went to see on Google what it is ..( Tolkien ) 

except that in Cockney Rhyming slang the definition is quite different  

Thank you to the three nice members who put me a "like" because they could have made fun of me. 

[faraday]

Ball of chalk - walk

 

What happens though if you get caught short & need a Eartha?

[Assurancetourix]

7 minutes ago, faraday said:

Ball of chalk - walk

 

What happens though if you get caught short & need a Eartha?

About a Eartha ; I need an explanation 

I know the signification of  Eartha Kitt ( and who was Eartha Kitt ) and Eartha Kitts ...

Owl's thread will become a slang school 

[faraday]

Eartha Kitt - sh!t

[Assurancetourix]

and eartha kitts ( with a "s" ) = tits 

[Will27]

15 hours ago, faraday said:

Then of course there's having Farmer Giles...555

We used to say they've got Jim Nabors.

[Will27]

8 minutes ago, faraday said:

Eartha Kitt - sh!t

What about, "he got caught having a lamb shank"

[Assurancetourix]

14 minutes ago, Will27 said:

What about, "he got caught having a lamb shank"

I like certain Japanese things  

[thaibeachlovers]

On 4/26/2020 at 12:29 AM, Assurancetourix said:

You are not likely to see this kind of photo; I feel dizzy on the third rung of a ladder. 

 

By cons when I am on my MTBike, a dizzying descent does not scare me

 

Road 1249 , border with Myanmar , we were coming back from Doi Angkhang 

 

 

Lower photo looks like the hill road between Lamphun and Lampang. My wife's Hilux ute used to power up those like they were hillocks. I very much liked the drive. Happy days long passed.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

really sorry sotonowl, i forgot to put my MTBike on the photo )

Don't apologise. Your photos are better without.

 

Honestly, it's like my ex, not a photo without her in front of the attractions.

Edited April 27, 2020 by thaibeachlovers

[Assurancetourix]

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Lower photo looks like the hill road between Lamphun and Lampang. My wife's Hilux ute used to power up those like they were hillocks. I very much liked the drive. Happy days long passed.

This road is a four lanes one ; I drove there many times ; 

There are not mind-boggling percentages like on this road between Doi Angkhand and Mae Sun