Cliché?

The 501st post being in Bedlam and saying Hi?

Regards

Apologies A Traveller, you didn't get a welcome, you didn't see Humphrey Bear on your travels did you? 5555555555

Good Luck

Moss

And as everything Thai has already been discussed here it would kill most discussion and turn the forum into a search engine.

It is a TV cliché in my opinion to tell an FNG to use the Search Button, all he wants generally is to get an answer to a question that is dominating his own personal bubble at that time, a search may well be out of date at that particular time.

As for others, I agree, do we want a search engine, or do we want relevant and new and on topic views?

Good Luck

Moss

One cliché I find a tad annoying is people proudly boasting about having Thai friends here and dropping them into conversations for no reason. I.e. "When I was out with my Thai friends the other night...". Why not just "my friends"? Why make a point of mentioning that they're Thai? Similar I guess to the TG one which is also a bit annoying.

Anyway, in some cases it may be relevant, e.g. a thread asking about a Thai person's perspective or opinion on something, but a lot of the time it seems people are just feeling overly pleased with themselves because they've managed to connect socially with a few of the local people.

Agreed, surely they should only mention where their friends are from if it's relevant!

Agreed, surely they should only mention where their friends are from if it's relevant!

My Greek friends are in complete agreement with you on that

Agreed, surely they should only mention where their friends are from if it's relevant!

My Greek friends are in complete agreement with you on that

I have just checked with my Indian friends and they agree also...

DOH!

I was sitting around talking with MY FRIENDS, telling them about this.

And although they initially agreed with everything said here, I then proceeded to tell them about Vic's Greek friends, and Suegha's Indian friends.

Suddenly MY FRIENDS backpedalled and vehemently disagreed.

Would it be appropriate to mention that my friends were Turks and Pakistani's?

(Cue Lennon's Imagine all the people.... )

Well my imaginary friend is from Mars , so beat that !

I believe you mate! The only people capable of befriending you must be from another planet

I tell you what I ######ing hate 'TIT' and then when the bastards put in as an explanation '(This is Thailand)', like we dont ######ing know where we are or what TIT stands for, ######ing <deleted>.

That Trink has a lot to answer for.

I did not know what TIT stanted for....

Definitely... I am stupid. ..today is not my day...

Well i don´t like the cliche: western women are all macho like, fat and frigid...thai woman are the best...i guest coming from a western woman this is also a cliche...or well i don´t know...

Few women are "macho" (I've gotten into arguments before on the origins of this word and

always lost but IMO it has little to do with wearing studded dog collars) but those that are are

all called , in Thailand at least , "Tom".

Some "western women" are fat and frivolous.

Some are skinny and frigid.

The rest are the far side of that wall of big guys over there.

Saying graceless Fawn is a fella is a bit of a cliche, why do members do that? Is it because they don't believe that any woman that would get herself in so many scrapes would admit it, or is it that they think only a fella could come up with such 'accident' prone persona. It's one of TV lifes mysteries that will be repeated over and over, or at least until GF hangs up her boots and stays out of trouble. Don't hold your breath.

OK, firstly I'm not one of those that thinks she's a bloke. I absolutely think she's a woman. Secondly, I don't mean any offence by what I'm going to say - it's just my take on the reasoning behind why some people persist in thinking that way.

I don't think it's anything to do with being accident prone. I think it's the way she presents herself. She comes across as very girly, very flirtatious & sometimes quite sexual. Most of us women on here don't do that. I would imagine that all of us with ambiguous niks (Jet, leisurely, MiG, me etc) have been thought of as a bloke by other blokes, on occasion, because of the way that we post. GF is thought of as a bloke posting as a woman; it's different. I think she might come across as trying too hard to prove she's a woman, if you understand that; OTT at being a woman, rather than natural.

Sorry, GF, what I've said was certainly not meant in a nasty way, at all. It's just the reason I think you get a lot of the flack you do...

Look NR , and I'm being serious now , if you should ever start to think you're a bloke TALK

TO SOMEONE. OK ?

F/Say's gonna get a spanking from Boo soon!... Wish it were me!

re> Nov Rain... :D

I would like to add however, as a newbie I didn't know about the search function! So let's be a little more gentle on the newbies! They might be the future stars of Bedlam...

I want to be a star of Bedlahem.

You are already Jet, you are already!!!

Ok, if I am a Bedlahem star, then where are the three wise men, the gold, frankincense and myrhh, Brian and his Mom, the gourd and the shoe?

then where are the three wise men

There's only 43,000 members. Give us time to hit the necessary critical mass.

then where are the three wise men

There's only 43,000 members. Give us time to hit the necessary critical mass.

What! ...... you mean that the amount of critics that we have isn't large enough already

Every Thai you encounter from the businessman to the samlor driver and the burger flipper is connected to some mythical mafia and will have you killed over the slightest disagreement so it's best to bend over and take whatever crap they give you.

Good one!

Every Thai you encounter from the businessman to the samlor driver and the burger flipper is connected to some mythical mafia and will have you killed over the slightest disagreement so it's best to bend over and take whatever crap they give you.

And they're all hard as nails and fully trained in Muay Thai, and could break every bone in your body with a mere flick of the wrist...

Every Thai you encounter from the businessman to the samlor driver and the burger flipper is connected to some mythical mafia and will have you killed over the slightest disagreement so it's best to bend over and take whatever crap they give you.

And they're all hard as nails and fully trained in Muay Thai, and could break every bone in your body with a mere flick of the wrist...

No problem, just go to the nearest expat bar and grab a dozen ex-SAS

The use of abbreviations doesn't particularly irritate me as ones like AFAIK and IMHO can be figured from the context they are used in.

As for ROTFLMAO I had it in the back of my mind to one day ask what it meant but didn't rush it as I suspected that the answer wouldn't exactly light up my life. I'm glad I didn't because it didn't.

The use of textish gets up my nose. if u hve a keybrd with 1 key pr lttr wat is th prob wth usng thm 4 the prpse of ritin. it tks vry lttel mor tim unles u r a hunt n pek tipist.

I can understand it for SMS messages but even then I use correct spelling ( OK sometimes), punctuation and use of capitals. It might take a bit more time but I was taught to speak, read and write English proper like what the toffs use. Oh and I'm a dinosaur.

also,people what write with no capitals or spaces after punctuation marks p1ss me off.where did they learn,supposing they did learn,to write?it makes reading their posts,when i bother,so difficult.afaik all languages using romanised characters uses capitals,according to set rules,and spaces after punctuation marks.but then what do i know,i was only taught english in england anyway.

The use of abbreviations doesn't particularly irritate me as ones like AFAIK and IMHO can be figured from the context they are used in.

As for ROTFLMAO I had it in the back of my mind to one day ask what it meant but didn't rush it as I suspected that the answer wouldn't exactly light up my life. I'm glad I didn't because it didn't.

That sort of shorthand mainly evolved out of techs using them to save keying or adding in reports. During the prepublic access to Internet, computer boards such as FidoNet had a lot of people using them. Entire messages would be written in text shorthand and it was a way that the ruling class seperated themselves from the plebs (newbies)

fyi roflmao = rolling on floor laughing my arse (ass) off

The use of textish gets up my nose. if u hve a keybrd with 1 key pr lttr wat is th prob wth usng thm 4 the prpse of ritin. it tks vry lttel mor tim unles u r a hunt n pek tipist.

I can understand it for SMS messages but even then I use correct spelling ( OK sometimes), punctuation and use of capitals. It might take a bit more time but I was taught to speak, read and write English proper like what the toffs use. Oh and I'm a dinosaur.

This is just another example of English as an evolving (devolving?) language - the use of phonetic and SMS codes is a reality. Most teachers will cite numerous cases of students submitting essays littered with such spellings. I find great enjoyment in the use of the English language and it saddens me to see it abused in this way but I am sure every generation says the same thing about the next.

I had staff in western countries who cannot write without a computer anything more than a simple note. The reason is that they cannot spell and a biro does not come with a spell checker in built.

How many times do you see people at counters using a calculator to work out the change from 200B for a meal of 130B?

also,people what write with no capitals or spaces after punctuation marks p1ss me off.where did they learn,supposing they did learn,to write?it makes reading their posts,when i bother,so difficult.afaik all languages using romanised characters uses capitals,according to set rules,and spaces after punctuation marks.but then what do i know,i was only taught english in england anyway.

Start the sentence without a capital. Omit or ignore basic punctuation rules. Have sentences that have four or five lines with a comma every third word, or none at all. Spelling piss with p1ss

Ah we are all dinosaurs but does not mean we will become extinct - Crocodiles evolved at the same time as dinosaurs and they still wander around putting the bite on people.

That all said I think that the message is the main thing - if it is meaningless it can be beautifully written and crafted but still remain crap.

CB

How many times do you see people at counters using a calculator to work out the change from 200B for a meal of 130B?

It happened so many time. They even do it more than once just to check. Or they count the money about 4 times before giving it to you. I used to wonder about this. Then realised the reason. If they ###### up. It comes out of their salary. 20 or 30 baht is not too much to us. But for Thais thats a lot.

Every Thai you encounter from the businessman to the samlor driver and the burger flipper is connected to some mythical mafia and will have you killed over the slightest disagreement so it's best to bend over and take whatever crap they give you.

And they're all hard as nails and fully trained in Muay Thai, and could break every bone in your body with a mere flick of the wrist...

No problem, just go to the nearest expat bar and grab a dozen ex-SAS

Yeah, i've met loads of ex-SAS too

Ok, if I am a Bedlahem star, then where are the three wise men, the gold, frankincense and myrhh, Brian and his Mom, the gourd and the shoe?

You pushed it too far with the 3 wise men!!!

Reminds of the old joke as to why they couldn't have a Nativity play in ireland. They couldn't find 3 wise men and a virgin.

Another cliché that pops up is the mods referring to banning someone as "giving them a holiday".

To an uninitiated newbie it must get very confusing, with all these free holidays being given out all the time...!

Dantilley, no really! we get free holidays...

To the posters of this thread, sorry about the absence of the three wise men... they had some trouble getting out of image shack, but here is your TRIO OF WISDOM>

Or was it these three, Tiffy?

*photos and other data are for illustrative purposes only.

Very funny...

Fine, now where are the f** gifts?

Fine, now where are the f** gifts?

You see Jet you are a cunning linguist!

BTW Did you know that in the bible there's actually no mention of 3 wise men? I'm sure some of you are aware of it.