Backpackers

[johnnyk]

Most of them are <deleted> but so was I when was 20-something. At least they have ventured away from the shopping mall and out of their own country, so they are a bit more interesting than the losers who never stray beyond their own neighbourhood bubble.

[DJ Pat]

But why the white guys with dreadlocks? What's the connection?

[snakestick]

they had girls for rent and a lady boy beside them as they sipped long neck singas.

These are your higher class of backpacker!! They can afford to enjoy themselves and live a bit!!

Some of 'em must have a little bit of money to invest in a beer and a ladyboy.

Know, actually da to of them were sitting drinking a Singa and da ladyboy just happened to bee standing next two them waiting four someone. these to did knot have dreadlocks though. maybe they spent dreadlock $ on singa

[snakestick]

u no eye saw a pair of backpackers today walking side by side hear near my bros condo on soi 11. they were walking between soi 11 and soi 3 on a narrow road that connects da 2 sois. they had traffic backed up a half a kilo in both directions w/o flinching

[DJ Pat]

I saw three backpackers today standing studying a huge map outside the Emporium, I can't for the life of me think of anything they could be trying to find in that area that would appeal to three huge backpack lugging sandaled tank topped backpackers.

[Dr. Burrito]

I saw three backpackers today standing studying a huge map outside the Emporium, I can't for the life of me think of anything they could be trying to find in that area that would appeal to three huge backpack lugging sandaled tank topped backpackers.

They want to make sure they get the complete Thailand experience!

Twerps!

[DJ Pat]

Twerps!

Why not leave their backpacks at their hotel and save their own sweat?

[Dr. Burrito]

Best I can figure is they have the following parameters;

- always be ready with desalinization tablets

- always be ready with iodine tablets

- always have the snake bite kit handy

- always have a new pair of dirty socks handy

- always have a set of clubbing clothes at the ready

- always have your Dr. Martens at hand

- always have your camara kit prepared for a Pulitzer Prize photo (kit includes Minolta zoom lens)

- always have dried food supply on hand, least the local food supply prove unworthy

There are probably a lot more, but without a handy backpack, how could you be ready for any of the above?

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Twerps!

Why not leave their backpacks at their hotel and save their own sweat?

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Their hotel ? Jeez ... more likely their horrid little room ( or is it loom )

[DJ Pat]

Oh yeah that was obvious, their hotels areso cheap that they aren't safe..

[monochaser]

I think that backpackers are a wonderful thing. i love to watch them assemble at khao san road

[dr_Pat_Pong]

I think that backpackers are a wonderful thing. i love to watch them assemble at khao san road

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That doesn't excite me a whole bunch. Maybe I am missing something

[DJ Pat]

Watching them assemble at Khao sarn rd is painful, especially when you hear them asking eachother stuff like "That temple was sooooo cool" or "Is this ice safe to drink?"

[monochaser]

I like to sit at a round table with a group of them with full packs intact sitting on those little plastic stool. I drink down changs with them and breathe through my mouth the whole time. I have become a master of this breathing technique

[tumdee]

Anything worth saying has been said, R.I.P

So leave the thread alone and stop having a pop at me and leave me alone.

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right on, Jockstar. as for you, DJ Prat, "stop having a pop at me and leave me alone". you sound like one of the backpackers you have been deriding.

backpackers are not so stupid - walking up a beach looking for a room, or trying to find the right bus at Morchit, or using public transport, WITH SUITCASES, is really not viable. living as cheap as you can when trying to travel around the world is quite commendable. or they would run out of money in bangkok and end up becoming boring bigots reading newspapers for free.

as i work in the tourist business (no, i am not an english teacher as Mr DJP suspected) i offer you a fact to consider. backpackers often spend more in their three month visits than Prat-favoured tourists in hotels with suitcases using taxis. the money backpackers spend goes to thai people who need the income. the money Prat-favoured tourists spend either ends up in foreign company accounts or with scam merchants who don't need it.

as for hair styles, clothes, conversation, and body odour - grow up. you sound like thaksin. variety should be the spice of life, and sometimes you like, sometimes you don't like. and i bet you smell sometimes.

[Felt 35]

What’s wrong with young student’s travelling the world around on an inexpensive budget?

Is it really "Foreigners" who think they “sit so high on their own horses” here in Thailand that they not can accept other people, from their own continent, which want to travel, eat and sleep inexpensive on a journey which maybe is the only time they have the opportunity in their lifetime?

[DJ Pat]

I saw a guy in Big Johns who sat from 11am to 8pm at the same table nursing the same large warm bottle of water reading the same book ALL DAY.

That is not my definition of sanook...where's the point?

[RamdomChances]

Who is "Big John" ? Did'nt he mind the guy sat there all day with just some water?

[monochaser]

I'm leaning towards Tumdees point of view here DJpat. we do need a variety of foul stenches emanating from backpackers, be it body odor or dreadlock odor

[monochaser]

I used to see those back packer dudes lying in the same hammocks on the foul lake in PP at the guesthouse all day long never budging reading the same book. This sounds like something they could do in their parents back yard. Why bother going anywhere?

[DJ Pat]

Who is "Big John" ? Did'nt he mind the guy sat there all day with just some water?

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I think he understood the backpackers sad plight of being on a budget and having four days stubble and wearing baggy patterned trousers with flip flops.

Big John is an understanding guy who makes nice pies.

[Felt 35]

saw three backpackers today standing studying a huge map outside the Emporium, I can't for the life of me think of anything they could be trying to find in that area that would appeal to three huge backpack lugging sandaled tank topped backpackers

When you see how many local people who visit shopping centres like Emporium even when they have “wan jut” would I absolute say that are a part of the culture here so if they want the total "Thailand experience" that should be a must to include in their visit.

[bollox]

This thread has turned out to be a real pain in the arse ....

[DJ Pat]

I used to see those back packer dudes lying in the same hammocks on the foul lake in PP at the guesthouse all day long never budging reading the same book. This sounds like something they could do in their parents back yard. Why bother going anywhere?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

well erm..exactly!! thats one of the points of the thread, why bother?

This thread has turned out to be a real pain in the arse

But with over 5,000 views some people wanna read it!

[monochaser]

I love this thread man

[DJ Pat]

Saw a new fandangled backpak today. There's even a mobile phone holder!

[monochaser]

you've got to be kidding, now that is classic

[DJ Pat]

another pet hate of mine is when you use an internet cafe frequented by tight backpackers and they all can type a million words a minute so as to save as much money as possible in net time. I hate that noise, it's on a par with fingernails on a blackboard.

[monochaser]

Oh yeah, that's has happened to me too. It's like they took the Evelyn Woodhead speed typing course. I've never heard such rapid fire typing in my life

[monochaser]

Topper of all the toppers I saw today. It was a backpacker hiking up a narrow spiral staircase with pack on to look at bootleg vcds in a pantip shop loft