Do you know any?

If this subforum becomes any more puerile, it may need to be renamed "Outside The Sandbox".

Correctly spelled, Lannarebirth. Good for you.

If this subforum becomes any more puerile, it may need to be renamed "Outside The Sandbox".

Case in point in the post above...the last post...the post previous to this one.... and for chuck, post number 3.

Having said that...I suppose this post is a case in point also.

Now you're getting it, Mr. Harcourt.

Now you're getting it, Mr. Harcourt.

Sure. Is anyone really 'getting it'???

You don't really call someone "farang" who isn't in Thailand.

You don't really call someone "farang" who isn't in Thailand.

I do. Certainly, there isn't much difference - homogeneity.

Now you're getting it, Mr. Harcourt.

Sure. Is anyone really 'getting it'???

Only when we pay for it. And, we all pay for it one way or another.

You don't really call someone "farang" who isn't in Thailand.

I think "farang" would be a good name for an automobile with lots of power... or maybe even a motorcycle.

You don't really call someone "farang" who isn't in Thailand.

I think "farang" would be a good name for an automobile with lots of power... or maybe even a motorcycle.

Sounds more like a fruity desert than a car. But with the names of car models that come out of Japan, farang would be an improvement.

"farang" sounds too similar to "Ferengi" to be a coincidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

"farang" sounds too similar to "Ferengi" to be a coincidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

I didn't go to your link, but your point brings up something that I have been interested in.... In the Pacific, foreigners are "palangi", "falangi", and "valangi".

Too much of a coincidence.

Where is the common root?

"farang" sounds too similar to "Ferengi" to be a coincidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

I didn't go to your link, but your point brings up something that I have been interested in.... In the Pacific, foreigners are "palangi", "falangi", and "valangi".

Too much of a coincidence.

Where is the common root?

It's in the link.

"farang" sounds too similar to "Ferengi" to be a coincidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

I didn't go to your link, but your point brings up something that I have been interested in.... In the Pacific, foreigners are "palangi", "falangi", and "valangi".

Too much of a coincidence.

Where is the common root?

It's in the link.

Yeah, I was aware of the Arabic and Persian roots......which has logical connection with Thai useage...but does not explain Polynesian use.

A curious side topic.

Did the OP mean 'bore' or 'boor'... but I agree with the other BMs; this post is definitely Bedlam material and definitely not OTP material. (Am I being boorish?)

Did the OP mean 'bore' or 'boor'... but I agree with the other BMs; this post is definitely Bedlam material and definitely not OTP material. (Am I being boorish?)

I think he meant bore, a person who evokes boredom....but it is simmilar to, and he may have meant, boor, a crude, uncouth person lacking culture or refinement.

Perhaps he meant boer? Some of them are quite smug.

"farang" sounds too similar to "Ferengi" to be a coincidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

I didn't go to your link, but your point brings up something that I have been interested in.... In the Pacific, foreigners are "palangi", "falangi", and "valangi".

Too much of a coincidence.

Where is the common root?

HA! I can relate, living in Samoa, Tonga, and French Polynesia for years. If the truth were to be told, nearly every non-western culture has a term of address as to European foreigners. It almost always translates as Evil Foreign Devil Bastards. Joking, naturally....

Did the OP mean 'bore' or 'boor'... but I agree with the other BMs; this post is definitely Bedlam material and definitely not OTP material. (Am I being boorish?)

I think he meant bore, a person who evokes boredom....but it is simmilar to, and he may have meant, boor, a crude, uncouth person lacking culture or refinement.

Perhaps he meant boer? Some of them are quite smug.

Not any more.

no

You don't really call someone "farang" who isn't in Thailand.

I think "farang" would be a good name for an automobile with lots of power... or maybe even a motorcycle.

...or a general reference to a 'dark presence'.

You don't really call someone "farang" who isn't in Thailand.

I think "farang" would be a good name for an automobile with lots of power... or maybe even a motorcycle.

...or a general reference to a 'dark presence'.

Tell us what's on your mind, in 25 words or more.

Simply and clearly.