The Thai Visa Clique

[mraitchison]

It is interesting to read what people think.

I am glad its not just me - although I am a little sad that others have felt like this.

I will just have to wait and see if I am going to keep posting or not. Time will tell.

[redrus]

Page 10 of this thread is the best yet, I have tears of laughter and appreciation in my eyes. How funny.....

Still not a cross word said either.....

Jai Dee, the Gavel has hit the wooden thingy. You're in.

Nice post back there Thai Pauly. Words of wisdom indeed.

There are cliques and, I don't think I've been around long enough to be in one. (apart from the drinking one- my avatar and mentor would never let me out of it) I said before I use TV for what I want from it, and enjoy it.

I don't think anyone should feel bad about being here, or let others make them feel bad. Come see Uncle rus if they do.

redrus

[tuky]

It is interesting to read what people think.

I am glad its not just me - although I am a little sad that others have felt like this.

I will just have to wait and see if I am going to keep posting or not. Time will tell.

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Do you feel that you do not get noticed mraitchison? or credit is not given for your insightful posts?

Is there anyway we can help you out?

Perhaps by suggesting an avatar, you will be more recognisable. Use a signature that describes you and what you want out of this forum. Or perhaps just a joke.

Anyway, give it time and see how you feel, we will still be here

[bkkmadness]

I always thought of this forum kinda like a local pub, albeit a big one, with the admin being the landlord and the mods being the bouncers.

When you first step into the local you got th groups in their respective corners and it can be awkward to fit in, but after a time if you're a friendly enough chap then you soon either join one group or mingle with the lot of them all at different levels. If you act like an idiot then of course the locals don't want you there and eventually you are 'pressured' to leave.

There is the flipside of this which is what I hate and that is there are a lot of people in this local pub that don't like the intrusions of outsiders (remember the Slaughtered Lamb in American Werewolf?) and these are the types that have a go at new posters just for the sake of it, and many have either stayed and dealt with it, or left, which is a shame coz I think all newbies should be welcomed.

Sometimes the mods and admin do seem a bit slow in dealing with some of the attacks on new posters or join in which shouldn't be encouraged, but that is the way it is, human nature I suppose.

At the end of the day theres not many alternatives to this foum for Thailand so the ones that don't like it have to either get on with it or try to find a better local.

I think everyone on here, especially some of the older posters that are in these 'cliques' could make a better effort to encourage newbie posters to stick around although by and large this is a very friendly forum, as long as you act with a bit of common sense, politeness and decency. Something people often forget to use when they leave the real world and enter the cyber world.

Beware the Moon.

[Blake7]

10 pages so far on this topic. Either someone is trying to get their post count up or there is some truth to this topic.

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Who on earth would want to get their post count up? Does anyone think that a high post count is something to be proud of? I would have thought the opposite...

[BambinA]

10 pages so far on this topic. Either someone is trying to get their post count up or there is some truth to this topic.

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oh well well well .... dont you know 100,000 posts count you will get gift voucher as work permit from TV

[gburns57au]

10 pages so far on this topic. Either someone is trying to get their post count up or there is some truth to this topic.

Who on earth would want to get their post count up? Does anyone think that a high post count is something to be proud of? I would have thought the opposite...

if they are under 500 it makes a difference

[Tywais]

10 pages so far on this topic. Either someone is trying to get their post count up or there is some truth to this topic.

oh well well well .... dont you know 100,000 posts count you will get gift voucher as work permit from TV

Or possibly an all expense paid funeral.

[Tippaporn]

It is interesting to read what people think.

I am glad its not just me - although I am a little sad that others have felt like this.

I will just have to wait and see if I am going to keep posting or not. Time will tell.

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Do you feel that you do not get noticed mraitchison? or credit is not given for your insightful posts?

Is there anyway we can help you out?

Perhaps by suggesting an avatar, you will be more recognisable. Use a signature that describes you and what you want out of this forum. Or perhaps just a joke.

Anyway, give it time and see how you feel, we will still be here

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mraitchison, you just received a cyber hug from tuky. What a softie!

[Tippaporn]

10 pages so far on this topic. Either someone is trying to get their post count up or there is some truth to this topic.

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Who on earth would want to get their post count up? Does anyone think that a high post count is something to be proud of? I would have thought the opposite...

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if they are under 500 it makes a difference

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I don't post much, only when I think I have something worthwhile to say - and there's a lot of posters who'd dispute that . If Ents could post them I'm an Ent.

At the rate I'm going, let's see, 154 posts in roughly 15 months . . . I'll be a nobody for another 35 months! Tuky, can you throw a comforting cyber arm my way?

[Tippaporn]

Lots of newbies get a lot of flack and I see it happen all the time but not to all of them.  See Thaibebop here, I never jumped on his case and treated him just like a normal person even though he was a scummy newbie and less than human! 

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Thaibebop chewed me up and spit me out on a few ocassions . . . that takes a lot of guts, so I have to admire him!

Although, since then I do suffer from an inferiority complex . . .

[Blake7]

10 pages so far on this topic. Either someone is trying to get their post count up or there is some truth to this topic.

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Who on earth would want to get their post count up? Does anyone think that a high post count is something to be proud of? I would have thought the opposite...

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if they are under 500 it makes a difference

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Why? So they can view Butterfly's silly pictures and hear Professor Farts confessions? Give me a break....

[tuky]

  Tuky, can you throw a comforting cyber arm my way? 

Here Khun Porn, from me to you

Don't forget, you are a very special person and you are very popular. Though sometimes you may feel left out, you have to remember that you are not, it is all in your head. Once you get your head straightened out (I can recommend a good shrink) you will be able to stop reminding yourself, and finally live it.

[Tippaporn]

When you feel like you'd like to belong . . .

I'd like to officially announce the creation of a new clique . . . the Newbie Clique. Posters with 99 or less posts are now welcome to join. Please us the emoticon to readily identify yourself.

Your 100th post will be considered as your "coming of age." By then you should be a member of a least several other cliques, or at least be on the fringes of one.

[tuky]

When you feel like you'd like to belong . . .

I'd like to officially announce the creation of a new clique . . . the Newbie Clique. Posters with 99 or less posts are now welcome to join. Please us the emoticon to readily identify yourself.

Your 100th post will be considered as your "coming of age." By then you should be a member of a least several other cliques, or at least be on the fringes of one.

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Good idea, create a clique that you yourself cannot join, I bet that inspires confidence

[Tippaporn]

Here Khun Porn, from me to you 

Don't forget, you are a very special person and you are very popular. Though sometimes you may feel left out, you have to remember that you are not, it is all in your head. Once you get your head straightened out (I can recommend a good shrink) you will be able to stop reminding yourself, and finally live it.

   

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Aw, shucks! No need for the shrink any longer, Tuky, you've just restored all of my confidence.

(So, that's what you look like . . . not an image that inspires fear of the mods!!!)

Good idea, create a clique that you yourself cannot join, I bet that inspires confidence 

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&lt;deleted&gt;, now did I . . . ?

Edited December 17, 2005 by Tippaporn

[tuky]

I know mate, I might look like a sweet little chick, but deep down I am a right rooster

[thaibebop]

Lots of newbies get a lot of flack and I see it happen all the time but not to all of them.  See Thaibebop here, I never jumped on his case and treated him just like a normal person even though he was a scummy newbie and less than human! 

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Thaibebop chewed me up and spit me out on a few ocassions . . . that takes a lot of guts, so I have to admire him!

Although, since then I do suffer from an inferiority complex . . .

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I did!

I'm sorry if I was an a$$. I try not to be but sometimes I word things in such a way that it sounds worse than I meant it.

[Mighty Mouse]

I always thought of this forum kinda like a local pub, albeit a big one, with the admin being the landlord and the mods being the bouncers.

Some of the female mods have black eyes because of their huge, uncontrollable bouncers.

[redrus]

So now there's the, I'm just a newbie everybody hate's me, think I'm too scared to post.

Clique.

redrus

[thaibebop]

So now there's the, I'm just a newbie everybody hate's me, think I'm too scared to post.

Clique.

redrus

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Dude, I thought you got out of that Clique? What happened?

[dr_Pat_Pong]

even im not  a  kangaroo ..but obviously i have a  pocket

How many guys named "Joey" do you know?

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That'll be over Bambi's head I reckon

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What's over her head, my joke or her 'pocket?'

I know those things stretch but that's ridiculous.

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Stretch a mile before they'll tear an inch

[britmaveric]

Click Click Boom by Saliva

On those Saturdays,

when kids go out and play,

yo I was VP in my room I let the stereo blaze,

wasn't faded,

not jaded,

just a kid with a pad and pen and a big imagination.

All this,

I seek,

I find I push the envelope to the line,

make it,

break it,

take it,

until I'm overrated.

Click, Click Boom.

I'm coming down on the stereo,

hear me on the radio,

click, click boom.

I'm coming down with the new style and you know it's buck wild.

Click, Click Boom

I'm on the radio station touring round the nation,

leaving the scene in devastation.

I can see it in my mind,

I can see it in their eyes.

It's close enough to touch it now,

but far away enough to die.

Click, Click Boom.

What the hel_l is wrong with me?

My mom and dad weren't perfect,

but still you don't hear no cryin ass bitchin from me,

like there seems to be on everybody's CD

so just sit back and relax and let me have your head for a minute,

I can show you something in it,

that has yet to be presented,

oh yeah!

[Repeat Chorus]

Why have I clouded up my mind,

why's my mother always right,

and will I make it?

Fill the end or will I crawl away and die.

Click, Click, Boom.

Click, Click Boom.

Click, Click Boom.

Click, Click Boom.

On those Saturday when kids go out and play yo I was VP in my room

I let the stereo blaze on Saturdays

when kids go out and play, I was VP in my room

I let the stereo blaze its all inside of me,

its all inside of me.

It's coming over me.

It's all inside of me,

it's all inside my head.

Click, Click Boom

I'm coming down on the stereo hear me on the radio.

Click Click Boom

I'm comin down with the new style you know it's buck wild.

Everybody,

Everybody come on.

Click Click Boom

[redrus]

So now there's the, I'm just a newbie everybody hate's me, think I'm too scared to post.

Clique.

redrus

Dude, I thought you got out of that Clique? What happened?

Somebody bigger and better than me cliqued me round the earhole.

...........and there it was, gone..........!

redrus

[thaibebop]

So now there's the, I'm just a newbie everybody hate's me, think I'm too scared to post.

Clique.

redrus

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Dude, I thought you got out of that Clique? What happened?

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Somebody bigger and better than me cliqued me round the earhole. They got you on radar? Man, I had one of those radio tags cliqued on me when I was young, had to remove it with pliers.

...........and there it was, gone..........!

redrus

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[redrus]

Pliers, they were tryers.

They could never pop my clique. I out drank them. That clique bet was easy.

redrus

[Tippaporn]

Thaibebop chewed me up and spit me out on a few ocassions . . . that takes a lot of guts, so I have to admire him! 

Although, since then I do suffer from an inferiority complex . . . 

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I did!

I'm sorry if I was an a$$. I try not to be but sometimes I word things in such a way that it sounds worse than I meant it.

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Mai pen rai, Thaibebop. These are long-forgotten posts and threads. I can't even remember what I said let alone remember what you had replied.

All I can vividly recollect was the unusually cruel and harsh flaming, and the ensuing pain which caused deep and profound scarring upon my grey matter, but given time (and some extremely expensive professional care!) has since healed significantly, and then, thankfully, a subsequent and quite recent cyber hug by an ugly little feathered friend which compassionately delivered me to full recovery!

[kayo]

Who comprises what cliques?

There's the "Kayo-Bambina-Ice Maiden" clique

The "Lampard-Thomas Merton" Clique

The "Gentleman Sucmp and.......um....nobody else" clique.

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Dickie Doo... I love your avatar... Excellent and fitting!

Btw, don't mention my name unless you are in my clique.

That's about right JD. I keep seeing it time and time again people being jumped on for no reason. Its not just here but I would rather just read here and be informed than risk posting and feeling like I don't want to use the site again.

I kind of regret starting this thread but I just felt it was necessary to see what other people thought or if it was just me.

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I haven't read alkl the posts on here, but I would like to say, good to have you posting and sharing a bit yourself.

I would like to think I don't bash people, unless I feel they deserve it. Even then, it's mostly in jest.

When the few times I have overreacted, or been wrong, I think I've always apologised / I think intsintively back to the day I posted a poll berating TMerton, and it was a bit off hand.

I hope you will feel like continuing to share here on what, faults and all, is an outstanding forum for people like us.

[kayo]

So now there's the, I'm just a newbie everybody hate's me, think I'm too scared to post.

Clique.

redrus

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Dude, I thought you got out of that Clique? What happened?

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He double cliqued and woosh.... Like that he was gone!

[redrus]

Never to be seen again,

until the ladies made all the guy's realise " we are nothing without you".....

redrus