The Essence Of Being Hi-So

[BigJohnnyBKK]

It's not my homeland or culture so I aint buying squat! We appear to have been ruminating at the same time so in a nutshell, my 'old money' are your 'classy' and my 'wannabe' are your 'insecure'.

And now back to the TV hoipolloi....

I inferred from your words that you believe that truly wealthy people have greater inherent value than those with less.

Perhaps I misunderstood, in which case I apologize.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

Once i saw a hi-so girl (not talking about magazines)

I was walking near KSR, and i saw an Italian economy car from the sixties, transformed into convertible, painted with the most shocking pink panther pink colour..One girl at the wheel..

The girl was young and beautiful, dressed in black and wearing huge sunglasses, with her long black hair in the wind..She looked as cool as the car.

Now, i'm not saying that you must drive a car like that to be hi-so, but for sure it helps.

Hey that was **my** car! Now that I think about it I haven't seen Lek for a while. . .

[folium]

The essence of being hi-so?

Unaware of the existence of ThaiVisa, unless stepped in whilst wearing an exquisite pair of hand-made shoes.

[wana]

Once i saw a hi-so girl (not talking about magazines)

I was walking near KSR, and i saw an Italian economy car from the sixties, transformed into convertible, painted with the most shocking pink panther pink colour..One girl at the wheel..

The girl was young and beautiful, dressed in black and wearing huge sunglasses, with her long black hair in the wind..She looked as cool as the car.

Now, i'm not saying that you must drive a car like that to be hi-so, but for sure it helps.

Hey that was **my** car! Now that I think about it I haven't seen Lek for a while. . .

She told me her name was Sally .........Shes been in melbourne for months,thats probably why nobody has seen her

Edited May 8, 2012 by wana

[mauGR1]

Once i saw a hi-so girl (not talking about magazines)

I was walking near KSR, and i saw an Italian economy car from the sixties, transformed into convertible, painted with the most shocking pink panther pink colour..One girl at the wheel..

The girl was young and beautiful, dressed in black and wearing huge sunglasses, with her long black hair in the wind..She looked as cool as the car.

Now, i'm not saying that you must drive a car like that to be hi-so, but for sure it helps.

Hey that was **my** car! Now that I think about it I haven't seen Lek for a while. . .

She told me her name was Sally .........Shes been in melbourne for months,thats probably why nobody has seen her

You are both wrong,

Her name is Pornsawan, and she's the daughter of one of my secretaries

[StreetCowboy]

I think racial purity is important

[David48]

I think racial purity is important

Hi 5's to you, young man ... 555555

Very subtle!

Oh, BTW, do you consider yourself (not you personally SC) an alcoholic when you get the hic-ups and you gargle with wine?

[StreetCowboy]

I think racial purity is important

Hi 5's to you, young man ... 555555

Very subtle!

Oh, BTW, do you consider yourself (not you personally SC) an alcoholic when you get the hic-ups and you gargle with wine?

I think if you can gargle it instead of guzzling it, you're not an alcoholic. The real proof would be whether you could gargle wine and spit it out after.

When I see the Imam down Sid's he normally gargles a glenmorangie at last orders, to loosen up the vocal chords for the call to prayers at fivet kidding - I'm rarely in Sid's at last orders; I'll normally move on somewhere else...)

SC

[canuckamuck]

I enjoy the company of positive and edifying individuals. I would even tolerate a hi-so if they fit the bill.

[StreetCowboy]

I enjoy the company of positive and edifying individuals. I would even tolerate a hi-so if they fit the bill.

Bill. You should've put that in bold, or no-one would've noticed.

You're a wicked man, though you know it not.

Welease Bwian - he's qwackers!

SC

[MediumPaceBowler]

I think racial purity is important

Very subtle!

There's nothing subtle about revealing your ignorance. And there's nothing subtle about describing ignorance as subtlety.

Allow me to put the two of you out of your misery:

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

Read it.

The current Royal Family (the Chakri Dynasty) is part Chinese. The predecessor of the dynasty's founder, King Taksin, was the son of Chinese immigrant.

Racial purity is NOT important.

This however does not imply that all Thai-Chinese are hi-so. But it does imply a very definite connection between the so-called "hi-so" and the Thai-Chinese.

[theblether]

I think racial purity is important

Very subtle!

There's nothing subtle about revealing your ignorance. And there's nothing subtle about describing ignorance as subtlety.

Allow me to put the two of you out of your misery:

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Thai_Chinese

Read it.

The current Royal Family (the Chakri Dynasty) is part Chinese. The predecessor of the dynasty's founder, King Taksin, was the son of Chinese immigrant.

Racial purity is NOT important.

This however does not imply that all Thai-Chinese are hi-so. But it does imply a very definite connection between the so-called "hi-so" and the Thai-Chinese.

Why are you obsessed about so called Hi-So??

[Payboy]

Once i saw a hi-so girl (not talking about magazines)

I was walking near KSR, and i saw an Italian economy car from the sixties, transformed into convertible, painted with the most shocking pink panther pink colour..One girl at the wheel..

The girl was young and beautiful, dressed in black and wearing huge sunglasses, with her long black hair in the wind..She looked as cool as the car.

Now, i'm not saying that you must drive a car like that to be hi-so, but for sure it helps.

Hey that was **my** car! Now that I think about it I haven't seen Lek for a while. . .

She told me her name was Sally .........Shes been in melbourne for months,thats probably why nobody has seen her

Yeah, all the hormone treatments after the sex change delayed "her" return.

[jayboy]

A quick survey of this thread simply confirms my long held view that most members are clueless on the subject of class in Thailand presumably since their own social circles are rather limited to those who service expatriates.On this thread Samran is the exception, and his RBSC pointer is spot on.Actually Hiso has a definite "new rich" connotation and is quite different from the old Thai upper/ aristocratic class, though there is some overlap.

[carra]

who gives a toss, in my mind nobody is above me or below me

[wana]

Once i saw a hi-so girl (not talking about magazines)

I was walking near KSR, and i saw an Italian economy car from the sixties, transformed into convertible, painted with the most shocking pink panther pink colour..One girl at the wheel..

The girl was young and beautiful, dressed in black and wearing huge sunglasses, with her long black hair in the wind..She looked as cool as the car.

Now, i'm not saying that you must drive a car like that to be hi-so, but for sure it helps.

Hey that was **my** car! Now that I think about it I haven't seen Lek for a while. . .

She told me her name was Sally .........Shes been in melbourne for months,thats probably why nobody has seen her

Yeah, all the hormone treatments after the sex change delayed "her" return.

youve clearly got it the wrong way around

the sex change treatments are performed in thailand BEFORE they go to the west to work

(who could afford to do it the other way around? )

[Payboy]

youve clearly got it the wrong way around

the sex change treatments are performed in thailand BEFORE they go to the west to work

(who could afford to do it the other way around? )

Hi-so's?

[HardenedSoul]

Why are you obsessed about so called Hi-So??

The troll using the MPB monicker believes - somewhat understandably - that any topic calling for discussion on aspirational topics such as "one's greatest achievement in Thailand" or "my exotic Thai-Chinese GF" will always inspire lively debate. He works on the assumption that most people - even those old enough to know better - see the grass as greener on the other side and that secretly, we all measure ourselves against those who appear to have it all especially those of us living in or very familiar with a country where even a modest amount of money can elevate one far above the overwhelming majority who are hopelessly poor.

Personally, having spent a considerable amount of time around the UK's upper-middle classes in my embarrassingly impressionable early 20s (Gatecrasher Ball, Eddie Davenport, Jeremy Taylor - feel free to Google), I quickly realized that no matter how old the money and no matter how venerated the name attached to it, these people and their parents should not be considered role models for any lifeform more evolved than an amoeba.

Whether or not the troll known as MPB actually does aspire to rise through the ranks of Thai society on the coat-tails of his exotic, Thai-Chinese, BMW Z4-driving, ex-Vogue cover model, Ph.D-qualified GF, is largely irrelevant.

What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

[StreetCowboy]

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What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

His cleverness, for sure.

The "Posting Guidelines" are always the highlight of any MPB thread.

I love the irony and dry self mockery; his delivery is so dead-pan that if it were not for the posting guidelines, you might not realise it was completely tongue-in-cheek (no, not like that, JT!)

I enjoy his stories about the girlfriend who has narrowed her father's identity down to one of three races...

SC

[theblether]

Why are you obsessed about so called Hi-So??

The troll using the MPB monicker believes - somewhat understandably - that any topic calling for discussion on aspirational topics such as "one's greatest achievement in Thailand" or "my exotic Thai-Chinese GF" will always inspire lively debate. He works on the assumption that most people - even those old enough to know better - see the grass as greener on the other side and that secretly, we all measure ourselves against those who appear to have it all especially those of us living in or very familiar with a country where even a modest amount of money can elevate one far above the overwhelming majority who are hopelessly poor.

Personally, having spent a considerable amount of time around the UK's upper-middle classes in my embarrassingly impressionable early 20s (Gatecrasher Ball, Eddie Davenport, Jeremy Taylor - feel free to Google), I quickly realized that no matter how old the money and no matter how venerated the name attached to it, these people and their parents should not be considered role models for any lifeform more evolved than an amoeba.

Whether or not the troll known as MPB actually does aspire to rise through the ranks of Thai society on the coat-tails of his exotic, Thai-Chinese, BMW Z4-driving, ex-Vogue cover model, Ph.D-qualified GF, is largely irrelevant.

What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

I remember the vogue for those Balls around that time ( in fact did they not go on well into the 90's?? ), a few people made a fortune out of them. I would have loved to have seen them.

Set them up in Bangkok HS and you would make a fortune too.

ps. On your primary point, 100% correct. Surely even the OP realizes by now that his brand is toxic.

[theblether]

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What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

His cleverness, for sure.

The "Posting Guidelines" are always the highlight of any MPB thread.

I love the irony and dry self mockery; his delivery is so dead-pan that if it were not for the posting guidelines, you might not realise it was completely tongue-in-cheek (no, not like that, JT!)

I enjoy his stories about the girlfriend who has narrowed her father's identity down to one of three races...

SC

Talking about JT, I haven't seen him post for a while.......hmmmm, I wonder if he has ran out of opinions??

[StreetCowboy]

...

What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

His cleverness, for sure.

The "Posting Guidelines" are always the highlight of any MPB thread.

I love the irony and dry self mockery; his delivery is so dead-pan that if it were not for the posting guidelines, you might not realise it was completely tongue-in-cheek (no, not like that, JT!)

I enjoy his stories about the girlfriend who has narrowed her father's identity down to one of three races...

SC

Talking about JT, I haven't seen him post for a while.......hmmmm, I wonder if he has ran out of opinions??

Lordloveaduck, maybe he's bitten off more than he could chew?

SC

Edit: Corrected cockneyism

Edited May 8, 2012 by StreetCowboy

[wana]

Why are you obsessed about so called Hi-So??

The troll using the MPB monicker believes - somewhat understandably - that any topic calling for discussion on aspirational topics such as "one's greatest achievement in Thailand" or "my exotic Thai-Chinese GF" will always inspire lively debate. He works on the assumption that most people - even those old enough to know better - see the grass as greener on the other side and that secretly, we all measure ourselves against those who appear to have it all especially those of us living in or very familiar with a country where even a modest amount of money can elevate one far above the overwhelming majority who are hopelessly poor.

Personally, having spent a considerable amount of time around the UK's upper-middle classes in my embarrassingly impressionable early 20s (Gatecrasher Ball, Eddie Davenport, Jeremy Taylor - feel free to Google), I quickly realized that no matter how old the money and no matter how venerated the name attached to it, these people and their parents should not be considered role models for any lifeform more evolved than an amoeba.

Whether or not the troll known as MPB actually does aspire to rise through the ranks of Thai society on the coat-tails of his exotic, Thai-Chinese, BMW Z4-driving, ex-Vogue cover model, Ph.D-qualified GF, is largely irrelevant.

What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

i agree 1000%......but when it gets boring around here ,sometimes troll threads are the only ones with any participants

when someone asks a serious question ,its usually answered quickly and then the thread dies ..........

troll posts on the other hand ,go in all sorts of interesting directions and usually generate a healthy amount of babble ,some

complaining about the op,some discussing entirely differnt subjects ..........as if the troll is no longer leading the direction of the thread

because the members have commandeered his thread and used it as a vehicle to discuss other subjects ......

i had considered adding any known trollers to my ignore list so their posts would be invisible to me ,but then i would lose the context of

the replies to those posts which are usually a better read than the troll post itself.........

[h90]

Many Hi-So take pride in owning exotic dogs.

that isn't a dog that is ET

[StreetCowboy]

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i agree 1000%......but when it gets boring around here ,sometimes troll threads are the only ones with any participants

when someone asks a serious question ,its usually answered quickly and then the thread dies ..........

troll posts on the other hand ,go in all sorts of interesting directions and usually generate a healthy amount of babble ,some

complaining about the op,some discussing entirely differnt subjects ..........as if the troll is no longer leading the direction of the thread

because the members have commandeered his thread and used it as a vehicle to discuss other subjects ......

...

Glad you mentioned that. I was just asking Necronx about the McTavish Cup, by the way...

SC

[David48]

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What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

His cleverness, for sure.

The "Posting Guidelines" are always the highlight of any MPB thread.

I love the irony and dry self mockery; his delivery is so dead-pan that if it were not for the posting guidelines, you might not realise it was completely tongue-in-cheek (no, not like that, JT!)

I enjoy his stories about the girlfriend who has narrowed her father's identity down to one of three races...

SC

Talking about JT, I haven't seen him post for a while.......hmmmm, I wonder if he has ran out of opinions??

"JT ran out of opinions??" ... I doubt that ... the Eurovision Song Contest is on ... and he's glued!

[theblether]

Many Hi-So take pride in owning exotic dogs.

that isn't a dog that is ET

Excuse me, that dog is close to a certain exotic loving persons heart. It's of unknown parentage too.

( It actually won the Ugliest Dog In The World contest, the poor wee thing died a few months ago )

[theblether]

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What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

His cleverness, for sure.

The "Posting Guidelines" are always the highlight of any MPB thread.

I love the irony and dry self mockery; his delivery is so dead-pan that if it were not for the posting guidelines, you might not realise it was completely tongue-in-cheek (no, not like that, JT!)

I enjoy his stories about the girlfriend who has narrowed her father's identity down to one of three races...

SC

Talking about JT, I haven't seen him post for a while.......hmmmm, I wonder if he has ran out of opinions??

"JT ran out of opinions??" ... I doubt that ... the Eurovision Song Contest is on ... and he's glued!

It is American Election year too, he will be off annoying all of the Republicans with his extreme left wing views. There will be fireworks this year on the World News thread

JT is also a bit of a culinary expert too, I had some shredded duck on Saturday but I thought it was a bit dry. I was going to ask him the best way to cook a duck.

[StreetCowboy]

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What is more worthy of contemplation is whether the collective willingness to respond to his threads knowing what a consummate tool he has shown himself to be in the past is inspired by his cleverness or our stupidity.

His cleverness, for sure.

The "Posting Guidelines" are always the highlight of any MPB thread.

I love the irony and dry self mockery; his delivery is so dead-pan that if it were not for the posting guidelines, you might not realise it was completely tongue-in-cheek (no, not like that, JT!)

I enjoy his stories about the girlfriend who has narrowed her father's identity down to one of three races...

SC

Talking about JT, I haven't seen him post for a while.......hmmmm, I wonder if he has ran out of opinions??

"JT ran out of opinions??" ... I doubt that ... the Eurovision Song Contest is on ... and he's glued!

I was going to ask if that was a euphemism for something, but I thought better of it.

By way of a semblance at relevance to the topic, how do they make Brand's Essence of Chicken?

SC

[David48]

I think racial purity is important

Very subtle!

There's nothing subtle about revealing your ignorance. And there's nothing subtle about describing ignorance as subtlety.

<snip>

MediumPacedBowler ... why the angst?

StreetCowboy and I usually share the same thoughts generally when it comes to thoroughbreds.

Nor are we individually or collectively ignorant.

Some members have a penchant for the purebreds in life, some members however like the exotic combinations that comes with mixing the breeds.

Some are old fashioned and romantic and like a traditional rose ... some like to try their hand at cross pollination and try and breed new and exotic species.

For example, look what some breeders have done with the humble tomato.

They have bred something which has a long shelf life, a rich dark colour and a firm flesh (all attributes, as a consumer we desire) but when sampled, prove to be rather bland and tasteless.

In the end, it turned out to be a mongrel of a tomato.

Everything is a compromise.

I hope that has cleared up any misunderstanding.

EDIT:- SC, apologies if I have spoken on your behalf ... we both posted at the same time

Edited May 8, 2012 by David48