BookMan Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 When I first came to Thailand, I quickly understood that there were no Zebras in Thailand. When my gf was chatting with another members gf in Australia ... they both agreed that they could not believe that there were so many Zebras in Australia. That cars actually stopped for people to cross at the 'Zebra Crossing' ... never do like this in Thailand! Very true. My GF is still not used to cars actually stopping at the crossing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbeieio Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 My wife used to love going to Stockton Beach (near Newcastle) for day trips to collect pippis - could not get her head around the limit of number of pippis to be collected, especially when a council guy said she had to discard the extras she had collected. What the hell are pippis??? A shellfish containing 90% sand and 10% meat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pbeieio Posted November 15, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2012 Went to my wifes best freinds house in Grimsby (England) and she noted that Aye was still very dark skinned even though she had been in Blighty for a year. My wife returned from the bathroom holding a jar of makeup cream and said to her mate "not all makeup same as Thialand, this one for tanning not whitening" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkokhatter Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 When I first came to Thailand, I quickly understood that there were no Zebras in Thailand. When my gf was chatting with another members gf in Australia ... they both agreed that they could not believe that there were so many Zebras in Australia. That cars actually stopped for people to cross at the 'Zebra Crossing' ... never do like this in Thailand! Very true. My GF is still not used to cars actually stopping at the crossing I had to persuade mine that she had to stop when she first started driving in the UK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 When I first came to Thailand, I quickly understood that there were no Zebras in Thailand. When my gf was chatting with another members gf in Australia ... they both agreed that they could not believe that there were so many Zebras in Australia. That cars actually stopped for people to cross at the 'Zebra Crossing' ... never do like this in Thailand! Very true. My GF is still not used to cars actually stopping at the crossing I had to persuade mine that she had to stop when she first started driving in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalbanana Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 >Cracked me up, but I understand where she is coming from, the Hills Hoist is an Aussie invention What cracked me up is that the Aussies lay claim to this "invention"! Surely any nation on earth could invent such a thing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJohnnyBKK Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 >Cracked me up, but I understand where she is coming from, the Hills Hoist is an Aussie invention What cracked me up is that the Aussies lay claim to this "invention"! Surely any nation on earth could invent such a thing? Aviation's black box, penicillin, the bionic ear are a bit more significant it's true. Hey it's got a tiny population, they take their national pride wherever they can. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giddyup Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 >Cracked me up, but I understand where she is coming from, the Hills Hoist is an Aussie invention What cracked me up is that the Aussies lay claim to this "invention"! Surely any nation on earth could invent such a thing? They could have, but didn't. It's like saying any nation could have invented gunpowder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisb Posted November 15, 2012 Author Share Posted November 15, 2012 >Cracked me up, but I understand where she is coming from, the Hills Hoist is an Aussie invention What cracked me up is that the Aussies lay claim to this "invention"! Surely any nation on earth could invent such a thing? They could have, but didn't. It's like saying any nation could have invented gunpowder. Chinese invented gunpowder. Hills hoist was invented by an Australian. Mr Hill. The rotary clothesline was patented by an Australian.So Hah!....Im right your wrong, I win you loose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 The whole family was installed in and around the poolhouse, teerak gets bored (no sunbathing for her!) and she goes poking around back in the garden sheds. Squeals of delight when she finds a stash of fishing rods, grabs a few slices of bacon out of the fridge and off she goes, spends most of the next two weeks fishing up at the family pond and lived mostly on the tiny "trash fish" she caught. Found a place in the nearby city with lots of SE refugees to buy Thai herbs and spices, ingredients for som tam. Happy as a pig in shit, decided she could survive in farangland after all 8-) And OT I know Aussies are proud of Mr's Hill's invention, but recently I saw a series of Mickey Mouse cartoons from the early 30's where something very similar was featured. Comments? Had one of these in 1950 in Canada. They were in every backyard in Denmark in the seventies. I think they're considered kitsch now, at least you dont' see them anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJohnnyBKK Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 >Cracked me up, but I understand where she is coming from, the Hills Hoist is an Aussie invention What cracked me up is that the Aussies lay claim to this "invention"! Surely any nation on earth could invent such a thing? They could have, but didn't. It's like saying any nation could have invented gunpowder. Chinese invented gunpowder. Hills hoist was invented by an Australian. Mr Hill. The rotary clothesline was patented by an Australian. So Hah!....Im right your wrong, I win you loose. I think you misunderstood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJohnnyBKK Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 They were in every backyard in Denmark in the seventies. I think they're considered kitsch now, at least you dont' see them anymore. Actually illegal in many American communities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverSure Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 ...penicillin, <snip> Hey it's got a tiny population, they take their national pride wherever they can. They invented biological warfare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giddyup Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 >Cracked me up, but I understand where she is coming from, the Hills Hoist is an Aussie invention What cracked me up is that the Aussies lay claim to this "invention"! Surely any nation on earth could invent such a thing? They could have, but didn't. It's like saying any nation could have invented gunpowder. Chinese invented gunpowder. Hills hoist was invented by an Australian. Mr Hill. The rotary clothesline was patented by an Australian.So Hah!....Im right your wrong, I win you loose. You missed the point entirely. It's lose BTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BookMan Posted November 15, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2012 >Cracked me up, but I understand where she is coming from, the Hills Hoist is an Aussie invention What cracked me up is that the Aussies lay claim to this "invention"! Surely any nation on earth could invent such a thing? They could have, but didn't. It's like saying any nation could have invented gunpowder. Chinese invented gunpowder. Hills hoist was invented by an Australian. Mr Hill. The rotary clothesline was patented by an Australian.So Hah!....Im right your wrong, I win you loose. You missed the point entirely. It's lose BTW. I wish you guys would stop knocking us Aussies for inventing (or patenting) the rotary clothesline. It was only a few years prior to the invention that we actually started wearing clothes, so the leap was quite big. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PoorSucker Posted November 15, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2012 OK, this thread is not about Australian inventions. Back on track. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macksview Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 one morning taking the wife to work, we went past a chemist at about 0830, "why all those people wait for the chemist, is there a special sale?", looking at a few familiar faces in the line up, no dear it is the done (methadone) clinic, puzzled look, explanation of methadone clinics followed,then of course, "in thailand" speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post krisb Posted November 15, 2012 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2012 Keep this topic on topic please guys. Its just for laughs. Not arguments. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besth Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Went to my wifes best freinds house in Grimsby (England) and she noted that Aye was still very dark skinned even though she had been in Blighty for a year. My wife returned from the bathroom holding a jar of makeup cream and said to her mate "not all makeup same as Thialand, this one for tanning not whitening" My ex wanted to go to a beauty salon and I suggested there was one just across the road. It was a tanning salon. "Farang woman pay to get tan???" "and some men too" I laughed at her expressions of disbelief. She knew that foreigners often liked to get sun tans at the beach or swimming pools but for here there was no way that there were machines for that and that people actually paid for the service. We had to go there and get her to see the machines. The very kind lady in charge confirmed what I was saying (and had a good laugh about it too) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorSucker Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Went to my wifes best freinds house in Grimsby (England) and she noted that Aye was still very dark skinned even though she had been in Blighty for a year. My wife returned from the bathroom holding a jar of makeup cream and said to her mate "not all makeup same as Thialand, this one for tanning not whitening" My ex wanted to go to a beauty salon and I suggested there was one just across the road. It was a tanning salon. "Farang woman pay to get tan???" "and some men too" I laughed at her expressions of disbelief. She knew that foreigners often liked to get sun tans at the beach or swimming pools but for here there was no way that there were machines for that and that people actually paid for the service. We had to go there and get her to see the machines. The very kind lady in charge confirmed what I was saying (and had a good laugh about it too) This picture is from Koh Samui. I wonder why it didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJohnnyBKK Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 This picture is from Koh Samui. I wonder why it didn't work. Some people want to look they got a tan but don't actually want to damage their skin. And yes I agree it's all silliness from my POV, just sayin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besth Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Went to my wifes best freinds house in Grimsby (England) and she noted that Aye was still very dark skinned even though she had been in Blighty for a year. My wife returned from the bathroom holding a jar of makeup cream and said to her mate "not all makeup same as Thialand, this one for tanning not whitening" My ex wanted to go to a beauty salon and I suggested there was one just across the road. It was a tanning salon. "Farang woman pay to get tan???" "and some men too" I laughed at her expressions of disbelief. She knew that foreigners often liked to get sun tans at the beach or swimming pools but for here there was no way that there were machines for that and that people actually paid for the service. We had to go there and get her to see the machines. The very kind lady in charge confirmed what I was saying (and had a good laugh about it too) This picture is from Koh Samui. I wonder why it didn't work. No wonder that it was "No Appointment Necessary" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJohnnyBKK Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 (edited) Kids back home play with fuzzy bears. My teerak literally sprinted pell-mell screaming at the top of her lungs to 50m away when she saw one crawling along the back of a chair during a family BBQ. Took twenty minutes to persuade her to return wide-eyed white and shaking, and she never took another step outdoors without scanning every second with more high-alert full-360 situational awareness than a Delta Force scout in Medellin. My aussie wife (yes I've had a thing for farmer's daughters all my life) was the same way about snakes, but at least that I understood from her stories about childhood trauma. . . Never did figure out why the woolly bears hold even more terror than the phi krasue. . . Edited November 16, 2012 by BigJohnnyBKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handydog Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Reminds me of the first possom my wife saw outside the back door... ...thought it was a cute fluffy cat. To her horror it was promptly dispatched and plucked. When I explained that the fur at the time was $150 /Kg she didnt have a problem with it. lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJohnnyBKK Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Reminds me of the first possom my wife saw outside the back door... ...thought it was a cute fluffy cat. To her horror it was promptly dispatched and plucked. When I explained that the fur at the time was $150 /Kg she didnt have a problem with it. lol Must be a kiwi eh! Wouldn't that be "skinned" rather than "plucked"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GarryP Posted November 16, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2012 Reminds me of the first possom my wife saw outside the back door... ...thought it was a cute fluffy cat. To her horror it was promptly dispatched and plucked. When I explained that the fur at the time was $150 /Kg she didnt have a problem with it. lol Must be a kiwi eh! Wouldn't that be "skinned" rather than "plucked"? No, I think it was a spelling mistake and he is talking about deviant sexual acts with dead marsupials. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payak Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 i got a few thais to eat kangaroo, they will not touch rabbit. the supermarket was out one time so i got one from the pet shop, she was not impressed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handydog Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Reminds me of the first possom my wife saw outside the back door... ...thought it was a cute fluffy cat. To her horror it was promptly dispatched and plucked. When I explained that the fur at the time was $150 /Kg she didnt have a problem with it. lol Must be a kiwi eh! Afraid so... no protetion for your cute marsupials here Wouldn't that be "skinned" rather than "plucked"? The fur is plucked from the animal while it is still warm.. It slips from the pelt easily before regamortis sets in. 20 to 25 animals yield about 1 Kg of fur No, I think it was a spelling mistake and he is talking about deviant sexual acts with dead marsupials. No spelling mistake... the only thing that fornicated with said possom was the .22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farangme Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 First time she's in California, cold morning, we're driving across town, TGF asks: Why hot air come from the aircon? Yes. Wife was impressed and amazed by hot air in car. Also by home heating and cloths dryer. Sent from my PC36100 using Thaivisa Connect App Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farangme Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Biggest surprise for wife was when she saw a homeless person begging. She freaked upon seeing the person. I explained. Wife couldn't believe there were homeless and beggers in America. Sent from my PC36100 using Thaivisa Connect App Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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