Hi-so Or Lo-so?

[LoveDaBlues]

"""""""""""You are confused about who posted which comment, again, please make an effort.

I didn't sit anywhere, it is Neeranam you should address with this."""""""""""""""""

She is confused, period. I was simply trying to point out that I have a friend who is a millionaire(and mixes with the hi-so in Thailand for business reasons) but can hang out with people regardless of their social standing.

I hate it when people hijack a thread with nonsense and start insulting people they don't know.

I thought it was a simple question - do you prefer to hang out with hi-so or lo-so Thais?

Cassandra probably doesn't have any Thai friends, so can't answer the question. One of those diplomat wives' clubs that doesn't even want to be in the country. Most of them end up being alkies or xanax addicts. Sad, they eventually go home after years here and haven't learned a thing, apart from what that wifey on Channel 11 tells them in the morning. careful with that xanax Cass. It's very addictive.

Anyone know the carabao song 'Ba'?

marshbags and stever thanks for your wise replies.

She?

[daleyboy]

I will talk and hang out with anyone, regardless of class, as long as i get along with them it shouldnt matter. I am sure there are hi-so and lo-so people on this board, and most of us get along just fine.

[N&M]

I think Cassandra is one of those 'beautiful' people who only like the beautiful people. So she thinks Bill Heinecke is cute, just goes to show her tastes are more lo-so than most of us

[Tywais]

I prefer to hang out with my friends regardless of social standing. Kind of silly to go out of one's way just to mingle with a particular 'group', too many opportunities lost in seeing the full spectrum of Thai life and seriously narrow minded. I take it a person at a time and make my decision based on how we get along and not what is in it for me. For me respect is for the person, not the position (though one must tread softly in Thailand about the latter).

[Guest endure]

"""""""""""You are confused about who posted which comment, again, please make an effort.

I didn't sit anywhere, it is Neeranam you should address with this."""""""""""""""""

She is confused, period. I was simply trying to point out that I have a friend who is a millionaire(and mixes with the hi-so in Thailand for business reasons) but can hang out with people regardless of their social standing.

I hate it when people hijack a thread with nonsense and start insulting people they don't know.

I thought it was a simple question - do you prefer to hang out with hi-so or lo-so Thais?

Cassandra probably doesn't have any Thai friends, so can't answer the question. One of those diplomat wives' clubs that doesn't even want to be in the country. Most of them end up being alkies or xanax addicts. Sad, they eventually go home after years here and haven't learned a thing, apart from what that wifey on Channel 11 tells them in the morning. careful with that xanax Cass. It's very addictive.

You hate it when people insult people they don't know and then go on to call Cassandra a drug addict? Pot, kettle...

[OldAsiaHand]

Answer the bloody question! Quit trying to put ME into some kind of category.

Seems fair enough to me unless...

Ah, I get it now. You putting OTHER people into categories is just fine, but other people putting YOU into a category is silly and narrowminded.

Wow.

[steveromagnino]

I think Cassandra is one of those 'beautiful' people who only like the beautiful people. So she thinks Bill Heinecke is cute, just goes to show her tastes are more lo-so than most of us

Since i attend most of these hiso shindigs due to my job, I can assure you that as of now, there are not any beautiful white people attending these events apart from the broke male models accompanying their rich Thai gay friends and a few east european female models accompanying the gay friends with the broke male models. And possibly a few european sport car driving younger police types with the east European female models. The rest are hangers on who would be driving baby benzes on the drip back home. Here they can be somebody and hang out with children of gun dealers and illegal car importers, and children whose parents pay for them not to do any work, but allow them to claim they 'tum ngarn gup khun mair'.

Well, apart from Bill.

I am willing to admit he has a how do the French say, a certain I don't know what....

[thedude]

this has got to be the stupidest t.v. thread ever.

there is no way anyone can say they prefer to hang out with the hi-so, because there is no acceptable way to answer as such without presuming something of oneself (save maybe steve's clever sidestep 'oh i only hang with them coz i have to for my job').

and besides, the question is ignorant to the issue of access, its not as if 99.99% of the respondents are able to actually hang out with the hi-so (who by the way are far more elusive than merely your rich business set - there is a difference) like they have a say in it.

[britmaveric]

I like whoever unless given a reason not to - status is unimportant.

[Ulysses G.]

I think Cassandra is one of those 'beautiful' people who only like the beautiful people. :

I've always thought that "Cassandra" was pulling our chains with the snooty act just to p*ss us off.

However, it would be fun if she's for real.

[steveromagnino]

this has got to be the stupidest t.v. thread ever.

Well, you obviously didn't see the one where oil was going to be at $15 USD a barrel by now

but ok, you got me, I will compromise....it is the second stupidest TV thread.

[sibeymai]

There must be some real action and fireworks when this forum gets together for drinks. I wonder if they go hi-so or lo-so.

[daleyboy]

There must be some real action and fireworks when this forum gets together for drinks. I wonder if they go hi-so or lo-so.

From what i hear it is lo-lo-lo-lo-so

[steveromagnino]

There must be some real action and fireworks when this forum gets together for drinks. I wonder if they go hi-so or lo-so.

From what i hear it is lo-lo-lo-lo-so

well it will be if you take you shirt off like that....

[sibeymai]

I thought he was trying to put his shirt on.....

[daleyboy]

There must be some real action and fireworks when this forum gets together for drinks. I wonder if they go hi-so or lo-so.

From what i hear it is lo-lo-lo-lo-so

well it will be if you take you shirt off like that....

My man boobs are far bigger than in my avatar

[Thaising]

Hi-So or Lo-So, make no different if this people do not look you UP or look you Down. We are after all human and equal if no discrimination against each other.

[GuestHouse]

I socialise with people of more or less the same educational background as myself and who share similar interests.

Nothing to do with Hi-So or Lo-So, just common outlook.

But I would point out that in Thai society, there is huge importance placed on social circles. Having friends of what ever background is not merely as important has having a cicle of friends who get along together.

[Wes Turner]

Lo so are after my money and hi so have their noses in the air so i dont care, i like nice people i dont like a55holes. go figure.

[Scott]

I like my own pack. Only a couple have mange. We get to eat all the garbage on the soi and sniff all the pussy that walks by. Plenty of trees to pee on--what more oculd you want?

[LoveDaBlues]

I like my own pack. Only a couple have mange. We get to eat all the garbage on the soi and sniff all the pussy that walks by. Plenty of trees to pee on--what more oculd you want?

Now that's looooo-sooooooo!

[daleyboy]

i dont like a55holes. go figure.

You must really hate looking in the mirror then Sorry only joking couldnt help myself

[zzap]

Does this mean he's got eyes on his a*se, or....

[daleyboy]

Does this mean he's got eyes on his a*se, or....

I think they a eone and the same

[Lormaak]

Does it have to be either lao khao with the rats and win motorcy or a 96 Château La Mondotte Saint-Emilion with the CEOs at the club house???

What's wrong with a few beers and some pool with my mates? We're all educated, well-adjusted people capable of having highly intelligent conversations, but would rather talk BS most of the time and have a laugh. We're from a real mix of backgrounds (top public school to council estate), but I never feel we make a deal out of background or social standing. We get on because we all make the effort to. If you have to question your position, it sounds as if you don't fit in.

[Stephen Cleary]

Lo so are after my money and hi so have their noses in the air so i dont care, i like nice people i dont like a55holes. go figure.

I find it sad that a lot of the foreigners who come to Thailand and partcipate at TV have this typical attitude/stereotype about Thai people.

In fact, you could stereotype any nationality in such a way, and not only Thais.

Go back to a pub in Farangland and you here the same pish bar-stool talk there at a bar.

[Neeranam]

""""""""I find it sad that a lot of the foreigners who come to Thailand and partcipate at TV have this typical attitude/stereotype about Thai people.

In fact, you could stereotype any nationality in such a way, and not only Thais.

Go back to a pub in Farangland and you here the same pish bar-stool talk there at a bar. """""""""

Or go back to the bar-stool at some of those expat bars on Sukhumvit road.

It is sad, but often these guys only meet the bad ones, at the tourist areas. These areas attract the worst of the bad. The conners, cheats and pimps - much like anywhere in the world, I assume.

Lo-so does not imply dishonesty - "just because you're nobody, it doesn't make you no good" as SLF said.

Some hi-so are very down to earth, especially some of the older traditional Thai families.

I could give many examples of this.

[aughie]

1.What makes you think I am a social wannabe? Quit trying to put ME into some category.

2.It's obvious you are lo-so.No need to keep repeating this.

3.Who said farang businessmen are hi-so? Not me.In fact most are rather down market.What I said was that the very few hi so farang- (Harald Link, Bill Heinecke, Raymond Eaton,Ralph von Buren to name some "attractive" ones)-tend be long residence business people.Actually I suspect they care more than a toss about the hi-so stuff.

3.The fact that you sat at a noodle stall next to a prostitute who serviced the Sultan of Brunei who was best friends with a horse who was a cousin of Princess Anne who won the Grand National is a useful piece of information.Many thanks.

4.There is no 4th point.

I am kind of getting tired of your 'biting' at those you consider less-educated and knowledgable than yourself, Cassandra.

This isn't the first thread you take off-topic like this, is it?

BTW, your point 3. = please read the post you responded to again, you have mixed up what was being said. Not the first time this happened, either...

I think she drinks. By herself.

I also think it's our old friend boris. I tried to checkout the website for the Royal Bangkok Sports Club but I don't have a password. Anyone want to loan me theirs. I promise not to charge my drinks to your account.

Haha. Cassandra. The name is fitting. No one believes you. Or are you a contemporary Cassandra? In that case you are full of it lady.

edited: couple of sp errors. you are all free to point out others.

Edited February 15, 2006 by aughie

[mpdkorat]

After posting on another thread, memories of my Bangkok day came back. This got me thinking about hanging out with farmers and the like - Lo-so.

These were great times and I love these people.

Also I spent a while with Hi-so people, down the RBSC and the like, where it was important to wear the right thing, know the right people, and all that other crap that I left my own country for. All those wannabees trying to "improve" themselves in the social order.

My best memories are hanging out with the Lo-So, playing Hi-lo.

Maybe that is why I live where I do now, spending my days off on a hammock on my friends farm listening to the rice grow.

Of course as farnags, or foreigners, we do not fit into the social order at all - no matter if we are drinking 'lao kao' baak soi with the motorcyle taxi drivers, or playing golf with general plod at the sports club.

I know which is more ebjoyable for me, what about you?

Without wishing to be unkind, most farang on this forum don't really have a choice , including you I am afraid notwithstanding your rather unconvincing comments about hanging with "hi-so people down the RBSC and the like"

My father has an account at the Royal Bank of Scotland. I feel much better about myself now. I did not realize account holders met in Bangkok. Must let my dad know this in case he is missing out on something.

[LoveDaBlues]

1.What makes you think I am a social wannabe? Quit trying to put ME into some category.

2.It's obvious you are lo-so.No need to keep repeating this.

3.Who said farang businessmen are hi-so? Not me.In fact most are rather down market.What I said was that the very few hi so farang- (Harald Link, Bill Heinecke, Raymond Eaton,Ralph von Buren to name some "attractive" ones)-tend be long residence business people.Actually I suspect they care more than a toss about the hi-so stuff.

3.The fact that you sat at a noodle stall next to a prostitute who serviced the Sultan of Brunei who was best friends with a horse who was a cousin of Princess Anne who won the Grand National is a useful piece of information.Many thanks.

4.There is no 4th point.

I am kind of getting tired of your 'biting' at those you consider less-educated and knowledgable than yourself, Cassandra.

This isn't the first thread you take off-topic like this, is it?

BTW, your point 3. = please read the post you responded to again, you have mixed up what was being said. Not the first time this happened, either...

I think she drinks. By herself.

I also think it's our old friend boris. I tried to checkout the website for the Royal Bangkok Sports Club but I don't have a password. Anyone want to loan me theirs. I promise not to charge my drinks to your account.

Haha. Cassandra. The name is fitting. No one believes you. Or are you a contemporary Cassandra? In that case you are full of it lady.

edited: couple of sp errors. you are all free to point out others.

hahahahahahaha I thought 'Cassandra' was 'Harmonica'.

BUT......I think you're right! It's 'Boris' come back to play! Good catch augie!