Learning the language is the least of your problems.

If you really want to break through and be truly accepted into your local community, learn and adopt these skills and knowledge, and as the saying goes you'll never walk alone:

actually, its "fool proof"

 

actually, its "fool proof"

 

Not the way I drink

Tell them you are paying the bill at 7pm, usually works a treat.

Lol..... I don't know how to do smiley emoticons ....... Yet!

Would not rely on football too much. When I 1st came here it was all Liverpool. Free beer or 285 gets my vote.

Edited July 8, 201312 yr by Mosha

A red or a yellow t-shirt depending on the location, normally does it

Wrong team for you'll never walk alone.

Well both are wrong anyway actually.

Open your wallet and say help yourself

Tell them you are paying the bill at 7pm, usually works a treat.

This works ONLY in Thailand?

Open your wallet and say help yourself

And this? Also ONLY in Thailand?

Some one is sick... seriously. Could be an epidemic.

This always works out in the sticks.

Well Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'You'll Never Walk Alone' might get you in good standing with the Thai guys but knowing this one also by R&H might get you in better with the other gender -- I guess Up-To-YOU:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QjWn-ueeeLw#t=85s

A red or a yellow t-shirt depending on the location, normally does it

This one should do nicely:

If you really want to break through and be truly accepted into your local community

what makes you think that others "want a breakthrough and be truly accepted"? and what skills can i adopt concerning a football club located on a far away remote island?

This always works out in the sticks.

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Bob ... what does that stuff actually taste like ... I've never and while I like to try new things ... it's way down there with fried scorpions.

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This always works out in the sticks.

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Bob ... what does that stuff actually taste like ... I've never and while I like to try new things ... it's way down there with fried scorpions.

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It's horrible, I only smelled it once and that was enough. Smells like a cheap tequila and I think it's only 25% strong???

This always works out in the sticks.

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Bob ... what does that stuff actually taste like ... I've never and while I like to try new things ... it's way down there with fried scorpions.

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I have tried it, I think furniture polish comes to mind although I haven't tasted that. When I first came to Thailand eons ago my local shopkeeper mixed it with a chinese powder called 11 Tigers. It came out red and you could buy a spoonful for 1 baht. Very strong and ok for a couple but a glassful would leave you senseless.

Edited July 9, 201312 yr by Bluetongue

If you really want to break through and be truly accepted into your local community

what makes you think that others "want a breakthrough and be truly accepted"? and what skills can i adopt concerning a football club located on a far away remote island?

Yes Nam you are right again, I think there are very few Farangs who do wish to break through and be truly accepted in their local communities.

But for those that do, which I take it you are not one of them, I wonder what other alternatives you could suggest.

Not so much adopting a skill regarding Manchester United, rather a knowledge base, of the teams history and also the current details of the team.

In the event you were marooned on a desert island with a Thai male, or perhaps just living up country devoid of Farangs, I feel that this would serve you in good stead.

The replies to date for some reason are predominantly suggesting financial inducements, and also alcohol.

A full proof is very important.

I once omitted to review it, and submitted a report with a glaring error on the front cover that was most embarrassing.

This always works out in the sticks.

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Bob ... what does that stuff actually taste like ... I've never and while I like to try new things ... it's way down there with fried scorpions.

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I have tried it, I think furniture polish comes to mind although I haven't tasted that. When I first came to Thailand eons ago my local shopkeeper mixed it with a chinese powder called 11 Tigers. It came out red and you could buy a spoonful for 1 baht. Very strong and ok for a couple but a glassful would leave you senseless.

Actually just found a website promoting it, now thinking of getting some. Here is a picture and apparently its a Thai herbal product with all sorts of priapic potential. No wonder at the time I was laying plenty of pipe.

In the event you were marooned on a desert island with a Thai male ... As long as we've now entered the realm of the hypothetical, I would much prefer to conjecture regarding "Thai friends" being marooned on a desert island with one or more "highly stimulating" Thai females as per the end of the movie Dr. Strangelove.

Edited July 9, 201312 yr by JLCrab

If you really want to break through and be truly accepted into your local community

what makes you think that others "want a breakthrough and be truly accepted"? and what skills can i adopt concerning a football club located on a far away remote island?

Because there will always be an England. In case you didn't get it, the Thais love their English footie teams.

Would you like me to give you a link to Dame Vera Lynn to help you out?

This always works out in the sticks.

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Bob ... what does that stuff actually taste like ... I've never and while I like to try new things ... it's way down there with fried scorpions.

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Its a Thai brandy. It is very rough on the throat, it tastes like brandy to me but a very poor quality brandy. I mixed it with milk in the end to see how it was as a brandy Alexander. Its was quite palatable (only then).

If you really want to break through and be truly accepted into your local community

what makes you think that others "want a breakthrough and be truly accepted"? and what skills can i adopt concerning a football club located on a far away remote island?

Yes Nam you are right again, I think there are very few Farangs who do wish to break through and be truly accepted in their local communities.

But for those that do, which I take it you are not one of them, I wonder what other alternatives you could suggest.

Not so much adopting a skill regarding Manchester United, rather a knowledge base, of the teams history and also the current details of the team.

In the event you were marooned on a desert island with a Thai male, or perhaps just living up country devoid of Farangs, I feel that this would serve you in good stead.

The replies to date for some reason are predominantly suggesting financial inducements, and also alcohol.

so you think a Thai male and me on a deserted island could devote our time discussing Manchester United and me learning Thai?

p.s. i'd rather think of the possibility being marooned with an attractive Thai lady

Man united? pfffftt a good way to make them hate you..

I have made a lot of Thai friends just from wearing my Southside t shirt.

Southside is a thai hip hop group.

I have a "'Full' proof, guaranteed way to make Thai friends overnight.

Of course I have to pay them to leave in the morning.

If you really want to break through and be truly accepted into your local community

what makes you think that others "want a breakthrough and be truly accepted"? and what skills can i adopt concerning a football club located on a far away remote island?

Because there will always be an England. In case you didn't get it, the Thais love their English footie teams.

Would you like me to give you a link to Dame Vera Lynn to help you out?

i couldn't care less what kind of English football teams Thais like and neither do i need help from a Dame Vera Lynn.

If you really want to break through and be truly accepted into your local community

what makes you think that others "want a breakthrough and be truly accepted"? and what skills can i adopt concerning a football club located on a far away remote island?

Because there will always be an England. In case you didn't get it, the Thais love their English footie teams.

Would you like me to give you a link to Dame Vera Lynn to help you out?

i couldn't care less what kind of English football teams Thais like and neither do i need help from a Dame Vera Lynn.

By your responses on this thread to date, and I could be completely wrong here, but I am beginning to wonder if you do have any male Thai friends.

If you do, what do you find you have in common with them?

If you don't, do you regret living in another part of the world without having made any friends with the locals.

In fact on reflection looking back, do you think that this is a prerequiste for Farangs trying to settle in Thailand, that they should not expect that they will in fact make some bona fide Thai friends.