Most wear a ring or odd necklace on a special occasion.

What's do you think about people draped in the stuff?

My Thai wife thinks it's all about showing off in a bling/gypsy way.

I do see proportionately more Thai's covered in gold than any other population in the world, Is it a fashion statement?

Over to you.

CCC

Thai chavs, the poorer they are the more gold they wear.

I do see proportionately more Thai's covered in gold than any other population in the world, Is it a fashion statement?

Over to you.

What's your opinion?......back to you.

I do see proportionately more Thai's covered in gold than any other population in the world, Is it a fashion statement?

Over to you.

What's your opinion?......back to you.

I think it's a fashion statement as in a lot of Asia.

CCC

Anyone walking around with lots of metal draped around them looks like a complete idiot.

I do see proportionately more Thai's covered in gold than any other population in the world, ...

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Anyone walking around with lots of metal draped around them looks like a complete idiot.

I agree, but if looking stupid is their want, so be it.

Anyone walking around with lots of metal draped around them looks like a complete idiot.

Not all!!

Anyone walking around with lots of metal draped around them looks like a complete idiot.

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She's not Thai.

Indians carry gold a lot better than Thai's.

Thai chavs, the poorer they are the more gold they wear.

What he said.

Go to the UK, take a look at the market stall holders with their industrial-sized gold curb chains - same thing. I haven't noticed more refined Thai people wearing tacky gold jewellery.

what about falangs wearing them?

i think it looks good..

It's all about 'face'. 'Look at me, look how much gold I have, look how rich I am !' When you see someone covered in gold you are supposed to instantly respect them because they have more money than you do. Stupid I know but that's the way it is here...

It's all about 'face'. 'Look at me, look how much gold I have, look how rich I am !' When you see someone covered in gold you are supposed to instantly respect them because they have more money than you do. Stupid I know but that's the way it is here...

It's the way it is if you mix with chavs or the mob.

Thai chavs, the poorer they are the more gold they wear.

Haha at 20,000 for 1 baht of Gold at the moment your post kinda makes you look a little silly LOL so if they are wearing 100 baht of Gold just like the Chav farang in this thread they are poor LOL. I think there might be a little jelously there chappie

The guy in the picture has 4 kilos of Gold in his collection and is a multi millionaire (you do the math, and anyone who can wear that kind of money aint broke neither are the thais that wear it, its a sign of wealth and face just like those driving Mercs etc even hi so thais wear lots of jewelry, only thing is they wear farang jewelry which is worth less than the 96% stuff that the low so's wear.

the only people saying what you are saying is those that cant afford to wear it LOL

In reality its a form of security for some of the villagers and that is where they keep the majority of their wealth (they wear it) it can instantly be cashed in and many in the provinces prefer it to banks.

To think that everyone that wears gold is a chav is a bit ignorant I know many thais that are minted and wear lots of gold and i know some that only have what they are wearing.

ITS THAI and most thais DONT LOOK DOWN on someone wearing lots of gold they look up to them

Thai chavs, the poorer they are the more gold they wear.

Haha at 20,000 for 1 baht of Gold at the moment your post kinda makes you look a little silly LOL so if they are wearing 100 baht of Gold just like the Chav farang in this thread they are poor LOL. I think there might be a little jelously there chappie

The guy in the picture has 4 kilos of Gold in his collection and is a multi millionaire (you do the math, and anyone who can wear that kind of money aint broke neither are the thais that wear it, its a sign of wealth and face just like those driving Mercs etc even hi so thais wear lots of jewelry, only thing is they wear farang jewelry which is worth less than the 96% stuff that the low so's wear.

the only people saying what you are saying is those that cant afford to wear it LOL

In reality its a form of security for some of the villagers and that is where they keep the majority of their wealth (they wear it) it can instantly be cashed in and many in the provinces prefer it to banks.

To think that everyone that wears gold is a chav is a bit ignorant I know many thais that are minted and wear lots of gold and i know some that only have what they are wearing.

ITS THAI and most thais DONT LOOK DOWN on someone wearing lots of gold they look up to them

Now come on the guy in the picture has a chain and bracelet bought from the Sunday market "2 for a pearl diver" his spinner has more real gold than him

Thai chavs, the poorer they are the more gold they wear.

well, when I see the time pieces worn by hi-so Thais I wonder if the chav behaviour hasn't climbed rather high...

Ever noticed how you get a real nice car with a red plate on it parked outside of a house with a tin roof?... Same point.

"Im dirt poor but i'll save face in front of the neighbours by struggling to keep the payments up on a car i can't afford. I'll also wear gold in public that i have to pawn for months at a time just to pay the houshold bills."

Funny how all the skanked out bar girls are covered in the stuff and yet their stll pimping themselves and their families drive a buffalo as a vehicle.

Thai chavs, the poorer they are the more gold they wear.

Haha at 20,000 for 1 baht of Gold at the moment your post kinda makes you look a little silly LOL so if they are wearing 100 baht of Gold just like the Chav farang in this thread they are poor LOL. I think there might be a little jelously there chappie

The guy in the picture has 4 kilos of Gold in his collection and is a multi millionaire (you do the math, and anyone who can wear that kind of money aint broke neither are the thais that wear it, its a sign of wealth and face just like those driving Mercs etc even hi so thais wear lots of jewelry, only thing is they wear farang jewelry which is worth less than the 96% stuff that the low so's wear.

the only people saying what you are saying is those that cant afford to wear it LOL

In reality its a form of security for some of the villagers and that is where they keep the majority of their wealth (they wear it) it can instantly be cashed in and many in the provinces prefer it to banks.

To think that everyone that wears gold is a chav is a bit ignorant I know many thais that are minted and wear lots of gold and i know some that only have what they are wearing.

ITS THAI and most thais DONT LOOK DOWN on someone wearing lots of gold they look up to them

Now come on the guy in the picture has a chain and bracelet bought from the Sunday market "2 for a pearl diver" his spinner has more real gold than him

LOL just goes to show you dont know who the guy is very well known in Pattaya and has several chains that weigh a total of 4 kilos, now I dont care either way but at least know what you are talking about.

All a little naff.

Closely followed by blue rinsed Chinese pooyai women wearing huge brooches covered in dozens of minute diamond chips.

what about falangs wearing them?

i think it looks good..

You gotta laugh at this pic!

Definition of Chav!

Thai chavs, the poorer they are the more gold they wear.

The guy in the picture has 4 kilos of Gold in his collection and is a multi millionaire (you do the math,

You realise that the guy in the picture is a criminal right ?

Thai chavs, the poorer they are the more gold they wear.

Haha at 20,000 for 1 baht of Gold at the moment your post kinda makes you look a little silly LOL so if they are wearing 100 baht of Gold just like the Chav farang in this thread they are poor LOL. I think there might be a little jelously there chappie

The guy in the picture has 4 kilos of Gold in his collection and is a multi millionaire (you do the math, and anyone who can wear that kind of money aint broke neither are the thais that wear it, its a sign of wealth and face just like those driving Mercs etc even hi so thais wear lots of jewelry, only thing is they wear farang jewelry which is worth less than the 96% stuff that the low so's wear.

the only people saying what you are saying is those that cant afford to wear it LOL

In reality its a form of security for some of the villagers and that is where they keep the majority of their wealth (they wear it) it can instantly be cashed in and many in the provinces prefer it to banks.

To think that everyone that wears gold is a chav is a bit ignorant I know many thais that are minted and wear lots of gold and i know some that only have what they are wearing.

ITS THAI and most thais DONT LOOK DOWN on someone wearing lots of gold they look up to them

Now come on the guy in the picture has a chain and bracelet bought from the Sunday market "2 for a pearl diver" his spinner has more real gold than him

LOL just goes to show you dont know who the guy is very well known in Pattaya and has several chains that weigh a total of 4 kilos, now I dont care either way but at least know what you are talking about.

Settle I was on a wind up, his pic has nothing to do with the OP, to be fair if it was me I'd not be best pleased my pic was posted unless of course you or the guy who posted it is him.

I'd rather wear gold around my neck than in my teeth.

Since we are talking about Thai's wearing gold.

The necklaces can be dangerous.

Sister of the Thai gf, quiet street where most people know your neighbours.

Boy on a bike did a ride by, saw the chain, did a U-Turn can back and did a snatch.

Chain broke, but he got a fistfull of it ... 3/4s of it in fact.

She's a street-wise girl (not in that way) and still she got robbed.

The correlation between wearing lots of gold and being wealthy just proves the old adage money doesn't buy class.

In my experience the real money ( both here and back home) don't flash what they've got. They don't need to. Everybody knows how minted they are. Last year at a function I was introduced to a bloke who's currently on the Forbes list of richest Thais. Quiet, unassuming, polite, dollar billionaire. I clocked he had a nice discrete Patek Philppe on his wrist, He didn't roll up like the bastard son of Jimmy Saville and Snoop Dogg or a Thai amulet trader/car tent owner.

It is of course a status symbol here as in anywhere else in the world, used mostly by people from a previous poor background enforcing their rise of position by visual means.

Real in-your-face show of wealth, or perceived wealth. You can almost relate it to the earlier rappers coming out of the ghettos in the States and the invention of bling..........

what about falangs wearing them?

i think it looks good..

Certainly looks better than the tattoos....

Different Cultures.....different styles

Wife's family buys gold as a short term way to save money. When they get money at harvest time they will buy some gold with the idea that it will be sold at some future point (like next planting time). They don't like having cash in the bank because they worry the bank could seize it against other debts. They also don't like keeping cash at home as they are scared of thieves and once the cash is converted to gold they can more readily put off the village spungers who always come by to "borrow" money when they think they are flush. They don't flash it though as they are also worried about the gold being stolen. Since it is so easy to redeem gold in Asia I figure it isn't such a bad approach.

Sounds more like the foreigners are afraid they have to provide their GF's with gold so they act like they don't like it. I really have no opinion about it its up to them. I wear a gold necklace too, normal European gold that I got when I was 16 for a graduation. Its strong, and it has sentimental value for me. I almost never take it off. If someone want to wear it let them be.

Rather see someone wearing gold then sporting a big gut and singlets. Talk about class.