My greatest peeve....

[David48]

If the Thai Visa Cricket Team were to play an exhibition match in Chang Rai?

What would the Wicket Keeper be named do you think?

[Horton Jones]

WOW! This is awesome! I thought I was the only one with the idea to call it "The Rai". I have a mild hearing loss, and as a resident of Chiang MAI, I sometimes have a difficult time telling if the speaker (whether Thai or Farang) says MAI or RAI... it's just TOO similar. Because Thai's as a whole are so fond of nicknames, I thought it would be good to have a nickname for Chiang Rai.... yes, I thought of "The Rai" about a year ago... swear I never heard it called that until reading this today. I think it has a classy ring to it, and there are others: The Hague, The Big Apple, KL, LA, SanFran, BKK, etc. I don't know Chiang Rai well, but it does have some charm in a great mountain area of northern Thailand. I say, keep going on that nickname!

Edited December 27, 2013 by Horton Jones

[Hardie]

Possibly it is you who need education on the thai translation of Chiangrai and its origins. Chiang means city....Chiangrai means city in the fields. Just as Chiang Mai means new city.

Unless you are just refering to a small part of the built up area of Chiangrai it is completly correct to refer to it by its more local name.

Sounds like he's not the only one who needs education. Mengrai would roll over in his grave. BTW for most Thais, Chiang Rai is a province. The city is 'amphur meuang'; silly, I know, but that's what they think... and say.

[HerbalEd]

You must lead a very care free life with very little problems if something like this is a major problem. Get over yourself.

[MZurf]

How about the mods change the name of the Chiang Rai forum to the "The Rai" forum, now that the OP has made that nick name famous (on TV)?

[proovms]

It's just slang.

For example, people refer to Cambridge in England as 'the bridge'. It's just a different way of saying things to mix it up, the same way that using the same word twice in a paragraph is bad practice.

[Songhua]

If the Thai Visa Cricket Team were to play an exhibition match in Chang Rai?

What would the Wicket Keeper be named do you think?

Sandwiches at tea. Pastrami on Rai for the Catcher on the Rai.

[Rob8891]

If the Thai Visa Cricket Team were to play an exhibition match in Chang Rai?

What would the Wicket Keeper be named do you think?

Stumpy??

[harrry]

If the Thai Visa Cricket Team were to play an exhibition match in Chang Rai?

What would the Wicket Keeper be named do you think?

A Rai.

[harrry]

Possibly it is you who need education on the thai translation of Chiangrai and its origins. Chiang means city....Chiangrai means city in the fields. Just as Chiang Mai means new city.

Unless you are just refering to a small part of the built up area of Chiangrai it is completly correct to refer to it by its more local name.

Sounds like he's not the only one who needs education. Mengrai would roll over in his grave. BTW for most Thais, Chiang Rai is a province. The city is 'amphur meuang'; silly, I know, but that's what they think... and say.

Bit hard for him to roll over in his grave as his ashes are at Wat Ngam Muang.

[FM505]

Peeved or "mildly annoyed"...?

Either way it has nothing to do with you 'Rot'...

If you're out and about on travel, you may enjoy the sights in Frisco...

[David48]

If the Thai Visa Cricket Team were to play an exhibition match in Chang Rai?

What would the Wicket Keeper be named do you think?

Sandwiches at tea. Pastrami on Rai for the Catcher on the Rai.

Double likes for that answer ...

[Ulic]

Give your head a shake, who cares.

[Emdog]

Reagan called his wife "Mommy'. Go figure. I envy someone who perhaps has so few hassles that something like this would bother them. Must have a Rai sense of humor?

[Ayemanomad]

It's just slang.

For example, people refer to Cambridge in England as 'the bridge'. It's just a different way of saying things to mix it up, the same way that using the same word twice in a paragraph is bad practice.

I thought that 'the bridge' was Chelsea's football ground.

[minikev]

I call Baan Chang BIG C mostly so the missus thinks I'm off shopping instead of a night on the town. How offensive is that!!

[menorah]

This must rate as the most banal post to ever appear on TV.

I once had a colleague who described certain 'low life' and other assorted examples of humanity as... 'A waste of skin' ! I now know exactly what he meant.

[menorah]

Using the term 'The Rai' is surely nothing less than an affectionate term used by locals who feel some connection with the area?

...same as 'going to 'the smoke' as in city of London or any other city for that matter. And no doubt OP would never refer to 'The Big Apple', Motor City,Skeggie (Skegness) or other 'affectionate terms for town & cities around the world.

Here in kampaengphet or KPP, it's common to hear foreigners talking of going to 'Piss in the road' or Pitsanulok. It's just banter and what the hell !

Definitely a 'wind up' this one.

[Sayonarax]

Bangers and the Rai...

[bundoi]

Dear Rotweiler, I am inclined to agree with you, and I would add a few other adjectives: adolescent, smug, reminiscent of teenage boys seeking an easy shared identity - sort-of-like a motorbike club's easy membership.

PS on my occasional trips north my local friends refer affectionately to their city as Shanghai (that's a reasonably accurate transcription anyway) - I believe it's Pasat Meuang, also known sometimes as Lanna language.

Lord only knows what the foreigners call it, and frankly who cares. The last time I was there I had the unpleasant experience of sitting next to two unwashed foreigners who were discussing things that would get an automatic hefty gaol sentence in Thailand, but naturally their ignorance exceeded their arrogance.

Anyway you seem to have provided a much needed tonic to those old fogies :-)

[hellodolly]

Sorry I just don't get it?...but this is how I see it...

2 guys talking about maybe going to Chiang Rai?

Why is it while your listening in on them so annoying to you when it's kind of none of your business what they're doing?

How about mind your own business and just eat your lunch!

(please correct me if I'm wrong)

I am with you what is he doing listing in on others conversations and then critiquing them for all of Thai Visa to hear.

If he robs a bank will we get the story on that also.

Before I got in the condition I am in now I walked all over the city and can not recall hearing Chiang Rai called the Rai. Even now I still get out a lot and as you can see by the number of my posts read a lot and this is the first time I have heard it called the Rai. Maybe they were talking about some other place.

Also noticed how he managed to get in a negative on the Promenada.

[Suradit69]

What about Bangers?

As in Bangkok.

I find it annoying when people write Pats for Pattaya on Thai Visa, but I don't think I'll launch a campaign to enforce the use of the full word and I certainly would not expect the moderators to fight the fight for me.

Perhaps mods could make that a strong suggestion

I also find the use of things like u and ur for you and your & you're and even "mods" for "moderators," annoying, but then I'm pretty sure my annoyance at such things is more attributable to me becoming a cranky curmudgeon ( or a crankier curmudgeon) than anything else.

It's difficult balancing my petty annoyances against my desire not to be annoyingly petty.

curmudgeon.....only one person uses that word. Welcome back

Since I haven't been away, I assume there are now two (or more) people using the word. But thank you for the welcome.

[kennypowers]

I call Bangkok " the Kok"

[sceadugenga]

I suppose some people would consider the word Bangkok onomatopoetic anyway.

[Dancealot]

I suppose some people would consider the word Bangkok onomatopoetic anyway.

And, every once in a while, this is worth mentioning.

[harrry]

I call Bangkok " the Kok"

I generally call it Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

Sometimes if i am lazy I just call it: Krung Thep

Edited December 28, 2013 by harrry

[sceadugenga]

The aptly named City of the Angels.

[harrry]

The aptly named City of the Angels.

Fallen ones?

[john fogerty]

Why don't you move to Phuket then. You won't hear many people saying 'maybe going to 'the" Phuket

[sceadugenga]

But we could often claim to be "in the Phu".