A long depressing New Years Day walk on Jomtien Beach Road

[Gsxrnz]

"Luxury" Condo For Sale! Davai! Davai!

Is this an auction JT?

Ok, Let's Go!!

I bid 10,000 100,000 Baht and you can borrow my truck to move your stuff - I'll even help you.

[Jingthing]

"Luxury" Condo For Sale! Davai! Davai!

Is this an auction JT?

Ok, Let's Go!!

I bid 10,000 100,000 Baht and you can borrow my truck to move your stuff - I'll even help you.

10 million and we've got a deal, comrade.

[Gsxrnz]

"Luxury" Condo For Sale! Davai! Davai!

Is this an auction JT?

Ok, Let's Go!!

I bid 10,000 100,000 Baht and you can borrow my truck to move your stuff - I'll even help you.

10 million and we've got a deal, comrade.

A few too many nohl's for me unfortunately.

Would you take rubles?

Edited January 3, 2014 by Gsxrnz

[anon8]

"Luxury" Condo For Sale! Davai! Davai!

Is this an auction JT?

Ok, Let's Go!!

I bid 10,000 100,000 Baht and you can borrow my truck to move your stuff - I'll even help you.

10 million and we've got a deal, comrade.

Maybe accept 9.5 million?

I realize this is low, but look at upside, you finally get the opportunity to drive a car in Pattaya!

[Jingthing]

Why Russians don't (usually) smile!

Fascinating.

"In Russia only two types of people smile: idiots and rich people—and rich people don't walk on the street."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/why-russians-aren-t-smiling-at-you-in-sochi-20140207

[Y0DA]

You don't have to go that far...no Russians on the dark side, thankfully.

You must have your eyes closed. Or maybe it's just so dark on the darkside that you cant see them even with your eyes open. I see plenty of them there and I only cross Sukumvit once a week for Sunday lunch and to get my car washed.

When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.

[Michaelaway]

You don't have to go that far...no Russians on the dark side, thankfully.

You must have your eyes closed. Or maybe it's just so dark on the darkside that you cant see them even with your eyes open. I see plenty of them there and I only cross Sukumvit once a week for Sunday lunch and to get my car washed.

When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.

Huh...?

[BugJackBaron]

You don't have to go that far...no Russians on the dark side, thankfully.

You must have your eyes closed. Or maybe it's just so dark on the darkside that you cant see them even with your eyes open. I see plenty of them there and I only cross Sukumvit once a week for Sunday lunch and to get my car washed.

When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.

Huh...?

Based on the last part of the following quotation(original is in German) from the great philosopher Nietzsche:

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. " Friedrich Nietzsche

Edited February 9, 2014 by BugJackBaron

[Awohalitsiktoli]

Why Russians don't (usually) smile!

Fascinating.

"In Russia only two types of people smile: idiots and rich people—and rich people don't walk on the street."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/why-russians-aren-t-smiling-at-you-in-sochi-20140207

Thanks for that interesting post. It is a cultural thing. What we see on the outside (absence of a smile) is not necessarily what is going on in the inside.

[Michaelaway]

Ah, so you can't tell a book by its cover...?

[ford8]

Good borscht

A good oxymoron

[anotheruser]

My feeling is that it has become MORE dreary. The domination of the Russian demographic has effectively KILLED a lot of the diversity that DID exist more in the past.

Cheers.

Could be worse, it could be jam packed full of elderly gay people.

[Jingthing]

On the front lines of the Russification front ...

Is DA the new KA?

In -- DA

Out -- KA (for Thai girls)

Buying an item today, the saleslady kept saying DA.

I said, I am not a DA, not everyone with white skin is Russian.

She hears me, looks confused, and then continues to say

DA to me about 20 times.

More DA than you would expect KA by far!

So, now very amused, I speak to her again about it, and ask her why she keeps speaking Russian to me when I told her I don't speak Russian.

Her hilarious answer: Not speaking Russian, DA is Thai, same like KA.

Did she actually believe that?

Edited March 23, 2014 by Jingthing

[marcusd]

Why Russians don't (usually) smile!

Fascinating.

"In Russia only two types of people smile: idiots and rich people—and rich people don't walk on the street."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/why-russians-aren-t-smiling-at-you-in-sochi-20140207

only those from Moscow jinny.

They were taught not to smile during communist times but now its because if you live in Moscow you have nothing to smile about

Marcusd. Via tapatalk

[tropo]

On the front lines of the Russification front ...

Is DA the new KA?

In -- DA

Out -- KA (for Thai girls)

Buying an item today, the saleslady kept saying DA.

I said, I am not a DA, not everyone with white skin is Russian.

She hears me, looks confused, and then continues to say

DA to me about 20 times.

More DA than you would expect KA by far!

So, now very amused, I speak to her again about it, and ask her why she keeps speaking Russian to me when I told her I don't speak Russian.

Her hilarious answer: Not speaking Russian, DA is Thai, same like KA.

Did she actually believe that?

I reckon there's a few workers down at the Food Court at Central who can speak more Russian than English.

[Jingthing]

I reckon there's a few workers down at the Food Court at Central who can speak more Russian than English.

Definitely.

What struck me as funny about the DA girl is that I got the impression she was saying DA to be welcoming to the white people, but didn't have the slightest cue what language she was speaking. My other guess is that was the only Russian word she knew. She really did seem to think all white people in town will be happy to hear DA. She's over half right!

[tropo]

Down at Central I seem to hear het (nyeht) more than Da (from the Thai staff). LOL

I think the Thai people here handle the Russians rather well in general.