Playboy stickers on the car

[namdocmai]

What's that with the Playboy stickers on the cars in BKK? almost 1 on the 10 cars has them.

Are they from the massagegirls, also girls have them on the car. Or are they members from a swingersclub?

Also motorbikes have them.

Last week i even saw a pickuptruck with on his backwindow huge letters and the text: Handsome man! Followed by his Line-ID.

Are they all dating in the trafficjam these days or what?

[arunsakda]

Al Pacino as "Serpico" often gets questions from new arrivals.

[Thainess]

It's simply that being a "playboy" is a badge of honour for every heterosexual Thai male (i.e. for about 60% of them, the rest being gay or ladyboy to various degrees of the sexual spectrum). Far from being a mark of shame that's hidden as far as possible in Western countries (especially the Anglo-Saxon ones), the Thai male positively revels in his unfettered infidelity. No fake Judaeo-Christian guilt to weigh him down, you see... Thailand truly is "the land of the FREE and the home of the KNAVE"! Ah yes, and the reason for the popularity of Al Pacino (in Serpico) is that he also has a reputation as the paradigm of the "player" (in real life and in movies) and the "gangster" (only in movies, I hope)... He's over 70 and he's still dating women in their 30s... Pacino has many very Thai-like characteristics! I'm sure he must have been to Bangkok more than a few times!

Edited March 24, 2014 by Thainess

[namdocmai]

But i also see many girls with those stickers on their car (Next to the hello Kitty-crap), also they have the Playgirl brand clothes in Thailand and i see them wearing it.

Yes in Europe girls would never ever use Playgirl or Playboy stickers but here i don't understand their meaning.

[Costas2008]

To tell you the truth, instead of the Man United and Arsenal stickers, I prefer the Play Boy ones.

[arunsakda]

I always heard the Serpico fetish was that he was the one honest cop who stood up to corruption. Thus popular with truckers and transport drivers.

[namdocmai]

I always heard the Serpico fetish was that he was the one honest cop who stood up to corruption. Thus popular with truckers and transport drivers.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

[namdocmai]

To tell you the truth, instead of the Man United and Arsenal stickers, I prefer the Play Boy ones.

Yes me too, i don't understand the Thai and their Man-U fever at all. I 've never seen them wearing a Thai soccer shirt, now my friend has one from Germany and one from Spain.

So the Playboy stickers is not a way of e-dating or something? Maybe they use bluetooth to meet new people or something like that.

[arunsakda]

I always heard the Serpico fetish was that he was the one honest cop who stood up to corruption. Thus popular with truckers and transport drivers.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Online article regarding Serpico popularity in Thailand.

http://www.manversusworld.com/serpico-in-thailand/

Edited March 24, 2014 by arunsakda

[Rumblecat]

And funnily enough that article you linked to ends with this paragraph...

"Perhaps they just think it’s a great film and they think the image looks cool on their vehicles? God knows there are plenty of stupid people in the West who think it’s cool to put the Playboy bunny logo on their cars…"

[Bpuumike]

Playboy is a popular brand of condoms in Thailand

[Torrens54]

They are also splattered over vehicles in CNX.

Suspect it is an "Outward Sign of Inward Nonsense" exhibited by some VERY LITTLE MEN who think it makes them look Cool, when in fact, any decent girl would probably run a mile from such Neanderthals.

[SpokaneAl]

There are also large numbers of Ernesto "Che" Guevara stickers up here in Issan in my neck of the woods.

[JoeThePoster]

They all have Hugh Hefners.

[JRinPDX]

You'll also see a fair number of trucks with Rambo mudflaps; they believe this will ward off the police.

[namdocmai]

Oh i see, i also thought it was Che Guevara. Yep i also see those portraits now and then.

I do know a Thai copper that couldn't stand the corruption and he took another position in the force where he has nothing to do with it. They do exist.

[Rumblecat]

Playboy is a pretty brand in Thailand now, especially in clothing. Just had their 60th Birthday celebrations at Ku De Ta the other week. The smart thing Playboy did in the 90s was to become a brand separate from the magazine- something that's meant to represent a successful, fun lifestyle, rather than sticky pages. And the real genius was to market it at women, rather than men. And it worked. A lot of Thai people aren't aware of the history of the bunny and the magazine- they see Playboy as a smart, modern fashion brand.

Which is basically, I think, why you're seeing more and more Playboy stickers.

[ozziepete]

To tell you the truth, instead of the Man United and Arsenal stickers, I prefer the Play Boy ones.

Anything has to be better then man united and arsenal stickers

[juehoe]

Playboy is primarily know in Thailand as a (very popular) fashion brand. Most of the Thais don'y know its origin. So don't expect anything, if a woman has this sticker on her car...!

My spouse also had such a sticker on her car - until I told her for what Playboy is known by Western men... ;-)

Many Thais wear T-Shirts with English expressions and don't know the meaning. Stickers and logos are often only fashion/decoration and have no relevance to the ideas or opinion of the people.

[namdocmai]

Yes t-shirts with english texts can be funny and i bet they don't know what they are wearing.

Also playboy magazine i have never seen in Thailand, i guess it is not allowed here with the nude poster.

I have never seen playboy brand clothing in Europe or anywhere. Must be a Thailand only then.

[SpokaneAl]

I came across this a while back . . .

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[Langsuan Man]

Yes t-shirts with english texts can be funny and i bet they don't know what they are wearing.

Also playboy magazine i have never seen in Thailand, i guess it is not allowed here with the nude poster.

I have never seen playboy brand clothing in Europe or anywhere. Must be a Thailand only then.

You are just not going to the correct magazine sellers, they even have a Thai language edition:

[impulse]

Al Pacino as "Serpico" often gets questions from new arrivals.

Thanks. I've been wondering for 3 years whether that's a poor image of Che, or Eric Clapton back when he was on on drugs.

[namdocmai]

Al Pacino as "Serpico" often gets questions from new arrivals.

Thanks. I've been wondering for 3 years whether that's a poor image of Che, or Eric Clapton back when he was on on drugs.

For a while i was thinking it was Jim Morrison. Today i saw that exact face on a minibus which i think was an ambulance but without the lights on the roof.

So people who have that sticker are tired of corrupt police. Where do they sell them?? Today the police couldn't get me at their roadblock , i went to the most right lane (motorbike) and just didn't look at them when one was pointing at me....

[Rumblecat]

Yes t-shirts with english texts can be funny and i bet they don't know what they are wearing.

Also playboy magazine i have never seen in Thailand, i guess it is not allowed here with the nude poster.

I have never seen playboy brand clothing in Europe or anywhere. Must be a Thailand only then.

Playboy brand clothing is available everywhere- Europe, America, etc. They used to have a store on Oxford Street in London but I'm not sure if it's still there. It's been a big brand for over ten years now- hats, shoes, dresses, jackets, bags, t-shirt, jewellery, underwear...

[namdocmai]

Yes t-shirts with english texts can be funny and i bet they don't know what they are wearing.

Also playboy magazine i have never seen in Thailand, i guess it is not allowed here with the nude poster.

I have never seen playboy brand clothing in Europe or anywhere. Must be a Thailand only then.

Playboy brand clothing is available everywhere- Europe, America, etc. They used to have a store on Oxford Street in London but I'm not sure if it's still there. It's been a big brand for over ten years now- hats, shoes, dresses, jackets, bags, t-shirt, jewellery, underwear...

Oh i see, i have never seen a store of it nor anybody wearing the brand. Which european girl wants to be seen in it? They only go in the Playboy for the big bucks but some of them refuse any amount of money. Also Playboy is from the old days, where we had no chance to see a naked girl. Now with internet you can see as many as you like.

[SpokaneAl]

I am up in Issan and just watched a garbage truck go by our house with a big stencil of the Playboy rabbit proudly displayed on the side of the vehicle.

[Rumblecat]

Yes t-shirts with english texts can be funny and i bet they don't know what they are wearing.

Also playboy magazine i have never seen in Thailand, i guess it is not allowed here with the nude poster.

I have never seen playboy brand clothing in Europe or anywhere. Must be a Thailand only then.

Playboy brand clothing is available everywhere- Europe, America, etc. They used to have a store on Oxford Street in London but I'm not sure if it's still there. It's been a big brand for over ten years now- hats, shoes, dresses, jackets, bags, t-shirt, jewellery, underwear...

Oh i see, i have never seen a store of it nor anybody wearing the brand. Which european girl wants to be seen in it? They only go in the Playboy for the big bucks but some of them refuse any amount of money. Also Playboy is from the old days, where we had no chance to see a naked girl. Now with internet you can see as many as you like.

I've seen plenty of people wearing Playboy branded clothing in Europe and the US. It's a different generation- they don't associate Playboy with the magazine (and I'd imagine a large number of them aren't aware of the magazine existence). It's a brand and image now more than anything else, and that brand isn't associated with titillation or pornography in the minds of their target audience.

[Langsuan Man]

Despite Thailand's supposed strict control on guns, look at the number of Thais that were clothing with Glock, Smith and Wesson, Ruger, Charter, etc. logos on them

One could argue that the clothes are manufactured here for export and a certain amount fell off the truck but really, Thais like to advertise what they can't have

[keemapoot]

Personally, the one that's always had me puzzled is the one with the mechanic guy in overalls, with a baseball cap on sideways, carrying a limp, sexy maiden.

Since I mostly see them on Isuzu pickups, at first I assumed they were some sort of volunteer search and rescue guys, and then I started see them all over the place on every kind of vehicle (though 90% on pickups). Some of them have the "rescue" on the overalls, some not.

Anyone know the deal on these?