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  1. #71
    Quote Originally Posted by Toxoplasmosis:
    You should have been there around 2010/11 when the Reds were supposedly hiring some super powerful Khmer black magic wizards to attack the Yellows. To counter this, the Yellows decided that they needed to protect their main supernatural protector (a statue of a particular dead king in downtown Bangkok). How to protect it? Obviously by ringing it with menstrual blood from their female supporters. This they duly did. Imagine a prophylactic ring of bagged up used sanitary napkins around dead king's statue which they spent a good deal of time prostrating themselves before.

    Quite interesting stuff from the anthropological side... but you don't want to get between an enraged Royalist Thai and his used tampons!


    Lots more stuff like this. Really interesting people.
    I go there for business a lot. Reds, yellows, pink for the monarchy, and the boys in brown. And now black. Very complex place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toxoplasmosis:
    But then again nobody got half beaten to death for not wearing a poppy.
    You're right - no one got half beaten to death; they were fully beaten to death

    War veteran beaten to death for not wearing poppy | The Evening Haröld




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    Quote Originally Posted by HowardCoombs:
    You're right - no one got half beaten to death; they were fully beaten to death

    War veteran beaten to death for not wearing poppy | The Evening Haröld




    Very droll. For anyone not bothering to click through, it's a piss-taking satirical Limey Onion type website and it didn't actually happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Char Siu King:
    Thailand is afraid of the truth. Like much of Asia.

    Saving face is a hinderance to true social progress.
    Trues, except in western culture , 'saving face' is interpreted as lying. Or as the saying goes, "pride before a fall."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Char Siu King:
    I go there for business a lot. Reds, yellows, pink for the monarchy, and the boys in brown. And now black. Very complex place.
    Mongering is called "business" now? Saving face now, are we?

  6. #76
    Quote Originally Posted by rickyross:
    Mongering is called "business" now? Saving face now, are we?
    Please stop projecting.

    I suspect you'd find that the eligible expat one-percenter bachelors of this congenial forum (whoever they may be) can do a lot better elsewhere and feel little need to fish in *that* somewhat shallow pond.

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