SoftWater

KoratFarang, on 2010-09-28 12:00:17, said:

you are joking.
Thais actually came from the Dai people in the mountainous Yun Nan province. This 'Dai' people still exists in Yun Nan and you can find similarity in both people's culture.

There is something the reporter from the nation have completely misunderstood the meaning of the word THAI and where it comes from.

For approx. 1000 years ago some Englishmen came to thailand for first time they had never seen these people before and did not know what to call them. As the days went passed, there was one thing that went on again and again, these people could sleep all the time.

one of the Englishmen came to think of the english word tired, so Thai comes from tired, because it is simular in pronoundsing .

hoaker, on 2010-09-28 09:51:33, said:

Maybe we need Viktor to manage the Thai armories. At least he would keep better tabs on the stock.

And Thailand wants nuclear power plants.

"It should be a couple of years before banks can recoup the loss with other kinds of revenue."

Translation : We'll still get the same amount of cash from each customer, and probably more. We just haven't figured out the scam yet.

The rest is pretty much untranslatable. But basically when a goose sits on a log under a full moon and you are doing an ATM transfer standing on one leg then you might get it for free.... or not.

Delight, on 2010-09-22 16:35:06, said:

Marginally off-topic, if at all, seeing as it's directly asking about the words used in this topic and the reading/understanding of them? Oh and it wasn't me that 'red buttoned you!

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bifftastic, on 2010-09-22 16:16:33, said:

It is always difficult when an interesting question is posed -- but it is off topic

Based on previous experience I have to:

Ask you to start this as a  new topic

Dobadoy

Firstly, don't call me buddy! I am not your buddy!

I am not even going to bother quoting your last few little gems, it is clear you need to go back to your soi bar and reminisce about being a retired member of the special forces. It is abundantly clear you have little idea how the world truly works, and it is for that reason that all the people like you make it so simple to keep a population terrorised into submission. Yu ask questions of my statements wondering why the oil companies would be seen to pursue policies that you perceive to be detrimental to them. But those policies are not detrimental to them. Are you not capable of progressive rational thought?

you wonder of what interest are the trillions of taxes from the Carbon Credits to the oil companies. Can you really not work that one out? Bye the way you make many assumptions about what I have said, and then conclusions that cannot be arrived at with clear thinking. Furthermore you conclude the oil companies will try and make money from Patents they have snapped up on alternative technologies, that is the last thing they will do. Those technologies will never be used. Did you know that in Brazil, for many  years Cars have run on engines that use a bio fuel. The engines are amazingly efficient, so much so that one thinks, why don't we have these cars all over the world? The reason is the oil companies have purchased the patents for the technology and the cars are not allowed to be sold outside of Brazil. That certainly illustrates the superficial marketing attempts to appear to be doing research in to alternative technologies.

Oil is not going to run out anytime soon. The USA have reserves in Alaska and their coastal areas that are now considered to exceed those of Saudi and Iran. If their route to economic recovery is to export that oil as you suggest, then why dont they do that. Why has the USA imposed drilling embargoes on all that oil for so many years, saying, 'we can't drill there, it is an area of National interest'? the reasons are simple, use everybody elses oil first, then when oil is in short demand the areas of national interest will not be so any more and the USA will be in total control of the worlds major oil supplies. It was only due to backroom political pressure that we had the farce of US politicians saying, we are now opening up our Oil Fields. How convenient that the BP disaster came along which has now put an indefinite hold on the offshore drilling licences around the USA. What can other Global leaders say to that..not much.

It does not surprise me that you don't really know whats happening on the planet you live on as soi bar world economics and strategies are not really that robust in there reliability are they.

I say again. You have been duped, and the wealthy men behind the Presidents will make much more money and importantly gain much more power. Your tendency to try and flame someone reveals your inability for cognitive thinking. If you cannot progress a debate or argument without trying to take the pi**, when it is so clear that you understand nothing, then please don't debate with me any more. Your final insult in trying to suggest that I am unemployed, is almost correct. I don't exactly have to work anymore for a living so please don't try and belittle people with your ill considered smart ass comments, because as now, you will be invariably wrong.

before you reply, engage brain (sober) before fingers eh!.

What sort of example would it be setting for your children to be blackmailed into giving their future school (or administrators) money, What sort of ethical standards would they be teaching your children.

If a school wants to be private and charge a fee then that is exactly what they should do.

Thai at Heart, on 2010-09-17 08:25:50, said:

Ofcourse he would have solved.  He would have made sure he made billions of baht from it, too.

This is starting to sound like promotional advertising for Google translate.  

jdk, on 2010-09-10 13:00:42, said:

Been living with my thai woman for almost 5 years. She has 0 education and I "picked" her in a bar in patong, but she never showed any violence towards me (or others). A good heart has little to do with education (and less than little with schooling). Some people are good, some are bad, just like that. And violence has nothing to do with booze or drugs too. Some drunks are violent, some are not. To spot a violent woman is not so difficult though, if you're not 15 years old. Some think they can change their wife/husband, but, then again, people don't change and the stabbing-type will never be the non peaceful one and viceversa.

BTW, to be more pedantic, it's กิ๊ก and not กิก and the correct transliterationis gík.

Scott, on 2010-09-10 11:02:05, said:

Well, it took over 30 posts before Scott stepped in and offered condolences to this man's family. Lots of speculation going on and no definite information available other than he was stabbed by his Thai wife.
There are lots of experts on Thai women on this board and some of the opinions are fair and some absurd. When a woman has had to resort to working in a bar or any other place of "hospitality", there is usually a good reason. Her Thai husband knocked her up, they got married, she had a baby and then he starts playing around or drinking and gambling, and eventually they separate. She's left to raise a kid or two, she leaves them with mama upcountry and heads off to Pattaya, Bangkok or wherever there are money spending foreigners.
She already knows that most foreigners treat women better than some Thai men.
I don't believe in the "golden rule" about taking the girl out of the bar etc. Some bar girls are plain bad, some are very good women ( I speak from 10 years personal experience) I also have several friends who have been badly 'burned' by Thai women, and they weren't all bar girls.
One only has to watch Thai soaps any evening to see just how vindictive and violent some Thais can be, both men and women. There is no guarantee that a so called "normal" woman will not turn out to be a complete bitch. There is also a possibility that a woman you meet in the 'hospitality" industry will turn out to be an angel.
Choose wisely.
My condolences also to this poor guy's family and friends.

Wolfie, on 2010-09-09 11:53:16, said:

Same for me.  The only time my life has been seriously affected was during the redshirt occupation.