On 28 Nov 2005 04:18:14 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote:
>
>Chris Blunt wrote:
>> On 27 Nov 2005 21:17:22 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote:
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>> >Chris Blunt wrote:
>> >> Tchiowa wrote:
>> >> > Chris Blunt wrote:
>> >
>> >> >>Something I do like about Khao San Road is that its one of the few
>> >> >>places that have both ordinary Thais and foreigners mixing and
>> >> >>enjoying themselves.
>> >> >
>> >> > You can't be serious, Chris.
>> >>
>> >> I'm absolutely serious.
>> >>
>> >> > I hope you're not getting into the
>> >> > backpacker "you have to live poor to see the *real* Thailand" mantra.
>> >>
>> >> You mean you wish I had.
>> >
>> >No, I mean exactly what I said. I hope you're not trying to say that.
>> >It's a pathetic attitude and it's beneath most people.
>>
>> I said absolutely nothing about needing to be poor to see the *real*
>> Thailand. You know that, now quit trying to suggest I did.
>
>You said, and I quote: " its one of the few places that have both
>ordinary Thais and foreigners mixing and enjoying themselves". By doing
>so you are saying that a) those are ordinary Thais, and b) either Thais
>don't associate with foreigners elsewhere or those that do aren't
>ordinary Thais.
I'm saying both a) and b). They are ordinary Thai people, and no, Thai
people don't generally mix with foreigners in the entertainment venues
that most foreigners go to, at least in Bangkok. I found a couple of
places in Khao San Road that were nice exceptions to that. That's all
I said, period.
In any case, none of that can possibly be construed as implying you
need to be poor to experience the *real* Thailand, whatever that
means. Its not what I wrote, and not what I meant, but that hasn't
stopped you twisting it around to appear to make it appear to mean
something quite different.
I'm not going to respond to the rest of your garbage in which you
continue to insult the Thai people who go to Khao San Road by claiming
they are prostitutes even though you haven't actually been there
yourself for years. As others have noted, you are indeed a very sick
man.
Chris |