🇹🇭 Thailand - British men fall in love with Thai Bar girls

[tango42]

I was searching for Somerset Maugham mentions in Forumosa and I stumbled upon this thread. The original video is not available but I wonder what started this whole discussion

@the_bear

that has to be the saddest thing i’ve ever seen…yer mans run out of money so the honey pot is dry…so he has to sit at the bar every night watching his girl work the crowd…and that desperate look of betrayal on his face; priceless. like something out of a modern day somerset maugham short story

[the_bear]

The video itself is the reason for the thread. YouTube has loads more of these stories. Guys who cash in their retirement plans and sell their property and hand over the cash to a Thai girlfriend to buy a house. Then the girl divorces them and makes the guy move out.

[MalcolmReynolds]

@tango42

I was searching for Somerset Maugham mentions in Forumosa and I stumbled upon this thread. The original video is not available but I wonder what started this whole discussion

[LondonSpice]

I have friends who live in Thailand in the motorcycle racing trade.
Stories they can tell you of guys being screwed in every way possible.
Not only Brits, Germans, Dutch and Aussies seem big suckers also.

They’ve been having some problems with there business from Russian gangsters lately.

[TT]

@LondonSpice

They’ve been having some problems with there business from Russian gangsters lately.

They should pay off the local gangsters/police for some protection

[the_bear]

Graham Greene as well as Maugham springs to mind:

“There’s nothing wrong in love. It happens. It doesn’t much matter who with. We get caught up, we get kidnapped by mistake.”

The uncontrollable onset of emotions in a man whose life seems to have nearly run its course. To suddenly discover love when none seemed possible. It’s like a strongly addictive drug.

[tango42]

@the_bear

“There’s nothing wrong in love. It happens. It doesn’t much matter who with. We get caught up, we get kidnapped by mistake.”

The uncontrollable onset of emotions in a man whose life seems to have nearly run its course. To suddenly discover love when none seemed possible. It’s like a strongly addictive drug.

I’m touched. Coincides perfectly with the Somerset Maugham short story I’m reading at the moment, The Social Scene.

I’m also having flashbacks of loves, of Thailand, of love with a Thailand girl, of love of Thai food.

[Dr_Milker]

@the_bear

The uncontrollable onset of emotions in a man whose life seems to have nearly run its course. To suddenly discover love when none seemed possible. It’s like a strongly addictive drug.

Speaking from experience?

[the_bear]

Flight of the Conchords - Dave on Love

[urodacus]

You’ve got a grey highlighter pen?

[Dr_Milker]

@urodacus

You’ve got a grey highlighter pen?

It’s a Kobo.

[tango42]

Yea, it’s a Kobo ereader, similar to Kindle.

[PeiHua-Connie]

Brit still mix up Thailand and Taiwan, and think it’s like the this topic in Taiwan , quite bad at Asian info I guess.

[Kalle]

@PeiHua-Connie

Brit still mix up Thailand and Taiwan

Isn’t it a global issue though? Things on the other side of the globe are not so easy to remember…. Talk to the local Taiwanese about European or South American geography, it’s fun

[qbert]

Most people are surprised to learn that Dominica is not the capitol of the Dominican Republic.

[volv1992]

@PeiHua-Connie

Brit still mix up Thailand and Taiwan, and think it’s like the this topic in Taiwan , quite bad at Asian info I guess.

To be fair, (not all but a significant margin of) Americans still refer to the UK as “England” - it’s a global shitfest.

[ponlaihop]

Yeah not politically correct but it’s just more easily recognised than “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” - which would still be misleading if you were wishing to present yourself as Scottish, so pick your most appropriate🤷🏻

[PeiHua-Connie]

@volv1992

@PeiHua-Connie

Brit still mix up Thailand and Taiwan, and think it’s like the this topic in Taiwan , quite bad at Asian info I guess.

To be fair, (not all but a significant margin of) Americans still refer to the UK as “England” - it’s a global shitfest.

Humm, I wonder people in England nowdays prefer be call English or Brit (Limey)

[volv1992]

@PeiHua-Connie

(Limey)

I haven’t ever been called limey but I think if someone is an American tourist and they called someone a limey in the UK then they would probably be quietly hated at best. Bit like calling someone from Louisiana a seppo.

[BigDave]

@PeiHua-Connie

bad at Asian info I guess.

Ask the average Taiwanese about Ireland/England/UK. No clue.

Ask them about their Asian knowledge when it doesnt concern japan and Korea. No clue.