On 1 Dec 2005 02:23:18 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote:

Chris Blunt wrote:
On 30 Nov 2005 02:34:07 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote:

And if you read that you'll notice 2 things (I should say if you're
*honest* you'll notice 2 things). One is that this is only used in the
UK that way. I'm not a Brit and neither are the Thai people I was
talking about and they are not in the UK. So UK slang is just a little
bit irrelevant.

So go on then, back up your claims with some evidence, just as I did.

My evidence is simple. I did not call anyone a prostitute. It's there
in my post. You are trying to create a meaning that isn't there. I'm
not sure why but when you first stepped into this thread you made a
comment disagreeing with me then for reasons of your own decided to
take a cheap, personal shot. Pick a fight, as it were. Then you
escalated with this phony claim that I said something I didn't say. Now
you're weaseling around claiming that because you think that some
obscure British slang applies to Thailand.

You said they were "on the game", which means they are prostitutes.
I've proved that with links to numerous independent references to
support it. In an attempt to weasel your way out of it, you've tried
to claim the expression means something else, yet you've been unable
to produce even a single reference to support that. Unless you can do
so, my claim that you called the Thai people in Khao San Road
prostitutes stands. Either put up or shut up.

Well it certainly existed a few months ago. Its true it has since
changed its name to Nevada, but its the same place inside. After
reading so much about what you'd written about the place, I dropped by
there once, and what did I see inside... the name Tchiowa painted on
the mirror as being one of the customers who "rang the bell" to buy
all the girls a drink, in exchange for which he got a t-shirt and was
able to take home one of the girls for the night.

How many years ago? Or are you conveniently ignoring that?

You first started posting about what you do with the girls from that
bar several years ago. I don't really care what you get up to in
there, but I doubt whether a leopard changes his spots. At least
you've had the good sense to stop posting about it in public now.

Interesting comment. Goes to prove what I asked in one of the first
posts. Several times during threads in Usenet (particularly in travel
groups) people discuss the hotels they stay in. Before I moved to
Thailand I used to stay in the Marriott quite regularly. There is
absolutely nothing that could be considered "bragging" about that. The
fact that you consider it "bragging" says something about you and your
attitude toward people. Back to the old "if you're not poor you're not
as good as us" viewpoint. People who stay in the Marriott are middle
class. If you consider middle class to be bragging you have said a lot
about where you are coming from. I think the operative word would be
"jealousy". Of the middle class!! At least we now know why you stay in
Khao San Road.

In fact I've never stayed on Khao San Road. I've also stayed at the JW
Marriott a couple of times. I could afford to stay there every time,
but I think its overpriced for what they actually offer in practical
terms. I normally stay in 3 or 4 star hotels in other parts of
Bangkok, but just because I choose to do so doesn't mean I have to put
down budget travelers who want to stay somewhere cheaper. I'm not so
insecure that I have to *prove* to others that my choice of travel
lifestyle is the *only* respectable one there is. I don't see it as a
class thing, and I don't make assumptions about people simply based on
what kind of hotel they choose to spend their money on.