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"Is it or is it not true that Khao San Road is "the place to go" for
foreigners to score drugs?" Absolutely not. Talk about the most likely place in Bangkok to find out that your dealer is really an undercover cop. Only a complete idiot would try to buy on the KSR. Since a lot of the backpackers there are either starting or ending their trips, even total stoners are unlikely to have anything on them - they either just arrived and haven't bought yet or they have already gotten rid of their stash. |
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"Markku Grönroos" wrote in message ... "Tchiowa" kirjoitti glegroups.com... How can it be any kind of fraud? At weekends there are literally hundreds of perfectly normal Thai people in some of the bars in KSR. No there aren't. And that's the point. There are hundreds of Thai, yes. But it is an insult to the vast majority of Thai who think that Khao San Road is a sewer to claim that they have anything in common with most of the Thai that frequent Khao San Road. You possibly don't know the opinion of the majority. Actually I am inclined to believe such an opinion does NOT exists. Why should Thais be concerned on the street at all. You better pick up those marbles which sprung out from your head. You should stay in s.c.thai. Your friends are there. *****Tchiowa has long worn out his welcome and credibility on SCT, that why he's infesting himself over here. I'm happy to see that the folks here have summed him up for the fraud he is over here. ;-) |
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"Tchiowa" wrote in message oups.com... It hasn't changed. I live in Bangkok. ***** Oh dear......... Recently you have been 'boasting' around the traps that you are finally 'moving' to Bangkok to live and work. Your only connections with the Thai people Titchy, has been with hotel staff at the Marriott, taxi drivers that you overpay to ferry you to Chiayaphum, and the poor GoGo girls that you like to bulk barfine and slobber over at the sleezy bars that you love to visit. Of the real Thailand you know absolutely nothing, never have and never will. ;-) |
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Alfred Molon wrote: In article .com, says... And you'd better stick to the Jew-haters you hang out with. You are the one who openly boasted about being a racist and used a series of racist terms to describe Jews, as I recall. So you'd should stick in alt.no-class.brownshirts where your friends are. Leave Thailand to the decent folk. You really have a problem. What? You don't think this is a proper criticism? Weren't you on this group when Marku went through his anti-Jew tirade? A number of posts calling them Kikes, Hebes, etc.? I called him on it and his reply was "I'm a racist. So what?". I think racists are pretty despicable. You think I have a problem because I despise racists? Hmmmmm. |
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Alfred Molon wrote: In article .com, says... Khao San Road's primary drawing card is that it is cheap. It is for those people who can't afford a more conventional place. It is loaded with $2 and $3 per night guest houses. So what you said was that unless you go to the poor part of Bangkok the Thai you associate with won't be "ordinary Thai". Cheapness is not the key selling point of KSR. Of course it is. It's a place you can get cheap guest houses. It's "backpacker heaven". That's its primary draw. It's full of travel agencies, restaurants catering to westerners, hotels, internet cafes, You just described practically every place in Bangkok. There are a dozen or more tourist areas with the same facilities. And usually dramatically better quality. fellow travellers etc. And that's the point. Backpackers like to call themselves "travellers". "Traveller" is a code word for "backpackers on the cheap". Why do you pretend that's not what Khao San Road is about? It's an ideal base for organising trips, getting visas, exchanging ideas with other travellers. Plus it's centrally located, in walking distance of the Grand Palace and other attractions How can it be any kind of fraud? At weekends there are literally hundreds of perfectly normal Thai people in some of the bars in KSR. No there aren't. And how would you know if you haven't been there for years ? Because I have a Thai family, work with a lot of Thai people, all of whom are perfectly normal Thai and none of whom would be caught dead in Khao San Road. Is it or is it not true that Khao San Road is "the place to go" for foreigners to score drugs? I have never seen anybody selling drugs in KSR, nor have I been offered drugs in KSR. They don't have kiosks. ;-) But ask any of your fellow "travellers" while in Khao San Road and it will take you less than 5 minutes to have the dealers pointed out to you. It's kind of like looking for prostitutes in Patpong or fake DVDs in Panthip Plaza or counterfeit sunglasses on Sukhumvit Road. They're everywhere. But I've been offered drugs, even heavy ones in Europe (Amsterdam, just to make an example). I guess Europe must be a cesspool? Or perhaps KSR is not as drug-infested as you like to think ? By the way, not all foreigners are on drugs and prostitutes. I never said that they were. So why would anyone want to go to Khao San Road to associate with farangs who have serious drug problems or to associate with the locals who are supplying them? Maybe you are the one who has a problem. Let's see. You think I have a problem because I don't like racists. You think I have a problem because I don't like druggies. Well, maybe *one* of us has a problem. |
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On 28 Nov 2005 04:18:14 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote:
Chris Blunt wrote: On 27 Nov 2005 21:17:22 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote: 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 |
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Chris Blunt wrote: On 28 Nov 2005 04:18:14 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote: 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. And you're 100% wrong. Thai people associate with foreigners all over the Kingdom. 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. Why do you find it necessary to flat out lie to try to make a point? I never claimed that the Thai going there were prostitutes. Interesting that you refer to others saying I'm sick (or have a problem) when the 2 points that referred to was that I have a problem because 1) I don't like racists (are you going to try to defend Markku using terms like "Kike" and "Hebe" and openly boasting that he is a racist), and 2) because I don't like druggies. Now you add that I am sick because I don't like hanging out with druggies and because I am offended when you and others try to portray the worst part of Bangkok as a great example of love and brotherhood. It's an insult to my family and my friends. Well, if not liking racists and not liking druggies and having Thai friends who think the drug scene in Khao San Road is pathetic makes me a sick person in your mind, that says more about you than it does about me. |
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:32:37 +0800, Chris Blunt
wrote: 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. This person is very sick indeed to rant on on about a place the he openly admits to not having been to in years. I wonder what his definition of the "average Thai" is - as if you can actually categorize a whole race of people with such vague terms as average, below average or above average. _________________________________________ Usenet Zone Free Binaries Usenet Server More than 140,000 groups Unlimited download http://www.usenetzone.com to open account |
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On 28 Nov 2005 21:43:38 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote:
(sigh) It's not farangs selling to farangs. It doesn't matter that they are arriving without drugs in their pockets. The stoners are buying their drugs there, in Khao San Road, from Thai dealers. The same Thai that others in this thread are calling "normal, average, everyday Thai" which is a cruel insult to all of the normal, average everyday Thai. Don't be such an idiot. Nobody is referring to drug dealers as normal, average everyday people. You made up this baseless claim that every Thai person in Khao San Road is either a prostitute or a drug dealer. You are the only one to have insulted Thai people here, and you should be ashamed of yourself for it. You get drug dealers all over Thailand, in fact all over the world, no more and no less in Khao San Road. You get rich drug addicts and you get poor drug addicts. Wealthy superstars are just as likely to get involved in drugs as any other sector of society. If you don't like Khao San Road, just say so any leave it at that. You don't need to engage in this stupid tirade against the place to justify not going there. What is the matter with you, man? Chris |
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