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Old 09-21-2012, 05:39 PM   #9
furious1

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"The truth can get you killed". Yes, of course. Not to over simply...It's a kind of freedon. That is live and let live. A thai, born in thailand and having gone thru the mores and culture can do whatever they pretty much choose that is well, wrong. However. Anyone who knows of these wrong things, by western standards, cannot speak of it. To anyone. The act is never to be mentioned in front, behind or crosswise to them. Honor is spoken of but it is a phoney honor. Loathsome, irresponsible, quite true. Seems like at times that some thai just don't give a .....
To be honest lenss I don't have too much trouble tucked away in a Sa Kaeo Village most people have got to know me as the crazy falang. They all know I don't have a heap of cash and like most Thai folk I go my own way about things, which seems to sit well with them. My Thai isn't brilliant but I know how to say pom hen, pom poot. Khun mai chop arai pom poot, ko tot. Khun mee mai choc dee na Khrap. So far at least no-one has given me a moment's trouble.
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