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Originally Posted by merlin
Jaybee,
I`ve got a great sense of humour but I don`t find that at all funny................
typical seppo patronizing attitude IMHO
It`s no joke,these girls do that because they feel they have too,not to take the piss or amuse themselves......
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I did consider putting this thread in the "Jokes" section and figured that I would take some heat for making light of a serious subject. I don't know about humor in other countries, but there is precious little that Americans don't make fun of. The president, the governor, the war in Iraq, virtually every and any public figure are readily lampooned. Even Michael Jackson's trial was a constant butt of jokes and what is less funny than charges of child molestation.
The humor (or lack of it, in your opinion) is just an extension of the standard "Rules for BGs" joke about farangs being walking ATM, the sick buffalo stories, etc.
We are constantly getting requests for opinions and/or advice from guys who have received emails from BGs asking for money for mothers, children, sick buffalos, rent, and a host of other problems. A very heavy majority of the responses to those posts advise the writer not to give a baht to the girl asking for money. I just thought that someone who is at a loss of how to respond to such a request my consider the idea of giving her a sob story telling her that he needs money. In fact, I imagine that quite a few guys do write back telling the girls that their expenses are such that they can not afford to send funds. My post was just an exaggeartion of that type of response, i.e., to not just say that you can't send money, but that the situatio is so bad that, in fact, you are in need of help!!
After all, we are not all wealthy. One friend of mine who goes to LOS every year that he can beg, borrow or "steal" the money, lives in a rented room and makes a living primarily by scavenging thru thrift shops(second-hand goods), and garage sales(people selling unwanted junk in their driveway on weekends), then driving his truck full of odds and ends to the city at 4:00 AM Sunday morning to get a good stall at the flea market to sell the junk he has collected during the week for a small profit. He lives like a pauper, pinching pennies, so he can go to LOS for 2 months or more every year. He goes to Nana and pays 2000 Baht, plus 600 baht per night BF, plus food and drinks for the girls. What a girl costs him for a month is as much as he makes in a month(after taxes, which he does pay because he knows he'll need the Social Security some day). The girls, of course, think he is a "rich" farang, because he is very generous and treats them so well. He wasn't always so poor, but in the years when he had a good income, all the money he could have saved or invested was spent in LOS, as he never stayed for less than 3 months a year in those days. When you adjust for the cost of living in the US vs. LOS, the girls that he goes with are making considerably more money than he does. He makes far below the average income here and they make many times the average income there.
In a lot of cases ,the girls need the money. But not in all cases. In some cases of the ones who are really good at getting sponsors to send money, they are making a lot of money, well beyond any basic needs. The first girl I ever "dated" in LOS, the one I met that first night, had her own house in Phukettown, which she owned, and drove a brand new Toyota, which was a newer and more expensive car than what I was driving at the time. The house she owned was also much nicer than the place I lived at in America. I paid her 4000 Baht per night.
So, I think that humor is humor, and pretty much everything is fair game, as long as it is all in good fun and has no nasty intent behind it. I really wonder if a BG would not have a good laugh, if she got such a letter. After all, the Thais have a wonderful sense of humor, and a very big part of that humor has to do with poking fun at each other in a light-hearted way. Being able to laugh at oneself as well as others is a key element of Thai humor. And a lot of times they will say something serious to you, and perhaps a bit outrageous, to see your reaction, then they say "law len, law len"(just kidding, just kidding),and they will laugh and laugh.
So I say to you, "law len, law len". Have a good day and try to lighten up a bit. They say that life is a comedy or a tragedy. But a lot of the times, you have your choice as to how you will look at it. Which do you choose? Whenever they have the choice, which is most of the time, Thais choose comedy. That is what sanuk is about, choosing to lighten the burden of a difficult life, by determining that you are going to have some fun every day, no matter what. And that is what I love about LOS more than anything!
JayBee
