Comments on: Tongue-tied

By: John Galby

John Galby — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:31:06 +0000

Generally Asian culture considers it quite acceptable for strange men to try and pick up girls in all sorts of places, and it’s much more common and easy here than it is in the West, where doing that excessively might be considered “piggish”. However I would say that Thailand is one of the most suspicious cultures on the planet and certainly not un-suspicious of strangers. Certainly more suspcious than the West – and with reason.

By: Tongue Tied Farangs | Bangkok Diaries

Tongue Tied Farangs | Bangkok Diaries — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:49:41 +0000

[...] was reading Werewolf’s post about being tongue-tied and I thought it fit in somewhat nicely with my other post about the deck being stacked against men [...]

By: Tongue Tied, Samak The Superhero, Tourism in Thailand, and Sonia Couling | The Farang

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:48:36 +0000

[...] was reading Werewolf’s post about being tongue-tied and I thought it fit in somewhat nicely with last week’s post about the deck being stacked [...]

By: Young Penfold

Young Penfold — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:34:51 +0000

I have a tattoo in thai with ‘grandfather’ and his date of birth and date he died on inside on my forearm, and have lost count of the amount of thai girls that have struck up conversations about my tattoo
I didnt get it done for attention or to strike up conversations with girls, its a mark of respect thats with me forever, but its interesting to see a group of 3-4 girl gawping at my arm yabbering away to each other then one will come up and start chatting
Youd never get that in the west

By: tripper

tripper — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:02:33 +0000

Just a quick story about phone numbers.
I used to live outside of Bangkok and a bar/restaurant I used to visit regularly had some young, cute waitresses. One in particular was very popular with the local Thai guys. She was quite skilled at flirting with them, but she didn’t like to give out her phone number. If she was really hounded by someone she would give them a number. If the guy phoned this number the next day he would be surprised to hear the person at the other end say “Hello. Pest Control office. Can I help you?”