WE ARE SPOILT

Post by **nevets** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:27 pm

Well friends i am in the UK at the moment and in shock everything is pang and petrol is £1.16 a litre. I went to the super market with mom and the price of everything was just way up on the Thai experience.

Post by **BaaBaa.** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:55 pm

nevets wrote:Well friends i am in the UK at the moment and in shock everything is pang

Fo' Shizzle?

Post by **nevets** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:04 am

BAA BAA...!!!!!!!

Post by **nevets** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:07 am

PANG = EXPENCIVE.

Post by **Vital Spark** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:07 am

Hear what you say nevets, but -

Minimum wage in the UK 5 pounds 52 per hour - fuel 1.16 = 21% (I think)

Minimum wage in Thailand (BKK) 191 baht per day - fuel 41 baht = 22%

Yes, those who have got good pensions, and those Thais who are on decent salaries (and maybe the odd backhander) are OK. The working class Thais here, and dare I say it the farangs who are being paid Thai baht, are really feeling the pinch with the increase in fuel costs and the cost of living generally.

Whoops, sorry, just realised that this was a positive thread about how cheap it is to live here.

VS

Post by **nevets** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:08 am

BAA BAA= CRAZY CRAZY.

Post by **nevets** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:12 am

VS, my wife is all ways up set about the amount she spends coming back from the market.

Post by **Vital Spark** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:27 am

Nevets: Of course she will, because she will compare the prices to what she would pay at the local talat nat. No comparison. You can't compare the cost of living without taking into account the average wage.

It's all relative, until you come to fuel prices. See my post above...

I'm fed up with hearing my friends in the UK complaining about the cost of fuel. They've had it so good for so long and comparatively (see my post above) they're still OK.

When I arrived here, over 10 years ago, petrol was 9 baht per litre. Just think about it...

Rant over (for now).

VS

Post by **nevets** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:38 am

VS. Yes when i stayed in Thailand it was 12 baht.

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:55 am

nevets wrote:PANG = EXPENCIVE.

Yes, and "fo' shizzle" = duh, really?

Post by **nevets** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:22 am

I was not understanding why fo shizzle was an answer directed at me , it must be an American thang.

Post by **Randy Cornhole** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:35 am

I dont understand it either. May we are too old or perhaps its chang speak...

Post by **nevets** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:03 am

I think your right Randy

Post by **redzonerocker** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:00 am

taken from the urban dictionary, whatever that is

fo' shizzle my nizzle

Meaning:
1. affirmative; For sure, ma nigga

not necessarily in any racial context.
From a branch of urban (American) slang which adds 'izz' or varients of (ie izzle/izzo) to words to create a more rhyme like 'melody' to sentences.

ie
kid 1: "It's late, I'm heading back to the hizzous... you stayin?"

kid 2: "fo' shizzle my nizzle"

i presume the hizzous is where he lives??

Post by **nevets** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:48 am

fascinating we live and learn.

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