Another Local Angle

"F A Q"  Section

Because our Bangkok BH3’s website is getting more popular every day, I felt an urgent need to set up a "FAQ" section. Why we need to have the "FAQ"? Well, there are at least, three reasons:

To fool our website visitors that there are a lot of people out there interested in the BH3 and its activities. These visitors have flooded our website with all sort of questions hence, we set this "FAQ" section up for their easy reference and information. To disseminate our bullshit information to those who do not know us well enough. Let’s blindly hope that our useless information could be useful, one way or another, to others. That unrealistic hope, at least, makes us feel better. And last, to fool our own selves that a great number of people, somewhere, out there are genuinely interested in the BH3.

May I introduce you to the first, but faked, "FAQ" to kick start our soon to be famous section.

--"Why BH3 do no have many Thai members?" (Between ourselves, the question should read "why a lot of Thai hate the BH3 farangs and refuse to run with them?)

To answer this question, we had interviewed some 32 Thai who ran with the BH3 at one time or another, during the last six and a half years. Here are some of the answers that we’ve got from them.

1. White Supremacy

-- "Even though farangs at the BH3 are exceptionally nice and friendly towards Thai new comers in general, we the Thai, still feel down and low when we run with them. It’s just like we have received the honor that we don’t deserved. The feeling is overwhelm, hence make us too ‘heavy’ to run with them."

-- "We felt so uncomfortable to be treated so nicely by them, it should be the other way around, I presume."

-- "I personally hope that there are more crude and mean farangs in the BH3 so I would feel more at home when running with them."

-- "I felt too much honored and extremely proud to have a chance to exercise with this group of the fine gentlemen. The feeling make my breathing difficult so I decided not to come back for more."

2. Those Thai bastards

-- "We somehow felt that we’re not welcomed by those local Hash members. I can see, their eyes flash the "disapproval" signal to me, every time I made an eye contact."

-- "Some Thai members act as though the BH3 is their exclusive club and so sacred that new locals are not allowed to join. I really want to piss on these people."

-- "I once tried to be friendly and opened a conversation with a group of Thai, some of them just walked off—acting as though they don’t understand their own language.  Vichai (not real name), was one of those snobs who walked off on me, I remember his fat tummy well."

3. You don’t treat our local nobles well

-- "You, farangs, don’t know that most local members are the noble men, it’s your guys privilege to get to know these people. But you treat them far less than what they deserved. I detest that and I refuse to join the BH3."

-- "I heard with my own ears that one of you, called Khun Phansak, "hey, stupid". You guys should know that kind of words do not exist in Thai vocabulary. This is totally unacceptable."

-- "You should treat you Thai members with more respect i.e lower their quarterly sub, listen to their advice and most importantly stop talking about their in-laws—this is very rude in the Thai culture."

The next "FAQ": "Why do the Thai join the BH3 ?"

About the author: Khun Ting Nong Noi is an exchange student who is now doing his Doctorate degree in "Other applications of Amphetamine" at the Shan State University. He writes frequently to NEWSWEEK, The Review and Time magazines. It is not quite certain, at this stage whether his articles has been published by those who received them.

Indicative comments received:  
"I think this latest Thai article is lousy.  It is not constructive and may create hatred between Farangs and Thais.  The author may have the problems with his wife or someone at home.  Your GM should sack him from the Thai team."  FROM "A half Thai/Farang (born in Thailand)"

"Khun Ting Nong Noi's comments about Thai/farang relations was interesting. I am sorry that more Thai people do not enjoy the Hash. But to think that the current group of Farang members of the Hash are anti-Thai is wrong. Those who are anti-Thai are in fact just socially-dysfunctional, asses who feel inferior, therefore they need to belittle others in order to compensate for their insecurities. Or maybe it is just an "English Thing". The Mismanagement Committee should be more open and the membership of BH3 should realize if they are not more friendly and accepting, (please guys drop this attitude that "We are the only Hash in Bangkok, We are the best, which is really just an expression of insecurity) there will be few people who want to join on a regular basis. The result could be that the only people who attend the Hash are "old farts" (ex-GM's and those who don't want to be GM) and visitors who come here expecting a good hash time and find to their dismay a insular insecure bunch which is really opposite to the spirit of Hashing as practiced by other clubs."   FROM "Hashed it over" 10/11/2000