Glasseye Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 How many times have you heard that tierd line ? From both Thai and Farang.... It's as if the basic rules of physics don't apply. WTF ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lirchenfeld Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 (edited) To be honest, I have never heard it spoken to me in a face-to-face conversation. I have heard it mentioned in vlogs and seen it written in forums and on SoMe. EDIT: I have always thought of it as a witty or passive-aggressive remark based on a line said by DiCaprio's character in the film Blood Diamonds (2006), where he says "TIA - This is Africa". Edited June 1 by Lirchenfeld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom51red Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 3 hours ago, Lirchenfeld said: To be honest, I have never heard it spoken to me in a face-to-face conversation. I have heard it mentioned in vlogs and seen it written in forums and on SoMe. EDIT: I have always thought of it as a witty or passive-aggressive remark based on a line said by DiCaprio's character in the film Blood Diamonds (2006), where he says "TIA - This is Africa". Great movie,he says tia to the fenale reporter if I remember correctly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freee!! Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 5 hours ago, Lirchenfeld said: To be honest, I have never heard it spoken to me in a face-to-face conversation. I have heard it mentioned in vlogs and seen it written in forums and on SoMe. EDIT: I have always thought of it as a witty or passive-aggressive remark based on a line said by DiCaprio's character in the film Blood Diamonds (2006), where he says "TIA - This is Africa". The expression predates that movie by at least 15 years. I encountered it regularly on my first visit to Thailand in the early '90s. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Butch Posted June 1 Popular Post Share Posted June 1 It has multiple uses, as a term of exasperation when you don't want to blame an individual for not following a common sense approach right up to not losing your shit because an individual has not followed the common sense approach. Example 1: This happened for real in 2007: I got a girl an LD as we were getting on. She said "I just go to toilet" 25 minutes later she still wasn't back, so I kind of got annoyed and asked for the LD to be refunded. during the conversation with the Mamasan, she returned. It transpired she wanted a dump, the lady toilets were full so she went to the gents, where a guy was also having a dump. She waited for hm to finish, cleaned the toilet, did her business and returned. On the way back she bumped into her mate who also needed the toilet, so she took her to the men's toilets and stood guard while her mate took a dump. Hence the delay. This is Thailand. Example 2: Out with a friend for drinks. They give her the bill. "I take care" she says. "ok" I reply. Next bar, bill comes to me, I give the bill to her to check and 1k baht, get 200 baht change which is wrong. I look at the bill, which is for 400 baht, and ask her where the rest of the money is. "I use to pay bill in bar earlier". "you said that you take care of bill in the other bar" "yes, I take care but you owe me money for that bill so I take from this bill". "What are you doing tomorrow?" "nothing - you want see me again?" "not really". 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted June 2 Author Share Posted June 2 ^^^ lol I have had it thrown at me two times within the past month from reckless drivers who I reminded nicely (😵💫) that they were going to kill themsleves or someone else. One was Thai one was Farang. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiFlyer Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 23 hours ago, Freee!! said: The expression predates that movie by at least 15 years. I encountered it regularly on my first visit to Thailand in the early '90s. Same same but different here. I first started visiting Thailand around 2000. I had several expat friends already here who would use the expression. My understanding, likely not perfectly correct, was that it originated from a Farang who wrote a news article on night life. Can't remember the name right now. I think how it's meant depends on context. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freee!! Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 5 minutes ago, ChiFlyer said: [...] I think how it's meant depends on context. Similar to the (at that time popular) TAT slogan "Amazing Thailand". I used to have a Thai girlfriend at the time and when she finally caught on I didn't always use it in a positive way, she at first wasn't amused. She was however honest enough to appreciate it after a while and could laugh about it (and especially the situation that caused me to use it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Penevil Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 (edited) Many people believe "TiT" (This is Thailand) was originated by the legendary Bangkok chronicler Bernard Trink or at least he made it well known through his Nite Owl column in English language Bangkok newspapers. Trink is also credited with naming Soi Cowboy after the Cowboy Bar, one of the first on the Soi. It was run by an Afro-American bar owner named Cowboy Edwards because he always wore a cowboy hat. I think the usage of This is Thailand or TiT occurs more frequently in written text than spoken language, but it probably goes back to Trink writing in the 1970s or 1980s. Evil Edited June 2 by Evil Penevil 2 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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