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Mark you down??? I didn't know you could do that or you'd be owing K Sanuk stars.

Whats wrong with Banana pancakes? food of the gods along with muesli and banana porridge. yuk!

 

Either way they still don't deserve the term scum.

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like you i like phuket and espiecally patong beach.

i have no real experience of bangkok and none whatsoever about pattaya.

 

yes certain things piss me off,but i can the same where i live.

i only eat where the thai's eat and food is a very very small part of my budget.

 

i found no real difference in the prices when compared to bangkok.

i read of some of the prices girls ask for in bangkok and can say i never heard them mentioned in patong.

 

PHUKET RULES.

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You didn't mark me down? Too late, I marked you down in a fit of pique and it's too late to change it. That's another question with these stars - what happens if you change your mind about a user?

 

Actually, I like banana pancakes. I don't know why they don't sell them all over Bangkok.

 

Come on though - some of them are scum ;)

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Says spirit_of_town_hall:

Not directed at anyone in particular just a general statement. People may be critical of such expansion of areas, however it is a tiny bit selfish I think, the other day I was talking to a farang girl and we mentioned Thailand she said oh no I would much rather go to Vietnam much less commercialised, in effect what she was saying was that she would prefer to see MORE poverty, go and see the POOOOR people.

 

For all the posters that are bemoaning this AWFUL commercialisation stop being so selfish, do you not want them to have the same infrastructure as we do in the west, with safe water and ATM's do you not, what do you want, poverty for the Thai people, is that what you want.

 

You sound like a lot of the (scum) that inhabit Kao San road looking for that pooor people experience, wanting above all else to be a real novelty, and getting pissed off when you are just another bod.

 

STH ::

 

I would venture that her meaning leant more to the wanting of spending her time in a place unspoilt by wanton commercialism and consumerism.

 

The people on Samui weren't starving before Amari went there.

The island fishermen of Ko Chang aren't necessarily better off now that they have sold off their land to developers.

ATM's? I think they have survived without them.

 

Just remember, if it wasn't for most of the 'hairy armpitted Khaosan road brigade' tourism in Thailand would probably not have developed on many of the islands. Without them stimulating the market, especially the western, the potential for development may not have been utilised. Most westerners who had no previous connection with Thailand, viewed it as as unsafe(drugs, prostitution)

 

Some people, like myself, like to visit places unspoilt by commercialism, as it reminds us of how life could be.

Remember, the reality for most people is having to work constantly to keep a roof over their heads. Is our existence superior to theirs?

So much of our civilisation is completely divorced from reality.

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'Just as a cockroach survives off crums, those Kao San road survive off a constant diet of clap trap about how awwwfully commercialised a place is getting'.

 

And yet they spend most of their time sitting in a bar watching videos.

 

Ok I don't want to take this post off on a tangent, but the Koh San road clan get to me too."

 

Who on earth are these 'Koh San'(sic) people? How do they qualify for 'Koh San' road status? ;)

 

"Its a national park so cannot become any more developed. "

 

Bwahahahahahaha!

 

 

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"Some people, like myself, like to visit places unspoilt by commercialism, as it reminds us of how life could be."

 

Not judging commercialism as good or bad, but who are tourists to dictate what advances a country can or cannot take. Why are modern amenities like clean water or sewage systems to be heralded, but cell phones or shopping malls are to despised?

 

Who decides what development is ok and who decides where it stops? I find many (not all) backpackers to bemoan everything that is wrong with the the "culture". And most of the things they focus on are advances. The Thais, nor any people for that matter, are not exhibits in a museum. As much as many tourists would like to come here and view a village filled with sarong wearing fisherman, and call that Thailand, those same fishermen may be dreaming of a pair of jeans and a life in the city.

 

I just find it arrogant for visitors to talk of Thailand's "spoiled" culture. What is spoiled to some may be an advance to others.

 

Why should we get to eat pad thai, but a Thai should be deprived of the opportunity to eat at McDonalds? Because the backpackers deemed Mickey D's un-thai?

 

All of that talk of spoiled culutre is just reverse cultural imperialism, tourists trying to dictate what a culture can or can't be so as to not ruin their holiday destination.

 

Let the Thai's develop Thailand as they see fit. It is their culture and they can allow it to evolve in any way they like.

 

If the backpackers don't like it, I hear there are plenty of empty fields in Africa. I hear the food is authentic. No touts either. ;)

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