blind boy grunt Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Anyone remember the movie...'Village of the damned? something about all the people looking the same, something like that. I headed down into Jomtien last night from BBG Towers, hopping on a baht bus on Beach road. Marvellous...an empty baht bus. Idly musing if i should maybe stay on it and finally head to TJs in Naklua as i just knew that the love of my life would be waiting on tenterhooks for me, or alternatively she would possibly be trying to avoid Pdoggs groping advances of course. A couple of hundred yards down the road, the bus stopped to allow four Russians to board. Mmmm. i thought...okay, maybe the much nearer Katty Bar then. As the bus groaned in pain trying to get going with the very extra weight on board, i looked up. This is when it got scary. The 2 men were big but the 2 women were bigger. oh well, not wanting to get into the overweight debate particularly, i won't go on about that. But! they were all wearing the same shirts... the men and the women... you know what i mean... the white cotton things with hoods and sleeves that hang down to the knees? And as the bus crawled along it passed more people walking...some wearing the same feckin' shirts. Now i know the ex-communist states tried to eradicate individuality, which is the natural enemy of socialism, and understand that the Russian modern generation may have been influenced by parents and history. But what is it with all wearing the same shirts? And to cap it all, this morning i was sitting outside my local 7-11 [as you do] idly passing the time people watching. i swear to god, 3 Russians walked past at different times, all wearing the same feckin' shirts. okay mmmm...but what finally did it...cracked me up.... as i was leaving, a youngish russian couple pulled up on a motorbike... you guessed it...both wearing the white hoody long sleeved feckin' shirts. and then the female on the back seat jumped off to reveal a young kid about 2 years old... and you've guessed it again... the kid had on a feckin' shirt the same as mama and papa. this was when i finally realised that Jomtien is becoming the Village of the damned. it's getting very weird...the cuckoo is flying over the Jomtien nest. okay enough of this...i'm off to the night market to get myself a shirt.... 5 Quote Link to comment
Quinn Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 The shirt - and sometimes matching shorts - I first noticed a few years ago - is of white cotton, overprinted with a repeat 'picture' of a dodgy looking building - a palm tree and the legend 'Thailand'. The building looks nothing like one I've ever seen in Thailand. I reckon that some factory somewhere in the world is running off yards of this cotton fabric - printing the dodgy picture on it and then overprinting the name of the wherever resort/country etc, These shirts seem very popular with the Russians - but as BBG mentions I've seen more of the 'White Hoodies' this year. I must stay in more. 2 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 4 hours ago, blind boy grunt said: Idly musing if i should maybe stay on it and finally head to TJs in Naklua as i just knew that the love of my life would be waiting on tenterhooks for me, or alternatively she would possibly be trying to avoid Pdoggs groping advances of course. Should have stayed on the bus BBG if it was headed to the Village of the Damn Sexy Ladyboys in Naklua! 1 Quote Link to comment
Quinn Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Shortly after I finished writing my previous post I headed out and caught the BB to the Beach Road. There they were - sprawled across 5 seats - 3 large Olga's from the Volga - complete with 'White Hoodies' ! Yikes ! 3 Quote Link to comment
Quietguy Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 I hadn't noticed these garments before, but after bbg mentioned them I have started seeing them everywhere. Are you going to get one bbg? I saw them on sale in shop in Thappraya Road for 250 Baht, but I expect a long time resident of Jomtiengrad like you could negotiate a dscount. 1 Quote Link to comment
blind boy grunt Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 me? get one? you know that i'm actually a fashion icon QG... not a fashion victim. jomtien night market beach road...much cheaper. i heard rumours that 7-11 will be giving them out free with bottles of vodka soon. 2 Quote Link to comment
Quinn Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 . . . . and a free face mask ! 5555 2 Quote Link to comment
xyzzy Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 If you wear a face mask someone will probably just grab it anyway. 2 Quote Link to comment
stoolpusher Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 I just can't understand how all these people wearing a DUST mask for a deadly virus , you really need a mask the guys use for spraying crops 1 Quote Link to comment
Quietguy Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I saw a 4 or 5 year old kid wearing one of those garments with the hood up, in the swimming pool at Jomtien Water Park this morning. If they made them ankle length they could be used for burial shrouds. 1 Quote Link to comment
Quietguy Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 There were some intrepid travellers, including children, wearing these in Suvarnbhumi Airport departures yesterday. I hope it's not too cold in Moscow or wherever they are flying back to. Quote Link to comment
Quinn Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Snow Patrol. Spot the odd one out. ! 3 Quote Link to comment
blind boy grunt Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 On 2/21/2020 at 12:50 PM, Quinn said: Snow Patrol. Spot the odd one out. ! the odd one out is the woman wearing the coloured dress...way too slim! 1 Quote Link to comment
Quietguy Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Return of the Damned. Walking down Beach Road this morning and I saw my first shroud of this trip. The Russians are back! 2 Quote Link to comment
blind boy grunt Posted February 7, 2022 Author Share Posted February 7, 2022 indeed they are back QG. Maybe we should ask Emmy to have a Russian shroud LIvestream? 1 Quote Link to comment
Quietguy Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 1 hour ago, blind boy grunt said: indeed they are back QG. Maybe we should ask Emmy to have a Russian shroud LIvestream? You could lend her yours! 1 Quote Link to comment
Quietguy Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Second shroud sighting this afternoon towards Na Jomtien(?) end of Beach Road, 2 Quote Link to comment
bubba Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Dunno why it is so. Reason is "shrouded" in mystery, na? Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 On 2/7/2022 at 3:42 PM, Quietguy said: The Russians are back! How do you tell the difference between a Russian and Ukrainian? Sounds like a joke but I'm serious. Is there a way you can tell the difference? Quote Link to comment
Quinn Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 The same way as you will know if a man is from Yorkshire - he will tell you so ! (Grunt the exception). 1 Quote Link to comment
blind boy grunt Posted March 5, 2022 Author Share Posted March 5, 2022 5 hours ago, Quinn said: (Grunt the exception). bang on Quinn! the only thing i would ever say about Yorkshire is that it should be used as a Nuclear bomb test area. Quote Link to comment
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