How much Sanuk does the Thai experience?
In the Sunday supplement of the Bangkok Post dated February 17, I couldn't suppress a smile. Badoo.com, the newspaper writes, has investigated something again. 17 people were approached and asked how many days a month they had fun.
At first I thought of something completely different because guys always think about that. Wrong, totally wrong, it was just about how much fun you have in life. The outcome concerns seventeen countries. And then you expect Thailand to stand head and shoulders above that, because if there is a country where the word Sanuk is pronounced with the regularity of the clock, then it is there. If I have to believe it all then Badoo.com is a social network that has no less than 170 million visitors per year. Can you imagine how many weirdos there are walking around on this globe.
The ranking
Of the 17 countries surveyed, Thailand comes only 12th with 10.2 days of Sanuk per month. Frankly, I think that's quite a lot. Argentina comes out as number one because they apparently dance the tango all day long. Mexico is classified as a close second. Why? Joost should know. Perhaps because of their rhythmic folk music. From poverty they flee across the border to America to work there for the lowest possible wage, often clandestinely. Ever known that Turks are such a partying people? Perhaps the cup of black coffee and smoking the hookah is the party of the day.
No one will be surprised that Germany is number 5, after all, Rudi Carell worked there for years and da wird mannrecht lustig von. Poland closes the row in 17th place. Yes, what about those Poles, who have been shuffling from one place to another for years and sought comfort in the music of Paderewski, who was not only an excellent musician and composer, but also a great statesman. Be sure that now that the minimum daily wage of the Thai has been brought to 300 baht, they will climb up in the ranking. An extra bottle of Mekong whiskey is now really in it. And then you sing the highest song with a hoarse voice.
The Netherlands remains a boring country because we do not even appear in the state. After all, you won't make it to the hit parade with the song 'Hoepedepoep sat on the sidewalk'.
Birds whistled
Investigating this kind of nonsense made me think back to someone in the Netherlands who obtained his PhD a few years ago on his research and final conclusion that the sparrows in Leiden whistle differently than in the countryside in Groningen. And dear readers, don't think I made this up. It's true, it's true. The man had made I don't know how many recordings of the chirping and achieved his title. He really didn't need to investigate because people speak and sing differently in Leiden than in Groningen
Had a nice conversation with a fellow blogger one of these days who said he had counted no less than 280 buses in an hour during his walk in Pattaya. "Does that help you?" he asked, and immediately gave the answer himself; “No, nothing at all.”
Let's enjoy every day again and whistle along with the birds.
Sanuk in the Netherlands
Where I live now there are not even sparrows anymore, the only one who still whistles is me when I walk up the stairs, but that indicates more how my condition is, where all those sparrows have gone I don't know, if you ask me they are also comfortable in Thailand, although I think they fall dead from the roof there rather than here in the Netherlands, but well spoken about nonsensical studies
If you have read this, the Netherlands will certainly be on that state next time.
Because if you think that the only nonsensical research is that a lot of euros are spent on, then you are wrong here are a few more studies that were actually done in the Netherlands. Earlier 'pointless research' showed…. That the female malaria mosquito is just as attracted to Limburger cheese as to the smell of human feet. That hamsters get rid of jet lag faster if you give them viagra. That strippers earn the most when they are at their most fertile in the menstrual cycle. That named cows give more milk than unnamed cows. That pregnant women never knock over anything. That it is better to be hit in the face with an empty bottle of beer than with a full bottle of beer. That herrings communicate by farting.
Sanuk right?