Unbelievable
Every now and then you see in Thailand nice inscriptions and nice corruptions of the English language in particular. Often you can enjoy it internally and can't even suppress a smile.
When I saw a billboard for the rental of motor bikes, I couldn't believe my eyes. Mai Pang, apparently the name of the lady, must have started a relationship with a farang who persuaded her to Christianity. In support of the rental, the sign literally states that you can trust her business because of the Christian values and Western service.
As if I hear the former Prime Minister of the CDA, Dries van Agt, talking with the holy water coming out of his mouth again. The cornerstone of society coupled with Christian values and norms. As if dissenters and atheists don't know norms and values. The signboard hangs quite high, Mai Pang must have been that wise, otherwise it would probably have been shot off long ago. What unbelievable nonsense. Just to be sure, I only shot a picture of it, you can also smirk along.
Corruption
At the Hua Lamphong train station in Bangkok, a large sign in capital letters reads in the departure hall: “Stop corruption”. Had to smile in this case. The words of former finance minister Somkid Jatusripitak speak for themselves in this regard: “In Thailand corruption is society's norm and expectation.”
In violation
In Pattaya I ride my motor bike – an unconsecrated one not rented from Mai Pang – down a one-way street from the wrong side. Yes, at the end of the street a cop appears. “Sorry Uncle Officer, I'm in Pattaya for the first time and I really didn't see the sign”, I lie with a straight face. “Drivers Licence?” Of course I don't have it with me, but conjure up the NS card with my photo on it. Uncle cop asks where I'm going. To my nearby hotels sir agent I answer obediently. The man looks at me with a smile and gestures that I may continue. I have the feeling that he knew very well that it was not a driver's license that I showed him, but that he saw the fun in it.
Could the anti-corruption campaign have now also hit the police?
I'm sorry, Mai Pang, for lying and sinning so horribly. Now suppose I had rented that motor bike from you. You really shouldn't think that such a villainous liar without 'Christian values' would be your customer.
Translations: yes sometimes very funny. On Koh Samui there has been an advertising car driving around for years and with the same announcement about Samui ICELAND instead of ISLAND for years. Always have to laugh when I hear it.
lung addie
I think Mai Pang is not expensive in Thai 😉
Cheers,
Theus
Maybe the 'mai pang' is not the name of the owner but just phonetish Thai for 'not expensive'?
With all due respect…but I think by Mai Pang they mean Mai Peng which means Not Expensive, it does not refer to a lady.
Does the writer really think this is about a lady called “mai pang”? That would be a name that you would have serious problems with as a woman in Thailand. Most of them are expensive though.
Yes, and those Christian values fall into the same category as the “I love Farang” sticker on taxis. Misplaced for us, but completely logical for a Thai to advertise in this way.
I do not believe that "MAI Pang" as stated on the signboard means the name of a Thai lady. However, I believe the mistake comes from a Farang who taught his Thai partner how not to write "Not Expensive" in Thai using our spelling. Much better would have been "Mai Pëeng" and would be better understood when pronounced as the meaning "inexpensive" in Thai. So you see that often the Farang itself is to blame for a confusion of tongues, also in English, because many Farangs themselves speak very poor English, and yet try to pass on this poor language to Thai people. Actually, you should laugh at the teacher here, and not the other way around.
Mai Pang is indeed a woman's name. So it is quite possible.
I think the woman's leg also refers to it.
On this link, by the way, a Mai Pang
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mai-pang/61/65b/50
On the other hand, it cannot be ruled out that they do not mean expensive…
Last week in Chiang Mai on my first night there I drove into a temporary one-way street because of the night market because I really didn't know any other way to my hotel and yes I had a price and the gentlemen had a good laugh at my explanation but would have liked 400 first bath teamoney before they let me drive on, apparently different instructions in CM than in Pattaya , but TIT , I won't let it spoil my vacation .
Sometimes you have to let the fantasy continue without wanting to know the truth. But I really think that Joseph has spoken to Mrs. Mai Pang and wants to put up a smoke screen on the reader. Or can he predict what lies behind it on the basis of the billboard? Those who want to continue the fantasy of Mai Pang stop reading now ……………. I have known the nice Thai owner for many years and she is married to a Briton, but I don't know if she came to the church through him. She is not open on Sundays because then she goes to church. Then renting a motor bike from her is not expensive and you get old-fashioned Dutch service.
Just like Ruud, I have known this very nice Thai owner of Mai Pang for many years and I have often rented a motorbike with insurance from her. She and her business are located in the Jomtien complex, formerly next to the Blind Massage Inst. and now in the last/first street of the Jomtien complex with an Italian restaurant on the corner. In addition to renting out motorbikes, she also has a launderette. She is indeed closed on Sundays, but if I arrived in Pattaya on Sunday and wanted to rent a motorbike, that was no problem for me as a regular customer. And yes, she is a Christian, like 3 to 5% of the Thai population and when I picked up my motorbike and said hello to her, I was always told "God bless you". Now I don't have to, but I don't take offense at all, why should I, she has the best intentions. The sign reads “Western Service,” whatever that means, and “Christian Values,” which doesn't mean anything to me either, but apparently does to her. That's nothing to worry about, is it? And that the signboard would hang high because otherwise it might be shot off, seems very far-fetched to me. Who would do that, certainly not a Thai; apart from the question of whether he/she can read that sign, a Thai does not care about such things. Live and let live is instilled in Thais with the young spoon. I seriously doubt that the statement, as Jan van Velthoven assumes, is a reference to a specific organization. Knowing her somewhat, I really think it is an expression of her personal conviction and she is certainly not anti-gay. By the way, she speaks excellent English.
Dear Leo, she certainly won't be anti-gay. There are plenty of those businesses in that complex, and a lot of them live there too.
Do understand the humor that Joseph sees in it, a funny fait-diverse as there are so many.
What that woman's leg with stiletto on the display means, I'm not sure yet!
'Christian Values' refers to the 'Christian Values Network'. This aims to promote certain (mostly rather fundamentalist) Christian values with the help of a percentage of consumer spending paid by affiliated companies. In 2011, 6 large Travel Companies terminated their relationship with this network because it was seriously discredited by the financing of anti-gay activities. Incidentally, not only travel companies cut CVN, but also hotel chains and companies such as Apple, Microsoft, REI, Macy's, Delta Airlines, BBC America, and Wells Fargo. The statement on this billboard is a statement of affiliation with this network, and also occurs outside Thailand. Laughing is allowed in both cases, just look further for another supplier too …
ID Ronny. The bare (western) female leg with stiletto undoubtedly refers to Mrs. Niet Duur's Christian Values? LOL!