My Bangkok's rountine - Sex DVD sellers and pimps
I have been to Bangkok countless times since 1999 but one thing which never fails to irritate the bejesus out of me is the horde of sex dvds sellers or pimps standing on the streets of Silom and Sukhomwit plying their wares.
It is not because that there are so many of them clogging up the pedestrian traffic on the narrow Bangkokian pavements. Indeed, you meet one every 10 metres and guys often have to walk onto the main road to brave incoming traffic so as to to avoid being accosted and ambushed. It is also not because of the irritating way that they try to get your attention; tugging your sleeves and waving their porno pamphlet infront of your face as you desperately try to dodge them as if you are playing human dodgeball.
It is neither of those reasons although they are irritating enough by its own merits (or demerits). What I am most displeased about is that after so many years of visiting Bangkok, these idiots sex dvds peddlars and pimps still can't pronounce "sex". You would think after a decade of trying to sell sex in the prostitution and gay capital of Asia, you would be able to at least pronounce S-E-X. But nooooo . . . dumbass pimps in Bangkok still can't say that one important word right.
All peddlars/pimps always say the same thing when they wave their sex dvd pamphet in your face while you are walking on Silom or Sukhomwit minding your own business:
"Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sex?".
Except the Thai sex peddlars can't pronounce the X in sex so they always pronounce it as:
"Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sack?"
So everytime I walk on Silom or Sukhomwit, I get bombarded by a torrent of bad English from sex peddlars. It is as if I walked into porn kindergarten with bad English.
"Sir, massage, Sack?
"Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sack?"
"Sack very cheap here. Come in, Sir!"
"We got sack girls!"
I remember once in 2003, I lost my temper after being accosted like 5 times in 5 minutes with the same line "Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sack" and decided to take a stand for good, old fashioned Queen's English by telling off a peddlar on the spot.
Peddlar : "Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sack?"
CO : "Look, it is pronounce as Sex. S-E-X. X is the 22nd letter in the alphabet. For God's sake, use it. You should pronounce X like a S but with a shorter enunciation. You don't pronunce it like a K. You people need to stop pronuncing S-E-X as S-A-C-K. It is embarrasing for you, the girls you represent and your profession. Do you understand?
Peddlar : . . . . . . . .
CO : "Look, pronounce it after me. S-E-X? For God's sake, it is not difficult. Just try it?"
Peddlar : (Walks away muttering in Thai).
That was the first time a Thai sex peddlar actually walked away from me instead of the other way around. When I think back, it was actually quite funny. Several tourists were looking at me as if I was mad; giving English lessons to a Thai sex peddlar in the middle of Patpong street.
Sex peddlars nowadays : absolutely no pride in their profession.
It is not because that there are so many of them clogging up the pedestrian traffic on the narrow Bangkokian pavements. Indeed, you meet one every 10 metres and guys often have to walk onto the main road to brave incoming traffic so as to to avoid being accosted and ambushed. It is also not because of the irritating way that they try to get your attention; tugging your sleeves and waving their porno pamphlet infront of your face as you desperately try to dodge them as if you are playing human dodgeball.
It is neither of those reasons although they are irritating enough by its own merits (or demerits). What I am most displeased about is that after so many years of visiting Bangkok, these idiots sex dvds peddlars and pimps still can't pronounce "sex". You would think after a decade of trying to sell sex in the prostitution and gay capital of Asia, you would be able to at least pronounce S-E-X. But nooooo . . . dumbass pimps in Bangkok still can't say that one important word right.
All peddlars/pimps always say the same thing when they wave their sex dvd pamphet in your face while you are walking on Silom or Sukhomwit minding your own business:
"Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sex?".
Except the Thai sex peddlars can't pronounce the X in sex so they always pronounce it as:
"Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sack?"
So everytime I walk on Silom or Sukhomwit, I get bombarded by a torrent of bad English from sex peddlars. It is as if I walked into porn kindergarten with bad English.
"Sir, massage, Sack?
"Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sack?"
"Sack very cheap here. Come in, Sir!"
"We got sack girls!"
I remember once in 2003, I lost my temper after being accosted like 5 times in 5 minutes with the same line "Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sack" and decided to take a stand for good, old fashioned Queen's English by telling off a peddlar on the spot.
Peddlar : "Mister, CDs, DVDs, Sack?"
CO : "Look, it is pronounce as Sex. S-E-X. X is the 22nd letter in the alphabet. For God's sake, use it. You should pronounce X like a S but with a shorter enunciation. You don't pronunce it like a K. You people need to stop pronuncing S-E-X as S-A-C-K. It is embarrasing for you, the girls you represent and your profession. Do you understand?
Peddlar : . . . . . . . .
CO : "Look, pronounce it after me. S-E-X? For God's sake, it is not difficult. Just try it?"
Peddlar : (Walks away muttering in Thai).
That was the first time a Thai sex peddlar actually walked away from me instead of the other way around. When I think back, it was actually quite funny. Several tourists were looking at me as if I was mad; giving English lessons to a Thai sex peddlar in the middle of Patpong street.
Sex peddlars nowadays : absolutely no pride in their profession.
posted by Captain Obvious at 11:55 PM
3 Comments:
Ha ha... sack profession huh?
How come I didn't notice when I was there?
Oh.. I forgot, I woman.
But I am sure your guy friends whom you were with in Bangkok would be harrassed similarly. Did you go to Silom (patpong) and Sukhomwit?
Ya, but I am not near enough to hear their conversation.
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