... when you mix the following together in the Chiang Rai district of Thailand?
8 Thai women of varying ages
One farang of a certain age
A plastic bucket
An empty plastic oil can
A stick
An enamel bowl
An empty spirits bottle
A table
Sundry spoons
Sundry small bowls
An apparently infinite supply of Thai Whisky
Answer, you get a Songkran Karaoke.
Massive four hour entertainment that fell to a low point when the farang sang Weela Wallia and Strangers in the Night, fortunately not at the same time, however. Also fortunately no one understood any of the words or possible mistakes and a solid round of applause was earned each time!!
DW
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21.4.09
19.4.09
Songkran
If your sesne of humour extends to seeing people getting drenched from dawn to dusk, willy nilly and non stop then come to Thailand for the Songkran Festival.
Songkran is Thailand's week long annual water festival that people try to return to their home provinces to celebrate.
Groups of people station themselves at various places at the side of the road and they throw buckets of water at anything that moves, especially motorcyclists and anyone sitting in the truck part of a pick up.
Then you'll find some people wielding a hosepipe, which is especially potent at the traffic lights.
Just observe the different strategies adopted too:
Throw and hope
Mathematical arcs
Aggressive and horizontal
The drivers of pickups have much to answer for as they often slow down as their trucks approach the water throwers!
A final element is relentlessness: I think this is the funniest part, where one pickup can be targeted many times in a minute.
Good clean fun.
DW
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Songkran is Thailand's week long annual water festival that people try to return to their home provinces to celebrate.
Groups of people station themselves at various places at the side of the road and they throw buckets of water at anything that moves, especially motorcyclists and anyone sitting in the truck part of a pick up.
Then you'll find some people wielding a hosepipe, which is especially potent at the traffic lights.
Just observe the different strategies adopted too:
Throw and hope
Mathematical arcs
Aggressive and horizontal
The drivers of pickups have much to answer for as they often slow down as their trucks approach the water throwers!
A final element is relentlessness: I think this is the funniest part, where one pickup can be targeted many times in a minute.
Good clean fun.
DW
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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