April 20 2004

Mango Sauce comments

When I launched Mango Sauce last year, I envisaged that my daily postings about farang life in Thailand would grow month by month into a carefully catalogued collection of poorly researched and factually inaccurate articles worthy only of derision but the lively comment threads have knocked my plans spectacularly off-course.

The bombastic Mr X summed up perfectly the feelings of the group:

Well this was a pretty interesting thread. I have to say that the starting point was pretty low, with a nicely written article that was unfortunately written by such a miserable dead beat that I regretted ever reading it; but it brought up some interesting points from other writers.

After excessive exposure to the Discovery Channel on weekday nights, I'm beginning to see Mango Sauce as a sort of virtual beehive. My role is similar to that of the queen - but I'm not entirely comfortable with the title and all that it implies.

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Like her, I spend far too much time indoors but, instead of laying eggs, my grossly distended abdomen merely spits out a new story each day. Here I am relaxing at home in a costume poorly suited to the climate.

On their own, my stories aren't viable but "swarms" of Mango Sauce readers pamper them daily with a rich diet of nutritious comments (nectar and pollen being of little practical use in cyberspace) and the end result is a happy and productive e-hive - despite the occasional sting.

Bees communicate by dancing around and wiggling their hairy little bottoms but this is where the analogy begins to break down - unless, of course, you're a regular at the Nana Disco.

[Posted to About by David]

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Readers' comments

usvirgin says:

The bee analogy is not bad, and most of the activity in the e-hive seems to be among the diverse collection of drones which, judging by their precarious situation, is understandable, if I know anything about bees (which I don't).

Isn't a drone's first shag going to kill him, after all? Not that he'd have much of a choice in this e-hive, but no wonder he'd want to do his first and last deed in higher style than perhaps a Nana Disco pickup (personally, I'd rather pay the barfine on Soi 33, before she ever reached the disco or parking lot - it would just make me feel better about it).

He may even want a Western girl but, whatever he does, he'd want to go out speaking more eloquent Thai than any of us here.

What is it about having your last gasp in fluent Thai? I suppose it must have something to do with the next life.

But I still don't understand the non-drones' support for Tata Young. I guess they must be worker bees.

Seriously, I wouldn't care if you eliminated comments from your site. I'd still read it for the entertaining and hilarious articles, as I did before too many bastards posted links to it on nightlife related message boards (which doesn't explain the influx of sane? people to this site).

I think I will go to sleep now.

Chairs!

April 21, 2004 1:06 PM

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