Offbeat

1194 readers

1 users here now

The world is a weird place filled with even weirder news.

Post your funny, weird, strange, or quirky news stories here!

Lemmy.ca Rules

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No porn.
No Ads / Spamming.

Community Rules

No editorialized titles
No satire news sites (The Beaverton, The Onion, etc...)
No politics
Submissions must be no older than 2 months (i.e. the article should be "recent" news)

Similar Communities

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

111

Thai Official Suspended After Husband Catches Her In Bed With Adopted Monk Son (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Archive/mirror: https://archive.ph/P1QWp

spoiler

What are you doing step monk

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] dadGPT 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

ladys name is Prapaporn

[–] Tylerdurdon 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You know what this would make a great script for?

A documentary about that official. What'd you think I was gonna say?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking a wider view of Thai political scandals

[–] Tylerdurdon 1 points 3 months ago

And whether they eat their cream pies with banana or not!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's pronounced more like /pawn/ than /porn/. On a related note, I think there was a dust-up a few years back about Thai students in New Zealand being asked to change their names, or at least their spellings because no porn in school I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, romanizing Asian names is done poorly to be honest. I saw it a lot in Korea. They had this 'official' system that they followed, but to be honest it mostly caused more issues. The common joke at the olympics was the Korean guy named suk, but it was pronounced more like sock than suck. and if they'd just spelled it like that , it would eliminate those jokes entirely. Spelling it pawn or pon would eliminate that connotation completely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yep. Same deal here. Porn is indeed from the royal romanization system of Thailand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's a very common part of Thai names. Not sure what the origin is, but you see it all over the place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

*goes to google "Thai porn"*

[–] Tylerdurdon 1 points 3 months ago

Yea, Internet has a bunch!