Meanwhile, in Bangkok: Weird Vehicle Stickers

Well, as the airport is open and things are back to 'normal' (which in Thailand usually means the political scene could implode at any second), I thought I'd put something light up, in the form of two stickers I saw recently. The range of window decals on vehicles here is always fun to keep tabs on, such as the "I Love Farang - I Speak English!" stickers, which are usually inside taxis where the driver can't speak English and has no particular feelings on foriegners either way (although this guy has the regular mass-produced variety beat hands down). But at least it's never boring.

Meanwhile, in Bangkok: Hairless Knuckles

Everyone knows that Asian men, for the most part, have very little body hair, while it's similarly known that many western men are gorillas in comparison. Most of us, thankfully, fall somewhere in between. But I noticed this banner ad at the Siam BTS station a few weeks ago, and commented to my girlfriend that I was surprised that the guy in the picture had hairy knuckles, as not a lot of Asian women like hairy dudes (she then reiterated that she'd like me to shave my chest, but that's a different story). At any rate, yesterday I noticed the same ad at the same station, but with a slight difference.

Meanwhile, in Bangkok: Mecca Cola

One of the first things I do in any new country I'm visiting is hit a convenience store. You'll never find a more compact display of what makes that country unique. In Korea they have kimchi (fermented cabbage) flavoured fish sticks; in India, they offer little packages of sauces for about 2 cents that taste better on their own than any Indian food I've ever had outside of India; in Japan, they have 8-oz beer cans. Convenience stores are a great barometer of the culture. To be honest, I've been in Thailand so long that things in convenience stores no longer seem strange - until I saw this in a little store in the Bangkok suburbs while out biking (and lost) the other day: Mecca Cola.

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