by Laan Yaa Mo » July 17, 2009, 2:40 am
Arjay, you have exposed the great contradiction in this video. How can you reduce global warming if you are inciting the masses to raise the temperatures to such heights that they are producing even greater heat?
Well Arjay, I think Jintara feels she must capture the interest of her audience to make her point. Hence the chorus line. Subsequently, she points to the Isaan drivers and their repellant taxis as the major cause of global warming. By the end of the video, the only thought that lingers in everyone's mind is that they hate taxis and Isaan taxi drivers, and will take one of those gas-guzzling buses that emit huge billowing clouds of black smoke the next time they are in Bangkok. They might even consider the rot fai dai din (subway) as an friendly alternative to the hated taxi. Consequently, the world will be saved from the greenhouse effect and global warming, and places like Toronto with cranky lecturers can begin to have real summer temperatures again instead of this 22 degrees nonsense every day.
The short skirts are just a prop to reinforce our belief that those taxis have got to go...just like the skirts...whoops, I mean... the skirts are there to convey the intellectual argument that __________fill in the blanks...up to you.
Well, BM, as you know the meter taxis are cheaper than the others so it is best to let them run during the song, and also demonstrate how truly evil they really are. This is not really paeng at all. The dancers, I believe, get around 250 baht per song, the same amount they get per day (plus food and lodging) when they accompany Jintara on the road.
The taxi drivers, of course, are back in Isaan and keenly taking political science courses so that they can cast an informed ballot in the next election that will return Thaksin, or one of his family/friends, to the top of the greasy pole.
Lepidoptra, just do your part and take the environmentally friendly buses when you are in Bangkok. Be wary, very wary of taxis with drivers from Isaan.