[QUOTE=Ale]
After reading this stuff over and over again the conclusion I arrive to is that I should start pimping and make a bloody fortune. 
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Or do like Stickman and become a detective. It’s quite a lucrative little sideline, I hear.
Yay! I am pleased to report a documented happy farang-Thai relationship. See here.
Excerpt: “Doug and Kathy were married for 32 years before Doug died of brain cancer at age 61 on June 20 at their home in Boise.”
My own Thai wife and I are well on our way to that. (Except hopefully not for the brain-cancer-at-61 part, plus I don’t live in Boise. And my name’s not Doug. Nor is my wife’s Kathy. Otherwise, it could be us someday.)
RIP, Doug. 
And in other bargirl news, here we have the tale of a retired British gent murdered recently by his ex-bargirl wife and her Thai boyfriend. The writers are long-time Thailand-based reporters. Drummond in particular writes extensively on Thai-farang crime.
And here is a good article, “Where an Older Man Can Think He Is Debonair,” by the co-author of Hello My Big Big Honey! Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews. I have that book, which is, as the title suggests, a collection of letters between bargirls and their sponsors. The book is a fascinating read.
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove]
The word “Farang” I recently learned by accident, came to Thailand via India, where it was a corruption of the Turkish word “Ferengi,” for “Frank” their catch-all term for Western Europeans.
I have no idea why Star Tek used the term.
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Because the term also means “stranger” and in some contexts “enemy”, which is not uncommon in many cultures.