He talks shit about Pattaya in particular and
does not have any idea about what really goes on there, and poor knowledge of the
ex-pats there. Same with the Foxy poster.

You're right, Pigsy, I've never been to Pattaya, but I have spent a great deal of time in Phuket (Patong) and have a lot of ex-pat friends there.

As for your example of a teacher confusing 'can't/cunt', it's not unusual for Chinese people to get words confused. Sometimes it's quite amusing. A Chinese ex-gf of mine always confused 'hungry' with 'angry', which always caused a smile, and one of my students always confuses 'mention' with 'mansion'.

There also cannot be a FT in China who has never heard students laughing at 'beach' and 'bitch'.

As for me, I still can't tell the difference, in Chinese, between the sounds of 'shang' and xiang'.

It's half the fun of teaching.....