Rabbit Card for Year of the Horse

Nok has a new Bangkok transit card…

Maew: A horse? Why has it got “rabbit” written underneath? 
Nok: It’s the Year of the Horse. Even people who are not Chinese know that.
Maew: Ah. Will my old rabbit card still work?
Nok: Course. But you’ll be out of style.
Maew: Maybe I just like to be Thai.
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Voice-over

Bangkok BTS cards (rabbit cards) are stored value commuter cards. You tap it when passing through the ticket-gate. Certainly saves time queuing. And with their different designs like limited-edition pop culture, seasonal themes or cartoon characters cards can become collectors items. 

Boiled frog and blinded rabbit

Animal accident metaphors

The premise…

Kermit: It is said that if a frog is put in boiling water, it’ll jump out, but if it is placed in cold water which is then heated, it will stay in until it is cooked to death.

Lapin: The metaphor being that the slowly boiled frog won’t react to the danger.

Kermit: But we do. Jump. Out of even slowly boiled water. We get uncomfortable, we move. Frogs are not stupid. Rabbits are. They freeze in the headlights of an approaching car.

Lapin: But headlights come out of nowhere. That’s paralyzing.

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Voice-over

So frogs do respond to creeping change in normality. A canard, an unfounded story.

Rabbits do not run when caught in bright lights. If you say, like Mma Ramotswe, “This is very well known,” there is no need to prove it.

Regardless of whether these phenomena of tranquil or panicked stupor are true or not, they are vivid metaphors.

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