Angeles City

[Dg8787]

I heard from Pinay that Angeles will have complete lockdown with all stores closed including grocery stores.

Anyone can confirm this?

[MarquisdeSade1]

There are a lot of other cultural differences between Koreans and westerners, once you understand that they can be really great guys.

They like to spend money, not for the pleasure of spending it or to impress girls but to show other Koreans that they have enough to spend and waste. Getting the best girl is not the goal, showing that they can afford the best girl is.

I have a good Korean friend from my Afghan days, we still exchange emails every couple of months or so. What really cemented our friendship was when their company boss came to Afghanistan over the Korean Thanksgiving time. This is a big deal for Koreans and for the boss to show up at their project site was a huge honour for them. It also happened at a time when we were in the middle of one of our periodic booze droughts. No supplies were available.

I happened to have a case of 18 year old single malt. I lent it to my friend and he eventually replaced it two fold as soon as we could get resupplied.

It was the only booze that they had for the presidents visit and a competing project staff had to show up empty handed at the event. My friend was the only one to have any supplies. He gained much face and prestige in his company with these 12 bottles.

Even after this, we stilled referred to each other as Mr Moon and Mr Guy, they are very formal and only use first names with very close friends.

Once you get to know a Korean on a one to one basis they are OK guys, some assholes, but not all that much different than any other nationality. However get a group of them together and their ideas of Korean superiority quickly become apparent. This follows from being basically an isolated and homogenized race over the last couple millenniums.

If you ever meet a Korean individually, one who has traveled and interacted with other cultures then they are OK guys to have a drink with. (Warning they love scotch and it is etiquette never to fill your own glass and to never let your companions glass get empty, After a couple killer hangovers I figured this out.).

"However even the same guys in a group will display their insular superior attitude quickly."

Ideas of Korean superiority quickly become apparent. This follows from being basically an isolated and homogenized race.

This is their racism showing its face, https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/...15147&LangID=E.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324569#what-is-small-penis-syndrome.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-08-...t-behind-japan

3-3-3 is the reason they over pay 3rd world hookers.

[KPower]

Social Distancing is OK.

Although this wouldn't really help. Hilarious!

[PedroMorales]

Social Distancing is OK.

[Kabul Guy]

Hotel infrastructure, travel routes, reputation, flights if they start again.

Except for reputation lots of other places have that, many places easy to get to from Manila that have good access roads, hotels and restaurants.

All you need is some minor renovations to make the go-go clubs and bars that mongers favour and you are back in business.

In a year operating put of a new city people wil be saying AC, WTF is that?

There is nothing about AC that means it HAS to be the mongering destination outside of Manila. Yes there will be some costs associated with making the move but if the climate changes and the cost of staying in AC is more than moving the mongering somewhere else with a more receptive local government, then it will move so fast you just might book a bus ticket there and hen you get there find out you are in the wrong spot.

[Engine Driver]

Hotel infrastructure, travel routes, reputation, flights if they start again.

And established political relationships.

[BrainDrain]

What is to stop the bar scene from going elsewhere? It is only in AC because of the former US military presence and it just sort of continued along.

Hotel infrastructure, travel routes, reputation, flights if they start again.

[Kabul Guy]

Do you think Du30 will make good on the threat to shoot horny mongers and their hookers caught violating the lockdown?

I will not be surprised if there are some shootings over the curfew violations. I am already hearing of people getting hungry because of no work and no relief supplies. Rioting is a possibility.

[Goferring]

Do you think Du30 will make good on the threat to shoot horny mongers and their hookers caught violating the lockdown?

Good point: its probabaly not the best time to be caught with a couple of hookers in your bed and some low grade shabu on the night stand. 😉.

Enjoy. G.

[Chocha Monger]

You're right but don't forget that the bosses have no loyalty or ties to AC, keeping the bars open. If there is enough political or social pressure for the bars to stay closed then they can and will simply relocate the front business and real activities to another intra- or inter-national location. All the components are very mobile.

Its not hard to find other, some very old, some very large, red light districts that have been shuttered and essentially no longer exist: Dolly in Surabaya, Blok M in Jakarta, Cebu GoGos, Sinhookville. The list goes on.

Enjoy. G.

Do you think Du30 will make good on the threat to shoot horny mongers and their hookers caught violating the lockdown?

[Kabul Guy]

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The Du30 crackdown is just a show and only targets the lowest level users and street corner pushers. It is not making a dent in the overall drug business and no one is expecting to go away.
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Not quite true, there are also middle and higher level people that need to be taught a lesson in paying the proper respect or to be sacrificed on the altar of poitical appeasement.

[Goferring]

All of the Korean owned bars in AC are merely fronts for the Korean mob (Jopok) to launder their drug profits. Once you realise that selling drinks or barfines to foreign mongers is not the main game, it all starts to make sense. The drinks and barfines only pay the electricity bill, the girls' salaries and bribes to the local barangay minions and low ranking station cops. The larger game is being played, out of site, in Manila or Seoul.

You're right but don't forget that the bosses have no loyalty or ties to AC, keeping the bars open. If there is enough political or social pressure for the bars to stay closed then they can and will simply relocate the front business and real activities to another intra- or inter-national location. All the components are very mobile.

Its not hard to find other, some very old, some very large, red light districts that have been shuttered and essentially no longer exist: Dolly in Surabaya, Blok M in Jakarta, Cebu GoGos, Sinhookville. The list goes on.

Enjoy. G.

[D Cups]

This has been discussed many times on this thread before. Many of the mongers on this board are quite nave. Legitimate law abiding businessmen do not invest in gogo bars in AC which sell pussy, particularly in a country where prostitution is illegal. The exception to this are the dim witted Australian codgers who invest their last remaining savings into the smaller bars, thinking they are millionaire corporate barons. Wheelers and dealers they are not! They last three months, before ending up on the streets, penniless.

All of the Korean owned bars in AC are merely fronts for the Korean mob (Jopok) to launder their drug profits. Once you realise that selling drinks or barfines to foreign mongers is not the main game, it all starts to make sense. The drinks and barfines only pay the electricity bill, the girls' salaries and bribes to the local barangay minions and low ranking station cops. The larger game is being played, out of site, in Manila or Seoul.

Drugs and the raw ingredients to make ice come in freely at the Port of Batangas from Korea and China. With the cooperation of the police, politicians and judiciary, the drug trade flourishes. The Du30 crackdown is just a show and only targets the lowest level users and street corner pushers. It is not making a dent in the overall drug business and no one is expecting to go away.

Post Wuhan virus, it will be business as usual. Obviously, the bar owners will want the mongers back to keep the cash moving. AC is not going to close or move anywhere. The infrastructure already exists to support a massive money laundering network.

Apparently trainwreck is an undercover intelligence officer now. 0069.

[Streetlooker]

There are a lot of other cultural differences between Koreans and westerners, once you understand that they can be really great guys.

They like to spend money, not for the pleasure of spending it or to impress girls but to show other Koreans that they have enough to spend and waste. Getting the best girl is not the goal, showing that they can afford the best girl is.

I have a good Korean friend from my Afghan days, we still exchange emails every couple of months or so. What really cemented our friendship was when their company boss came to Afghanistan over the Korean Thanksgiving time. This is a big deal for Koreans and for the boss to show up at their project site was a huge honour for them. It also happened at a time when we were in the middle of one of our periodic booze droughts. No supplies were available.

I happened to have a case of 18 year old single malt. I lent it to my friend and he eventually replaced it two fold as soon as we could get resupplied.

It was the only booze that they had for the presidents visit and a competing project staff had to show up empty handed at the event. My friend was the only one to have any supplies. He gained much face and prestige in his company with these 12 bottles.

Even after this, we stilled referred to each other as Mr Moon and Mr Guy, they are very formal and only use first names with very close friends.

Once you get to know a Korean on a one to one basis they are OK guys, some assholes, but not all that much different than any other nationality. However get a group of them together and their ideas of Korean superiority quickly become apparent. This follows from being basically an isolated and homogenized race over the last couple millenniums.

If you ever meet a Korean individually, one who has traveled and interacted with other cultures then they are OK guys to have a drink with. (Warning they love scotch and it is etiquette never to fill your own glass and to never let your companions glass get empty, After a couple killer hangovers I figured this out.).

However even the same guys in a group will display their insular superior attitude quickly.

Yes the Koreans spend to impress their peers. I spent 4 yrs in Korea I know what's up.

[Engine Driver]

This has been discussed many times on this thread before. Many of the mongers on this board are quite naïve. Legitimate law abiding businessmen do not invest in gogo bars in AC which sell pussy, particularly in a country where prostitution is illegal. The exception to this are the dim witted Australian codgers who invest their last remaining savings into the smaller bars, thinking they are millionaire corporate barons. Wheelers and dealers they are not! They last three months, before ending up on the streets, penniless.

All of the Korean owned bars in AC are merely fronts for the Korean mob (Jopok) to launder their drug profits. Once you realise that selling drinks or barfines to foreign mongers is not the main game, it all starts to make sense. The drinks and barfines only pay the electricity bill, the girls' salaries and bribes to the local barangay minions and low ranking station cops. The larger game is being played, out of site, in Manila or Seoul.

Drugs and the raw ingredients to make ice come in freely at the Port of Batangas from Korea and China. With the cooperation of the police, politicians and judiciary, the drug trade flourishes. The Du30 crackdown is just a show and only targets the lowest level users and street corner pushers. It is not making a dent in the overall drug business and no one is expecting to go away.

Post Wuhan virus, it will be business as usual. Obviously, the bar owners will want the mongers back to keep the cash moving. AC is not going to close or move anywhere. The infrastructure already exists to support a massive money laundering network.