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06-20-06 12:31 #36
Posts: 329Good report
That's a good report "SH" And I agree with what you said about the getting drunk and acting stupid in the PI.Most of the problems here are from guys acting more stupid than they ever would in there own countries.
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06-20-06 08:35 #35
Posts: 522Apples and oranges regarding Phil safety
[quote=frequent flier]columpuss,
although i do not keep up with all the data on killings or other violence in the usa or other countries. i do think it is reasonable that the murders, killings or persons going missing and later presumed dead and other violent acts are 99 percent accurately reported in coutries like the usa.
i do not think that in the philippines or other 3rd world nations there is even a 20% accuracy to how many people are murdered or go missing or have violent acts committed against them.
so i do not think you can really compare the two societies in relation as to which is safer in general.
that said, the pi and other 3rd world countries like the pi are probably, in relation to violent crimes, safer for foreigners. even in china if a violent crime is committed against a foreigner the local government will go all out to capture and punish all involved. most countries are all to aware of the importance of the tourist dollar.
gentlemen:
just my 2 cents on this note, as a former homicide detective, narcotics branch commander (usa wash dc) un sanctioned teacher (e. timor) private body guard (singapore) security consultant (singapore, malaysia and thailand) and martial arts teacher (thailand/philippines) i think im qualified to say a word or two on comparitive safety in the philippines as wellas thailand and a few other places i lived in worked in and traveled to in asia.
hands down the philippoines are safer for an expat westerner or touriost than the usa. we have much more random crime and violence than the phils.
i compare manila with washington dc where i wore various lawman badges for 23 years. wash dc is a cesspool where tourists are murdered, robbed, raped and injured at a higher rate, random violence, one minutes you are seeing the washington monument the next minute some junkie has a cheap pistol in your face and pistol whips you for your wallet and loose change.
violence towards foreigners does occur in the philippines, but in most cases some idiot brought it on himself, got drunk and mouthed off to some local or slapped around his gf. yeah you can say all you want about the abu sayeff and the npa, but vey clearly stay out of their territory and you wont have a problem with them. also stay out of anacostia and potomac gardens housing project in wash dc and bed sty or spanish harlem in new york, but it might not matter, the usa criminal is more mobile (that means he can drive a car) this makes people in the suburbs a car ride away from assholes from se dc with mayhem on their minds.
a great deal of the violence in the phils is connected to politics, live her a while and you understand the symbiosis between politics and family, its the patronage system, if my guy gets elected, you and your family who voted for me get all the breaks, meanwhile the guy who voted against me and his family get shit, pretty soon somebody gets tired of the short end of the stick and losing money and decides to hold an impeachment process with a 45, enough said, hold a review...
p.s. record keeping is a complete joke in this country, half the systems are not computerized and have to be hand searched by somebody who knows where the log book is
regards
spamhog
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06-20-06 00:41 #34
Posts: 329Wow
Have a nice day guys lighten up it's all in a day in our lives.
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06-18-06 22:43 #33
Posts: 2267Just Curios
Pals,
Just wondering about the guy who Posts all over the place. Does he actually go to any of these places. I travel far more than anyone I know and I know many wealthy, successful people due to my work. But I do not travel a fraction of what this one guy Posts. I have Posted so far in So China, Thailand, Toronto, Ca, London, UK and Phils. All during or after my Trips there.
I would say that it is likely this guy travels in his mind. Where are the photos??? I have posted several hundred photos on various sites. I have never posted about Japan but have had several erotic adventures there (need to Post the soon).
Anyway, Happy Father's Day to all.
Dragon Slayer
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06-18-06 04:21 #32
Posts: 310comparing violence
Columpuss,
Although I do not keep up with all the data on killings or other violence in the USA or other countries. I do think it is reasonable that the murders, killings or persons going missing and later presumed dead and other violent acts are 99 percent accurately reported in coutries like the USA.
I do not think that in the Philippines or other 3rd world nations there is even a 20% accuracy to how many people are murdered or go missing or have violent acts committed against them.
So I do not think you can really compare the two societies in relation as to which is safer in general.
That said, the PI and other 3rd world countries like the PI are probably, in relation to violent crimes, safer for foreigners. Even in China if a violent crime is committed against a foreigner the local government will go all out to capture and punish all involved. Most countries are all to aware of the importance of the tourist dollar.
FF
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06-15-06 03:54 #31
Posts: 427Patriotism, Nationalism, and protectionism are for hillbillies. They need something to decorate the back windows of their truck's with.
I'm an advocate of incrementally eliminating national borders...things tend to equalize over time.
I work with a lot of Mexicans (all fine individuals) at my little shit restaurant job.....even though they are willing to do a hell of a lot more work for less pay, I am not the least bit concerned about them taking my job, because they (as simple unsophisticated, villagers from a coastal town in southern Mexico) can't perform my function nearly as well as I can.
Call me crazy, but I don't think one world government is such an evil idea......so long as it isn't just a corrupt tool for advancing corporate interests as is our current administration.
b9k
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06-15-06 03:18 #30
Posts: 89I also want to add that when my father came to this country with almost nothing, nobody helped him...not the American government, nobody. He had to start from scratch even though he had a degree from one of the most prestigeous universities in South Korea. He doesn't have to employ Americans and pay decent wages, but he does.
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06-14-06 09:47 #29
Posts: 2626?
CM
"I often wonder why our forefathers are said to have had a "great Protestant work ethic" when we all know that they relied on slave labor from Africa to do the most back-breaking work? Even today, the Mexicans immigrants demonstrate more of a work ethic than the average American, and they are mostly Catholics not Protestants."
I appreciate what you are trying to say, but speaking from personal experience and even though I am Catholic, I know a lot of "normal Joe" WASP (White Angle-Saxon Protestant) Americans working their asses off because they simply believe its the right thing to do and the way "a good American" should conduct himself. Moreover, just as much as America was built on imported foreign labor and slavery, it was also built based on the back-breaking work and sacrifice of our forefathers, whether they be English, German, Swedish, Irish, African, Chinese, Mexican or whatever.
Maybe the mentality is changing among America's population, but I have yet to be in a FIRST WORLD country where the people truly worked harder than the average American does. Germans for example are some of the laziest workers on the planet, but their companies are well-organized and the country's infrastructure runs very well... allowing their workers a degree of laziness less-efficiently run countries cannot afford.
As for the second and third world... sure they work hard, but are generally being exploited by their own "elected" politicians and are victims of their own woefully inefficient infrastructure.... essentially slaves to inefficiency.
I also believe that work ethic is largely fueled by necessity, or do you think those Hispanic road crews and landscapers work that hard because they want to? I am sure the guy on the powered lawn mower isnt about to trade places with the guy pouring tar on the highway on a 95° California afternoon.
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06-14-06 08:09 #28
Posts: 2656Member #2001
I agree our history past and present are not exactly beyond reproach. I often wonder why our forefathers are said to have had a "great Protestant work ethic" when we all know that they relied on slave labor from Africa to do the most back-breaking work? Even today, the Mexicans immigrants demonstrate more of a work ethic than the average American, and they are mostly Catholics not Protestants.
Stating the facts instead repeating well aged slogans does not make one unpatriotic. Remember the story "The Emperor's New Clothes"?
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06-14-06 07:11 #27
Posts: 89@Artistyp, I'm asian, and my parents' retail business employs many AMERICANS, at above the minimum wage, who otherwise would not have jobs because they do not have the same opportunity at education as I was entitled to. Also, the biggest offenders of this so called "sin" (I agree with the guy below me) are not asians, it's huge corporations (many with stockholders from varying ethnicities, but predominantly white) that lay off hundreds of thousands of Americans and outsource. I'm only 21 with minimal savings, but as my bank roll and I grow older, I intend to invest at least 70 percent of my savings in the European market, and the rest in my own enterprises (home-grown, which will also employ AMERICANS). What you do with your hard-earned money is your own business.
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06-14-06 06:47 #26
Posts: 297????
Originally Posted by Artisttyp
Reminds me of, well better not say.
So now you or anyone would like to flame me please do so as I will not respond and you will go into my ignore box, so feel free.
Originally Posted by DirkDingy
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06-14-06 05:01 #25
Posts: 427Originally Posted by El Socio06
I went through a period like this in my early twenties....massive debt, people sueing me left and right, gaining weight, forced to drop out of college, shit low paying-physicaly demanding high stress job, no car, moving home with my parents who heaped vicious abuse (which I had to endure on pain of being thrown out homeless) on me nearly around the clock...as a result, I was basically a beaten down, no self esteem, nervous wreck, like our friend here. Needless to say, no girl woud even look at me (despite this, one of my mother's incessant harping points was "Get Married-because two people can live cheaper than one") Towards the end of that ordeal (having worked my ass off in this situation for two years, until I got a better job, and went back to school-a student loan disbursement funded my move out of Mom and Dad's house) I actually had to have a dental procedure to have enamel bonded back on my teeth as I had ground all of it off (while awake)
Anyways, after all of that, I realized years later that I actually came out ahead, because statistically speaking, that would have been the time for some litte bimbo to have gotten her claws into me......I'm sure that a celibate marriage, likely divorce and subsequent child support would have put me all in all in a place much further away from where I want my life to be than the "lost years" did.
B8k
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06-09-06 02:10 #24
Posts: 70Just One of the Guys?
Originally Posted by Dashing Don
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06-08-06 22:41 #23
Posts: 329Bikker/fight?/stating The Facts
Originally Posted by Mattrick
I have told people I know about the bar scene and they listen just as I once did to a friend telling the yarn's.I am sure as God made green apples they think it's all bula bula.Thats ok that keeps the flood of people from hitting the area and keeping it for the ones that know the difference.Many guys from around the world come here and I have talked to many that have come here for years and they all have stories about things they saw or heard.I think I would have liked to read posts about other things here than just bar gals.I have many hours invested here also as I am sure many others do also trying to answer many questions about daily life in this country.I might be alone in feeling that asking a simple question and getting the answer in return being "why don't you read the board"not very helpful.
Obviously the easiest thing to do here is find a gal right?what about transportation,general mongering questions,air travel to other places,travel by boats,cost of buying general merchandise.Who wants to find out on his own all the right ways of doing business.Yes maby You or I found out the hard way and that's fine but whats wrong with giving someone a break?I am sure someone gave you a break one time or another.
I am telling the info here like I would want someone to have it told to me STRAIGHT UP.Where else can you live and eat and have a social life on 1000. or 2000, dollars a month? not here.And even support a family on that.Why would the government check camera phones computers for dirty pictures and other stuff when returning back home.It is because it's different here, and there is a small element of unsavory people that come and also live here.Yes the P.I. and also America and all over the globe.I am stating the facts about what I saw and lived not trashing or prasing anything.I posted last year because until now sim cards were not used in my country.That is another big question and with my phone I had to have the line opened, for it to work there.Yes it was stolen because after a while I let my guard down,ME, and I was too trusting and that's when I lost.Being complacent in a strange place, acting like I had all the answers, well that's what happens,no big deal.
Its all good info and there are no stupid questions to be asked here,Why not a new thread on every board here about ground and air transportation?I know it would have Ben a great place for me to spend some quality pc time.
Loosen up guys nobody has to prove anything here and who has all the answers to every question? not I.
Play Safe,
B.B...
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06-08-06 22:29 #22
Posts: 360Mattrick the Great returns
Its nice to see The Great Mattrick back. He always shows up when there's a fight, usually to complain about the participants.
When he's not complaining, he's all over the place--a true cyber traveller. In the last two months he's posted in: Cuba, Canada, Brazil, Hong Kong, Macau, Philippines, Thailand (On The Go's thread), Morality of Prostitution, Special Interests, Colombia and more. I can't memorize them all.
He has a passion for travel, that's all I can say. And of course I applaud him for that.
Don