Thread: Stupid Shit in the Philippines
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12-02-19 18:29 #154
Posts: 6781Originally Posted by PBtoCobra [View Original Post]
Booking last mi ute is pricey as I have experience of this at times.
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12-02-19 10:13 #153
Posts: 36Originally Posted by WickedRoger [View Original Post]
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11-30-19 11:49 #152
Posts: 983Back to stupod shit.
This one came to me second hand from a Philipino engineer I know.
They were pouring a new concrete slab on a road way. The pour was delayed, on Island Time I guess, and it was dark when the last concrete was placed. As normal they assigned one guy to stay to protect the fresh concrete until it was set.
The guy on guard duty thought that nothing would happen, guess he could not use his GPS to figger out what country he was in, and went home to drink and sleep while getting paid for some overtime pay.
Dumb ass trike driver comes along and drives right into the fresh concrete. He makes it few metres in before he is stuck. From the marks he had gotten some people to help try and push the trike out of the concrete and concrete being concrete was setting up quickly and eventually they had to abandon the trike into the hardened concrete.
When the construction crew comes back, they had to jack hammer the trike out of the concrete, they lifted it out, with a fair bit of concrete still attached and put it in the ditch, of course this bent the wheels and frame a little bit.
Trike driver comes by middle of the afternoon, claims that the trike was stolen while wearing clothes covered in concrete splatter. His buddy collaborates the theft story also still wearing clothes covered in concrete splatter. They want to be paid for the damage on the trike while not admitting to any responsibility for the damage to the concrete. (Which was much more than the trike was worth BTW.).
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11-29-19 21:33 #151
Posts: 185Originally Posted by PBtoCobra [View Original Post]
I try never to fly cebu pathetic as they are always late, but sometimes I've had no choice.
I always use air Asia if possible, even if it is more expensive.
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11-29-19 17:03 #150
Posts: 6781Originally Posted by PBtoCobra [View Original Post]
Can't believe the price as that is a flight I book direct on line for way less. Refunds are a hassle for sure and it ends up minus taxes / charges etc in a refund box that you can access in the next 3 months for other tickets. Never got real cash back just use the refund on other tickets. Many a time CP changed flight, cancelled them and I managed to find my way The only time I got miserable was when I had to cancel a Shanghai flight as I forget to use the refund in time.
But check your prices as one way is PHP 2500 max today with 20 kgs bags or PHP 8000 if you fly via Manila which is plainly stupid.
https://book.cebupacificair.com/Flig...ph&culture=&p=
That links says CEB-DVO return air fare is just over PHP 4 k. So how come was 30 k? Lots of family with you? 100 kgs of baggage LOL? Just intrigued as I fly this route and never pay more than 4-6 k depending on when I book (earlier to book is cheaper generally) with 20 kgs of bags.
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11-29-19 12:25 #149
Posts: 36Warning about Cebu Pacific and Refunds
I had a flight from Davao to Cebu booked, to get me in mid afternoon. This was booked 4 months before we needed to fly. A few weeks before they announced a significant schedule change which would have lost us an afternoon and evening in Cebu on a 3 night visit, they gave me a number of options, one of which included a full refund.
When you log onto your booking to try and process a full refund the amount coming back is much less.
The flights were 30 k, and the website refund was 16 K.
So I took the issue with screenshots to email. Again they offered a full refund and confirmed they would do it manually. They failed to meet their timelines for a refund.
Eventually they only refunded about 6 K. So they failed to refund as promised.
I ended up booking flights with AirAsia for much more than the Cebu Pacific, so I am significantly out of pocket.
My advice, either not book with Cebu Pacific or suck up any flight changes. Fortunately I paid by my AMEX card, so they are currently refunding me, but there is the chance that they pull back the refund they have provided.
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11-27-19 11:53 #148
Posts: 977See for myself
Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
But who am I to judge. James Dean said " Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ".
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11-27-19 08:06 #147
Posts: 3399Originally Posted by EngineDriver [View Original Post]
The Big Apple is actually a fine establishment that had welcomed all gentlemanly behaviours up to and including dropping dead mid stroke in the front bar. I've been away for a few years now but I'm thinking of returning. I've got unfinished business there: 8 square inches remaining of the property where I haven't fucked a girl.
If you want to see old mongers winning at life drop around to Coco Lips. There was / is and old guy with a walking frame who swings by most nights. After 30 or 40 minutes to make it up the 3 entrance steps, he collapses into the couch reserved for him to the doors' immediate right. From there he doesn't / can't move all night. An old duck usually saddles up to him then escorts him back home for the inevitable. How he makes it back up the hill to Jack Daniels without collapsing, I have no idea.
He's my hero. Fuck rusting away in a nursing home waiting to die. Much better to burn out and die of a combination of untreated STDs in some shithole bar in PI.
Enjoy. G.
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11-27-19 03:51 #146
Posts: 2116Sabang Losers
Sabang has bunch of Western geriatric losers who rely on their measly pensions to get through the week. Most of the homeless people in my country have more pride in their appearance than these useless rascals. Their ration is two SMLs a week. They gather at two places. The Big Apple and the German delicatessen where the girly bars are. I saw one 100 year old American fuckwit yesterday talking about Bitcoins at the deli. At that point I knew I had to get out of there. He was talking like he was some fucking expert in crypto currencies. The fact is that junk is based on hot air and you cannot do any trend analysis as it's not based on anything. Idiot.
I call the Big Apple the Rotten Apple. It is always full of pathetic looking westerners getting drunk every night on cheap beer. The dive instructors are also getting drunk with them each night, thus filing you with confidence that they will be functional the next day when they have to rescue you. It is also full of the most hideous looking freelancers you can find anywhere in the Phils. If any of you mongers see me at Rotten Apple at the age of 98 drinking beer with toothless hookers, please take me around the back and shoot me. You will be doing the world a favour.
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11-26-19 03:27 #145
Posts: 6836Originally Posted by PedroMorales [View Original Post]
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11-25-19 23:55 #144
Posts: 1056100 of which JBs
Originally Posted by KabulGuy [View Original Post]
SML is not bad. But do not compare it to German, Belgian or Czech beers as that is a fight. This is all horses for courses stuff. The Philippines is crowded and poor so there is no space for haute cuisine. Nor did it have the depth of China or Japan.
Imagine you are stranded on a South Sea islan, with nothing but fish you can spear, coconuts and bare breasted women with boobs bigger than those coconuts. You don't go asking for the wine list. Capiche?
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11-25-19 23:29 #143
Posts: 983Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
Over 150 outside of the Philippines.
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11-25-19 17:17 #142
Posts: 1056Originally Posted by SaltyPete [View Original Post]
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11-25-19 15:55 #141
Posts: 6836Originally Posted by SaltyPete [View Original Post]
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11-25-19 15:50 #140
Posts: 340Originally Posted by FastBuckArtist [View Original Post]