Thread: Stupid Shit in the Philippines
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Today 06:39 #522
Posts: 573Originally Posted by CenTexCrash [View Original Post]
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Today 03:05 #521
Posts: 571Airfare price discrepancy
Not sure if correct thread, if not allowed: Admins delete and / or reply with pic of glass bowl with 3 bags worth of M&Ms with all the brown pieces removed, but here goes:
I have paid PM, Wonder if any board members with PM can help me or already know answer: flying a civilian holiday trip from Houston USA to Middle East, but am exploring possibly extending my holiday and swapping return flight with an trip-within-trip to MNL.
All of this hinges on a sweet price Google is finding: May several dates, Google finds a one way MNL-IAH via United for reasonable $550-560. I am directed to United's PH portal. When I iron everything and click PURCHASE, it redirects me to an error on the United US portal and says Whoops the price is actually going to be $1050 not 550, hopes and dreams RUINED.
Am hoping to coordinate with someone to browse United's website from a PH IP address to dummy up same itinerary and figure out if discrepancy is my IP address location in North America or if I need to be a Pinoy citizen / passport for that price to be honored. If its IP address then hunt for buddy with VPN powers, if its a citizenship / passport issue then hopes and dreams still ruined but at least we know why.
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03-13-24 18:20 #520
Posts: 3375Just a little shit stirring on my part.
A cost comparison for the Cheap Charlie's like myself.
Looks like 5 k gets you singing karaoke in AC while a knock house in Jakarta, previously known for two-fer deals, has now introduced three-fer offers. 730 k IDR is about 2500 PHP. That's for THREE 19 YEAR OLDS.
Originally Posted by ATraveler [View Original Post]Originally Posted by BrockStar [View Original Post]
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02-28-24 09:24 #519
Posts: 688Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
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02-27-24 21:28 #518
Posts: 3244Originally Posted by Aml3740 [View Original Post]
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02-27-24 15:55 #517
Posts: 64Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
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12-11-23 00:31 #516
Posts: 259This here video be informative
Holy cow man, is the average income in the Philippines that low? Watch this and at around 1:30 the software engineer guy, a freaking software engineer says his salary at a mind blowing low of 1300 bucks, says it's higher than the national average.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLXTV7CdMBk
That's why I keep saying. And I've been saying it in the Thailand thread for days now, why are there not more of us taking advantage of this incredible discrepancy? With what we make, where we are, how we're treated like kings when we're in South East Asia. We should show up more often in Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, etc. Sounds like paradise to me. The average Paul Blart schlub from middle American can live like a king in Manila. I know I'm doing it fellas. I'm just in the process of saving up some cash, and if I don't die from a heart attack soon, I'll be able to get my old man ass over to Thailand, or Cambodia or right here. Granted the cost of living there is low, so people don't make much anyway, but my point is taking our money and bringing it there. That's the whole point. That's my reason for living now. I wake up everyday for that purpose. So I can die in Thailand. Hopefully while I'm fucking a babe. Best way to go. Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas style. Life is nothing but misery, unless you're fucking a babe.
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12-05-23 12:27 #515
Posts: 6802Originally Posted by DonRoberts [View Original Post]
In your neighborhood, trash pickup service is Wednesdays. The truck usually rolls in around 6 am-8 am. You put your trash outside in trash cans Tuesday evening, and bring in the empty cans on Wednesday morning. On a certain Tuesday morning (a day early), you hear the trash truck driving by early. You look out the window and see the truck going past your house at 5:50 am. Hmmm. Later in the morning you see your neighbor outside watering his plants. You inquire as to the trash early pickup. Seems it was a surprise to him and everyone else. Nobody put their thrash out. Everyone puts their trash out that Tuesday evening, hoping the truck comes thru on Wednesday morning. But it doesn't; no truck comes by. Was Wednesday a holiday? "No". You leave the trash cans outside and wait for a Thursday pickup, but it doesn't come.
You bike over to the Brgy hall and inquire. "We don't know sir. You call the city hall". You bike over to the city hall (its on your way to an upscale coffee shop you like -- because the place is littered with PYT's) and inquire. "They what"? They came a day early, on Tuesday. "Really". Really. Why? "We don't know sir". They also didn't come today, Thursday. Why not? "Ah. Um. We don't know". I see. Will it come next week on Wednesday? "We are not sure of that sir". Is there a holiday or city celebration or function next week? "No sir". Is there anything you *are* sure of? "Yes we are having an office party tomorrow afternoon. You can come here".
What do I do with this week's trash? "It will go next week sir". I mean, I have 2 trash cans, and they are already full from the past week's trash. Where do I put the additional trash from the upcoming week? "I don't know sir". Can you ask them to hit our neighborhood tomorrow to make up for the miss this week? Deadpan response: "They didn't miss this week sir. They came on Tuesday". Hahaha Grrrrrrrrr!
You bike of to the coffee shop and contemplate: I never considered the possibility, until I moved to Phils, that there would be a get-your-poon / keep-your-trash tradeoff.
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11-30-23 19:43 #514
Posts: 3375Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
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11-30-23 16:30 #513
Posts: 3244Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
On the other hand we have some mongers here acting as the pussy price mafia shaming anyone paying more or tipping the girls. Shameful conduct too.
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11-30-23 15:53 #512
Posts: 6802Moved here from the AC thread.
Originally Posted by GreenBud [View Original Post]
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11-10-23 14:17 #511
Posts: 143Tehn and now
Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
I still have some life in me and I prefer to be with farm girls than freezing here in the cold watching afternoon TV, and stopping dogs shitting outside my house.
We live, we die and we try to put figments of intensity in between hose end points. No easy task.
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11-10-23 06:29 #510
Posts: 3375Then vs Now
Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]
Then:
More, hotter, cheaper babes. What attitudes?
What's a ST?
I was younger, fitter, better looking.
Freebies & hookers as girlfriends.
Party tonight, bounce back tomorrow, the next day and the day after.
Stupid and brave enough to get into crazy situations, good and bad.
Bang at will, any where, any time, as often as needed and do it all again tomorrow.
Now:
I know where to go to find girls I want.
$10 or $100? Doesn't really matter as long as I'm enjoying myself.
I now know the tell tail signs to avoid dramas.
Have some fantastic memories but smart enough not to try to relive them.
Travel, hotels soo much easier and cheaper to arrange.
Online girls.
Would I do my 20's over again? Sure.
Am I having a great time now? Sure.
Enjoy. G.
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09-26-23 06:03 #509
Posts: 6802Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
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09-26-23 05:03 #508
Posts: 3375Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
Congratulations in the new you. 😜.
G.