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08-10-18 06:10 #11841
Posts: 6844Originally Posted by XXL [View Original Post]
Girl: Did you take your breakfast / Me: Yes / Girl: You had your breakfast Westy..
The girl's second question, "You had", is different from her first question, "Did you". It cannot be a bounce-back.
OTOH, in FB PM I am getting a duplicate message, but only from some girls. When she says, "OK see you then", within about 1 minute, there is another identical "OK see you then". However that's not happening in txt msg.
Originally Posted by Simmer [View Original Post]
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08-10-18 05:41 #11840
Posts: 1121Originally Posted by Sxxxx [View Original Post]
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08-10-18 03:35 #11839
Posts: 281Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
But of course such idiosyncrasies are not limited to the Philippines. Apparently I'm too polite, using thank you too often. Then there are the McDonalds workers where a conversation goes something like this:
Me: I'd like a spicy chicken sandwich combo with coke, dine in please.
McD: Is that dine in or take out?
Me: Dine in.
McD: So a chicken sandwich. Do you want a combo?
Me: A *spicy* chicken sandwich combo with coke.
McD: Spicy chicken combo. What drink do you want?
Me: .
Then going to SM Dept Store on 1st September and commenting to a salesperson "Bit early to be playing Christmas music, isn't it?" to which she replies, completely seriously, "we need time to plan, sir".
But there are plenty of good things going for the Philippines and its people. It's quite something going to the provinces and visiting houses which are simple, cheap, rough, basic. But sometimes you're left thinking maybe, just maybe, we overdo things in the west. I was bemoaning the cost of AC earlier because houses here in California aren't designed to be naturally cooled by breezes, so you kind of have to use AC. In the provinces they employ far cheaper methods such as fans and houses that just vent naturally. As for growing your own stuff, people here think you're nuts. Pros and cons, as I keep saying.
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08-10-18 03:09 #11838
Posts: 2424Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
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08-10-18 02:43 #11837
Posts: 6844Originally Posted by SoapySmith [View Original Post]
If the Gen Info thread is not the correct place to discuss 'craziness', where is?
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08-10-18 00:10 #11836
Posts: 1121Filipinas favourite job.
Originally Posted by NewImage [View Original Post]
But, without doubt, the Filipinos themselves will say: "the best job, is a blow job"!
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08-09-18 23:18 #11835
Posts: 1562Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
All communications require senders and receivers, and so interpreting a communication like Westy's as "negative" depends as much on the receiver as on the sender. At risk of being too philosophical, there's a great message in John Ciardi's classic little essay on "How does a poem mean"? He argues that poems do not have fixed meanings; rather poetry depends on the experience that is evoked from the poem. Westy's posts are not poetry (although some of his photos come close), but the experiences they evoke for me are laughter, wonderment, and some fond and not so fond memories, not disdain for Pinays or the Philippines.
The forum certainly has some serial broadbrush critics of all Pinays' "motives," but I rarely see you calling them out. Perhaps you have done like me and put people on "ignore" whose posts are consistently racist and ethnocentrically critical. But shouldn't we allow some leeway in the forum for occasionally discussing the craziness?
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08-09-18 22:45 #11834
Posts: 1562Originally Posted by Simmer [View Original Post]
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08-09-18 17:33 #11833
Posts: 281Originally Posted by SoapySmith [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
We are weighing up the options of moving to the Philippines for good. What's the point of a life where you spend 48+ hours a week working, only to pay most of your income back <rant held back , whereas I could have a nice house, grow some of my own food, go away every weekend. Advantages of an online income that remains the same no matter where your keyboard is. Pros and cons, of course.
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08-09-18 14:17 #11832
Posts: 981Surely you know by now.
Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
Why do Filipino girls like boob jobs?
Its the only job they're qualified for!
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08-09-18 12:36 #11831
Posts: 3410Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
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08-09-18 12:07 #11830
Posts: 3230Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
I think if ever you lived here you would go crazy unless you focused more on the positives (outside of using them for sex, of course).
I rarely hang out with expats any more because it usually becomes a litany of what's wrong with the country rather than a discussion of why the expats have lived here for more than 20 years. Something must be attractive for them to live through all this craziness.
Having just returned from a short 9-day visit to Australia (my country of origin), I must say I was glad to be back in Manila, notwithstanding the airport clusterfuck and the 2-hour trip to my condo.
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08-09-18 11:39 #11829
Posts: 6844Inane
So two of my regulars have been driving me nuts. They have always done this thing somewhat, but now its at a new level. In txt they are repeating everything I say when they ask me a question. Example:
Girl: Where you now Westy / Me: Condo. / Girl: You are condo Westy?
Yes, I think I said condo. And:
Girl: Did you take your breakfast / Me: Yes / Girl: You had your breakfast Westy / Me: Yes again / Girl: Whats your breakfast this day / Me: Cereal and toast / Girl: You have cereal toast Westy / Me: Yes that's what I said / Girl: What your plan today / Me: Might see a movie / Girl: You will see movie / Me: Yes.
These are 6+ year girls on different islands who don't know each other. They have become techno-parrots. Before, I was OK to the constant questions, but my short reply was good enough. No longer good enough, I must answer each question 2 x.
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08-09-18 10:10 #11828
Posts: 6781Originally Posted by SoapySmith [View Original Post]
While off the beaten track there is also a rule for adjectives which I can't explain well but I know of and it works but then we are native speakers so we don't care LOL.
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08-09-18 01:45 #11827
Posts: 1562Originally Posted by Simmer [View Original Post]
I was told that the stress in Tagalog is most commonly on the next to last syllable.
My daughter, who once taught ESL, tells me that there are at least 49 known rules in English about the use of the definite ('the") and indefinite ("a, an") articles, or none at all. I have observed that many foreigners struggle with article use, but most of us natives could not begin to explain the 49 rules.