Stupid shit in Medellin

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;2646126]Taylor,

I posted critical information to help the bros stay safe.

Riffraff street guys like you probably don't give a shit about safety, but other bros do.

You should STFU and move on.[/QUOTE]Unfortunately, that's not what you did. What you posted was the same thing you've posted several times, with some wild speculation about a taxi driver trying to rob you, when nothing the taxi driver did was out of the ordinary for taxi drivers, at night, in Parque Lleras. It wasn't critical information, it was criticizing information.

People go to Parque Lleras to party. Women go to Parque Lleras to make money off of people who are partying. Taxi drivers go there for the same reason. If a girl spends a lot of time working Parque Lleras, she's going to get to know the taxistas, at least some of them are from the same neighborhood, they drive working girls around all the time. And many of the working girls who are traveling to Parque Lleras and Laureles for dates have a few taxi drivers or Uber drivers they regularly use. If you have girls who like to party, in an area where gringos like to party, why wouldn't a taxi driver try to make some money by selling some cheap weed at a grossly inflated price?

If the joints were spiked with something to knock you out (unlikely), he would have just given one to you, or her. Why worry about a few pesos, when you're going to be taking everything from someone?

The girl, I'm confused about her. Your first report you said when you came out of the bathroom she had moved 5 feet and was hovering over your luggage. Your second mention of her you said she tried to get into your luggage. Your next mention of her, you claimed she tried to steal your luggage. From there it became "she was trying to steal from my luggage like an animal. "But the incident continued to evolve and became "she was digging into my open luggage." I'm just speculating that if we give it another week, she will have hacked all of your accounts and stolen your identity.

To add to the confusion, you walked her to the street, took 2 seconds to secure the door and in that amount of time she vanished? However, you later speculated the taxi driver was waiting nearby and picked her up. I walk fast, but I can't imagine how I could walk far enough in 2 seconds to get far enough away where you couldn't hear a car, hear someone get into a car, or see a car drive away. She would have had to be moving at over 100 mph.

The only hotel in the area where you were staying, which doesn't have a 24 hour reception, to the best of my knowledge, is Hotel Habana Vieja. It sits on the west side and below Avenida Poblado and the reception is off of Calle 10 Sur. If you walk about 10 meters east of the entrance there's a offshoot from Avenida Poblado and a set of stairs leading up to Avenida Poblado. Any girl leaving would head either for the stairs, to cross Avenida Poblado, or head a block up the street to Hotel Porton where there are often taxis waiting. They wouldn't walk down Calle 10 Sur, because it's a longer walk to get to Avenida Las Vegas, where she's less likely to get a taxi.

There are common taxi scams that regularly happen in Medellin. What you experienced wasn't one of them.

Here's critical information about taxis:

1. If there's any possibility a girl you're taking with you is under 18, check her cedula before getting in the taxi. This avoids 2 potential problems. First, there's a risk the police will stop the taxi and you'll need to talk your way out of having her in the taxi with you. Second, if there is building security, you are wasting a trip if the girl doesn't have identification.

2. Always check the meter before you close the door. Make certain it's been reset. I believe the current minimum is 3600 pesos. That's not the minimum fare, just the starting point.

3. If you're leaving the Parque Lleras area, save yourself some trouble and walk down to Avenida Poblado. There will be a line of taxis waiting in front of Parque Poblado. Go to the first one in line. This gives you a more random taxi than one that's been circling around Lleras and it avoids all the twists and turns to get out of the area.

4. Close the door gently. Colombian drivers, taxi and Uber get upset when a gringo slams the door.

5. Use the smallest bills possible to pay the taxi. Most drivers don't want to give change for a 50 k bill. If they will give change, there's a chance of getting short changed, or of getting a counterfeit 10 k or 20 k bill.

6. Don't sweat over the small change. If the meter says 14750, hand over 15 k and thank the driver. If you're taking a couple of taxis every day, buying food and drinks, after a week you'll have a big pile of coins. You're literally giving away nickles and dimes.

[QUOTE=DramaFree11;2646062]Nope Capt. Needs to be heard. MDE is just not this paradise you guys claim to make it. MDE is average destination at best. Way too many sex tourist and drugs. Cheap maybe, but the cheap places can be dangerous and very low end girls.[/QUOTE]Wrong on all counts, except the danger factor. However, anywhere you go there is an element of danger in the cheap places.

1. No, he doesn't need to be heard. His initial report was fine. Everyone has an off day. However, he's repeated himself 4 or 5 times and each time the story changes. For example, his first report said the girl moved 5 feet and was hovering over his luggage. A later report he said he caught her red handed digging through his luggage. When stories keep changing it usually means they contain little or no truth.

2. Not many people claim Medellin is paradise. Dollar for dollar it's one of the best mongering values in the world. It also has options to fit almost any style. Whether you're spending $500 per day or $50 per day, it can be done in Medellin.

3. Way too many sex tourists? I'm lost on that one. You're a regular contributor on a forum which promotes sex tourism and you're complaining there are too many sex tourists in Medellin? The number of sex tourists only affects people who choose to let it affect them. I can easily spend weeks in Medellin and never see another sex tourist.

4. Too many drugs? Compared to where? How does that affect you? Over the about 15 months I've spent in Medellin, I've maybe been offered drugs 12 times. About half from guys trying to sell them and half from girls who wanted to smoke some weed. It's never been a problem for me to say no.

5. Cheap maybe? It's definitely cheap. I can stay in a very nice place, in a nice area for $25-$45 per night. I can eat 3 full meals a day for under $10. I can fuck a decent girl for $15. I can fuck an exceptional girl for $50. I can go from one end of the city to the other, and back for $1.50. And none of that involves any significant danger or very low end girls. Even airfare is reasonable, and I don't live close to a major air hub. Less than 8 hours, including layovers for about $600 without going with one of the budget airlines.

6. I find the climate to be excellent. Rarely do temperatures fall outside of the 60-85° range. Depending on personal preference and location, you can be quite comfortable without air conditioning. The tap water is drinkable, which is not the case in many other places. Air quality is not good, but clean fresh air is not far away and easy to get to.

7. There's no shortage of things to do in and around Medellin. History, art, culture, sightseeing, hiking, camping, boating, biking, hang gliding, kart racing, theaters (and theatres), concerts, the list goes on and on. The limits of the things to do is only limited by your imagination. If nothing appeals to you, you can always find a local who will happily talk to you, tell you about their city, their country and their lives.

If Medellin is an average destination, where are some superior destinations? In what way are they superior for the people who prefer Medellin?

[QUOTE=Villainy;2646294]Dr. Malone claiming he "invented mRNA" is the equivalent of Hippocrates claiming he invented coronary by-pass surgery. If he were a leading expert on the CoVid vaccines why would he be wasting his time going on programs hosted by Steve Bannon and Joe Rogan? Is it that Crackpots of a Feather flock together? Here is an article by The Atlantic that talks about your "esteemed" (irony) Dr. Malone.

[URL]https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-malone-vaccine-inventor-vaccine-skeptic/619734/[/URL]

For those of you who can't read (Students in the Elvis School of Analysis). Dr. Malone did do some preliminary research into mRNA and wrote a few papers. But those preliminary writings were over 30 years ago and the changes in mRNA research that led to the creation of the vaccines has had thousands of changes / refinements (maybe 10's of thousands) since then. Apparently despite having written about some ground-breaking theories he did little to develop them while others continued the research for years which ultimately led to the CoVid vaccines. Now of course, Dr. Malone's ego can't accept his minor role, so he has branded himself as the "inventor" of mRNA and everything that has been developed since then. All this makes him the perfect guest for the 'conspiracy theory' network of podcasts which Elvis relies so heavily on to support his own crackpot theories.[/QUOTE]When facts are not in one's favor, they attack sources or credibility. Sad fact. What's even sadder is those that knock down Malone's significant credentials believe they know better. LMAO.

So, for those that want actual fact, I'd encourage you to watch the presentation that got Dr. Malone banned. It is eye opening. And scary. And before anyone slams the source, just know that what they exposed was produced by Pfizer. Their own studies! It is fairly easily found. Produced by a group called the Canadian COVID Care Alliance.

Again, believe what you want to believe. But if you look at Pfizer's own study, which they expose, and you don't come away alarmed? Well, then you are exactly the person Pfizer is counting on.

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2646397]If Medellin is an average destination, where are some superior destinations? In what way are they superior for the people who prefer Medellin?[/QUOTE]Everything you said was exactly correct. Which is one of the reasons I chose Medellin as the place where I wanted to live in retirement. Let me add a few other things.

People are passionate about their soccer in South America and attending games is inexpensive and exciting (and I'm not a big fan of soccer).

Colombia due to its location has a growing season that lasts year round. You can get the best and freshest fruits and vegetables here at very inexpensive prices. There are fruits and vegetables that are completely unknown in the US (or Europe). In addition because agriculture is so bountiful, stores don't use preservatives or artificial chemicals in order to extend the shelf life a few more weeks. Here if the fruits or vegetables start to look the least bit stale they replace them with freshly picked produce.

The coffee here is arguably the best in the world. The US frequently buys Colombian coffee (and from other countries as well) but here the coffee is made from beans that have been picked very recently and have not been sitting in burlap sacks in a warehouse for weeks / months until needed.

Medellin is the most modern city in Colombia with an extensive Metro system which is always being improved and expanded. The buses are inexpensive (just a hair over 50 cents) what is unique is that you don't have to find a bus stop. Wave at a bus as it approaches and the driver will pull over and let you on. And once on, you press a button and the driver will promptly pull over and let you off.

The health care system in Colombia is very good and Medellin specifically has several of the highest rated hospitals in all of South America. Your Medicare won't work here but health insurance as a foreigner is not very expensive and the prescriptions are very cheap. (You see, their healthcare systems negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical companies, something that Medicare isn't allowed to do in the US) If you don't want to wait for an appointment or you want to see a specialist it won't cost you a testicle. Also there are a large number of Dentists here in Medellin (and throughout Colombia) and a fair percentage of them learned their trade in the US. Even so, I have spoken to many extranjeros from the US that have come here for a vacation and to have dental work done. The rates are less than the deductibles you would pay in many areas of the US (and that assumes you have a highly rated medical plan that includes dental).

I could go on and on. But let me address one comment that CaptainSolo has made several times. The women in Colombia are easily among the most beautiful in the world. Perhaps, CaptainSolo picked a bad time to come to Colombia. The second half of December is very slow. Many women have saved their money and bought presents for their families and aren't "available" the second half of the month. Or maybe the Captain got his bearings wrong and didn't find the right places to find his companions. I just can't say. But there is a reason that the Miss Universe contest has a Colombian or Venezuelan woman in the top 5 almost every single year. Colombian women are stunning and are very highly focused on their appearance.

I've also had acquaintances tell me they have been going to Panama or Costa Rica for years. But they started coming here becase the best looking women in P & CR were Colombianas doing working vacations.

I might also mention that sexual customs here are much more relaxed compared to the Puritan customs in the US. Here if a woman goes on a date with you to a restaurant (you'll need to speak Spanish. Google translate won't cut it) but then if she accepts another date. Well that pretty much means you are headed to a bedroom.

In my estimation Medellin can't be beat. But that assumes you've read the forum and know what you are doing and how to get around. Having at least some degree of fluidity in Spanish will make a significant difference.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2646071]This is a long listen or watch but this was the best Covid explanation I have ever heard. Dr. Robert Malone actually invented the mRNA vaccine and was banned from Twitter. This interview was then on youtube and then banned. It is amazing how these assholes making the vaccine cannot even stand that anyone, even the guy who invented the technology the vaccines are based on, talks the truth about them.
[/QUOTE]Great discussion. The guy is obviously extremely knowledgeable about the subject. If what he says is so wrong, then KI am surprised that no one has debunked his arguments. But all we hear are smears. That is the usual response from the side that has no better argument.

Am going to watch this Canadian Pfirr debunk now.

The world has gone bat shit crazy, and the conservatives that rule the world are trying to brainwash everyone thru thought control via the media and media shutdown. It could not be any clearer that this is not left v right. This is authoritarians vs libertarians. And the governments are pulling the the strings and the sheeple have been propgandized by fear. It is going to be very difficult to walk back from this point. They have broken so many rules on trust, law, morality, honesty, freedoms. George Orwell wrote about this. But people laugh it off as if it is pure fantasy, but it should be a nervous laughter. Bcos it is very real and among us now.

This is a superb analysis of huge faults in the self sponsored Pfizer vaccine research.

[URL]https://rumble.com/vqx3kb-the-pfizer-inoculations-do-more-harm-than-good.html[/URL]

I wonder if this will ever be heard in the public sphere?

Let's hear all the baseless smears now.

[QUOTE=Villainy;2646490]...
The coffee here is arguably the best in the world. The US frequently buys Colombian coffee (and from other countries as well) but here the coffee is made from beans that have been picked very recently and have not been sitting in burlap sacks in a warehouse for weeks / months until needed.....[/QUOTE]A simple issue is that they are poor so you don't get espresso machine everywhere and that limits what you can have at retail level. If you go to other more advanced Latin America countries, they have espresso machines everywhere. The coffee export actually has the effect of preventing the domestic market to get the best of what they produce. It is true for other products as well.

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2646397]...If Medellin is an average destination, where are some superior destinations? In what way are they superior for the people who prefer Medellin?[/QUOTE]If you ignore sex, I can easily think of several cities that are better. For example, google Latin America Top 50 restaurants to see some cities. Some on the list that have more than food to offer, I don't mean all the cities on the list.

The best in the world. Colombia is the world's third biggest producer, after Vietnam and Brazil. Not only is Colombian coffee's region a world and EU heritage site but its arabica bean is the benchmark on US futures markets against which all others are measured (like Maine potatoes, Brent Crude, Texas Lite etc).

Expresso: A sure sign there is no hope for the USA. Arab princes pay fortunes for tea, depending on rain fall, wind direction and a ton more. Coffee is similar, even if Americans just drink shit swept up in the favelas of Rio and São Paulo.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUKJWsnAAXs[/URL]

[QUOTE=Nounce;2646541]A simple issue is that they are poor so you don't get espresso machine everywhere and that limits what you can have at retail level. If you go to other more advanced Latin America countries, they have espresso machines everywhere. The coffee export actually has the effect of preventing the domestic market to get the best of what they produce. It is true for other products as well.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Nounce;2646541]The coffee export actually has the effect of preventing the domestic market to get the best of what they produce. It is true for other products as well.[/QUOTE]Same as Brazil. My girlfriend's son worked in a slaughterhouse. He said they slaughter 200 heads per day. The good beef they send to the USA and Europe and keep the shitty beef in Brazil.

[QUOTE=Nounce;2646546]If you ignore sex, I can easily think of several cities that are better. For example, google Latin America Top 50 restaurants to see some cities. Some on the list that have more than food to offer, I don't mean all the cities on the list.[/QUOTE]If you are only talking about food, I have world class restaurants within 20 minutes of where I work. Or I can visit one of several people I know who are extremely talented in the kitchen.

If you name any specific activity, I probably can direct you to an excellent destination within the US. However, this is a monger forum, so choosing a superior destination ignoring sex wouldn't make sense.

I know there are many who consider Sao Paulo and Rio as superior destinations, but, at least for me, Medellin has some advantages. First there's the flight. It would take me twice as long and cost 3 times as much to go to Brazil. Then there's the language barrier. My Spanish is good enough to get by in Spanish speaking countries.

I'm sure there are great destinations in SE Asia, but there's also the time and cost factor. Eastern Europe has the same drawbacks.

Your opinion is one I highly respect on ISG, mainly because you try everything and give an honest opinion. In your opinion, considering all the factors, including sex, what destination is significantly better than Medellin?

Villainy,

I said I was disappointed by the large, lumpy, tattooed, pear-shaped women with huge fake boobs and fake butts at P Lleras, New Life Casa and La Isla. The quality of talents at these mongers' venues are way below Tijuana, various places in Europe and Asia.

I did not generalize that all Colombian women were fat and ugly, but I was watching hundreds young women leaving work at SantaFe mall everyday, did not find even one I would get romantically involved with. The same as with shoppers in Santa Fe mall. Majority is pudgy with big asses and pear-shaped bodies like the women in this random pic taken at the Technologie park.

Every country has its beautiful women. Not all can be ugly. However the main focus should not be on just a few beauty queens but how many percent of the women population look nice, trim, fit, healthy, attractive vs. The heavy, obese, lumpy, sick, unattractive ones. For this criterion, Buenos Aires has far higher percentage of beautiful women walking on the streets than Colombia.

If you go to any beaches in Southern California on weekends, you will see the highest percentage of nice, trim, healthy, beautiful girls in swim suits.

[QUOTE=Dcrist0527;2646454]Again, believe what you want to believe. But if you look at Pfizer's own study, which they expose, and you don't come away alarmed? Well, then you are exactly the person Pfizer is counting on.[/QUOTE]Yeah, the Pfizer study shows that more people died in the vaccinated group than the placebo group, but they had less Covid in the vaccinated group.

We vaccinate 70% of the country, and the number of people dying from Covid related illnesses goes up about 50% in 2021.

The study predicted this was going to happen.

So why is that? Then you read this, Maddie de Garay is a 12 year old trial participant who developed a serious reaction after her second dose and was hospitalized within 24 hours. Maddie developed gastroparesis, nausea and vomiting, erratic blood pressure, memory loss, brain fog, headaches, dizziness, fainting, seizures, verbal and motor tics, menstrual cycle issues, lost feeling from the waist down, lost bowel and bladder control and had an nasogastric tube placed because she lost her ability to eat. She has been hospitalized many times, and for the past 10 months she has been wheelchair bound and fed via tube. In their report to the FDA, Pfizer described her injuries as "functional abdominal pain".

And her side effects were excluded from the trial!

So yeah, Covid deaths may go down if you get the vaccine but so what? If the overall death rate goes up if you take the vaccine or you end up like this girl, why in the hell would anyone take the vaccine let alone mandate it?

The vaccine is only approved for emergencies anyway.

So Dr. Malone posts this information and he is banned from Twitter? That certainly is not for public health reasons, and the fact that he is banned from all media centers and has to go on Joe Rogin's show tells you all you need to know about the legacy media.

When you ban opposing points of view, you are no longer talking about science. You are talking about religion, and Dr. Malone is right about this. It is a mass psychosis event.

[QUOTE=JustTK;2646538]This is a superb analysis of huge faults in the self sponsored Pfizer vaccine research.

[URL]https://rumble.com/vqx3kb-the-pfizer-inoculations-do-more-harm-than-good.html[/URL]

I wonder if this will ever be heard in the public sphere?

Let's hear all the baseless smears now.[/QUOTE]I like humor and comedy of all types. Perhaps my favorite is the unintended humor of irony.

One quick example is "Let's hear all the baseless smears now. " This is a gem, since you've repeatedly mentioned that anyone who consistently disagrees with you gets put on ignore. You can't hear what you refuse to listen to.

With this one, the irony goes deeper. Canadian Covid Care Alliance, according to their Instagram account provides "Independent, science based evidence to empower Canadians. " However, the only thing on the Instagram feed are anti-vax memes, with no supporting evidence. There's nothing to identify, or provide credentials for any "member" of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance. It is not registered in any way. It's simply an anonymous Twitter and Instagram account and a website.

Which brings us to the irony trifecta. The CCCA doesn't identify a single "expert" who provides "independent, science based evidence" for them. Which, and this bit is hilarious" makes everything they publish (drumroll please) Baseless.

It gets better. Clicking on the link provided takes you to a click bait news blurb, with a link to the CCCA website and a pdf presentation which is supposed to prove the CCCA claim that the Pfizer study shows the vaccine causes more illness and death than it prevents. OMG! Alert the media! Oops. I forgot that the media is all part of the conspiracy. Instead we'll just have to look at the "facts" presented by the CCCA.

One of their first complaints is there was no long term safety data in the 2 month report. No kidding? Huh? That's shocking. It's just completely irresponsible that they didn't provide 5-10 years of safety data for a vaccine that had only been available for testing on human subjects for a few months.

If you're keeping score, that's one BB (baseless bullshit) point against the CCCA.

Next up, a significant increase in illness from the vaccine compared to the placebo (a simple saline solution), of the illness the vaccine was supposed to prevent. The Pfizer study identified 4 types of adverse events: Efficacy, Related Adverse Events, Any Serious Adverse Event and Any Serious Adverse Event requiring ER visit or hospitalization.

Efficacy is protection against Covid. Of the test group, 850 people who received the placebo got Covid, compared to 77 who received the vaccine, a 91% reduction in the disease the vaccine was supposed to prevent. That's another BB point for the CCCA.

Before looking at the other 3 classifications of adverse events, it's worth pointing out that injecting a simple saline solution has almost no risk of an adverse event. It should also be noted that the most common adverse event was pain at the injection site.

Roughly 1 in 4 people who took the vaccine had a related adverse effects, compared to 1 in 20 for the placebo. Sounds serious, except saline solution is easily absorbed without problems. Whereas the vaccine is supposed to cause an immune system response. That means more people are going to experience pain or nausea with the vaccine.

When you get to the serious adverse effects, about 1. 2% of vaccine recipients had an issue which interfered with normal function, compared with 0. 7% of those receiving the placebo. Slightly less than 0. 6% receiving the placebo required medical treatment, compared to 0. 6% in the vaccine group.

So, the placebo group was much less likely to have a minor issue, but almost as likely to have an adverse effect requiring medical treatment. However, they were much more likely to get Covid. That's 3 BB points.

Next up, increased deaths for vaccine recipients. The vaccine group reported 14 deaths within 6 months of the trial, compared to 14 deaths in the placebo group. This might be confusing. There are 17 reported causes of death for the 15 from the vaccine group and 19 for the 14 in the placebo group.

There were only 2 deaths from Covid, both in the placebo group and 1 death from Covid pneumonia in the vaccine group. None of the other deaths are directly attributed to the vaccine. So this adds another BB point to the CCCA claim.

Next on the agenda, Pfizer didn't follow established protocol. Established protocol says that it should take 5-10 years to develop a vaccine. Anyone who wasn't in a coma for all of 2020 understands that 5 years or more to develop a vaccine was unacceptable. Are we up to 5 BB points already?

Next bit of baseless bullshit, study demographics. According to the CCCA, a study should be focused on the people who could most benefit from a vaccine. This one is worth 2 BB points. If you run a try limited to people with 4 risk factors who are all over 75, most of your data is useless. The likelihood of a member of that group to die is much higher than for the general population. A vaccine doesn't do much good for someone who is already dying. You don't test your new recipe for triple fudge brownies on a bunch of diabetics. People of any age can get Covid. The proper demographics requires a test group representative of the entire population.

There's an additional demographic complaint. Groups, such as breastfeeding women, pregnant women, people with prior exposure to Covid, immunocompromised people, people with psychiatric conditions and others. There's ethical issues for testing on pregnant women or breast feeding women. People who have previously had Covid would skew the result. People with serious medical conditions are also not good subjects.

There's more of the same. I'm too tired to read through a baseless smear campaign, so I can spread some based smears.

However the CCCA Claim is a baseless smear campaign already.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2646630]Yeah, the Pfizer study shows that more people died in the vaccinated group than the placebo group, but they had less Covid in the vaccinated group.[/QUOTE]Even worse, once they unblinded the survey, they allowed the placebo group to be vaccinated. And guess what, five from that group died after being vaccinated. That was captured by Pfizer but they excluded it in their table.

The incidence and rate of respiratory issues are alarming.

The forever shutdown crowd cannot dispute this because this only uses Pfizer's own data.

As for Malone, he is not anti-vax by definition. He made some great points, as have others, about our approach to vaccines. As Americans, and other highly developed countries, we're now on our 3rd and 4th doses. We're now at the point of hurting our immune system, as many experts now say. And given omicron's mild symptoms, we're also suppressing the benefit of natural immunity.

But for those lining up for your 10th jab and hug your face diapers, tell me how that's working for New York. Then think big picture. Omicron came from South Africa. There's another new variant now from Cameroon. This obsession with vaccination, or the concept of a pandemic of the unvaxxed, is actually prolonging the problem.

I've said it from day 1. You know, when Fauci told us to wear masks for 2 weeks to slow the spread. We're now more than 660 days into those 2 weeks! But why do we cling to it? We have an inherent need to feel in control. News flash: you aren't. Nature will do what nature does. Our vax approach is now going to cause unintended consequences.