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[QUOTE=Yujin; 1206860]I agree. I'm constantly listening to Spanish music and it has helped me to learn and retain Spanish and it's not as boring as Pimsleur or other similar "learn and listen" courses. Since I'm a visual learner, when I listen to Spanish music, I like to read the lyrics. This allows me to recognize the words and learn Spanish slang / phrases, how Spanish words are spelled and conjugated, etc. I've found Spanish music videos with subtitled lyrics are particularly helpful. There are several YouTube channels, but since I'm a fan of La Oreja de Van Gogh, I've found this YouTube channel to be one of my favorite since their song lyrics are subtitled.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/user/KSBKmojo?feature=mhee[/url][/QUOTE]Like the it says movies are huge. Watch an old movie you know well or an action movie that has limited story complexities. NO ENGLISH sub titles, and just watch and listen. When the guy jumps from a train and yells "Ten cuidado". What did we learn? Be careful. Or when the hero kisses the girl "Te amo / quiero" thats right I love you.

This will not improve your grammar but it will improve your listening skills and show you little phrases for situations & Ect

1. I want to look like a young Paul Newman (blue eyes ).

2. Be able to dance like Fred Astaire.

3. Have the money of Bill Gates.

4. Speak Spanish like Ricky Ricardo (thanks Ricker for that one)

5. Be as funny as Collin Quinn.

There I think that should entitle me to get some fine Latina Non Pro Pussy.

Who you kidding? I seen your act! You already got all that going for you!

[QUOTE=John Gault; 1209873]1. I want to look like a young Paul Newman (blue eyes ).

2. Be able to dance like Fred Astaire.

3. Have the money of Bill Gates.

4. Speak Spanish like Ricky Ricardo (thanks Ricker for that one)

5. Be as funny as Collin Quinn.

There I think that should entitle me to get some fine Latina Non Pro Pussy.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=John Gault; 1209873]1. I want to look like a young Paul Newman (blue eyes ).

2. Be able to dance like Fred Astaire.

3. Have the money of Bill Gates.

4. Speak Spanish like Ricky Ricardo (thanks Ricker for that one)

5. Be as funny as Collin Quinn.

There I think that should entitle me to get some fine Latina Non Pro Pussy.[/QUOTE]You're missing THREE BIG ONES. Counting and writing down the amount of orgasms you give each girl, The THOUSANDS of girls you've bedded and last but not least the year and amount of times you've been to Colombia since 1990 (counting all of those of passports and stamps) LOL

[QUOTE=John Gault; 1209873]1. I want to look like a young Paul Newman (blue eyes ).

2. Be able to dance like Fred Astaire.

3. Have the money of Bill Gates.

4. Speak Spanish like Ricky Ricardo (thanks Ricker for that one)

5. Be as funny as Collin Quinn.

There I think that should entitle me to get some fine Latina Non Pro Pussy.[/QUOTE]6. A dong like John Holmes

I make these lists from time to time to stir up a little action on the boards.

How could I forget all the Orgasimos, and also leaving out the important big dong.

Funny the passport stamps were mentioned as I just spent $142, and many hours in Philadelphia getting 48 new pages on my old passport. It would have been $82, but there was a $60 extra charge to get it done for the trip I am now on in Nica land. The girls are great in Nicaragua, but the intrastructure sucks big time. The other day over 24 houirs with no power, and the roads have more big holes than a $6 Lima hooker.

You Can, I know you are excited about your upcoming trip to CTG. Give it a good home brother.

I have had additional pages put in my passport twice and it was free. Is this a new fee?

[QUOTE=Dickhead;1210261]I have had additional pages put in my passport twice and it was free. Is this a new fee?[/QUOTE]I had the 48 pages put in on Oct. 13 this year.

Man you must do a lot of border crossings to get it done twice.

[QUOTE=Dickhead;1210261]I have had additional pages put in my passport twice and it was free. Is this a new fee?[/QUOTE]New passport fees for the USA Passport Book, the USA Passport Card, and other passport services went into effect on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. I got my new passport complete with extra pages on July 12, 2010 the day before it went into effect, so I'm good for another 9 years hopefully. If you have Global Entry it saves a lot of space in your passport because you do not get a stamp when you enter the USA through an airport that has Global Entry service.

[url]http://travel.state.gov/passport/fees/fees_5079.html[/url]

Renewal Fee.

Adult Passport Book & Card $140.

Adult Passport Book $110.

Adult Passport Card If you currently hold a valid Passport Book or Card $30.

Expedited Service $60.

Add Pages to Passport $82.

[url]http://travel.state.gov/passport/fees/fees_837.html[/url]

Thanks for the info. Fuck me, but thanks for the info. I don't think I got 48 pages. Let me see. First addition says A thru X so that is 24. Those are all full now. Second addition also A through X but in the first case, one page cannot be used due to general info and in the second case two pages are unusable. The additions look very different even though I got them both in the same place (the US Embassy in Buenos Aires). I got about 18 or so of those left and the passport expires in a year and a half.

Cock sucking nickel and dime bullshit fees.

[QUOTE=Dickhead; 1210338]Thanks for the info. Fuck me, but thanks for the info. I don't think I got 48 pages. Let me see. First addition says A thru X so that is 24. Those are all full now. Second addition also A through X but in the first case, one page cannot be used due to general info and in the second case two pages are unusable. The additions look very different even though I got them both in the same place (the US Embassy in Buenos Aires). I got about 18 or so of those left and the passport expires in a year and a half.

Cock sucking nickel and dime bullshit fees.[/QUOTE]On the new one with extra pages, pages 8-48 can be used for stamps. I'm already up to page 20. It sux because most places give you an entry and an exit stamp. But chalk it up to the cost of doing business.

I have 72 pages in my passport and need more. I never paid to have the pages added in the USA.

I have 3 years to go so I think I will have to have more pages added twice. Next time I will get a commercial pasport. I also joined the GOES thing that takes your pasport info and fingerprints and no more lines incoming to the USA and no USA entry stamps.

Mel.

[QUOTE=John Gault; 1210287]I had the 48 pages put in on Oct. 13 this year.

Man you must do a lot of border crossings to get it done twice.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=John Gault; 1209873]1. I want to look like a young Paul Newman (blue eyes ).

2. Be able to dance like Fred Astaire.

3. Have the money of Bill Gates.

4. Speak Spanish like Ricky Ricardo (thanks Ricker for that one)

5. Be as funny as Collin Quinn.

There I think that should entitle me to get some fine Latina Non Pro Pussy.[/QUOTE]You don't want to speak Spanish with a bad Cuban accent do you? Pick a Colombian, and one from the INTERIOR at that! :P

Reposted from the Morality of Prostitution thread:

[QUOTE=Bango Cheito; 1210695]Living as an expat in Colombia for 3 years has majorly opened my eyes to human nature. People here have a lot MORE sex than North Americans, and it's not because they have more free time (they certainly don't here in the big city) or any other reason, it's because by and large people are more physically ATTRACTIVE to one another here. A woman's pickiness goes OUT THE WINDOW the moment she sees a guy who PHYSICALLY fulfills her last expectation. She will pay the hotel room, bring breakfast in bed, tolerate other women in the picture or even open up her latent bi side for the guy, even pay his personal expenses, you name it. It's all about DEGREE OF ATTRACTION. This just never happens in North America because as ugly as the women are, the men are even uglier.

I'm also beginning to realize how awesome the ancient Greeks were with their aesthetics, and how RIGHT they were. I was quite the little relativist for awhile, but have come around to realize there are actually many absolutes in the universe. Being fat in ancient Greece was considered such an offense to society, it was sometimes even worth the death penalty! In contrast, we DELIBERATELY inject chemicals into the food so that our appetites are unnaturally stimulated to the point where we over-consume and wind up with health problems as a result :O[/QUOTE]First, physical attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder. So just because I think a woman is quite adorable, it doesn't mean you will see her the same way. Just about every photo posted on ISG can attest to that. So that is really a moot point.

As for a woman going above and beyond, I have experienced this around the world, North America included. I don't think the cause of it has anything to do with the woman only being physically attracted to a guy. That seems quite ridiculous.

As for size preference that is more so an issue of time and place. Men from many African cultures prefer bigger women. What about the women of Samoa and other Pacific Islanders? Are those people big because of eating or does genetics play a part? As far as the times are concerned here is an excerpt from Women's Conflicts about Eating and Sexuality by Rosalyn Meado and Lillie Weiss:

Although no woman wanted to be fat, her definition of normal weight was very different from what it is today. In one of the few diet articles appearing in the Ladies' Home Journal (July 1955) , a woman who lost 100 pounds is seen as now being slim, her dress size only 14 or 16, and her weight 150 pounds. While a 150-pound woman wearing a size 14 or 16 would not be considered slim today, twelve was considered the perfect dress size.

There are plenty of fat people in Colombia and even the people who are not fat definitely eat heartily. My Colombiana being one of them. Since I last saw her she has gained so much weight. We went out to Lenos & Carbon. She had a parrilla of meats and a separate plate of sides and she ate every bit of it and said that she was not yet full. I had half of a mixed platter that was intended for 2 people and I could not eat it all. I saw others come in and order huge grilled steaks and chicken with all the trimmings as well. I told my girl there was no way they would eat all of that. Lo and behold they cleaned their plates, men and women alike.

We walked around the mall and I got a cone with one scoop of ice cream. We then went to see a movie and my girlfriend got a large sprite and drank all of it. When we came out of the movie she went to Crepes and Waffles and she got 3 scoops of ice cream in a cup that came with a little cake and chocolate syrup toppings. I had to speak up right then. But you know what she said? She said this is nothing, I usually get more than this. And to think I was still full from the dinner.

As far as people there having more sex, if this is true then it is probably because there isn't shit else to do but go to the mall. As many times as I have been to Colombia I am just realizing this. Before my trip I incessantly asked my girl what we were going to do. She would never answer. The first two days we went from mall to mall and for fucking what? Not a damn thing but to walk around in circles. I swear if I would have gone to another Unicentro, Cosmocentro, Astocentro, Megacentro or what the fuck ever other kind of -centro that I was going to hurt somebody. After all these years of going to Colombia I guess I was too busy running around chasing tail to realize there was nothing else to do but run around and chase tail. Being with only one person made me realize that.

On a different note I am so damn tired of hearing music all fucking day long. How about some peace and quiet for a change? First I have to wake up to music videos on the TV. Then I walk around the neighborhood and people are blasting music from their homes. Then when it is time to sleep I can't because it's the middle of the night and music is still being blasted from people's homes. I asked my girlfriend why they do this and her reply was that it was a Colombian thing. I said yes, but don't they realize that sometimes other people want to relax and rest inside their own homes and do other things with their families without being bothered by their music? I told her that in my country neither the neighbors nor the police would stand for it.

After this trip I think my Colombia days are pretty much numbered. I still need to visit Medellin and San Andres to check those places out. I don't even see the women as being as beautiful as I used to think. Don't get me wrong, they are damn beautiful and I still think they are some of the most beautiful in the world, but I'm not as stuck on them as I used to be. Maybe it's just that the all-around Thailand experience has ruined my ass.

Mr. E: I consider you a well-travelled hobbyist. So with Colombia sliding off your list, where would you go to for your Latina fix in the future?

I have only been to Medellin and I think it is relatively quiet so you definitely should visit.