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09-21-18 06:37 #16659
Posts: 1200Originally Posted by SoapySmith [View Original Post]
Small business owners don't have much clout, just like homeless people and the unemployed. They are individualistic, not united, and incapable of shutting anything down. Big corporations control vast swaths of the economy. They can shut down things with a single command. They also have enormous sway over the government. Subway drivers in New York have a lot of clout. They're organized, united, and capable of bringing the biggest city in the US to a halt. That's just how it goes.
If someone doesn't like driving a taxi, or if it proves to be an unprofitable business, they could always try getting another job. Or they could murder a passenger over fifty cents instead. Either way.
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09-21-18 06:32 #16658
Posts: 1200Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
One of the many reasons I visit the Philippines less than any other country in Southeast Asia (except Brunei) even though I'm a short flight away is stuff like this. Some Bangkok taxis try it on, but you can always find a legit driver quickly. In a place like Manila they base their life around ripping people off. It's disheartening and disgusting.
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09-21-18 06:28 #16657
Posts: 1200Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]
Do you do that voluntarily or what? Most things like coffee and sex are less expensive throughout Southeast Asia than in the West. I wonder how you do that? Just triple the menu price for a cappuccino and hand it over? Does it make your coffee taste better?
An iced latte where I live in Asia is $2. Back in the US it would be $3 - $5. What should I do oh wizard of the economics?
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09-21-18 06:06 #16656
Posts: 1200Originally Posted by KabulGuy [View Original Post]
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09-21-18 05:48 #16655
Posts: 1562Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
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09-21-18 05:34 #16654
Posts: 3521st timer to Manila.
Hi Seniors.
Will be visiting first time philipones, so quite excited about same. If any fellow member have time to catch during October (25_28), do ping or reply.
Thank you.
Inblr01.
Bangalore.
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09-21-18 03:12 #16653
Posts: 1191Originally Posted by KabulGuy [View Original Post]
Over the past two years I've paid for a lot of sex in Philippines very little of which has been spent in commercial setups with prosti.
For me I am paying for the image of a 'partner' rather than just a sex.
BD.
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09-21-18 02:47 #16652
Posts: 16401Originally Posted by KabulGuy [View Original Post]
Unless I misunderstood your post, I interpreted you as saying that the better you treat the hooker and the more you are willing to shell out to her or on her, then the better the sex will be. That is why it threw me off when you started talking about not showing her you are a low class Cheap Charlie. I'm thinking what does she care, she is in it for a set fee to begin with. As long as she gets the X amount of pesos in the agreement she should not care what you are. I will tell a chick in a minute. Of course I have money, but that does not mean I am going to give it to you or spend it on you. Call me cheap all you want. It is always the broke chick that will call you cheap in order to guilt you into spending money on her. I didn't pay all that money for school to fall for Mickey Mouse shit like that.
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09-21-18 02:30 #16651
Posts: 995Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
I truly feel sorry for you. You don't know what you are missing.
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09-21-18 02:29 #16650
Posts: 3149Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]
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09-21-18 01:57 #16649
Posts: 16401Originally Posted by KabulGuy [View Original Post]
Second, speaking on price points a prime example is that you can go into a soapie in Thailand where chicks wear different badges to specify how much you have to pay. You can go in one day and a chick has on a $70 badge and go in next week and the same chick has a $50 badge. What more would you get the day she has on the $70 badge?
Third, from the Bogota thread the other day. It is often said that in the cheap ghetto area of Santa Fe you can find the same chicks that you will see in more upscale places. Many guys never believe it, but those of us in the know know how true it is. One guy posted a report 2 days ago about his first trip going to Santa Fe and he saw a chick that he had known from an upscale place working in the hood for way cheaper.
I have also reported a few months back talking to a chick in a $30 hooker spot in Thailand that said at night she goes to her second job which is a spot that costs you over $100. So how would this chick's pussy felt any different by picking her up at the $120 spot over the $30 spot? In either circumstance would this experienced monger (that you have named) have looked at the chick at the cheaper spot and "known" she was worth way more or would he have looked at her at the more expensive spot and "known" she was not worth that much?
Fourth, why would you assume a higher class educated woman's sex would be any better than a chick that dropped out of preschool? And if she was that higher class and educated then more than likely she would not be flat-backing. When you show me the porn star with the PhD I will retract that statement.
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09-20-18 23:02 #16648
Posts: 995Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
Is it the same meal, offered with the same service or is one served on paper plates and plastic cutlery in a stand up eating place. Is one served on fine dishes with table cloths and well trained wait staff? Granted all will satisfy your physical hunger but some will satisfy you in a more pleasurable manner than the others.
There are ways to judge the offering before committing, sometimes we are wrong and the fine dining has a tough steak, it may be false advertising or it may just be that they had an off night. The stand up street food may turn out to be delicious and very satisfying or it may give you a serious case of the trots. There is only one guarantee in this life and that is that you will not get out of it alive.
Experienced mongers can tell if the lady is a low class meth head with no redeeming qualities other than accessible orifices and a different lady is a higher class educated woman who will be a pleasure to be with not only sexually but as a companion for either ST or LT. The clues may be harder to discover than in the case of a greasy spoon diner and a fine restaurant but they are there if you know where to look. Sometimes just treating the lady with respect and showing that you are not a low class cheap Charley during the negotiations can be the determining factor.
If you are so scared that the fine dining will not live up to its promises that you only eat at the greasy spoons, then you are not taking the slight risk in trying and experiencing the finer things in life.
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09-20-18 22:31 #16647
Posts: 1562Originally Posted by RickRock [View Original Post]
Keep in mind that most taxi drivers in the Philippines, as elsewhere, do not own their own taxis. So cab drivers are small business owners only in the sense that they own their own time. In the Philippines most taxis are owned in fleets by wealthier individuals. In an earlier post GE explained the substantial daily lease that drivers pay to owners, in addition to paying for the fuel they consume. So profit for the fleet owners turns only indirectly on the individual fare rates. More directly, their profit turns on the daily lease rate that they charge to the drivers. So the politics about fares affects the drivers more directly than the owners, and, as I suggested earlier, the drivers, as poor people, don't heft very much clout in changing the system.
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09-20-18 20:51 #16646
Posts: 16401Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
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09-20-18 18:47 #16645
Posts: 7009Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]