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[QUOTE=Tomjackin;1403226]I'm here now! You have been warned![/QUOTE]Oh shiiiiiiit, there might not be anything left of Sosua by the time I get there, hahaha. I look forward to reading your boots on the ground reports, they are always entertaining. Have fun, make it rain, hahaha.
Well I'm planning a trip to Columbia? Anyone know where's the best place to stay in MDE?
Also how do you pick up women? I keep hearing about Casas? Is that a club, or all women on the street up for grabs like Sosua.
[QUOTE=ForceSteeler; 1403502]Well I'm planning a trip to Columbia? Anyone know where's the best place to stay in MDE?
Also how do you pick up women? I keep hearing about Casas? Is that a club, or all women on the street up for grabs like Sosua.[/QUOTE]You might get a better response if you post in the Medellin section. Then if you get useful replies they will be accessible to other interested parties and won't clutter the Sosua section.
Sorry I haven't had a chance to post earlier, but thanks to everyone for the great tips and positive feedback regarding my doubts that a trip to Sosua would still be a great experience. You've really allayed my concerns. I just have a couple more questions. First, I'll be heading down for the first time in mid-May which I understand is the beginning of the "low" season. Will this mean Sosua won't be too crowded or there will be less chicas around? Also, I'm a little curious as to the the reason for the secrecy in regards to telling chicas when my trip will be over once I'm down in Sosua. I've traveled a lot, albeit never to a scene like Sosua, and while not volunteering the information, I never kept it secret as to the length of my stay. I'm sure there's a good reason why to do this in Sosua, I was just wondering what it is.
Thanks
[QUOTE=Manizales911;1403469]Oh shiiiiiiit, there might not be anything left of Sosua by the time I get there, hahaha. I look forward to reading your boots on the ground reports, they are always entertaining. Have fun, make it rain, hahaha.[/QUOTE]There is plenty here! The girls are off the hook!
At my age, I will save you a plenty!
[QUOTE=ForceSteeler; 1403502]Well I'm planning a trip to Columbia? Anyone know where's the best place to stay in MDE?
Also how do you pick up women? I keep hearing about Casas? Is that a club, or all women on the street up for grabs like Sosua.[/QUOTE]-It's "Colombia"; not "Columbia"
-If you approach every woman in the streets as if they are up for grabs like in Sosua, you might get stabbed, or shot, or both.
-It's a great place, so long as you ain't "scurred":
[quote="Vagetarian"]a car bomb exploded in the middle of parque lleras at 10:15 pm last thursday night. 70 lbs of explosives inside a VW.[/quote] (posted over at C R T today).
Best place to ask any more questions is in the Medellin forum
[QUOTE=SavePros321; 1403662]:
(posted over at C R T today).
Best place to ask any more questions is in the Medellin forum[/QUOTE]Pretty sure your bombing was from 2001, maybe Rumplestilskin?
[url]http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/05/18/colombia.bomb.02/index.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Hillbilly69; 1403666]Pretty sure your bombing was from 2001, maybe Rumplestilskin?
[url]http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/05/18/colombia.bomb.02/index.html[/url][/QUOTE]The guy that reported it posted it as of 3hrs ago over at C R T in the "Gringo Safety" forum. I'm hoping he isn't stupid enough to be reporting old news.
[QUOTE=SavePros321;1403671]The guy that reported it posted it as of 3hrs ago over at C R T in the "Gringo Safety" forum. I'm hoping he isn't stupid enough to be reporting old news.[/QUOTE]I was in Medellin when some of those bombings occured and that was a couple of years before that (1999), yea he is a dork.
[QUOTE=SavePros321;1403662]It's "Colombia"; not "Columbia"[/QUOTE]You are not wrong, but the name "Columbia" was widely used in the English speaking world in the 19th century before we gradually standardized on "Colombia".
You might think it is being courteous to Colombians to use their own name for the country, but actually it is a bit of a slight. After all, English speakers normally use "Brazil"."Spain","Italy" and "China" and not the locals' names. Why? Because those countries have been sufficiently important in [u]our[/u] history for so many centuries that we have gradually, and in some cases ignorantly, evolved our own names for them which have passed into the English language. They were, rightly or wrongly, seen culturally as "world players" whereas Colombia was not.
I think in Colombia's case the need to distinguish it from British Columbia and the District of Columbia might also have played a part.
Political correctness of the post-colonial decades has also played a role. We now use the local names for what were Bengal, Ceylon and Burma. But not for Thailand. Why is that? I would guess because Thailand has never been a European colony so doesn't feel such a pressing need to get out from under a name imposed by Europeans.
Send any comments to Tempoecorto by PM.
[QUOTE=Charles Pooter; 1403686]You are not wrong, but the name "Columbia" was widely used in the English speaking world in the 19th century before we gradually standardized on "Colombia".
You might think it is being courteous to Colombians to use their own name for the country, but actually it is a bit of a slight. After all, English speakers normally use "Brazil"."Spain","Italy" and "China" and not the locals' names. Why? Because those countries have been sufficiently important in [u]our[/u] History for so many centuries that we have gradually, and in some cases ignorantly, evolved our own names for them which have passed into the English language. They were, rightly or wrongly, seen culturally as "world players" whereas Colombia was not.
I think in Colombia's case the need to distinguish it from British Columbia and the District of Columbia might also have played a part.
Political correctness of the post-colonial decades has also played a role. We now use the local names for what were Bengal, Ceylon and Burma. But not for Thailand. Why is that? I would guess because Thailand has never been a European colony so doesn't feel such a pressing need to get out from under a name imposed by Europeans.
Send any comments to Tempoecorto by PM.[/QUOTE]That is not the half of it, Forcesteeler made a Youtube video where he reviewed monger destinations including Columbia, yea he spelled it wrong there too, now he wants info there? I thought he was already there? So he reviewed a place he has never been to? Sounds like Oldkool in the Rio thread!
That's about like the guy this week who said he was a rich dude from Chicago then takes the red eye on Spirit to Santiago? WTF? LMAO Fred Sanford Trump!
Now fake bombings! LMFAO Good entertainment this week!
[QUOTE=Hillbilly69; 1403688]That is not the half of it, Forcesteeler made a Youtube video where he reviewed monger destinations including Columbia, yea he spelled it wrong there too, now he wants info there? I thought he was already there? So he reviewed a place he has never been to? Sounds like Oldkool in the Rio thread!
That's about like the guy this week who said he was a rich dude from Chicago then takes the red eye on Spirit to Santiago? WTF? LMAO Fred Sanford Trump!
Now fake bombings! LMFAO Good entertainment this week![/QUOTE]We talk about Sosua changing. We talk about the girls in Sosua changing. Now we have "fake mongerers"? DAMN! The game is all fucked up now. Jackson needs to do a "wish I were a monger" thread.
[QUOTE=Charles Pooter; 1403686]Political correctness of the post-colonial decades has also played a role. We now use the local names for what were Bengal, Ceylon and Burma. But not for Thailand. Why is that? I would guess because Thailand has never been a European colony so doesn't feel such a pressing need to get out from under a name imposed by Europeans.
Send any comments to Tempoecorto by PM.[/QUOTE]Hey, why the dig at me, Charles Pooter, LOL.
Actually, perhaps I am an opinionated pain in the neck, but I would much rather have Ceylon than Srilanka or Calcutta rather than the new fangled idiocy. Speaking about it, when I first found out that Florence, Italy is really Firenze, Italy (Italia) , I did think it was funny what with my idiotic anglo-centric vision.
[QUOTE=Hillbilly69; 1403688]That is not the half of it, Forcesteeler made a Youtube video where he reviewed monger destinations including Columbia, yea he spelled it wrong there too, now he wants info there? I thought he was already there? So he reviewed a place he has never been to? Sounds like Oldkool in the Rio thread!
That's about like the guy this week who said he was a rich dude from Chicago then takes the red eye on Spirit to Santiago? WTF? LMAO Fred Sanford Trump!
Now fake bombings! LMFAO Good entertainment this week![/QUOTE]Hey come off it bro. There are a whole bunch of people here who cannot spell their own language correctly. So I would cut this guy some slack. Eh? LOL.
[QUOTE=Charles Pooter;1403686]But not for Thailand. Why is that? I would guess because Thailand has never been a European colony so doesn't feel such a pressing need to get out from under a name imposed by Europeans.[/QUOTE]Didn't it used to be called Siam?
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnD1JtSALCA[/url]