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"The past tense and past participle of spell (only in the word-related sense) can be either irregular (spelt) or regular (spelled). British English allows both irregular and regular forms. In American English, the irregular forms are never or hardly ever used."
It is even funnier still when someone contributes his 'two pesos' and still gets it wrong!
Anyway should we not be getting back to more serious issues like mongering?
You guys are killing me. Pah-leeeze get back to the knowledge sharing in Cebu.
(I agree, however, the instant messaging and tweeting crap is dumbing down the entire language, UK or USA, notwithstanding; and it's difficult to read if one has more than a 4th grade education.)
But this forum is about fun stories that advance the cause of mongering. Here, in Cebu. I did not get back to Cebu this year and I'm still living on memories of last year. So every detailed story of Mango Square is gold.
Let's get back on target, Mongers.
Jack
[QUOTE=Frenzy3; 1162394]Went there last night and I have to mention the foreigners I saw act like jerks, I was in the que with 5 of my girls and 2 guys with their bar girls decide to jump the que. Prob thinking the pina girls where just locals, the pushed their money into the cashier, I told them there was a que and the cashier gave them their money back.
We had our table inside and while dancing on the stage some foreigner guy with his barfine sits down at our table, despite us having our drinks there, we decided just to get another table. So we moved to a out side table.
Out side there was guys just fishing for locals at one time was 5 tables in a row with a single guy just trying to pick up girls, one was calling out to any girl even girl with their pino boy friend and you wonder why some pino boys attack foreigners.
One of the 5 guys picked up some ladyboys and started kissing mouth to mouth in public. 2 of my girls saw this and said something to me, I think they prefer not see gay men in public kissing, I also think the guy did not even relise he had ladyboys he looked drunk and dumb, he did not look gay and I had seen him trying to pick up other girls before the ladyboys sat down, to me it is quite clear which girls are freelancers there rather than sit down and not move arround go to their tables and order the girls some drinks, talk to them they are humans, if you sit and not move you will be targeted by the lady boys,
The reason you move around is you find a lady only table, try your "luck" there, my gf1 had a guy try pick her up on her way to the CR, when you see two girls walking it does not mean that they have no dates, they do leave the table to move around, so go look at the table they go to see where they are at and watch. No one tried to talk to my girls at my table even though I had 5 girls with me, I use to go there with other local boys and their gf, if you try pick up a locals gf at a disco expect the worst,
Then some really drunk staggering foreigners walk up wanting to get in, but was turned away as one the guy was being prompt up he was legless, they came back with out him and latter one guy fell over on a local table smashing the drinks and injuring them, they then ran off, a few locals once they realized that they bolted went looking for them.
I not been there for 2 years now, my gf1 told me that prefers the local discos where foreigners are not welcome, it will be interesting to see what happens in the next 2 years.
Ps admin you can delete the other 3 post I did bellow[/QUOTE]I was there briefly last week and this post brings back all the memories. Hell hole
I've just had a week in Cebu City, and Mactan. Here are a few notes.
I stay a few nights at a hotel here, and a hotel there, so I can truthfully say to my chat-mate (s) for that day that I have either just arrived or am leaving tomorrow. I am not into P4P. Usually I stay at Beverly Boutique Hotel, Dynasty, Montebello Villa Hotel, or Kiwi Lodge.
At the Beverly (previously called Eddies) it is always a good welcome from Peggy, April, and the team. The free inclusive breakfast if booked online (Agoda) is nothing to write home about. It's very convenient to local spots. Lone Star is just around the corner, the Maxilom clubs only 100 metres away, and Ayala and Robinsons a 10-15 minute walk away. And it's great to have free WiFi in the rooms.
Kiwi Lodge is getting a little tired hat for me. Friendly staff, but there are a few non resident customers who seem to own their particular bar stools and pretty intolerant to visitors. The rooms (I had a De Luxe for 1350p) are getting a little tired, noisy air con, old tv set, no or marginal wifi, and someone's old breakfast tray remained uncollected outside the door for the whole day. But I must confess the 'Australian lamb shanks' are a menu draw card for me.
I had a couple of nights at the girl-friendly Park Hill Hotel in Mactan, very reasonably priced at about 1000p, tucked in behind the Days Hotel near the airport and a walking distance from Marina SaveMore and a host of nice nearby restaurants.
In Mactan the Magellan's Landing Bar and Restaurant seems to be the focus for many expat residents. On Maxilom El Gecko is under new ownership and has been revamped, with a small regular clientele.
My new discovery this trip was 'Our Place', in Cogon, on the corner of Sanciangko and Pelaez Streets, this is a small pub with good (Goodenough may disagree!) western (uk) food. It is now owned by a father-son Welsh team. There is a nice atmosphere there (but without air conditioning) and with many locals dropping in. It is open till 11pm. This place is one street off Colon Street and just a block and a half from the infamous Junquera basketball court and the Junquera 'chicks'. I know it has been the topic of recent debate in this forum but I would say there is plenty of casual choice in the locality. In walking with my chat-mate from Our Place into the night market on Colon Street and around the block at last a dozen 'chicks' were giving me the come-on eye, but not tempted.
One last snippet, I was able to negotiate 4 packets of Viagra and 4 of Cialis (standard 4 tablets) from the touts outside Robinson's Mall for a total of 1000p for the 8 packets. But my most arousing purchase was 10 tablets in a bottle of a Chinese herbal product called 'Happy Time'. I am wondering if I am become dulled to V and C, but Happy Time, for 400p really left me upstanding! With a regular 19 year old chat mate (nearly 50 years my junior!) last night she nudged me at 2am, after an earlier session, and bingo I was up and coming in minutes. 'Too quick' she said. I was prepared to roll over and go to sleep but after some wonderful oral administration I was up and at it for at least another 30 minutes. All positions and she kept wanting more and in the end I couldn't make it but she said it was three times for her! I will soon find out if it was just a one off 'Happy Time' experience!
KongKing
[QUOTE=KongKing; 1165328]I've just had a week in Cebu City, and Mactan. Here are a few notes.
I stay a few nights at a hotel here, and a hotel there, so I can truthfully say to my chat-mate (s) for that day that I have either just arrived or am leaving tomorrow. I am not into P4P. Usually I stay at Beverly Boutique Hotel, Dynasty, Montebello Villa Hotel, or Kiwi Lodge.
At the Beverly (previously called Eddies) it is always a good welcome from Peggy, April, and the team. The free inclusive breakfast if booked online (Agoda) is nothing to write home about. It's very convenient to local spots. Lone Star is just around the corner, the Maxilom clubs only 100 metres away, and Ayala and Robinsons a 10-15 minute walk away. And it's great to have free WiFi in the rooms.
Kiwi Lodge is getting a little tired hat for me. Friendly staff, but there are a few non resident customers who seem to own their particular bar stools and pretty intolerant to visitors. The rooms (I had a De Luxe for 1350p) are getting a little tired, noisy air con, old tv set, no or marginal wifi, and someone's old breakfast tray remained uncollected outside the door for the whole day. But I must confess the 'Australian lamb shanks' are a menu draw card for me.
I had a couple of nights at the girl-friendly Park Hill Hotel in Mactan, very reasonably priced at about 1000p, tucked in behind the Days Hotel near the airport and a walking distance from Marina SaveMore and a host of nice nearby restaurants.
In Mactan the Magellan's Landing Bar and Restaurant seems to be the focus for many expat residents. On Maxilom El Gecko is under new ownership and has been revamped, with a small regular clientele.
My new discovery this trip was 'Our Place', in Cogon, on the corner of Sanciangko and Pelaez Streets, this is a small pub with good (Goodenough may disagree!) western (uk) food. It is now owned by a father-son Welsh team. There is a nice atmosphere there (but without air conditioning) and with many locals dropping in. It is open till 11pm. This place is one street off Colon Street and just a block and a half from the infamous Junquera basketball court and the Junquera 'chicks'. I know it has been the topic of recent debate in this forum but I would say there is plenty of casual choice in the locality. In walking with my chat-mate from Our Place into the night market on Colon Street and around the block at last a dozen 'chicks' were giving me the come-on eye, but not tempted.
One last snippet, I was able to negotiate 4 packets of Viagra and 4 of Cialis (standard 4 tablets) from the touts outside Robinson's Mall for a total of 1000p for the 8 packets. But my most arousing purchase was 10 tablets in a bottle of a Chinese herbal product called 'Happy Time'. I am wondering if I am become dulled to V and C, but Happy Time, for 400p really left me upstanding! With a regular 19 year old chat mate (nearly 50 years my junior!) last night she nudged me at 2am, after an earlier session, and bingo I was up and coming in minutes. 'Too quick' she said. I was prepared to roll over and go to sleep but after some wonderful oral administration I was up and at it for at least another 30 minutes. All positions and she kept wanting more and in the end I couldn't make it but she said it was three times for her! I will soon find out if it was just a one off 'Happy Time' experience!
KongKing[/QUOTE]Is Robinsons mall open now? It was still closed in May when I was in Cebu city.
[QUOTE=Mayntain;1165369]Is Robinsons mall open now? It was still closed in May when I was in Cebu city.[/QUOTE]Several chatmates in fuente say its open.
[QUOTE=KongKing; 1165328]! I will soon find out if it was just a one off 'Happy Time' experience!
KongKing[/QUOTE]Where did you buy the Happy Time meds?
[QUOTE=Nolz7;1165454]Where did you buy the Happy Time meds?[/QUOTE]I bought a box, containing a bottle with 10 tablets from one of those parasitic street vendors on or near the footbridge at Robinsons, Osmenia Circle. They generally sell viagra or cialis, but this guy had a shoulder bag obviously with a good supply.
However you should be able to buy it elsewhere. For instance I discovered a non-prescription pharmacy in Cagayan de Oro called Boticas (next to Coras 3 on Rizal Street) that sells "Happy Time" for 420p per bottle. I don't think you would get it at Rose, Watsons, or Mercury Drugs but try the alternative medicine shops.
See photos.
KongKing
There's been another American citizen murder in downtown Cebu Hotel, hoping he's not a fellow monger.
Seriously, you've never heard that a period is what goes at the end of a sentence? Which 'King's English' are you referring to? The King of the jungle? We prefer the more refined American English on here anyway 'mate. '
[QUOTE=Tazdevil; 1163007]Mackin.
"You might want to start with yourself. The word 'capitol' used in the context above should be spelt as 'capital', the word 'english' should be capitalised as 'English' and the word 'realizing' should be spelt as 'realising' (unless of course you are American where slightly different rules of spelling apply). I have never heard of the word 'period' in the context of grammar, only as an excuse from a bar girl who did not want to be bf'd!"
I love it when someone corrects another and then comes up with a great new word of their own. SPELT is a word, however, it means a kind of wheat species and therefore will pass a dictionary check. Check it out in Wkikpedia. However, within the context used here, the correct word should have been SPELLED, which is the past tense of spell. Just thought I'd put in my 2 pesos.
I really enjoy the banter going here and have learned a whole lot from all of your experiences and escapades. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Gaijin Gigolo;1166450]Seriously, you've never heard that a period is what goes at the end of a sentence? Which 'King's English' are you referring to? The King of the jungle? We prefer the more refined American English on here anyway 'mate. '[/QUOTE]Using "refined" and "american" in one single sentence! Wow
I actually learned something from all this good natured grammar banter. A period is what we English call a full stop, although I have never in my life before heard a full stop referred to in this way. It just goes to show that although English is sometimes known as the 'universal language' it is used by various nationalities in different ways to the point were we sometimes do not understand each other.
I have never actually heard of the description 'King's English' since we have not had a male monarch in the UK since the early 1950s. I was always brought up with and schooled using the term 'Queen's English'.
Maybe the original poster is a lot older than me, since I was born after the Queen's coronation (God bless her).
By the way Tazdevil has been very silent since trying to (wrongly) correct my English. My guess he is a non-native speaker who dosen't quite understand the complexity of the English language and he certainly didn't do his research as extensively as he should have done, before throwing his "2 pesos worth" in.
Oh and Fredje1961, if you are going to poke fun at others, make sure you capitalise (capitalise spelt the English way with an s instead of a z) the word American. Furthermore Tazdevil, 'spelt' and the word 'spelled' are both grammatically correct according to UK English.
Seriously guys what does it matter if we make a spelling mistake here or there, so long as the post is readable and makes sense it shouldn't matter especially since many posters are not native English speakers...........now let me think should I have used a question mark after that last sentence........hmmmmmmm?
[QUOTE=Gaijin Gigolo;1166450]Seriously, you've never heard that a period is what goes at the end of a sentence? Which 'King's English' are you referring to? The King of the jungle? We prefer the more refined American English on here anyway 'mate. '[/QUOTE]One assumes that one is speaking for oneself sunshine.
Personally I have a preference for English. Prease note that the language is called English, in honour of the great nation of England, the dominant member of Great Britain.
There is no such language as American English.
There is a language with periods, sidewalks, fanny packs and other peculiarities however they are not English terms. Therefor the language of which you speak (not which you speak of, for you should never end a sentence with a preposition) is a bastardised version of English. A copy language so to speak. LOL
[QUOTE=Bingo 143;1166310]There's been another American citizen murder in downtown Cebu Hotel, hoping he's not a fellow monger.[/QUOTE]Can you provide the link to the news article?
You sure he wasn't an Israeli? Read about it in today's paper here in Cebu. Said he was frequently visited by diverse females. The police are checking the hotel work force just in case it might be an "inside job".