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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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 Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject: Tales Of Travel Snobs Welcome Here |
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I like the Travel Snob thread started by cdninkorea but it also inspired me to start a new thread for us to share our best episodes from the road. Here is my last post from the other thread to get us started:
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I never bring it up, and give general ideas of life, never detailed stories unless they are really funny, like me asking my cute Japanese co-worker, "Can I see your c**t?" instead of asking, "Can I see your name stamp?". (manko, hanko) |
Hehe. I had a kind of flirty hiking trip near Mae Hong Son with a Japanese girl that was with me in a large group of Scandanavians and Germans and Brits and got a long better with me than they because of the Asia connection and my fascination with Japanese writers. We got back from the trip a day late and she had to rush to the airport with no time to rent a room for a nap or cleaning up, so on the bus ride back to Chiang Rai I told her she could clean up in my room. When we got back I let her run up to the room while I waited downstairs and drank a coffee. 20 minutes later, she came running down with a big smile and cute little bow, thanked me and dashed off to the waiting taxi with a "I hope see you in Koh Chang!"
Feeling like I had done my good deed for the day, I went upstairs to sort myself out and I saw a note waiting for me on the little table in my room. It read:
"Bill. Thank you for your offer to shower. You were very good!"
Still have that note, makes me smile every time.
Oh, crap. I'm doing it again, aren't I? New thread... |
And I did meet her on Koh Chang.  And she's still a good friend who I keep in touch with.
Who else?
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Tales Of Travel Snobs Welcome Here |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
I never bring it up, and give general ideas of life, never detailed stories unless they are really funny, like me asking my cute Japanese co-worker, "Can I see your c**t?" instead of asking, "Can I see your name stamp?". (manko, hanko) |
Luckily your quote has saved me from typing 
This thread would take way too much of my time. I am leaving now before I go crazy... |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't you travel snobs *spit* have a whole forum for this!!!? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Don't you travel snobs *spit* have a whole forum for this!!!? |
OK. OK. I am guessing you mean:
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Travel Forum
Forum for discussing travel in, around and out of Korea, visa runs, etc. |
But who the hell wanders over there anyway? Tiger Beer and...? Actually, I bet that boy has a few yarns to contribute...
But if the mods zap this modest little thread, so be it. Their will be done, on Earth as it is in...whatever hell they are enjoying at the moment.
Hey mods!! Any cool travel stories from the 9 levels? What's the weather like? The girls(guys)?
(As if the life expectancy of this thread wasn't short enough already...) |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Somewhat related,as I took the photo in India, so I thought I'd paste this in from the other thread:
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| tomato wrote: |
You got it!
Incidentally, Flotsam, what does your avatar say?
Is that Arabic? |
Not exactly. The whole diagram is meant to represent the Sikh symbol of the Khandra:
But it replaces the blades with various religious symbols representative of Punjab:
The Omkar
For Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism.
The Star and Crescent
For Islam.
The Cross
For Christianity.
The Ek Onkar
For Sikhism, but as it is a form of the Tattwas...
It really stands for all the Indian religions as well.
And if you look closely off on the side you will see:
The Happy Human
Of Humanism bumping off the butt of the Omkar. Which is a somewhat fitting tribute, as I see it.
The mosaic is meant to represent the collection of religions represented in Punjab, their syncretic mergence in Sikihism and the overall similarities and potential for cohesion and cooperation between all faiths. It is placed at the India-Pakistan border at Wagah where Pakistani and Indian soldiers compete with each other every day in militant marching antics at the flag retreat ceremony each evening. The adjacent billboard reads: Welcome to India, The Largest Democracy In The World.
And I think that's pretty cool. So I took a photo. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd like to hear from one of the yogis please. Must have some interesting interplanetry anecdotes for us. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I was over at my aunt and uncle's with my parents and sister and cousin and my sister must have brought up Eastern Europe a half a dozen times - 'oh, doesn't this remind me of Russia ... I had something that tastes like this in the Czech Republic ... really, I had a similar experience on a bus in Croata'. If anything ever reminds her of a place she's been she brings it up. I was at a party at her condo and the same thing happened - stories that I've already heard several times and our friends probably have too. It's impossible to talk about any part of the world without her bringing up her travels there; and she's been to six continents. If by chance she hasn't been there, she'll compare it to some other place she's been. I once travelled around Europe with her for a few weeks and so did one of her friends and she's constantly asking us 'remember when we were in _______?' I have to say, she has an absolutely amazing memory and will remind me of things I've completely forgotten or perhaps may wish to forget. After every major trip (she plans a big one at least once a year) she makes a montage, frames it, and puts it up on a wall. She has an encyclopaedia-sized set of photo albums from all her trips ready to pull out for visiters. She even makes her own guidebooks by going to the library and getting Lonely Planet, Let's Go, Berlitz, etc., photocopying the relevant or useful pages, and pasting them in a notebook for her own customed, self-guided tour. If any friends or family move to another country she absolutely has to visit them. I was in Korea for four months before she came out to visit me. I don't know if she'll ever come back as she rarely re-visits places she's already conquered. I suspect that somewhere in her house she has a checklist of all 200 and whatever countries and is thinking only 100 and whatever to go? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Anytime I see a full moon come up over water I'm reminded of the summer of '89 that I spent in Greece. I could mention a full moon coming up over the Acropolis with Dylan and Van Morrison singing. I think that counts for something in the coolness department. I could mention the all nighter on a balcony overlooking the harbor in Githyo drinking retsina and listening in total confusion to two Scouser debate whether they should just answer, "Yes, I'm a Liverpudlian" when in fact one is not. Or I could mention how the same two stood up at dinner on the 4th and hummed the Star Spangled Banner (because they didn't know the lyrics). I won't mention staggering back to the motel with them trying to sing The Boxer after dancing all night at the Irish bars.
Is that the kind of thing you mean? |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| Hey mods!! Any cool travel stories from the 9 levels? What's the weather like? The girls(guys)? |
Not a mod, but here's something marginally relevant that I posted on a dull fiveeagles thread about heaven in an attempt to liven it up. It went unappreciated by all but Yu Bum Suk there. I repost it here because I believe it deserves another chance and may get a proper response here.
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An English teacher in Korea is run over by a delivery scooter, dies and goes to heaven. When he gets there, St. Peter stops him at the gate and says, "We've never had one of your kind before, so we really aren't sure what to do. I've been given orders to send you down to hell for a day and then have you spend a day here and after that you can choose which you prefer."
The English teacher replies, "Well, this is heaven, so can't I just come in and stay up here?"
But St. Peter says, "Orders are orders and you have to go down to hell for a day." And with that, he takes him over to an elevator and puts him in.
The elevator goes down, down, down, and down again further still. When the doors open the English teacher sees before him Satan Lee's WonderYBM Ding Dong Hogwon, a modern, brightly lit building that the architects had designed to be both functional and beautiful.
All his friends are working there and they gather around him, smiling and cheerful. with warm welcomes for someone they all say is one of the best teachers they know. They tell him of their happy hours in the hogwon, where their contracts are honored by the scrupulously fair proprietor. They tell him of pay that is always on time (and 4k per month); freedom to choose their own material; classrooms with the latest audiovisual equipment and computers; polite, attentive and motivated students; parents who respect their decisions; no split shifts and no one teaches kids who doesn't want to; housing that is clean and spacious, with ovens and bathtubs, and best of all, never has to be shared; and on top of all that, there are no freaky wayguks!
After a bit of catching up, the boss himself comes over and invites the English teacher along as he takes the staff out to dinner, something he says he does every Friday because of how good they are. They walk a short distance to an attractive restaurant and order up some samgeupsal. The meat is perfect and tender, the leaves flavorful. It is all washed down with the smoothest soju the English teacher has ever had. "From my private stock," the head man says, leaning over conspiratorily, "You won't get any hangover from this, so drink up!" Then they chat a bit about professional development and the English teacher learns about the possibilities for raises and promotion that come with personal improvement at this school.
After dinner, his friends take him out to a club in Helldae for a night of revelry. They sing and dance and play all night. Not only are the Hgirls all hot, but they're also easy and not jealous at all. Finally, as dawn was breaking, a black cab comes and takes him off to the elevator at no charge.
He went up, up, up and up further still in the elevator and returned to heaven. There he spent a day wearing a formless robe, sitting on a cloud, playing a harp and thinking pure thoughts of celestial glory.
After a day of that, St. Peter came to him and said, "So, what is it going to be, heaven or hell?" And the English teacher replied, "I never thought I'd say this. Heaven is nice and all, but hell was much more fun. I'd like to go there." And St. Peter takes him over to the elevator that once more goes down, down, down, and down further still.
And when the door opens, the English teacher sees before him a bleak, barren landscape, gray and smokey except for the mixed plaids and checks the H-ajummas wear beneath their visors as they jostle all his friends who are scrambling about in rags, trying to pick lawn clippings for dinner. While they do this, they mutter about what a *beep* teacher he is and that he's lucky to have gotten as far as he did with his fake degree. The hogwon building is dingy, with poor lighting, and every classroom is dirty. As the English teacher gapes at this, the owner sidles over to him and puts his arm around him as he had two nights before.
"What do you think of your new workplace?," he asks.
"But, but...," the English teacher stammers, "What happened to the school, the equipment? Why are all my friends in rags and eating garbage? What happened to the great restaurant, to Helldae and all the Hgirls? It was all here two nights ago."
"Well," Satan smiles and says kindly, "Two nights ago I was a recruiter; now you're on permanent staff." |
Just don't tell me to take it to the joke thread; it's all true! |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:19 am Post subject: |
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I enjoyed my time in Thailand. I went to Koh Toa with a luscious canadian nymph, bought a big bag of buddha, and basically we just tore each other to peices for a week...  oh, interspersed with great food and some snorkellling... |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| Woland wrote: |
Not a mod, but here's something marginally relevant that I posted on a dull fiveeagles thread about heaven in an attempt to liven it up. It went unappreciated by all but Yu Bum Suk there. I repost it here because I believe it deserves another chance and may get a proper response here.
Just don't tell me to take it to the joke thread; it's all true! |
Well, I certainly agree that the 'proper response' would not be, "Take it to the joke thread." |
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