Mocking Travelling Mark
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Mocking Travelling Mark
This is for anyone who needs a laugh.
For those who don't know, this guy is famous as an online dickhead who writes ridiculous shit about Cambodia. Since he decided to post about how embarrassed he was when he was buying stuff for his ATHLETES FOOT condition, I just thought I'd repost it. Some things should not be forgotten.
http://www.travelingmark.com/cambodia/u ... siem-reap/
This guy was so embarrassed by two little Cambodian shop assistants (and it was all their fault obviously), that he just had to tell the world about it on his blog as well.
You are allowed to laugh at this guy - he seriously deserves it.
In case you feel sorry for him, he also wrote this:
For those who don't know, this guy is famous as an online dickhead who writes ridiculous shit about Cambodia. Since he decided to post about how embarrassed he was when he was buying stuff for his ATHLETES FOOT condition, I just thought I'd repost it. Some things should not be forgotten.
http://www.travelingmark.com/cambodia/u ... siem-reap/
LOL.I started to notice signs of possible Athlete’s Foot condition and thought of checking UCare out to see what they had for Athlete’s Feet. Even though UCare is more expensive than other pharmacies, they are the ones who are likely to carry this type of product and should I buy it, it would be an actual product, not some counterfeit crap.
There is UCare Pharmacy right on the opposite corner from Pub Street in Siem Reap, located directly on Sivatha Boulevard, which means it’s downtown and close to everything. So far so good, except from that “breathing down your neck” phenomenon which is so obvious throughout Cambodia. I walked in and was immediately approached by one of the girls who worked there. She asked me what I was there for and followed me around. Even though it’s pretty embarrassing to ask for it aloud, I told her I was looking for products to cure Athlete’s Foot with. Since she’s obviously never heard of this condition, she repeatedly asked what it was so I was forced to respond and repeatedly ask for Athlete’s Foot cure. It was getting more and more embarrassing by the minute.
This guy was so embarrassed by two little Cambodian shop assistants (and it was all their fault obviously), that he just had to tell the world about it on his blog as well.
You are allowed to laugh at this guy - he seriously deserves it.
In case you feel sorry for him, he also wrote this:
I'm sure he made a lot of friends here.Everything there is to know about South East Asia can be summed up in a single sentence:
Life in South East Asia is all about a struggle to be a bigger pig than everyone else.
It’s astounding how much effort people of South East Asia put into ensuring that there is no trace of civilized behavior in whatever they do. I mean, why would anyone want to chew their food with mouth closed when they can smack their mouth up and down like a cow making so much noise it can be heard from the apartment five stories above?
I’m a big fan of documentaries about wild animals, but I have yet to see an animal that would stretch its mouth open as wide as South East Asians do when they eat, or an animal that makes as much deliberate noise eating. This South East Asian mindset of “why should I eat like a civilized person when I can chew louder than a pig in a stay” is mind stopping. The surest way to get eternally disgusted is by paying a South East Asian restaurant a visit when there are locals eating inside.
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he and adventurous kate should marry.
imagine the offspring: compelled by a mysterious instinct to travel while hating every moment.
imagine the offspring: compelled by a mysterious instinct to travel while hating every moment.
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The guy is neurotic, and more than a little paranoid.
On waiting staff:
That blog is more than 5 years old, it was criticized heavily when it first came out.
On waiting staff:
I seem to have had the opposite experience, in most local restaurants it's difficult to get the staff's attention as they usually seem to try hard to avoid doing too much..Cambodians take excessively wrong approach towards tourists in most instances and waiters in restaurants are no exception. I found it truly hard to accept from the beginning and still can’t get myself to feel easy about it, but I grew to accept it as necessary evil......But it is very common to have your server stand a few tables down facing you and looking at you non stop.....Khmer people want everything now so servers are always at the ready, never close by, but rather right there.
That blog is more than 5 years old, it was criticized heavily when it first came out.
Silence, exile, and cunning.
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I seem to have had the opposite experience, in most local restaurants it's difficult to get the staff's attention as they usually seem to try hard to avoid doing too much..John Bingham wrote:The guy is neurotic, and more than a little paranoid.
On waiting staff:Cambodians take excessively wrong approach towards tourists in most instances and waiters in restaurants are no exception. I found it truly hard to accept from the beginning and still can’t get myself to feel easy about it, but I grew to accept it as necessary evil......But it is very common to have your server stand a few tables down facing you and looking at you non stop.....Khmer people want everything now so servers are always at the ready, never close by, but rather right there.
Ha I've had to get the beer out of the fridge myself!
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LOL- Thailand is worse.
The places I go they are too lazy to markup falang price.
That would require the hardest work of all- thinking- plus- Risk!
The places I go they are too lazy to markup falang price.
That would require the hardest work of all- thinking- plus- Risk!
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I get this all the time, but I don't see the big deal. They're better than American waiters who rush over to your table every few minutes to see if "everything is alright" as if I wouldn't say something if it was.Yobbo wrote:I seem to have had the opposite experience, in most local restaurants it's difficult to get the staff's attention as they usually seem to try hard to avoid doing too much..John Bingham wrote:The guy is neurotic, and more than a little paranoid.
On waiting staff:Cambodians take excessively wrong approach towards tourists in most instances and waiters in restaurants are no exception. I found it truly hard to accept from the beginning and still can’t get myself to feel easy about it, but I grew to accept it as necessary evil......But it is very common to have your server stand a few tables down facing you and looking at you non stop.....Khmer people want everything now so servers are always at the ready, never close by, but rather right there.
Ha I've had to get the beer out of the fridge myself!
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Correct, you're sometimes even too outspoken.I get this all the time, but I don't see the big deal. They're better than American waiters who rush over to your table every few minutes to see if "everything is alright" as if I wouldn't say something if it was.
Waiting staff at a particular riverside establishement still are still whispering at your outburst that went something like "what ? not even a BJ ? After all I've spent on you ? little ungrateful bitch! "
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Mark's analysis of Cambodian expats:
Well said! Feeling that blood lust already.When Character and Environment Match
There are certain values I uphold and as such, I could only live in a country that upholds the same or similar values. In my case, these include order, respect, equality and law. That’s why I’m naturally drawn and feel the most comfortable in countries where order, respect, equality and law are inherent. Such countries include my home land of Canada, but also Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, New Zealand, and some others.
On the other hand, people who uphold chaos, corruption, discrimination, xenophobia and disorder are naturally drawn to countries with the same values, such as Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Brazil and many others.
A person who upholds positive values is incompatible with countries that uphold negative values and would feel very uncomfortable living there. As a result, such person would want to leave and relocate to a country the values of which match those he/she upholds.
I gave Cambodia, for example, my best shot and stayed for 5 months but it was an ongoing struggle because inherent corruption and lust for blood were strongly contradicting my character. I tried really hard, but could not do it.
But I got a very good taste of what people who feel comfortable there are like. Holy eff!
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I see you're still delighting in the tales you tell yourself.logos wrote:Correct, you're sometimes even too outspoken.I get this all the time, but I don't see the big deal. They're better than American waiters who rush over to your table every few minutes to see if "everything is alright" as if I wouldn't say something if it was.
Waiting staff at a particular riverside establishement still are still whispering at your outburst that went something like "what ? not even a BJ ? After all I've spent on you ? little ungrateful bitch! "
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TM does come across as a cock.
Though I echo some of his feelings regarding noisy eaters; I cannot stand noisy eaters and many Khmer slurp, smack lips, chew with mouths open while talking and generally (through no fault of their own) contravene every unspoken rule of table etiquette I was brought up with in my home country.
I don't say anything, as that would be rude, and find it strange this bothers me at all, yet it does bother me enough that I try to avoid eating with my Khmer colleagues at lunchtime every day.
Though I echo some of his feelings regarding noisy eaters; I cannot stand noisy eaters and many Khmer slurp, smack lips, chew with mouths open while talking and generally (through no fault of their own) contravene every unspoken rule of table etiquette I was brought up with in my home country.
I don't say anything, as that would be rude, and find it strange this bothers me at all, yet it does bother me enough that I try to avoid eating with my Khmer colleagues at lunchtime every day.
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