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Re: Living the dream with shirtless Sean Chance

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juansweetpotato wrote:
Anchor Moy wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:Oh! to be young and clueless again. Those were happy days.
I reckon. He's just left North America and hey, he's discovered that PP is more amazing than Vegas, after a smoke or a pizza, whatever. It's a video for his friends back home - and he's just "wowing". (He just got here; he'll learn that he should wear a shirt. )

Otherwise, it reminds me of the "wonder" of those first days in Cambodia. It's clueless, but hey, if you had filmed your first moments in the KOW, how do you think you would come across ?? Huh ?
I remember my first day - with jetlag and the arrival, it was a total trip. Fantastic and spacey and so happy. One of the best days of my life maybe... discovering Cambodia and rediscovering SEA. :Yahoo!:
I remember my first day here also. There were no lights anywhere, hardly any businesses open after dark. I saw a dead guy in the street in one of the side roads off the riverside. And there was a muddy patch along the river side where I was told that people went to pick up the younger girls.
Of course the other board denies knowing anything about it. :dm: :thumb:

Seriously, you are going to bring that up again? Don't you understand that many here were here before, during and after the fanciful events you described? Don't you have any shame? Here it is, let others decide what they think.
Posted in 2014, this is a description of the riverside in 2006:
JSP/SCC wrote:Is Cambodia On the Brink of a Civilian Uprising?
(As I See It or A Layman’s View)

Those that have been here long enough will remember how most people lived in Cambodia 8 + years ago.

PP city was a dark one at night. Riverside, a stretch of mud. Dead bodies lying in the streets at night were not so uncommon. Shoot outs in the city center. Every man on a moto that passed you was a moto dop because they desperately needed the money for the family.

The point is, to my mind, most people were poor. Dirt poor. In the city one can only imagine that people got by, through helping each other out. This state must have gone on since the Vietnamese invasion. (?)

By 2009, only 3 years later, these same neighbors who had the right connections were now becoming quite wealthy whilst the less connected were not.

[Khmer440 link removed.]

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+10 for Shitsville - waiting for someone down there to explain how this cunt is a "good bloke" now....
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John Bingham wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:
Anchor Moy wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:Oh! to be young and clueless again. Those were happy days.
I reckon. He's just left North America and hey, he's discovered that PP is more amazing than Vegas, after a smoke or a pizza, whatever. It's a video for his friends back home - and he's just "wowing". (He just got here; he'll learn that he should wear a shirt. )

Otherwise, it reminds me of the "wonder" of those first days in Cambodia. It's clueless, but hey, if you had filmed your first moments in the KOW, how do you think you would come across ?? Huh ?
I remember my first day - with jetlag and the arrival, it was a total trip. Fantastic and spacey and so happy. One of the best days of my life maybe... discovering Cambodia and rediscovering SEA. :Yahoo!:
I remember my first day here also. There were no lights anywhere, hardly any businesses open after dark. I saw a dead guy in the street in one of the side roads off the riverside. And there was a muddy patch along the river side where I was told that people went to pick up the younger girls.
Of course the other board denies knowing anything about it. :dm: :thumb:

Seriously, you are going to bring that up again? Don't you understand that many here were here before, during and after the fanciful events you described? Don't you have any shame? Here it is, let others decide what they think.
Posted in 2014, this is a description of the riverside in 2006:
JSP/SCC wrote:Is Cambodia On the Brink of a Civilian Uprising?
(As I See It or A Layman’s View)

Those that have been here long enough will remember how most people lived in Cambodia 8 + years ago.

PP city was a dark one at night. Riverside, a stretch of mud. Dead bodies lying in the streets at night were not so uncommon. Shoot outs in the city center. Every man on a moto that passed you was a moto dop because they desperately needed the money for the family.

The point is, to my mind, most people were poor. Dirt poor. In the city one can only imagine that people got by, through helping each other out. This state must have gone on since the Vietnamese invasion. (?)

By 2009, only 3 years later, these same neighbors who had the right connections were now becoming quite wealthy whilst the less connected were not.

[Khmer440 link removed.]

:lol:
Pissing contest :beer3: .

I came to PP even before that article; still had no urge to walk around shirt-less and film myself with an 8mm camera or whatever was in vogue at the time.
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Check this out. He's walking up to Independence Monument.
Sean Chance wrote:Right over there, that's the Independence Monument. Back in the 1700s, I think, it was completely destroyed by the Khmer Rooouge... some fucked up French shit or something..


How fucking dumb can you get?
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^^
@Clueless Shaun, That's pretty sad Shaun. I hope you don't get the job, so you can then move on to distant shores.

Adios Shorn.
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Username Taken wrote:^^
@Clueless Shaun, That's pretty sad Shaun. I hope you don't get the job, so you can then move on to distant shores.

Adios Shorn.
He's already moved on to a $100 apartment in Snookie. Where I would imagine he fits in just fine with the dregs of humanity; all he needs to do now is batter someone to death so we can hear about what a top chap he is and how he's just misunderstood. Though I suspect him and "No Joke" will eventually make their fortunes with each other in Cambodia's first white gay porn industry...
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John Bingham wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:
Anchor Moy wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:Oh! to be young and clueless again. Those were happy days.
I reckon. He's just left North America and hey, he's discovered that PP is more amazing than Vegas, after a smoke or a pizza, whatever. It's a video for his friends back home - and he's just "wowing". (He just got here; he'll learn that he should wear a shirt. )

Otherwise, it reminds me of the "wonder" of those first days in Cambodia. It's clueless, but hey, if you had filmed your first moments in the KOW, how do you think you would come across ?? Huh ?
I remember my first day - with jetlag and the arrival, it was a total trip. Fantastic and spacey and so happy. One of the best days of my life maybe... discovering Cambodia and rediscovering SEA. :Yahoo!:
I remember my first day here also. There were no lights anywhere, hardly any businesses open after dark. I saw a dead guy in the street in one of the side roads off the riverside. And there was a muddy patch along the river side where I was told that people went to pick up the younger girls.
Of course the other board denies knowing anything about it. :dm: :thumb:

Seriously, you are going to bring that up again? Don't you understand that many here were here before, during and after the fanciful events you described? Don't you have any shame? Here it is, let others decide what they think.
Posted in 2014, this is a description of the riverside in 2006:
JSP/SCC wrote:Is Cambodia On the Brink of a Civilian Uprising?
(As I See It or A Layman’s View)

Those that have been here long enough will remember how most people lived in Cambodia 8 + years ago.

PP city was a dark one at night.

Riverside, a stretch of mud. Dead bodies lying in the streets at night were not so uncommon. Shoot outs in the city center. Every man on a moto that passed you was a moto dop because they desperately needed the money for the family.

The point is, to my mind, most people were poor. Dirt poor. In the city one can only imagine that people got by, through helping each other out. This state must have gone on since the Vietnamese invasion. (?)

By 2009, only 3 years later, these same neighbors who had the right connections were now becoming quite wealthy whilst the less connected were not.

[Khmer440 link removed.]

:lol:
:lol: Well , seeing as you have brought it up (in your chicken soup)
PP city was a dark one at night.


True or not?
Riverside, a stretch of mud
My bad lol . Although the bit from riverside down towards the docks was, or seemed to be to me, back then. I never looked to find out. It didn't look very inviting. Perhaps it was just a patch of mud stretching off into the distance as the last street lamp faded out looking down the path. Anyhow this bit is an old joke for me. And the real reason for mentioning it at all :D
Dead bodies lying in the streets at night were not so uncommon.
Well I saw one. I did say bodies though. :o I remember somebody else mentioning he stepped over a dead body going to the toilet around that time in that thread. That's more shocking.
Shoot outs in the city center.
When I was here that first time in 2002, there was a massive shoot out on , was it 66?, the street that had all the (seemingly) Khmer brothels on it. The 2 condom jobs? Anyhow, I remember reading in the Daily that there had been a huge shoot out between pimps? and police the very next night. At least six people got shot.
I remember that being a crazy street, but I only went there once. It was full-on when I was there. Exiting.
Every man on a moto that passed you was a moto dop because they desperately needed the money for the family.
I swear in those days if I put my hand out, a guy on a Daelim would stop and offer me a ride instantly. Maybe there were an excess of moto dops around in those days, or maybe anyone would try there luck if they saw a foreigner with bags. I'm going for the later. I don't know if your saying that there was no poverty in PP in those days because of UNTAC bringing in the dollar economy or what, but I saw a lot of poverty. I can't remember if it was as desperate as India, but it was pretty bad. I don't know, perhaps they were hiding all their wealth.

Anyhow, that was all a long and I admit badly written post.

But I seem to remember it was all about this
The point is, to my mind, most people were poor. Dirt poor. In the city one can only imagine that people got by, through helping each other out. This state must have gone on since the Vietnamese invasion. (?)
And this
By 2009, only 3 years later, these same neighbours who had the right connections were now becoming quite wealthy whilst the less connected were not.

Unfair enough you might think, but on top of it all you have the “mud legs” mentality to consider.

This is where a poor person makes good and starts to lord it over everyone lower than them, worse than someone who is born into money. I myself would probably be quite livid.

E.g. my neighbor, who for the last 20 odd years has been at exactly the same level as me is now talking to me as if I were a piece of dirt or, even worse, ignoring me completely. (Is it possible?)

Add to that the large (and not so large) foreign companies that do deals with the government that are seen to be robbing them of the ability for any of the new wealth to enter their pockets.

Land grabbing: I heard a story that someone with power sticks a sign up on a piece of land that’s not even theirs and later another similar guy drives past and sticks his own for sale sign on top. That’s above what I’ve read in the papers about land grabs.

Wages: In the textile factories linked to government tax at 100% for the company owners.
I have had it confirmed by 3 sources, all Khmer. Is it true?

Even if it isn’t that’s not important. What’s important is if the greater population thinks it is. So the question should always be “Do most people think that it’s true?”

There are in fact so many things that most people in Cambodia seem to be seriously pissed off about that there might well be internal tensions rising.

I think it’s true to say that if people had had more faith in the CNRP (or anybody else, all they want is change) as a real challenge to power, then more people would have voted and probably a landslide victory would have been had?

If the CNRP are now working in the government …

Will the people wait?

It’s possible that all it really needs is a heroic popular person, completely outside of the political sphere, to talk the talk that the people really want to hear to maybe tip the balance.

Before the people were sick of war and poverty – food, freedom, family, and stability is, I believe, what they craved.

Now they have had, not so much of a taste, but a view of what money can buy.

These items and the lifestyles they conceptualize, the drugs of capitalism, are a powerful force.

Are people sick of waiting?
Thse were points I was making about how Cambodians may feel about things 2 years ago.

As I say, it was very badly written and I just brought it up now as a laugh. At my expense of course.
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so this "top bloke" or "good bloke" where is it from?
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SinnSisamouth wrote:so this "top bloke" or "good bloke" where is it from?
I am relieved to say he hails from Toronto, Canada.
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