atst wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:01 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:42 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:39 am KFH, why did you post this shite?

To watch it get ripped to pieces.

Agree with Doc67 here you have belittled yourself with this post especially after complaining about wendy sorry.

ExPenhMan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 5:10 pm I knew from the first two paragraphs (and UPPER CASE LETTERS) she was building a towering shit house of lies.

'Graph 1: Profound lack of research. Most here know, you can buy toiletries without whitener.
'Graph 2: An astoundingly gross exaggeration of the risks of getting ill, which is pretty damned low. Yet, she portrays life as a daily, even hourly, parade of life-threatening bacterial and viral infections. Instead, you're far more likely to suffer serious injury or die on the roads.

Without delving into how insanely problematic it is that EVERYTHING IN ASIA CONTAINS SKIN WHITENING AGENTS, do you have any idea how infuriating it is not to be able to buy shower gel, moisturiser, or even DEODORANT that doesn’t bleach your skin?

You will always be getting sick, being sick, or recovering from being sick. The food will upset your stomach. The water will upset your stomach (yes, even if you only use it to shower and brush your teeth), and you will get infected cuts that turn into life threatening diseases (ask me how I know).

Anyway, since we've had our fun skewering her attention-whoring, maybe we could just, well, press the eject button.

However, what KFH said before I posted but before I saw it:

Some might argue it better to expose falsehoods rather than leave them unchallenged, the benefit proving generalizations to be an often inaccurate and dangerous representation of many. Isn't it more worthy to be seen by locals demanding truth and standing against this type of misinformation as opposed to looking the other way? You might even gain some respect!

Jezebel wrote:In addition to all of this, Phnom Penh also has a huge problem with organised crime and there are a lot of sex slaves here, including children. Sex slaves in Cambodia are kept in cages, electrocuted and have nails drilled into their skulls if they disobey their traffickers.

Unless you’re actively working with an organisation to help stop this, I don’t understand why anybody would want to spend time in a city where things like this are so commonplace.

Jezebel wrote:In the book ‘Off the Rails in Phnom Penh’ the author describes a brothel known as ‘Kiddy Corner’ by the expats, and you don’t have to spend too much time in Sihanoukville to see men in their sixties walking down the beach holding hands with girls and boys young enough to be their grandchildren.

I stroll down the beach and some people trying to chew on their own faces invite me to sit at their table. We attempt conversation, but I am sober and I am throwing off their vibe. They all shut down and repeat incessantly that they are high on MDMA. I take my leave and move on.

I drink a few cocktails to get with it and speak with the western bartender. He helps me figure out the place while taking care of his munchies, wolfing a bar of chocolate. His teeth are brown, his head shaved on the sides, perky, short dreadlocks growing on the top.

“On this island, you are either high, drunk, sleeping, fucking or on your way to do one of those things…I love chocolate, I love cheese too. I love to take bites from a cheese block and put it back in the fridge, my mum always gets mad at me when I do that at home…”

The group that invited me to sit at the table is now inside a Cambodian owned minimarket, they are touching the fabric of some t-shirts. I walk in and greet them, but they do not recognise me.

“We should all buy presents for each other and wear them now!”

“You are a genius C. I love you!”