Has a Cambodian ever said something that stopped your in your tracks or made your jaw drop?

Ghostwriter · Post by **Ghostwriter** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 2:46 am

I liké candid questions such as " do you have clouds in your country" which was asked to me once...
Not dumb, not reeking anything except of peaceful curiosity (it was an old man in the countryside) and lack of this information somehow.

I found it quite poetic and timeless, and i wait for questions like this from oldies & kids.

Sometimes people also pretend to do not know to test us a bit, and we wrongly assume their lack of culture.

Pseudonomdeplume · Post by **Pseudonomdeplume** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 3:25 am

Cambodians have a similar thread on their forum.
The posts are things like, "A Westerner, drinking in my bar, said he only had a little bit of money, so couldn't buy me a drink. They spend the last of their money in a bar!" and
"... and they always ask if I want to go home with them. I think, 'Oh yeah, I woke up this morning thinking, Today, I hope I meet an ugly old fat whitey, that stinks of cigarettes and booze, and can't even get a lady his own age back home, and then he asks me if I want to go home with him.' I want to say, 'It's everything I have got, to hold back a vomit at the thought of it.'
No I don't want that. I want the money at the end. Then you won't see me for the dust, Camel-breath."

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You sing it sister! Respect!

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:59 pm

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:58 am
John Bingham wrote:I remember how you went out of your way to meet educated people while you were holidaying here. ACE? That place you spent months complaining about? Great idea, TEFL and IELTS are the way to go...
Everyone is educated in their own way. The villagers know how to survive everything and live on nothing (at least to me).

ACE taught Australian. Football pitches, Beetroot, queuing, stuff that doesn’t exist in the US. However, it did provide a western education along with teaching English. People did land on the moon, for example. The students there had to debate the worldwide obesity epidemic (only seeing morbidly obese westerners in Phnom Penh as reference). As well as practical western customs, like going to the airport and getting on an airplane. This was actually super useful as several Khmer depended on her to lead the way on the flight to the US.

Again you show how you don't know the difference between a language center and a school with a full curriculum.

Spigzy · Post by **Spigzy** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 1:42 pm

Pseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 3:25 am Cambodians have a similar thread on their forum.
The posts are things like, "A Westerner, drinking in my bar, said he only had a little bit of money, so couldn't buy me a drink. They spend the last of their money in a bar!" and
"... and they always ask if I want to go home with them. I think, 'Oh yeah, I woke up this morning thinking, Today, I hope I meet an ugly old fat whitey, that stinks of cigarettes and booze, and can't even get a lady his own age back home, and then he asks me if I want to go home with him.' I want to say, 'It's everything I have got, to hold back a vomit at the thought of it.'
No I don't want that. I want the money at the end. Then you won't see me for the dust, Camel-breath."

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You sing it sister! Respect!

Need a link to that forum, it sounds hilarious!

atst · Post by **atst** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:41 am

John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:55 pm
atst wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:10 pm Tried checking if the door is locked by pushing the door, now that did make my day.
To me that's normal. How do you go about checking if doors are locked or not?

Try checking the handle if it turns or not, not palm push on the door, sorry I didn't explain it clear enough.

Big Daikon · Post by **Big Daikon** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:44 am

Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 2:46 am I liké candid questions such as " do you have clouds in your country" which was asked to me once...
Not dumb, not reeking anything except of peaceful curiosity (it was an old man in the countryside) and lack of this information somehow.

I found it quite poetic and timeless, and i wait for questions like this from oldies & kids.

Sometimes people also pretend to do not know to test us a bit, and we wrongly assume their lack of culture.

I've had Japanese people ask me if we have rice in the US or how many seasons we have. The questions took me by surprise but I answered them truthfully and respectfully.

"Peaceful curiosity" is a nice choice of words.

Post by **Freightdog** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:09 am

atst wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:41 am
John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:55 pm
atst wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:10 pm Tried checking if the door is locked by pushing the door, now that did make my day.
To me that's normal. How do you go about checking if doors are locked or not?
Try checking the handle if it turns or not, not palm push on the door, sorry I didn't explain it clear enough.

Again, It’s a curious thing, and I wonder if some of these aren’t simply lost in translation.

First of all, our idea of privacy is a concept which is difficult to get across to some folk where a very communal lifestyle exists.
I’ve had to take to Locking doors and even ban some visitors simply because they can’t conceive of why the door is closed, and why they should not enter, or should knock and wait (or fuck off until I’m not busy)

I haven’t checked, but colloquially, do people use closed as locked, interchangeably? I’ve noticed a few times that SWMBO and some others have said closed when she means the padlock. Closed, and closed with the lock.

I have to give some latitude in the use of English, where the local use of the native language can be a bit casual.

violet · Post by **violet** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:18 am

atst wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:41 am
John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:55 pm
atst wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:10 pm Tried checking if the door is locked by pushing the door, now that did make my day.
To me that's normal. How do you go about checking if doors are locked or not?
Try checking the handle if it turns or not, not palm push on the door, sorry I didn't explain it clear enough.

Maybe generally in life she encounters a door where she does push on it, and on this occasion she was on autopilot. It does happen

hdgh29 · Post by **hdgh29** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 3:44 pm

rozzieoz wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:08 pm This thread reeks of privilege.
Mocking people because they don't have the same education as you is disgusting.

Did you actually explain why the balloon doesn't rise or did you just mock and act like a superior douche?

Nothing wrong with a bit of mocking mate, and the khmer are experts at that, with us mostly as targets. No different to jokes about the Irish, or Poms, kiwis or whatever. It's not usually mean spirited, just a laugh at someone else's expense, so perhaps you need to review you virtue signaling to use where it may be more appropriate.

newkidontheblock · Post by **newkidontheblock** » Thu Jul 07, 2022 3:07 am

Big Daikon wrote: I've had Japanese people ask me if we have rice in the US or how many seasons we have. The questions took me by surprise but I answered them truthfully and respectfully.

"Peaceful curiosity" is a nice choice of words.

Be glad you aren’t black then. The Japanese locals would be wanting to touch you (to make sure it isn’t paint) and your hair (to see if those are real braids) all day long.

Although there is an ‘actress’ called Black Gal there. She actually isn’t black, just a very tanned Japanese woman.

Anyways, back on topic, sorry for the diversion.

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