Dumb Stuff Foreigners in Cambodia Say Thread
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In an effort to sound cute, "I am only in Cambodia for the temples."
Also, "Phnom Penh was a different place back then."
You know who you are
Also, "Phnom Penh was a different place back then."
You know who you are
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CUM-EYE440Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 5:22 pmThis thread only underscores what a bunch of twats we all are.
Age quod agis.
Not just for slurs!
Where are those t-shirts?
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I am sooooo very sorry if you can't understand or appreciate my sarcastic facetiousness.
Was it by john Betjemen or Pam Ayers?Alexandra wrote:What is that poem about the man that travels to the prettiest places and finds everything bad because everywhere he goes there he is?
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Somnang pranking tourists with his old 'sparrow' trick again.
https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2020/ ... s-culture/Then there’s the food, which Draime said, “can be very good and it can also be very …interesting.”
Draime recalled when he and his sister were invited to a home-cooked meal by his tuk-tuk driver named Somnang.
“We were treated to a very nice, non-controversial meal,” Draime said. “But for dessert, Somnang brought out a plate of fried crickets.”
The same driver also ordered his own favorite dish: Deep-friend sparrows.
“Not my favorite,” Draime said, grateful that “tourism has exploded and there are now dozens of new restaurants serving every kind of cuisine imaginable … and several Starbucks.”
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Cambodians ride better than most white people.
Shops charge double or more for imported items because the importers have to pay more for the goods because they're only supplying a small market.
Inflation is around 3%.
I am not paranoid.
Shops charge double or more for imported items because the importers have to pay more for the goods because they're only supplying a small market.
Inflation is around 3%.
I am not paranoid.
Up the workers!
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Neither. It was Ernest Hemingway in one of his novels.
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I think you may be referring to this:
Song of the Open Road
BY WALT WHITMAN
1
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer,
I know they are very well where they are,
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,
I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,
I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return.)
2
You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
I believe that much unseen is also here.
Here the profound lesson of reception, nor preference nor denial,
The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas’d, the illiterate person, are not denied;
The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar’s tramp, the drunkard’s stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
The escaped youth, the rich person’s carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,
They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.
3
You air that serves me with breath to speak!
You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to me.
(I've never been a tremendous fan of Mr Whitman's, although he can conjure up some absolute gems of lines.)
Whole poem here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... -open-road
'History is a set of lies agreed upon.'
Attributed to Napoleon
Attributed to Napoleon
Do you happen to recall which? I've read all his novels and don't recall it. Admittedly I was a teenager when I got that one out of my system. Sounds more like a short story than a novel.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:35 pm
Neither. It was Ernest Hemingway in one of his novels.
Not having a dig, just curious to know.
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
slavedog wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 7:41 pmDo you happen to recall which? I've read all his novels and don't recall it. Admittedly I was a teenager when I got that one out of my system. Sounds more like a short story than a novel.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:35 pm
Neither. It was Ernest Hemingway in one of his novels.
Not having a dig, just curious to know.
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises.
The largely autobiographical account of expat life in Paris and Spain
Ok, I don't remember that as being a theme, but as I say, long time ago.
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
slavedog wrote:Ok, I don't remember that as being a theme, but as I say, long time ago.
It wasn’t a major theme. Just a passing comment made by the Hemingway character to another expat:
"'Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.'"
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Thank you. Now I think about it one could say that 'escape' was an underlying theme. I don't think I've ever re-read any Hemmingway, I rarely read a novel a second time, but I'd quite like to reread this one.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 12:19 amslavedog wrote:Ok, I don't remember that as being a theme, but as I say, long time ago.
It wasn’t a major theme. Just a passing comment made by the Hemingway character to another expat:
"'Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.'"
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TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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