So, LTO is a local?Lucky Lucan wrote:And, just so you know, Brown is owned by locals, and the vast majority of its patrons are also locals.
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- Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:53 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: tourist areas and khmers over charging
- Replies: 159
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- Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:52 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: tourist areas and khmers over charging
- Replies: 159
- Views: 20713
Re: tourist areas and khmers over charging
Never mind LTO, this poor, old, crippled, KR survivor, woman in her deep, grinding, helpless poverty just made 2000 off Mr.K for 2 cups of locally flavored water... Mocking the Cambodian poor now? Very unbecoming. Actually, I was mocking you and your emotional rhetoric. Dropping cash on a vendor fo...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:10 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: tourist areas and khmers over charging
- Replies: 159
- Views: 20713
Re: tourist areas and khmers over charging
Whether knobber has 'hit bottom' in Cambodia or not, nor how poor he thinks of himself, it would not affect this woman's perception of him nor my analysis of the situation. It is quite beside the point: And then comes along knobber, a comparatively rich foreigner who flew in from another country - ...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:00 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: tourist areas and khmers over charging
- Replies: 159
- Views: 20713
Re: tourist areas and khmers over charging
Now that you're penniless in one of the poorest countries on earth, unable to get home, reduced to complaining about being charged for tea after eating a 3000 riel meal in a fly-infested street cafe in Battambang, and reduced to working for food and board, don't you ever sit back and think: "Wow, I...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:47 am
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: A Question of Retribution
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7214
Re: A Question of Retribution
http://natethayer.typepad.com/blog/1991/11/ Khmer Rouge leader returns, is beaten by Cambodian mob November 27, 1991 | Nate Thayer Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia An angry mob screaming "Dog!" and "Murderer!" today surged past police and beat a top leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Communist guer...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:18 am
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: tourist areas and khmers over charging
- Replies: 159
- Views: 20713
Re: tourist areas and khmers over charging
Knobber may well have flown in, but he may well be struggling now. You don't know. Maybe he's from a poor South American country and isn't getting western coin. Not a sensible thing to say. Far too one sided in my opinion. Unless your suggesting that South Americans shouldn't travel in Cambodia unl...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:38 am
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: A Question of Retribution
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7214
Re: A Question of Retribution
When I confused and quizzically asked, ‘ why does nobody do anything to him ’, I was told, ‘ Before he was a bad man, but now he is good, he goes to the pagoda a lot ’ Perhaps that was more about power. What do you think would have happened to the family/ families that had attacked him. Fear and th...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:22 am
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: Capital Punishment Poll
- Replies: 201
- Views: 20077
Re: Capital Punishment Poll
I used to be 50/50 about the death penalty until a personal incident happened to a loved one regarding smack. Paedo's and premed murderers are in the same boat for me. Mind set changes when it's close to home. It does seem like your lumping people into categories which such strong conclusions at st...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:58 am
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: A Question of Retribution
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7214
Re: A Question of Retribution
If there exists a recent and proven capacity for violence on the sort of scale that occurred 40 years ago, it follows that there should be some sort of seismic, retributive answer to the violence as the pendulum returns to equilibrium. But there wasn't. Where did that reactionary violence go? Redir...
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:02 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: UNTAC blog
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5373
Re: UNTAC blog
Hmmmmm.The seating area of the unassuming restaurant spilled out onto the sidewalk through two open sides stopping just short of the muddy curbs
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:57 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: tourist areas and khmers over charging
- Replies: 159
- Views: 20713
Re: tourist areas and khmers over charging
I think his point was that your average honest Khmer really doesn't care if a shopkeeper charges you an extra 1000 riel for vegetables. I've met honest Khmers, I've never heard any of them lament the plight of Westerners being charge more for goods and services. Yes, that's what I thought as well, ...
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:58 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: tourist areas and khmers over charging
- Replies: 159
- Views: 20713
Re: tourist areas and khmers over charging
The more important question is how did you end up in Cambodia without a return ticket or the wherewithal to make an escape back home when things go bad. You obviously had the resources to come to this part of the world. Didn't you think about keeping some cash back to return? He did have enough unt...
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:47 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: 2 Destitute Brits Sleeping Rough Outside Embassy
- Replies: 2368
- Views: 257614
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...Charles has derailed my post from this morning by revealing more news about the two on this thread. Interesting. Like the availability of accurate info would not work to his advantage, perhaps even to his disadvantage. I don't know, and certainly not in the way you mean. I'm just erring on the s...
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:29 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: 2 Destitute Brits Sleeping Rough Outside Embassy
- Replies: 2368
- Views: 257614
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What I'm saying is anyone who lives in PP can pop down there and see how he is doing. They are then free to post on here. Fairly obvious really. Scooby seemed to forget that though.epidemiks wrote:So what you're saying, SCC, is: /thread
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