A beautiful insult Londo old chap - reminds me of Lucky Lucan at his best. Sadly Pecanead is nothing like you imagine him.Londo wrote:You fuckin' idiot.Pecahead wrote:Every day I wake up I silently give thanks that I was not born as someone who could not afford more than a bed in a dorm room. That really is the lowest you can fall as a backpacker.
You sound like someone who has spent his whole life chained to society and the pursuit of a gold watch, got his eight pound fifty after forty years service, thought about his two failed marriages, watched a youtube video and thought "that's a bit of me, I'll go to Phnom Penh", can name forty capital cities off the top off his head but has only been to two, and thinks he's a man of the world.
Some of the best fuckin' characters, friends, inspirations, story tellers, wise fuckin' straight up good people I've met were those snoring above or below the bunk I slept in, in Guatemala, Glasgow or Gidgegannup.
I say again in case you missed it.
You fuckin' idiot!!
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Especially when you consider the cost for a cheap individual room. I couldn't fathom sleeping bunched together with backpackers in a shared room, just to save $5 or so.Pecahead wrote:Every day I wake up I silently give thanks that I was not born as someone who could not afford more than a bed in a dorm room. That really is the lowest you can fall as a backpacker; looking up at the curb from the gutter. You are just asking for problems when you share sleeping quarters with total strangers.
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scobienz wrote:A beautiful insult Londo old chap - reminds me of Lucky Lucan at his best. Sadly Pecanead is nothing like you imagine him.Londo wrote:You fuckin' idiot.Pecahead wrote:Every day I wake up I silently give thanks that I was not born as someone who could not afford more than a bed in a dorm room. That really is the lowest you can fall as a backpacker.
You sound like someone who has spent his whole life chained to society and the pursuit of a gold watch, got his eight pound fifty after forty years service, thought about his two failed marriages, watched a youtube video and thought "that's a bit of me, I'll go to Phnom Penh", can name forty capital cities off the top off his head but has only been to two, and thinks he's a man of the world.
Some of the best fuckin' characters, friends, inspirations, story tellers, wise fuckin' straight up good people I've met were those snoring above or below the bunk I slept in, in Guatemala, Glasgow or Gidgegannup.
I say again in case you missed it.
You fuckin' idiot!!
Some people meet interesting characters in Bars. But if Londo is happy meeting these people by sharing bunk beds, then so be it….. each to their own
I didn't have any choice in Oz in the 90's. That's all there were - 4 bed, 8 bed, 10 bed etc.GMJS-440 wrote:Especially when you consider the cost for a cheap individual room. I couldn't fathom sleeping bunched together with backpackers in a shared room, just to save $5 or so.Pecahead wrote:Every day I wake up I silently give thanks that I was not born as someone who could not afford more than a bed in a dorm room. That really is the lowest you can fall as a backpacker; looking up at the curb from the gutter. You are just asking for problems when you share sleeping quarters with total strangers.
There were a few "couple" rooms but they were always booked, but where is the fun in that?
It's great waking up and seeing a guys arse bouncing up and down on his bird!
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Fair enough. I'm somewhere in between the range of an old age pensioner and trust fund millennial but I value personal/private space as a top priority. I have already heard a lifetime of stories from strangers on my travels. Don't need to hear any more while trying to get shut eye in a steamy, homoerotic bastion of inebriated and smelly men.Stop tinking so much wrote:scobienz wrote:A beautiful insult Londo old chap - reminds me of Lucky Lucan at his best. Sadly Pecanead is nothing like you imagine him.Londo wrote:You fuckin' idiot.Pecahead wrote:Every day I wake up I silently give thanks that I was not born as someone who could not afford more than a bed in a dorm room. That really is the lowest you can fall as a backpacker.
You sound like someone who has spent his whole life chained to society and the pursuit of a gold watch, got his eight pound fifty after forty years service, thought about his two failed marriages, watched a youtube video and thought "that's a bit of me, I'll go to Phnom Penh", can name forty capital cities off the top off his head but has only been to two, and thinks he's a man of the world.
Some of the best fuckin' characters, friends, inspirations, story tellers, wise fuckin' straight up good people I've met were those snoring above or below the bunk I slept in, in Guatemala, Glasgow or Gidgegannup.
I say again in case you missed it.
You fuckin' idiot!!
Some people meet interesting characters in Bars. But if Londo is happy meeting these people by sharing bunk beds, then so be it….. each to their own
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That was probably Londo...He is always shitty. Oh wait, it wasn't a dorm room.dazle wrote:For my tuppence I still prefer the story of the bloke who shat all over the room in snooky the other year
Don't mention the Giant Panda in the room.
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The only dorm where one isn't either a hobo or an imbecile when sleeping in is called an high altitude mountain shelter.
You could say being shitty "runs" through my family.Marvin wrote: That was probably Londo...He is always shitty.
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I sort of lost the need to stay in dorms after military service. Applies to camping, too. Only when there is absolutely no other way (as BDS: high mountain shelter, some national park in the middle of nowhere). With the rates for basic hotel rooms in this part of the wolrd, I just do not see the need.
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I've stayed in a dorm for a night or two in the mountains of Nepal with some friends, that was fine. We were on a trek together and it was just a room to get stoned in and sleep before the next leg.Hanno wrote: Only when there is absolutely no other way (as BDS: high mountain shelter, some national park in the middle of nowhere). With the rates for basic hotel rooms in this part of the wolrd, I just do not see the need.
Another time in Livingstone with an old friend and some East Germans we met wasn't too cool. Mainly because two morons thought it was a good idea to bring hookers from the local restaurant home. You should have seen the state of these when the Portuguese owner chased them out with his Doberman in the morning. They probably looked ok with heavy beer-goggles and their wigs on, but they looked rough as fuck with their baldy Bantu peppercorn hair in the morning. Anyway, fuck that shit, me and one of the East German lads went out and sat by the pool all night chatting. I'm not at all into being in the same room as people who are fucking, it grosses me out. I got stuck in Neak Loung years back and had to share a double room with about five Khmer friends, that was terrible as well. The room was expensive (maybe $25) considering it was tiny and filthy. It had one of those shitty cracked plastic shower units leaking in the corner, and 24 hour porn on the cable.
I would rather pay for a crap single room and at least have some privacy and security. Like most people when they travel, I have some expensive gear and there's no way I'm sharing a room with some random stranger, nor am I interested in carrying my valuables around all day in case they get robbed from some shitbox shared room.
I think many younger tourists on limited budgets like dorms though for the social aspect, they can party and then all sleep in the same big room together and have a laugh together.
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stayed in a couple dorms when i was a lad. hated it. it always seemed like the other guy was REALLY musty or was farting, snoring, secreting etc. would not mind so much if they were clean, but i guess those types usually stay in their own rooms??? seemed like these guys went out of their way to walk around in drawers without shirts etc. normal dudes just dont do that around other dudes. tended to be european types for some reason, france especially, amsterdam, ukraine etc. really stinky and musty stuff that lights up the whole room.
I hear you.Metal1982 wrote:stayed in a couple dorms when i was a lad. hated it. it always seemed like the other guy was REALLY musty or was farting, snoring, secreting etc. would not mind so much if they were clean, but i guess those types usually stay in their own rooms??? seemed like these guys went out of their way to walk around in drawers without shirts etc. normal dudes just dont do that around other dudes. tended to be european types for some reason, france especially, amsterdam, ukraine etc. really stinky and musty stuff that lights up the whole room.
I backpacked for 2 years in the mid 90s and never once stayed in a hostel. Much of it was spent living in a Toyota hi ace as we traveled from London to Morrocco with a bunch of surfboards in the back . I remember on the way back up we hit Amsterdam and went to check in to a popular huge backpacker hostel and the minute we saw and smelt the bunk rooms we just said "fark that". Cant remember how but we found the "penthouse" ( read ; A shaped attic ) of a centuries old dutch terrace house for about 30 pounds each a night. It was a bitch to walk the tight narrow stairs to about the 7th floor or so but once up there the view over the canals was great. Bought a massive chocolate cake for one of the crew's birthday and it was all a bit messy after that....
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LMFAOthey looked rough as fuck with their baldy Bantu peppercorn hair in the morning.
Quite an evocative turn of phrase
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