He sent it to me and asked if I’d post it. It’s certainly not the most eloquent piece ever written, but I did like that it was a different expeirience than “I fell in love with a bar girl, should I trust her?” And for better or worse, it gets you lot talking about it.DetroitMuscle wrote:Migs, did you actually pay him to write this?
Give Pedro a bottle of Whiskey and a hard promise to buy a few dozen quail eggs and get him to write something.
Eating Scorpions: Pitfalls of the Cambodian Dating Culture
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I've unfortunately met several of these self proclaimed pick up artists around the world, in the end they usually just end up paying for it anyways as they quickly get shut down by more respectable women. Or, the men end up getting frustrated by not getting any and go the same route as the YouTube jackass on the other thread blaming everyone else but themselves or their own attitudes.
Know thyself.
Know thyself.
Just that every tosser that comes through insists that the girl that they met isn't a hooker, and just because the girl that can speak English tells you that she learned it by working in a fancy hotel doesn't mean she didn't learn it turning tricks at Rose Bar.gavinmac wrote:backhome wrote:God that was fucking stupid. Of course she's a hooker. Come on - she works in a fancy hotel in Phnom Penh? How many of those are there? Give us a break. Your story happens a million times a day to every tosser hitting the tourist sites in PP.
I haven't heard of many hookers who work at fancy hotels.
I also haven't heard of many hookers who refuse to go to a guy's hotel room on the grounds that they are not prostitutes.
Why is it so hard to believe he chatted up a non-hooker? They do exist, and a few of them do talk to white guys I hear.
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What about his story makes you thing the woman was a hooker? Because she spoke to a white man and agreed to date him?
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Sorry big boss, I don't value your input here. You bought a dying website that others built and made good that now sucks. The article sucked, and so does most of the shit that you post, in a futile effort to draw hits to a site so few visit these days. All the homepage articles are either inaccurate or out of date or uninteresting.Miguelito wrote:backhome wrote:God that was fucking stupid. Of course she's a hooker. Come on - she works in a fancy hotel in Phnom Penh? How many of those are there? Give us a break. Your story happens a million times a day to every tosser hitting the tourist sites in PP.
Sorry trying to refrain from ad hominem - referring to content and general interest level of the site.
Backhome, I'll join Gavinmac in asking what in the story makes you do sure the girl is a hooker.
Is that because in your extensive experience most girls you met who were working in posh hotels were moonlighting as hookers, or because in general any Cambodian woman can be bought? ( I think you married one at some stage so I suppose you know ?)
Is that because in your extensive experience most girls you met who were working in posh hotels were moonlighting as hookers, or because in general any Cambodian woman can be bought? ( I think you married one at some stage so I suppose you know ?)
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Wondering toologos wrote:Backhome, I'll join Gavinmac in asking what in the story makes you do sure the girl is a hooker.
Is that because in your extensive experience most girls you met who were working in posh hotels were moonlighting as hookers, or because in general any Cambodian woman can be bought? ( I think you married one at some stage so I suppose you know ?)
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So much for "refraining" from ad hominem, as you totally were!
Mig isn't even "my man", but who the fuck you think are you?
Your turf here? Don't like it? Get the fuck outta here, asshole
Sorry big boss, I don't value your input here. You bought a dying website that others built and made good that now sucks. The article sucked, and so does most of the shit that you post, in a futile effort to draw hits to a site so few visit these days. All the homepage articles are either inaccurate or out of date or uninteresting.
Sorry trying to refrain from ad hominem - referring to content and general interest level of the site.
So much for "refraining" from ad hominem, as you totally were!
Mig isn't even "my man", but who the fuck you think are you?
Your turf here? Don't like it? Get the fuck outta here, asshole
Ma siamo in crisi ma,
senza andare in là
l'America è qua.
We like to keep our fire engines clean.
senza andare in là
l'America è qua.
We like to keep our fire engines clean.
Where do you see any ad hom in his post?straight jacked alt wrote:6Sorry big boss, I don't value your input here. You bought a dying website that others built and made good that now sucks. The article sucked, and so does most of the shit that you post, in a futile effort to draw hits to a site so few visit these days. All the homepage articles are either inaccurate or out of date or uninteresting.
Sorry trying to refrain from ad hominem - referring to content and general interest level of the site.
So much for "refraining" from ad hominem, as you totally were!
Mig isn't even "my man", but who the fuck you think are you?
Your turf here? Don't like it? Get the fuck outta here, asshole
Nothing was said to attack Migs as a person. All that was said was about Migs' actions and the quality of published articles and the vacuous content of posts.
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Really?
Would he have had to say ad verbatim: Mig, you suck!
in order for it to be ad hominem?
Would he have had to say ad verbatim: Mig, you suck!
in order for it to be ad hominem?
Ma siamo in crisi ma,
senza andare in là
l'America è qua.
We like to keep our fire engines clean.
senza andare in là
l'America è qua.
We like to keep our fire engines clean.
I don't even think the girl exists. The writing is so generic, we don't get enough details that would give a sense of authenticity to his story.gavinmac wrote:What about his story makes you thing the woman was a hooker? Because she spoke to a white man and agreed to date him?
He doesn't tell where he met her, he doesn't give more background about her, deep fried crickets don't taste like chicken wings, there is no instances of the particular quirks of Cambodians that would make this account believable, and we don't know how that dating episode ends.
And that was awfully, awfully written (I said that already).
Telling someone they suck is not an ad hom.straight jacked alt wrote:Really?
Would he have had to say ad verbatim: Mig, you suck!
in order for it to be ad hominem?
Telling someone they are terrible business people is not an ad hom.
Telling someone they make awful choices at publishing articles is not an ad hom.
Telling someone "you're a fucking Armenian zionist lovely, lovely man and you suck" is.
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I would presume that he is either engaged to or already married to the woman in his story, and enjoying a daily fry-up of scorpions, one of the main staples in Cambodia.Joon wrote:I don't even think the girl exists. The writing is so generic, we don't get enough details that would give a sense of authenticity to his story.gavinmac wrote:What about his story makes you thing the woman was a hooker? Because she spoke to a white man and agreed to date him?
He doesn't tell where he met her, he doesn't give more background about her, deep fried crickets don't taste like chicken wings, there is no instances of the particular quirks of Cambodians that would make this account believable, and we don't know how that dating episode ends.
And that was awfully, awfully written (I said that already).
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I don’t think Harold had ever called me a lovely, lovely man...Joon wrote:Telling someone they suck is not an ad hom.straight jacked alt wrote:Really?
Would he have had to say ad verbatim: Mig, you suck!
in order for it to be ad hominem?
Telling someone they are terrible business people is not an ad hom.
Telling someone they make awful choices at publishing articles is not an ad hom.
Telling someone "you're a fucking Armenian zionist lovely, lovely man and you suck" is.
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