My laptop shit itself last week so I had to use a few internet cafes around the city for the stuff my phone couldn't do. What a hub of activity these joints are....but not for checking emails or any work related business. First, you have to be able to actually get to use one of the PC's. Even if some weren't being used, I was getting the old statue of liberty torch, holding 'wrist twist' (ot yul...not understand). One dodgy looking joint, with plenty of empty seats, before I even opened my mouth, I got a double, two handed wrist twist. WTF is a two handed one?....never had one of them before. I took it as 'No Barangs allowed'.
They are cheap to use...2000 riel per hour, which then you pay them, just gets tossed into the chicken feed money pile, right next to the large stacks of $100's and $50's. Back to the money in a sec.
Walking to your seat you get to hear a lot of clicking of the mouse going on. Users minimizing the screen and pretending they are watching something else. The other users, are the ones on gambling sites and they don't even notice you (or care) as you walk past. I've clicked search history all the PC's I have used and it's basically four things of interest to Khmer males using these cafes. Online gambling, porn, Khmer movies and facebook. In that order.
Half of the PC's, a search isn't even required. Some users don't shut down chrome properly..so when chrome restores...up comes all the sites that the previous user was visiting. My hot girlfriend.com seems to be one of the most popular. Bukakke party.com is another. Face-book is often there..most of them still logged in to...(sweet Jesus I have been tempted, especially if Chith Pathy or whoever has been watching porn as well). So many khmer face-book accounts don't get logged out of...the g-mail ones are never logged off....straight to 'Chith Pathy's inbox. Anyway, back to the boxes. Trying to x out of My hot girlfriend.com is useless. It takes me back to the nineties when I might have ''accidentally' typed in porn on my dial up browser at the time. I'm sure many of you can relate to these accidental typos of that era. Then, you hear the wife or girlfriend in the driveway or opening the front door and try to click out of the porn site you mistakenly got lead to. A hundred furious clicks but with Ron Jeremy still in your face and it's time to shut the whole PC down.
It's pop up porn city in these cafes. The ad blockers don't work. My hot girlfriend is starting to wear a little thin. Yeah, sure she's hot on all fours like that, but a little distracting when you are trying to work and any click of the mouse to a link you need....and you get re-directed to her. Tabs pop up even if you haven't touched a key or the mouse. So, not a lot of admin or clean up work is done on these machines. Be warned....or enjoy if you ever need to use one of these cafes.
Baccarat and Roulette is the main attraction in these cafes. A shitload of money is changing hands here...hence the stack of hundreds they keep for payouts. All the Khmer men seem to have accounts, they just pay the cashier, quote their account and sit down at the nominated PC. It looks like the cafes take a percentage of the buy in. I watched a guy get paid out at least 5 grand...I was counting the notes as best I could. I see now why some of them didn't want me using one of their computers at 2000 riel per hour. It's obviously financially better for them to sit down a Khmer punter. I've seen plenty of them buying in at mouy roy dollars multiple times.
I have a new lap top so won't need to use these cafes anymore. My best advice to any of you if you need to use them at any time....just avoid the toilets. Apart from the standard head banging doorway the floors are suspiciously sticky.
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I wouldn't fancy betting big in a place with slow, virus riddled computers using a Digi connection shared between 25 people.
How many hands are lost due to slow connections/frozen computers?!?
Also the dirty pics on the next computer could well take your focus at a critical moment.
I don't really understand the gambling business model for the Internet cafes though. Why would you use an Internet cafe when you could do it from your smartphone?
How many hands are lost due to slow connections/frozen computers?!?
Also the dirty pics on the next computer could well take your focus at a critical moment.
I don't really understand the gambling business model for the Internet cafes though. Why would you use an Internet cafe when you could do it from your smartphone?
Chris K wrote:My laptop shit itself last week so I had to use a few internet cafes around the city for the stuff my phone couldn't do. What a hub of activity these joints are.......................................................................
.......................Apart from the standard head banging doorway the floors are suspiciously sticky.
did you get offered a game of cards from some Pinoy freak after you walked out the door?
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I used internet cafes the first 2 years I was here, 2004-5.
One Sunday morning, I went to my usual venue in St. 278 at about 10 am. I was directed to a booth, where the screen was already showing the home page of some kind of incest website, which was featuring kiddy porn clips.
I showed it to the attendant and asked who had been using the booth before me. She just shrugged her shoulders. About a fortnight later, Henning and his accomplices were arrested in a high profile pedo bust in the same street. Coincidence?
My students tell me many internet venues have closed because of addicted gamers losing their cool and smashing up equipment and each other in fits of pique.
One Sunday morning, I went to my usual venue in St. 278 at about 10 am. I was directed to a booth, where the screen was already showing the home page of some kind of incest website, which was featuring kiddy porn clips.
I showed it to the attendant and asked who had been using the booth before me. She just shrugged her shoulders. About a fortnight later, Henning and his accomplices were arrested in a high profile pedo bust in the same street. Coincidence?
My students tell me many internet venues have closed because of addicted gamers losing their cool and smashing up equipment and each other in fits of pique.
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Nothing better than downloading a bunch of porn in a internet cafe. Maybe not PC but hey see it from my POV.
My posts are just jokes, maybe they're rude, offensive, and politically incorrect. They're not my opinion, viewpoint, idea, or judgement, but they're just fucking jokes so lighten up.
Haha, Playboy may like to change your rank to 'Fluffer First Class' for that effort.
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