Irish and russians have nothing on Colombians, potato-wise. Hell, my city's traditional dish is a fucking potato soup made with 3 different kinds of potato. That is 2 more kinds than you'll ever use.
Colombia and other Latin American countries
Irish and russians have nothing on Colombians, potato-wise. Hell, my city's traditional dish is a fucking potato soup made with 3 different kinds of potato. That is 2 more kinds than you'll ever use.
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Potato soup is actually surprisingly tasty.
are you colombian?Originally Posted by Iratus
he is colombian.
I indeed spawned in this forsaken land on top of south america. If you want to contact the cartels, press one. For communist guerrillas, press two. For Juan Valdez, press three.
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I'm Irish and I don't like potatoes, actually I prefer rice and pasta as a staple food.
i want some coffee
Puerto Rican reject, deep fry it or make sure it has beans.
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Let me tell you guys about Icelandic cuisine
Stop telling people to call me, fucker:
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I'm noticing a distinct lack of choices for hot senoritas.
I found some for yaI'm noticing a distinct lack of choices for hot senoritas.
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Communist guerilla hot senoritas.
And let me tell you, these girls aint gonna let no capitalist dogs get their dirty hands on blue ice.
They look distinctly low-res. I demand the phone system be reprogrammed to point towards this:
http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2010...senoritas.html
Fucking christ, you just launched my dick into orbit.They look distinctly low-res. I demand the phone system be reprogrammed to point towards this:
http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2010...senoritas.html
Blue ice empire squad resting in between ganks.
Good Lord...They look distinctly low-res. I demand the phone system be reprogrammed to point towards this:
http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2010...senoritas.html
Odd, I don't remember seeing you in there:
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I apologize for such a terrible mistake. One gets used to their presence, and often forgets to mention them.I'm noticing a distinct lack of choices for hot senoritas.
Who am I kidding, I can barely study because my university is full of hot females and I can't stop myself from staring with a stream of drool coming out of my mouth... even when we're having terrible weather (read: 80% of the year here in Bogotá) some of them manage to look incredibly hot wrapped in raincoats and scarfs.
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Every day I ask if I can be transferred to our Brazil office. Every. Day.
I brought home a contract with Brazil Telecom and it still wasn't enough. I still don't get why the cartels sell drugs when they have something infinitely more potent and addictive sitting around in bikinis and enjoying the suuuuurgh. And now I need to clean my pants.
I have to admit colombian haz the best looking putas ever, my country is swarmed with them, i have fucked a couple and i can say they are second to none culeando...
i hope you wrap up, please don't add to the gene-pool.
It's cool Riverini, you don't have to lie to us.
we won't think less of you
Poor Riv, even when he tries to be ~one of the boyz~ and tell us about how he banged some chicks, he fails. I'd almost feel sorry for him. If he proofread his articles more, anyway.
Too lazy to quote riv's post but the way he said it reminded me of a 15 year old in the basement furiously jacking off to google image searches while pretending to know what he was talking about when claiming to have banged a chick.
Also, lol at idiots trying to mine blue ice, what did they think was going to happen
hey is nice to see another colombian playing this dreaded game and that is not a horrible pubbie!
Brazil is overrated bro. Just FYI, Bogota is in Colombia, and the Colombian ass and accent are distinctly superior to the Brazilian counterparts. The only downside is if you look you have any kind of wealth and "look like an American tourist" you will run the risk of being kidnapped and ransomed. Usually started off by being seduced/drugged by the hottest bitch you've ever seen before waking up with a pinky missing.
Minus that little snag, if you're able to choose between Colombia and Brazil, I'd go with Colombia. Especially since I'm guessing your Spanish is better than your Portuguese.
Actually, not amymore. Criminals don't kidnap tourists because that usually means a bullet to the brainpan when the police comes to the rescue, so they go to theroute and kidnap middle class locals, because in those cases it's the police that goes
Hell, unless you are a foreign contractor working with the army in the middle of a combat zone (read: a suicidal idiot, like those 3 americans that where rescued a couple years ago), you should be OK. Don't trust the street vendors, tho. They won't rob you, but they are better scammers than the best EVE player.
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If you want to call him out for calling you gay (bringing attention to the fact you're gay) then I'm going to be forced on principle to call you out for doing the same thing in the form of your recent avatars (bringing attention to the fact you're gay).
<3 Don't hate me.
Most of what you said assumes a) Common sense b) that it's daytime.Actually, not amymore. Criminals don't kidnap tourists because that usually means a bullet to the brainpan when the police comes to the rescue, so they go to the
Hell, unless you are a foreign contractor working with the army in the middle of a combat zone (read: a suicidal idiot, like those 3 americans that where rescued a couple years ago), you should be OK. Don't trust the street vendors, tho. They won't rob you, but they are better scammers than the best EVE player.
[spoiler=Wall of Text About Latin America]He's asking about picking up girls, which I am assuming means going to bars, pubs, nightclubs, etc. Places that can be violent in 1st world countries where people don't grow up hearing their grandpas talk about how it's the Americans fault their country is shit. "Yankee Go Home" type shit. Politicians even use this "gringo go home" (See Sandinista) as platforms to gain public appeal.
Sure, you can try and stick to the expensive places to try and weed out undesirables, but even those places aren't totally inaccessible to the people I'm thinking of since they can grease palms of bouncers very easily. Same goes for local police who are notoriously corrupt throughout latin america. In Nicaragua, you can literally get out of almost any traffic infraction (minus running someone over) by greasing up the cop for $C100. That's less than $10. I'm not saying cops won't look for you when your pinky turns up, but don't think they're these infallible beacons of light in white armor that will turn down bribes from local cartels when they make comparable amounts to people who work at McD part time. You're talking about a place where occupations can make less than ~$200 A MONTH. You said yourself, the street vendors and taxi cab drivers will adjust their prices if they see tourist written all over you. That's because they see you differently, and this different view locals have of you due to nationality/money/class/whatever is not always so passively hostile. I spent my high school years in Nicaragua and spoke to the less fortunate people all the time, and the way their demeanor changed when the subject of Americans or 'rich' (aka not lower class) people came up was shocking to say the least.[/spoiler]
Think of it this way, would you go through a ghetto at night in the USA without at least feeling uneasy? Now realize how large a percentage of latin america would be categorized as "ghetto" by Americans'. But then tourists come in and instead of being cautious they walk around in their $100 Nikes like nothing could go wrong if they chose to walk down an unpaved alleyway cause some hot bitch promised to blow them on the other side. You've assumed people have common sense, but we all know common sense isn't common.
All that negative stuff said, if you're good at knowing when you're safe, Latin America in general is an awesome place to party, meet bitches, and act like the aids isn't forever.
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People here is very welcoming to foreigners (sometimes too much), and the "gringo go home" culture never took roots here, partly because we had a shitload more immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries than mesoamerica (hell, I have British, Belgian and Spaniard blood, and I'm pretty par-of-the-course). Colombian grandparents where not telling their kids that the gringos where to blame for their problems, they where naming them "William", "Sneider" and "John" because foreign-sounding names are a symbol of status among the poorest strata of the society. So no, street scammers are not scamming you because you are a tourist, they are scamming you because they try to scam everything that carries a wallet (even me, when I'm having a dumb day). It's easier to think that they are "breaking the rules" because you are not a local, but I can assure you they break them just the same, wether your name is Ronald McDonald or Juan Valdez.
What's "the people you are thinking off"? Cartel members? heh. They tend to love foreigners because of both snobism and because they are their best clients. The days of the stereotypical Escobar druglord are over, and have been gone for years; they now keep a low profile, and for the most part don't even live here, but in the US. Hell, if they want to get into a bar they'll get into a bar without "greasing" the bouncer, because they are no longer the guy with the unbuttoned colorful t-shirt and golden cross tangled in chest hair, but average looking rich guys in a suit... you can usually tell them appart only because their date is so heavily into surgery she looks like a plastic doll.
Overall, my argument is that things have changed since the 90s, and that the image that you usually have of Colombia is that of the war-torn piece of rainforest you see in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (shit movie)... Kind of like going to mexico expecting to find the hellhole that it is now, and finding a nice recovering country. I mean, we're still struggling but things are nowhere near as bad as they are seen from the outside (in most places... others are still savage warzones, but they are obviously not tourist friendly) I was going to link a nice documentary but I don't want to shit up this thread too much.
Let's talk about carebear tears.
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I personally can only speak first hand for Nicaragua. We moved back there "to be closer to family," so I was there for highschool before leaving that shithole to go to college. But from what I have spoken to people during my time there (Colombian, Venezuelan, etc people who moved to Nicaragua) it's not very different. You say it's not the same as it was in the 90's and I'll have to take your word for it since I haven't been back since 2005. I hope the places have turned around in 6 years, but somehow I can't help but think you're bias. My mother tries to convince me to visit saying the same shit about it being different and safer for my very american looking fiance, but Daniel Ortega was elected and positioning himself for an illegal 3rd term. Sounds like the same ol shit to me. I don't know if you know who he is, but the TL;DR is he's basically a wannabe Fidel who literally pins all the country's problems on white american meddlers. His party's song literally has lines like "Death to the yankee" in it.
Come to think of it, maybe I'm bias due my country being a terrible reference point.
But yea, we've veered off subject.
Here's some Salma to appease those we have wronged:
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Ugh. Ortega is a terrible point of reference, I'm afraid. He and Chavez are both dragging the whole continent back with their charades, and giving even more reason to the american gov. to meddle with us. -.-
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I always thought they were a self fulfilling prophecy. Bitch about how America is out to destroy them, takes anti-American actions, ends up being destroyed by America.
Chavez seems to be trying to do it in record time by allowing countries like Iran to build missile bases in strike range of the continental US.
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That's the best way I've seen them described in a while. Colombia is an US-aligned country, and being neighbors with Chavez' Venezuela has been incredibly stressfull, at times, specially when Alvaro Uribe was president (he's basically a right-wing Chavez)... we where at the brink of war for a few months, because those two monkeys couldn't stop flinging feces at each other.
Chavez called Uribe a "servant of the empire" and Uribe retorted with "terrorist enabler"... Thanks god Chavez' generals knew better and ignored his orders to deploy troops to the borders.
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Meanwhile North Korea builds nukes, launches ICBMs, and declares that it will nuke American cities
But it is Iran we should fear, because North Korean missiles have funny names heehee
?"eve's a bad mmo, really bad, it's only saving grace is the people playing it, which i guess doesn't say great things about the people playing other MMOs"
Or perhaps Iran lacks the benefit of countries closely aligned with the US, like Japan and Korea, urging us to exercise restraint in the matter regardless of the agitating they do.
Also, no oil in Korea lol.
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Yeah, the world only tends to care what happens in countries that have oil.
Oil in Egypt.
Oil in Kuwait.
Oil in Iraq.
Funny how when people in Syria started to get slaughterd by their government no one rushed in to help.
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No.I have to admit colombian haz the best looking putas ever, my country is swarmed with them, i have fucked a couple and i can say they are second to none culeando...
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It's not even the first time. In 1982 the national government bombarded the city of Hama (it was the center of an uprising) killed between 10k-40k people (mostly civilian) and re-occupied the city.
"...and the world just fuckin' watched."
This will cause a new Cuban Missile Crisis, you heard it here first.
Also, sell some of these to those tinpot dictators and hold on for the ride.
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Fear the KKM
[spoiler=Wall of Text]It really is, but the part that saddens me is that the people that suffer the most (the poor, uneducated masses) are the ones they prey on to get into office. Promise them money and food if they elect you, but nothing really changes. During his campaign Ortega would hand out money. How much? Nobody knows because the stories propagate themselves among people who can gossip a lizard into a dragon. He probably gave something like $C200 to a lady (less than $20) and it turned into "he paid off all my debts, my house, a car, and a private island."
It's so frustrating because all the bullshit has ruined several opportunities. I don't know if you know this, but there were actually plans to make the transcontinental canal in Nicaragua. They'd use the natural river formations that led to the lake, and then have to make a small man-made canal into the pacific. Of course we know this didn't happen. It wasn't solely because of the political instability, but civil war and William Walker didn't help any when it was being negotiated.
Nowadays Ortega is back to his old shit. He falsified several cities' mayoral elections, blatantly. People found huge bags of discarded vote ballots and people blatantly saw the people tallying the votes not counting correctly. Nevermind the numbers they'd come up with were utter bullshit, putting Sandinista candidates with more votes possible OR making it so the leading competitor have a ludicrously low amount of votes. The USA, of course, called their bullshit and the local people were in uproar, but no recounts (how could they when they threw away the damn ballots) or 'do over' for the elections were done. Of course Cuba and other similar countries gave Ortega props for not letting the Americans "meddle."
Due to these shenanigans the USA and other foreign investors have pulled the fuck out. Aid has been severely reduced, self fulfilling prophecy like you said. The last time this type of shit happened and the pinata burst, people literally just ran around stealing everything under the anarchy. If you left the country for more than a week, the maids, gardeners, neighbors, even jealous family might have moved in and claimed that it was their house all along. If they were Sandinista expect your claim to be put on the backburner indefinitely. Nightmarish shit. [/spoiler]
All that being said, the beaches and parties in the Nicaragua are amazing. Tourists flooded the beaches during spring break and winter vacations. My years in Nicaragua were no doubt the most fun in my life. It's just a shame that as awesome as it can be sometimes, the potential awesome is absolutely annihilated by a group of people wanting power so badly they don't care if they destroy the country in the progress.
The thing is that people always give the USA shit for intervening. If they try to help when that type of shit happens, they get the "Yankee go home" spit in their face. If they don't help it's "Fuck you, Americans watching instead of helping us." It's a very damned if you do damned if you don't, and the Americans are beginning to realize that while both scenarios may get them bad publicity, only one actually costs American lives and money.
Colombia is awesome
thats all i want to say really cos
Recipe please.
Iratus be a bro and hook me up with some Colombian chicks
It might have to do with the many angry Russians that would result, much as it does now.
I can't imagine that would be any sort of deterrent when a few years later we were handing state of the art weapons to their enemies in Afghanistan.
And my statement wasn't intended to be about the US specifically. I was saying that the world as a whole has shown an amazing willingness to let things slide as long as you aren't sitting on a pile of anything useful. I mean after years of finger-wagging the US about the Iraq-Oil relationship they've already preparing to carve up Libya as if Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
There's a difference between active military intervention and passive assistance. Russia has always had very close ties to Syria, since it's convenient to have Turkey looking in both directions rather than focusing on the Black Sea. And they lost their relationship with Egypt only a few years prior to the first instance in question, and that relationship is still very much lost. Syria is the only strong and reliable friend they've got left in that part of the world.
Russia has a veto vote with the UN. Active intervention would require at minimum active civil war (distinct possibility the government loses optional but welcome) and Syria hasn't crossed that line yet, somehow.
I've decided not to move to Brazil. I have found something delightful here in America. I'll just call it a KICKBOXING GIRLFRIEND since the truth is so freakishly unlikely that no one will ever believe me on the internet or off.
On the plus side, I did get to date a lovely Brazilian lady in NYC while she was couch surfing here in the states, and that was fantastic. Love the brown skin and the nice curves, but the left wing politics were a huge turn off. No I do not want to discuss communism I want to put my dick inside you also you have a maid, family connections and a good job you dumbshit, how can you consider yourself a prole? Hypocrisy, bestpocrisy! She ended up abandoning me for some fucking farming collective, I was half annoyed and half ready to celebrate.
I've been told that my gringo looks would go down well with some girls in SA, and piss off others. But now I'll never know. Had several friends backpack through various Latin countries without ever feeling in danger, but they were on the hippie side of the hippie/yuppie continuum whereas I am more on the yuppie end.
Politically speaking, some countries down South realized that you have to just let people spend their money and start their businesses how they will, and others are still sucking the dick of the magical autocrats who promise to fix it all with super smarts and stolen money (but end up stealing it all because effort). I hope they fix their shit and first world it up, because most people I've met from SA are too fucking cool to be living the way they do. I solemnly swear to do my part by consuming extra bananas.
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