South America - Where no Urbanite has gone

[rutabowa]

thank you both for making explicit the meaning of my joke, i think it has really helped the humour of it become apparent to more people

edit: i posted reply too late, can;t work out how to quote

 

[rutabowa]

Oh I've had plenty of problems there. I've been mugged at gunpoint by the police, mugged at knifepoint by a civilian, had cash extorted by the police three times, been punched in the face over a game of pool, had my room burgled, had to chase away would-be pickpockets numerous times, walked past freshly-shot dead bodies on the street more often than is pleasant and witnessed many other minor indications that northern Mexico really is an extremely dangerous place.

um so what's the good bit?

 

[phildwyer]

one thing i think IS true about mexico is that they can't do any music without doing AY AY AYYY!!! about 3 seconds in to it.

correct me if i am wrong.

Glad to. This is currently the big local hit where I live:

 

[rutabowa]

not into that northern banda stuff really.

 

[phildwyer]

um so what's the good bit?

"... también es muy peligroso/ Por eso yo me lo gasto, con mis amigos gustoso."

 

[phildwyer]

not into that northern banda stuff really.

It's an acquired taste, takes a bit of listening. I love it now.

 

[rutabowa]

peligroso peligroso peligroso, that's all i heard when i was there. demaciado peligroso para el guero

 

[rutabowa]

i mean they didn't say that last bit, that was in my head.

 

[Orang Utan]

edit: i posted reply too late, can;t work out how to quote

you've been here years and you can't quote?

 

[rutabowa]

when i say "they" i mean "my family" who were trying to keep me safe.

 

[phildwyer]

peligroso peligroso peligroso, that's all i heard when i was there. demaciado peligroso para el guero

Yes, there's no denying it is peligroso. Pero si no saben torear pues no le entren.

 

[rutabowa]

you've been here years and you can't quote?

yes i can but not go back and edit to do it and not multiple quotes.

 

[rutabowa]

Pero si no saben torear pues no le entren.

if yuo don't go out looking for it you don't have to get involved??

 

[ViolentPanda]

To rhyme with ass-kissed?

Of course!

 

[ViolentPanda]

you've been here years and you can't quote?

He might be posting from a phone.

 

[Orang Utan]

He might be posting from a phone.

oh, i can quote on my phone though. he was talking about multi-quoting though

 

[ViolentPanda]

oh, i can quote on my phone though. he was talking about multi-quoting though

Ah, right.

 

[ddraig]

Well it was a nice idea for a thread. Is there Anything people wont argue about on 'tinterweb

In columbia the police sniffer dogs in the port ride on the back of their handlers motorbikes

COLOMBIA

 

[silverfish]

COLOMBIA

Was it worth the effort?

 

[ddraig]

YES! WILL YOU REMEMBER IT NOW??

 

[sheothebudworths]

I've been to Guyana.

 

[toblerone3]

Argentina,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Chile,
Colombia,
Ecuador,
French Guiana,
Guyana,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Suriname,
Uruguay,
or
Venezuela.

 

[TruXta]

Someone's gotta have been in Paraguay.

 

[toblerone3]

Phil Dwyer has considerably shortened this thread through his extensive travels in South America. We've also had Suriname from Zorra, Gabi and Crispy both went to to Chile and Sheothebudworth's has been to Guyana.

So the country in South America no Urbanite has been to is either Paraguay or it is French Guiana.

 

[DrRingDing]

If no urbanite has been to either Paraguay or French Guyana who's up for a jolly?

 

[sheothebudworths]

Aha! Just did a search (is that cheating? ) and girasol has had a *brief visit* to Paraguay.....hang on!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Right....French Guiana's looking like a safe bet, so far (no relevant results from a search).

 

[mauvais]

Maybe it's just that no-one likes to talk about it. Maybe I don't like to talk about it. Maybe the whole place is like up the river in Apocalypse Now, but with baguettes and Jean Michel Jarre. If you go on Trip Advisor I bet it's just a long catalogue of complaints about overly dramatic air conditioning and the unfairness of the common agricultural policy.

 

[Orang Utan]

Didn't Papillon escape from Devil's Island to there and live in a tropical paradise with underage girls? The perv

 

[mauvais]

TBH that was probably bollocks but I'm more bov'd by the possibility that toblerone3, if that is their real name, appears so comprehensively certain that not a single one of us has set foot in a single stinky surrendering commune of French Banana, if that is its real name. Perhaps we have all been continuously surveilled since birth using some kind of new telescope. It would be logistically difficult I suppose, but if you had a job lot of X-ray machines and a factory producing seemingly innocuous blimps, perhaps you would get away with it. Don't ask me about the practicalities because it's not something I do. Even so I bet someone could have snuck in around the back or at night or hidden in plain sight as a chain smoking, boules-playing tiger. I don't know. I just don't know.