I had to share this

ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 3, 2008, 15:19:

Frump!

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Simon says on Sep 3, 2008, 15:21:

People like that piss me off! Vieja huevona!

"DON'T FOK WITH COLOMBIA!!"-----Simon

0 funny, 0 helpful.

ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 3, 2008, 15:25:

In all honesty, she is a pretty reasonable lady. She wanted to talk to me to get some real information instead of relying on the rumors and stereotypes that most people take as fact. It's still funny though.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Simon says on Sep 3, 2008, 15:26:

If I get that attitude from someone, I'll just point out all the famous US citizens and other foreigners who have visited Colombia in recent years.

"DON'T FOK WITH COLOMBIA!!"-----Simon

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Tinto (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 3, 2008, 15:33:

I once sat next to a fairly young woman who was nervous about being in Colombia on her first business trip. She said her company had experience in these things - meeting her at the airport with a company driver, holding meetings in a secure hotel, stressing that employees should not run around at night, etc, etc - but she was still nervous about being a kidnap target.

Then she told me she was a corporate trainer based in Houston and was on the final leg of a marathon business trip to Moscow, London, Alaska and Bogota. I guessed "Halliburton" and she was shocked that she had let that slip. I told her she hadn't mentioned oil or Halliburton but Houston plus a trip to four oil centers were pretty good clues.

Moral of the story: The guy shouldn't talk too much with people he doesn't know.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

YankeeInMDE says on Sep 3, 2008, 15:46:

Sadly, that ignorant attitude doesn't just exist amongst the Americans.
Before my first trip to Colombia, about 4 years ago, I was in the company of a woman born and raised in Medellin that had moved to the states about 30-40 years prior with her husband.
When she found out that I was planning a trip to Colombia she told me "be careful of the Colombian women."
I couldn't help but think......WTF is that about?!?!?!
Ignorance knows no nationality.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 3, 2008, 15:58:

One of my relatives told me a pathetic story the other day.

A neighbor of theirs in Neiva had gone on vacation to the US for about four months. This woman had eaten the same pastry for breakfast at the same corner store for as long as anyone could remember.

When she got back from the US, she went to the same store one morning and started acting like she couldn't remember what the pastry was called. The old lady that ran the store just rolled her eyes and said, "It's the called the same thing it's always been you imbecile".

This is a common "syndrome" that seems to affect some ridiculous Colombians that have lived abroad for any length of time. They go back and act like they have forgotten Spanish. It's like they think they are somehow impressing people with this nonsense when in reality everyone thinks they are complete, pretentious idiots.

I haven't lived in Colombia since I was a little kid, yet I always go to the same bakery and corner store and order all the same grub that I've ordered my whole life and the people that work there don't even have a clue that I live in the US.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

wabbits says on Sep 3, 2008, 16:15:

Gringo, what kinda office do you work in? I work in postproduction (animation, compositing, design) and have been curious to know if anyone is doing this kind of work down here..

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Atrevido (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 3, 2008, 16:32:

goin_south says on Sep 3, 2008, 16:46:

Tell her, he'll probably be able to start his own 'Colombiana Dating/Mail Order Bride' Service ....jaj

Maybe 'Schlumberger Lingerie' .... Atrevido...lol... The New Leonisa!

Why Not Colombia?..........Stay Tuned, for more.... utterly worthless, self-indulgent gobbets of nonsense.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Monita Linda says on Sep 3, 2008, 16:52:

If he is NOT a barrigon, no beard and has a put together appearance (blue eyes are a big PLUS), Colombian women will FIGHT over him.

Poor but Preppy ______Colombia: the only risk is wanting to lay.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

minina says on Sep 3, 2008, 16:56:

"This is a common "syndrome" that seems to affect some ridiculous Colombians that have lived abroad for any length of time. They go back and act like they have forgotten Spanish. It's like they think they are somehow impressing people with this nonsense when in reality everyone thinks they are complete, pretentious idiots."

It depends on the length of time. I think is ridiculous that you forget the language when you only been away a couple of months. However, people that been years, it's a different story. I have forget quite a few words in Spanish, and my mom too. That's why, now I try to look in the internet for articles to read in Spanish. When I was in high school in Colombia I met this girl that had been living in the United States since she was very little, and she said she forgot many spanish word, but when she came back to Colombia, it was happening the other way around, now she was forgetting English.

DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS...

0 funny, 0 helpful.

goin_south says on Sep 3, 2008, 17:02:

Monita Linda... Billyb has enrolled me in english class, but... we have not arrived at that word just yet: 'barrigon'.

Why Not Colombia?..........Stay Tuned, for more.... utterly worthless, self-indulgent gobbets of nonsense.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

MaFe says on Sep 3, 2008, 17:09:

hmmm monita linda...I have seen them fight over beer gutted men...

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "-Aristotle

1 funny, 0 helpful.

elmodefoque says on Sep 3, 2008, 17:40:

mafe, i've seem them fight over beer gutted men with blue eyes too
this guy (below) in bogota cali and medellin is a broad magnet with them thar big pretty blue eyes

enough

I'll get there, when I get there!

0 funny, 0 helpful.

wwwhitey says on Sep 3, 2008, 18:14:

I've been warned off visiting Colombia by everyone I've talked too ... plus dealing with the endless cocaine and kidnapping jokes ...

The strangest thing to me though was receiving the same warning by some friends from Bogota that left 7 years ago for here (Canada). They told me that for my first trip (next week!) I should not even think about going without my buddy who has been to Colombia several times and "knows the ropes".

Of course my lady friend in Barranquilla says that they are crazy to be worried ...

Whitey

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Cheers Terry says on Sep 3, 2008, 19:25:

Gringo, what kinda office do you work in? I work in post production (animation, compositing, design) and have been curious to know if anyone is doing this kind of work down here..

================================================================

Wabbits, I'm starting to do some film production in Colombia and since there are almost no international jobs being posted there (the foreign producers grab their exposed film and run to the airport immediately) the Colombian post production facilities are very... how shall I say it... "rustic." There's not even a dependable lab in the entire country - everything gets shipped to Miami.

If the political situation ever changes enough for serious foreign productions to come to Colombia then post production services will be a gold mine - as will film production service companies.

Unfortunately (for Colombia) I don't see their international reputation (on an insurable business level) changing any time in the near future, so with very few exceptions they won't be getting any real foreign film production going there...

Cheers,
Terry

ColombianoGringo, sorry for the thread-jack...

0 funny, 0 helpful.

goin_south says on Sep 3, 2008, 22:18:

my lady friend in Barranquilla says that they are crazy to be worried ...

jajajaj.. I don't think the ladies in BQ worry about too much.

Why Not Colombia?..........Stay Tuned, for more.... utterly worthless, self-indulgent gobbets of nonsense.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 4, 2008, 07:28:

wabbits,

I work in the US. We do television, radio, web and print production for most of the major music artists. Everyone from The Rolling Stones to Shakira. However, one of our subsidiaries does some corporate work which accounts for the Schlumberger project. Schlumberger is a large oil services companies.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Mononoke28 says on Sep 4, 2008, 08:43:

ColombianoGringo says on Sep 3, 2008, 15:58
I haven't lived in Colombia since I was a little kid, yet I always go to the same bakery and corner store and order all the same grub that I've ordered my whole life and the people that work there don't even have a clue that I live in the US.
------------------------------
Ooooh I've seen these people and they get on my freaking nerves. Once I met a paisa in NY who didn't remember how to say "hot dog" in Spanish. I said "Es sino que traduzca. Hot = caliente, dog = perro y ya". Needless to say she didn't like that.

I'm like you, I haven't lived in Colombia since I was a kid but I don't put on airs and pretend to be something I'm not. I like my morcilla envigadeña with chocolate Luker and all that good, delicious crap they have there. The last time I was there was in 2006 and before that it was 1994 and my family was amazed at how "paisa" I am and that I didn't squirm at the food they served. Come on!!! I'm paisa!!! =D

Diana

0 funny, 0 helpful.

goin_south says on Sep 4, 2008, 11:33:

CG, check your email.

Why Not Colombia?..........Stay Tuned, for more.... utterly worthless, self-indulgent gobbets of nonsense.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 4, 2008, 11:45:

A gringo married a hotdog seller off Ave. Sexta in Cali and they stayed for a while in the States...some four months, perhaps and returned to Colombia. Another friend met them at a party, most gringos and everybody spoke English, but this friend of mine just Spanish. He noticed her, the gringo's wife and though, well, She speaks Spanish, I'm sure so he approached her and asked "Usted habla Espanol?" "Oh yes, un poquito" she said, with a heavy gringo accent.

"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"(First Witch in Macbeth)

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Cheers Terry says on Sep 4, 2008, 12:32:

Funny, and very sad.

The inferiority complex that many Colombians (and Latins in general) display towards gringos in some situations is very debilitating on so many levels...

Cheers,
Terry

0 funny, 0 helpful.

El Polo says on Sep 4, 2008, 12:43:

A friend of mine which was born and raised in Colombia, was living here in the states for about a year and a half before he returned to Colombia. One day while in Colombia he accidentally bump into a drunk and said SORRY, the drunk replied, "que HP ZORRO ni que Mond*", Till this day he is affectionaly known by everyone as EL ZORRO. jijiji

I had to share that

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 4, 2008, 13:14:

I met a guy called El JAGUAR in Cali...asked how he got his nickname...I was told that he returned home from the Mayamis hablando solo gringo...saludando a sus amigos Jaguaryiuu...

(Just felt Ihad to share that)

"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"(First Witch in Macbeth)

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Mononoke28 says on Sep 4, 2008, 13:42:

Oh man, great stories! I love them. Funny thing is, or the sad thing is I should say, is that there are endless stories like these.

Diana

0 funny, 0 helpful.

YankeeInMDE says on Sep 4, 2008, 14:18:

The daughter of the paisa who told me 'beware of Colombian women' has a daughter. She hasn't been in Colombia in about 15 years and has only been twice in her life, but she still tries to show me how much better her Spanish is, and impress me with her 'knowledge' of Colombia. When I mentioned something to her about being paisa she responded "what's pasia?"
Pathetic.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Simon says on Sep 4, 2008, 15:44:

"The inferiority complex that many Colombians (and Latins in general) display towards gringos in some situations is very debilitating on so many levels..."

Not me, you're gonna love me then, because I display a superiority complex towards these monolingual gringo fokers! LOL

"DON'T FOK WITH COLOMBIA!!"-----Simon

0 funny, 0 helpful.

goin_south says on Sep 4, 2008, 15:46:

Simon,... isn't it.....monolingogringo?

Why Not Colombia?..........Stay Tuned, for more.... utterly worthless, self-indulgent gobbets of nonsense.

0 funny, 0 helpful.

Cheers Terry says on Sep 4, 2008, 21:54:

Not me, you're gonna love me then, because I display a superiority complex towards these monolingual gringo fokers! LOL

========================

You're a very visible (and boring) minority.

If you want to be taken seriously you have to stop posting the very same knee-jerk reaction over and over and over and over....

Yawn.

Cheers,
Terry

2 funny, 0 helpful.

goin_south says on Sep 4, 2008, 21:57:

jajaj! Can I mark 'funny' more than twice?!

Why Not Colombia?..........Stay Tuned, for more.... utterly worthless, self-indulgent gobbets of nonsense.

0 funny, 0 helpful.