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hey poorbuthappy ppl...... after so much of posting, how about catchin up in person!!! hands up whoever agrees and then we shall arrange that!!...chao! Ideas are welcomed!!!
By sxrxnnrr187 on Nov 15, 2004, 15:58 in Friendly Talkzone.
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Christinalkc says on Nov 15, 2004, 16:04: hurrah..... first one to agree!!
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mad_lion says on Nov 15, 2004, 17:03: love to.....but what city did you have in Mind to meet?
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Christinalkc says on Nov 15, 2004, 17:13: how about bogota?? i guess majority is in bogota, cierto??
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Lizzy says on Nov 15, 2004, 17:16: How about a Sunday afternoon in Bogota...? We are definitely up for meeting with fellow poor but happy people!
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Christinalkc says on Nov 15, 2004, 17:25: how about a lunch and coffee?????
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elisabeth says on Nov 15, 2004, 19:29: Sounds good! Yeah, Lizzy and i are up for lunch and coffee on Sunday - where and when?
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degrazier says on Nov 15, 2004, 23:54: hola Arriving in Bogota on the 18th (Thursday I think?). Down to hang out no doubt. If someone would like to drink a beer (ie. 2 bottles of aguadiente) give me a mail! Suerte 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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MJ says on Nov 16, 2004, 01:48: good idea Arriving in bogota on the 6th of december
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Tom says on Nov 16, 2004, 05:49: what about the people which can not go to Bogota because they are living in Medellin, maybe they also like to meet for drink and talk in Medellin someday ??!! hasta la vista 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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argtat says on Nov 16, 2004, 06:18: sounds very good arriving in bogota on the 7 of dec let us know the details!
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ColombiaBoard says on Nov 16, 2004, 07:59: For those living in Medellin For those who live / stay in Medellin, we can meet there for coffee / drinks sometime. Just let me know.
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william_andrew_channell says on Nov 16, 2004, 10:03: good idea, but... Why don't we all get together and go "rumbeating" at Primero de Mayo. If you want to get away from all the stupid beautiful people and get with real Colombians, this is the place to go. Forget pop and expensive cocktails, the real party is vallenatos, norteñas, some cold Aguilas and Nectar.
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ColombianoX says on Nov 16, 2004, 10:22: "Forget pop and expensive cocktails, the real party is vallenatos, norteñas, some cold Aguilas and Nectar. " ColombianoX 'Defensor de la Colombianidad' 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Miguel says on Nov 16, 2004, 10:30: Por supuesto que si, Colombiano X! Donde y cuando?
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william_andrew_channell says on Nov 16, 2004, 11:42: Not cumbias, norteñas You know, the mexican music, corridos, los Tigres del Norte. BTW, Los Tigres are coming to Bogotá Dec. 11, I think. The best group to play Corferias, ever. In case you didn't know, norteñas are the (pardon the term I'm about to use) ñero drinking music of choice. If you doubt it, go down to the corner store and see what music they're listening to. If they aren't listening to norteñas, you're living in a boring neighborhood.
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ColombianoX says on Nov 16, 2004, 12:13: William, ColombianoX 'Defensor de la Colombianidad' 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Tom says on Nov 16, 2004, 12:14: ColombiaBoard, Medellin sound good to me, i'll be back on the 1st of Dec. in Medellin, I would say lets meet and have a drink somewhere, LA 33 or El Pobldo or where ever. hasta la vista 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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ColombianoX says on Nov 16, 2004, 12:26: Miguel, ColombianoX 'Defensor de la Colombianidad' 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Peter (Moderator) says on Nov 16, 2004, 12:47: What a brilliant idea! Poorbuthappy readers are from all over the globe, so I'm sure we can organize many meetings. If you do organize a meeting, make sure to take pictures and post them here afterwards. If there is anything I can do to help just let me know. Poor but snappy 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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william_andrew_channell says on Nov 16, 2004, 13:46: Norteña - ColombianoX ColombianoX:
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Nov 16, 2004, 13:48: I love carrrilera specially cuando uno esta despechado hehehe
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Lauthra says on Nov 16, 2004, 14:50: I'm up for it at Bogota We should really organise this get together cos it sounds like fun, perhaps in las Zona Rosa a Saturaday night? Nato (='.'=) 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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litost says on Nov 16, 2004, 15:01: gringoinbogota, you are being overly paranoic. NOBODY here is proposing meeting up in some obscure part of the colombian countryside. Most likely it would be in a bar or cafe, in a well known safe area of a city... anyways, I seriously doubt the would-be kidnappers are english-speaking or would even think of looking at this site for victims.
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villdkatta says on Nov 16, 2004, 15:14: Sounds great to me! I won't be down there for awhile but would love to sometime. Sounds like a great idea.
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ColombianoX says on Nov 16, 2004, 16:50: William, ColombianoX 'Defensor de la Colombianidad' 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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litost says on Nov 16, 2004, 20:31: Yeah, very gringo thing to do... surprising since I'm 100% colombian.
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Nov 17, 2004, 01:44: Lauthra I now the primera de mayo is no as trndy as the zona rosa but is getting there,like the shopping centre plaza de las americas is one of the best in Bogota. I go to the primera de mayo and I feel safer there, is a lot of police around. and I have seen quite a few foreigners.I don't know what to call safe, because the zona rosa is famous for foreigners that's why more pickpockets go there,more prostitues,and there are more drugs.for me personally i don't feel safe in there.and I aggre with litost 100% with the paranoid.and with William-Andrew, is nice to get out of the zona rosa everybody there is just a "posser".try and explore a bit more out of that area.
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British Paisa says on Nov 17, 2004, 02:06: I am up for the get together in Medellin, let me know when it is going to be. Unfortunately I am not that organized and therefore will not volunteer to arrange anything, so whoever takes the job on let me know.
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william_andrew_channell says on Nov 17, 2004, 02:51: Way to go Kat1 Finally, somebody who agrees with me about the stupid Zona Rosa. We should get together some time and hang out. I never hang out with the other gringos here because they always do the same stupid things in the same stupid places. Contact me Kat and we can hang out.
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Nov 17, 2004, 03:29: william-andrew do you live in Bogota? Where in primera de mayo have you been,Have you been in plaza de las Americas.I WILL CONTACT YOU.
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Lauthra says on Nov 17, 2004, 07:02: Litost litost I think you're being a bit narrow-minded, nothing wrong with being cautious, just cos someone is in Colombia, doesn't mean they are "living in fear", I'm 100% percent colombian, and I take precautions everywhere I go. Nato (='.'=) 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Lauthra says on Nov 17, 2004, 07:03: Primera de Mayo On the Primero de Mayo issue, so I have to hang out at a place I in all honesty consider dumpy to not be a "poser"? How absurd. Each to their own. Nato (='.'=) 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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jmmyers says on Nov 17, 2004, 08:22: medellin im up for meeting in medellin. it looks like people are interested but theres no place/date set. ive only been here a month so im probably not the best person to ask for a place. could someone suggest something?
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william_andrew_channell says on Nov 17, 2004, 08:49: Primero de Mayo is a dump? I'm not sure that I would consider the Primero de Mayo dumpy. What exactly is dumpy in your opinion?
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goosekirk says on Nov 17, 2004, 14:22: Rubs me the wrong way, sorry Speaking as a gringo, it seems a lot more "typical gringo" to me to cower in fear at everything, and not use the scary internet to meet other gringos in scary Bogota. You know, I have a picture of me sitting in the precise spot where the hand grenade landed at the BBC just a few weeks before the attack last year (does that give me some kind of cred, by the way?). And I remember how the next night it reopened and it was packed full of Colombians... while the Americans ran and hid. I was told that the US embassy forbade their people from going to the popular bars for some time, and that the Americans then congregated in one bar somewhere instead of being spread out across 82 and 93 like normal. If true, that would really be typical gringo - use fear of harm to justify a policy that actually puts you more in harm's way... but as long as Authority tells them it's safer, the gringos will go along with it!
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Lionheart says on Nov 17, 2004, 14:51: I agree goosekirk I lived in Germany during the Baader-Meinhoff hayday. You never knew what would blow up next and me and my car were searched at every road block because I was a long-haired hippy back then. I was in France when bombs were tossed around a few years later. I traveled through French/Spanish Basque country when the Basques where pretty active. Even today in Eastern Europe you never know when you will be served date-rape drugs (happened to me twice in Pilsen) or just plain get shot, because it is easier to rob you then. I survived, because I was cautious and used common sense. I believe the same applies to Colombia. Hovering in fear in the USA and getting killed in a drive-by shooting while you go shopping seems a larger risk to me... or get beaten to pulp by a baseball bat in road rage ....
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goosekirk says on Nov 17, 2004, 16:41: Oh yeah, and... Count me in for meeting up, please! goosekirk at gmail.
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utopiacowboy says on Nov 17, 2004, 17:02: I laughed at your comments, goosekirk. My wife and I always hail taxis in the street in Medellin. We have only had one bad experience, unless you count the time that she exited the cab headfirst while wearing a really short skirt (although for the cab driver I am sure he counted that as a REALLY good experience!). Disclaimer: any comment I make is inane and is not to be taken seriously, and is so patently ridiculous that no one should take it seriously, even as an insult. 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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ColombiaBoard says on Nov 17, 2004, 18:44: Poorbuthappy Meeting in Medellin For those interested in a Poorbuthappy meeting in Medellin, send your messages to colombia at saexplorers.org and we´ll see when and where we can meet.
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kat1 (Moderator) says on Nov 18, 2004, 01:30: I dont say to meet everybody there but i dont think is dangerous,I have been in the north,south east and west of Bogota every part has its bad and good places.Although my favourite are the little bars in the center of Bogota.Zona Rosa is became a dumpy place too is no the same zona rosa that I use to know in the early years,is becoming a bit more dangerous,even some of the managers of the bars sell drugs.is more drug rape in the zona rosa than in any other part of Bogota, And that was a report in the newspaper "Eltiempo".I used to live by pimms and this part is so comercialised,I've seen more robbery now.more pickpockets. I am scare sometimes of a bomb in the north than in the south.that place change so much and now even the rich people knows that because they are going now to la Calera,Chia,that is the new Zona rosa for them.And for the south? From the zona rosa I moved to El rincon de los angeles in Avenida las Americas,and what a difference that was I got to know my neighbours, it was much more relax no much competition about who got a better car or lamp or how many places have you been. You have to come and see the christmas Light in this place is becoming a tourist Atraccion in the christmast season there are even tours.I know the south of Bogota have a bit doggie reputacion but no all of them.Is like the north too there places in there that I would no go to.I don't know why this people were threw out of the bar in the primera de mayo but the manager has his reason and in there they wont tolerate drugs because being in the south you have the cops keeping an eye more on you, !how wrong.I think is a bit more in Bogota that the north and I expect is a bit more in Medallo than el poblado AND WE CALLED OURSELVE POOR BUT HAPPY
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Tom says on Nov 18, 2004, 05:20: jmmyers Hi, just drop me or torsten_kroeger at hotmail.com or colombia at saexplorers.org a mail, we are planing a get together in Medellin beginning of Dec. so you are welcome. hasta la vista 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Outtahere says on Nov 18, 2004, 06:45: I'm in! I'm here in Bogota until Jan. 21st (at least). Let me know when and where and I will be there. Nothing to fear but fear itself!
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Christinalkc says on Nov 18, 2004, 09:42: after reading the pros and cons.... i have a little opinion. i don't think it is a bad idea at all to organize a simple meeting over lunch or something like that. I don't come to bogota to live in fear and if i would, i won't come here at all.....
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webmanco says on Dec 12, 2004, 15:02: Here is the sign up list, no matter where in the world you are ...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ... 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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ShazCas says on Dec 13, 2004, 12:58: Oh please Such paranoia, it's unbelieveable!!! Do those scared people in the discussion really think the FARC will be interested??? Hahahahaha!!! That's the best laugh I've had all day! If you're too posh for las Americas or too scared, well you don't have to go, no-one's making you! Personally I'm really jealous that I can't go to the Tabogo meeting, maybe some day...
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sandra_pas says on Dec 14, 2004, 12:38: people i agree with the idea of meeting, and i noticed you are all concerned about the security of meeting in a place where most americans, gosh i hate that word we are all americans, but this is english stuff so, anyways where most americans dont go to, sandraPAS 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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santiBOG says on Dec 14, 2004, 19:56: Just say when and where.... I live in South Florida but will be in Bogota from Dec 23 to around Jan 5. It would be nice to meet some of the people from PBH either in Fla or in Colombia...
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webmanco says on Dec 25, 2004, 10:25: gringoenbogota ...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ... 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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mariaaa says on Dec 28, 2004, 15:59: Meeting Sorry it is late but was there a get together and will there be another one?
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webmanco says on Dec 28, 2004, 19:39: First meeting in Bogotá Friday January 14 at 8:00 pm Our first meeting will be in Bogotá Friday January 14 at 8:00 pm, in a location still to be set. To see those who had reserved please click here here if you had not reserve you can do so on the same link. If you feel like inviting someone to join this group click here ...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ... 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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webmanco says on Jan 24, 2005, 04:59: January 27/2005 in Chapinero Bogotá ...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ... 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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