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Crazy Eagle comments on In Colombia July 4 - 12

Hey Tavioto, I will be spending a few days in Cali. Why not drop me an email message at the above address?

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Crazy Eagle comments on Romanticizing Colombia. The painful truth.

my dos pesos The hottest I've seen, in no particular order:

Andorans (from Andorra, North of Spain)
Brazilians
Colombians

All Latin types, best with some black in their background. However, I am a blue-eyed gringo, look Kraut or Russki, so to me the Latin look is very exotic.

Must admit Romanians are very cute too...





"The natural rhythm of life is routine punctuated by orgy" Aldous Huxley

Crazy Eagle comments on Do big breasts lead to paradise?

christ I PREFER them small! I cant believe this garbage. "When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on Do big breasts lead to paradise?

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on My first trip to Bogota.

weather was? How was the weather in Bogota? Did you get much sunshine?

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on Marriage Woes

one more thing That was a funny comment someone made earlier about introducing her to Morphy! She sounds like just the sort of medicine that arrogant ape needs.

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on Marriage Woes

woops

Crazy Eagle comments on Marriage Woes

Document her insane behavior in as many ways as possible before going to court - audio tape, video, witnessess other than her family. That is the key to getting custody and minimizing the financial hit you will take.

But don't let her know you are planning divorce until you HAVE YOUR EVIDENCE. She's schizo, I know one personally, and you cannot reason with them, but they can act normal for short periods when they feel they have to pretend that they don't "know" that there is a vast conspiracy against them. Good luck amigo.

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on Hola de Cali

Cartagena, Medellin, or Manizales Cartagena has a lot of historical things to explore. Medellin is supposedly very interesting, and Manizales is picturesque university town.

I am also a Cancuk. What did you think of Cali?

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on Strategies for dating "good" Colombianas

statistically ... THere was a study done, trying to find out what age diff is best in a marriage. The standard used was divorce rate. They found that older the woman was over the man the higher the rate of divorce. The lowest divorce rate was for men 7-10 years older than the woman.

Females mature faster than males.

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on Can colombianas predict the future?

Well, when our forefathers return and see what a mess we have made of the place ...

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on Can colombianas predict the future?

remember Lincoln Don't go, Elmo. Remember that dream Lincoln had about being assasinated? History is full of pre-cognitive dreams. But, there is also evidence that these are dreams of what might happen, not what will happen. In other words, they are more like warnings from the future, not previews.

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

Crazy Eagle comments on Colombian culture and diamond rings

diamonds a marketing scam The most successful campagin in the history of business. De Boors started it all. Diamonds are NOT rare - they are just shiny rocks. De Boors buys up diamond minds and shuts most of them down, to keep the rocks off the market so that the price remains high. In places like Siera Leone different groups kill each other for control of the mines. In many European countries married people just wear a plain ring - no shiny rock. Remember that Simpson episode where Skinner falls for Homer's sister in law? He goes to the diamond store and the clerk tells him "a good rule of thumb is three years salary." Yeesh.

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what is for lunch." Orson Welles

Crazy Eagle comments on education level in Colombia, various cities

Sounds great amigos! Any thoughts on Cali?

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what is for lunch." Orson Welles

Crazy Eagle comments on Viva el Sistema Postal Colombiano!

going postal Whoo! Glad to see this post is not about what I thought it might be about. I don't want to read about Colombianos going postal.

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what is for lunch." Orson Welles

Crazy Eagle comments on education level in Colombia, various cities

OK, what about Cali? Gracias amigo. Barranquilla sounds like a great place in many ways. Any thoughts on the level of education in Cali?

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what is for lunch." Orson Welles

Crazy Eagle comments on What is Manizales like?

paisas Are Manizaleans considered paisas? I thought Medellin was in a different department.

"Its the greatest breakthrough in labor relations since the cat-o'-nine tails!" Montgomery Burns

Crazy Eagle comments on What is Manizales like?

Is it sunny most of the time? What's the culture and racial mix? Gracias.

"Its the greatest breakthrough in labor relations since the cat-o'-nine tails!" Montgomery Burns

Crazy Eagle comments on Do any foreigners ever marry a colombian and then live in Colombia?

go native Dude, check my post called "would you go native?" Many have, many would.

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on Bogota weather

gracias! Gracias amigas and amigos! Bogota sounds like a fun place to visit, but because of the weather I will restrict my search to Medellin, Cali, and ... well, what about Bucaramanga? Sunny place?

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on Lets Talk Cartagenta and Costal cities

beach dress code Just out of curiousity - how do most Colombians dress on the beach? As revealing as Brazilians? Or more like North Americans?

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on Finally saw my first real crime in Medellin this weekend

look the other way?!? How about calling the cops?

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on an unexpectied trip to Cartagena

This is very strange, I see nothing at all wrong with your name. Perhaps I am missing something here ...

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on Finally saw my first real crime in Medellin this weekend

actually ... Spig wrote: "But what I thought was interesting is the guy with the gun obviously had no clue how to handle it. If I were a robber, I´d jam the gun in your back or at the back of your head."

Actually thats totally NOT how to use a pistol. The police and some soldiers know that someone with a gun can be disarmed quite easily before they can fire a single shot, if the pistolero is standing close to you. Its because when you grab thier arm they must a) decide to fire, and b) the signal must travel to the trigger finger. All this takes time, more time than it takes to grab the gun or swing a club. That is why you see cops with guns drawn standing several yards away from suspects - they know how easy it is to be disarmed. An ex British soldier taught me that, from experiments they did in the army using cap guns.

Now, I'm not advising people to fight muggers! But I'm just saying, if you feel you have to, then this is good information.

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on Colombian women having second thoughts

GIB wrote: "Many of them are bored to death here and who can blame them. It is the same small place everywhere you go. Same music, same food, same dance, same people. The biggest reason I have found for people leaving is that they were bored."

Uh, GIB, I thought you loved living in Bogota. Now you are bored? Somehow the word "boring" does not really come to mind when I think of Colombia. Is Medellin boring? Cartagena? BAQ?



"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on I think most gringos dont like living in bogota

grey versus blue I have heard many positive things about Bogota, but have also heard that it is overcast more often than not. Personally, I need blue skies.

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on In my opinion

Xpert opinion I have NEVER seen another gringo in Bogota.

But then again, I have never actually been there either.

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on The real scoop on Colombia. .

Colombiche has an out here.... She asked for "the name of a country where natives and blacks have political power and live in the best neighborhoods", so that would exclude countries where 99.9% of the population are natives and blacks, because in these countries there are not even nearly enough whites to run the shop. Giving places like Haiti as examples is kind of like pointing to some hell-hole reservation as a place where American Indians have political power and live in the best shacks.

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on gringos, tenga cuidado!

Politically Incorrect I used to LOVE that show, until Bill Mahr struck a raw nerve after 9-11 and lost his show :-(

So yeah, well put Tinto. Sometimes I read things here that are informative, insightful or funny, and they make up for those posts that make me wince (insults, name-calling, accusations, etc). Man, try to remember that other humans are reading your stuff!

And Colombiche, I have tried hard to stop "speaking sweepings on the Colombian women" and now I am working on not "discussing like keeping its pigs dolares." Hope I pull it off.

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on No need for advice but a thought

I think its an undiscovered jewel that just needs a bit of cutting & polishing.

"Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Colombus to New York." Lou Reed

Crazy Eagle comments on No need for advice but a thought

Mario & Colombiche Also Desi & WorldCitizen too. That brings the total up to 5.

Like I said earlier, we have to remember that we are guests in Colombia, and must behave ourselves! It is far too easy to write things that leave an impression of disrepect.

"Do you want to know what it is like inside a black hole? Then look around." Carl Sagan

Crazy Eagle comments on No need for advice but a thought

Aguila Loca no entiende muy bien I wish Colombians would post in English for the benefit of us ignorant gringos who have not yet mastered the language. Otherwise I think I'm getting accused of "speaking sweepings on Colombianas".

But I know enough to sense pain in these messages. You women are right, we have to be careful about what we write, and always respectful of the country we are all so interested in.

"If you marry for money you will earn it." Old Saying

Crazy Eagle comments on No need for advice but a thought

Colombiche, what?!? Since no entiendo mucho Espanol, I had to use Babelfish to translate your message:

"That sweepings, really that all the days this bond except the pain to read it, this is not a pagina on Colombia, this is a pagina so that the foreigners come to speak sweepings on the Colombian women and to discuss like keeping its pigs dolares."

Well, I did not intend to "speak sweepings" on the Colombianas (I suspect that something was lost in translation). I have no doubt there are plenty of good women in all stratas. But, one must be careful and I have heard of some heartbroken boppers who ended up with smaller bank accounts.

Crazy Eagle comments on Teacher of 8 yrs moving to Bogota in June

Teresa, send me a private message and I will pass on some info to you.

"Do you want to know what it is like inside a black hole? Then look around." Carl Sagan

Crazy Eagle comments on No need for advice but a thought

depends on how you were raised? I agree Mario, and I did say that I'm sure there are good poor girls too. I'm just repeating what a nice Colombiana told me - that I should avoid dating very poor Colombianas because they are more likely to see me as a meal ticket or a plane ticket.

She advised me to find a nice educated girl, and she told me that she would never even think of asking her gringo boyfriend for cash. OK, she is a lucky person I'm sure. But I disagree with Roci's post, and I think this Colombiana knows what she is talking about. And, I have no interest in using anyone, and I certainly don't want to be used myself.

"If you marry for money you will earn it." Old Folk Saying

Crazy Eagle comments on No need for advice but a thought

One Colombian woman I know advised me to simply not date very poor Colombian women. Her advice was to only date educated ambitious chicas. Now, I am sure there are good poor girls too, but I would have much less in common with them. But if I was dating one of them and she asked for $$$, I would be suspicious and ask why she needed it. Then, instead of giving her money, I would buy what she needed, or otherwise make sure that it was spent on what she said - food, medicine, education - and not on fancy clothes and parties.

"Do you want to know what it is like inside a black hole? Then look around." Carl Sagan

Crazy Eagle comments on No need for advice but a thought

tell the guy Yeah Mestizo, you were warned about her, and now you can return this favor to the universe. Keep it kind but straightforward and simple.

"Do you want to know what it is like inside a black hole? Then look around." Carl Sagan

Crazy Eagle comments on Best restaurants in Cartagena?

Do they have McDonalds in Cartagena? Why don't you try that one?

"Do you want to know what it is like inside a black hole? Then look around." Carl Sagan

Crazy Eagle comments on cant wait

see you on the coast Seven months from now I hope to be there as an ex patriate. "la costa caribe colombiana....que hermosa y sabrosa... tragos de ron medellin and a Freezing aguilita helada ... el monte with un sancocho delicioso" that and MORE?!?

"Do you want to know what it is like inside a black hole? Then look around." Carl Sagan

Crazy Eagle comments on The nerve of some colombianos

good points Colombiche Colombiche wrote:

"I can't believe how condescending people can get on the grounds of economical prowess. Please explain how different this is from racism or classism? At the end of the day, it boils down to a person feeling superior to another person because they have something the other person lacks (whether it be $$$, white skin etc)."

I have noticed that the most racist/classist people tend to be the most insecure people I know. They need someone to look down upon, in order to boost thier low self-esteem.

Colombiche, I used to live in Toronto, and while I liked some aspects of it, I found many people exceedingly snobbish about money. I saw people bragging about their credit cards, how much money their wives made, how much their car costs, etc. Got so disgusted with this that I left. Unfortunately, I also left behind a big gorgeous black woman (sigh). I have blue eyes and fair skin, by the way, so I'm not prejudiced against anyone, including chinos ;-)

Anyhoo, different places have differnt cultures, and I'll bet that some parts of Colombia are more racist/classist than others.



"Do you want to know what it is like inside a black hole? Then look around." Carl Sagan

Crazy Eagle comments on Racism discussion at a COL university BY COL students

multi-cultural I grew up in Canada, and in university knew a lot of people from different countries. One of my best drinking buddies was from Kenya. When I moved to California I lived in an area with perhaps 20-30% blacks (mostly yuppies) and noted many times how blacks seemed surprised that I would converse with them completly relaxed as though it were nothing unusual.

The blacks in the States tend to have their own sub-culture, with different vocabulary, pronounciation, music, and values. In Canada, because there are far fewer, they are far more integrated.

My guess is that in Colombia some areas are more integrated than others. Antiquoa has a very white bread rep. Caslug, did you see many mulato students on campus? Any studying to be teachers? Probably more on campuses in coastal towns and in Cali.


"Do you want to know what it is like inside a black hole? Then look around." Carl Sagan

Crazy Eagle comments on Xmas in Bogota

Try & Save "In honor of our saviour we will be open on Christmas day."

Sign in front of a Try & Save store

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison

Crazy Eagle comments on Xmas in Bogota

I don't know what it is like in Bogota but in San Francisco it is awesome! In Union Square they erect a giant pine tree about 200 feet tall (I'm not kidding) and decorate it with huge green & gold & purple decorations the size of a basketball. Christmas music plays everywhere. What an incredible city. One Christmas eve I gave a homeless woman who petitioned me five dollars. She looked like a junkie, but hey it was Christmas.

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison

Crazy Eagle comments on colombians eyes

then all of us should be wearing shades with UVA & UVB protection. My grandmother has cataracts, and I sure as hell don't want them.

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison

Crazy Eagle comments on Montreal and Colombia comparison

gracias Gracias for the heads up, lads. Bogota sounds more like a weekend getaway place for me, rather than a home base - if I do in fact relocate to Colombia.

I guess I would be happier in Cali, Cartagena, BAQ, or Medellin.

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison

Crazy Eagle comments on Montreal and Colombia comparison

sunshine How much of it do you see in Bogota? Are blue skies the exception rather than the rule? Is it overcast and grey more often than not?

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison

Crazy Eagle comments on Montreal and Colombia comparison

Glad to hear it. Do they all Glad to hear it Kernow. Do they all drive like maniacs too?

Morphus, I wasn't talking about the weather dude!

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison

Crazy Eagle comments on The new "look" - what the hell! :)

logging in It would be nice if logging in were easier. For instance, if the log in boxes were at the top, and if the cursor was already in the first box automatically. This is easy to do, in visual basic, at least.

Slightly bigger text would be nice too. This small text is hard to read on a screen.

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison

Crazy Eagle comments on Medellin is deeply missed

poser hypocritico I'm not sure if anyone has to get bored in Colombia and head for the USA. What about spending a few days in Bogota? Its a big city. Or heading to Cartagena for the heat and the beach? Then there is the Dominican Republic, Cuba, cities like Rio, Buenos Airies, and more.

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison

Crazy Eagle comments on Colombians - The most educated hispanics in the US

welcome back Colombiche Nice to have you back. I plan on teaching in Colombia, so I have an interest in this topic. Stick around, and don't let the negative posters get you agravated.

"The gate is straight, deep and wide. Break on through to the other side." Jim Morrison