Weird Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 45,000 girls at 2000 baht a day average is like 2.7 million USD a day average? 32,850,000,000 baht a year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 The only time I've seen PI presented in a favourable light was actually a story where they were trying to show the 'evils' of sex tourism. They managed to find a couple of reasonably attractive guys in their early 40s with two good looking Filipinas, and it looked like the GFE to die for - cruising through serene waterways, tropical scenery in the background etc. The girls were laughing, the guys were saying stuff like 'why would we stay at home with the same woman for 30 years when we can come here ?' - not sure it was quite what the producers wanted .... Anyway, Asia is old news. Learn enough Spanish to make a fortnight in Brazil bearable and write a trip report for the rest of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 What's the point spread? Why would you learn Spanish and then go to Brazil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simie Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Anyway, Asia is old news. Learn enough Spanish to make a fortnight in Brazil bearable and write a trip report for the rest of us Gobble, I doubt that would be a great help as they speak Portuguese in Brazil. Simie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Italian, Spanish, Portuguese are all Latin languages and are quite similar...After I worked in Italy for three years, I knew a bit of Italian so when I returned to work in San Diego I could quack-quack a bit using Italian with the Mexicans and it was good enough that I argued with them over a money issue and I got my money back!!! Italian also worked in Portugal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Similar here. Had 3 years of high school Spanish. 10 years later was sitting outside a cafe in Paris and met an Italian guy. He didn't speak English, but his Italian and my Spanish allowed us to carry on somewhat of a conversation. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 I worked with a Portuguese woman until very recently - she told me Spanish was no problem for the Portuguese. Besides, its all Greek to me ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 I like Manila. Although I don't like Filipino food, the Continental stuff, especially the Spanish, is great. Lots of golf there too, to keep you busy during the day. Bring your clubs. Sure, the bar scene at P. Burgos is expensive, but that scene is minuscule compared to what's available elsewhere in Metro Manila, or anywhere in the country, for that matter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simie Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Cav, that is a good point about Latin, not many schools teach it nowadays but it does help tremendously with a lot of other languages. Unfortunately they did'nt teach it at the crap school I went too Simie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Cav, that is a good point about Latin, not many schools teach it nowadays but it does help tremendously with a lot of other languages. Unfortunately they did'nt teach it at the crap school I went too Simie. I had to learn Latin too, but it didn't help during the years I had private teachers in Japanese. But of course, if you need to learn/speak French, Spanish, English, Italian, German e.g. it helps tremendously, especially with the grammar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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