duckmaster posted:

I thought 25k was overpriced but I don't know much about websites...

duckmaster posted:

It's currently making $650/month but yeh I realise it has potential, he has 65,000 unique visitors/month (this is all freely available). There's some folk who have set up http://www.cambodiaexpatsonline.com/ so there is competition but they seem like a bunch of clowns.

gently caress it I'm offering $7.5k and we can haggle from there. I'm sure he's had plenty of interest but finding someone in Cambodia who will actually put their money where their mouth is is another matter entirely.

Ringo R posted:

Has this been posted here yet? http://m.smh.com.au/lifestyle/brazilian-man-undergoes-surgery-to-look-asian-20140602-zrv8n.html

ReindeerF posted:

EDIT EDIT: gently caress this - for $5K in production and advertising you can start a combined social/web deal with a spunky marketing plan

duckmaster posted:

This sounds very interesting. Can you tell me what it actually means?!

ReindeerF posted:

It's complex and too long a derail for the thread. Email me at reindeerf@outlook.com if you have a chance and we can trade contact info!

quote:

Comedy is like a one night stand. It lasts three minutes, I never get asked back…. and sometimes people laugh.
Also, there’s often people staring at me, but maybe I should stop having sex on the half pipe in X Bar

So it’s a bit of a problem living in a small town like Siem Reap. You keep running into people you know, or have had odd altercations with… there’s one girl I can barely speak to, I just immediately think “Yeh, I’m the guy who couldn’t get it up and didn’t have any condoms anyway”

And where do you take someone on a first date round here? You can go out for dinner, sure, and go out and get hammered… then what? The landmine museum?

The other problem is that it’s very transient. People are always coming and going. A friend of mine has gone back to the UK and asked me to housesit for him. I said, “Sure, what do I have to do?”. He said “Just stay at mine and make yourself at home”. I said, “Ok”.
So I’ve had his dog put down.

To stay in touch with people at home and here, facebook is pretty good. But I’m getting a bit pissed off with facebook recently, I keep getting unfriended due to my absolute oval office of a personality….

So anyway, I want to tell you a story about when I first came to Cambodia. Before coming here I knew it was famous for….temples and all that… but also for shooting guns. Blowing up a cow, throwing a grenade into a pond, that sort of thing. So I was pretty keen on that but hadn’t really read up on how to do it.
Anyway, I got here and I was out and about, exploring the town, and the tuk tuk drivers are all saying “Temples?” as I go past them, but I was just like “I’ve been there…”
And then all of a sudden a guy shouts over to me and says “Hey man, you want boom boom?”
Of course, because I wanted to shoot guns, I put two and two together and thought, boom boom? Must be shooting! So I said, “Yeh, I want boom boom!”
He says “Yeh, nice Cambodia boom boom?”
I thought I’d prefer an American M16 or a magnum or something, but Cambodia boom boom must be an AK 47 and that would be good enough, so I said “Yeh, Cambodia boom boom. How much does it cost?”
He said “How long you want, one hour?”
I thought one hour shooting was a bit excessive, so I said “Can I just shoot maybe 20 or 30 times?”
He looked a bit confused by this, so I confirmed it by saying, “I mean that should be over in seconds, maybe two minutes?” which confused him even more.
He said “Err.. you do boom boom as many times as you want”
I was pretty satisfied with that, so I said “Ok cool! Can I do boom boom by myself?”
“Errr.. you need girl to do boom boom”
I said “I don’t really want to do boom boom with a girl. Could I not do it by myself, or you could do it with me?”
“Errr, I not do boom boom with you. You want do boom boom with boy?”
“Can I not just do boom boom myself??”
“Err, you don’t need to pay to do boom boom yourself…”
I thought that was a bit too good to be true, but maybe it was some sort of promotion, so I finaly got into the tuk tuk and we drove off…
So we get to the boom boom place, which didn’t look like what I imagined a firing range to look like, and the tuk tuk driver took me in. Now I sort of expected this sort of thing to be run by soldiers or the police or something, and was a bit surprised it was run by young women in their underwear. But anyway, I thought I should get my questions out of the way, having never fired a gun before, so I asked,
“So is boom boom hard? I’ve never done it before”
One of the ladies said “You never do boom boom before?” in a very surprised tone.
I said, “No, in my country boom boom is illegal!”
“Illegal?!” they said
“Yes, you can do it but you have to ask the police and then go to a club and do it with other men, and sometimes some women”
They were looking increasingly surprised by all this, but I was enjoying this little cultural exchange
“Even our olympic boom boom team can’t train in Britain, so they go to Switzerland every year for three months of non stop boom boom!”
“You never do boom boom before? Its ok, I show you” one girl said, and took my hand and took me into a room.
Weirdly she took her clothes off. I assumed this was to stop bullet residue or gunpowder or something getting on your clothes, and I didn’t want to embarass myself, so I took my clothes off too.
“Is it safe?” I said
She said “Yes, all safe, use protection”
I was pretty happy with this, although couldn’t see any earplugs or safety goggles. Or any guns, for that matter.
“Ok, cool. Can I use more than one gun?”
“What? How many guns you have?”
“I don’t know, how many guns do you have”
“I not have gun, you have gun”
“Oh… (ok, I though someone else would bring me the gun or something) Can you show me how to hold it?”
“You not know how to hold it?”
“No. And what do I aim at? Is there a target?”
“No target, just put it where it makes you happy”
“Oh, ok. Is it true I can do boom boom with a chicken here?”
“No chicken. You do boom boom now”
But we never got round to boom boom. This girl clearly fancied me so much that she grabbed my penis, which was erect because I was thinking about GUNS. Half an hour later and she showed me out, and just shook her head and frowned as I kept saying “But I want boom boom! When do I get to boom boom! I want to boom boom a chicken!”

mintskoal posted:

Anyone currently in Malaysia? I'm headed to KL tomorrow and will be in the country until the 26th or something.

Right now I'm in a bar in Legian, Bali watching a bunch of fat, tattooed Aussies scream at a rugby game. I'm entertained.

MrNemo posted:

I'm based in KL, you will find the local 'colour' nowhere near the level of Bali and beer can be a bit pricey. Be warned I'm a terrible tourist for places so recommendation wise I'm kind of stuck on food things and bars. Let me know where you're going to be staying around or if you want to meet up or anything.

Also duckmaster: I would have been disappointed if that story wasn't based on real life.

ReindeerF posted:

Do you bank with a Russian bank or something? Heh. This is like pretty unheard of to happen even once, let alone twice.

duckmaster posted:

ReindeerF posted:

I think you can get around $50 a night at The Plantation in Phnom Penh, which is probably in the range of what you're looking for if I guess right. There are plenty of cheaper options too, of course. Siem Reap I'm not as sure about. I always stay at Velkommen in either place, but it's probably not what you're looking for, heh.

Gail Wynand posted:

I actually just got a recommendation for the Teahouse from a friend who lives in Phnom Penh, it's only $38/night and looks perfect, very urban boutique style which is what I prefer.

ReindeerF posted:

I keep hearing good things about it, yeah. It opened just after I was going there a lot and I missed it on my bachelor party trip, but I'm interested to hear how it goes. SITREP ALMA CAFE PLZ THX. Planning a trip over a bit later this year!

Tytan posted:

I think Zeppelin guy misses you dude... hard to tell though.

Tytan posted:

Hey I should be in your town for a few days too in September.

Gail Wynand posted:

What are the current lodging recommendations for Phnom Penh and Siem Reap? Figure a max budget of around $50usd/night.

Chair Huxtable posted:

So I wasn't sure whether to post this in E/N or here, but I've been mulling it over for at least five minutes. My boyfriend came home dead drunk and passed out on the floor for a couple hours, then just stood up and walked naked out of the room, ignoring all shouts like a good sleepwalker.

I figure you guys have more experience with this. What exactly should I be doing?

v Not even gonna answer that. Seriously, dude.