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Gail Wynand posted:What are the current lodging recommendations for Phnom Penh and Siem Reap? Figure a max budget of around $50usd/night. $50 is pretty swank for Cambodia. I think I spent maybe $20 at most of the 4-star places I stayed there. Personally, I would return to Angkor Spirit Palace in Siem Reap in a heartbeat. It's a few minutes tuktuk out of market areas, but it's a nice trip and the hotel provides drivers. They have a lovely swimming pool and the room they gave me was hilariously huge. The whole building is stone and there are carved nagas all over. It was also the same price as the shithole I started off in that was about a two minute stagger from the nightmarket. I'll put up with a lot from hotels in SEA as long as there's a decent lock on the door, but the stench of sewage is not one of them.
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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. Obviously it's too late for this now (hope he didn't die!) but it's a myth that waking a sleepwalker is dangerous. The only dangerous thing about it is that when you shout at them they might dream that the person standing there shouting is someone else and if they don't like that person in the dream they'll try to hit them. Shout, slap and stay back. Having said that, Reindeer was right - just ignore it till the morning, he'll probably make himself a nice little den under the kitchen table. For future reference now you know you've got a sleepwalker on your hands make sure you lock the door to your balcony (assuming you have one). Sleepwalkers don't have any problems with opening doors but are notoriously useless at opening locks; my flatmates have caught me trying to drunkenly/sleepwalkingly open a simple bolt lock so I could "go outside for a smoke" despite the fact we smoke in the entire apartment. p.s. there is yet another girl lying next to me, I'm such a slut.
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How dare you post here and not tell us that you're now the owner of Khmer440.
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Sheep-Goats posted:How dare you post here and not tell us that you're now the owner of Khmer440. Too expensive  I offered 7k, he wanted 25k. He'll come running back though, and I'll be all like "So, about that 5k?" 
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He survived just fine, but I rather wish he had walked off the balcony.
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True love, Asian style.
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duckmaster posted:p.s. there is yet another girl lying next to me, I'm such a slut. Reminds me of my time in Vietnam, godspeed you hunk!
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Senso posted:Reminds me of my time in Vietnam, godspeed you hunk! I walked her out to the street to get a tuk tuk and she was very impressed by my Khmer. Which was "BONG! Tuk tuk?" Backpackers 
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duckmaster posted:p.s. there is yet another girl lying next to me, I'm such a slut. Do you make them wear Santa hats?
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Obviously, it's not like I can sell them in June is it?!
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Ringo R posted:How much do foreign diving instructors make in Thailand? Depends on a whole bunch of stuff, but anywhere from 20000 baht per month to 200000 baht per month, depending on the structure of their So yeah, there's quite a diverse range. Dive masters usually make gently caress all and videographers about 110% of gently caress all, depending on how much they sell.
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Basically, if you meet a backpacker wearing a Santa hat out of season it's the mark of duckmaster. Please give her directions to the nearest clinic.Chair Huxtable posted:He survived just fine, but I rather wish he had walked off the balcony. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 07:59
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Face saving, gotta love it. While we're still somewhat on the subject of Cambodia, is it true that Cambodian ATMs don't accept 6-digit PINs? Wikivoyage seems to think so. Just want to know whether I need to bring the American ATM card along.
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Interesting - I've never heard of a six-digit PIN. We may have hit the point at which I am completely detached from our culture, heh. If you can't get a definitive answer here, I'd register a sock puppet and ask at K440. Probably have to endure some stupid guff from the locals, but might also get ans answer.
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I'm almost certain Acleda accounts have a 6 digit PIN, so their ATMs will work. Pretty sure ANZ and most others allow you to enter more than 4 digits too. I'll have a check next time I'm at one.
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ReindeerF posted:Interesting - I've never heard of a six-digit PIN. We may have hit the point at which I am completely detached from our culture, heh. If you can't get a definitive answer here, I'd register a sock puppet and ask at K440. Probably have to endure some stupid guff from the locals, but might also get ans answer. No big deal if they don't accept SG cards, I'll just use my good old 4-digit PIN American ATM card.
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Taiwan and Korea are also 6-digit to the best of my recollection.
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Gail Wynand posted:Singaporean ATM cards have 6-digit PINs, as do HK cards I believe.
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ReindeerF posted:Oh, so it's some futuristic Blade Runner poo poo. That explains it. No, I've got the same thing on my card here in Manila, so that can't be it.
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Vietnam also has 6-digit PINs (at least the HSBC I was with). Seems like a common thing in Asia then.
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If I don't hang out with Duckmaster by New Years I will consider it my greatest failure in Asia.
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We need to have some sort of regional goonmeet where we all sit around awkwardly drinking Chang and making very vague references to how many cigarettes we're posting home in very well packed Fedex boxes to supplement our incomes. Not that I do that, oh no. That's my main source of income It'll be the one you least expect who goes home with the hooker.
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Reindeerf is actually a pimp.
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Which one of you is a prostitute is what I want to know
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Well I don't need to do it anymore because I've got enough cougars sending me money every month but DON'T JUDGE ME OK.
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lets not bring singapore into this we are all very cultured people
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You should come down to Bangkok's famed gay nightlife district and check out the very cultured Singaporean gay dudes who cruise it, because, man, they're hilarious. To a one, they're completely rocked up with crew cuts and they dress like blind people set loose in a sporting good store. My gay Thai friends all make fun of them.
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ReindeerF posted:You should come down to Bangkok's famed gay nightlife district and check out the very cultured Singaporean gay dudes who cruise it, because, man, they're hilarious. To a one, they're completely rocked up with crew cuts and they dress like blind people set loose in a sporting good store. My gay Thai friends all make fun of them.
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kru posted:lets not bring singapore into this we are all very cultured people lol there is more culture in a yoghurt than this thread and I should know about culture, I've been to Koh Samui.
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I was in a lesbian bar in Singapore once where the barmaid was asking us 'what is your favorite colour' for personalised cocktails. Each and every one of them tasted like Listerene. Every single one. Also Gail, you free this Friday? We still havent met up and I'm sorry about that
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kru posted:I was in a lesbian bar in Singapore once where the barmaid was asking us 'what is your favorite colour' for personalised cocktails. Each and every one of them tasted like Listerene. Every single one. (Ok, admittedly it was the only lesbian karaoke bar I know of.) Plans on Friday are up in the air..I may be meeting up with some friends for Mexico's World Cup match that night. But I should be available earlier on regardless.
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I met some Singapore goons in Taipei once. They really wanted to get drunk.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I met some Singapore goons in Taipei once. They really wanted to get drunk. It was me fyi
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I had to duck out early. Did you accomplish your mission? Also, that bar moved and is now super classy. It depresses me.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I had to duck out early. Did you accomplish your mission? Also, that bar moved and is now super classy. It depresses me. We ended up having 3 bottles of jack so yes. Roxy99 was awesome and now I am sad.
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kru posted:Roxy99 was awesome and now I am sad. Oh hey I went there a few times when I briefly lived in Taipei. Best of the bunch that I ran into.
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Finnair has a sale for Helsinki - Bangkok - Helsinki 599 euros. Oh poo poo. Here we go again.  Just need to decide dates. How is October in Thailand? This time i'll travel alone and pick a nice island to stay in for at least four weeks and a week in Bangkok. Nice bungalow, hammock and a nice ocean view is what im after. Maybe some snorkeling and a lot of swimming. I'm thinking Koh Tao but im open for suggestions. Only been in one Thai island and it was Koh Lanta.
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Barfolemew posted:Finnair has a sale for Helsinki - Bangkok - Helsinki 599 euros.
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Koh Mak and a few smaller islands nearby are cool too, but getting there is a pain.
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