NALS, I just want to publicly acknowledge your excellent post! Very well said.
What amazes me:
The look on tourists faces when they see locals dancing to Reggaeton!
What ****es me off:
Ex Pats who want this country to be like what they left. My answer: you don't like it, go home.
Funny how both sides treat the other as uneducated little kids in these discussions, feeling pitty for the otherside for "not knowing any better" in whatever is being discussed. -NALs:ermm:
yes, there are tonnes of things i HATE about DR, but there is just as many things i love. and even thou on a pop street i may look as cospicious as a tarantula on a birthday cake - i am trying. and man, i am loving it!
celt202, would you like me better to write in polish?
ok, it is "conspicuous" not "conspicious", will run my posts through spell-check next time... :ermm:
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ah, what an ignorant! "da" is RUSSIAN. in polish would be "tak" (which accidentaly means "thank you" in scandinavian languages).:cheeky:
thank for your compliments
conrad (or korzeniowski, in polish) has never leart to write english properly, his secretary was always correcting texts before they reached a publisher. cheeky monkey, he was!
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Huh? Have you been to any dominican joints? You will never see a 50 something dominican guy with a 20 year old novia. . . . .yeah right. Why project your feelings on age difference on a country where the culture is very different than the states.
I am 43 and my novia is 29. . . . .my last novia was 14 years younger than I am. . . . .
My novia's ex husband is about 40 and my ex novia's ex was older than I am. . . . .
So what is the problem? Some dominicanas prefer older men. . . .some don't. . . . .
Whew, do I disagree with that statement!
How much interaction do you really have with Dominican guys between the ages of say,,, 18 - 25? I can tell you that a great majority of them have absolutely no social skills or manners. Not even the so called educated ones, or ones from middle class families.
Young Dominican guys wanna stick their sausage into as many girls as they can, and tough luck for the girl if she gets pregnant. That's her problem. Those little babies popping out are just trophies for the guys.
Ever hear a Dominican guy brag about how many kids he has? Like father, like son.
I'm a gringo that usually avoids other gringos. What, you think I left "there" to come here and spend time with "them"? I left for a reason. Here on DR1 is as close as I choose to come to being around gringos.
I have one gringo "friend" who does nothing but biches and moans about dominicans and how dirty they make things, and then proceeds to throw whatever trash is on my passenger side out of the door before he gets in for a free ride. Axxhole.
Tourists? Why doesn't someone write a pamphlet to hand out to every tourist arriving here. Answer the 30 most common questions, so I don't have to. Every single time. I'm bored. If they ask me "Do you speak English?" I answer "sprechensie deutsch?" and walk away.
As for dominicans. I am doing my best to make them recognize a California salute, every single time I go for a spin. Maybe someday they'll realize that they DON'T know how to drive very well. In the meantime, I'll continue to vent.
1- i once saw a gringo,, sorry... saw an extranjero americano go to colmado to buy something "fiado" (buy something on credit); most local dominicans who don't earn much to buy stuff do go to colmados to buy stuff on credit.. but seeing a blankito extranjero do this was odd/funny to me. Coming from USA and don't have enought money to buy a cigarette pack? come on mann.
yes i totally agree, i have absolutely decided to have zero to do with expats. i live privately and quietly. why would i too, live in a paradice then choose to emerse myself in the expat 'scene'
yes i totally agree, i have absolutely decided to have zero to do with expats. i live privately and quietly. why would i too, live in a paradice then choose to emerse myself in the expat 'scene'
Interesting how some people see things and make assumptions.
If this "gringo" you saw in the colmado buying smething on credit did just that, then he obviously has been here a while, is familiar with how things work, and has a good relationship with the colmado.
I have things delivered from the colmado all the time. I think that twice since I have been here (over a year), I have called the colmado and asked them to send me something on credit because I had no cash on me and didnt want to walk out to the ATM. The difference between me in those 2 instances and the Dominicans who are forever buying things on credit is that the next day, I went to the colmado personally to thank the owner and pay my outstanding bill.
So, you scoff at this "blankito extranjero" who you saw buy cigarettes on credit. Well, I bet you he paid the bill soon afterwards.
To all the Dominicans who lose their money in the bancas or buy the jeppetta on credit and everything else and then have to go to the colmado and buy things on credit and then not pay for AGES I have one thing to say..... "come on mann" (your words).
lol and all that jazz
Larry