I hate the lies!

[arenas809]

Golo, Golo, Golo...

I would be curious to know what you consider to be the latest fashions. Aren't you the same person that confessed to having a pair of Fila's? LOL...what do YOU know about fashion? I haven't heard anything about Fila since Grant Hill had a endorsement deal with them and he was still on the Pistons in like 96. Thanks to you Fila still has their production plants open, the CEO is pacing back and forth waiting for your check...Please don't mention Tommy or Nautica as latest fashion, last time I had one of those shirts was 7th grade, now a junior in college, are the tight pants still in down there? I mean too baggy isn't cool, but your platano shouldn't need a oxygen tank after you take your pants off either...anyway, if you want to know about latest fashions come to Miami...

patiently waiting for your response...

 

[arturo]

I think you hit the nail on the head arenas809. You only need to peruse fashion ads or have a look at what's featured in the upscale shopping centers, or what the Peperoni crowd wears to realize the Dominican version of the latest fashions is laughably out-of-date.</p><center><img src=http://listindiario.com.do/revistas/ritmo_social/images/04d.jpg> <img src=http://listindiario.com.do/revistas/ritmo_social/images/05b.jpg> <img src=http://listindiario.com.do/revistas/ritmo_social/images/14.jpg> <img src=http://listindiario.com.do/revistas/ritmo_social/images/16d.jpg>

 

[jose?to]

Arturo...

Fun stuff!!

By the way, they will have you know that Mejia's Rolex is not just a Rolex, but a Rolex President, with a diamond dial and after-market diamond bezel. If Leonardo were here, he would sure add his collection of Diesel and Prada footwear, and Dolce&G. shirts to this discussion. Oh, yeah, and those super-duper, wood and gold, hand-made French sunglasses frames, the kind you find in the DR1 gallery. Cool frames, Beavis.

-Jose?to
Perpetually old-fashioned, let's go to Luckenback, Texas, with old, faded Levi's and dirty boots.

 

[Jon S.]

I think you hit the nail on the head arenas809. You only need to peruse fashion ads or have a look at what's featured in the upscale shopping centers, or what the Peperoni crowd wears to realize the Dominican version of the latest fashions is laughably out-of-date.</p><center><img src=http://listindiario.com.do/revistas/ritmo_social/images/04d.jpg> <img src=http://listindiario.com.do/revistas/ritmo_social/images/05b.jpg> <img src=http://listindiario.com.do/revistas/ritmo_social/images/14.jpg> <img src=http://listindiario.com.do/revistas/ritmo_social/images/16d.jpg>

Too funny.....when I lived down there I just wanted to laugh at people in their faces for what they're wearing. I did the "wear jevito clothes" thing for a while(maybe a year) and that worked just fine but why would I wanna look like a fashion victim.....I remember when I wore camouflaged garb one night. I went to Plaza Central when it was still the place for the cool crowd to shop at ('96, '97 maybe) and it wasn't filled with stupid kids tryna start fights and guess what.....2 to 3 months later a whole lotta people were wearing all sorts of clothes like mine, with the whole outfit and all.....before Leonel came into power, no one could wear anything resembling military uniforms. Those people just looked corny and ridiculous. Pero nada, when in Rome do as the Romans(unless they can't dress:devious

 

[arturo]

I know what you mean. For me, the humor is not so much in the outfits as in the pretentious airs of superiority - - in a country near the very bottom of any objective measure of economic development.

In spite of the widespread educational disadvantages, I find the parochialism and detachment from reality astonishing.

 

[Robert]

My experience of fashion is that it usually changes depending on what country/culture you are actually in.

What might be in for the Miami crowd, might be completely out or different for the Milan crowd.

By the way, I think you will find that "Fila" are doing very nicely in Europe.

Fashion variances are global...

 

[AZB]

Hey, this is caribbean so the fashion is a little different here than in USA. Please don't tell me about american fashion. Girls in miami dress like hookers, tatoos and excessive makeup. fashionable miami, NYC guys wear ear rings and sometimes even nail polish, faggot stuff.
Normally a gringo dresses up like a construction worker, so does the women. I can understand some jevitos have no variation in clothing styles and I even laugh at some of them, but these jevitos are the pseudo rich folks. They are not really rich but they try to act like one by wearing cheap material clothes but if you really meet a rich javito, you can't even come close to their fashion styles. The girls have the body and style in santiago. Bring on any hooker looking girl from miami or from NYC and an average Jevita from francifol bar or from gold's gym will make her look like a cheap prostitute from 42nd street.
Thats what kills me about you folks, you come here and go to ambis, casa blanca and frequest a few car washes and think you have figured out the whole DR.
I go to USA a few times a year and believe me, americans don't know shit about fashion.

 

[Jon S.]

By the way, I think you will find that "Fila" are doing very nicely in Europe.

Fashion variances are global...

Come on now Rob, they're Italian. They have that home-court advantage

 

[arturo]

lmao, I understand this guy influences fashion trends in North America, including Miami. </p><center><img src=http://www.scad.edu/fashionshow2001/intro/oscar.jpg></p></center>AZB, I'm very slow but even I have been able to get your point about Santiago being everything that is good on God's green earth maybe 100 posts ago. : )

 

[Jon S.]

Man, yall need to relax about the fashions and all that......Rob is right, what looks cool here won't be cool over in DR. I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to all that stuff so it doesn't matter what you wear to me, I'm not the one with those clothes. I gotta say I agree with what AZB is saying about some folks out here wearing horrible clothing, specially back in Miami with all those old retired folks who shouldn't be outside with those clothes and also that those jevitos(as) that you see out on the street all the time ain't the real deal, as an example I could mention people I went to school with over there like the Bassa kids, those kids have a truckload of money and they would show up to the clubs with anything out of a fashion magazine. People like that are the ones who actually have a sense of style over in DR, not the kids on la Lincoln or anything like that, just chillin' on the corner by el Dume drinkin' beers and talking shit all damn night.....AZB, I don't know a damn thing about Ambis or any of those places, all I knew when I was there was Schizzo, Trio, Jubilee(I don't know if people still go there) and places like that.

 

[jose?to]

We have arrived...

Honestly, Onions&carrots, I've been professing my "pariguayudez" for a long time now. And without apologies. It's comforting to know that I now have company.

One of the coolest things anyone ever said to me was when one of my buddies in Higuey said, "Jose?to, mientras que todo el mundo aqu? en el barrio te consideraba un pariguayo, y hasta yo mismo, ahora te consideran respetuoso y humilde. Nunca cambies." Now, that may not mean much to golo and company, and to los caden? de Higuey que andan montao en sus yipetasas, but it was cool. And even if he was jerking my chain, I still reacted accordingly. He knew that I believed him. If he was making fun of me, well, only HE knew that.

I still get ridiculed--in a way--by doctors, lawyers, engineers and cadenuses in Higuey. It's all good. They don't even know that I know. It's the coolest shit in the world. I even see that here on DR1, ESPECIALLY when some regular poster tells me that I sound like an intelligent guy. And especially after I write something that's considered corny by the "cool" and cultured set.

Have a good day.

-Jose?to
The epicenter of all things "pariguayo"

 

[Onions&carrots]

Joseito, keep it up my man.

Golo and co. S.A. thinks his way is the best way. All these guys don't realize they are only living one way. They are conformists to the dominican standards. They are all conservatives and in favor of the status quo. It's better to be free and along with the vast majority of the people.

They want to be seen and heard. They are no different than Happy Happy Hipo and his entourage. I'm truly tired of all that crap. It wouldn't bother me but for the pompous attitude that usually accompanies such ostentatious displays.

I remember once I was with my grandfather visiting some rich dodohead in and around Stgo-Rdgz. Some wealthy farmer; by the way I was dressed he thought I was my gramps janitor. he told my gramps i couldn't come inside the house. My gramps told hime i was his grandson. He looked in total shock and disbelief.

Later on he confessed to me that he wish he could be free like I was but couldn't because de lo que dirian la gente y por su familia. He had a little prissy fantamosa daughter who thought she was hot split.

Well at least my family isn't against my rebellious ways.

The Pariguayo Club of which I am card carrying member.

 

[arturo]

Joseito, you rock!

 

[Larry]

Golo and co. S.A. thinks his way is the best way. All these guys don't realize they are only living one way. They are conformists to the dominican standards. They are all conservatives and in favor of the status quo. It's better to be free and along with the vast majority of the people.-Onions and carrots

O&C..you speak of being a nonconformist and being free but earlier in the thread you told me to walk around the campos in the DR and dress like and pretend I was Dominican instead of a Gringo.What kind of freedom would that be if I cant even hold my chin up and be proud to be an American?Even though I never agree with you I always admire your intellect until this thread where your thinking seems warped.Please expand.
Larry

Another thing O&C that I notice is that you seem to categorize everything...these guys are liberals and thses guys fall into the conservative category.And since you have placed yourself into the liberal category , you feel like you have to take that stance on every topic.You refuse to allow yourself to look ayt things from different angles and you have buddiesd yourself up with untra-liberal dummy joseito(aguy who would jump off of the Brooklyn bridge if Jesse jackson told him to.).You speak of being a "non-conformist" and then you say it would be best to "go along with the vast majority"(quote taken from above).This is a huge contradiction.I can see that "flicker of light" in some of your posts.Why dont you take down the walls you have created in your mind and let the oxygen flow through and feed it?Become a free thinker.I know you have it in you.
Larry

 

[Pib]

Did someone say something? Nobody spoke.

 

[jose?to]

Larry (I hate DR)...

Wassup, Larry?

Now, I've been called an ultra-liberal dummy before, but NEVER have I been called an uNtra-liberal dummy. And I've always maintained my ignorance on all things academic--and this is no exception--but what does the word 'untra' mean? If it's a typo, then no biggie, I've been called worse.

By the way, as stated before on previous posts, I love to be underestimated. As a matter of fact, I usually set myself up. It is the coolest shit in the world this side of Minute Maid Tropical Punch.


-Jose?to
"I've been searching for the daughter of the devil himself, searching for an angel in white...a woman who's a little of both."
Is she in sight?

 

[Golo100]

Arena

Hey pal, you're the one trying to tell me about Miami. I own a flat there and I travel there whenever I feel like it. I get a salary as a consultant from Miami and don't even have to show up for work and is paid electronically.

South Beach to me is like Lincon Avenue here. So don't tell me about Miami fashions. The kids in my neighborhood and the joints I frequent can outspend you by miles. Let me know anytime you want to meet me at the Acropolis so I can show what the latest fashions are here and in Miami.

If you go to the parking lot of the Acropolis or Bella Vista Mall Mercedes E-55s, Ferraris and Porsches are a common sight. Some of you people who never mingle with these crowds have to really search yourselves. You just don't know what's going on in DR.

Maybe what you guys ought to do is go to Vail or Chamonix during skiing seasons and see that there are perhaps more Dominicans skiing there that most of the other countries.

There are Dominicans who fly to Miami every weekend just for the hell of it.

Of course, if all you do is visit small towns and hotel areas you will always have this peasant attitude about the rest of the Dominican world.

And here is a refreshing thought for you. Linen, which is adored by Italians and is thought of by Americans as top chic, is looked upon by Dominicans as second class. You see few Dominican men wearing linen shirts. Foreigners who come to DR wear bermudas, yet Dominicans who wear bermudas may be confused with prisoners. In Dominican jails to prevent escapes men visitors must wear long pants and prisoners always use bermudas. If you are seen in the streets wearing bermudas you may be picked up for questioning by police. Like Robert said, every country has its fashion. If you don't stay with what Dominicans wear here you could be ridiculed as much as you may ridicule a Dominican in your own country for wearing Dominican styles.

Dominicans do not ride bycicles in the streets. Bycicles are looked upon as second class transportation. Unless you are a professional racer, a Dominican who rides a bike probably cannot afford a car. Yet, Americans and Europeans swear by their bikes. Foreign teachers in DR drive to schools biking, while their Dominican counterparts in American schools drive late model cars. The motoconcho, for example, became the poor man's car. 40 years ago it was common to see men riding bikes with women seating in the horizontal bar. Americans like to walk and ride trains to work. Dominicans hate to walk and would not ride trains. Trains were used for hauling Haitians and sugar cane. If they build a commuter train in DR it would take some time to get Dominicans to ride it.

TW

 

[Indie]

"Swear I'm gonna find you,
getcha baby one of these nights!"

-Indie
Careful, Jose?to. I hear women like that give men pleuresy.

 

[arturo]

Diabetes

Experts agree that diabetes is related to diet and exercise, such as walking or riding bicycles for example. Why is the incidence of diabetes amongst Dominicans so high in comparison to other nationalities?

 

[Indie]

Too much sugar in our coffee and too many pasolas, maybe?

-Indie
My dad always wanted me to be a doctor.