From: d4g4h4 on 23 May 2010 05:37 Andy Pandy <spam8times(a)wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote: > "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in > message news:1jiwc89.bizrkippijcwN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk... > > Andy Pandy <spam8times(a)wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote: > > > >> "aquachimp" <aquachimp(a)aquachimp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message > >> news:ba3aa7bd-3e9c-4c1a-87aa-ec18110bfeb5(a)q13g2000vbm.googlegroups.com... > >> > Oddly enough, there's not much mention about this kind of thing > >> > here. > >> > Or does it go by another name. > >> > >> I suspect it's never mentioned here because most people who post > >> here > >> are independant travellers who don't go on "beach" holidays or to > >> typical package holiday destinations where these scum operate. > > > > Never bumped into them myself, certainly. Maybe I just look as if > > I'm > > skint? :) > > They're looking for "couples", and although you may travel as a couple > I guess you might not be obviously identifiable as such ;-) Unless we're getting stopped by the Rome police for committing the crime of being an interracial couple. :) -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: aquachimp on 23 May 2010 06:00 On May 23, 11:37 am, d4g...(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > Andy Pandy <spam8ti...(a)wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote: > > "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in > > messagenews:1jiwc89.bizrkippijcwN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk... > > > Andy Pandy <spam8ti...(a)wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote: > > > >> "aquachimp" <aquach...(a)aquachimp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message > > >>news:ba3aa7bd-3e9c-4c1a-87aa-ec18110bfeb5(a)q13g2000vbm.googlegroups.com... > > >> > Oddly enough, there's not much mention about this kind of thing > > >> > here. > > >> > Or does it go by another name. > > > >> I suspect it's never mentioned here because most people who post > > >> here > > >> are independant travellers who don't go on "beach" holidays or to > > >> typical package holiday destinations where these scum operate. > > > > Never bumped into them myself, certainly. Maybe I just look as if > > > I'm > > > skint? :) > > > They're looking for "couples", and although you may travel as a couple > > I guess you might not be obviously identifiable as such ;-) > > Unless we're getting stopped by the Rome police for committing the crime > of being an interracial couple. :) > > How curious; I say that because at one point during our little holiday, on account of what we found to be rather odd reactions to the fact that we are an international couple, I mentioned to my wife that we should consider ourselves lucky we are both at least of the same colour. One of the funniest was just outside a jewellers. The lady stepped out to entice us in. She spoke to us in French; My wife and I replied in French just as i was saying something to her in English. The Jeweller's reation. "French and English, together.. how can it be?"
From: aquachimp on 23 May 2010 06:02 On May 23, 12:00 pm, aquachimp <aquach...(a)aquachimp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > On May 23, 11:37 am, d4g...(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor > > > > (*)) wrote: > > Andy Pandy <spam8ti...(a)wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote: > > > "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in > > > messagenews:1jiwc89.bizrkippijcwN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk... > > > > Andy Pandy <spam8ti...(a)wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote: > > > > >> "aquachimp" <aquach...(a)aquachimp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message > > > >>news:ba3aa7bd-3e9c-4c1a-87aa-ec18110bfeb5(a)q13g2000vbm.googlegroups.com... > > > >> > Oddly enough, there's not much mention about this kind of thing > > > >> > here. > > > >> > Or does it go by another name. > > > > >> I suspect it's never mentioned here because most people who post > > > >> here > > > >> are independant travellers who don't go on "beach" holidays or to > > > >> typical package holiday destinations where these scum operate. > > > > > Never bumped into them myself, certainly. Maybe I just look as if > > > > I'm > > > > skint? :) > > > > They're looking for "couples", and although you may travel as a couple > > > I guess you might not be obviously identifiable as such ;-) > > > Unless we're getting stopped by the Rome police for committing the crime > > of being an interracial couple. :) > > How curious; I say that because at one point during our little > holiday, on account of what we found to be rather odd reactions to the > fact that we are an international couple, I mentioned to my wife that > we should consider ourselves lucky we are both at least of the same > colour. > > One of the funniest was just outside a jewellers. The lady stepped > out to entice us in. She spoke to us in French; My wife and I replied > in French just as i was saying something to her in English. > The Jeweller's reation. > "French and English, together.. how can it be?" er correction, my wife replied in French just as I had been saying something in English.
From: Martin on 23 May 2010 06:19 On 23/05/10 12:00, aquachimp wrote: > On May 23, 11:37 am, d4g...(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor > (*)) wrote: >> Andy Pandy <spam8ti...(a)wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote: >>> "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in >>> messagenews:1jiwc89.bizrkippijcwN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk... >>>> Andy Pandy <spam8ti...(a)wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote: >> >>>>> "aquachimp" <aquach...(a)aquachimp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message >>>>> news:ba3aa7bd-3e9c-4c1a-87aa-ec18110bfeb5(a)q13g2000vbm.googlegroups.com... >>>>>> Oddly enough, there's not much mention about this kind of thing >>>>>> here. >>>>>> Or does it go by another name. >> >>>>> I suspect it's never mentioned here because most people who post >>>>> here >>>>> are independant travellers who don't go on "beach" holidays or to >>>>> typical package holiday destinations where these scum operate. >> >>>> Never bumped into them myself, certainly. Maybe I just look as if >>>> I'm >>>> skint? :) >> >>> They're looking for "couples", and although you may travel as a couple >>> I guess you might not be obviously identifiable as such ;-) >> >> Unless we're getting stopped by the Rome police for committing the crime >> of being an interracial couple. :) >> >> > > How curious; I say that because at one point during our little > holiday, on account of what we found to be rather odd reactions to the > fact that we are an international couple, I mentioned to my wife that > we should consider ourselves lucky we are both at least of the same > colour. > > One of the funniest was just outside a jewellers. The lady stepped > out to entice us in. She spoke to us in French; My wife and I replied > in French just as i was saying something to her in English. > The Jeweller's reation. > "French and English, together.. how can it be?" We haven't been to Crete since 1984, but at the time I found it substantially more expensive than anywhere we had been in Greece, including Athens and the people very commercial minded. My wife is a multilingual Francophone Belgian, but nobody ever commented on this in Greece.
From: BP killed my turtle on 23 May 2010 06:36
On May 23, 10:31 am, aquachimp <aquach...(a)aquachimp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > On May 23, 8:19 am, BP killed my turtle <michaelnewp...(a)yahoo.com> > wrote:> On May 22, 9:13 pm, aquachimp <aquach...(a)aquachimp.freeserve.co..uk> > > wrote: > > snippy > > > > > > > > > > > > Cautiously succinctly expressed. But easier said than done. > > > > > > Put it this way, I popped along here into Usenet Street and in > > > > > posting this thread I have in effect approached everybody. What's > > > > > more, though not Greek, I did so bearing the Gifts of information and > > > > > opportunity/excuse to converse. > > > > > > Not everyone has avoided me. > > > > > > A holiday, such as what I've just had, is a feast of freedom and > > > > > borrowing the phrase "we are what we eat" feasting of freedom lends us > > > > > to living more freely and, I suspect, even free from a conscious sense > > > > > of freedom. So when approached, as we were, the under current sense of > > > > > freedom expressed itself thus, like someone whispering in your ear > > > > > saying... ooh go on, listen, check it out, you'll be doing him a > > > > > favour, you're free to walk away any time you want. > > > > > > Trouble is, the same undercurrent, which is the real Trojan Horse at > > > > > work here expresses itself in the same way as each greater step of > > > > > risk is encountered. And that's why I think (though making it up as I > > > > > go along) is why some people get duped, other than those who are > > > > > tortured into it through tedium, hunger, thirst or as one couple I've > > > > > since read about, the woman was diabetic, became ill as a consequence > > > > > of all the missed meal delays, but the scammers still wouldn't let > > > > > them go until the husband signed on the dotted line. > > > > > going on holiday is no excuse for unplugging your brain.... > > > > I'm not sure what you're saying with that generalisation. > > > > If you're in Greece and get approached by someone speaking Dutch, > > > asking if perhaps you are Dutch, but you're not and don't speak a word > > > of it and subsequently haven't understood a word... the fact that you > > > simply continue on your way with hardly a shrug does not amount to > > > evidence that you've kept your brain plugged in. > > > > Equally, if,say you're English and get approached my someone with a > > > British accent enquiring if you're English, running away like your > > > scared of your own shadow doesn't mean your brain is plugged in any > > > more than taking a moment to engage in line with all the traditions of > > > your upbringing means you've unplugged your brain. > > > would you have done this in your own country ? > > Hmm, I'm unsure what you mean by my "own country" > you dont know where you live ?! |