>>2883324
Exactly.

>>2883354
Zerg rush ftw

Bro Filipinos cook like cavemen, they just throw a fish over open fire, no salt, no marinade, no sauce (other than z0y sauce), boil some rice, and call it a meal. It's literally level 1 human food, zero effort or creativity, zero flavor, just bland and boring .

Another thing, why when you go to a local cariendaria, the food is served cold. I get it, you can't make everything fresh, but these people have never heard of the revolutionary concept of microwaves, or perhaps throwing it back on the pan for 2 minutes so your not eating cold food. Again, just zero effort.

Put a salad in front of a Pinoy, go ahead, I dare. They will look at you like your crazy. Food should only consist of 3 things.....rice, unseasoned meat, and zoy sauce.....if your feeling spicy, you could throw some instant noodles on top of your rice lol

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>>2883515
the best meats are honestly those cooked perfectly with nothing but salt desu. The best grilled fish I’ve ever had was done just like that, straight from the ocean, home-made sea salt added. Adding anything like a marinade to it would just dilute its taste.
You’re kinda right to some degree, but I have to disagree that this is the norm for their food culture in general. Stuff like sinigang and paksiw consists of numerous vegetables added, and their street-side BBQ is made up of a very decent marinade combining kalamansi, onions sauce, sugar/honey, garlic and the occasional lemon grass.
Even their staple breakfast dishes are mostly marinated.

>>2881794
Yes, I do realize how phone cameras do this.

I don’t travel often and haven’t flown in about 20 years, but I have to take a 6-7h flight on short notice. Most of my expenses are covered, but I’m practically broke and need budget options for a carry-on suitcase and a backpack. Since I can’t spend much, I don’t expect them to last long, but they should at least last for 2 to 4 flights. I don’t think I’ll be flying with budget airlines, but ideally, the dimensions are such that I don’t have to worry about that. It's a terrible feeling to be so unprepared. I had saved up money for the trip, then it was canceled and I spent most of it, and now the trip is happening after all.

>>2882876
my backpack was $3 and my duffel was $3. I bought it in china and india. if you have the time buy it on ebay, should be $30 and $20 or something. just do a small 20l molle bag for personal item and a carryon sized duffel for carryon. for anything more than that ship it to yourself by post if you must, but you really shouldnt need more than that

>>2882876
Just get whatever they have at ross or tj max or overnight ship something on amazon

I bought the level 8 voyager suitcase in yellow and I gotta say the handle design looks stupid and it makes me self conscious, that being said it's a pretty nice suitcase

>>2873988
2 undies per day is my rule when packing though I never shart myself

>>2874328
Just put 5 drops of iodine in the water

>>2873988
Don't they have coin-op laundry places there?

You can wash out 95% of the shit in your hotel sink with just some soap and your hands. I've had to do that too. After that, you can hand them to the laundry operator, who frankly is probably used to that.

>>2874028
> I’m a fat fuck who just can’t handle feeling the slightest hunger so fasting is very difficult.
Go on the keto diet for a few weeks. Hunger disappears. Eliminate all carbohydrates (rice, bread, whatever).

You should probably try to find potassium tablets (potassium gluconate) or potassium salt ("No-Salt" or "Salt-Lite" if you were in the U.S., which you aren't) because when you start doing keto, your potassium levels will drop, and it can cause tachycardia. I thought my heart was gonna explode. This stabilizes after a month or so, so the potassium supplements aren't forever, but it's actually dangerous while you're in the intro phase.

>>2874082
Really? I'm about 275 and I use a 2XL. People just have different fat distributions.

I had a friend a few years ago who looked ridiculously fat compared to me. A lot of his fat was around his face and neck. Mine is mostly dense fat in my stomach area.

>>2873988
Based.

>>2879448
Boring as opposed to what? Riding the city bus to your McJob in Richmond, Virginia?

Thru-hiking the AT for any significant stretch is something which 99% of Americans would never even attempt, and even most homeless Americans refuse to entertain. So it is anything but common. AT thru-hiking is about as anti-establishment a lifestyle as there is in flyover America. You don't work, you don't pay taxes, you don't pay rent. You buy food with your EBT card or eat what is given you, you spend your days staring at trees, and you cross paths with all sorts of visionaries who you'd never meet on a suburban greenway trail full of bossbabes walking their dogs past homeless druggie bums, or on a remote wilderness trail with nobody at all. Instead of feeling like an outcast from society, which is the prevailing norm for vagabonds in America, you can become part of an established community that is thousands strong. And all it takes is setting one foot in front of the other over the course of a few weeks.

>>2879579
good luck on your thru hike

>>2879710
Is it possible to find temporary or seasonal employment within the Appalachian region? Previously I had worked at a resort in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, but after returning for a second time I had a falling-out with management over vaxx status. They basically told everyone I was a plague carrier who needed to be isolated in my room, even though I wasn't sick and in fact it was some other vaxxed person who had tested positive for COVID.

Vermont has a low unemployment rate. It's also a smol state. But it's not really Appalachia; the culture is very different.

>>2879992
>But it's not really Appalachia; the culture is very different.
it's not exactly undiscovered
it's close enough to major population centers in and between ny and boston to attract a wealthy crowd

I think a lot of the fun of appalachia is going some place that is less discovered. Obviously the Smokies and maybe the New River Gorge aren't gonna be empty, but there's tons of other pockets of Appalachia, most nowhere near "the Trail", that you could get lost in through various adventures without seeing tons of others.

>>2881808
>However if you want to be able to get out and explore off the beaten path then at least having the option to rent one is a really good thing to have, and my biggest regret is never having got one while I was there (especially when I was living in the sticks).
*A scooter, that is. Definitely don't need a car as a single student.

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>book non refundable place in Ximen for extended length
>Window (yeah it said it but I didn't expect it to be fuckin huge)
>Not high floor
>can't cancel
Welp it's going to be a long summer, any advice on trying to combat the noise? Anywhere easy to get sleep aid?

>>2881443
Thanks for your perspective anon, the minimum wage comparison is especially helpful.
>At your budget airbnb is not at all gonna cut it
I've begun looking for places and it looks like I should be able to rent either a room in a sharehouse or a small studio for 5-9k NT a month. With some basic budgeting it looks like I'll have about $9k NT ($285 USD) left over per month after rent and language center fees. It might be doable if I live frugally (which I'm okay with), but definitely gonna head over with some savings.
>Get as good as possible at Chinese now
I took your advice on this one too,
I've got an Anki deck with the 1000 most frequent words that I study daily, and I try to get about an hour of listening practice per day. I have a textbook to supplement these as well, but honestly find it difficult to use without taking a class.

>>2881808
I appreciate the advice anon.
A big part of why I picked NSYSU is because the campus looked so beautiful. That and Kaohsiung is a lot cheaper than Taipei.
>Your money will go a bit further if you stay at a uni dorm
Unfortunately NSYSU doesn't have dorms for language center students. They sent me some resources to find rentals though, and prices in the area look pretty reasonable.
>I'd suggest saving up money or finding a second source of income
That's the conclusion I came to after doing some budgeting. I'll be fighting wildfires this summer, so I should be able to save 5k USD at minimum before I move. With aggressive saving probably more like 8-12k. From my budgeting it looks like it'll be more than enough buffer if I can't stretch the stipend money far enough.

>>2882270
If you have a room for 5k NTD you should be alright. I didnt know airbnb had rooms that cheap
For learning Chinese what helped me the most was listening while reading and looking up unknown words. But I was already coming in having a baseline knowledge of Japanese so I already could interpret a lot of the characters

>>2879929
Use ibon on 7-11 or familymart for tourist tickets can do too

Shit heads like that getting curb stomped is why Thailand is so safe for everyone else.

>>2882724
i mean, i could have actually got police and the courts involved and his "refugee" status would have been revoked
he then would have to be sent back to fight in the frontlines and get vaporised by a Russian drone

i guess that would have been the "alpha male" move, but i literally couldnt care less, had way more important things to do on my trip than to indirectly end the life of a retard

>>2876414
>white
That's literally an arab/jew mutt, retard

>>2876414
>>2876415
he's literally just a drunk idiot behaving like shit in a country you really shouldn't behave like that in. Should have known better, instead went there thinking he's the king and can abuse anyone he like. Deserved.

>>2882734
>Expecting common decency and following of basic laws from thirdies is folly
We know. That's why you're thirdies, the inability to respect fundamental property rights is the central building block.

>>2880932
skill issue

>>2880932
>stinky fish sauce
You're confusing it with Viet food
>>2880927
How can you get your benis hard when being naked in the same bed as another man? Euros are so zesty lol

>>2880974
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_pla

>>2880978
I stand corrected. I guess they both use it, but Thai fish sauce is more pungent

>>2877422
>I remember one telling one cousin I didn't own any crypto, and he looked at me like I was insane.
Well, I mean, let's face it, you are.

At least buy some Bitcoin ETFs. I prefer ARKB because Cathie Wood is actually supportive of Bitcoin, unlike Larry Fink (Blackrock) who hates it but likes making money off anyone buying stuff through his company.

>>2882310
Why do you think so many men from the west fly to SEA or LATAM for sex?

>>2882341
I found them to be loose in Germany for me and would assume Scandinavia is similar. California has every breed of women on earth. Even liberal places like CA now are infected with “princess treatment “ dating culture where you have feminists trying to claim traditional dating perks that them, i.e. maxing out the benefits of both sides, leaving the negatives, offering nothing, and getting away it because of simps. Basically a boss babe feminist adopting the mindset of a poor Latin American girl towards traditional dating, LESS the part where she is traditional

>>2882356
I’ve done that without paying hookers and would like to see and sleep with white women for a change without simping as described above

>>2882310
>comment of an incel
>goes on to talk about women as objects who sell their pussy
get a grip, this is embarrassing

Copenhagen is the best Scandi city and definitely worth a visit. It’s also more lively than the others. The rest of Denmark is a nothingburger.

Gothenburg and Stockholm aren’t bad but more austere versions of what you can see elsewhere. Sweden also has disgusting ghettos.

Oslo is a boring and bland city, but otherwise Norway has the greatest Scandi landscapes.

Finland is probably not worth it unless you’re specifically into their nature.

And don’t visit in winter, obviously.

nah only for nature.

and the women are only hooking up with chads not with a 5'9 burger like you atleast im assuming thats what you are

>>2882565
>With Spirit Airlines folding, there is now a whole fleet of planes being auctioned off and a map full of budget routes nobody's flying.
All these planes will either be repo'd or sold at auction

>Maybe someone at Hooters will notice how great of an idea this is and give us what we want.
LMAO no, no one wants hooters airlines back other than boomers and one time never to return customers who once they realize the schtick will give it up.

>Maybe someone at Hooters will notice how great of an idea this is and give us what we want.
I remember seeing them near the end. the terminals were always overweight boomers flying it. Wow a hot stewardist, wow okay now you realize you see them for a total of 30 minutes. Just go the fuck outside I'd rather not pay for a dumb gimmick when I can get to my destination cheaper and people watch there.

>>2882565
>Hooters Air has been officially gone for 20 years
Were other US airlines' flight attendants exclusively hags and fags like today or was it better back then? They would have a monopoly on hot stewardesses today if they could maintain standards

>>2882644
European and Asian carriers have half the personnel costs and can afford to be picky, especially on long haul. This is why American carriers love partnering with carriers like Singapore, Qatar, and JAL. Mediocre service and nickel and diming customers is tolerable on a short haul, but it grates a lot more on a long haul

How much of a coomer do you have to be to care this much about the flight attendant? Just give me my seat, dirnk/meal, and fuck off.

>>2882632
>All these planes will either be repo'd or sold at auction
Idiot detected.

Most of Spirit's fleet was leased. The planes were taken back by the actual owners, who are now stuck trying to lease them out again, which will probably involve repainting them and maybe doing an interior upgrade.

>>2878920
There's an overlook somewhere on the terrace mountain trail near Raystown Lake (which is in your picture-set), but I can't figure out where exactly it is, and I'm too intimidated to contact the Army that runs it.

I think there's also an overlook at the Seven Springs Ski Resort that's accessible to hikers too but I can't figure out where that is or if it's worth it.

I think most people in Breezewood would be better served by keep on keeping on towards Ohiopyle and the Laurel Highlands.

I've always wondered why they've never tried to do more tourism development right in and around Breezewood itself.

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Carolina beach is great they got a bunch right on the beach

>>2878924
There are a bunch of nice little waterfalls east of Uniontown PA. Look up the natural water slides, sugar run falls and Ohiopyle Falls.

>>2878920
>Seven Springs is about an hour away. That's a really great little ski resort.
Kek, no it isn't. Maybe if you love paying high prices for small hills fake snow, and tons of ice.

Anyone have that photo of the abandoned motel where the door to one room is open and you can literally see the enormous blood-spray pattern from someone who got his head vaporized in the room?

It used to be a /trv/ staple but I haven't seen it in, I dunno, fifteen years maybe.

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>>2880840
>my thread is so useful and insightful. I am a meaningful contributor.

>>2880840
Are we allowed to post that webm of the poojeet getting the attention of a white woman in a taxi, and then whipping out his dick and jerking off while staring at her?

>>2882630
Medellin used to be very popular for the sexpats. Unfortunately, the locals figured out they could lure stupid gringo men to random apartments with just a hot chica, and then kill and rob the evil gringoid.

If you look up @robkroese on Twitter, he's gone to Colombia a few times. His latest adventure there looked pretty good. I forget the name of the town, though, and I'm not going to doomscroll through five months of tweets to find it for you tonight; you'll have to do it yourself. Nice comfy coastal town with lots of seafood restaurants and ocean recreational stuff.

>>2882630
I like Bogota and Medellin. I don't speak any Spanish. The cities are shitholes but the landscape is incredible. I usually end up getting an apartment for a month or two, having rappi monkeys deliver my food, and working in a cozy airbnb with a view.

>>2873948
Rosemont has that giant convention center.
Park Ridge has the birthplace of Hillary Clinton.

>>2873842
Avoid interacting with black people. Like the other guy says, ignore them if they try talking to you, but also run away if they are moving to approach you. I am not joking.

This is especially true in the late evenings and after dark. Just walk the fuck away even if you have to turn around. Run if they pursue. Keep track of nearby stores you can duck into, like Starbucks or car dealerships or whatever.

There was a recent video on Twitter of some semi-elderly couple walking to their car on Lower Wacker Drive after leaving some event. Some homeless black dirtbag approached making comments to them. The man told the dirtbag to back the fuck off, and his fucking retarded wife grabbed onto her husband. What neither of them seemed to ever notice during the whole thing was that the black homeless dirtbag had a knife in one hand that he was holding sorta behind his hip.

Somewhat related, there was a "social justice major" college student who apparently didn't get the memo, and she went wandering around there some summer evening I think last summer. Anyway, she got knifed to death by one of her pets, and nothing of value was lost.

The blacks in Chicongo will absolutely fucking kill you if you give them half a chance.

>>2873842
Walk fast, avoid standing still on the middle of the pavement, lean against a building if you gotta stop and check something. Get ready to do lots of walking. Buy a Transit pass

>>2876036
>Buy a Transit pass
Lots of nigger attacks happen on the CTA. If you see a group of young niggers wandering down the subway car's aisle, get ready to defend yourself. An in-law of mine was attacked a few years ago; he was sitting with his 7yo son just talking to the kid when five nigger "teens" came by, one said "he looks like he deserves it", and the next thing he knew he was getting beaten up, thrown to the floor, and kicked.

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>>2881014
>Anyway, she got knifed to death by one of her pets, and nothing of value was lost.
Wow, it's been four years since this >>2881014 happened. Time flies!

>>2877464
You forgot the part where they stick a tag to each item with those plastic clothes tag things, so you have to spend longer cutting them all off than it would take to hand wash them yourself. I think they do this for the same reason they don't take underwear, they don't wash customers clothes separately, they just throw them all in together

>Japan
>do laundry
>NEVER dries right unless you waste like 300 yen
why...

>>2880892
For just 100 yen, clothes that are only slightly damp will be dry by the next day if you hang them up in your room

>>2880892
It’s cheaper to buy disposable underwear at Daiso than to wash your own

dont smell bad? dont eat shit and alcohol? dont be fat?
idk i never smell bad and im not just saying that from my own pov. my gym socks smell less than some peoples fucking jeans.

>>2882801
You've literally made this thread before. Why did you need to make it again. You're fucking insane