Originally posted by markreyes at 21-8-2010 21:27
If you truly believe this, you must not hang out in certain social circles, just as I probably don't hang out in yours.
Originally posted by markreyes at 21-8-2010 21:27
I do not think I come from the highest level of society, far from it.
Make your bloody mind up then - which is it? The elite or flash brash classless new monied or are you talking about the slums. I think you are making up a persona for yourself and keep forgetting what you are supposed to be.
Originally posted by markreyes at 21-8-2010 21:27
And as to your comment about Gweilos, I really don't see how race has any import to this discussion. If you want to bring up the race card, do so, but I think you will find that being Caucasian in Hong Kong does not always have benefits. There are advantages and disadvantages to being any race in any country of the world. If you travel enough, you would know this.
My comment was not a race card, it was an observation relating to the protectionism and racist attitude to non hong kong people in hong kong. I would hasten to add that if you are an American born hongkie as I suspect you to be, you are on the receiving end of this as well, inside your elite /' not elite circle you pretend to exist in. You will also find that being a good honest open person of the world rather than being enslaved in the mindset of an ex small outpost of the British empire (both the US and Hong Kong included then) you are treated with significantly more openness and respect by the world over. You are clearly insulted personally by this thread because, having tried to show you are a high roller big spending man of the world, you now believe that you have been shown to be maybe a little insecure, shallow, and clearly not as successful in your life as you like to pretend to be. It back fired on you. If you are rich or poor; young or old, asian, european (apart from French) black green or gold coloured I would share a beer with you and be accepting of your culture, whether I am in your land or you are in mine. Regardless of the petty mindiness of some of the people in HK towards Gweilows (an insulting word to me, but I think it is funny) I don't really care because my life is good, and I find the country good. As for the people who think they can impede my happiness, I take great pleasure in at least attempting to fuck their wives and daughters. And cumming in their hair.
Originally posted by markreyes at 21-8-2010 21:27
My analogy is on the precept that people will pay cash for a WG. Now, generally, I think we can assume that the higher the price, the better the product. In the case of a car and house, we may be talking about a Victoria's Secret model versus 800 HKD for that Lisboa freelancer. While not always true, it very often follows that "you get what you pay for".
This is a fundamental truth you seem to be missing. And in their case, if you can eat Prime Rib instead of Hamburger, why not? You can only eat dinner once a day anyways.
Your analogy still fails the logic test because it misses a fundamental error of judgement in expecting something sold at a higher price is better. Firstly, this is why the Beijing rich elite are being sold bottles of vinegar labelled as fine wine and gambei-ing them down. Higher price is no guarantee. Same with hookers and made more complex due to chemistry. The highly priced and rated Gaile I personally found to be uninspiring and mechanical. Sure she is cute, but she is going through the routine. One of my walk up regulars at under half the price is better looking than her, and give a better service all round. So you can not class buying people in the same way as buying a product. Just does not go, and the ultimate proof are the ugly russian bints of shit service who pop up on this DB some times and all over Wanchai. Expensive, ugle and shit. Still worth the extra money?
Originally posted by markreyes at 21-8-2010 21:27
Akka, I have no problems with how you like to pursue girls without bringing up money. And I'm comfortable if my other friends like to buy some girl a car and house to fuck her. And I'm comfortable that I do both, depending on the situation.
All I was doing in my posts was describing the mentality of myself and some people to bring some diversity to this thread. You seem to refuse to accept that some people have radically different opinions and mindsets than yours, and that these are not because of deficiencies in their lives, but of greater resources and different priorities.
You don't need to get all personal and start shooting off personal attacks just because some people don't go about things the way you do, or the way you think it should be done. As you so eloquently put it, acceptance is the first step.
This never has been a personal attack. It is not defensive either. It is challenging your point of view for no other reason that a lot of it is not consistent, and I suspect stretching the truth a little. You can not with authority describe the mentality of people who are not you. All you can do is describe your perception of what they are doing as opposed to what they actually do. They stick a girl in a flat in the mid levels, tell everyone and her she has been bought it, fuck her, quietly kick her out or get her paying rent. That is most likely. If you are one of the friends, you hear and believe she has been bought it. You believe it. You tell everyone including us your perception. Have you been there when the deeds are handed over? Doubt it.
Originally posted by markreyes at 21-8-2010 21:27
I guess the part where you don't understand me is that I'm not trying to buy them, or their happiness with money. In the case above where I bought her something a little bit expensive, I had already bought her out of the KTV overnight. I just felt like shopping, and she did help me pick out something for myself as well.
OK - So now I understand. You're a woman. Do you struggle with reverse parking as well?
Remember the old saying folks
A fool and his money is easily parted.
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