I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

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I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby dogtanian » Fri Feb 01, 2019 4:03 am

Bogota and Medellin. It’s actually safer than London. I can walk around at any time during the day or night without people trying to sell me coke or stab me with a zombie knife. Even when the shifty-looking Venezuelans pop out of the shadows, they just want me to buy chewing gum. And there’s no Islam. I think there must be some kind of ban.

How do I get residency in this place?!!
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby Kurt » Fri Feb 01, 2019 7:42 pm

Colombia is awesome. It was certainly more dangerous than London when I was there in 2004 but still really pleasant and filled with wonderful people and really good French food but really poor coffee (except for a few places).

The Grand Tour was there as well for two episodes. I watched it only for that (May, Clarkson and Hammond seem to be missing something since leaving Top Gear.)
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby Lost Boy » Fri Feb 01, 2019 8:36 pm

My brother was a missionary in Venezuela back in 1999. He told me a funny story once of two cops on a motor dirt bike flying past him, one with an FN FAL slung over his back. They pulled up to a house the same time as four or five other bike loads of cops from different directions. A dude wearing nothing but shorts jumps out of the second story window onto a tin roof while shouting curses at the police. The cops all sling up their rifles and proceed to administer an overdose of lead poisoning. He hits the ground perforated and dead, thoroughly drained of his life blood. One of the cops walks over to the thoroughly well-done corpse, pulls a revolver from his waistband, and drops it on the dead guy. The cop then turns to my brother, smiles, and puts a finger to his lips as to say, "Shhhhh." My brother looked into it and found the guy was wanted for murdering a grandma and a 13 year old boy.
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby nowonmai » Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:50 am

What did you do? Only another year and your beard might be good enough to come back with a Serbian passport.
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Postby el3so » Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:51 pm

No mention of thicc hookers and cheap blow?
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby Devlin » Sun Feb 24, 2019 4:38 am

Poor coffee, Kurt ? Weird, I would not expect that there.
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby rickshaw92 » Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:43 am

[quote="Devlin"]Poor coffee, Kurt ? Weird, I would not expect that there.[/quotthe beer sucked too but the charlie was awesome and practically free.
Im reallly fuclimg pissed but fespite that I can still hit a tarfet at 1000m plus. mayVRVe bnot tonight but it qint beyond the wit if man. Nowhammy.
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Postby el3so » Sat Mar 02, 2019 2:11 am

rickshaw92 wrote:beer sucked too but the charlie was awesome and practically free.
Guess that after all these years that is the true mystery of the Flag to me. All that travelling, dope and booze and you never once got at least temporarily enthralled by the affordable company of some sultry BABT strumpet with an intricate full back tattoo?
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby ROB » Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:22 am

Pretty sure he saving himself for Shivers.
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby sparrow » Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:29 am

ROB wrote:Shivers.

Haven't seen her around here for a pretty long time.
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby ROB » Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:07 am

Guess she got sick of relentless abuse.

Who would have guessed?
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby Devlin » Fri Nov 27, 2020 7:11 am

Anyone been in the last six months ?
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Re: I’ve been in Colombia for the past few months.

Postby Kurt » Fri Nov 27, 2020 5:28 pm

Devlin wrote:Anyone been in the last six months ?


I know a flagger who is living there. PM me for details if you want.
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