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keycocker
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I can't speak for the people on Maui since I spent most of my life in the third world.
James Bond Gybe looked it up and found out that every place on earth where there are people there is water and roads and a gov.
He stayed in a fancy place in an African country with all the execs and started every remark with a condescending comment so the locals detested him.
Most of his real contact with the third world he got online just now.
Still confusing him though.
So tell us all the countries you went where the was NO WATER , NO roads, and so on.
They were in a movie so you didn't catch the name ,right? |
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mrgybe
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Of course, I didn't say countries did I?.........
| mrgybe wrote: | | None of those things are provided in many of the areas we serve.........as for water, water sanitation and hygiene is one of our biggest challenges. |
There a vast swaths of bush in Africa where there are only dirt roads, "airports" are small airstrips typically built by local businesses or by the NGOs themselves for resupply, and water is most certainly not provided by government. Anyone who has lived and worked there knows that.
"In Africa alone, people spend 40 billion hours every year walking for water. Women and children usually bear the burden of water collection, walking miles to the nearest source, which is unprotected and likely contaminated."
https://www.charitywater.org/whywater/
Continue to hurl out insults if it makes you feel better. I simply don't care. |
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keycocker
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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You know that you are faking it Gybe. You have never worked in any areas like that because your air conditioned company car couldn't go there.
editing your posts doesn't fool anyone.
Why are you bothering to pump yourself up like this?
No one here is going to buy you a drink for claiming you worked eradicating malaria for 25 years. You need to edit that too.
Just tell the people you were in Africa for a bit, considered yourself better than the locals, and came out to brag about it in bars.
Why all the obviously faked up stuff? Anyone like me sees your story line for what it is. We don't care man. You could be a welcome fellow traveller if you drop the contempt you show for us and the tourists.
You really are not better than us, just another sailor who deserves respect once he learns to give it. |
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mrgybe
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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This is the "third world" KC has been enduring for more than 30 years........ | keycocker wrote: | Warm crystal clear water. The seafood is Fresh.
Not "doesn't smell bad yet" which is the meaning of fresh in North America.
Once we invited Zeas for dinner and he said he wanted fish and would go get it.
No fish store.
He came back carrying fins in 45 mins with two grouper some conches and five lobster, dripping wet with seawater in a bag.
That is how hard it is to catch fish in an un polluted country.
There is a reef all down one side of the country with a lagoon between the reef and mainland. The island is about a mile inside the reef in that lagoon.
On the reef side of the island is bump and jump a mile wide and hundred miles long.
On the mainland side of the island is a large smooth water area free of coral, ideal for kiting.
No waves. Clear clean water full of sea life.
You can walk with your gear rigged from one side to the other
To sail waves you go in the channels in the reef or outside in the Blue.
We never sailed a wave for the first ten years.
It is ideal for learning.
You go from calm flat water behind the reef and sail into a bomber, get washed out into calm protected water, and circle back for another shot at it.
Most sailors keep their sails rigged near the sea all the time they are on the island.
No cars except a handful of working trucks to haul stuff.
You move by bike or golf cart. |
Intersperse this with the frequent trips he has regaled us with to Bali, Thailand, France, Maui........and now permanently located in Maui. A real third world grind. Yet with all that enviable lifestyle, so quick to lash out. Strange. |
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mac
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If not for irony, the world would be a cruel place. In America, most people get their water through either a governmental agency, or through a private company regulated by the government to assure that the water is safe to drink. As a result, water is relatively cheap and safe to drink. In Africa, where poverty and corruption limit the reach of government services, mrgybe finally discovers that:
| Quote: | | There a vast swaths of bush in Africa where there are only dirt roads, "airports" are small airstrips typically built by local businesses or by the NGOs themselves for resupply, and water is most certainly not provided by government. |
We agree on this point. |
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