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Post by theflatline on May 20, 2020 22:21:12 GMT -5
Do you remember that comically hysterical post about expats in Medellin how they thought they were a combo of Brad Pitt and Bill Gates?
If anyone has it can they post it here?
Thanks, Norm
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Post by wildstubby on May 21, 2020 5:23:20 GMT -5
theflatline said: I could get to the old PBH site but I don't know the dates. If you do, this will definitely help: www.archive.org/web/web.phpI've gone back to a lot of now defunct sites. Let me know if it helps.WS
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Post by búfalo on May 21, 2020 19:27:12 GMT -5
Don't remember that one, but the one about the colombiana asking if it was OK for her to he sleeping with her own cousin? Yup. Remember that.
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Post by gallito on May 22, 2020 11:33:26 GMT -5
theflatline No sense dredging up the past,there's only a few pbh leftovers hanging about.The glory days are gone,thorntree had a barney meltdown;alas humorous frolics have morphed into Dems and Republicans.😁
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Post by elexpatriado on May 22, 2020 11:46:34 GMT -5
Do you remember that comically hysterical post about expats in Medellin how they thought they were a combo of Brad Pitt and Bill Gates? If anyone has it can they post it here? Thanks, Norm Hi Flats, how is it going?Still in Gainseville? Ever get back to Manizales?
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Post by elexpatriado on May 22, 2020 11:59:46 GMT -5
My favorite was where Ronnel took everybodys photos , Including Calior Busts (had a different moniker then) , That guy from Pacho who left here (You know who I am talking about Scumbuster - cant remember his name--Bill or Bob-always inviting people to his place for a drink), that wierd lady from Alabama who married the Colombian guy, (always fighting with the aforementioned Pacho guy), That wierd Rubio musician guy, and a few others and put them into a "colage" with all this insulting but funny script commenting on the fotos.
Back then I was a realy paranoid Nervous Nellie and asked That Peter guy to delete all my posts.
Now I dont give a crap-so I know how newbies coming to Colmbai feel..having been there myself
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Post by gallito on May 22, 2020 13:14:41 GMT -5
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Post by wildstubby on May 22, 2020 21:15:33 GMT -5
I'm sorry I missed the PBH train. Most of my time was devoted to Colombiahelp.com. The only time there was any problems there was when a feminazi came waltzing in there and she was soundly trashed. Other than that it was a pretty good forum
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Post by wildstubby on May 24, 2020 10:46:58 GMT -5
So I used the Internet Wayback Machine and looked at some of the things on the PBH site. Its no doubt a shame that a few had to ruin it for the multitude. I did take an opportunity to check out that 'Ronnell' character, (who I was accused of being when I first came here!). Anyone who goes on a public forum and announces that they are 'independently wealthy' are probably not! Its funny when people flex their 'internet beer muscles' but to go to and physically threaten with harm, makes me glad I missed the experience. But to be perfectly honest, I thought that Colombiahelp.com website was really the only game in town.
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Post by tubes on May 24, 2020 10:54:22 GMT -5
For a long time the PBH site was an excellent source of information about life in Colombia, with almost no politics, to the point that I read it daily but never posted.
There were the usual lying freaks who one quickly learned to completely ignore but it was ruined in the end by just one or two who threatened the moderator.
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Post by gallito on May 24, 2020 13:14:59 GMT -5
Yes tubes most of these forums end up as political platforms to drive personal agendas.Sadly what started out as a place for the likeminded to meet,exchange ideas and friendly banter turns into a nasty war of words. Colombia is a fascinating country,a diverse culture as are the colorful characters attracted to it.
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Post by wildstubby on May 24, 2020 13:26:16 GMT -5
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Post by gallito on May 24, 2020 14:47:17 GMT -5
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Post by Mondongo on May 24, 2020 17:42:11 GMT -5
Loved me some PBH at times, but the back and forth with some french dude and the moderator, i forgot her name, fighting with most of the members, and nasty pictures just got to be too much...those people were damn strange..... at the point where I said to myself, "Who needs this shit?"
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Post by tubes on May 25, 2020 11:26:57 GMT -5
The irony of the PBH closure is that the people involved were not (or were no longer) residents in Colombia and had little to do with the place.
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Post by scott on Jun 3, 2020 11:06:42 GMT -5
"Gator" was my favorite PBH poster. Hope he is well.
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Post by búfalo on Jun 6, 2020 9:29:39 GMT -5
I forgot about Gator. Also Utopia cowboy
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Post by theflatline on Jun 17, 2020 11:30:54 GMT -5
I actually ended up meeting a fair amount of people from PBH.
Rubio is still in Bogota. Once you get to know him is a actually a good guy. He is exactly like his posts. When I am in the country I usually have a few drinks with him or dinner. And he is one hell of a piano player and singer. Always nice to hear "Whipping Post" in Colombia.
Bushwick Bill - He was super cool and hilarious in real life. However, he had a drug problem and he went into a coma and was in ICU for a month but he recovered but he would not stay off the drugs and he overdosed in shitty hotel.
Johnny2009 and I still hang out when I am in country. There is literally no other expat in Colombia that knows the country better. Hell, he knows it better than most Colombians.
FranciJo is not from Alabama but Georgia. She actually got a teaching degree from a Colombian University and teaches school at one of the most prestigous academies in Cali.
I do not know what happened to Bill Turley, the retired school prinicipal in Socomo. I heard horror stories about his place from people who visited him.
Onthemoon finally got out of the country. She got engaged to a fat gringo and ended up on TV. On the NatGEO show preppers. She got pregnant left him for a gringo in Florida, had a baby, then left that gringo for one in Colorado where she currently lives. I met her in Cali with Jimbo where her, Franci Jo, and I went out drinking.
John Gordon, Johnny2009, Rubio, and Baby Girl all came to my bachelor party in Bogota, and Baby Girl came to my weddng in Manizales. Baby girl was gong to be in Colombia at the time of my wedding and we ended up flying down seated next to each other on the plane.
Saltador and I are good friends and communicate often.
I am in the US and work for Apple as a Senior Tech from my house. Apple will let me live either in the US, Canada, or Ireland but not Colombia.
The problem with PBH was with Desi and Darloup. They felt they should run the whole thing and they had absolutely no sense of humor. Could Dish but could not take it and were heavily anti american.
No one threatened Darlop until he called a members wife and yelled at her on the phone and then the gloves were off.
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Post by gallito on Jun 17, 2020 12:58:50 GMT -5
Johnny2009 aka Johnnyb***** and I are good mates;met him on LP,halarious dude.I metup with him a few times last decade for pints at Parque 93 London Calling. We chat quite ofteen.
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