Originally published via Armageddon Safari: Fingered (figuratively speaking, obviously) by German state media, the radical “white supremacists” of — *checks notes* — Indonesia have been exposed, reaffirming the age-old adage that if everyone is a Nazi, no one is a Nazi! You know, the nation-state of Indonesia that’s: · 87% Muslim · 100% brown outside of a tiny smattering of (presumably Nazi) expats · 6,700 miles from Berlin · In the southern hemisphere But whatever. German state media’s got yarn to spin, the punchline of which is “give us control over your social […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: “Horrendous” also applies here, but I didn’t want to oversaturate the headline with adjectives. (Tucker Carlson’s “more verbs, less adjectives” mantra is the best writing advice perhaps ever dispensed.) Often, in East and Southeast Asia, picking out the Chinese based on purely physical features is more of an art than a science. Related: My Gold-Standard Expat Memoir: Back and Better Than Ever With the Second Edition While it’s true that, as a rule of thumb, compared to their Southeast Asian peers, Chinamen tend to have lighter […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: If you have no idea what the headline means, please understand that you’re not alone. It mystified me as well. Let’s back up. This exhilarating journey into the nonsense world of BBC Pidgin English began innocently enough with a video X fed me. “No carry your phone enta toilet! Your mama, wife, or husband don cut you dis warning. Make you no carry your phone enta toilet!… Toilet na where we dey poopoo and dis our poopoo dey carry bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Your eye […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on modern Bangkok. Via Bangkok Post (emphasis added): “Forty-four men, many wearing only underwear and testing positive for illicit substances, were arrested during a raid on an illegal drug party early Saturday in Bangkok’s Wang Thonglang district. The operation, led by the Metropolitan Police Bureau, took place around 1.30am at a three-storey building on Soi Ramkhamhaeng 21. The premises reportedly hosted a private party targeting LGBTQ clients, with reports of drug use and suspicious activity. Police ordered activity to cease immediately upon entry. They found […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: I recently stumbled upon a true gem of an X post from @kunley_drukpa — not necessarily a ringing endorsement of expat life in India, but an expert treatise on the “low trust society” that rings all too true for anyone with experience in the Third World. A small excerpt: “A few years ago now I spent some time in India. One of the more lasting impressions I have from that period was the degree to which the low trust environment there (of a kind) wore me down mentally and transformed […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: Sometimes stereotypes hold true. Case in point: Asian men do indeed, as a rule of thumb, as anyone who has watched Japanese pornography may have noticed, tend to have smaller-than-average packages compared to those of the European persuasion and definitely pitted against the Africans. (I discuss issues related to the phallus in the context of living in East Asia as an expat extensively in my top-selling memoir, Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile.) Accordingly, the Asian market is rife with all manner of pills and potions to […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: “Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain? Tell me, have you these in your houses? Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and becomes a host, and then a master?” -Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet Of all the cancerous cultural exports America has inflicted upon the unsuspecting innocents of the Third World, the mega-shopping mall is arguably the most unforgiveable. Overpriced soulless condo buildings […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: On account of grim demographic trends and unyielding pressure from the West, Japan may be about to get a lot more colorful, in a manner of speaking, and culturally enriched. Related: Polish High Court Rules National Sovereignty Supersedes EU Authority, EU Sues Via Newsweek (emphasis added): “Japan logged its fewest births on record last year and more than twice as many deaths, according to a new government report, with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba calling it “a quiet emergency.”… Japan continues to post grim demographic milestones as births decline and its […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: At the Thailand Cultural Center MRT, recently, next to the standard no-durian infographic — the king of fruit’s smell comes off as obscene to many people and is therefore banned from public transport and hotel rooms — there sat a new addition to the list of prohibited substances and activities on the subway: upskirt pics, later to be uploaded and monetized on some shady dark corner of the web. The posted official anti-upskirt warning from the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority The upskirt video/image industry has […]

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Originally published via PJ Media: What follows is a (mostly) unedited excerpt from my critically acclaimed, gold-standard expat travel memoir/existentialist treatise, “Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile”: The degenerate felon with whom I had come to briefly reside in South Georgia in 2006 through a series of unfortunate events, in my younger years, asked me for a cigarette. Tyrone had none because he refused to buy any. Inhaling deeply the smoke he hadn’t paid for, Tyrone once said to me: “Get it how you live.” For sure. November 12, 2018: Me and […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: In the Big Mango, the extremely friendly prostitutes outside the “massage” shops on the street all tell me I’m “so handsome man.” Related: Critical Insights: What Makes Thai Prostitutes Superbly Talented The strange Indian men who prowl those same streets all tell me I’m “lucky man.” Lucky and handsome! I feel so fucking special every time I step outside. (Forget SSRIs or self-medication. If you’re a farang in Sussex or Cincinnati or wherever feeling low on self-esteem, a holiday to Bangkok will set you right as rain.) Anyway, as […]

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A quaint fishing village on the Pacific in the middle of nowhere, Santa Cruz, Mexico is best described by its proximity to Puerto Vallarta, which itself was a fishing village until a few decades ago when some gringo celebrities turned it into a sodomy-laden tourist destination. Related: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in Full Color Santa Cruz is still the real deal. Farmers ride horses where they please and shirtless motorbike riders with their toddlers on their laps don’t wear helmets. Cockfight Above: A bona fide cockfight, during which farmers strap razor […]

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In Guanajuato, I discovered something I never wished to stumble upon in Mexico and I never did anywhere else in this beautiful land: the dreaded Chinese tourist, the scourge of the Seven Seas, bane of all decency, destroyer of innocence. This is not racism; it is fact. Pose the question to anyone with experience dealing with this species of tourist, as I have to numerous Thailand tour operators: mirror, mirror, on the wall, who are the worst tourists of them all? They will tell you without blinking an eye or […]

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Having spent time in other Mexican locales like Oaxaca and Merida, Puerto Vallarta seems very much not Mexican in the traditional sense of the word. It’s basically a sprawling series of condos, hotels, and shopping malls on the beach – with a healthy smattering of pharmacies selling illicit concoctions banned for over-the-counter sales in most of the world in between — much in the same way that Phuket has become in Thailand. Here’s what I saw in Puerto Vallarta. While the vast majority of the city has a brand-new feel, […]

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