It's just so bl00dy difficult trying to buy the most basic of items around these parts, besides the recently opened big hardware store Surigao City is dire for shopping, Butuan City (some further 4 hours down the mainland) is little better so, come Sunday, we're taking the van to Cagayan De Oro for shopping in the SM City and Robinsons Mall there to name but two, a couple of nights in CDO then, depending on how we get on and perhaps a night in Butuan City on the return, back to Surigao City for a couple of nights there whilst collecting a pressure tank, 2 water pumps, some car/van horns, an electric sander and ordering 14 beds, 2 ovens, a washing machine, some 100 boxes of floor tiles, anything else I can think of whilst we're doing other shopping, renewing my visa and hopefully meeting with an attorney.
The accommodations building is almost complete, I guess we'll be laying off the masons later this week, the foreman is being fired this coming Saturday for misconduct and mislaying materials, the carpenters have the cement board underside of the roof and ceilings to put up, that'll probably take them until the end of next week, the new jackhammer shall commence duties probably next Monday digging shitpit(s) whilst we're still waiting for the well diggers to commence work having been delayed at their previous job.
Our van is disgustingly filthy, inside and out, after some 20 journeys across the island transporting nipa, cement etc. and girlfriend considers it one of her duties to clean the van :)
On the subject of Filipino idiots, besides the two previous motorcyclists I've frightened the sh1t out of, the goat, the lizard, the 5 chickens, the 3 dogs, the duck and the cat I've clobbered ... I got my first Filipino with the van this morning.
Having observed him beside the road with a long length of bamboo I gave him an approaching warning with the twin turbine horns (these idiots don't take any notice of regular horns) and as we continued approaching it appeared that despite having 'horned' him he was about to block both lanes of the road designated a national highway with this bl00dy great length of bamboo.
By then it was too late to risk rolling the van by a combination of swerving and emergency braking so I gave him a serious turbine horns warning just as he stuck this length of bamboo, with him attached to the end of it, in front of my van travelling at approx 80kph.
Well striking the bamboo it sent him flying and to the ground, so much so that when he came round he didn't remember anything about carrying bamboo, it transpired that he was deaf!
The villagers claimed that had he died it would have been my fault, as I explained to girlfriend that he attacked my van with a length of bamboo and it's my fault??? ... And as I further explained .. Who really would have been responsible for his death ... me or the bl00dy idiots that detailed a deaf man to fetch and carry long lengths of bamboo across a national highway?
This deaf guy was lucky, he's survived his mistake of not looking before attempting to cross the road, the previous deaf individual I encountered some 37 years ago, making the same mistake, died from her injuries!
I've got a pair of Klaxon ""Ahoooogah"" horns their way to me from UK, they might start listening to these ... unless they're deaf of course:
Wow, a foreigner goes Philippines, insists on the rules of the road that he learned in his own country, almost kill a deaf Filipino and still manage to accuse the deaf Filipino of attacking his moving van going 80kph and call him an idiot?
Since we are discussing this in an FSU forum, perhaps we should also try to get a representative from the African interior so we can discuss the mating habits of elephants.
The 'Google Genius' decides that I insist by driving to the rules of my own country yet, despite the number of different countries I have driven in, a number of years ago I would somewhat regularly drive through 5 different countries (Luxembourg, Belgium, France, England and Wales) whilst switching from driving on one side of the road to the other mid point, in a single journey.
As we went to my land today to get some 'tie wire' to, more temporary, fix the front bib/spoiler of my van my Filipino workers questioned girlfriend what had caused the damage, I watched her physically demonstrate a man carrying bamboo over his shoulder, me double pumping the horn twice and then "SPLATT" ... My Filipino workers erupted in joys of laughter and exchangement yet a Filipino exile living, and googling from, the other side of the world thinks he knows better ... Wanker :)
"The villagers claimed that had he died it would have been my fault"
Who uses Google in this case? Your own words hang you. In my country no matter how reckless the other guy is, you don't have the right to be reckless in response. Apparently the villagers agree. This is a law that makes sense not just in my country, but worldwide.
You made the Filipinos laugh, Martin? You call them idiots and still they laugh? You just made a post above about Filipinos and you did not use the term idiot. That's noteworthy.
My workers laughed at the stupidity of the guy carrying a length of bamboo sufficient to block both lanes of the road and he didn't think to look if any traffic was coming before entering the road.
It's just as well a motorcycle wasn't coming ... he could have taken their head(s) off with his bamboo.
I wasn't reckless, I was travelling within the speed limit along a national highway when he stuck his length of bamboo in front of my vehicle.
Danny told a funny?!!
No danny,,,,, I actually have a nice balanced pair. Women seem truly impressed with them,,,, holding them,,,, lifting them a little and letting them bounce softly!
I let them satisfy their fantasies and curiosity!
I don’t remember how one of the girls and I started talking about it,,,, but it was about underwear,,, maybe I went shopping? I was telling her how my everyday or work underwear was wearing out,,, with two holes in the bottom of the shorts. It’s from a lot of walking,,, but if she didn’t know that,,,, her first thought would be; WOW,,,,, What a man!!!!!
And NO Danny,, the holes are side by side,,, not front and back!
"This deaf guy was lucky, he's survived his mistake of not looking before attempting to cross the road, the previous deaf individual I encountered some 37 years ago, making the same mistake, died from her injuries!"
You killed one deaf person and almost killed another. You have not learned anything from that. If it happens again, it is clear that you will do the same thing. He attacked a moving van going at 80kph? How can a person, deaf or otherwise do that? Calling this reckless might be stretching it. When assigning the blame you have to bear some responsibility, even if it is a small percentage.
In many countries, probably also Philippines, it is against the law to have somebody killed while you are driving, accident or otherwise. Perhaps it would pay to yield to a pedestrian.
My big issue in you in this case is making fun of deaf people, stupid or otherwise. It is bad enough you make fun of FSU forum members whose ventures you long have given up on.
I nor my girlfriend have made fun of the individual, indeed she was quite shaken up by the incident whilst I've referred to the individual by a choice name or few but without making fun.
It was after being questioned by, and explaining it to, my workers that my workers had a laugh however, not yet fluent in the Visayan language, I'm not sure if they were making fun of the guy or the stupidity of such a situation in general.
But that's these simple Filipino's for you ragingbull ... But then you're one of them also aren't you?
Rb,, you are to be commended on bringing such an important topic to the attention of the forum!!!
I think it would be wise for us to be able to identify these “deaf” people better!
Rb,, can you give us a detailed description of these,,, “deaf” people??
What do these people look like? How do they act? Where do they hang out?
Do these people wear a deaf moving vehicle sign on their back??
RnB,,, are there a lot of deaf people in the Philippines??
Perhaps some kind of public service announcement, telling deaf people to be more aware of their surroundings would be helpful?
Maybe a daily infomercial on the radio would help????
"I watched her physically demonstrate a man carrying bamboo over his shoulder, me double pumping the horn twice and then "SPLATT" ... My Filipino workers erupted in joys of laughter"
"I nor my girlfriend have made fun of the individual, indeed she was quite shaken up by the incident whilst I've referred to the individual by a choice name or few but without making fun."
Go ahead and deny it, but the above are two conflicting statements. Making fun of people, deaf or otherwise and calling them choice names, that is what you do. See the people coming to the forum to get revenge?
Yes, I remember those, one has a radio receiver to receive media and music etc. broadcast from a radio station ... aaah, memories, if only we could receive radio broadcasts here ... BUT WE CAN'T ... THIS IS THE JUNGLE ... We don't even have landline telephones here!!!!!