Well, Mary Anne from the New York Visitor's Center is quite friendly (and attractive).
Posted on 10/31/2014 7:00:53 AM PDT by C19fan
Many of us say, "That was the worst place in the world!" But really: How many of us truly have the authority to say that? Lee Abbamonte does. He's the youngest American to visit all 193 member nations of the United Nations, and he's well on his way to visiting all 324 on The Travelers’ Century Club list, which includes territories and unique destinations in addition to nations. (Lee expects to have 321 of the 324 countries checked off by the end of the year).
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Well, I ran into one gas station attendant who was unbelievably rude, so maybe I shouldn’t be so unfair. If he were in Texas he would have been horse-whipped. There were plenty of nice people but that one really soured me.
I've got a reputation, don't I?
We actually got beer and hard liqueur in South Yemen. 4 cases and 4 liters per month. It was part of our compensation. Selling it was a firing offence, immediate, that is the next plane, which might be next week.
Suppose someone is an alcoholic? Do they force them to drink?
60 miles from the nearest paved road, probably 100 miles to the nearest flush toilet (besides ours), 3,500 hundred ugly construction guys an no women.
Aw hell, I know where Barack's headed after the election!
I remember when they brought Neal 3 and 4 on line. I worked at a hide tannery just up the road from there. It’s now a toxic waste site. Like most of Siouxland ...
One jack@ss hated beer and was mad he couldn’t sell it.
He built a throne in room out of full cases. He wouldn’t give it to anyone, but said they could have it after he left and had farted on it for a year.
I drank more on that 14 month job than I did in 5 1/3 years of college.
Only place I’ve been where we would open a new bottle of scotch, crumple the cap and throw it away, knowing we were never putting the lid back on.
It doesn’t load correctly. The one page that did, “the multiple ATM issues were enough for me; three times in two days, the machines dispensed the wrong amount of money” was enough to stop. Seriously? His first complaint was ATMs?
I wanted to add, when I was there, they were still doing public executions by beheading with a sword. I guess they have gotten all modern now, but still public.
http://www.somalilandpatriots.com/print-8272-0
At least they built a nice basin to soak up the blood.
Surprised they can afford blood.
I’m up to 65 countries and Yemen is the only one on the Arabian Peninsula I have not been to. But from my limited list Haiti is the top worst place on Earth. Besides the horrendous poverty (I’ve seen nothing like it anywhere else from India to the favelas in Sao Paulo), Port au Prince just felt oppressively evil. Positively Satanic evil
My experience was the Yemeni were viewed by the other arabs as beneath contempt.
In the South Central, the few I got to know were hard working and a level of poverty I cannot adequately describe.
A local village of more than a 1,000 people had electricity for lights in only three buildings. The store that paid for the little generator, the government building and the school. The same generator was used to power the one water pump the village used to irrigate fields of crops from the river.
Unless you are a fetus.
Only one I’ve been in: Karachi, Pakistan.. agree shxthole.
Since the continental plate that is home to Mt Everest and Mongolia is rising, isn’t it safe to assume that the water level is not rising but that other continental plates may be shifting and lowering? There is a constant amount of water, frozen or otherwise, but the crust of the earth is rising, falling, swirling, whatever. Right?
That would make sense if the ocean level is rising in some places and falling in others. I don’t know the answer.
As far as I am concerned, Lagos, Nigeria, is the worst place on planet Earth. I’ve never experienced so much corruption in my life. It was just a horrific experience getting into the country.
My dad was on a team charged with setting up a mine in Nigeria in the 80s. There were huge deposits of ore waiting to be mined, jobs and money for everyone. The advance team went over and returned. They said customs demanded a bribe. The taxi to the hotel needed a bribe. The desk clerk had to have a bribe to find rooms. Want your sheets changed? Bribe that maid. Need a conference room? Guess what? Then they started meeting with the real professional bribe artists, the government. That made everyone else look like beginners. The end result was that his company told them to keep their ore.
Hahaha...I thought that was Naples...oh, wait...that was the ARMPIT.
(Thanks for your service!)
Had to get in the “we are the 99%” dig in there.
Amazing how congruent one’s view of humanity is with the state of your society and culture.
Well, Mary Anne from the New York Visitor's Center is quite friendly (and attractive).
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