BajaNomad - I don't get it

I don't get it

bancoduo - 3-18-2006 at 06:34 PM

How did all those beautiful colonial towns get to be without Home Depot and walmart. Maybe they are just an illusion. Wow> Lets get excited,theres a new Home Depot in town! Go China! Whats wrong with you people? Why did you go to Baja? :moon::moon::moon::moon::moon::moon::moon::moon::moon:

bancoduo - 3-18-2006 at 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by lencho

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Originally posted by bancoduoWhats wrong with you people? Why did you go to Baja?

What's your point? :?:

I don't think it takes mensa to understand my point.

--Larry

And obviously never will

Dave - 3-18-2006 at 07:19 PM

Home Depot, COSTCO and Wal-Mart aren't being built for gringos. They're being built for MEXICANS. The tragedy is neither loss of cultural identity or architectural blight. Instead, it's the fact that less than 50% of the Mexican population can afford to shop there.

You sir, are an elitist snob.

bancoduo - 3-18-2006 at 07:25 PM

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Originally posted by soulpatch
To answer your questions:
1. People built them.
2. There are so many things wrong w/me that I should write a book.
3. Because I like it.
Is that simple enough?

You must have gone to a contempory public school. You sound like a recent HS grad-u-ate. :mad:

:moon:

Bruce R Leech - 3-18-2006 at 07:32 PM

why cant every just shop where they want with out someone picking on them :?:

bancoduo - 3-18-2006 at 07:38 PM

Every society in based on its culture. Once it is gone you become a hoar for some other culture. Do you really think the Mexicans care about your garden clubs ETC. You are the elitest :fire:

Sorry, no garden clubs

Dave - 3-18-2006 at 08:01 PM

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Originally posted by bancoduo
Do you really think the Mexicans care about your garden clubs ETC. You are the elitest :fire:

But I have lots of golf clubs.

Wanna play, Skippy?

You can 'be the ball'.

Dave - 3-18-2006 at 08:07 PM

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Originally posted by soulpatch
Actually, I went to a school taught by penguins...... My answers were overly simple responses to rhetorical questions.....

Would have to be, wouldn't they? After all, everything is either black...

Or white.

bancoduo - 3-18-2006 at 08:12 PM

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Originally posted by lencho

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Originally posted by bancoduo

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Originally posted by lencho

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Originally posted by bancoduoWhats wrong with you people? Why did you go to Baja?

What's your point? :?:

--Larry

I don't think it takes mensa to understand my point.

Well, I happen to be a menso (http://www.menso.org/) and I still don't get your point. :rolleyes:

you can't even spell the name of your society. Me thinks you are brain dead. Another Nam graduate.

--Larry

[Edited on 3-19-2006 by lencho]

comitan - 3-18-2006 at 08:28 PM

Larry

You must really be bored getting into these mental confrontations.

comitan - 3-18-2006 at 08:38 PM

There's nothing on TV that I want to watch.

comitan - 3-18-2006 at 08:55 PM

L

I think you may be right about his qualifications because Mensos are very smart people but sometimes lack in common sense. (Tongue in cheek)
that is not meant for you L.

Dave - 3-18-2006 at 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by lencho
Well, I happen to be a menso (http://www.menso.org/) and I still don't get your point. :rolleyes:

Larry, is this one of your inventions?

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/The_20Menso-Pump

Maybe you could get Bancoduo to beta test it for you.

bajabound2005 - 3-18-2006 at 09:25 PM

You people trip us out...we can't even follow the conversation...but at least, I hope all the words are spelled right and our keyboard has punctuation (and we use it).

Paula - 3-18-2006 at 10:49 PM

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MMM m must g g gget baaaaaack...... bbbaaaaccck to halfbakery

I'm like sooo tripped out!

Don Alley - 3-18-2006 at 11:03 PM

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Originally posted by bancoduo
How did all those beautiful colonial towns get to be without Home Depot and walmart. Maybe they are just an illusion. Wow> Lets get excited,theres a new Home Depot in town! Go China! Whats wrong with you people? Why did you go to Baja? :moon::moon::moon::moon::moon::moon::moon::moon::moon:

I came to Baja for the fishing.

So is it OK if I open up an Arby's in Loreto?

:lol:

Al G - 3-18-2006 at 11:19 PM

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Talk about "I don't get it"
How many of you realize this "Bancoduo" is at most mentally 12 years old. I can not believe there are 23 Post to this thread.

[Edited on 3-19-2006 by Al G]

Al G - 3-18-2006 at 11:43 PM

I won't delete it, but I may regret posting the last post. He/She may be 12 years old. If this is the case, I am sorry.

oladulce - 3-19-2006 at 12:00 AM

My first thought, when his posts began to pop up recently, was that "se?or Anonymous" from last June had re-emerged:

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=10592&pag...

Has the same "we Mexicanos" and "you gringos" flavor and I began to skip over his flaming posts a couple of weeks ago. He's gotten more nibbles on the bait he's been spewing than I would have expected.

I think you're right- nothing on TV vs late winter doldrums.

JOKER...

eetdrt88 - 3-19-2006 at 07:15 AM

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yea,whats wrong with you people! :lol:

is this guy a joker or what...the only one that seems to be getting very excited about it is him

Life is what you make of it

bajajudy - 3-19-2006 at 12:30 PM

I moved to Baja to enjoy the rest of my life. I had the mistaken idea that it would always be like it was 10 years ago. I, too, was sorely disappointed when all these stores started coming in. I now see that it is what is happening and it is helping the economy thereby helping my Mexican friends. Even if they cant shop at these stores, some of their friends or relatives are employed there. All around me my neighbors are all employed and adding on to their homes; some are selling and realizing a nice profit and moving to colonias where there friends and families have moved.
If you lived here full time, you would appreciate some of the positives of these stores. Having fresh fruits and vegatables, wonderful wines, breads like you get in San Francsco, has improved the quality of my life, even though I didnt really notice that it was missing.
I still plan to enjoy the rest of my life here. I have convinced myself that walking to the 514 slip marina for dinner will be a good thing and I long for the sound of slapping halyards from all the boats docked within 400 meters of my house. By the time the marina is finished, I may need a motorized wheelchair to get there, but that is another story.

In short, you cant walk in my shoes until you have lived here.

For anyone who thinks that they are losing it. I posted this before on the wrong thread...sorry

Paula - 3-19-2006 at 01:05 PM

Thank you Judy

... for a sane and soothing post.

Paula

Educationally Challenged

MrBillM - 3-19-2006 at 05:38 PM

Bancoduo Quote:

You must have gone to a contempory public school. You sound like a recent HS grad-u-ate.

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I would suggest that, before you criticize someone else's educational level, you first learn to spell at a "Contemporary" High School level.

Cypress - 3-21-2006 at 02:53 PM

Jeez! We got a hair-pulling cat fight going on this site over nothing. Sorta like debating a soap opera. Silly!

bajalera - 3-21-2006 at 03:04 PM

I'm still trying to figure out which towns can actually be called beautifully colonial.

Paula - 3-21-2006 at 04:51 PM

El triunfo has a hint of a colonial look-- all five buildings of it!!

Cypress - 3-21-2006 at 07:05 PM

Lencho, North of Bonners Ferry. Up in the high country.