Lonely Loneliness

alt.fan.countries.ecuador

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has so far had one post this year. It appears to be spam. I just thought you all needed to know that. OB

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OB (nevilemo…@yahoo.com) writes: > has so far had one post this year. > It appears to be spam. > I just thought you all needed to know that. > OB

Oh, thanks! I was precisely wondering about that!:) C —

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bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Eleonore Beaudoin) wrote in news:cb7tfq$gtb$1@freenet9.carleton.ca: > OB (nevilemo…@yahoo.com) writes: >> has so far had one post this year. >> It appears to be spam. >> I just thought you all needed to know that. >> OB > Oh, thanks! I was precisely wondering about that!:) > C > —

How’s alt.hamster doing these days?   – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –

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Prayer Capsule Activation Event wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Eleonore Beaudoin) wrote in > news:cb7tfq$gtb$1@freenet9.carleton.ca: >>OB (nevilemo…@yahoo.com) writes: >>>has so far had one post this year. >>>It appears to be spam. >>>I just thought you all needed to know that. >>>OB >>Oh, thanks! I was precisely wondering about that!:) >>C >>– > How’s alt.hamster doing these days?  

Do they have hamsters in Ecuador? Come to think of it, which country do hamsters come from originally? Interesting. .ske

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OB wrote: > has so far had one post this year. > It appears to be spam. > I just thought you all needed to know that.

 Who would be a fan of Ecuador? -Mark

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ske <no.m…@spam.net> wrote in news:cb8fu9$dh6$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Prayer Capsule Activation Event wrote: >> bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Eleonore Beaudoin) wrote in >> news:cb7tfq$gtb$1@freenet9.carleton.ca: >>>OB (nevilemo…@yahoo.com) writes: >>>>has so far had one post this year. >>>>It appears to be spam. >>>>I just thought you all needed to know that. >>>>OB >>>Oh, thanks! I was precisely wondering about that!:) >>>C >>>– >> How’s alt.hamster doing these days?   > Do they have hamsters in Ecuador? > Come to think of it, which country do hamsters come from originally? > Interesting. > .ske

Here’s one of the odder names I came across on a bored day: alt.anthony.hauck.is.strange 0 messages…

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Mark <jjoyce1…@hotmail.com> wrote in message <news:40D7EE47.FA51B9A4@hotmail.com>… > OB wrote: > > has so far had one post this year. > > It appears to be spam. > > I just thought you all needed to know that. >  Who would be a fan of Ecuador? > -Mark

I don’t know if you can be a fan of a country you’ve never been to. Otherwise, me. Purely on the basis of the Ecuadoreans I know. I hope to be in either Ecuador or Colombia for Xmas. Job applications going out this weekend.

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:20:49 -0700, the world was enlightented by OB, unto whom the words are attributed: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Mark <jjoyce1…@hotmail.com> wrote in message <news:40D7EE47.FA51B9A4@hotmail.com>… >> OB wrote: >> > has so far had one post this year. >> > It appears to be spam. >> > I just thought you all needed to know that. >>  Who would be a fan of Ecuador? >> -Mark > I don’t know if you can be a fan of a country you’ve never been to. > Otherwise, me. Purely on the basis of the Ecuadoreans I know. > I hope to be in either Ecuador or Colombia for Xmas. Job applications > going out this weekend.

How on earth does one just move to another country like that?  Language barrier aside, I see such an adventure as a shortcut to bankruptcy! (Being in debt to start with too.)  People who do that have me total admiration…  I’d have to do it with just a rucksack, and I don’t want to give up my recently acquired/built stuff – given up everything too many times before! Monster — I am the sexiest man in the UuuuKaaaayy All the girls love me And I will never grow Ooollldd I am the sexiest man in the UuuKaaaay! http://www.the-monstruum.co.uk

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Little Monster <r…@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message <news:f31208474c49a25aa6de5f82b7a244ee@news.teranews.com>… > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:20:49 -0700, the world was enlightented by OB, unto > whom the words are attributed: > > Mark <jjoyce1…@hotmail.com> wrote in message <news:40D7EE47.FA51B9A4@hotmail.com>… > >> OB wrote: > >> > has so far had one post this year. > >> > It appears to be spam. > >> > I just thought you all needed to know that. > >>  Who would be a fan of Ecuador? > >> -Mark > > I don’t know if you can be a fan of a country you’ve never been to. > > Otherwise, me. Purely on the basis of the Ecuadoreans I know. > > I hope to be in either Ecuador or Colombia for Xmas. Job applications > > going out this weekend. > How on earth does one just move to another country like that?  Language > barrier aside, I see such an adventure as a shortcut to bankruptcy! (Being > in debt to start with too.)  People who do that have me total > admiration…  I’d have to do it with just a rucksack, and I don’t want to > give up my recently acquired/built stuff – given up everything too many > times before! > Monster

All I have that’s worth taking with me anywhere: a guitar a chromatic harmonica, various notes rusted up three shirts (the ones that don’t have cigarette burn holes or the collar hanging half off) two pairs trousers 1 supermarket bag’s worth of unmatched socks and the odd boxer the Diccionario de la Real Academia (2 vols) Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea (various editions) four yellow rubber ducks three passport-sized photos of Carmen half-a-dozen CDs of Latin music, a few tapes 1 video (Gene Tierney in ‘Laura’) A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe With North Africa And The Middle East (not sure if all that useful for Ecuador, but still) And that’s about me lot. I was never one for accumulating stuff, really.

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OB wrote: > I hope to be in either Ecuador or Colombia for Xmas. Job applications > going out this weekend.

 I wouldn’t be very hopeful about job prospects in Ecuador. The whole economy is ruined. Half of the country is in either Madrid or Barcelona. Personally, I’d first visit the country, maybe as a relief worker ("cooperante"), then relocate. AFAIR, some Spanish NGOs have ongoing projects in that area of South America (eg, "Ingenieros sin fronteras"). Maybe it’s worth giving that path a try. -Mark

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Little Monster wrote: > How on earth does one just move to another country like that?  Language > barrier aside, I see such an adventure as a shortcut to bankruptcy! (Being > in debt to start with too.)  People who do that have me total > admiration…  I’d have to do it with just a rucksack, and I don’t want to > give up my recently acquired/built stuff – given up everything too many > times before!

 Many of us have grown very disappointed and disillusioned about the oourse Western society has taken. Namely, get up, go to work, get stuck in a traffic jam, work in stupid and useless things, have lunch in 20 min, work again (or pretend you do), get back home, get stuck in a traffic jam again, go to the supermarket, buy your groceries, get home, cook your meal, watch the telly, go to bed. Loneliness and not having a wife, family, etc just adds up to the overall dissatisfaction feeling.  And money ain’t everything, aside of the fact that, for instance, $10K (a sum I can save in few months) go a long way in those countries.  I’ve thought many times of making this clean break myself, either in Tahiti or Cuba. Cuban people live under an awful regime, but they look happy altogether. Provided they cannot pursue a working career, singing, dancing and making love seem to be their main worries.  But of course, then I think of the things I would miss, the Internet, good libraries, movies, coffeeshops, my car, air travel, etc and reach the conclusion that is very unlikely I will ever leave the First world. -Mark – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Monster > — > I am the sexiest man in the UuuuKaaaayy > All the girls love me > And I will never grow Ooollldd > I am the sexiest man in the UuuKaaaay! > http://www.the-monstruum.co.uk

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >>>>has so far had one post this year. > >>>>It appears to be spam. > >>>>I just thought you all needed to know that. > >>>>OB > >>>Oh, thanks! I was precisely wondering about that!:) > >>>C > >>>– > >> How’s alt.hamster doing these days? > > Do they have hamsters in Ecuador? > > Come to think of it, which country do hamsters come from originally? > > Interesting. > > .ske > Here’s one of the odder names I came across on a bored day: > alt.anthony.hauck.is.strange > 0 messages…

There was one called alt.zoe.reminds.me.of.hitler. It got a few posts aswell, but nobody seemed to know who zoe was (I asked).

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> > >> How’s alt.hamster doing these days?

I couldn’t find an alt.hamster. However, there was an alt.hamster.flame. It’s a cruel world for short-distance rodents, evidently.

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Mark wrote:

**  I wouldn’t be very hopeful about job prospects in Ecuador. The whole economy is ruined. Half of the country is in either Madrid or Barcelona. Personally, I’d first visit the country, maybe as a relief worker ("cooperante"), then relocate. AFAIR, some Spanish NGOs have ongoing projects in that area of South America (eg, "Ingenieros sin fronteras"). Maybe it’s worth giving that path a try. ** I certainly would if I was an engineer, a doctor, or had any kind of useful relief-worker type skill of that sort. Unfortunately the only thing I’m good at (es un decir) is teaching English. Which I wouldn’t have thought would get me very far, given the competition – what changed my mind momentarily was chancing on a web site the other day which, to my surprise, advertised several EFL teaching jobs in both Colombia and Ecuador without demanding hundreds of postgrad qualifications, centuries of experience, a cool pony tail and age <35. OK, so I’ll probably learn the hard way that each advertised job attracts tens of thousands of applicants (with cool pony tails) and that at my age, as with every other sphere of activity I have absolutely zero chance of success. Still, it’s nice to dream, to have a Plan, to be Kept Off The Streets [by composing longwinded job appls], etc. **  But of course, then I think of the things I would miss, the Internet, good libraries, movies, coffeeshops, my car, air travel, etc and reach the conclusion that is very unlikely I will ever leave the First world. ** I don’t have this problem. I hardly ever visit libraries, the cinema or coffeeshops, have no car, and generally only ever travel by air to places I don’t want to go to. The Internet I would miss, but in the same way I miss smoking: the craving would presumably be tempered by the knowledge that it’s a vile addiction one is far better off without. OB/CC

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:27:40 +0200, the world was enlightented by Mark, unto whom the words are attributed: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Little Monster wrote: >> How on earth does one just move to another country like that?  Language >> barrier aside, I see such an adventure as a shortcut to bankruptcy! (Being >> in debt to start with too.)  People who do that have me total >> admiration…  I’d have to do it with just a rucksack, and I don’t want to >> give up my recently acquired/built stuff – given up everything too many >> times before! >  Many of us have grown very disappointed and disillusioned about the > oourse Western society has taken. Namely, get up, go to work, get stuck > in a traffic jam, work in stupid and useless things, have lunch in 20 > min, work again (or pretend you do), get back home, get stuck in a > traffic jam again, go to the supermarket, buy your groceries, get home, > cook your meal, watch the telly, go to bed. Loneliness and not having a > wife, family, etc just adds up to the overall dissatisfaction feeling.

I don’t do most of the above – I walk to and from work, work for something worthwhile, have 1hr lunch, never go to supermarkets, don’t watch TV. >  And money ain’t everything, aside of the fact that, for instance, $10K > (a sum I can save in few months) go a long way in those countries.

That’s nearly as much as I earn in a year  (Oh hang on, you did dollars – err something gets divided by 1.3ish I know – err, about

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