Top 10 things people in the Philippines find up setting.

[longtimejoe]

Kenny, The set of rules was posted by "Teacher". I (Longtimejoe) am the one who challenged them in the post Teacher or Preacher? Which one of us are you eluding to as a pompous ass?

[Kenny]

Longtimejoe, I was more or less agreeing with you. The comments were directed at Teacher who posted the quoted list. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Kenny

[jimeve]

Originally Posted by longtimejoe

Kenny, The set of rules was posted by "Teacher". I (Longtimejoe) am the one who challenged them in the post Teacher or Preacher? Which one of us are you eluding to as a pompous ass?

Pompous =
adjective 1. self-important, affected, arrogant, pretentious, bloated, grandiose, imperious, showy, overbearing, ostentatious, puffed up, portentous, magisterial, supercilious, pontifical, vainglorious << OPPOSITE unpretentious
adjective 2. grandiloquent, high-flown, inflated, windy, overblown, turgid, bombastic, boastful, flatulent, arty-farty (informal)

Teacher is none of those.

more like an Ozzie abbreviation poms.lol

[Teacher]

dennis1105 yes Taiwan is still a wonderful place to work. But a little too much Chinese for me because I can’t speak the language it is often difficult for me and my wife. Honestly I was down to my last peso. I had been taken advantage of by everyone even the police chief, I had been robbed by my workers; even my wife’s family had a hand in it. What can you do but take it as a lesson to be learned and move on.

But so much sour grapes, does no one any good. I loaned money, I was a very trusting person in the Philippines when I first arrived I lost millions of peso’s. I was in love and was not thinking with a clear head. So it was of my own making I turned a blind eye to everything when I woke up I was broke and in a foreign country with a wife and no money or place to go. So I got a job as a teacher teaching English to Koreans and Japanese students, which by the way is a great Business in the Philippines.

Now I am teaching here in Taiwan making money and saving to go back home to the Philippines I don’t blame the Filipinos for what I feel as my mistakes in dealing with them.

[dennis1105]

Originally Posted by Teacher

dennis1105 yes Taiwan is still a wonderful place to work. But a little too much Chinese for me because I can’t speak the language it is often difficult for me and my wife. Honestly I was down to my last peso. I had been taken advantage of by everyone even the police chief, I had been robbed by my workers; even my wife’s family had a hand in it. What can you do but take it as a lesson to be learned and move on.

But so much sour grapes, does no one any good. I loaned money, I was a very trusting person in the Philippines when I first arrived I lost millions of peso’s. I was in love and was not thinking with a clear head. So it was of my own making I turned a blind eye to everything when I woke up I was broke and in a foreign country with a wife and no money or place to go. So I got a job as a teacher teaching English to Koreans and Japanese students, which by the way is a great Business in the Philippines.

Now I am teaching here in Taiwan making money and saving to go back home to the Philippines I don’t blame the Filipinos for what I feel as my mistakes in dealing with them.

Teacher,
"Sour Grapes" refers to a person( or Fox) who, having lost the grapes, then says "I didn't really want the grapes anyway, they're too sour". I don't think your attitude is that at all. More like "Screw me once, shame on you..Screw me twice, shame on me"!!! Sour grapes is a way of justifying stupidity. Your attitude is one of learning from your stupidity and not making the same mistakes twice. Commendable indeed!
Dennis

[Teacher]

dennis1105 When I wrote sour grapes I was thinking about other people and the treads they write. But you are right about my attitude.