Spendo Comes to Europe

[luka]

I'm actually not big on Mexican food TBH... But people say they love it. Very popular over here.

i agree. its terrible. not that ive eaten it but friends who have travelled to mexico said its the pits. however
they said its heaven compared to south america which has the worst food on the planet. processed white bread
and guneia pigs. thats it. disaster zone. i do have a passion for salsa though.

 

[luka]

Salsa Saucy

Dear Dissensians, Once again, I am interested in investigating another genre. After a whole year of listening to everything Brasilian Jazz/Bossa Nova. I would love to digg into more Salsa music. But I am not entirely sure where to begin. For now i am on Wikipedia...

www.dissensus.com

 

[william kent]

...Have you not eaten Mexican food?

I went to a Mexican restaurant as a teenager for a friend's birthday and everyone made fun of me because I'd never had Mexican food before and started rolling up this wrap thing like a spliff.

 

[luka]

how are you supposed to roll it up?

 

[william kent]

I can't remember, but not like that. One of them took it upon themselves to show me, like a parent demonstrating something to a child.

 

[luka]

i see now why you never leave the house

 

[yyaldrin]

one of the weirdest things i experienced in mexico is that they videotape you with this old vhs-recorder before you enter a bus. when it happened the first time i was sure i would be tortured and cut up in little pieces somewhere along the bus ride. i still have no idea why they do that?

 

[sus]

one of the weirdest things i experienced in mexico is that they videotape you with this old vhs-recorder before you enter a bus. when it happened the first time i was sure i would be tortured and cut up in little pieces somewhere along the bus ride. i still have no idea why they do that?

For security yyaldrin!

 

[yyaldrin]

For security yyaldrin!

a man comes in the bus, forces everybody to be videotaped with some old camera, then gets out of the bus and disappears without having said a word. how does that make anything secure?

 

[william kent]

 

[catalog]

a man comes in the bus, forces everybody to be videotaped with some old camera, then gets out of the bus and disappears without having said a word. how does that make anything secure?

I don't know when you went, or where, but maybe it was cos there were lots of bus disappearances. I think when I was there in 2016, there was a case in the newspapers of a bus load of student teachers who disappeared. I think it was in Chiappas? There was z lot of outcry cos they were on their way to a protest and nothing was seen or heard of them again.

So maybe something to do with cases like that?

 

[sus]

No no no it's a perfectly safe and civilized city, lovely cosmopolitan place, all that business is in other states

 

[yyaldrin]

I don't know when you went, or where, but maybe it was cos there were lots of bus disappearances. I think when I was there in 2016, there was a case in the newspapers of a bus load of student teachers who disappeared. I think it was in Chiappas? There was z lot of outcry cos they were on their way to a protest and nothing was seen or heard of them again.

So maybe something to do with cases like that?

it was in 2014 or 2015 i think, this is the only other information i could find googling:

 

[catalog]

The comments are saying its about robberies

Someone told me it is used as evidence in case anything happens to/inside the bus, specially in older buses with no onboard cameras. Should anything happen, witnesses and authorities can match seat numbers and names with a face.

I'm not entirely sure of this, but it sounds plausible.

I've been videotaped every time I've gotten on a bus in Mexico. It's disconcerting at first but eventually you get used to it. From what I understand it's to ensure they have photographs of everyone riding the bus in case something bad goes down. I haven't heard of it since I've been here, but I've been told buses used to get stopped by robbers fairly frequently.

 

[catalog]

No no no it's a perfectly safe and civilized city, lovely cosmopolitan place, all that business is in other states

I thought so too tbh. Altho someone we met on the way there warned us against taking cabs at night so we didn't and ended up walking everywhere, which I really loved, but was probably more dangerous.

 

[IdleRich]

a man comes in the bus, forces everybody to be videotaped with some old camera, then gets out of the bus and disappears without having said a word. how does that make anything secure?

Maybe if everyone does get kidnapped, chopped up, horribly burned beyond recognition and the bodies are never recovered, they can watch that video and find out who was actually on the bus. I'm sure that as you slip out of consciousness for the last time in unimaginable nerve-twisting agony your last thoughts will be something like "thank goodness they got that video when I got on the bus, can't believe that I questioned that, imagine the trouble I'd be in otherwise!".

 

[catalog]

Studying practices like this would seem to be not only compatible with such meditation practices, but actually enhanced by them.

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I thought this thing you were on about where you are watching lectures everyday like a regime was a joke but it sounds like you are actually doing it?

I think you should be careful. It's not possible to know everything. They found this out just before the beginning of the twentieth century.

You might drive yourself mad or turn to God in this pursuit.

In comparison, skydiving on acid seems very wholesome fun. Apart from that guy who seems to be feeling you up, I would stay away from him.

So I want the craft beer talk please.

 

[Clinamenic]

I thought this thing you were on about where you are watching lectures everyday like a regime was a joke but it sounds like you are actually doing it?

 

[Clinamenic]

Yes, knowing everything is not the goal, the goal is to indefinitely enrich my understanding of the universe.

 

[Clinamenic]

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