[Moma]

(05-16-2019 01:33 PM)Tanapiko Wrote:  

The problem in Africa is that fruits are expensive as hell, I am currently in Douala Cameroon, fruits is luxury here. In montreal, they are pretty affordable, for more $$$ you can get the "organic " ones

I cannot even begin to imagine the psyche of
advanced players. Options is truly king. Since I started to approach 1-5 girls/day, I can't be bothered when I am rejected, flaked on, etc... I just get up and approach the next lizard that gives me a boner.

I don't know what fruits you are talking about. In Nigeria, mangoes and oranges cost next to nothing. There is also a fruit in my region called udara (Nigerian apple) and that literally falls off of the trees. There is paw-paw, pineapple and numerous others. Plenty of fruits in Africa..although I've never been to Cameroon so I can't speak for there...

[Tanapiko]

For example in Douala if you convert the currency in $cad, apples are 3.11$/lbs, (1,48-2.28$/lb in montreal groceries) bananas are cheap because we produce those, oranges go for 2.54$/lb, (you can get oranges at .98$/lbs in some grocery stores)

I have a mango tree, guava tree, a fruit called corosol in my backyard so I did not check those at the market.

[rudebwoy]

The quality of fruit sucks in Canada.

You can't find grapes with seeds in them, most of the fruit is GMO.

I grow tomatoes and other vegetables in the summer, they taste world's apart from the stuff in the supermarkets.

[Tanapiko]

@rudebwoy
The food in Canada as a whole sucks. Chiken, pork, beef etc... taste literally the same. Food is amazing here, no GMOs in fruits, no hormones in the meat.

[MaceTyrell]

Rudebwoy - does your tomato crop feature in your game?

“Come check out my garden” would gain me crazy traction with the NYC hipsters I’m trying to smash.

[rudebwoy]

Haha you think I should implement garden game.

I don't like hipster chicks lol

[RougeNoir]

I'm in Montego Bay til Tuesday. My relatives went to Kingston. Anybody got any connects out here? This place is really wild and I'm trying to tough it out solo for the time being.

[cycl0ne]

(05-16-2019 07:38 PM)Tanapiko Wrote:  

For example in Douala if you convert the currency in $cad, apples are 3.11$/lbs, (1,48-2.28$/lb in montreal groceries) bananas are cheap because we produce those, oranges go for 2.54$/lb, (you can get oranges at .98$/lbs in some grocery stores)

I have a mango tree, guava tree, a fruit called corosol in my backyard so I did not check those at the market.

It's better for your health and environment if you ate local produce. More likely to be fresh and unprocessed.

[Mentavious]

(05-17-2019 10:14 AM)RougeNoir Wrote:  

I'm in Montego Bay til Tuesday. My relatives went to Kingston. Anybody got any connects out here? This place is really wild and I'm trying to tough it out solo for the time being.

What you mean wild?

[kosko]

(05-16-2019 07:38 PM)Tanapiko Wrote:  

For example in Douala if you convert the currency in $cad, apples are 3.11$/lbs, (1,48-2.28$/lb in montreal groceries) bananas are cheap because we produce those, oranges go for 2.54$/lb, (you can get oranges at .98$/lbs in some grocery stores)

I have a mango tree, guava tree, a fruit called corosol in my backyard so I did not check those at the market.

Why would one buy imported fruit at the market when you can find natural fruit all over the place? Apples, and oranges sound like imports which would explain the price difference.

I eat more fruit in Africa than I do in Canada as it's literally growing everywhere in trees. Just go tell some kid to go shake down a papaya for you can you can eat one daily.

[Tanapiko]

@Kosko
Well the city I am, there are not that many trees bearing fruits around and those with fruits on them are mostly inside someone's compound. In my compound we have some fruits ( mango, guava, corosol) and at the market the produce mainly comes from out of towns( villages nearby)
I will have to pay more attention but as far as of now, I havent seen papayas, coconuts trees around, even bananas that we known for producing , you have to get out of town to access rhose plantations

[Tanapiko]

@kosko
And I don't know how is it in Nigeria. But Cameroon is kinda fucked up, people produce locally then export those products, and the stupid part is this. They then import those same products they produced in their backyard. It is very annoying.
Its like rudebwoy was selling his tomatoes he produced and then with the money he nade selling his tomatoes, went to grocery store to buy tomatoes

[rudebwoy]

Sounds like a business to get into.

Barbados has that same problem, people are into supermarkets and buying processed crap.

Even sugarcane, once the island's staple is hardly grown and cultivated.

[WestIndianArchie]

(05-17-2019 09:05 PM)Tanapiko Wrote:  

@kosko
And I don't know how is it in Nigeria. But Cameroon is kinda fucked up, people produce locally then export those products, and the stupid part is this. They then import those same products they produced in their backyard.

Usually the distribution channels and local infrastructure aren't developed.

In the developing world, the informal nature of business means that you have to rely on local partners, be massive, or fully commit to being local. I'm not ready to uproot myself and go work in the Liberian agriculture sector just yet.

In Africa, they're developing a various free-trade zones to further intra-Africa trade.

Since Africa is a North/South continent - there are different growing zones and seasons which would facilitate food security.

But everyone is scrambling for Africa right now.
The Arabs want land.
The Chinese are taking up natural resources and cheap labor.
The French want minerals
The Americans want to stop Islam.

Africa is for Africans imo.

[Black Caesar]

Yeah it is a logistics issue.

Food that grows local is usually cheap but even stuff from one country over can be hella expensive.

I'm starting some import export stuff to the neighbor country based on this because they are missing some basics that we have in surplus and cheap near me.

If people don't come (or come back for those originally from here) then the continent will be left to foreigners to do what they want (ie take without giving).

People here often say that there isn't the talent to do big economic projects but the diaspora is very talented and educated. First and second generation Africans in the states are some of the most educated, all doctors and lawyers and bankers and engineers.

If people like TDK (and a lot of you all) moved back to work instead of wasting away in a foreign country then we would be surprised at what could grow here.

[Moma]

(05-17-2019 09:00 PM)Tanapiko Wrote:  

@Kosko
Well the city I am, there are not that many trees bearing fruits around and those with fruits on them are mostly inside someone's compound. In my compound we have some fruits ( mango, guava, corosol) and at the market the produce mainly comes from out of towns( villages nearby)
I will have to pay more attention but as far as of now, I havent seen papayas, coconuts trees around, even bananas that we known for producing , you have to get out of town to access rhose plantations

What's wrong with eating mangos, guavas and corosols endlessly? I don't want to sound like some Wakanda champion but all the vitamins and minerals you need exist in Africa. Their local fruits more than compensate for Western ones. The only reason to go and buy an apple would be to try and stunt like a Westerner, akin to sporting a Gucci bag for fashion.

[MaceTyrell]

“X-matching” is another RVF-concept I’m starting to come around to. Few anecdotes...

Black guy I know an LTR with a 33 year old. Despite him being a few years younger than her, I still think he’s punching a bit above his weight. Props to him. First thought it was “game.” Now I realize it was partially that, both mostly...

1) her desire of finding a more “beta-bucks” guy. She literally talks on social media how “for the longest I thought monogamy wasn’t for me”(read - she happily accepted being pumped and dumped through her prime years)

2) they are both the same sub-group within Caribbean Americanism (which is itself another sub group of Blackness). I’m going to call this “culture-marching.”

Another black guy I know who is getting married to a girl I’d consider a solid point above him in SMV? Realized that he is a solid carbon copy of this chick’s dad (both studied engineering, both literally have jobs at similar companies doing). Culture-match.

Another friend (non-black), despite ranting about the success he has with women, only seems to be able to plate/LTR Jewish-American chicks. Have known him for a decade. He’s Jewish-American. Culture match.

Culture matching is real, and makes me appreciate my success at being able to historically plate/LTR women of very different racial, economic and cultural backgrounds.

It also makes me realize that a fair deal of my success has been being able to “intersectionally” approach it.

For example, rich white girl who’s virginity I took at 17. Flat out told her mother afterwards and the mother was cool with it. Despite not being the same race or class, we shared Catholic culture. Found out from her last year (a solid 7-8 years after we had our fling) that her mother still asks about me. Her words were “my mother just wants me to settle down with a nice Catholic schoolboy like you.”

Now I’m thinking it’s not a coincidence that of my LTRs, my two longest have been with two Caribbean-American chicks (Haitian and Puerto Rican). In terms of my background, it’s probably pretty similar to WIAs.

The main point I am getting at is that this is inspiring me to further not bemoan differences and emphasize/obsess over commonality, however minuscule. Strategizing how I can organically achieve this with Asians, the final frontier of my map (English language groups ain’t my target, since I’m not looking for FOBs).

[Tanapiko]

@moma
Yeah man, what you said is a 100% true, a lil diversity don't hurt once in a while hahaha

[thedarkknight]

(05-18-2019 12:04 PM)MaceTyrell Wrote:  

“X-matching” is another RVF-concept I’m starting to come around to. Few anecdotes...

Black guy I know an LTR with a 33 year old. Despite him being a few years younger than her, I still think he’s punching a bit above his weight. Props to him. First thought it was “game.” Now I realize it was partially that, both mostly...

1) her desire of finding a more “beta-bucks” guy. She literally talks on social media how “for the longest I thought monogamy wasn’t for me”(read - she happily accepted being pumped and dumped through her prime years)

2) they are both the same sub-group within Caribbean Americanism (which is itself another sub group of Blackness). I’m going to call this “culture-marching.”

Another black guy I know who is getting married to a girl I’d consider a solid point above him in SMV? Realized that he is a solid carbon copy of this chick’s dad (both studied engineering, both literally have jobs at similar companies doing). Culture-match.

Another friend (non-black), despite ranting about the success he has with women, only seems to be able to plate/LTR Jewish-American chicks. Have known him for a decade. He’s Jewish-American. Culture match.

Culture matching is real, and makes me appreciate my success at being able to historically plate/LTR women of very different racial, economic and cultural backgrounds.

It also makes me realize that a fair deal of my success has been being able to “intersectionally” approach it.

For example, rich white girl who’s virginity I took at 17. Flat out told her mother afterwards and the mother was cool with it. Despite not being the same race or class, we shared Catholic culture. Found out from her last year (a solid 7-8 years after we had our fling) that her mother still asks about me. Her words were “my mother just wants me to settle down with a nice Catholic schoolboy like you.”

Now I’m thinking it’s not a coincidence that of my LTRs, my two longest have been with two Caribbean-American chicks (Haitian and Puerto Rican). In terms of my background, it’s probably pretty similar to WIAs.

The main point I am getting at is that this is inspiring me to further not bemoan differences and emphasize/obsess over commonality, however minuscule. Strategizing how I can organically achieve this with Asians, the final frontier of my map (English language groups ain’t my target, since I’m not looking for FOBs).

East asian? I know a few of my black pals who smashed east asian women in Med School - down in London. They obviously had to break it off due to family issues but those chicks got down.

Doesn't surprise me. What gets pussy wet, or dick hard, may not help assimilate a person into your family.

Black Caesar: You're right. I've just got myself a four bed house to help with passive income when I do leave the UK.

TDK

[MaceTyrell]

“They obviously had to break it off due to family issues.”

Somebody tell TDK there are black dudes out there marrying East Asian women.

[thedarkknight]

I know .

But that being said, the three brothers I know who smashed had to end it due to family and friends taking issue to it.

TDK

[rudebwoy]

(05-18-2019 11:29 AM)Moma Wrote:  

(05-17-2019 09:00 PM)Tanapiko Wrote:  

@Kosko
Well the city I am, there are not that many trees bearing fruits around and those with fruits on them are mostly inside someone's compound. In my compound we have some fruits ( mango, guava, corosol) and at the market the produce mainly comes from out of towns( villages nearby)
I will have to pay more attention but as far as of now, I havent seen papayas, coconuts trees around, even bananas that we known for producing , you have to get out of town to access rhose plantations

What's wrong with eating mangos, guavas and corosols endlessly? I don't want to sound like some Wakanda champion but all the vitamins and minerals you need exist in Africa. Their local fruits more than compensate for Western ones. The only reason to go and buy an apple would be to try and stunt like a Westerner, akin to sporting a Gucci bag for fashion.

Trust me, If I could get those fruits on a regular like that I would be a fruitarian.

Those fruits are natural Viagra for Africans.

Last time I was in Barbados, my family were quick to take me to their new supermarkets and show me what they can buy. I saw cookies on the shelf that were from a Canadian national supermarket chain, why the hell would I eat that crap in Barbados.

I insisted that they take me to a fish market, where I was able to buy a bag of fish (shark) for the price of a steak dinner back home. The fish served 3 adults and 4 children. It was easily the best meal I had during my visit.

Speaking of organic food.

I did my usual walk through Whole Foods this afternoon. They make this coffee called a Cortado I like.

I was in a bit of hurry, when I locked eyes with this black girl. When we passed each other, she said hello first. I replied with a hello and a smile.

The shock of her saying hello, kinda threw me off. I turned around to check her out and she looked decent.

No number close or chat, oh well.

Next time ......

[DimeBait]

Nothing wrong with a little diversity smashing, but unless you find an emotional genius, I’d stay in my own lane when it comes wife’n obscure cultures.

[MaceTyrell]

Yeah I get that Dimebait. Like I’d never marry a white woman.

I don’t consider settling down with say, a Latina who grew up in america settling down with someone of an “obscure culture” though.

[DimeBait]

Anecdotally speaking, I married & divorced a Latina who grew up here in the states. While true, the culture divide wasn't vastly expansive, it was enough to cause foundational cracks, in the already everyday pressures of a culturally yolked relationship. Which is why I'll stress emotional intelligence over a fat ass and low body count any day.