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By: The Angkor Wat sandal scandalette « Details are Sketchy

The Angkor Wat sandal scandalette « Details are Sketchy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:07:53 +0000

[...] Beer and cigarettes and t-shirts seem okay. Food blogs not so much. Playing cards with images of Angkor Wat will get you arrested. The latest sandal scandal does nothing to help clear the confusion: Walking on Angkor Wat in your sandals is not only allowed, but requires a $20 ticket. Walking in sandals with a mere outline of Angkor Wat, however, prompts the outrage of the khlogosphere and a visit from the local coppers. Somebody please explain. Posted by DAS Filed in Angkor Wat, Cambodia [...]

By: marklatham

marklatham — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:11:17 +0000

I think that buddha may have ingested one too may happy pizzas.
I was only in cambodia for a few weeks but I didn’t find too many chillies in the cuisine-I miss that after thailand.

By: andrewb

andrewb — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:27:54 +0000

Perhaps we could collar Alanis Morrisette on her next tour of the region and ask her for the definitive judgment on what constitutes irony.

By: Details are Sketchy » Blog Archive » Fanning the flames of discontent

Details are Sketchy » Blog Archive » Fanning the flames of discontent — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:30:00 +0000

[...] With an illustrated depiction of Angkor Wat turned upside down, is the Phnomenon web site an example of a dumb foreigner too arrogant to grasp the complexities of Khmer culture? Or is it just a case of over-sensitive Khmers suffering from a collective inferiority complex getting their kramas in a wad over some imagined slight? [...]

By: Phnomenon: food in Cambodia » Phnomenon 2.0

Phnomenon: food in Cambodia » Phnomenon 2.0 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:28:22 +0000

[...] Angkor Wat: still mortally offensive. [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:19:32 +0000

Gutbomb – I love goat curry, but to paraphrase Feargal Sharkey, a good street goat these days is hard to find. They’re out there, mostly around the mosques. Now that my motorbike runs without me having to constantly swear at it, I should head to the edges of Phnome Penh and cover Phnom Penh’s halal scene.

Coincidentally, my Khmer workmates said exactly the same thing about the Chaly. I’m perpetually amazed that my website is of any interest at all to Khmer locals.

By: Gutbomb

Gutbomb — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:20:20 +0000

Anyway, yeah Phil back to the satays, they look great…in cases like this I like to ask the question “What would Jesus say?”, but I feel it more relevant to ask “What would Jo say?”

I do really enjoy the street food in BKK and pretty much eat anything on offer, but I don’t have a gut made of steel like I think Jo has (that’s a complement Jo you food freak), I’m not always so keen on grey gravy.

I wonder what the street food was like in PP back in the day, before the shit hit the fan (so to speak).

I hear there is good goat (or street goat as it were) on offer down in PP?

PS the Khmer guys I work with love your site, upside down blah blah blah and all!

The biggest laughs were from the Chaly actually (they recommend a Dream).

By: Maytel

Maytel — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:00:42 +0000

On second thoughts…..fuck it, I give up. If the price for posting a fairly innocuous comment on the old phnomenon is to be browbeaten by a self-righteous overseas Khmer with a big fat chip on their shoulder then I give up. You win HML. I will forthwith cease and desist from ever again making any facetious, ironic, sarcastic or sardonic comments in cyberland ever again so long as I live. All comments from this point on will be made in dead seriousness. I will even type with an upright back and pursed lips so as to ensure that no facetious/ ironic/sarcasitic/ or sardonic overtones make it into any of my comments, especially as I am so clearly crap at making them. I will also cease and desist from in any attempt at engaging in the deployment of subtle cultural or english language based humour for fear of reprisals, being misunderstood, or worse labeled ethnocentric. In fact in tribute to your helping me see the error of my ways, my poor slapstick grammar and inappropriate use of the word euphemism I shall begin my own crusade to hunt down hapless facetious/ sarcastic/ironic/ sardonic comment leavers anywhere in blog land and relentlessly browbeat them too in order to help them to see the error of their ways just as you have helped me. Congratulations you win, blogs everywhere will be much safer thanks to you….no really I’m serious.

By: Maytel

Maytel — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:24:33 +0000

wow, you are in a very dark place hml. Why can’t you just laugh it off and say, “yes I over reacted and misunderstood the comment”?

By: hml

hml — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:10:56 +0000

P.P.S. Also… the word is euphemism.. not euphorism. And.. knickers in a twist and sayings of the like are idioms… not euphemisms.