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When was the last time you were there?


 


I was there right through the civil war, that was confined (apart from the odd car bomb) to the Jaffna peninsula. 


 


Our family has been going to Sri Lanka since it was called Ceylon...
 
BJ.C
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When was the last time you were there?


 


I was there right through the civil war, that was confined (apart from the odd car bomb) to the Jaffna peninsula. 


 


Our family has been going to Sri Lanka since it was called Ceylon...
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Never been there. It is the car bombs, or the road bombs to blow up cars, which I am told are not necessarily Tamil related, to which I was referring.
 
BJ.C
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Suspected as much.


 


For your edification: http://www.lankaweb.com/


 


Find yourself a bombing that happened more recently than 2009.
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Perhaps you could try actually reading other people's posts rather than deciding what they have said yourself.


 


As I said, I have a friend who is an ex-native who won't go there at the moment because he considers it too dangerous.. He went quite often during the civil war, and wasn't particularly perturbed when he had to get back to Australia via a boat to India on the occasion when Colombo airport was closed due to them bombing the planes on the ground.


 


Given a choice between believing you and your friend google and my friend, I think I will go with him. I guess you are also going to tell me there is no corruption in Sri Lanka and that the government is at pains to keep both the local populace and the world media fully informed of all events at all times.
 
michaelm
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Perhaps you could try actually reading other people's posts rather than deciding what they have said yourself.


 


As I said, I have a friend who is an ex-native who won't go there at the moment because he considers it too dangerous.. He went quite often during the civil war, and wasn't particularly perturbed when he had to get back to Australia via a boat to India on the occasion when Colombo airport was closed due to them bombing the planes on the ground.


 


Given a choice between believing you and your friend google and my friend, I think I will go with him. I guess you are also going to tell me there is no corruption in Sri Lanka and that the government is at pains to keep both the local populace and the world media fully informed of all events at all times.
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If we're trading anecdotes....


What if I said, a good friend who lived there from 2008-10 has lent me all her guidebooks, maps and notes (and is pissed off that she can't come0. That a friend who is an 'ex-native' Sinhalese is planning to meet us in Tricomalee along with another 'ex-native' Malay so we can all see the Hermes?


 


What's the big danger that I should look out for - excepting leg burns from bike exhaust pipes and drowning/getting bent?
 
Dr No
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If we're trading anecdotes....


What if I said, a good friend who lived there from 2008-10 has lent me all her guidebooks, maps and notes (and is pissed off that she can't come0. That a friend who is an 'ex-native' Sinhalese is planning to meet us in Tricomalee along with another 'ex-native' Malay so we can all see the Hermes?


 


What's the big danger that I should look out for - excepting leg burns from bike exhaust pipes and drowning/getting bent?
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God forbid that anyone should start trading anecdotes on here.


 


I am astonished that an "ex-native" of Sri Lanka is Sinhalese. As it happens most that I know are burghers, there being large communities in both Melbourne and Sydney, but I go to gatherings of the wider Sri Lankan community as well.
 
michaelm
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God forbid that anyone should start trading anecdotes on here.


 


I am astonished that an "ex-native" of Sri Lanka is Sinhalese. As it happens most that I know are burghers, there being large communities in both Melbourne and Sydney, but I go to gatherings of the wider Sri Lankan community as well.
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That was actually a semi-serious question.


What am I supposed to be looking out for?


 


[btw, the Sinhalese comment was intended to one) point out the archaic use of 'native'. I'm pretty certain that's not how you intended it, but the internet is un-nuanced and two) point out that he's cool heading to a quite ravaged area in which they're a minority. That's all. I don't wish to appear blase about the results of the civil war, but rather to show that your friend's opinion is not necessarily shared.]
 
Dr No
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Thanks for the reminder...I was supposed to hit up a guy for the CBR costs.


I had drinks with a friend who used to sell Aprilias, and forgot to ask him, too.
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Yeah, get on it !! ;)
 
Dr No
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That was actually a semi-serious question.


What am I supposed to be looking out for?


 


[btw, the Sinhalese comment was intended to one) point out the archaic use of 'native'. I'm pretty certain that's not how you intended it, but the internet is un-nuanced and two) point out that he's cool heading to a quite ravaged area in which they're a minority. That's all. I don't wish to appear blase about the results of the civil war, but rather to show that your friend's opinion is not necessarily shared.]
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I probably unfairly included you with  bjc, and if people are prepared to be snarky over the internet with no provocation I don't mind being snarky back. If you took any iimplication other than one of my best friends being a native of Sri Lanka in the same sense that I am a native of Australia, then I could  suggest you are the one with problems with nuances though.


 


It is not the Tamils my friend is concerned about, the end of the civil war has not meant the end of politics in Sri Lanka which remain quite murky as I understand it. People other than the Tamils have been known to blow people up.


 


I have never heard anything about  tourists not being unwelcome or in any way targeted, so a touring holiday with non-political friends is probably no more unsafe than anywhere else.
 
michaelm
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Perhaps you could try actually reading other people's posts rather than deciding what they have said yourself.


 


As I said, I have a friend who is an ex-native who won't go there at the moment because he considers it too dangerous.. He went quite often during the civil war, and wasn't particularly perturbed when he had to get back to Australia via a boat to India on the occasion when Colombo airport was closed due to them bombing the planes on the ground.


 


Given a choice between believing you and your friend google and my friend, I think I will go with him. I guess you are also going to tell me there is no corruption in Sri Lanka and that the government is at pains to keep both the local populace and the world media fully informed of all events at all times.
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Oh, I read your post - I know you didn't read mine - because if you had, you wouldn't have missed the part where I was there, less than a year ago, and I work, every day, with a current Colombo native who commutes about once a month. Three weeks here, a week back home.


 


I know you are never wrong, but in this case, you are.
 
Dr No
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If we're trading anecdotes....


What if I said, a good friend who lived there from 2008-10 has lent me all her guidebooks, maps and notes (and is pissed off that she can't come0. That a friend who is an 'ex-native' Sinhalese is planning to meet us in Tricomalee along with another 'ex-native' Malay so we can all see the Hermes?


 


What's the big danger that I should look out for - excepting leg burns from bike exhaust pipes and drowning/getting bent?
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Aids. Don't shag the locals.
 
michaelm
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I probably unfairly included you with  bjc, and if people are prepared to be snarky over the internet with no provocation I don't mind being snarky back. 
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Drama  queen.


 


Nobody was snarky, other than you.


 


He asked what the place was like, I (from personal, recent experience) said it was great, friendly, safe. You, who has no first hand experience decide to tell me that I'm wrong.


 


I wasn't snarky, I just gave you the tools to research it yourself - the newspapers in Sri Lanka are very open.


 


 
I have never heard anything about  tourists not being unwelcome or in any way targeted, so a touring holiday with non-political friends is probably no more unsafe than anywhere else.
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But you thought it was appropriate to reply to my post about how dangerous it is? 


 


....!
 
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Oh, I read your post - I know you didn't read mine - because if you had, you wouldn't have missed the part where I was there, less than a year ago, and I work, every day, with a current Colombo native who commutes about once a month. Three weeks here, a week back home.


 


I know you are never wrong, but in this case, you are.
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If you and your  workmate have had no problems I am glad for you. This has not been the case for my friend and workmate of 25 years. Various people who have been to Sri Lanka with him over the years and had a great time because they like you have found the place to be beautiful and the people welcoming are keen to go back, he is not, for reasons which seem adequate to me and involve people I have actually met. 


 


I do know people who barely survived the tsunami who have not been put off the place.
 
This started as as "WSBK faster than Motogp prototype" and became "I went to Sri Lanka where the Mexican staring frog comes from better than you did".


 


 


Which one pushed the other one off the trampoline?
 
Andy Roo
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This started as as "WSBK faster than Motogp prototype" and became "I went to Sri Lanka where the Mexican staring frog comes from better than you did".

 

 

Which one pushed the other one off the trampoline?
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Hahaha, my thoughts exactly mate :)
 
135,000,000 turnover $USD from the Planigale. 


 


Money men, principally Lex, how much is profit? 
 
Andy Roo
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This started as as "WSBK faster than Motogp prototype" and became "I went to Sri Lanka where the Mexican staring frog comes from better than you did".


 


 


Which one pushed the other one off the trampoline?
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Fair cop. I have learnt my lesson though after falling from the trampoline. I know now that everything of significance which happens is always reported in newspapers, and that nothing in them is untrue. Perhaps I should start reading the front section of the Sydney Daily Telegraph so that I am better informed.
 
Andy Roo
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135,000,000 turnover $USD from the Planigale. 


 


Money men, principally Lex, how much is profit? 
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The very last thing I am is a Money Man (I mean I spent a ....... million dollars on a fish tank)


But that's a pretty big number.


Good enough analysis?


 


Probably not.


 


The thing is, how much is in-house vs outsourced? Do they amortise the tooling or pay up-front? This is why they have armies of acc(o)untants and finance fruits (or a single Lex). One figure to look at is what they were projecting to sell compared to reality. If you then look at the life-cycle you can get an idea of the total $ they expected to make. And you can make some assumptions about the payback period. 3 years? 5? 12 months (so they look all sexy to Audi)?


 


But then you get into how much of this is required to finance future development, pay salaries, the electricity bill, the gucci canteen costs and to make sure Prezi has a trick wheelchair. Then you get into how much they want to spend on marketing (market by market) and then my brain leaks out my ear.


 


But I'm going to dig up some costs for Superduperbikes and then Lex and I can have a barney over it after we include Italian health costs...
 

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