I'm not a fan of Morocco. Just listing the good: It's cheap, there's nice food and the cats, because of the way people treat them, are awesome. That's all.


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kowalski

What you gunna do now then just keep making your way from country to country?

I'm stopped in Rabat for now doing a little writing and starting to apply for jobs / organise what to do from November onwards.


Peace,

kowalski

Morrocan girls are nuts

I haven't met any. In Tangier there were hardly any allowed out in public and those that you did see were ugly as fuck. In the other cities I've seen a few attractive girls, like 10 in as many days.


Peace,

kowalski

I met an English kid here. He's 22 and has a Moroccan girlfriend. She is a headscarf wearing muslim. They've been seeing each other since he was 16. He comes to visit her every summer. He's a virgin as they can only kiss and hold hands.

I find all that weirder than the plot of a Korean movie.


Peace,

kowalski

The morrocan chick I was knocking about with told me that being affectionate in public can land you a ticket or an arrest. She had weird hangups with the whole religion/culture thing...

Yeah, is pretty crazy here. Just random girl things like - You never see a girl's ankle or shoulder. They only got rid of their 'Marry your rapist' law in 2014. Or just random everyone things like - You can ride motorbikes with neither helmets nor lights. You can shit or huff glue or both in the street.


Peace,

kowalski

One of my Moroccan friends told me that he wore a friendship bracelet on his ankle one time and his father saw it.

His father waited till he was sleeping. First he cut it off with scissors, then he heated a key over the gas stove and burnt his son's ankle with it and made him sleep in the street for 2 weeks. He was 21 at the time (22 now) and his father, from photos, is not strong enough to fight him. His reaction showed that it had never even crossed his mind when I asked why he didn't.

He did move out and now lives independently.


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I've met a lot of dumb yanks here. Oh my lord, they are the worst. So much self hate.

They say shit like "you're actually safer here than in the UK or US". This clearly isn't true. Maybe the official figures say that but the official figures here are fake as fuck. Most people have multiple stories of times people tried to pickpocket them or pulled a machete and mugged them in just a week here. But they have 0 equivalent stories from travelling or living in the UK or USA, where you can casually leave your phone and laptop on a table and go for a piss.

And they say "isn't everyone friendly" yet all locals try to double the price on any and every item as soon as they spot you are foreign and, unless you go to a bar, every conversation you get in with a local will end in them asking you for money. It'll end at that point because they either get some or not but they are done talking to you either way. I don't call that friendly.

One yank fuck started saying that women have it worst everywhere in the world. I pointed out that men die around 10 years younger in nearly every nation. If women get the shitty end of the stick, why doesn't that negatively effect their life expectancy. I don't see any other measure that can stand against life expectancy. In any other fields life expectancy (deaths by any causes) is the ultimate measure. So it should be here too.

I did also meet a kid from Philadelphia who was legit and, of course, the Canadians are cool.


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As for the truly friendly Moroccans, i.e. only those who give less fucks about their disgusting religion and therefore drink alcohol, they will have an honest conversion with you and let you criticise their culture from an informed standpoint. Because, if Islam is so great why are all majority Islamic countries poverty ridden shitholes where the people treat each other badly. They have no answer for that.

Last night I was talking about UFC (but not about Conor v Khabib) with someone and a local interjected to say that Conor crossed a line by saying things about their religion. I went off on him starting with "for starters, we aren't even taking about them but more importantly our culture is better than yours because we don't kill people for drawing a picture of our favourite paedophile... we don't even have a favourite pedophile, we think they're all bad" and I got progressively more vitriolic as I went on. After which the other kid tired to translate my words into a softer sell.


Peace,

kowalski

All I can visualise is market type areas, very densely populated with people carrying things on their heads and men playing a flute of some kind summoning a python from a basket.

I get this image from one of the episodes of Derren Brown's Trick or treat. In it, the guy chose a trick card, and as a result Derren hypnotised him, transported him to an airfield, flew him to Marrakesh, and left him there to wake up in a photo booth with cash to get home and his passport.

I thought that was cool as fuck. It would have been totally crazy to just wake up in another country like that.