@Winston
Wow, shocking how you turned my last post, which was only supposed to leave politely thanking some of the posters,
including yourself, for the experience, into another shopping list of reasons why "I am publicduende". I thought polite people always say "goodbye" when leaving a place. So PD did the same, OK, so he was being nice, too. Reason number 182 that we
must be the same person!
@MarcosZeitola, another European, coincidentally did the same thing and he is being nailed to the wall, too. By the way, weren't you the one asking him to be back, to help revive a dying forum that only had some trolling and the tall tales from Contrarian Expatriate as their daily highlights? Now he gets to be mocked by you and Rock because he stirred up drama and "he keeps coming back anyway".
Amazing, absolutely amazing what some lame a&&-kissing and a couple of PMs from a troll does to you. And amazing what simply disagreeing with you does to you. At this point I have to thank heaven I have never revealed my real identity here.
Why are you so resented that I won't show my face on cam? Why are you and your friend Rock playing Sherlock Holmes & Watson with silly arguments which apply to most Italians, or Europeans, or young foreigners living in the Philippines, and call them "evidence"? Why are you taking it personally?
The last question would be: why am I obliged to reveal my "mystery identity" after being a decent contributor for months, but
@Spencer is exempted, despite having done nothing but shitting around stupid comments full of personal attacks in purposely broken English? But we all know the answer to that one

He kissed your "bossman wiseton" a$$ to no end as Spencer, after insulting and threatening legal action against you as Stanforguy a few months before.
At the cost of being unoriginal, Winston, I have to join the many posters, including
@publicduende, who saw the elephant in the room and even, more or less straight-faced, told you what they saw.
The elephant in the room being that you are a narcissistic personality with a massive, fragile ego. You are way too sensitive to both flattering and criticism. You want to pose as an "old soul" who vibes with the "old world" but you will only trust opinions from Americans who have been to Europe, as tourists or even whoremongers, and made a mockery of any opinion coming from actual Europeans like MarcosZ, Yohan, myself, etc.
You just believe what you want to believe and be damned anyone who puts a pinch of objective truth in any of your flights of fantasy. Fine, "Europe is full of free-spirited girls" because you enjoyed Cara Delevingne's character in a movie. Fine, a foreigner in the Philippines can only have paid sex, or sex in exchange for an allowance, because that was your experience with the Angeles City bar girls, so it must apply to everyone and everywhere in the Philippines.
I am damned for not believing in energy-sucking demons and bogus new age theories but if I believe in the much more concrete theory that the Covid pandemic was mostly fabricated to serve an agenda, I am a conspiracy theorist "just like Publicduende", so I must be him!
You understand how difficult it is to talk to you, let alone debate with you. It's like walking on eggshells, or on a mine field. In that sense you're not that different from Contrarian Expatriate. You start the conversation from the top of a pedestal where you are the superior mind with a higher understanding of life, spirituality and people and if people disagree with you, it means they can't understand you and they must be wrong.
You are the owner of this forum and you can do whatever you want but, as I told CE several times, once the PC is turned off and you have to be back to reality, reality isn't exactly what you want it to be. You go back to people who may disagree with you and your opinion is just as good as anyone else's.
I don't have to be an Italian guy called Vanni, or a chef from near Verona called Marco, to report on the elephant in the room, Winston. The fact that Publicduende, another dozen posters and I agree on the above doesn't mean we are the same person. It means "the emperor has no clothes", after all. It's quite evident.
You know what? I joined this forum true to the "happier abroad" slogan, looking to share a few of the niceties of living in the Philippines while improving my written English. A few notable exceptions apart, I realise this forum is mostly made of people who are not abroad and, those who are abroad, doesn't sound happy at all. I may even agree with PD when he says that you and Rock are probably on the autistic spectrum. If that's the case, having a proper debate like two grown-up adults simply isn't possible.
So let's leave it at this.