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I've had a moment to think and I reckon "Couragenvigour" has opened a good topic, in both positive and negative directions. two of my observations from this last trip: 1/. You have to picture in your mind, the Jeans that people wear, that are ripped/torn/cut across the knee and thigh for a distressed fashion aesthetic. Then picture that image, printed on Harem pants. Then picture the Harem pants being worn backwards so the rip/torn/cut parts are on the back of the leg and knee. Vientiane: 2 Feb 2025, 1 girl 1 guy, complete with little coloured stringy purses. 2/. Don't they understand that Valley Girl voices are not de rigueur ? Out of fashion since the '80s. I sat in front of a group of four: "We just like, died every day, every day, it was just like, we died every day.." a - not possible. b - I nearly got up and gave them the result of their claim.

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Pink e-vehicles are popular. This next parked outside a temple, note the dust, looks like it's been there a while. I also saw a Tesla CyberTruck parked up with a layer of at least 1cm, of dust on it...

Not sure he had a thing, but he did enjoy unsettling them, as do I. Large man, 'merican, cigars, cancer, nuff said.

Pu Fu Ku Japanese restaurant in Vientiane. reasonably top end, what were they thinking....

Ditto, an essential, though now smaller, part of my life.

Apologies for the previous post’s text size, copy and paste on a phone, the wonders of modern technology.

Welcome to the dark ages, where the stakes have never been higher Welcome to the dark ages, where the stakes have never been higher

In the wind I smell a block that is far from the Americas, abandoning the greenback.

Whilst I Can’t detail why, I can say that a China adjacent country has made quite a lot of progress in a decade. Not perfectly but noticeable. Denizens thereof can see that the pecking order is lacking but will not say. They see consumerism as an attainable and worthy desire. whereas. - Coming from Middle Earth I have consumerism up to the gills and I see relative happiness and calm, no fighting at parties, no gun crime, no high costs and a tolerable climate . And of course, legions of comely lasses, giving even Old and imperfect Foreigner the glad eye. Much as a dead colleague of ours used to do with burka wearers, I’ve started to give old women a cheeky wink if they meet my eye

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-person-car-dead-air-ambulance-carrying-pediatric-patient-5-others-rcna189991 best get out and lynch some trans

Yes - insanity. “President Donald Trump announced extraordinary new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China — signing the long-promised economic policy at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday” I see little Donnie is working from home. Can’t even go into the office? Didn’t he just force all the federal workers back to the office or be fired? I’m running out of popcorn 🍿

More to come in about a week when I get back to reliable internet. House blessing pics

A.K.A. Turn tail and run away in the face of opposition. Not strong. Weak.

That’s called a back down.

So why did he rescind his order freezing federal funding?

Also a couple of Neolithic stone adze/axes that are part of Grandma’s (r.i.p.) personal little shrine on our place. It seems that these have been in the family a while and are accorded some deep, possible animist, significance.

The whole place seems to have taken note of he capitalist possibilities available - from parking in temples for a small fee: To temples that are nearly theme parks, complete with staged concrete rock formations for photo ops:

Some good tucker: Ostrich egg BBQ Cow

But somethings do change, the night market on the riverfront in Vientiane as I remember it And as it is now

It’s nice to see somethings don’t change, i.e. internet access in our area going away for a week and only phone internet available at dodgy speeds…. the following is several posts in order to keep it manageable. Right in the middle of downtown, the house next to the one (now gone) that MLG spent her childhood.

DeepSeek has wiped 1 trillion from Wallstreet - see - media everywhere it’s not just the money imho it’s one side of the argument between too much control and the most lack of control of free information. China = too much Usa = lack of we the general public are the sporting field on which this plays out. Oh and Eion’s secretly in love with Zuckerberg. I know this is true because X said so and 356 million people followed it.

So now any one and everyone who worked on DOJ cases into orangeface are being fired. The USA is becoming a place wherein the rich and the powerful may not be investigated. Also people now understand that so long as you say it’s for orangeface, violence can be used preferably with weapons in most situations, definitely don’t have to comply with the rules and instructions of the police. See Indiana man pardoned for Jan. 6 crimes is killed in traffic stop … https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/indiana-man-pardoned-jan-6-crimes-killed-traffic-stop-shooting-deputy-rcna189502

So now Colombia has been bullied. Perhaps it should be so. But? what happens when the people in the room have all been bullied and have left ? Who does he bully now? He turns on his closest. This’ll take a while.

Not that I’m fond of the LGBT’illery - so long as they don’t hassle me I think they have a right to exist. L’il Donnie, with pissing into the wind, you have to know which way the wind is blowing.