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In NZ the story would be about how they arrested the evil male who installed the camera, made him in to a sex offender, and imprisoned him for 5 years or more. This would be followed by opinion pieces on how gender equality is not here yet, from every feminist organisation that has ever existed. After a day or so, the story would morph into 'the freedom to change my shirt where I want to' and how women should be allowed to go topless where they like. But only after they'd lynched a male, of course.

Fantastic! I hope he's ruined for breeding

And that's of course, just wandering across at the official points. The rest of the Mekong is almost walkable these days, now that China has the water.

Don't try and evade the issue, I've been out drinking with you three before!

Foreign cleaners. It's a religion.

So now, someone's older friend will come on a 'shopping trip' with them. And here's the cunning bit, no-one will ask the older one where the younger ones are on his/her return trip to Laos. The efforts the Thai's and Lao put into border policing are rudimentary at best. I have, on my my numerous trips to and fro, seen gaping holes in their systems, wherein I could drive from Laos to LOS and not be checked or noticed, by either side. Getting back into Laos however is checked.

You know, I struggle to see the real intent of these people, behind the smoke and mirrors of their and our propaganda. Someone elsewhere noted, these people are starting to look very Wehrmacht. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht

more than that, tri or possibly quadpolar ...

I don't think Cliff's secrets were of the molestation kind, I pretty sure he was just (still) a closet gay, something to be hidden back then.

LLAP

Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 - well made, spectacular, target audience = 12yr olds - good escapist stuff.

yer makin me homesick

Some are saying that Turing should get posthumous honours, not just a mere pardon.

Two Men in Town 2014 - good - Forest Whitaker plays a reformed killer, released from prison. He should get a prize. Worth a watch.

Pornpimol Kanchanalak ~ 'Democracy in Thailand has been terminally ill for more than a decade, and one of its afflictions is corruption of epidemic proportions' I used to love Thailand, but after 30 years of observation and experience, I sit now, outside it's borders, watching as my adopted Glorious Peoples Republic, scrabble and fight, claw, lie, bully and excrete, their way to the top of the pile. Like so many ants, attacking a juicy piece of fat ,the poor Lao think that Thailand is the zenith of achievement, the nirvana of being, as if the conspicuous displays of consumerist wealth and never-ending lightening of skin tone, which are fuelled by wholesale corruption, and seen as a virtue by most Thais, are the holiest of Buddha's teachings.

:rotl: :rotl: :rotl: :rotl: I'd forgotten you were a Comediene

Interesting stuff " the US freezing a $4.7 million defense loan" a piffling amount, Yingy spends more on white foundation cream. "particularly against cooperation between Sino-Thai triad gangs, drug trafficking and racketeering, all of which are rife on the Mekong River." Shouldn't that read "...which are the life of the Mekong River." "Another point of contention is China’s demand, in exchange for its loan, to manage the trunk line." This is worth noting, in the Glorious People's Republic, China are demanding a 1 km wide corridor, 500m each side of the line for that leg. Thats a lot of land.

Tired of being poor, I've taken a patent out and I am building these devices. $575 - Orders taken by PM User-Operated Amusement Apparatus for Kicking the User's Buttocks

Which is how you can eat 7 tomatoes on a marathon.

Also posted over on 'that other board' BANGKOK — Thailand’s Department of Mineral Resources will dispatch officials to investigate what locals in Uttradit province claim is a fossil of the mythical Naga dragon. The two kilogram "fossil," currently on display at Wat Tha Mai Nuea temple in Uttaradit's Pichai district, has attracted scores of believers and fortune seekers in the region who believe the bone will bring them good luck. Kamol Jadrueng, a temple administrator, insists that the bone belongs to the Naga, a sacred snake-dragon featured in Buddhist cosmology. According to Kamol, the fossil was donated by a temple-goer who purchased it from an antique vendor in Vientiane for 200,000 baht. The vendor said he found the fossil in a cave near the Mekong River in Laos' Savannakhet province. "[The donor] believed that the Naga [fossil] would bring fame to the temple," Kamol said. Often described as the Thai equivalent to Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, the tale of the Naga is widely celebrated in northeastern Thailand. Every November, thousands of Thais gather on the banks of the Mekong river in Nong Khai province to watch the Naga shoot mysterious "fireballs" into the sky. The event also brings annual heated debates over the source of the fireballs, which skeptics says are incendiary bullets fired from rifles on the other side of the river. According to Supot Jermsawasdipong, director of the Department of Mineral Resources, the Naga "fossil" is likely an elephant molar. "The department will dispatch officials to determine what kind of animal it is. We will compare it to an elephant's tooth," said Supot, whose department is responsible for cataloguing fossils in Thailand. Jessada Denduangboripant, biology professor at Chulalongkorn University, told Khaosod he also believes the alleged Naga bone is a fossilized elephant molar. "I'd like to add that before you believe anything, you should find information about it first," said Jessada, a vocal skeptical of supernatural beliefs in Thailand. Link __________________________________________ well if he paid 200,000 bht for it he paid too much you could get one here for $66 in 2004

That was before refrigeration, higher success rates now.

MLG did most of her driver training in the back streets and alleys of Vientiane. With me as the 'instructor', in a Nissan Navara ute, she cheerfully lurched and slid through the mud and potholes, narrowly avoiding chickens and children, escaping collisions by way of me hauling on the hand brake every ten minutes or so. She eventually got her license through a state learner driving programme. Ever since, she won't drive, she is too frightened, but to have the license, now there's the thing!

"Why Are They Killing Chatuchak Market?" Unmitigated, slavering, Emelda Marcos Bouffant capped, greed.

They usually look for 'reason to return' so if she has a job, that she can show, she has taken 2 weeks leave from, that may help.

Well he was right about the seventh heaven falling on ocean or dry land.