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If I recall she was married and has at least one kid...

It would seem that the Burmese are scapegoats in the countries than Thailand

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Horrible Bosses 2 2014 - I liked version 1, it was a good movie, this one suffers the 'sequel' curse, not quite as good, interminable bickering and squabbling amongst the three leads, very teenage girlie dialogue, unbefitting in men. Only worth a watch if you are under 25 I guess. The Missouri Breaks 1976 - Very good, Brando, Nicholson, et al - worth a watch.

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I make this same point all the time, though less eloquently than you do.

A young couple wait to go to the movies for Valentine's Day on February 14, 2014 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo / Getty Images Cambodia can't get enough of Valentine's Day. There are many reasons for this, both cultural as well as linguistic. For starters, Cambodians can be melodramatic when it comes to matters of the heart. Photo ops, like this one, aren't uncommon. And then there's the syntax. Valentine's Day hints at a very important Khmer word: songsar. It's often loosely translated as "sweetheart." Or sometimes "valentine." But those don't really get at the complexities of the word. A better translation would be something along the lines of "someone I think I'm going to marry" or "someone I want to marry." And therein lies the problem. Because when some Cambodians think of Valentine's Day, they think of that songsar, and expect they're going to have sex with them. Whether it's consensual or not, research suggests. Cambodia already has a fairly significant problem with rape. According to United Nations research, one in five Cambodian men admit to raping a woman at least once. Half of that number started before the age of 20. And nearly two-thirds said they had raped their partner, or more explicitly, their songsar. Valentine's Day only exacerbates that trend, government officials say. "This year, we are asking teachers to properly advise their students," Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron told the Cambodia Daily. "Stop thinking anymore about Valentine's Day. Buying flowers for each other is fine, but if it is meant to move beyond friendship and lose one's virginity - that is not right." Teenage sex is nothing out of the ordinary, to be sure. But Cambodia's unique confluence of factors - an already-high rate of rape as well as a bad translation that implies one is supposed to take the virginity of one's songsar - has turned Valentine's Day into a day of rape, government officials say. "Valentine's Day is the day that they shall sacrifice their bodies for sweethearts and cause the loss of personal and family dignity," the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport warned last year, according to the Cambodian Daily. "Valentine's Day is Western culture, a foreign culture. Boys can exploit Valentine's Day and take advantage of girls, while girls sometimes are confused about what their role is on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day exposes the youth to rape." Prominent opposition position Mu Sochua said that reasoning was nonsense. Beer, she said, is also of a foreign culture. But the government has made no moves to warn people about beer: "Does more sexual assault occur as a result of alcohol or Valentine's Day?" While she does have a point - and Cambodians do drink a lot of beer - she's missing a troubling pattern borne out in a recent batch of surveys. Burrowing deeper into this trend was Tong Soprach. He's a public health specialist as well as a columnist for the Phnom Penh Post. He began researching Valentine's Day and sex back in 2009, and kept it up through 2014, achieving a longitudinal data set. He interviewed 715 Cambodians, aged 15 to 24, and what he found was staggering. In 2009, roughly two-thirds of young males said they were willing to force their partners to have sex on Valentine's Day. That number dropped some by 2014, but was still alarmingly high: among 376 male respondents, about 47 percent. As Vice commented, "Obviously, the sample size was pretty small, but that's still a lot of guys who are all to happy to admit they'd be up for topping their Valentine's off with a night of non-consensual sex." The respondents had any number of methods, the survey found. "I will say to her if we don't have sex we don't really love each other, to try to get her to agree." Or: "I will pressure her by taking her far from town to try to have sex with her." More common was this answer: "I will give her an expensive gift with the aim of having sex with her." The findings corroborated anecdotes published in some newspapers. In early 2013, the Phnom Penh Post published a story called "What young Cambodians expect from Valentine's Day." It focused on a young female high school student with a crush on a classmate. So on Valentine's Day, she folded a sheet of paper into the shape of a star and gave it to him. "That same day, he asked to me to make love with him," she told the paper. "Because I loved him, I agreed. Then, within a couple of months, he had another girlfriend. . . . It was the most terrible experience of my life." Many young Cambodians, researcher Tong said, neither understand the "background of Valentine's Day," nor the fact that one doesn't need to have sex regardless of a partner's wishes. "There has been a shift among Cambodian youth from viewing the day as a celebration of love to simply being a catalyst for sex," he told the Phnom Penh Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com

Fake is just not correctly branded. Like Thai rice.

MLG has been sent on several 'Courses' from the Glorious People's Republic, to China, Beijing and Kunming. She never wants to go back, why? Toilets. Or more specifically, the horrifying state of filth, they exist in. If you've ever seen the state of the average Lao domestic or restaurant toilet, you'll know that this is indeed, saying something.

I quite agree with you, what little I know is that his contribution to music, mainly involves 'beats' (figuring out a percussion sequence that can be repeated) and sampling other people's music and vocals and replaying those samples in a different context. If you could do this with literature, the following should by rights make me a billionaire: We know what we are, but know not what we may be. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. Howzat!! Shakespeare, Wilde and Twain, oh and Warne, respectively

The unfortunate thing about this guy us that he is very successful if Wikiwoo is anything to go by. Which makes me wonder if we shouldn't redefine success, to be something other, than being able to sell vast, vast, quantities of crap.

Well her face isn't ugly, but her but is huge! A short arse, is how I'd describe her.

disclaimer, I normally try and ignore the goings on, of people described as 'Celebrities', this one, however crosses a line, not a line of 'Celebrity' behaviour, but a line of adult, human behaviour. Just as Beck began his acceptance speech, West stormed the stage and gestured that he was about to begin declaring Beyoncé's album "the best of all time" and deserving of the award again, as he did (seriously) to Taylor Swift five years ago. Luckily for Beck, the headline-grabbing moment has shot Morning Phase up Amazon's albums chart, with sales rising by a massive 1342 per cent. Swift kissed and made up with West backstage at the 2015 ceremony, where he continued to rant about the Grammys "not respecting artistry" and being "disrespectful to inspiration"." I was just so excited he was coming up," Beck told US magazine after the incident. "He deserves to be on stage as much as anybody. How many great records has he put out in the last five years right?" Source and comment from someone who is not me: Shirley Manson Musician/Band · 259,680 Likes · 23 hrs · Dear Kanye West It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry. You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you disrespect the talent, hard work and tenacity of all artists when you go so rudely and savagely after such an accomplished and humble artist like BECK. You make yourself look small and petty and spoilt. In attempting to reduce the importance of one great talent over another, you make a mockery of all musicians and music from every genre, including your own. Grow up and stop throwing your toys around. You are making yourself look like a complete twat. Ps.I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own. --- Whilst am all for freedom of speech, I am also for summary execution when it is deserved, like for little Mr West,

Once in Jail, he may well be at a high risk of Suicide.

apparently, this is not a joke, but I think it is Members of North Korea's Ministry of the People's Armed Forces (MPAF) dance during a celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the regular revolutionary armed forces of Korea, at an undisclosed location in Pyongyang in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

There is a definite cultural difference between Thais (and Laos) and Westerners when it comes to music. Quality and lack of distortion in the sound, are not seen as desirable. They'll listen to something played so loud that not only can you hear the speakers tearing themselves apart, you can see it happen. I don't know why? Maybe they are fans of Spinal Tap?

I always thought Mozzarella would be a good lark, all those buffaloes, everywhere. But the thought of trying to get the locals to milk their buffalo and provide the 4~5 l of milk in a clean and cool condition to the cheese factory every day, was too daunting. There'd be people trying to pass off rice flour mixed with water, paint with some rancid buffalo fat on top, that sort of thing.

I've never been there, but 2,590 but for a steak (US $79) strikes me as expensive, that's 107 NZ pesos. And having never been there, the following is open to argument and correction, by others who may have been there, please have at it. Without wanting to disparage the place, there are a few things I'd expect in a Western restaurant that charged this kind of money for beef (and the beef being imported is no excuse for high prices, you can buy NZ Lamb legs at Emporium for less than at supermarkets in NZ). Pre-dinner drinks area, clean, not exposed to street traffic and associated fumes. Expensive and thoughtful decor, subtle and pleasant music in the background. Not just excellent service, but silver service for these prices. Side dishes, at least one without garlic. IMHO, which is in part, based on the precise and formidable thoughts, of our dear Bubi, there are a lot of restaurants in BKK that take advantage of: a/. Expats and Tourists being unable to find their favourite Western food, in this case grilled meat. b/. The naivety of so called 'HiSo' locals who've managed to scraped a few shekels together and wish to demonstrate 'face' and 'status' by spending it on any Western thing that is seen as, usually, only affordable by the rich. To give depth to this argument, I relate a small story that happened in Vientiane recently, Vientiane to a certain extent, is Thailand for beginners. A Dairy Queen opened in downtown Vientiane, for those how don't know, the Dairy Queen is a place that sells ice cream extruded from machines, it looks and behaves like a McDonalds, but it's for ice-cream. The place was mobbed by the local 'HiSos', BMWs and Mercs jamming the surrounding streets and parked on kerbs, pavements and street vendors. Not just on opening night but for weeks afterwards. Thus is the hunger for status satisfied. Thais are no different, witness the constant display of wealth by the elite of Thailand, it has to be displayed, that is what it's for, at least in the minds of Thais. A further note on the 'Gaucho' concept. I've been to one like this in Auckland and one recently opened in Vientiane, the concept is chunks of meat, grilled at high heat, on great big flaming grills, like the Gauchos or 'cowboys' would do it on the pampas. Nothing wrong with that, good meat, good taste. Luverly. There is however no Michelin starred chef in the background, no school of Gaucho cookery one must graduate from to prepare this kind of food, generally it is cooked by anyone who knows how to cook a steak. Also, the other food, the wine, the surroundings are generally what we call 'rustic', or if you were in Argentina, ordinary. ​I fall with Bubi in thinking that 'Gaucho' food at these prices is expensive. But if money is no object, then appropriate for the purpose. Stone Soup, I don't direct the above at you personally, these are just my thoughts on 'Gaucho' food.

But I heard that someone came back from the future and liquefied his brain with a localised sonic burst, to ensure death in case the bullet missed. Surely my version is true?

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But what if she promises to come back for the trial like Takky did?

I reckon that's the other side of the coin, one reason (not justifiable, but still a reason) that they keep women away from men is that the men seem to regard any women as fair game. There have been reported, and also I know from personal experience, incidences of male 'new New Zealanders' of the Muslim persuasion, wanting to f**k the first woman they encounter on the street after arriving in NZ and having to be told/educated that we don't treat women this way. Sometimes the message doesn't get through and they go to jail.

An Al Jazeera Story. Just watched this, very interesting. Whilst there is no doubt that there is/was trafficking and such in Cambodia, it would seem that Somaly Mam has been lying through her teeth to get funding. In particular, her French ex husband was quite candid, in saying that she hadn't been trafficked and had entered the P4P trade after the age of 16, voluntarily, where he met and married her, she spent time in France before returning to open her NGO. She's been outed 'coaching' girls to invent spectacular stories to further the NGO's goals.. Shame really, this kind of thing only sets back legitimate work by honest people. Al Jazeera Link Wiki link And related to this is this Al Jazeera story I think that reading the whole text of this story is mandatory if you want to comment on trafficking in Cambodia: "Phnom Penh, Cambodia - In early 2011, Srey Mao, 28, and two friends were "rescued" and taken to a shelter run by Afesip, a Cambodian organisation that prides itself on helping sex-trafficking victims recover from trauma while learning new trades such as sewing and hairdressing. There was just one problem: The women claim they hadn't actually been trafficked. Instead, the women said they were willing sex workers who had been rounded up off the street during a police raid and sent to Afesip, headed by the internationally renowned anti-sex-slavery crusader Somaly Mam with funding from the foundation that bears her name. They said they were confined there for months as purported victims of sex trafficking. Srey Mao claimed that she, her friends and a number of other sex workers in the centre were instructed by a woman to tell foreign visitors they had been trafficked."I was confined against my will," Srey Mao said on Saturday. The person she said ordered her and others to lie was Somaly Mam." and Mam's star-studded image abruptly lost its sheen on May 28, when she was forced to resign from the Somaly Mam Foundation following a Newsweek cover story reporting that she had lied about her past. Not only had Mam not been an orphaned trafficking victim - reporter Simon Marks revealed in Newsweek that she grew up with both parents and graduated from high school - but she reportedly encouraged and coached girls to lie as well. much more at the link _______________________________________