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Nice and warm in middle earth, but no records.

That's telling them.

I went to a rocket festival in the Glorious People's Republic last year, it was fun, oodles of booze, lots of rockets, a judging panel and many, many, young things disporting themselves for the enjoyment of the male population.

Most of the rockets were good'uns, some were so big, that I thought the distance between the launch platform and us (about 100 feet), too small, if one exploded.

Happy to say, the only explosions encountered, were when I opened my eyes the next morning.

What do they mean first? I had that, Banglampoon 1987. Much happier since.

I think some of the main reasons to JB an Apple TV, is to run other software on the TV and to save movies/tv to a hard drive.

Thanks for that

In my view she going to do a runner and I there will be a trial-

The amount of funds missing in the rice scandal was astonishing-

I agree with you, hence the Army following her about, I reckon she'll do a quick boat across the Mekong in the night....

Running? I remember running, 1983 I think it was...

Always amazes me when I hear people state that "unions" are running this country.

 

Nay, must be laziness or just plain lack of knowledge.

 

Only 11% of US workers are members of unions. And THEY are "running" this country?

 

Huh?

 

What about George Soros or the Koch Brothers? They are both union members, right?

To riff on your argument, only 1% of the world's people have circa 60% of the wealth, "And THEY are "running" the world?

Huh?"

OK lads, recommendations for the best free or cheap VPN?

Dressed to Kill 1980 - Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson et al. A Brian De Palma movie, some good twists, Angie's body double in the shower deserves a prize. Good quality movie - Well worth a watch.

probably mean Kg, edumication being what it is, in LOS

Birdman 2014 - technically compelling, as a lot of the movie appears to be shot in one shot, the holy grail of film students. It's a bit of an actors movie, with lots and lots of 'acting'. Over all, worth a watch.

..... Being a virtuous maiden .....

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

Very good

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.

accurate

Am I the only one who has noticed that in conservative Muslim countries women must be covered from head to foot or at be least guarded by their male relatives to protect them from the lust of men? It's odd that in other countries men have to be responsible for their own behaviour and not blame their sexual misconduct on women.

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

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.

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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.