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I spent 10 years in the air as a flight attendant and have logged many 100's of hours over that traveling for pleasure. There is precious little I can think of than to listen to a wailing infant for 10 + hours. This includes the parents, the passengers and the staff. Everyone is miserable and I have seen serious arguments break out between exhausted parents and fed-up passengers.

As to the person who said F 'em to the people bothered by crying infants, well that is just flat out rude and disrespectful.

Ask your doctor, antihistamines and anti-nausea pills work well as do over the counter cold/cough syrups. A side effect is drowsiness. Not all doctors will agree, but given the tiniest dose your baby can sleep well and safely, and thus everyone on the plane including the parents, has a much more pleasant flight.

I don't agree that just because someone has a child, it gives them the right to ruin other peoples' time.

Why not simply raise taxes on the fags? Tripling the price should encourage people to smoke less.

This has been tried in the West and it just doesn't work. Education is what works. I believe if they raised the price of cigarettes by any considerable it would correspond to an increase in crime and the black market of cigarette trafficking.

Lion Air was just voted the most dangerous airline in the world. Granted, this was a heart attack and could have been missed during a routine physical exam which every pilot must undergo at least once per year.

Lion Air was recently adjudged the most dangerous airline in the world by 

I would avoid them. For now, at least.

Seriously, anyone who was stupid enough not to bet on Germany to win it all deserves to lose their life's savings. They were not only the easy choice, not only the logical choice, they were the only choice.

I've lived in Laos for many years and have been to the LOS dozens of times. I've seen plenty of Thai girls in bikinis. The Lao are a little more restrained and there are no beaches, however, Lao girls go to public swimming pools in bikinis regularly.

You want to see uptight beach people, come to Korea where I work. Koreans hang on the beach all day fully clothed. Long pants, long-sleeved shirts, HUGE hats with sun visors. many ladies where gloves. They swim in these get-ups, then play in the sand. I have very rarely seen a Korea girl in a bathing suit of any type or a Korean guy in just swimming shorts.

It's also perfectly normal for grown adults to wade around in water maybe waist deep with a life jacket on. They usually do not take these off when they're rolling around in the sand.

South Korea has been using a fingerprint scanner for years. It's quick and easy and the technology is not expensive. S. Korea also has heat scanners that will show an elevated body temperature possibly indicating a disease.

The demonstrators want to replace the government with an unelected People's Council. I wonder how long they would hold sway until 'the people' had enough of them and their ways?

I like what my Lao wife has to say about it, "Thai people are clazy. They fighting all the time. I no understand"

Yeah babe, I no understand too!

Cheating is an Asian thing. I've taught in Laos and am presently teaching in Korea. I have friends who teach in China. Asians cheat on everything. The SAT exams were recently cancelled country wide in Korea because the professor in charge of the Office of Education was selling the answers.

I wouldn't say that is is endemic in Asian society, I would say that it is the only facet of their society that allows them to keep pace with the West. What do Asians invent? Nothing. They take/steal Western inventions and innovations and tweak them and call them original.

Korean students who go to Canada or the USA to university have a huge failure/dropout rate because they can't handle doing work alone and being singularly responsible.

Several nuclear reactors are offline in Korea because the guy in charge of safety was falsifying the safety reports, claiming work was satisfactory that had never been done. On freaking nuke plants!!!

I've been a bike owner for over 30 years, having owned Hondas, Kawasakis, and a couple of Yamahas. I've owned cruisers and crotch rockets.

When I lived in Calgary, Canada, the local Harley dealership would have a free ride weekend, where they had one of every model including the Buells.

All you had to do was show up with a bike license, helmet and leather jacket and you could sign up for a ride on any bike. The ride was decent, about 6 km including both highway and city driving for a well rounded experience.

I've driven most of the models Harley puts out and they're all decent bikes. The Buells, which are Harley's crotch rocket were awesome.

All in all, nice bikes but not worth the money. I didn't see $20,000 worth in the difference between my Kawi Vulcan and a big Harley cruiser.

The fact that English levels and abilities are higher in S. Korea than in Thailand is surprising to me as well. I have been teaching in Korea for nearly 4 years now and the English comprehension and speaking abilities here are shockingly low, considering that Korea spends as much or more than any other nation on ESL.

Every student takes English from Elementary year 3 through high school. That's 10 years or about 1000 hours of English language in school. A significant percentage of kids also go to hagwans after school to study further.

I was in Seoul recently and came across a group of about 15 university kids. I asked for directions to a restaurant that I knew was closeby. All I saw were crossed arms in front of faces and all I heard was "No Englishee". Everyone of those kids had at least 1000 hours of English in school. Everyone of them had taken a "giving directions" class. I know, I teach it in elementary years 3-6 and middle school Years 1-3. The school curriculum is similar nationwide.

None of the Korean co-teachers I have are capable of carrying on a comfortable conversation in English. Basic shit, like talking about your day.

Previous to Korea, I taught in Laos for 5 years. Those kids were bright. I've also been to Thailand many many times. I found it quite easy to get along in English there. I found the levels to be quite high.

I'm callao's friend and built a house in a village not far from the airport about 4 years ago. I used a Lao electrician who did a great job, exactly what I wanted and was very reasonable. I can get his number from my wife (Lao).

He didn't ground (earth) the house but I didn't tell him too, so I will take the blame. Everything else was super: fans plus extractor fans in every room, air conditioners, dozens of plugs and switches and dimmers for all the pot lights. I way over did the plug thing, the Lao just don't get it! I have plugs I've never used. There is a main house circuit breaker plus a circuit breaker in every room as well as motion sensor lights outside and lights on top of the wall by the main gate.

Very reasonable prices. I really can't remember but I do recall thinking, "Is that all!"