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  1. Those photos look so old that I expect to see King Rama V smoking a cheroot in that middle photo! 🙂
  2. I remember going on a motorbike holiday in France with English wife #1. This was about 40 years ago. We stayed at a small hotel for the first night. We jumped into bed, switched on the TV and were met with full-on sex scenes from Canal Plus! That was an eye-opener when compared to BBC2....
  3. It's not that they don't like farangs. They simply don't like d*ckheads doing d*ckhead things.....
  4. The first '45' I ever bought was 'Sebastian' by Cockney Rebel, way back in early 1973. Steve was a very talented musician.
  5. Yes, of course I would need to get a new prescription for the driving glasses, but I think I need to pop back to the optician and explain again what I want (perhaps my Lao language skills aren't up to scratch!).
  6. Or a Greek Cypriot who was living in north Cyprus and was kicked out when the island partitioned...
  7. I doubt BMT was vaccinated as a child in the UK because there was no measles vaccination program in those years long ago! I also had measles, mumps, scarlet fever and whooping cough as a young child because there were no vacs at the time. I recovered just fine (I think!) My mum put my elder brothers into my bedroom when I had mumps to try to get them to catch it, but they didn't 🙂
  8. I have been very short-sighted (-12) since about 5 years old (I'm now 65). About 20 years ago I had Lasik surgery in the UK to correct my short-sightedness. The doctor totally corrected the vision in one eye and in the other he corrected it to a little long-sighted, since he said this would then come back to perfect vision as I got older and my eye muscles weakened. Fast forward to nowadays. I need to wear glasses when reading/using the computer, since both eyes seem to be about -2.5. But I also have a problem when driving since my eyes 'cross-over' at distance and so I see 2 cars when there is only one! But when I was in the UK last year, I had a detailed (free) eye test and the opthamologist prescribed driving glasses to correct this problem, and this worked well. But I have to use 2 different pairs of glasses every day (reading and driving). I don't like to wear my reading glasses when teaching online with my computer, and I wondered if I could wear contact lenses all the time to provide reading/computer use, and then put on my driving glasses (still wearing the contacts) when driving. (I wore contact lenses - hard, gas permeable, soft etc for many years and am very used to them). But my optician in Laos said that this would not work! I cannot wear contact lenses AND then wear driving glasses on top. I understand that if I wear contacts all the time to correct my vision for reading/computer work, then I would need a new prescription for my driving glasses, but is there a medical reason why I could not wear contacts all the time and then put on driving glasses when I ride my motorbike?
  9. This is a terrible idea. What century are the authorities living in? Wai kru should be condemned as an outdated ceremony that has no place in a modern education system.
  10. Is it my imagination, but are there more posters with mental health problems nowadays than previously? 20 years ago NO-ONE on this forum had mental health problems - nowadays you can't read 20 posts without encountering a poster who clearly should either be arrested, sedated or committed to a loony asylum......
  11. I'm up in Luang Prabang, north Laos. I'm often awake in the wee small hours because: - Some of my online students live in EU/USA and their classes at at midnight or 1am my time. They were my students a few years ago when they lived in China and Russia, but they relocated to 'the West'. I don't want to stop teaching them, besides... - I'm a shortwave radio amateur (about the only one in Laos), and the radio signal propagation god decreed that the best time to hear radio signals from afar is in the middle of the night!!
  12. He was trying to get to Koh Larn. Could the Navy chaps not have dropped him off on that island, rather than bringing back to the mainland? Now he will only go and try again!
  13. The thought of Abbot and Corbyn going at it like a couple of dogs on heat is too much for my imagination to contemplate......
  14. Hi Swissie, yes the health issue concerns me. I decided against returning to teach in Myanmar because of some small health issues that could make a big problem if access to hospitals are difficult. The nearest decent hospital would be the new private hospital in Vientiane....... LP has no decent hospital for serious accidents/sudden illnesses - you just accept your death! The ham radio hobby is going well. My antennas now have camouflage paint and blend in well with the trees 🙂
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