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But he has lots of competition for that position......

Not Thailand, but nowadays I teach science and English 'online' to many young Russian and Ukrainian students who left Russia with their families when the war started. Most of my students have settled in Spain. All of my students are studious and are interested in technical topics, a trait that I often find with Russian/Ukrainian students.

"Gaza could have been like Monaco or Dubai had it not spent its entire existence fighting Israel " Well, perhaps a little exaggeration there :) Gaza is a sh*t hole and the only people to blame are the Hamas leadership and every Gazan citizen that supports Hamas or allows them to stay in power. As for the large number of civilian deaths in Gaza, that's hardly surprising when the civilians allowed Hamas to build tunnels under their homes, hospitals, schools and mosques....

He already has one >>> arguing with and annoying people!

Probably not the best choice of words!!

Having considered all my symptoms and having consulted with the second-best doctor available (Dr Google, Sheryl being the best doctor of course!), I consider this to be a rotator cuff injury. All the symptoms point to that. I'm not keen to go down the surgery route. I've had this injury for 20 years, (and regularly "refreshed" this injury every few years!). I studied a website about physiotherapy exercises that I can do and I'll start these on a daily basis to strengthen my shoulder/injury region. I don't expect to completely resolve the issue just with exercises, but so long as the pain is minor and I have reasonable movement of my arm, then I'm happy. Reminder to self: Stop lifting heavy radio antennas......

Here in north Laos the racial profiling by the police is 'in your face'. When I ride my uninsured, old Vietnamese motorbike (with Vietnam plates etc) down the main road in Luang Prabang, the local police at the daily checkpoint make a big effort to wave me though as quickly as possible, lest they be called upon to attempt to speak English with me :) (I can speak reasonable Lao language now, but as in Thailand, I play the dumb tourist if stopped!).

Go further north from Nai Yang beach to the very long Mai Khao beach. Golden sand and very quiet, but it's better to only paddle in the sea because there are some strong currents offshore.

You are obviously speaking to uneducated Brits. I say "A bowl of water". It's not difficult.....

I speak RP (received pronunciation) English, which couldn't be clearer. But as a child I also learn to speak with a strong local accent. My parents insisted that I 'switch off' my local accent when required to allow mutual understanding. When travelling in southern Thailand, I have to ask locals to 'switch off' their southern Thai accent and speak Bangkok Thai so that I can understand them. They seem able to do this at will. But ask a Brummie or Scouse or Geordie from the UK to switch off their local accent and they are totally confused! Were they not taught the ability to switch off their unintelligible accent as a child?

Your last will and testament?

I don't think it's a nerve pinched in my neck (or similar). If I 'jarr' my arm or move it suddenly, the pain in the middle of my upper arm is so sharp that I cry out involuntarily! If I move my arm slowly, then no pain (except putting my arm behind my back or stretching out. It could be a rotator cuff because if I turn over in my sleep I can get a sharp pain in my shoulder (no such pain in the daytime). Yes I should really get a CT scan of my arm/shoulder. That's not so easy to do here in north Laos...

In the state that I was, I would have been happy if they pooped on me if it could medically help!!

Just another day. 1 - Teach online 2 - rest for an hour 3 - Repeat from 1)

I did this last year. Rented a bungalow near Ban Chaloklam, went swimming every day until the day that a box jellyfish stung me in the bay. The last 2 people stung by a box jellyfish on KPN died within 10 minutes. I lay on the floor of a beach restaurant with my limbs jerking like a punk rocker dancer while the restaurant owner rubbed vinegar into my skin while we waited for the ambulance. The Thai people watching said to each other 'Look, he will be dead in 5 minutes...' I truly thought that I would die. Happily for me, I did not die. But it put me off being a beachbum on KPN

As others have said, it's a normal working day. I'm in Laos - it's a mainly Buddhist country. I'm teaching on Xmas Day just like every other day :)

The hospital should sue him for his derogatory comments...

I lived in the new capital (Naypyitaw) around 2016-2018, before that I lived and worked in Yangon and Mandalay. Life in Naypyitaw was very different to the rest of the country. Naypyitaw was clean and green, almost devoid of any population except for the politicians and street cleaners. ASSK was 'leader' in name only (actually she was blocked by the military from being the country leader and so governed the country through a 'puppet' prime minister from her political party. But she never held true power because the military continued to control security and defence etc. I was teaching in Yangon after the military arrested ASSK and took over control of the country again. The Civil Defence Movement began and teachers, doctors etc refused to work in the government schools and hospitals. Students refused to attend government schools and the teachers started to teach them online, but many teachers were arrested and imprisoned for trying to educate the civilian population. I reactivated my own online teaching app and loaded it up with all the online videos that the government-in-exile had produced (English, Maths, Science etc). To ensure access to it when the international internet was interrupted, I rented a server in Yangon :) This all went very well until I made a weekend shopping trip to Bangkok and then the military refused to let me back into the country! I'm still not allowed back into Myanmar, but wait with hope for the military to fall (which it now seems possible and likely in the next year or so). That will coincide with my retirement and I hope then to return to Myanmar to help with education again. Overall, I find the people of Myanmar very friendly, extremely resourceful, strong-willed and determined to obtain an elected government again. I wonder if there will be a peaceful outcome to the many differences of opinion and the clamour by some for self-determination/independence of the various states within Myanmar, such as Shan State.

IMHO, if someone considers a place to be boring, it's because that person is boring. An educated and optimistic person can make even the most apparently-boring location enjoyable and interesting.

Thanks for that video. Based on those simple tests, it is not a rotator cuff injury. I have no issues with my shoulder movement. It is a pain in the center of my biceps muscle and which is particularly sharp (causing me to cry out in pain) if I suddenly move the arm (if I move it at a normal pace, then there is no pain unless I try to put my arm behind my back).

Which vaccination would that be? A tetanus vac that I had 20 years ago in my right arm? (I'm left-handed, so always have jabs in my right arm)

I'm interested out of curiosity, rather than seeking medical treatment. Some 20 years ago I fell while carrying my new born daughter. To protect her I fell onto my left arm. The pain in my upper arm was very bad but I did not seek medical treatment. Over the years I have fallen again and again on my left arm (mostly falling off ladders when making/adjusting my ham radio antennas!). Each time the pain is intense and it takes a few weeks for the pain to subside to a dull ache. I can lift and utilise my left arm as long as I keep it close to my body. I can raise it above my head. If I put my left arm behind my back (similar to a police 'arrest'), the pain is intense. This pain seems not to be in the upper arm bone but rather in the center of the biceps muscle. The pain is worst after sleeping, presumably because I've slept on that arm or moved it into an awkward position. Go and see a doctor for an x-ray? Yes of course that is a good suggestion. But do the symptoms point towards a particular ailment?

I'm not going to do your homework for you - go and search, probably more than a dozen times.

Many - all of them reported on AN/TV forum over the past 20+ years :)

Hmm, this often seems to happen when the only person who might be a witness to the crime is conveniently away for a few days....