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Also, when I was in the UK about 2 years ago, I applied for a Wise debit card. They sent it 'UNLOCKED' to my hotel address where the dozy hotel manager stole it and ran up 100 quid in Grab take-out food (apparently, Wise does no security checks for Grab food!!). I complained to Wise and they cancelled the card and fully refunded me. Then they sent a new debit card which was also UNLOCKED!! The hotel manager stole the card again and I had to repeat the refund process. After that, I gave up getting the card! My Wise bank account works fine, but I have no idea why they send out unlocked physical cards. Reminder to self: Stay at a different hotel next time! 🙂

What cobblers are you talking about? I'm fully aware that the UK state pension is frozen if I remain in Thailand, Laos etc. Right now, with my online teaching, my income will be about $2,500 per month, which is perfectly adequate (more than adequate) for a single person. When I finally end my online teaching, I can simply move to The Philippines, where my state pension is not frozen.

Certainly a rather strange position to pee!

The UK probably.....

Plausible excuse of a medical condition. I have some prostate issues and occasionally get taken short, but I never shake the drips from my todger as vigorously as this Italian apparently did 🙂

Surely those are hippo legs... ? I had a great German pal many years ago in Phuket who was the head chef at the the airport catering company. Due to all the sweet food that he had to concoct and eat, he had diabetes. Finally had to chop his legs off and he died soon afterwards 😞

If your comment about living in the middle of a war zone earning less than a grand (USD) per month refers to my teaching in Myanmar, I think you are a little confused about my income. Last month I earned about $4,000 from teaching in-class and online, and it will rise to about $5,000 a month when my UK pension money starts in June. By the way, that is 'normal' income, not some danger money 🙂 Apart from the occasional bomb/shooting in the city, the regular fighting is at least 13km away....

[quote] ... As somebody said above in Asia teachers should not be questioned, if they don't know the answer they will look stupid and they will loose face ... [/quote] One of the first things that I tell new students is that I don't know every thing about Science but I know where to find the answer... Anyway, as a space scientist, many times the (current) and correct answer to a student's question about something in space is 'We don't know!" Bob, I can't hear any bullets right now because I'm on a 'Lazada run' to Pattaya. Lazada don't deliver to Myanmar addresses and anything that I've ordered from Aliexpress for myself/the school has never arrived and no refunds! So every few months I order various bits from both websites, then fly over to my cosy condo at Jomtien Beach to pick up the parcels. Here are some of the things that I'm waiting on delivery: (Not sure on that last item, I might find some use for it 🙂

Smart because my Myanmar students ask questions, lots of them...

Lol - that's funny coming from you. Wait, I better write it down so I don't forget it....

Whoosh....... right over your head 🙂

Committed suicide. lol that's a good one.........

Except that it's probably not heartbreaking for the community. For them It's karma and now the boys are now in their next life. One of my Thai nieces (when younger), used to show me photos of her best friend with her head splattered all over the road after headbutting a concrete post. Not a tinge of sadness as she explained how they had to pick bits of brain out of the grass verge..... she's gone onto her next life - that's all.

Rote learning good! Questions bad!! Everyone write it down and repeat out loud.....

Yes. there are other renewables, such as ocean wave kinetic energy, which is still somewhat in its infancy - technology-wise. But it all seems to come back to the problem of efficient energy storage during outage time from solar, wind, wave etc. It's getting there, but trying to achieve net-zero on Milliband's timescales is crazy!

Speaking with my scientist hat on, a net-zero policy is a commendable idea. But the target period to achieve net-zero should be set to something rather more realistic, such as 100 or 200 years..... Technology is simply not ready to achieve net-zero in one or two decades. Battery storage technology for wind and solar is way-behind in development of suitable renewable energy storage when there's no sun and no wind. Right now, we are 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'. Not using our cheap fossil fuel supplies for Drax is ludicrous, when we are importing biomass fuel from Canada and the associated huge carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation. 'Learn to walk before you try to run Milliband...'

I think Bob is more of the "I like to eat meat and two veg" variety...

As regards the kind of women that are available and cost, my advice would be to save up and buy the latest sex doll from China, which will be far prettier than the Beach road gals, and will give you hours and hours of endless enjoyment! They don't ask for lady drinks either.....

From the reports that I read about this incident, the deceased woman was ... er... a lardbucket! The cabin crew were trying to carry her into business class, but the effort was ... er ... killing them.

As a scientist, (but not with a huge interest in penises), I wonder why the guys in the Congo have such big willies. Do they hang weights on them? Perhaps the length is big but the girth is small, like a pipe-cleaner. And what about the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo), just next door? Surely they must also feature in the big willie chart?

Grumpy old men syndrome. I avoid elderly westerners like the plague - most are totally negative and haven't smiled in decades!

Strange, but when I walked into Pattaya Central Shopping Centre this morning, the entrance had a walk-through metal detector. Not seen that for many years...

This is bad news for some of my online students in Myanmar. Due to the international bandwidth restrictions imposed by the junta, for an online video/audio lesson. one needs to use an application that uses a minimal bandwidth as possible. Skype meets that requirement. Zoom and Voov require more bandwidth, and ClassIn is unbelievably greedy/wasteful of bandwidth (I know - I've done tests on all these apps...)

Whoosh!!!! Right over your head 🙂

[quote] ... But it's fun to watch them wai the hookers and serving staff. [/quote] Some Russian guy did this today in 7/11, a high wai to the serving girls. They looked at each other, looked at me and burst out laughing. I said to one of them (in Thai). "Are you a monk???" 🙂