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GanDoonToonPet

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  1. One of the two main Bangkok visa run companies has suspended its run. BBC reports flights to Siem Reap suspended too.
  2. Very low resolution understanding of the man. When he was an officer in India, his best friend was an Indian officer. When they both went to the British officers' mess together, and everyone told his friend to get out, he replied 'If he goes, I go' and went to sit with his friend in the Indian officers' mess. After he returned to the UK, he invited said same officer to spend christmas with him every year until he died. Does that sound like a racist to you? Enoch Powell was a highly intelligent, educated and articulate man. He was well versed in history and the politics of the time, namely the wars in Israel-Palestine and India-Pakistan and the civil rights movement in America. It was these things which led to his concerns about immigration. Now we are seeing the settler-colonialism of the UK (predominantly England) by Arab muslims who cluster in settlements / enclaves which, thanks to our electoral system, give them disproportionate electoral power. The power is effectively in the hands of the Imams, who instruct the men on how to vote, who in turn instruct their women and children; ironically, the patriarchy which we are supposed to despise. 🤔 Already we have local councillors elected on the 'Gaza ticket', who shout 'allahu akbar...free Palestine' as a war cry, a Pakistani mayor who cries 'I represent the people of Pakistan' to her constituents, people being prosecuted for burning the Koran and a law against 'Islamophobia' in the making.
  3. A straight line on a graph with a logarithmic scale...a new level of stupid 😂 The graph is useless without knowing the atmospheric concentration of CO2. Would you be surprised that, 50 million years ago, it was 1500-3500 ppm compared to the current 400 ppm? 🤔
  4. Like it or not, most of those protests have permits along with permissions / restrictions attached. They are allowed to use amplifying equipment but only on a set route and during specified hours.
  5. Wimbledon proper is due to start on 30 June and will finish on 13 July this year. I've been looking into paid options as reliability and quality are more important. According to the Wimbledon website. The only options for Thailand are TrueVisions and SPOTV. I only need it for the duration so True is out. SPOTV is cheap (฿89 / month for full package or ฿129 / year for tennis package) but very bad reviews on the Play Store. Of course, there's always the option of iPlayer + VPN but I've been out of the loop for the last year so don't know which ones still work / aren't detected. I'd be prepared to shell out for one of the more expensive ones, for just a month, if guaranteed to work. Where will you be watching it this year? 🤔
  6. They do in the UK. Mosques have to apply to the local council for a permit and follow the regulations regarding volume, time of day, duration etc.
  7. Another misleading 'Gotcha' headline. They were using amplifying equipment in a busy, public area which is illegal in the UK without a permit.
  8. Adjusting for population is a delusion...or an industry standard? 🤔
  9. Carbon Footprint (CO2 Emissions per Capita): Australia 15.01 Canada 14.99 US 14.21 China 8.89 UK 5 https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/
  10. Another one disappeared down the rabbit hole. Maybe he can party with DeGrasse Tyson while he's down there.
  11. Cheers. Watching the first episode now. The title music is groovy, man 😂
  12. Same here but 1993...good for another 20 years 😂
  13. Misleading headline and misleading article. 🤔 Written tests are not yet mandatory and the article confuses IDP with home country driving licence. Tourists can still legally drive with home licence and IDP as before.
  14. Very doubtful they'll get an NES to proof read it. It'll end up like the old teaching licence test (which I passed BTW) with garbled translation, subjective answers and questions with no / multiple correct answers.
  15. They do it differently in the UK. They add points until you get to 12 then you lose your license. I didn't know assault and battery was a driving offence in Thailand. 🤔
  16. The PISA scores on the 2nd tab are somewhat at odds with the IQ scores: Singapore 1679 (highest) Switzerland 1494 UK 1483 Thailand 1182 Cambodia 1012 (lowest)
  17. Yes because you'll be a licensed teacher in the UK. Once registered with the General Teaching Council (GTC), you'll get a GTC / TRN number.
  18. On one of the graphs y-axis is the Chinese character 人 which means 'person'. Japanese has 3 systems of characters, which is why I'll never attempt to learn it, with one of them based on Chinese characters (kanji).
  19. ...or "The sooner you are likely to die, the more doses you get" Did they control for age? 🤔 If not, it's highly likely that older people, being a more vulnerable group, were more likely to be vaccinated or receive multiple shots and, obviously, are more likely to die than younger people. Also, was the vaccine compulsory for everyone in Japan? If not, younger people would be less likely to want or need it.
  20. OMG. I hope the intoxication of the driver was investigated. OK the Swedish guy was drunk and stupid but the car park was well lit, the driver had his front lights on, and there was nothing obscuring the driver's view. Hope and pray that the victim recovers 🙏
  21. Only if he fell asleep on his poolside sunbed. Looks Thai to me so possibly Cambodian. Maybe someone from the Thai government should hop over the border and have a word with them about it.
  22. Sent 500 GBP today at 07:53 from Wise app. Sent to my Thai bank at 08:15. Still not showing in SCB app. Maybe their system will update after 09:00
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