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As always - smoke and mirrors - nothing changes.

looks like it's one time the 'don't have ice in your drink in Asia' advice could be worth something...tho personally reckon the odds of catching something from ice is probably less than getting food-poisoning from the food - and that isnt very likely either...that is unless you're living in the Chiang Rai area atm 

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Thanks to drinking cold beer from a can, rather than g & t etc. I was one of only three to escape a food poisoning episode in HK some years ago. It was traced to the ice. so you see it is easier than one thinks. I have had food poisoning 8 times in BKK and I consider my self careful.

Comments along the lines of "not careful enough" are expected so save the bandwidth.

Alittle rider to my post yesterday. The book is of course by Lynne Truss not Lynda Truss.

Strangely enough whilst reading something else this morning I came across this peice regarding hyphens:

The American Hypen Society is a community-based, not-for-profit, grass-roots

conciousness-raising/education-research alliance that seeks to help

effectuate the across-the-board self-empowerment of wide-ranging culture-,

nationality-, ethnicity-, creed-, gender-, and sexual-orientation defined

identity groups by excising all multiculturally-less-than-sensitive

terminology from the English language, and replacing it with counter-

hegemonic, cruelty-, gender-, bias-, and, if necessary, content-free speech.

The society's motto is "It became necessary to destroy the language in order

to save it." Its headquarters are in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Since we are on the subjects of rudeness and anal retentiveness, do they instruct English teachers (British) to always hyphenate the words taxi meter, thus creating an adjective where a noun should be?

Hyphens in this case are now commonly accepted. A good discussion of this can be found in "Eats, shoots and leaves" by Lynda Truss.