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What's currently the easiest boarder crossing from Cambodia to Thailand
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Worst Joke Ever 2024
Guy walks into a bank with a shotgun and says to the cashier “Fill this bag with money or you’re Geography”. “Don’t you mean History?” “Don’t change the f-in' subject!" -
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The Exodus of Left-Wing Voices: Where Will They Bleat Now?
Perhaps the Guardian got fed up getting community noted on their hypocrisy https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1821189070401249385 -
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Worst Joke Ever 2024
A guy goes into his local bank and says to the manager, "I'd like to borrow £100,000 to open a cheese factory in Cheshire. It's gonna be great." " Hold on a minute", says the bank manager. "There's already a company called Cheshire Cheese - you're gonna have to come up with something better than that." The guy comes back next week, and says, "Right I've got it. I want to borrow £200,000 to open a cheese factory in France. It's gonna be called Brie Cheese." "I'm afraid that one's already there too," says the bank manager. "Brie Cheese is world famous, so I can't lend you the money for that." In a last ditch attempt, the man comes back in the following week. "Right", says the man, "I've got it. I want to borrow £500,000 to open a cheese factory in Israel." "Oh, now we're talking," says the bank manager. "What are you going to call it?"……….. The man smiles proudly and says, "Cheeses of Nazareth....” -
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Day-to-day life in Myanmar
Hi Card, there are plenty of dogs, but (unlike Thailand), I have never had a problem with those dogs? They looked rather meek last week. The only 'savage' incident was a Burmese woman who was insistent that I buy her Buddha flowers 🙂 (I didn't!). As to helping with the education in Myanmar, of course this is really difficult to figure out something that actually will benefit the local students. My view is that donating to the big charities is akin to throwing your money down the drain! Many years I sat down (with myself) to try to figure out a way that my small amounts of $ could actually make a difference. So I wrote an Android learning app which allows students/teachers to download videos while in a wifi cafe, and then to study/watch those videos 'offline' at home. I add to these videos most weeks, and they have lesson content that mirrors the Myanmar school curriculum. (I am also going to add videos in Burmese that help students to learn Korean and Japanese). Some of these videos are created by myself, and the others are downloaded by me from YouTube. Does that break the copyright rules? Probably. But I make no money from these videos and my conscience is clear. Of course, most poor kids won't have a mobile phone, but their local teachers certainly do, and it;s important to educate the teachers, so they can pass on this knowledge to others. The other way to help is to buy school books etc, but in the current state of the country, it's impossible to physically travel to many areas. You also need to be sure that you are not 'throwing loads of mud at a wall in the hope that some will stick'. I used to visit each school or orphanage, make a note of how many students and what grades, and then 'customise' the contents of my donation box to ensure that my $ was actually going to help those students. Now, since I am stuck in Mandalay, I have a list of all the government schools, monastery schools and orphanages in the city that I can try to help. I take the view that since I have managed to survive for 22+ years in south-east Asia on a relatively small income, I will be able to continue doing that on my UK state pension. I don't need to leave money to my overseas family, so I might as well use it to make a small difference to the lives of others who - by fate of birth - were born into the situation where they find themselves today. -
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Thailand's Expats Urged to Register with TRD for Tax, Says Expert
As I mentioned you need to associate rules enforcement level to get the full spectrum of what's in stake, then decide accordingly. -
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What is a Proper English Breakfast?
Ill see you a Loco Moco and raise you a Musubi. Spam: Food of the Gods
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