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Allison Pearson My week from hell
Two tier policing exposed! A poor woman who only spoke the truth to millions of fair minded Telegraph readers is door stepped by police yet a few thousand farmers bring chaos to road users with their demonstration in London yesterday by blocking roads. Just stop oil protesters who blocked (or only planned) to block roads are currently banged up for 5 years. How many protesting farmers are in custody? Double standards or what? -
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Day-to-day life in Myanmar
I'm living and teaching back in Myanmar again (I'm in the city of Mandalay again, where I note that the nearest fighting is only 13km away). \ Anyway, I won't comment about the political situation, but I'll maybe post about my day-to-day experiences 🙂 So I'm teaching Science at an 'international' school in the city. As I'm a scientist, and as I've been teaching science previously in Myanmar, the job is very easy and enjoyable. In my first few days of class, many of my young students asked me my age (I'm going on 66 years old). I gave them a quiz a=25, b=45, c=65, d = 85 years old. The majority of my students chose 45 years old!! So they have already qualified for top marks in whatever exam they fail LoL... I took a yellow tuk-tuk to the local Ocean shopping centre (neither tuk-tuks nor shopping centre existed 8 years ago when I was last a teacher in Mandalay). Outside the shopping centre were 20 very large advertising billboards. 3 of them had adverts for clothes and food shops. The other 17 had adverts for pre-schools, schools, colleges and universities..... At the weekend, I walked once around Mandalay fort, (about 8km all the way round), and then up the hundreds of steps to the top of Mandalay Hill (see my photo). When I used to do this walk 8 years ago, both sides of the steps were crowded with locals selling trinkets etc for the many foreign tourists. Today, not a single seller and the only foreigner I saw during my walk around the fort and up/down the steps was myself.... -
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Mike Johnson Moves to bar transgender women from using women’s bathrooms at the Capitol
An amazing distraction from issues of real importance .- 1
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Would Donald Trump’s tariffs hurt US consumers?
So you have no thought of your own, -
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Egyptian Tourist Arrested for Sexual Assault in Luxury Condo Lift
Probably tried to sell her a rug first..... -
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Would Donald Trump’s tariffs hurt US consumers?
Yet your party wants to flood the country will illegals to hold wages down and to compete for housing and benefits. Why is that? -
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British Tourist Found Dead in Phuket Drainage Ditch
Erm... odd comment... my comments were not insensitive or judgmental, they were made in pure wonderment of how such an accident could have happend... Are you going to ask the whole forum to stop this discussion ?... There are of course 'boundaries' that should not be crossed when passing comment, questions or making discussion... and I don't think my comments crossed any line in the sand... As mentioned earlier - if you don't like discussion, don't go to a forum designed for 'discussion'... Read a news site instead.
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