Monthly Archives: March 2024

The Wall Of Unfreedom

March 21, 2024 – 9:43 pm

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 by the East German Communist regime to prevent its citizens from fleeing the repressive Soviet-led government. The concrete barrier was constructed was constructed with 45,000 separate sections of reinforced concrete, each 3.6 metros (12 ft) high and 1.2 metros (3.9 ft) wide, and cost DDM 16,155,000 or about […]

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Legong Dancing Ubud Bali 1990

March 21, 2024 – 12:19 pm
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Motorcycle Columbian Watch Thieves

March 20, 2024 – 6:05 pm

In Columbia two thieves on motorcycles targeted drivers of luxury cars with their arm hanging out the driver’s window. The driver grabbed at the Rolex, as the drier tried to fight off the theft, the pillion driver stuck a lit cigarette in driver’s right hand. Vroom off into freedom with the watch. Columbians are also […]

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Finite Immortality – Pattaya – 2010

March 19, 2024 – 1:14 pm

The Thai people pride themselves in the purity of their language. Few English words have infiltrated the common lexicon. Dtam-ruaat is the word for police. The diphonic annunciation can confuse most farangs. I thought for years that For years I thought Dtam-ruaat meant ‘make blood’, however make blood is spelled Dtam-leuuat with a falling accent […]

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English Health – 2008

March 18, 2024 – 12:26 pm

From Pattaya Rag After an exhaustive review of the research literature, here’s the final word on nutrition and health: Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the English. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the English. Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer […]

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