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Bicknellski: We could be good... just have to throw away all our modern crap
Bicknellski: First time you see a monkey in the trees that is when you know you have moved a distance away from your home
Bicknellski: and then scream
Bicknellski: have one drop in your popcorn watching twilight zone
Bicknellski: have to wear a light jacket
Bicknellski: and... 26 to 28 C daytime
Bicknellski: Temp is 22 to 23 at night
Bicknellski: it is like that
Bicknellski: living in the land of perpetual summer is great
Bicknellski: ... I love the Giant spiders in the trees
Bicknellski: bet they have there too in Thailand
Bicknellski: turn on the light at night in the kitchen...
Bicknellski: You have to get used to living with insects and geckos inside your home
Bicknellski: crap that can happen in your house
Bicknellski: and to get off the charge you have to pay a bit amount
Bicknellski: ... well the cops or locals can work together to set people up
Bicknellski: ... you don't buy drugs there either...
Bicknellski: for that
Bicknellski: Cripes they target the touristas in Bali
Bicknellski: you know the risk
Bicknellski: usually they send people back to UK or AUS for the last year or two of a sentence.
Bicknellski: They didn't pay off the judges I guess
Bicknellski: and it is very easy to live in most countries here
Bicknellski: You have to blend and go with the flow...
Chaang-Noi: my wife cooks most of the time
Bicknellski: or kimchi done the right way
Bicknellski: Like I used to live in Korea and I do miss a good kalbi soup
Bicknellski: but never the same
Bicknellski: Guess there would be enough good Thai places to eat...
Chaang-Noi: they take all meh freedomz
Chaang-Noi: i do find the USA to be a pain in the ass
Bicknellski: I wasnt born here... Mr. Noi probably would find US a pain in the ass compared to the convenience of Thailand
Bicknellski: always a trade off
Chaang-Noi: i like thailand, and im not that rich
Bicknellski: ... beach? hmmm not too far
Bicknellski: and I can go golfing anytime I like if the rain aint to heavy
Bicknellski: I teach so I am satisfied
Bicknellski: ... making some return on your I for the shares you pawned in the forums
Chaang-Noi: hold some asicminer stock if that counts
Bicknellski: I was thinking about it... but the heat
Bowjob: just move to bahamas
Bicknellski: little humidity compared to here
Bicknellski: too cold in June in Ontario and Vancouver for me this summer
Chaang-Noi: i have windows open all the time, and lots of windows
Bicknellski: and I cant acclimatize to Jakarta
Chaang-Noi: i do however never live in the city, so that helps a lot
Bicknellski: ya you are the real deal
Bicknellski: Im alright though out in the Burbs of Jakarta
Bicknellski: Ya gotta have the AC
Chaang-Noi: i ahve been here 8 years and they have always had the train when i was here
Bicknellski: years for that one
Bicknellski: they took 20? yers
Bicknellski: with they train
Bicknellski: but the JAMS it causes lol
Chaang-Noi: what city are you talking about bicknellski?
Bicknellski: which took 2 lanes of traffic off the main roads
Bicknellski: that they jerry rigged into the center of the city for a few million
Bicknellski: and the only thing that works right
Bicknellski: and then throw in about 20 million people?
mircea_popescu: no need to imagine lol, it's what happened
Bicknellski: and now they are struggling to replace it
Bicknellski: imagine all the old 50s and 60s electrical infrastructure sold to Indonesia
Chaang-Noi: lol, when i go to bkk i almost always fly in or out, and while their take the sky train (subway in the sky)
Chaang-Noi: i dont live and almost never go to bkk, lol
mircea_popescu: lol that dun help me much
Chaang-Noi: well, it seems like a nice toy for her, and she likes it, i dont think i could ever use it for doing other than fucking around though
Chaang-Noi: bought my girl a new laptop, has touch and windows 8, really fucking weird
Bicknellski: Man I thought Jakarta was bad... but Bangkok...
Bicknellski: You not in the states Noi?
Bicknellski: if you have the skills
Bicknellski: You guys in the tech field... have it made
Bicknellski: you wont even be able to hide in a teaching job
Bicknellski: give it time
Bicknellski: but guess what... all the jobs in Canada and US are going to be not the right pay...
Bicknellski: They have to hire in people from Jamaica... Canadians wont last a week
Bowjob: id do it for the right pay
Bicknellski: Try to get a Canadian to work on tree farm
Bicknellski: not Free Trade
Bicknellski: it is the mexicans
Bicknellski: not poverty or the fact that unions are gone etc
mircea_popescu: wait, you two both live in aha.
Bicknellski: ... been to Thailand LOVED IT
Bicknellski: .... floating heads in the ocean in the 90s
Bicknellski: and the Chinese
Bicknellski: Used to be Native and Bikers
Bicknellski: ...Ill move there
mircea_popescu: ugh... did you see a recent pic of the us president ?
Bicknellski: ... show me a place that doesnt
Bicknellski: Doesnt matter where you live most populations have their hypocrites
Bicknellski: ... typically WASPish
Bicknellski: The ones that run US policy are
Bicknellski: pretty much the same people here
Bicknellski: One "race" doesnt corner the market on hypocrisy
Bicknellski: lots of hypocrisy in the world
Bicknellski: Like Americans love democracy then crush democracy at every turn
mircea_popescu: it was like being in a junior high the side of a country.
mircea_popescu: what anyone in egypt whanted from white people is to buy them alcohol
mircea_popescu: same thing with arabs. they don't drink alcohol ? when i visited egypt i could buy any imported alcohol at the duty free shop.
Bowjob: indians here are mostly taxi drivers, and gang bangers
Bicknellski: lumping in 800 million pretty tall order