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    Barfines and st/lt prices will hopefully comeback down to sensible levels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Chinese would do well to change the more whacky elements of its diet,
    I suspect many countries have, "whacky elements of their diet", if you asked the, "temporary, short term, aliens, permitted to stay, at the whim of an IO".

    I also suspect the countries citizens and immigration officers, would suggest you FOH.

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    Yeah, but that's all 'cos you're a fixated nutter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fondles View Post
    Barfines and st/lt prices will hopefully comeback down to sensible levels.
    Some have "little black books" or some digital equivalent. Whose rates are, as always, negotiable. Depending on how hungry they are.

    PPPPP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    'cos you're a fixated nutter.
    Apex predatora, adapt, or die.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Some have "little black books" or some digital equivalent. Whose rates are, as always, negotiable. Depending on how hungry they are.

    PPPPP.
    went shopping last night on Thaifreindly.com.......... some tasty bargains to be had !!

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    I might be able to have this PGCEi done by mid May rather than mid July, which might be for the best as it is almost certain an extended 6 day a week term is headed for Mongolia. I'm enjoying having lunch to myself for the first time in years during the week, it's one of the few perks of working from home, a situation I mostly hate. Other than that, not much and I see little of merit in the situating if I am totally honest. I'll probably be looking at a paycut from next month but even then life will be pretty comfortable here in UB and I still have a job, which is more than quite a few folk around the globe have at the moment. Mongolia is safe for now and I am alive, so I'll take that and be happy with my lot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    I get the impression all workers an existing government commitments, in North America, Europe and some Asian countries are continuing. Some have been expanded.

    Our local ATM's are being refilled, food, chemist, filling stations and other selected suppliers have managed the initial hysteria and are being re-stocked. Our local "pop up" daily markets have Thai staples, Rice, Chicken, Pork, Vegetables, Fruit, Spices ....

    Our local Makro, Tesco and 7/11 are still open. Not with everyone's taste, vintage cider for one it seems. Moving "home", where vintage cider are still/have been available, was and for some still is, an option.

    Decisions are and have been mad, some by others.

    Some choose to sit and watch the rice, mangosteen, Durian grow whilst sipping tea, coffee, iced water, breaking open their imported impressive alcoholic stock.

    Some choose to sit in a plane with 300 others to return "home", where of course it's much safer.

    Some "preppers" are now finding their private jet being denied entry to foreign airspace, their expensive ocean front summer house has been turned hospitals for the year round locals or even armed squatters in their mountain cabin.

    Some know of gold shops where large and small shiny bars will be exchanged, for ever growing, piles of red, blue, yellow and green folding stuff. If and when the house banker decides. Some 7/11's have new "guards", gold shops are always so equipped.


    ....and then there is the healthy percentage of the population that aren't completely dependent on commercial venues and systems.
    Generated self-sufficient and independent lifestyles come in handy during these uncertain times.

    Such ways of life are quite foreign to some, whom know nothing else but to play the game that they've been forced into.
    False and misleading comfort.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    A good wake up call and fire drill for when the next one comes. I'm sure places will close down a lot faster and lots will be learned from this.

    Surely a lot more lives have been saved from road traffic accidents than what covid has taken.

    Pension funds should be a lot healthier
    Much as they said during quite a few outbreaks over the past 20 years, that we'll be more prepared for the next one.

    When your toothache is gone, do you ever wonder what all the fuss was about?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fondles View Post
    went shopping last night on Thaifreindly.com.......... some tasty bargains to be had !!

    You might want to take a second look at that whole "social distancing" thing. Not quite sure you have it down correctly.

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    Just wrap her in clingfilm

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    My daughter will be well keen to go to school when this is over.

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    Yup, and then she will go back with her Thai school friends and talk about what they did while out of school. Then she will really realize her dad is way cool.. She will have done heaps more fun stuff than her friends put together. Kicked In The Balls is your best production yet..

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    2020/2021 project might be getting an off grid bolt hole back in the motherland or Scotland. While it might be a flight of fancy it is fun planning it out and putting ideas together. The nomads here in Mongolia are inspiring and might have the right idea on how to live.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Yup, and then she will go back with her Thai school friends and talk about what they did while out of school. Then she will really realize her dad is way cool.. She will have done heaps more fun stuff than her friends put together. Kicked In The Balls is your best production yet..
    Mendip's daughter will have some stories to tell her friends as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    Just wrap her in clingfilm
    Surly 90%, leave her at least an air opening.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mandaloopy View Post
    I might be able to have this PGCEi done by mid May rather than mid July, which might be for the best as it is almost certain an extended 6 day a week term is headed for Mongolia. I'm enjoying having lunch to myself for the first time in years during the week, it's one of the few perks of working from home, a situation I mostly hate. Other than that, not much and I see little of merit in the situating if I am totally honest. I'll probably be looking at a paycut from next month but even then life will be pretty comfortable here in UB and I still have a job, which is more than quite a few folk around the globe have at the moment. Mongolia is safe for now and I am alive, so I'll take that and be happy with my lot.
    That's great about possibly finishing your PGCEi early! Gratitude is powerful! Take care.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mandaloopy View Post
    2020/2021 project might be getting an off grid bolt hole back in the motherland or Scotland. While it might be a flight of fancy it is fun planning it out and putting ideas together. The nomads here in Mongolia are inspiring and might have the right idea on how to live.
    That's cool. I have worked teaching Aboriginals (Natives) over this past year and I have learned so much from them about our connection to nature and our Elders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SKkin View Post
    Mendip's daughter will have some stories to tell her friends as well.
    its the teachers and social services that's the worry.

    Only joshing Mendy. You are doing a great job

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    Well a positive for me is I have a flight tomorrow leaving Guernsey, back to mainland.

    The other positive is I've got my sister 1.5 kg of pasta, which she couldn't find anywhere where she lives,and she is so happy. what the fek hasn't happened when someone is overjoyed to have pasta brought for them from 400 miles away.......

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    There are numerous reports of acts of kindness in the media. Those with a little more helping those with a little less. These stories are often heartwarming and have reinstalled my faith in humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SKkin View Post
    Mendip's daughter will have some stories to tell her friends as well.
    Give her that, lucky girl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles View Post
    reinstalled my faith in humanity.
    Those Japs can automate anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SKkin View Post
    Mendip's daughter will have some stories to tell her friends as well.
    . . . and some she won't want to . . . like papa dressing up the family pet in bra and undies because mummy is away

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    When you spin it like that it does sound a bit odd. In my defence mummy wasn't away, she was just having a lie-in. It was a delicate operation.

    You'll be glad to know my daughter wasn't involved in today's offerings... would have started too many questions!

    Another positive for me... I've started growing a moustache... been meaning to for years and this is the perfect opportunity.

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