Great little thread. Lots of interesting alternative ideas. That BBC tape story is a surprise. The CD story made me think too. Why don't they work out double sided CDs? I've seen the escalator shock country people face when they first ride one. Guess we all have had that but when we were very very young.

You could also say that at the same time the BKK people may be having some sort of reverse culture shock. Shouldn't they have known that people like this existed? People say Bangkok is right next to Thailand. Bangkokians can be just as 'ignorant' about how to do things in rural Thailand as country bumpkins are in BKK.