A day in the life in Southern Africa

[DrWilly]

Zambia's base metal mining of copper and cobalt has been ongoing since the 1920s. The copper and cobalt mining industry contributes about 12% towards GDP, and provides direct and indirect employment to local residents.

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[BLD]

That's good to hear. Everything comes from mining. Your knife and fork. The plate you eat of was mined from.clay. pretty much every is mined. If you drive a car and eat of a plate .with metal cutlery then it's all mined. One way or the other

[Mendip]

^ What about Reg Dingle's wooden cockpiece? That wasn't mined.

I remember when I worked onshore in Namibia 30 years ago and visited (to memory) a Rio Tinto uranium mine. Somewhere in the north-east of the country I think. We stood at the edge of an enormous hole in the ground and the mining vehicles at the bottom looked like ants. It was absolutely huge.

I have a load of photos from my time in Namibia but they're all hard copy analogue and in storage at a mate's farm in Woroloo (your neck of the woods), and I worry that the heat and two decades in a barn will have ruined them.

Two decades in bloody Isaan has certainly had a detrimental affect on me.

[BLD]

Regs Wooden cockring is likely to be OK if it was varnished..

[DrWilly]

Africans sell everything they can on the roadside. Food, car accessories, clothes (who buys pants or shirts without trying them on?) sunglasses, puppy dogs (recommended not to buy them as they will be unvaccinated and possibly die soon), flags, newspapers etc.

Today, I spotted the following;

shirts.



Bananas

bread rolls




No idea what this guy is selling.







What’s happening here? Is he stealing the car’s number plate? Then I realised he’s installing a new wiper, and he went back to the window for payment.




And then, of course I got stopped by a pair of policemen because using a phone while driving is illegal. Bastards, they never stop Zambians for that. And I had literally been stopped 15 minutes earlier for speeding (I don’t think I was but it’s quicker and easier just to pay 100K (or 120 baht equivalent) and be on your way. But then to my surprise the police said don’t do it next time and on your way! Yah! No fine/bribe.

but then I got stopped another 10 minutes earlier later (must be new years and all the police a poor) and got fined another 100 for not stopping properly at a stop sign. This policewomen wanted 400K but I laughed at her and said it’s a 100 only. And she accepted that.

[armstrong]

Poverty porn and dangerous driving.

[Edmond]

clothes (who buys pants or shirts without trying them on?)

Probably about 1 billion people a year who buy clothes online.


Something I've never done, other than throwaway 200 baht football shirts on Lazada, I'd never buy clothes or shoes without trying them on, and find the number of people that do really quite surprising.

[Mendip]

^ Here's what I do.

If I have a shirt I like, I check inside the collar for a little label that says what size it is. Then I buy another shirt of the same make online, using that size info. Same for shoes.

It works every time, but not for wall calendars.

[Reg Dingle]

If I have a shirt I like, I check inside the collar for a little label that says what size it is. Then I buy another shirt of the same make online, using that size info. Same for shoes

When you've spent decades bullshitting online and even convinced yourself that you are 6 foot 2 with a 48 inch chest, size 11 feet and extra large hands and forget to drop the pretense on Decathlon.co.th, I'd imagine Eddie's delivery would be good for only someone like Peter Schmeichel.

[Joe 90]

[david44]

^ Here's what I do.

If I have a shirt I like, I check inside the collar for a little label that says what size it is. Then I buy another shirt of the same make online, using that size info. Same for shoes.

It works every time, but not for wall calendars.

That literacy thing does come in handy unless like me you areas inflated as a Michelin man,after the holiday blowouts, imagine my size as if you had eaten lulu for brekkie!