dyslexic hearing – grin

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Sick as a dog with the wog….

Ah misery! Here I am on vacation in Australia and what happens to me? I catch a rotten dose of the flu. I’ve been flat on my back for several days and still feel as I’m only half alive. When I get a cold or flu bug it goes straight to my chest and causes [...]

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Thailand: dangerous for holidaymakers

Oops… this won’t be very welcome news for Thailand. Tourists are welcome and encouraged. Unfortunately there continue to be tourist rip-offs as well as the tour bus accidents, etc.
The Guardian: Thailand ‘most risky place for holidaymakers’:
Thailand is the most hazardous destination for British holidaymakers, where they are most likely to suffer food poisoning, theft, traffic [...]

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Coogee Beach

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Crown Prosecutor accused of child porn

It seems no one is immune these days. If this charge turns out to be true then the insidiousness of porn, and especially child porn is like a plague disease which is so contagious that it catches anyone who comes near the contagion. I don’t know if the man is guilty or not. If he’s [...]

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Heard & Said

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Growing crops at a govt’s insistence

This seemed a really strange piece of news but then I have a vague memory of reading about this sort of thing before. And, isn’t it something that was practised during the Cultural Revolution in China. It didn’t work then and it doesn’t look like it’s going to work in Burma.
The locals are pretty stuck [...]

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Burma’s repression of the internet

Burma’s repressive activities continue as they seek to keep control of what is said by whom to whomever. This article is quite a read.
I wonder if it isn’t like trying to fill a bucket with water using a sieve… it just goes everywhere anyway.
Reporters sans fronti̬res РBurma: Internet increasingly resembles an Intranet as [...]

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An Australian couple’s thanks

This is a pleasant read! With so much drama and violence filling the news these days it’s is nice to read about  a happy result. The adoption process can be pretty slow and it seems there are lots of hoops to jump through. In this day and age I guess it’s to be expected. [...]

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Sad end to freedom attempt

If these were boat people seeking a better life, it’s a sad way to end up. No one knows who they are. Their families will never know what happened to them. They’ll never have a name on a remembrance record anywhere. I wonder what suffering they had to endure before the end came. We’ll never [...]

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