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"Ho Chi Minh said it best in 1945, preferring a few more years of French colonialism over endless Chinese occupation in Vietnam: "Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me,..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I also do a lot of traveling, and have used up many suitcases. My current favorite is the FlightCrew line from TravelPro. It's not beautiful luggage, but it is made to last a long time and be repairable. Almost all the pieces screw on and are..." [
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3 months ago
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"The Sigg bottle is fine for water, but if you fill it with any sticky sugary substance, it will be a real bitch to clean. You'd be better off with a Nalgene bottle or something else with a wider neck. As several people said before, gin is very smelly..." [
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5 months ago
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"The closest thing to internal passports that still exists is the Hokou system used in China, Vietnam, and North Korea. I believe that in China internal migration is still officially restricted, but this is basically ignored nowadays. In Vietnam, the..." [
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8 months ago
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"After living in Asia for quite a long time, I've also become quite sensitive to creepy crawlies, and was awakened a few months ago by a five-inch long venomous centipede in my bed. Of course, that couldn't possibly happen in London...." [
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9 months ago
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"If I were you, I'd stop by Bangkok on the way to China, and have the dental work done there. They've got some of the best dentists anywhere there, with modern equipment, and it's cheap. I had some dental work done last week at Asavanant Dental...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by hannahq, Mamapotomus, melissa may, melorama
Last year
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"As a very quick example, here is a random Mustang pulled off of GIS, and here is the same picture, after a gaussian blur of 4 pixels and a 3-level posterization...." [
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"I recall a boat ride on the Ganges River in Varanasi, THE place in India to die and be cremated on a sandalwood pyre. As the boat rounded a bend in the river, the aroma of delicious barbecue wafted through the air. I thought it smelled pretty good..." [
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Last year
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"He just thinks he's peeing for a long time. My two-minute long Sonicare toothbrush program takes about ten minutes when I'm stoned." [
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Last year
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"I had an ant colony living in my desktop Mac hard drive once. The drive started getting flaky so I opened up the case and saw that ants had chewed through the seal on the hard drive and were marching in and out of the drive. So anything is possible..." [
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Two years ago
