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[philbags]

wherever in Indo you are, I just wanted to cheer you up.
3 pounds a pint and 45 pence for a packet of crisps, a one way ticket London to brighton 18 quid (they call it a 'saver' the b*stards),30p to use a payphone and The abbey national take 6 weeks to issue an ATM card.
Everytime you are confronted by the media - and you cant avoid it; they're talking about stabbings, child sexmurder, the ubiquitous fun duh mentalists, or those laffriot c*nts on BIG BROTHER.
I just finished a 6 week stint for ISIS education and travel (yeech), and scraped up the cash to escape again - whoohoo .
Hope youre havin fun.

[papillon]

Sounds as though there might be some Indonesian gremlins at work in the UK!

[gugelhupf]

I went back to the UK for a holiday and paid exactly the same for a return rail journey and 1 night in a guesthouse as it cost me for a week in Bali, including flights, earlier in the year. The trains were late in both directions and all the electrics at the guest house kept tripping out. Apparently where my mother lives the refuse is collected once per week if you are lucky, but only if it is in the regulation wheely bin. By contrast I find the daily collection where I live in Serpong to be very efficient.

I'll stick to developing countries mate.

[dreamin']

Apart from the lower cost of living in so-called developing countries, what I love about working in a non-English speaking land is that I am immune to the mind-numbing stupidity of the media and the braying masses it caters to. Sure, South-East Asian countries have their local equivalent of Big Brother, and the airheads gossip just as loudly on the bus and advertising is probably just as penetrating and pervasive as back home. But I can't understand it so it doesn't annoy me! This results in far fewer hours wasted watching TV, reading newspapers and being distracted by the local's inane conversations, and I usually end up doing something useful like writing a novel (well, I did in Thailand). Or, at least, posting new topics/replies on forums such as this ...

[papillon]

Right on the money dreamin'. The braying masses in Bali are alive and kicking but I'm damned if I could care less what the chat is.

What's a TV by the way? I'm too busy surfing to sit in a room..

[philbags]

Jehayzuz, I used to love not having to communicate when I didnt want to.
Get this .... 2 nights ago me and a couple of mates were unwinding from a hard days bullsh8t by getting righteously hammered and singing along to sweet home alabama when the campus security guard walks into our kitchen and starts yelling at us to turn it down; pretty much sniggered him down and generally refused to take him seriously then went to bed .
2.30 am a HUGE copper bursts into my bedroom shouting "get out or ill drag you out", what follows is a full on spin by D.C. Thuggins and W.P.C. B*tchly involving computer checks et al and then an adlib lecture on how to treat authority.
At least in Indo they would have settled for a tenner and not tried to rip off my dignity.
The last few weeks here have consolidated my desire to be someplace else entirely.
Abyssnia boys an girls.

[Henry_Cowell]