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A tad too serious, I suspect. So what if he likes to take the p*ss out of himself and Kiwi's or Yanks for that matter... Lighten up it's in meant to be good fun and not attacking anyone personally.

 

There are some pretty terrible things happen in the world. Some are acceptable at least by local standards.
I lived in Bahrain for 18 months and stories in the local (government controlled) paper made me shudder.

Family keeps Bangladeshi maid captive and without pay for 17 years. Their excuse "she was a bad cook and the laundry was not clean".
The court decided the family must pay half the wages and repatriate the maid. Wow.

Four young men take young Filipina into dessert and rape her, steal here cell phone.
Defense lawyer says "these are just young men having a good time".
Judgment: probation and return the cell phone.

Indian construction workers refuse to work. They have not been paid for 6 months.
All are arrested for breaking their employment contract and released when they agree to go back to work.
The employer is given a year to catch up on the unpaid wages.

Those little tidbits are not the underbelly of the country. This is mainstream over there.

 

Ummm. Welcome to the forum? I think.

 

Very common here, unfortunately. May I suggest in the future you check your side view mirrors before turning (left or right) because idiots on motorbikes are always trying to pass cars on both left and right sides irregardless of your turn signals and you can hopefully avoid this in the future. Also check before trying to change lanes too.

Yes, I know it's technically their fault but they are not going to stop doing it just because we want them to so a bit of caution is warranted on the drivers part to avoid wasting many, many hours of filing reports and insurance claims that get nothing accomplished except you pay the tab either for repairs or in higher premiums for insurance in the future.

Some other good rules to use when going into a blind curve is to honk your horn to warn any idiot trying to pass someone in the other direction coming around that blank corner. Better to honk than get into a head on collision with a sugarcane truck or a$$hat motorbike.

Also at night it helps to flash your brights in the same blank corners or curves for the same reason.

Lotz of Di#kh#ads here don't' have insurance, license or two piso to rub together to pay for repairs or even headlights and the TMG doesn't enforce the rules anyway.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

 

I have a 13A Permanent Visa, but this Permanent Visa only lasts 5 years and has to be renewed. Rather annoying, as once my wife and I were married in the UK, the British Authorities treated her like a natural born Brit. Makes you feel second class and never really accepted in this society.

 

I hope they have a night crew and keep the monitoring 24/7. Hanging up the rifle and taking off the boots at 5pm would of course leave an open window for the bad guys. My boy has his bow and arrows ready just in case.

 

We decided to visit Gerrys new resto bar and sample the food,we were very empressed with the progress he has made the new renovation so far and will be great when completed.Gerry's has put a lot of time and thougth into the design and has a great ideas for the future.Now what came for FOOD and BEER the later was ice cold.We started with Fish and Beer Butter very nice,then we all decided on Hamburger some had potato salad,some with fries then to our surprise gerry brought out a 12 inch.pizza for us to try half margarita half peperoni i am sure he well sell many of these when he gets into full swing.Great to see he has pick great girls on his staff.Good time was had by all.