What is with all the 40 year old Barangs dying from heart attacks?

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Re: What is with all the 40 year old Barangs dying from heart attacks?

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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 1:21 pm
Duncan wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 3:53 pm Now to add to that story, I have a water distiller in PP and in OZ. When all the water has been boiled away what is left in the distiller is the stuff that will not evaporate at boiling point 100 degrees C. And here in pic is what it looks like after many, maybe 20 or 30 times of distilling 4 lt at a time and drying the remains.



Yep, your drinking that in your tap water.
Of all the things you could smuggle, Dunc
and you chose ^^^

You are even more unfathomable than i thought.
Every time I return to OZ [ twice a year for the last 10 plus years ] Border Force go through my bag with a fine tooth comb . I now know how they work / dont work. I'm not willing to tell you more in public.
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Re: What is with all the 40 year old Barangs dying from heart attacks?

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Duncan wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 1:30 pm
fsdfdsdf wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 1:11 pm
Duncan wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 3:53 pm Now to add to that story, I have a water distiller in PP and in OZ. When all the water has been boiled away what is left in the distiller is the stuff that will not evaporate at boiling point 100 degrees C. And here in pic is what it looks like after many, maybe 20 or 30 times of distilling 4 lt at a time and drying the remains.

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Yep, your drinking that in your tap water.
I use a filter. theres a lot of mud and chlorine in PP water but I doubt much else
Your filter will not filter out any chemicals that are washed into the water supply during the heavy rain storms. Eg, DDT , 24D and all those other Agent Orange , roundup, fruit and veg sprays that are sprayed around farms.

Try putting some food colouring on the inward side of your filter and see if it filters it out. I'm even willing to place a large amount $$$$ on it ,, Your filter will not filter it out , but my water distiller will.

Been there Done that.
Pesticides are fine as long as you consume them in small quantities. People only die from vats of Roundup. Water is going to have minerals in it, which is what your deposits are made of, mostly carbonates and silicates. The water in Phnom Penh when it comes out of the treatment works is the cleanest in South East Asia, so unless you are drinking out of the toilet runoff shouldn't be a major issue. Drinking loads of distilled water is not going to do you any favours apart from saving your kettle element
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michael.stewart1 wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:47 pmGod forbid you go to a Brazilian restaurant and there is not one dish there that is actually Brazilian. No one speaks Spanish or Portuguese in these places. I went to the Mexican restaurant on the riverside and tried ordering my meal in Spanish to the waiter who was wearing a sombrero and he could not understand me.
i dont think youll last long here

damn a khmer working in a japanese.french.greek.italian restaurant who's not fluent in japanese,french.greek.italian!

imagine that!

he should be able to afford lessons on that $150/month for a 12 hour shift 6 days a week

after all the great things the west has done for them!

so ungrateful!
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Duncan wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 1:30 pm
fsdfdsdf wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 1:11 pm
Duncan wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 3:53 pm Now to add to that story, I have a water distiller in PP and in OZ. When all the water has been boiled away what is left in the distiller is the stuff that will not evaporate at boiling point 100 degrees C. And here in pic is what it looks like after many, maybe 20 or 30 times of distilling 4 lt at a time and drying the remains.

Image

Yep, your drinking that in your tap water.
I use a filter. theres a lot of mud and chlorine in PP water but I doubt much else
Your filter will not filter out any chemicals that are washed into the water supply during the heavy rain storms. Eg, DDT , 24D and all those other Agent Orange , roundup, fruit and veg sprays that are sprayed around farms.

Try putting some food colouring on the inward side of your filter and see if it filters it out. I'm even willing to place a large amount $$$$ on it ,, Your filter will not filter it out , but my water distiller will.

Been there Done that.
maybe but its better then nothing and I dont think cambodia uses a lot of that stuff, unlike thailand. it would be interesting to get that stuff you have tested to see whats in it
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fazur wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 2:38 pm
michael.stewart1 wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:47 pmGod forbid you go to a Brazilian restaurant and there is not one dish there that is actually Brazilian. No one speaks Spanish or Portuguese in these places. I went to the Mexican restaurant on the riverside and tried ordering my meal in Spanish to the waiter who was wearing a sombrero and he could not understand me.
i dont think youll last long here

damn a khmer working in a japanese.french.greek.italian restaurant who's not fluent in japanese,french.greek.italian!

imagine that!

he should be able to afford lessons on that $150/month for a 12 hour shift 6 days a week

after all the great things the west has done for them!

so ungrateful!
I asked at a mexican restaurant on the riverside if they had guacamole. they had no idea what I was talking about
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Re: What is with all the 40 year old Barangs dying from heart attacks?

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if youve been here longer than a few days, u soon learn to point out the item on the menu.

many menus have pictures for this reason.

use your smartphone, google image and ask

be patient

my khmer is shite
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Re: What is with all the 40 year old Barangs dying from heart attacks?

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Duncan wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 1:42 pm Border Force go through my bag with a fine tooth comb . I now know how they work / dont work. I'm not willing to tell you more in public.
There are TV shows that show the whole world exactly how they go through people's bags and how they profile people at borders/airports, it's not really a secret. Do they tell you after they've gone through your stuff to not let anyone know how they unzip your bag and look through all your belongings?
Duncan wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 1:42 pm Every time I return to OZ [ twice a year for the last 10 plus years ] Border Force go through my bag with a fine tooth comb . I now know how they work / dont work. I'm not willing to tell you more in public.
When i went to Australia, it was the easiest and quickest immigration ever. I didn't even speak to another human, just put my passport up to the machine and breezed through, maybe you're wicked dodgy looking???
If you enjoy noise pollution and obnoxious driving practices, Phnom Penh is the place for you!

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Re: What is with all the 40 year old Barangs dying from heart attacks?

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fsdfdsdf wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 4:48 pm I asked at a mexican restaurant on the riverside if they had guacamole. they had no idea what I was talking about.
I was in an Italian restaurant recently and asked the Khmer waiter for a prosciutto pizza to go. He said prosciutto as an Italian would.
I thought he might have said "You want a prostitute pizza to go?". Molto bene!
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