What have you learnt from Cambodians that you do?

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bobagubi wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:44 pm How to abandon toilet paper.
What's toilet paper?
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atst wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:36 pm Ignoring road accidents don't get involved ( feel bad about this one)
What happened?
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Call people brother or sister even tho we're not related.. :hattip:
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nerdlinger wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:50 pm
atst wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:36 pm Ignoring road accidents don't get involved ( feel bad about this one)
What happened?
On another thread somewhere anyway all's good just guy and girl got wiped out from dog on road outside our place went to go help got told to stay carry on drinking. But don't get involved in anything that's not your business over here,
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
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Kammekor wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:46 pm
bobagubi wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:44 pm How to abandon toilet paper.
What's toilet paper?
It's something people fight over in Australia my sister and husband even got accused using to much when staying at thier son place got told to leave true story amazing
Australian the lucky country if you have toilet paper
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
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atst wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:03 pm
Kammekor wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:46 pm
bobagubi wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:44 pm How to abandon toilet paper.
What's toilet paper?
It's something people fight over in Australia my sister and husband even got accused using to much when staying at thier son place got told to leave true story amazing
Australian the lucky country if you have toilet paper
Oh, I get it. Money.
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Username Taken wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:21 pm When you cut yourself and you're bleeding but don't have any first aid stuff, or bandages, or doctor nearby, you can stop the bleeding by applying fresh ash from a fire. For small cuts, cigarette ash will do. I have used this method successfully several times now.
Some people will say 'Oh yuck but it's dirty'. The freshly burnt ash is sterile because it's just been burnt.
Aloe vera is also very good. A lot of Cambodians grow Aloe vera. If it is bleeding a lot, you need to reapply and reapply and reapply.
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Nobody mentions the language ?

Oh yeah, and all-year fairground rides like Koh Pich are cool and handy to have on each town (but as i'm not a mayor, can't do it in mine) so that's a pro.

And bewaring of troubled populations behaviour in highly repressed societies, especially the ones where intellectuals and artists have been wiped out. Always expect random heavy shit from any side, keep your assets close and act accordingly.

Those were specific to Cambodia, weren't requiring to be here to know that, but witnessing it gives a deeper taste to it of course.

Not the best country for discovering asia when you're a newbie travelling westerner.
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Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:46 pm Nobody mentions the language ?
Mandarin?
Don’t listen to Chinese whispers.
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To share more with everyone around you. If you have food you share it.
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