Thu Zaw

Enfield Metropolitan Police Force shouting about their big drugs bust this week. The streets of London are safe again.

Have you tried drugs? In seriousness, existential crises happen. They pass. But it usually requires work to shift it. I recommend therapy (with a good therapist), or making changes in your life; meet new people, move, challenge yourself to learn a new skill. Good luck with it.

Scandal. Italy band caught on film and televised snorting coke. Calls for disqualification. France might yet still win 187984604_1864836446999176_6478687304772835376_n.mp4

Ukraine Azerbaijan Russia Iceland I'm considering voting. I've never been this into Eurovision

Didn't see Russia before. It's cool Russia and Ukraine for me I'm drinking lychee wine. It's really nice.

Visited a nursery for lotuses today. Took some snaps with my phone.

I've being doing it once a week for a couple of months. Gonna get to 100 eventually!

There are two ways to not see something clearly; one is to be too far away, and the other is to be too close.

Ok. What I mean to say is: You are very close minded You are very tribal You are a mere product of your culture and nothing more You are not a deep thinker You are not a compassionate person You live in a safety bubble You have very little life experience and you express no desire to expand upon that You are your own worst enemy You're unaware of your own ignorance

You really don't see it, do you?

To clarify: My mother is English My father is Australian I hold nationality of both, but don't recognize myself as either. I was born in the UK. At age: 18 months: my family moved to Netherlands (3.5yrs) Age 5: My family moved to TX (3.5yrs) - local elementary schools Age 8: My family moved to Myanmar (1yr) - American International School Age 9: My family moved to Pakistan (2yrs) - American International School Age 12: My family moved to UK - British Schools I did not so much as visit UK between age 1-12. I didn't not grow up around British family or culture. I visited Aus a handful of times whilst living in Asia, but I've never lived there. Instead my friends, teachers, community have been and are from every corner of the planet. I moved to France last year. I have no national or cultural identity. Countries and nationalities are a "social construct" (for want of a better term), and they're certainly not static in their cultural identity or existence. My view of the world comes from having no allegiance to any country, nationality, religion, political viewpoint, and it's not hindered by cultural bias or ignorance of life outside of my legal nationality. I'm culture-less. I've spoken with an English accent and an American accent at various points of my life. I have experienced the complexity and nuance of cultures, and know not to paint all people of any nationality, religion, political standpoint with a single brush. It's because of my variety of experience and lack of cultural identity that I can more objectively analyse cultures that don't match my legal status. I treat people as individuals with life experience different to my own and other people in my life. I'm more forgiving of viewpoints that might not be acceptable in other cultures I'm familiar with. I understand full well the effect that cultural indoctrination during childhood forms how people view and engage with the world around them, their identity and pack allegiance. I see beyond culture and seek to connect with the humanity in people that we all share. That's the only way we can resolve conflict that arises as a result of cultural difference. Compassion; even for those we disagree with. We need to find compassion for people whose lives have been different to our own, and understand how their experience has shaped how they understand the world around them. Then we can start to have a conversation. The first step comes with softening our own ego.

I lived in TX for 3.5yrs and was in the US education system for 8yrs. I'm not French.

...starting with you

Sounds like civil war chatter. America's headed that way unless y'all learn how to listen to points of view you don't agree with, rather than just slandering the speaker.

Echoing @fxbip, this is the first major pandemic of any kind the West had really had to deal with in most people's lifetime alive today. Most people in the West have had supremely cushy, free lives up to now. Suddenly they've had a level of insecurity thrust upon them that they've never had to consider or deal with. And it's come at a time of tense politics in many countries, where the left and right have been sailing further away from each other, and every facet of life seems to be becoming a polarised issue. This has affected how the discussion of tackling the virus has manifested. Question about the - severity of the virus - efficacy of masks and social distancing - wearing of masks - the efficacy or trustworthyness of the vaccine all these points have become politically polarised, which has really hindered reasonable and fact-based discussion of how to tackle it. People have chosen their stance on the above points based largely upon whether they and their peers are left or right wing. Both extremes of the political spectrum have become more skeptical of scientific fact and reason when it doesn't support their ideological viewpoints, which is really unhelpful. Truth goes out the window in favour of ideology. Basically, people in the West are suddenly confronted by having to consider others in their community for the first time in their lives, and the change of lifestyle and sudden removal of the freedoms they've enjoyed (taken for granted) all their lives is too much to bear, and someone must be blamed for it. Self-responsibility and adaptability to new scenarios is something people in the West haven't had to deal with much in their lives and they're scared.

I've found when you put it "Bosnia" it takes it as "Bosnia & Herzegovina". Same for "At Kitts and Nevis" - only requires "At Kitts", and "Trinidad And Tobago" only requires "Trinidad".

Wasn't my favourite week! ?

I feel like I totally had this CD, but that's not how I remember the cover Edit: Had to look it up. This is the CD I had. Same vibes. https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Journey/release/76270

https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name Been pushing myself on this lately. Today's score: 188/196 = 96% I keep forgetting certain former Yugoslav and Pacific Ocean states.

When I was a kid, as my family was arranging to move to Myanmar, I had 11 separate inoculations over 7 days; in both arms, both legs, and my arse.

I like musical artists for about 6 years, and then I don't anymore.

Hot. That makes a lot of men uncomfortable.