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Boy, those people sure got that game measured to the micron. -- Al
 
lancer said:
Boy, those people sure got that game measured to the micron. -- Al
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I was in the Phillipines for a few months and I noticed many odd things. One odd thing is that the giant billboards on the sides of freeways are converted to three story houses....o.k forts...it seems the people take what space they want to survive and succeed at it! I also remember bare meat hanging on the side of the roads with fans that had shirts tied to the blades of the fans to keep the flies off the meat...though it seems sort of a waste when our vehicles were spewing literal clouds of exhaust all over the meat...the meat and vehicles were just as equal in distance as the train and vendors in the videos...I will post a picture later as I do have pictures...I was also there long enough to learn that over a short amount of time flies in your rice isn't all that much to worry about, even though we kept little plate cages over the food at all times.
 
MarkeytMaker said:
I was in the Phillipines for a few months and I noticed many odd things. One odd thing is that the giant billboards on the sides of freeways are converted to three story houses....o.k forts...it seems the people take what space they want to survive and succeed at it! I also remember bare meat hanging on the side of the roads with fans that had shirts tied to the blades of the fans to keep the flies off the meat...though it seems sort of a waste when our vehicles were spewing literal clouds of exhaust all over the meat...the meat and vehicles were just as equal in distance as the train and vendors in the videos...I will post a picture later as I do have pictures...I was also there long enough to learn that over a short amount of time flies in your rice isn't all that much to worry about, even though we kept little plate cages over the food at all times.
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Interesting that you mention the flies. My father was in Naval Intelligence in WW2 and was based in the P.I. for a while after Manila was retaken. One of his memories of that time in the P.I. was the constant cloud of flies that he and his buddies were always fighting. He said it didn't matter where you went or what you did, the flies were always present. He didn't have the same memory of his time on Bougainville. -- Al
 
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