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    Transferwise has reduced its fees for sending money to Indonesia.

    Actually, despite what they say, UK£ is delivered same day. I am not quite sure the parameters for this but it would typically be around 3:30pm WIB. If you transfer before noon WIB the money arrives (at least 9 times out of 10) the same day.
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    Recommend me a TV series....

    breaking bad mad men the wire
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    Positive Effect of Trump

    Mexico has a trade surplus with the US, so obviously has much more to lose. Haha. I doubt it. There is no unity in Europe. Big support for Trump-like policies in many countries, including the UK, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Germany. I think it would be MUCH easier for Europe to...
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    Quebec attack, sad

    What? This is not a thread about Trump. A mosque was attacked in French Canada, someone (not me!) decided to turn it into a thread about Trump. At the time we had no information about the suspect, it wasn't an unreasonable assumption that it would be a crazy white guy, however it is stupid to...
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    Quebec attack, sad

    I was responding to the then baseless suggestion that this was a white nationalist attack. I then deleted the part of my post that turned out to be based on a wrong report in the media. I am not sure why you feel that it is dishonest to delete wrong information rather than leave it up when...
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    Quebec attack, sad

    Maybe it will be like the last mosque burning in Texas, which proved to be by an ultra-devout Muslim worshipper at the same mosque. http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Federal-officials-arrest-man-in-connection-with-6727623.php Or the black church burning in Mississippi burned by a black...
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    Are you an expat or an immigrant?

    A temporary resident for now.
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    Penis fish

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFegFObrQ4E
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    Pasar senen dibakar - Jakarta

    usually it's done as insurance fraud / for redevelopment ?
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    Indonesian standards of feminine behaviour

    Just LOLing at comments on FB from a local ibu. Basically she uploaded this picture: (my censorship) with the comment " Dia pkir udh hebat x dengan dia berbuat sprti itu. Ibu ambil fotonya, skalian Ibu Upload lg. Yg satu itu pdhal masi kelas XIIB SMK skrg. Aneh kan? Dia gak tau klo dia yg...
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    Black Angus Tenderloin Steak - Sous Vide

    cryovacs keep a long time, at least 35 days http://www.beefresearch.org/cmdocs/beefresearch/beef%20shelf-life.pdf
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    No premium SPBU

    It was nonsensical though. It's like this conversation 'Wow, Jakarta is so hot, it's 35 degrees today' 'Wow, really, that's amazing - Minneapolis is warm too, at 35 degrees today' except one person means 35 Celsius, the other 35 Fahrenheit. You can't just throw in numbers on a different scale...
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    No premium SPBU

    A couple of the previous posts observed that Premium has the world's lowest octane, and that Premium = 88 octane. So your post referring to '87 octane' without any clarification that it's a different scale and actually equivalent to Indonesian 'high octane' fuel (Pertamax) was quite misleading.
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    What Keeps People In Indonesia?

    Yes this can be nice. Let me describe a Sunday I spent: Ride my bike down totally unmapped track. Talk to some random people walking their cows. 'Can you get through this way?', I ask. 'No not really'. Check satellite map, looks like I can. Cycle a bit further, ford the river carrying my...
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    Indonesian's Desensitized.

    So just seen a news report (not Facebook), dead tourist complete with closeup of nearly-naked body, a bunch of different angles, blood coming out of his nose. He died of a heart attack or something, so entirely gratuitous.
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    What Keeps People In Indonesia?

    Hmm weather is good family more opportunities in some ways (things are cheaper and unregulated, and a lot of stuff is so shoddy if you want you can do a better job, even if you'd be third-rate at home) lower cost of living
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    No premium SPBU

    This is not strictly accurate. The US has many stupid measuring systems (cups, pounds, Fahrenheit, ounces, quarts), and the one used for octane is another. European gasoline octane is measured in RON. In the UK the choices are 95 RON and 98 RON US gasoline octane is measured in PON/AKI. This...
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    No premium SPBU

    Normally where I am the pumpers (illegally) charge people to fill a container (for resale in roadside stalls or whatever). They have now put signs up saying if you want a container there's no extra charge, BUT it must be Pertalite, and not Premium.
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    Have I made a mistake?

    I'm not accusing anyone, just pointing out that both men and women are taught that in Indonesia this is the case. Of course people can be escape society's expectations of them, I just wouldn't count on it.
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    Have I made a mistake?

    Not so much a virgin wife, but when you marry someone who society would perceive to be a prostitute, the chances are not good that she will stop being one.

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