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Yes, those corn syrups in nearly everything the young like. My wife drinks the diluted lemon unsweetened but like most people I prefer some sweetness and pure honey is so expensive. Sugar wouldn't make the drink smooth. Just a teaspoon of that honey syrup.. Apart from sweetening those syrups apparently thicken and keep foods fresher by maintaining moisture, so not all bad.

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Not fake but definitely deceptive:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...e627032919.jpg

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Often a casual grance won't te!l you and you need to revert to the ingredients.

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Was in the bank the other day taking out Ph50k in Ph1,000 notes. The girl did not have any so a quick ask and one other gave her a clipped bunch of notes that had obviously been paid in by another customer. She hand counted the bunch of 1,000s then took one out, recounted them by hand and then put them in the machine which showed it was Ph50k. Surely it would be quicker to just remove one from the pile and put it in the counting machine. Or maybe that is just too obvious.

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fear is the key, if they go short they get salary deduction....so no chances are taken

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The other night we got broken into which I noticed at about 02:30am so we checked everything, wife had lost about P3,000 from her wallet and a bunch of relatively inexpensive jewelry. So off to the police she went, meanwhile I noticed my shampoo bottle had been moved from the window where he got in and a muddy hand print above the window. Six police turned up to check the place out, they only had one torch so they had to take it in turns to do the checking outside. I offered them the shampoo bottle and pointed out the hand print for finger print evidence, no they were not interested in that, on the way out of the house I pointed to next doors CCTV camera and suggested that they could ask them later in the day if there was anything on there, they never bothered to ask them. As I knew who had done it ( he had been in before while under age ) I suggested to the police that he would be safer locked up than if I caught him, they agreed and basically left it up to me to hand out any punishment. Just wondering what the 35 or so police do in such a small village

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Obviously not a lot !

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Your thief is lucky that he's not living in the US. Entering a home in the US for the purpose of theft, or in fact for any purpose not at the invitation of the owner or tenant, is often a mistake that people only make once. :(

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We had occasion recently to report someone to the police for attempted deception. They did nothing. The person had a record with them for the same thing. Are they all that concerned if it involves an Expat?

Stokkevn, you never got that dog, did you?

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I was thinking of advertising "Two F***ing useless dogs for sale" but he got in over the ground floor roof at the back of the house, so the dogs were forgiven.

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On my Jeepney trip this morning I saw a first, man, wife and baby on a motorbike, I hear you say nothing odd with that except that the baby was breast feeding. I think that must be a first.

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I hope it wasn't sitting on the gas tank at the time.

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No baby and mother were pillion passengers.

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I have noticed that some of the vehicles going over the sleeping policeman out the back of our house turn their lights out before going over it and then turn them back on about 20m down the road. Any ideas?

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Perhaps they think the shock of bumping over the obstacle will break the hot filament in the bulb.

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Knowing some of the guys I don't think hot filament comes into the equation. I have been warned by her-in-doors not to ask but I might get a friend to ask for me.

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Ok looking further outside the box. When you go over a speed bump it appears that your lights brighten so perhaps they think they are saving their battery. I look forward to the results of you enquiries.

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That sounds about right.

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Upward pointing headlight beams provide more warning of approach to anyone down the road up to something. Maybe part of training which some have remembered and followed.

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Thought I had seen everything in the Philippines...well I have now!

Waltzed into my favourite restobar last night and sat at my table when I noticed a couple of tables away was a young kid sprawled on the table, naked waist down and legs akimbo. He had with him I believe were his parents and the restobar owner. The owner works for the city hall (as a side interest totes a concealed gun) . He is also the font of all knowledge on all medical matters . I watched out of curiosity...nay amazement when I saw him performing a circumcision.

The operation took about 5 minutes without a whimper from the lad . However he couldn't put his shorts back on and was helped out of the restobar and walked in a somewhat ungainly manner wrapped in a sheet .

I have to say it was an unedifying sight to see and I made a mental note to steer clear of what appears to be pork scratchings on display in the snack bar outside.

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The owner of Dick's Restobar getting a good cut from each he does there.

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Did the parents leave a tip?

:getcoat:

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No, just the young lad.

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The parents must have missed the cut off date for a free one!
And the surgeon....City Hall position, runs a Restobar, gives medical advice and offers at least one minor op.
An all rounder... in more ways than one!

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Ok a bit of corporate stupidity. We are in tbe UK until next weekend and the wife's banking app has been locked so she needs to get a one time code to unlock it. Her smart doesn't work in the UK so no OTC. She uses my Globe phone to contact her bank but gets the wrong department but uses up my excess spending allowance. Globe turns off my phone. To pay Globe I need a one time code but my phone is off so can't pay them.

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Brilliant response ! well played Sir.

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Why haven't they discovered easy-peel labels in the Philippines, are they more expensive or is the Philippines 30 years behind the rest of the world.

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I don't know if 433 people winning the grand lottery jackpot could be classed as an oddity, but it does sound a bit, er, unusual.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63126558

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Read the story elsewhere and indeed it is deemed as an oddity by various mathematician.

One person had 2 winning tickets...

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back in the day mayor of manila won the first ever lottery draw and the second.....no investigation ever suggested

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We have had quite a bit of rain lately accompanied by wind and this has brought to my attention that out of 7 areas that should either drain away from the house or down a built in drain only 1 actually does that the other 6 drain towards the house or away from the drain. You could get a 2 year old to just point one way and get an accuracy of 3 or 4 right. Mind you the teacher opposite thinks water flows uphill so there maybe the problem.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63363473

Surely this counts as a cringe making class A oddity?
What is that professor thinking?
And of course there are plenty of other ways to cheat!

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Much easier to stick to the tried and tested brown envelope under the desk.

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And hidden under the hats are phone earpieces where someone is telling them the answers to each question.