Firstly Cambodians really have a very "live for today" attitude, which I suppose is to be expected but this means that sometimes they will cheerfully rip you off with a smile on their face, even if they know you and are going to see you again tomorrow. Obviously this is not a blanket generalisation, but often it makes it rather hard to trust anyone, even the people who you are sharing beers with last night, or who you are staying with in their guesthouse.
Perhaps this also explains why everyone but everyone has a mobile phone and a TV even if they have the most basic of houses, and virtually no level of hygiene to speak of at all. I even saw a little TV in the slums. There are 60 cable channels that are available to most, but that bad news is that it is 60 channels of absolutely horrendous shit!
50% of programs consist of inexplicably constantly wailing women in traditional dress accompanied by justifiably angry looking men threatening them with swords or beatings which they clearly deserve. This is all that happens from beginning to end.
The rest are bizarre or just dreadful game shows, bad US sit coms, bad Asian sit coms, oh and HBO which is quite good. One channel is like an endless old style Eurovision song contest but with asian pop... words simply can't adequately describe how appalling it is.
I have however found one news channel but it's in German half the time, (usually when i want to watch it) , however as far as I can tell nothing has happened anywhere in the known universe since Michael Jackson died anyway.
I understand there will be a post-mortem today to determine which was the cause of death: A) Sunshine B) Moonlight C) Good Times D) Boogie
People tell me Andy Murray is still British, so I am assuming Wimbledon is still on and he's still in it.
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