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[JPF]

Picked up a new mobile phone in my country. My previous phones used SIM cards that were the same size as those sold by Smart and Globe, and I could easily interchange my western phone SIM with philippine SIM cards. However, newer phones now use smaller SIM cards (micro & nano-sim sizes). If I bring the new phone to phils, can I get a phils Globe or Smart SIM in the smaller micro-SIM size?

WC

I had no trouble getting a Smart micro-SIM card. There is a punch tool (like a hole punch) that turns a regular SIM card into either a micro or nano SIM. Most telecom places will have one.

[Nolz7]

Picked up a new mobile phone in my country. My previous phones used SIM cards that were the same size as those sold by Smart and Globe, and I could easily interchange my western phone SIM with philippine SIM cards. However, newer phones now use smaller SIM cards (micro & nano-sim sizes). If I bring the new phone to phils, can I get a phils Globe or Smart SIM in the smaller micro-SIM size?

WC

You can now get micro sims from Philippine carriers. If not they can always cut the regular size sim card into a micro to fit in your phone.

[WestCoast1]

Picked up a new mobile phone in my country. My previous phones used SIM cards that were the same size as those sold by Smart and Globe, and I could easily interchange my western phone SIM with philippine SIM cards. However, newer phones now use smaller SIM cards (micro & nano-sim sizes). If I bring the new phone to phils, can I get a phils Globe or Smart SIM in the smaller micro-SIM size?

WC

[Sam 14]

Hello. The member formerly posting as Pimpin Sam decided to dump the prefix. A, for a long time he hasn't had much need for pimps. And B, he has never owned a bar, or ever actually pimped a woman in his life.

All the best guys, and thanks for all the great posts and help!

Sam

[Wicked Roger]

While those who buy on the street are confident as I am also, this is about some fake Robust tablets

If you know the seller or trust the guy as many do am sure no issues as others have said before in this thread.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/593894/...d-in-nbi-raids

[GoodEnough]

Check out this latest report.

https://ph.news.yahoo.com/one-in-10-...085456964.html

Thanks RK. I don't really believe these statistics, as they're probably self-reported and thus underestimate the scope of the problem vim betting that the incidence of pregnancies among women in the target age group is significantly higher.

[Wicked Roger]

Check out this latest report.

https://ph.news.yahoo.com/one-in-10-...085456964.html

Nice article RK.

While not surprising in the main the 1 in 10 being mothers in the age range 15-19 is, as I would have thought it would be higher. Go to the UAE speak to many pinay sales girls and you will find more than 1 in 10 are moms, many had the kids in that age range (I do 'research' as well in my spare time). Just a thought.

And many wonder why there is poverty etc in the country. Am sure the Catholic church will place a positive spin on this as did one of theie\are clery a while when saying over population in the country was OK (Gods will etc) as meant more DHs / house girls / care givers for the rest of the world-odd logic indeed.

[Red Kilt]

Check out this latest report.

https://ph.news.yahoo.com/one-in-10-...085456964.html

[AskeAske]

[QUOTE=Gangles; 1552717]Recently, RK posted a number of comments regarding my recent post of statistics of STI vs numbers of my sexual partners, without a condom.

Why don't you write on the safe / unsafe tread?

[Gangles]

Recently, RK posted a number of comments regarding my recent post of statistics of STI vs numbers of my sexual partners, without a condom.

His comments are valid within an assumed context. So I think that his comments warrant a response.

I am a hard nosed physical scientist with extensive background in applied statistics.

My motivation in posting my statistics of unprotected sex vs incidents of STI arose from a period of time when I worked for government in a department which promoted itself as scientifically based. And therefore reliable.

However, during the six years that I worked there, I observed numerous incidents of scientific and statistical deception and deliberate mistruth. These appeared to be motivated by political and ideological imperatives, and went as far as the deputy director general.

I came to realize that our notion of an independent and fearless public service is no more. The politicization of the public service in Australia is such that every statement, scientific or otherwise, which is made by an Australian public servant, must be seen as being politically driven.

What has this to do with safe sex and my little project on ISG? Well, the mantra of safe sex is driven by government. Why would the govt do this? Because in a socialist system, providing free medical care, there is a major motivation to reduce cases of STI by any means, to reduce operating costs. The end justifies the means.

So we are deliberately put in a condition of fear, through misuse of statistics. This means that punters are basing their sexual preferences on corrupted information, or deliberate misinformation.

For example, when the Australian Dept of Health releases reports on rates of STI in Australia, they do not include any information on populations at higher risk. For example, aboriginals had an 8-fold higher risk of chlamydia, an 80-fold higher risk of gonorrhoea, and a 100-fold greater risk of syphilis than the general population; homosexual are more than 6 times more likely to have experienced an STI in their life; women who identify as bisexual are more than 3 times more likely; men and women who are intravenous drug users are roughly three and five times more likely, respectively, to experience an STI. These high risk groups therefore significantly skew the apparent degree of risk in the general population, such as our punters.

So what I have been doing is to provide some totally valid data which punters may or may not consider in making their behavioural choices. And note that my comments are related solely to STI, and not pregnancy. And in none of my posts did I advocate that punters should behave in the same way that I do.

RK highlighted the fact that I take medications to reduce the likelihood of contracting an STI. But this is only a partial protection. Pete Benetar made me aware of this possibility through a couple of posts, maybe 2 years ago. I did not understand what he was saying, but I pursued it via my doctor. I did not know that STIs are transmitted in two ways. One group via bacteria, and the second group via virus. The antibiotics that I take only provide protection against bacterially transmitted STI. So the protection that I get is limited, but it does act to reduce the likelihood of getting an STI, maybe by 30% to 40.

Of the sexual partners that I have had here in the Phils, almost all are educated, employed, middle class, because that is the kind of woman that I am looking for in a permanent relationship. Maybe 20% are P4P, when I need a bed warmer.

It appeared to me that RK was assuming that the numbers of partners across my life that I stated (440) were pinay, or Asian.

This is not the case. About 235 of the women were westerners, mostly American and Australian. They are educated, knowledgeable about sex, pregnancy and disease. Yet not one of them insisted on using condoms.

Interestingly, the relatively high rate of STI infections among prostitutes in Australia indicates that many of them are not using condoms, either.

I think that about covers it.

Gangles

[OneIpole]

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[Amavida]

Hey anyone here had to delete some pics? Obviously some lurker have tipped off a girl even if I have posted brushed pics in this forums photothread. I admit it was maby not good enough from my part. But ofcourse compared to other forums where pics are rare brushed I can say I atleast tried

College girls / employed & upper class are highly sensitive to what they call 'scandal'. It may not be a contributor who has done this, a lot of Pinoy college guys lurk in these forums. Savy bar girls & semi Pros also lurk here. Try contacting Jackson direct. You can bet the pics are already circulating via text / MMS sadly so the horse has already bolted really. The girl involved has just learned a painful life lesson. With her face blurred only those who know her can still recognise her if that's any consolation.

AV

[Wicked Roger]

With no national ID and the so called Privacy activists ensuring no National ID exist. I am sure the paper notices are for CYA.

For a foreigner seeing the electricity bill breakdown in Baguio / Beneco I am amazed a simple bill has to have so many sub charges. Scary.

As Amavida said is for protection of employer same thing happens in the Middle East when employees 'abscond' or are terminated.

Bills. Not just Baguio is everywhere I have seen the bills and is just ridiculous and making it simpler would likely mean less jobs for some part of the firm that produces them.

[Amavida]

I have noticed in the Philippine newspapers that there are a lot of quarter page ads full of employers making public notice that "So and So" former employee no longer works here at this company. I figured it was likely a CYA type of measure by the former employer in case said former employee was out trying to defraud or steal previous customers. Is this something employers are required to do, or only do if the employee has been stealing or defrauding, or it is simply a generic CYA measure?

Confirmed. As a former employer I had to do this to head off the inevitable ex-employee running around making purchases / deals in my name. Happened to often.

AV

[Econo Tech]

With regard to the Philippine Labor Code, I have noticed in the Philippine newspapers that there are a lot of quarter page ads full of employers making public notice that "So and So" former employee no longer works here at this company. I figured it was likely a CYA type of measure by the former employer in case said former employee was out trying to defraud or steal previous customers. Is this something employers are required to do, or only do if the employee has been stealing or defrauding, or it is simply a generic CYA measure?

Just curious. Thanks.

With no national ID and the so called Privacy activists ensuring no National I'd exist. I am sure the paper notices are for CYA. Just like how they publish all personal details of any foreigners who want to be naturalized and all details of any foreigner applying / renewing work passes.

Due process is what they say in Philippines when publishing newspaper notices.

BTW, re LTO, my friend bought a SUV and six month later no number plate. Just paper. And he says its perfectly legal.

Seems the LTO has a large backlog of number plate deliveries

And adding to bureaucracy. BIR has to authorize receipts for printing. Employment for hundreds of staff, and on and on, they find ways to complicate stuff.

For a foreigner seeing the electricity bill breakdown in Baguio / Beneco I am amazed a simple bill has to have so many sub charges. Scary.