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  1. Comment on I'm going to Thailand next week. Looking for advice on clothing. in ~travel

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    Clothes will dry in an hour or two if you hang them in the sun though, so if you have two sets of clothes you'll be fine in that regard.

    Great to know. I've been told it's very difficult to dry clothes for the next day

    Clothes will dry in an hour or two if you hang them in the sun though, so if you have two sets of clothes you'll be fine in that regard.

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  2. Comment on I'm going to Thailand next week. Looking for advice on clothing. in ~travel

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    I lived in Thailand for nearly 7 years. When I was off I usually wore a short sleeve button-up shirt and chinos, and when going to work I wore light suite pants and a shirt and tie, but usually no...

    I lived in Thailand for nearly 7 years. When I was off I usually wore a short sleeve button-up shirt and chinos, and when going to work I wore light suite pants and a shirt and tie, but usually no jacket. If you don't mind the dry cleaning bill, getting some nice silk short sleeve shirts (e.g. from Jim Thompson), that could be a nice option to be a bit stylish on your honey moon.

    Mostly when I lived there a took a run outside in the morning to get a good sweat on, so that the rest of the day I would sweat mostly water so it just evaporates and doesn't get smelly.

    For shoes I mostly wore Hush Puppy brand loafers when going to work, or their "Roman" style sandals without socks otherwise. They have them in the department store of any mall. I used those to the beach too as I find flip-flops kill my feet. I would skip socks and stick with sandals if I were you and only there for vacation, unless you're planning to go to western-style "fine dining" restaurants.

    At the beach I also wore short sleeve shirts and so called "fisherman's pants" or "geng le", which you can buy at any market. I also get a dozen or so of those any time I go back, as they are also my lounge wear and pajamas at home.

    A non-clothes related tip is that Thai is a very forgiving language for beginners, in that the grammar is quite minimal for simple sentences, so you can get quite far in every-day situations with only a few hundred words or so. Getting a phrase book and learning how how to greet people politely and so on will pay off.

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  3. Comment on I joined a ‘sacrifice’ ritual outside Stockholm – and found that the revival of Norse paganism reflects broader battles over identity and climate anxiety in ~humanities

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    I'm from Uppsala and know some of the people involved in this. They have been doing their thing for decades and are not having a particular upswing currently. They've had some successes recently...

    I'm from Uppsala and know some of the people involved in this. They have been doing their thing for decades and are not having a particular upswing currently.

    They've had some successes recently in getting a dedicated section of a grave yard and the moving of a stone commemorative of a pope's visit to a less (to them) offensive location, but there's no indication that they are having some boom in popularity.

    Also writing "outside Stockholm" instead of Uppsala is a bit like writing "outside London " instead of "in Northampton" or something. Technically correct but a bit funny.

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