#7.2 Bangkok

• Verbs over-used in travel guidebooks: stroll, enjoy, relax, delight, wander.

• Two options: either Dove soap’s Campaign for Real Beauty does not use the same “normal” models in Thailand, or Thais and Europeans have a different concept of what counts as a normal looking / shaped woman. [Advert seen on SkyTrain station]
  
• 15,000 feature-length pornographic movies are made in Los Angeles annually. [LA Times supplement on What LA Gave The World]
• “MELBOURNE councils are paying private detectives to have sex with prostitutes, to gather evidence against illegal brothels. Melbourne City Council and Yarra Council yesterday confirmed they had paid private investigators to approach prostitutes, and in at least 17 cases, investigators had sex with them.” [Australian Newspaper article]
  
• The Australian National anthem, “Advance Australia Fair” was written in 1984. Prior to that, the nation sang “God Save The Queen.”