Stick your hand in the cookie jar

Loyal reader Neil has a succinct way of expressing himself, which I like. In these busy, busy times, who has the energy to dissect sentences with multiple, winding clauses?

This is what he said about my plan to pay a return visit to Mum's shop: 'Move on!'

'You are in a different part of the city. It will take time to hunt out places you like. Also to find the class of Thai your accustom to. You will find them locally. You have moved up is status and location. No more chickens and Chinese banging the walls all night. Going back to your old haunts will not be the same.

'You yourself said the people you sat with were not true friends. Just acquaintanceship. Go exploring. When you first move to the last apartment, didn't you feel the same way.

'Lost and out of place? Everyone does when they move after living a long time in previously location. I have returned to locations I use to live and it was never the same as I remember it. They move on. So should you.'

Okay, I take the hint. I shall just have to find some other place to meet my friends of the night (or even the daytime) outside home.

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'Why don't you do baking any more?' I asked the boyfriend.

'I am not sure who I can find to eat it,' Maiyuu replied. 'If you don't fnish it all, it goes stale.'

Maiyuu has not done any baking since we left our old condo in Thon Buri, I realised this morning.

I found half a dozen ginger cookies in a jar, which he made before the move. It's time I ate them, even though I am now watching my stomach line.

Maiyuu says the weight I lost while trudging humid streets in South-East Asia a week or so ago is now back on again. I am not sure I believe him.

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I wrote about a new movie by Poj Anon yesterday. It is one of two posts about the film this week.

Google, which serves the Adsense ads on my blog, has decided it does not approve of the subject matter in those posts, and has refused to serve ads on those pages.

The Google Adsense bot crawls the text of posts looking for key words, to help it match ads to content. If I mention condos, you might get several ads from people wanting to buy or sell condos here.

If readers are interested in condos in Thailand, which I mention in blog posts, then they might also be interested in the ads, and click them.

Google also has a list of stop words, which if repeated often enough or in particular combinations prompts Adsense to withhold advertising. It reckons that advertisers won't want to be associated with content which some readers might find objectionable.

I have re-read the posts. They look innocuous enough to me - no bad words, which I am careful to avoid on this blog, though I did mention the word naked.

I have noticed before that Google's Adsense dislikes any association between gays and those institutions which impart knowledge to youngsters.

Yes, you know the ones - the word starts with the letter 's' and ends in 'l'. I mentioned that word once or twice too.

In some contexts, it also objects to any mention of gays in relation to those institutions which bring us into the world.

Once again, you know the one - the word starts with 'f 'and ends in 'y'.

What to do? I have raised objections with Google Adsense in the past. My emails went unanswered. I can but hope that someone in their mighty Cultural Standards department was listening.

In the meantime, I shall try to minimise posts which mention either of those words in relation to gays.

Gays don't have families, of course. Nor do they go to school.