Commonly held Khmer beliefs, as taken from the Black Panther Stout Book of Records:

i) motodopes can fly
ii) you can only watch one TV channel for less than 5 seconds, then you have to change channels
iii) if you do not eat rice with a meal you do not get full
iv) barang can not see Khmer ghosts, only Khmers can
v) prohok smells very fantastic
vi) prohok is a food
vii) tiger balm will cure any illness, even the loss of a limb
viii) cockroaches are food
ix) flies have good hearts because they do not bite you
x) wat xxx in my home town is older than Angkor Wat was the inspiration for it
xi) Khmer language "has excellent linguistic rules that are superior to those of any human language in the world.”
xii) Manchester United is a small town near Manchester City, in London
xiii) The big island off the Kampot/Kep coast that used to be in Cambodia was given to the Vietnamese because the French colonists thought “girl Vietnam more pretty”.
xiv) Angkor Thom is the world’s biggest Angkor
xv) The Cambodian national football side has thrown the most games in the world in a five-year period
xvi) The French Foreign Legion (infamously hardcore nutcases) got a spanking from people with crossbows, wearing handkerchiefs covering their bits and bobs, who rarely get out of their hammocks
xvii) Angkor Beer won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Australian Beer Festival therefore it is the best beer in Australia (and Cambodia). And the 2nd and 3rd best too.

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