Question: i tell you what the fumes that the the paint gives off makes you wonder what these people do anyway
The paint gives off fumes.

Answer: yes

Question: Thimi's streets often become open-air kilns, when pots are fired beneath smoldering rice straw.
Rice straw is used to build bonfires in the streets of Thimi.

Answer: no

Question: 60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly.
Because of local fees and taxes it actually cost more to call Antwerp from a neighboring city than from California.

Answer:
it is not possible to tell