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Do you hold a current passport?

Do you currently hold a valid passport?

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JMR said:
All but a few does not equal all.
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"And some I'm sure are good people."

In question was the idea of making a generalization about a broad group based on a handful of examples.

Defend bigotry if you must.
 
Tangmo said:
A swarm of 'em -- the bilingual school has more than 100 foreign teachers. A couple of dozen were Australians; I was there 6 years to include staff turnover with new ones. I'm the one with the facts and the everyday experience of it.

Which makes your posts with blinders Holier Than Thou. Intrusively so.

Which is unfortunate indeed. I posted I would never visit Australia, I did not post that all Australians are asshats.

I cannot change he who is holy and in fact holier than thou. Self appointed of course. Being superior and all that.

Thinking you know what I'm posting about and that you are in the right and I am wrong. Indeed, your posts are presumptuous and overbearing. Unwelcome if you really need to know which you do need to know. Because your posts presume to know more than I know about my experience to include all American expat teachers at the school.

You don't know what we Americans at the school for several years discussed among ourselves about the expat Australians at the school. Yet you know I am wrong. NOT.
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LOL

Whatever dude. You said what you said.
 
RF667799 said:
"And some I'm sure are good people."

In question was the idea of making a generalization about a broad group based on a handful of examples.

Defend bigotry if you must.
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Well if you'd like to just leap into other contrasts....if it equal for a random poster to diss Australians as it is for the POTUS to defend Nazis?
 
JMR said:
Well if you'd like to just leap into other contrasts....if it equal for a random poster to diss Australians as it is for the POTUS to defend Nazis?
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Try a better analogy to things Trump says.

Or...just quit defending bigotry.
 
JMR said:
It was you who brought up things Trump says.
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I suppose you're lost. I don't feel like explaining to you, over and over.
 
Threegoofs said:
LOL

Whatever dude. You said what you said.
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I said there's nothing wrong with what I said.

Here's what I said...

"I met and worked with too many Australians to want to go to their place down there where they actually live. All but a few of the Australians were total asshats or in certain instances psychos."

Here's what I say now about some certain posts: "Idle hands are the devil's playground."

I could post about the certain psychos I worked with from Australia. What's funny about the Aussies I worked with in Bangkok is that they all claimed without anyone asking their original settler progenitors in Australia as shipped there from Britain were wardens, not prisoners. Ha, listening to these Aussies one could count ten wardens for each prisoner. Nobody's ancestor was a prisoner, just ask 'em. :giggle:

The bilingual school in Bangkok had more than 100 foreign teachers a couple of dozen of 'em being from Australia at any given time. I spent 6 years at the school to include turnover of teachers employed. Many of the Aussie teachers in Bangkok were not renewed to continue teaching in Australia, some of 'em after their first year teaching elementary school. So they shifted over to Thailand where as native speakers of English with teaching degrees from Australia they were welcomed. And thrive. Almost all of 'em are twentysomething and single so picking up and leaving Oz for a teaching position in Thailand was a welcome fresh breeze for 'em.

Thai schools will overlook a lot of things to have native speakers of English come to teach their learners who they still call students. There are always a couple of dozen Europeans who are excellent in English teaching there because there aren't enough native speakers for all the classrooms; from South Africa too. I myself was lead foreign teacher in the secondary school, teaching Social Subjects in grades 10, 11, 12. Sosh and English -- which I had also taught -- are interrelated of course. We had foreign teachers in Math and Science too teaching in English. This is a lot of Thai and foreign teachers teaching the same things in two languages separately so we who were running the show were jugglers as well.

I was at the school on 9/11 and the Australians were abominable about it. Many of 'em could barely restrain their glee. None of you were there so do not try to tell me about the Australians and 9/11 and online afterward. Detestable.
 
JMR said:
Of course you don't feel like explaining the stupid posts you've made.
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Why are you so intent on defending bigotry, even if so poorly? I'm not seeing the up-side.
 
RF667799 said:
Yes, we'll leave it as you making a broad generalization amounting to classic bigotry, and having it proven.
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Your posts to me are OTT self righteous.

Self appointed moralist.

Which accounts for the trumped up false claims in your posts.

I was there you were not. My statements are measured, yours are self serving generalizations that are absent the facts, the time, the place, the people; the matters. Your posts have nothing to go on except vague and unspecified accusations of wrongdoing that have no basis or application.
 
Have an appointment this coming week to get my passport. Plan some fun travels this year.n
 
By the way…..hoping you all have your REAL ID. If you don’t have a passport, you will need it in May to travel by plane.
 
I have two passports... USA and New Zealand.


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Bodi said:
I needed one in the 90's.
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I didn’t need one in the 90s when we crossed the border for one night (we had gone to a concert in the US and couldn’t find a hotel room so had to cross over to Canada). The did struggle a bit at the border crossing when we explained why we were only there for about 8 hours….
 
TamleeB said:
I didn’t need one in the 90s when we crossed the border for one night (we had gone to a concert in the US and couldn’t find a hotel room so had to cross over to Canada). The did struggle a bit at the border crossing when we explained why we were only there for about 8 hours….
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Maybe the 90's is when they stopped checking...
 
Tangmo said:
Your posts to me are OTT self righteous.

Self appointed moralist.

Which accounts for the trumped up false claims in your posts.

I was there you were not. My statements are measured, yours are self serving generalizations that are absent the facts, the time, the place, the people; the matters. Your posts have nothing to go on except vague and unspecified accusations of wrongdoing that have no basis or application.
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All I've seen is an attempt to justify the bigotry that was boldly proclaimed.
 
Tangmo said:
Any time I hear an Australian speak in their horrendous dialect I need a translator.
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I guarantee you would not need a translator with me.
 
iguanaman said:
You still don't need one. They recommend a passport or passport card but a birth certificate will do.

Other Acceptable Documents:
For U.S. citizens entering Canada by land, a combination of a birth certificate (or other proof of U.S. citizenship) and a photo ID like a driver's license is also acceptable.

https://www.google.com/search?q=do+...CCLACAfEFZc-DAx1Y7QM&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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I would prefer a passport. My birth certificate looks like it was done by a middle schooler... Nothing official looking... a faded SEAL.
 
Bodi said:
I needed one in the 90's.
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Drove in and out of Canada from the USA in the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's without a passport. Going into Canada was just waved on in. A couple times going back to the states was asked a few very easy to answer questions.
 
JMR said:
Drove in and out of Canada from the USA in the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's without a passport. Going into Canada was just waved on in. A couple times going back to the states was asked a few very easy to answer questions.
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We had ours checked.... go figure?
 
Bodi said:
We had ours checked.... go figure?
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When we were in our late twenties my husband and I were given an incredible inspection by the US returning from Canada. They opened a box of stationery I had with me and looked at the bottom. I had a laminated article in the bottom of the box. They took that out and read it. They looked at the ashes in the ash tray of the car. Neither my husband nor I smoked, so we hadn't looked at it. They asked us if we had been smoking marijuana. We had not. But my father was a pipe smoker and he used that car. His pipe tobacco ashes were in the car's ash tray. We were respectable citizens at that point in our lives, not hippies. My husband must have been working for a bank and I was a private school teacher. This was in the late 1970's or maybe 1980.
 
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I live and work in Saudi Arabia, travel several times annually so a passport is necessary.

In fact my new passport is in the works as my previous passport has no empty visa pages even though it's only 5 years old.
 
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