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Do you hold a current passport?

Do you currently hold a valid passport?

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Threegoofs said:
I guess it’s cool to stereotype the inhabitants of entire nations as long as they have funny accents?
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Your post cherry picks one line from a 3500 word essay which makes your post a disaster area. I discussed several nationalities of native speakers of English yet all you read was a single line to misjudge the whole of the work.

You can try this again later of course toward a better quality of post.
 
I am getting one. Not because I expect to visit any other countries. But I figured it would come in handy with ICE grabbing Citizens randomly.
 
Tangmo said:
Your post cherry picks one line from a 3500 word essay which makes your post a disaster area. I discussed several nationalities of native speakers of English yet all you read was a single line to misjudge the whole of the work.

You can try this again later of course toward a better quality of post.
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Uhhh, you cast generalities at Australians, Brits and Canadians, like the personal interactions you’ve had with them reflect their entire nations.

Just pointing that out.
 
tharock220 said:
Yes.

Funny story, I flew into Seattle in April of 2023 to meet two of my friends, one of whom lives there, so we could drive up to Whistler to ski. We got to the border high off our asses, but we threw the vape out, and my buddy got denied because of a drug charge he got in college.

While waiting, the customs guy was flipping through my passport and was surprised at some of the places I've been. Working for Shell has sent me to Russia(before 2022 obviously), Oman, The UAE, and Turkey, and I got questioned about it.

I'm sad that stamps are becoming less common too. I like receiving them.
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Yeah, at one point I had to go to the US Embassy in Bangkok to get pages added to my passport. It's a lousy joke ha but I'm going to say it anyway, that I had more stamps than the Manhattan post office.

The Thai immigration chief in the southern district at the Malay border wrote a whole page into my passport in English script which was impressive to do. I'd been delinquent getting stamped regularly until I got a new Thai sponsor to continue in Thailand so I'd missed some visa renewal dates -- the fatal overstay. I had to pay Baht 20,000 which at the time in 2006 was USD $660 to get a new visa, the normal fee being Baht 500.

Thai Immi could have kicked me out but my new Thai sponsor was a wealthy and powerful family with deep roots in the area and tons of clout so I came out okay. The Thais wanted me there because a Thai friend from the place and I had set up a new and small English language school in the fast developing area that needed to learn or improve on their English to get rich quick.

Plus I also taught three dayze a week at the family's big school in their just completed new building. The family owns 5 private schools in the area so they've educated generations of the elites there. A very ingrown place yes but open to globalization bucks. The tax collector hauled me in one day to pay Baht 200 for the school sign and that was it as I never saw or heard from the guy again, which is privilege indeed innit. Tax free everything that came to me without ever asking.

Right off I made Baht 20,000 a month running the school and myself teaching high schoolers at night plus adults. Very few Thais see that kind of money. I dumped my Thai partner who has excellent English but no clue as a teacher. I hired a young gal from my contact with the regional high school to teach the kiddies which was perfect. The regional hospital up the road hired me to further develop their English for their accreditation by the Canada Hospital Accrediting Association which was a total success. Indeed, people from everywhere go to Thailand for less expensive high quality medical procedures.

There was a shootout at the regional high school between two gangs on a day I was there visiting classrooms to get chatting up with the learners which I was hired to do. Float in and float out except for this grim day. The leader of one gang shot the leader of the other gang straight through his heart. The school went on lockdown and police and ambulances from all over kept pouring in and zooming out for about an hour. There was nothing anywhere on the news about it as stuff like that gets suppressed completely. Indeed, there are school shootings we never hear about in places we have no idea exist -- suppressed always and never to speak of. It was ugly and shocking indeed yet the next day it was like nothing ever happened. The volleyball nets on the washed down grass were stood up again and the playing went on.
 
Lycanthrope said:
Yes or no question. If you are not an American citizen please say so in the comments after answering.
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Not currently, as I do have a Real ID, and I have no plans of travelling abroad in the near future, I do not need one. Though early next month, any American without a real ID will need a passport even to fly domestically.
 
MAGAnificent said:
Not currently, as I do have a Real ID, and I have no plans of travelling abroad in the near future, I do not need one. Though early next month, any American without a real ID will need a passport even to fly domestically.
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I just applied for the Real ID today. Already have a passport but it doesn't hurt to have both.
 
Threegoofs said:
Uhhh, you cast generalities at Australians, Brits and Canadians, like the personal interactions you’ve had with them reflect their entire nations.

Just pointing that out.
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I said working and interacting with foreign expat nationals abroad -- specifically. Which makes your posts off center. Yous posts are not threading the eye of any needle.

Right off almost all the Australians stereotyped we Americans as every bad notion and prejudice they have concocted of America and Americans. And believe me all but a few Australians I had the misfortune of interacting with hated America and Americans. And they loved hating us -- it was their vocation. None of 'em were interested in we Americans at the school as individuals or as anything but The Ugly and Ignorant American these Aussies needed to create. This is stereotyping the individual people you are with.

Your critique and criticism of my post is overdone carping and is overplayed. I posted specifically about foreign expat nationals I interacted with. Your overdone posts however are your own concoction as if you were one of 'em at the school where I worked. The wrong national in this beef is the American. You take their side indeed.
 
Lycanthrope said:
I just applied for the Real ID today. Already have a passport but it doesn't hurt to have both.
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I have had a real ID for about 8 years, before the rush. If I suddenly have a desire to visit Australia or New Zealand, I will get a passport. Have not travelled abroad since Europe in the 1970s.
 
Tangmo said:
I said working and interacting with foreign expat nationals abroad -- specifically. Which makes your posts off center. Yous posts are not threading the eye of any needle.

Right off almost all the Australians stereotyped we Americans as every bad notion and prejudice they have concocted of America and Americans. And believe me all but a few Australians I had the misfortune of interacting with hated America and Americans. And they loved hating us -- it was their vocation. None of 'em were interested in we Americans at the school as individuals or as anything but The Ugly and Ignorant American these Aussies needed to create. This is stereotyping the individual people you are with.

Your critique and criticism of my post is overdone carping and is overplayed. I posted specifically about foreign expat nationals I interacted with. Your overdone posts however are your own concoction as if you were one of 'em at the school where I worked. The wrong national in this beef is the American. You take their side indeed.
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I’m just saying- I know plenty of great Australians, Canadians, and Englishmen. And Americans. Have worked with them all, some very closely.

A few not so great ones too.

But stereotyping the entire nation is just a bit bizarre to me, as is not visiting a country because you didn’t like a couple guys from there.
 
Threegoofs said:
Uhhh, you cast generalities at Australians, Brits and Canadians, like the personal interactions you’ve had with them reflect their entire nations.

Just pointing that out.
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Indeed he did. It isn't like it's particularly rare in politics though. Doesn't have to be limited to nations either. Any group will do.
 
Threegoofs said:
I’m just saying- I know plenty of great Australians, Canadians, and Englishmen. And Americans. Have worked with them all, some very closely.

A few not so great ones too.

But stereotyping the entire nation is just a bit bizarre to me, as is not visiting a country because you didn’t like a couple guys from there.
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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.
 
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.

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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Then who wrote this: 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.
 
RF667799 said:
Then who wrote this: 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.
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Pssst....if you look he said "a FEW of the Australians were total asshats" NOT that all Australians are asshats.

What's so difficult about reading a post?
 
JMR said:
Pssst....if you look he said "a FEW of the Australians were total asshats" NOT that all Australians are asshats.

What's so difficult about reading a post?
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Actually, he said "all but a few".

Which is something entirely different. Thanks for bringing your unique reading skills to our attention though.
 
RF667799 said:
Then who wrote this: 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.
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Referencing Aussie expat teachers at the bilingual school in Bangkok. Three thousand miles from Australia.

I said I didn't want to visit their country, Australia.

You people are groping and nothing but. You people are being picayune with your own purpose unrelated to anything I said which is measured. Your posts in particular that are barging in do not play well with words and text.
 
JMR said:
I think that depends on how long it has been expired. Just a heads up, you can't travel on a passport that is close to expiration.
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Yeah, three of the four Euro nations we were recently in made a point of telling us to confirm that before we got on the plane. Within six months of expiration was their line, I think?
 
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Tangmo said:
Referencing Aussie expat teachers at the bilingual school in Bangkok. Three thousand miles from Australia.

I said I didn't want to visit their country, Australia.

You people are groping and nothing but. You people are being picayune with your own purpose unrelated to anything I said which is measured. Your posts in particular that are barging in do not play well with words and text.
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Yes. You directly blame the Australians you worked with for not wanting to visit Australia. You literally said so.
 
RF667799 said:
Yes. You directly blame the Australians you worked with for not wanting to visit Australia. You literally said so.
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Don't bother your playful self to call me any more -- I'll call you.

Because I'm sure we can leave it as it is.

Put this one on the shelf, yes. Right next to the Holier Than Thou inactive box.
 
Tangmo said:
Don't bother your playful self to call me any more -- I'll call you.

Because I'm sure we can leave it as it is.

Put this one on the shelf, yes. Right next to the Holier Than Thou inactive box.
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Yes, we'll leave it as you making a broad generalization amounting to classic bigotry, and having it proven.
 
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