hey - the only reason I moved back to the USA after a year in the UK was that my visa expired and when returning from a trip to France I was TOLD that i had better have a plane ticket in-hand for my return to USA.

so here i sit -

(although I did miss baseball)

booooooooooooo visas...

I was going to do the UK thing after college with a work visa... Decided to go with China, though... STILL, I would LOVE to spend a year in the UK.

I had a friend interning with the International Bar Association in London, and even with that on his resume, he could NOT get a job in England and had to go back to the States. :( Damn stingy UK and their VISAS.

What were you doing in the UK, Zero? That's pretty damn cool.

What do you think he did? He ate bananas and threw poo at people... god, what else do monkeys do? And people say that I'm dumb:rolleyes: :D :D :D :D

Yeh, it's annoying that people from the USA which is pretty much our sister country, get sent back and the rules are so strict, but portuguese and polish people have the rules bent and ignored a lot. Not that I don't like them, but if they're gonna slack the rules, do it for our closest relation countries like america and australia. Our government is so afraid of being called racist and being sued, they've told the police to ease up on them on things like car offences and killing swans (illegal here) and all that kind of stuff because "they don't know what they're doing".
I could rant all day about it, but I'll end on this. The governemt got so afraid in 2006 of being called racist, christmas decorations in most work places were banned, advent calenders were called christmas calenders and the shops didn't call it the christmas sales, they were the holiday sales. Yes, there is the jewish holiday (I can't for the love of me spell it) but this is a predominantly christian country, and though a significant percentage don't celebrate christmas, we wouldn't expect to go to india and have them tone down their holiday times incase it offended us (and all of my foreign friends say it doesn't offend them). Blast the government!

Oh boy... here we go.... yeah we are getting the shaft like that too, not on the whole holiday thing, but it seems to me that America is just bending us over and giving us the shaft, while all the imigrants get to come into our country, and take our money out of our country while we're having problems financially in this country, because of the oil prices, and the war in Iraq. Not to mention that alot of them get free healthcare while in the country. And then. the entire time that they are in our country, the shit on us the entire time. It drives me completely fucking nuts, like this time me and my family took in this 16 year old mexican kid, fed him, gave him enough money to where he could send money to his mom, and have enough for himself to keep himself dressed better than me, just for working with my father on the farm. Yet, everynight while we were asleep, he would sneak out, and break into peoples cars and houses and steal shit from them. Not only that, if you go to the racetrack in my area, and go into the living area for the imigrant workers to live(Yeah free place to live too) and they throw garbage all over the place, drink their asses off. Now the worst part of this is the bathrooms, if you go into the bathrooms there, your going to find that they are filthy, with USED toilet paper allover the place, not to mention that some don't even go to the bathroom IN the toilet, they go either on it or next to it. I've gone into a bathroom to take a piss one day, and found barf in both of the sinks, in the urinal, and shit on the toilets, with piles of used toilet paper next to the toilets. So I ended up pissing in a horse stall where it was cleaner. I've tried asking them why they do that, and most of the time they just say, I dunno, not me. One of the clean ones actually told me the truth, and told me that they do it on purpose because they like to see the americans clean it up. Yea, did I mention that the only ones that are hired for cleanup of the bathrooms in the living areas are americans?
This has made me hate most mexicans. Mexicans in general, not the ones I know personally. I dunno, maybe I'm racist, or maybe i'm just embittered by the things that I've seen.

Oh, you guys know about the NHS right? National health service. All the workers pay a little bit into it and then, we get operations and that whenever (as long as it's necessary,) which as far as I can tell is better than the system most of the world uses where you only pay when you need to. But even that's being ruined because, in portugal and poland and all the other places, they aren't used to being able to get a doctor's appointment free of charge, so they use it whenever they can. Even if it's nothing. They aren't used to it and they like it and don't seem to realise the affects it's having.
Say a pregnant woman comes over, has her baby in england or someone with cancer comes over for kimo (dunno if that's how it's spelt), they get it, but haven't payed into the system. Now as this happens more and more, the NHS is losing money, and we may have to change to the pay when you need system!

But we're supposed to accept every illegal that wants to sneak over our borders!

Wow, you guys ask for the trolls to come back and loooook who decides to post. Welcome back Psycom. In case you missed it, we've decided to insult eachother. :D

you tell him you stupid bitch!




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That one may have been a little much....