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Awesome! This has been a contenious debate between myself and my father over the last few days. He likes to bitch and say I don't follow the rules.
My rebuttal is, exactly which set of rules should I be following here? There seems to be lots of different sets of rules out there, all depending on who you are, what your occupation is, who your friends and family are, how much money you have, what country you were born in, what your skin color is, and so on.
Not to mention, the rules are constantly changing. So which set of rules exactly am I supposed to abide by?
I'm getting treated like some hardened criminal who can't even be trusted with a spoon on an airplane, yet I turn on the news and Trump is still in the Whitehouse. Something doesn't add up here.
SG sadly it might be your role to be the ugly one in a friendship... Providing a valuable service by making everyone else look better.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King?
In the land of the hideous the plain man is a Lothario?
Hmmm...I guess I do not have a career as a writer.
No, I'm still pretty adamant this is bullshit.
1.) If this was 2015, none of this would have been an issue, and I'd currently be sitting at my new house in Vientiane with my husband and dogs.
2.) My punishment is being unable to enter Thailand until April 2023. Got it, fully accepting of it. Killing my dogs, and dedtroying the lives and futures of both myself and Leo seems a little harsh on the punishment side.
3.) My first husband overstayed his Canadian visitor VISA by 5 years, and the only thing the government did to him was give him permanent residency status to Canada.
4.) I now find myself fucking around with immigration lawyers in Vancouver to try and convince the Canadian government to simply process a passport application. According to the government this is a huge ask I guess, because my passport has more than 12 months validity on it.
The 5 year blacklisting is punishment enough, and is actually quite harsh compared to international norms. That's why the customs officer in Vancouver was quite confident I must be lieing and must have committed a criminal offense in Thailand, because a 5 year blacklisting for overstay seemed abnormally harsh to him.
and now, in addition,you remind us that:
"3.) My first husband overstayed his Canadian visitor VISA by 5 years, and the only thing the government did to him was give him permanent residency status to Canada."
Obviously overstayed with your knowledge.
You know what, I wanted to stay in Thailand only an extra 30 days last month and went through all the hassle of a border run. Just to get a fucking rubber stamp. A day out of my life, notwithstanding the expense.
Its criminals, like you, taking advantage, that piss me off.
I can't see how a Canadian overstayng his visa in a nondescript eastern Thai city can piss anyone off.
It didn't. People aren't stupid, so quite obviously everyone in my area knew I wasn't there legally. Nobody cared though, because they knew I was a good guy, and the only thing they cared about was that I spent money at their shops / stalls.
The police didn't even care, especially the ones in Nong Khai as they were great.
The person who does care though is that dickhead xeneophobic general who decided to seize power in a military coup in May 2014 because he thought he'd like to be prime minister, and has since refused to hold elections. It's his government that implemented these blacklisting laws in 2016.
Even so, that's now all over and no longer matters. Now everything hinges on some retarded regulation that Canada won't process a passport application if your existing passport has more than 12 months of validity. I'm totally bewildered by this.
Call me crazy, but that fucken regulation doesn't seem like a very good reason to let my dogs die, and destroy mine and Leo's lives and futures.
I wasn't talking to you Matt as I have no interest in your life, real or imagined. I was wondering why Gerefan2 was so pissed off about something that doesn't affect him at all.
"4.) I now find myself fucking around with immigration lawyers in Vancouver to try and convince the Canadian government to simply process a passport application. According to the government this is a huge ask I guess, because my passport has more than 12 months validity on it."
Sorry, I must have missed something. Why do you need to renew your passport so early? The twelve month rule exists precisely because your government needs to hear a convincing answer to that.
Just in case you think that a fresh passport might get you back into Thailand, you've got some research to do. Two minutes spent on ThaiVisa.com will convince you that you'd be going from the frying pan to the fire.
I have that 5 year blacklist in my passport, plus my previous and new passports are now glued together, which looks really bad. It looks far worse than it actually is, but nonetheless, I can't travel on that passport, hence why I need a new one.
I have absolutely no desire to return to Thailand. I know I can't return until April 2023, and that's fine with me. I also know it probably wouldn't even matter if I changed my legal name, and got a new passport. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm suspecting the Thailand immigration IT department is smart enough than upon arriving, anyone with the same nationality and birth date as your passport states who is blacklisted is automatically displayed on the immigration officer's computer with photo. Either that, or simple facial recognition technology does the job, hence why you get your photo taken every time you cross the border.
Regardless, I don't want to enter Thailand again. I want to go to Laos and get my family back together.
This is apparently a large ask to get the Canadian government to simply process a new passport application. Can't just go to the passport office and explain my situation, because the 23 year old girl at the desk just brushes me off, says she can't help, and I get pushed aside because there's 40 other people in queue. So fine.... I'll put together an extra 0.5 inches thick of documentation, hire an immigration lawyer, fly to Vancouver, and visit the passport office in person with the lawyer. That's the best I can currently think of.
Thank fuck I don't happen to have brown skin, and my name isn't Mohammed, or shit could really be bad.
Well I'd like to think I wouldn't have got myself into your situation Matt - but if I had, I'd just have said I'd lost my passport and the authorities (I assume) would be obliged to provide a new one unless they can demonstrate good reason to deny your request.
I think that by applying for a replacement while admitting you still have an existing one with 12 months validity on it, you've given them a stick to beat you with. They're asking themselves "Who does that, and why?"
Losing a passport is a big no-no. Damaging a passport isn't much better.
If I showed up with a lost passport, an investigation would be opened which could take months before they decide whether or not to go ahead and process my new passport application. I could have showed up with a damaged passport, but a little late now. I could be wrong, but am assuming they logged my previous visit, hence it'd look a tad suspicious. Not to mention, I don't exactly feel like getting charged with damaging the property of the federal government, which is what happens if they suspect you intentionally damaged your passport.
On top of that, I knew this regulation existed for the simplified rule process, but didn't think it existed for new passport applications which I have to use, as I'm not allowed to submit a renewal as that passport is limited validity for 2 years.
Doesn't matter, couple more days and I'll be in Vancouver to sort all this out. This will be fun. First time I've travelled alone blind like this.
Smiles, Surfcrest, you boys out there? You in Vancouver? I'll buy you dinner or give you some money if you let me borrow your eyes for a bit. heh, good times...
Because people deliberately overstaying, trying to deceive authorities, condoning others to overstay (husband) etc. etc., lead the authorities to introduce more burdensome rules that the rest of us (behaving properly) have to comply with.
A very simple example for you. If I had overstayed for 30 days instead of doing a border run I would, in the past, have been fined a minimal amount (or nothing) on departure. Not any more...these persistent over stayers have forced the Thai Authorities to introduce the current large fines.
Sorry, I have no interest in talking to someone who speaks/writes like a 5-year old.
(To Wit: " ... losing a passport is a big no-no ... ").
Nor one who acts like a 5-yr old:
(To Wit: " ... Thank fuck I don't happen to have brown skin, and my name isn't Mohammed, or shit could really be bad ... ")
I'm in the Okanagan now. Hopefully you are not.
So I assume a blowjob is out of the question?
Well, from the sounds of things my parents have a pretty powerful vacuum cleaner. Would that work?
Or we could always just take you down to the local SPCA, lay you down, spread peanut butter on your nut sack, open the cages, and see what happens. I will happily arrange that for you if you'd like.
I had a very handsome crew member in young twenties working on my boat in Phuket. All the female shopkeepers were absolutely in love with him. He was straight by the way. Taking him to a shop, just one time, forever slowed me down in the future. Whenever I returned to the shop all the women would look at me and ask "Where baby?"
I gather these women didn't know the word son, so they just said "Where baby?" and I knew exactly what they wanted to know. "Baby married?"
Actually that is cute, but not as cute as one time a tiny child in the farmer's market looked up at me and realized I didn't speak Thai. The child said what was obviously the only English word she knew. Mommy?
Be careful when masturbating with vacuum cleaners. There is a thesis in medicine "Penis injuries from masturbation with vacuum cleaners" (my translation) that even has it's own wikipedia page Penisverletzungen bei Masturbation mit Staubsaugern (in German, as is the thesis).
Thanks Christian.
Of course I can't read any of it but I notice that the only picture is of an upright vacuum cleaner from perhaps the 1920's.
With all due respect, I'd suggest that shoving one's todger in an upright vacuum cleaner is indeed likely to lead to injury and that Hoover's advertising jingle from the 60's "It beats as is sweeps as it cleans" should tell any potential vacuum cleaner masturbator all they need to know in order to avoid those particular models.
Furthermore, shoving your aforementioned todger into a 90yo is also not recommended.
My vacuum cleaner of choice (for getting sucked off) was a 1960's Hoover Constellation (see below). I did have a friend though who (on my advice) tried to do the same. Unfortunately he stuck the hose into the "exhaust" outlet instead of the "suck" outlet and was picking dust out of his jap's eye for a week.
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It's hard to believe but the topics on this board keep getting just stranger and stranger it seems ! :)
Good - that's exactly what Christian and I are aiming for.
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You're in Van right now? Great, will send a PM.
Don't worry, don't need assistance this time. Last time would have been helpful, but this time will most likely have my mom with me, as I don't think she's going to let me travel alone again, as it had her pretty worried.
In that case, how about you and your husband joining us for dinner and Yuk Yuk's? That's always good for a night out.
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My address book is in my phone. I can never remember where my paper address book is. When I lose my phone, I simply call myself and head off in the direction of the ring tone. I can't do that with my paper address book...but I know sooner or later, I'll find it...before I lose it again.
Surfcrest