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Post by musik on Sept 1, 2019 12:32:00 GMT
So that UK passport allowed you to come in to the USA, but not to buy alcohol there? š¤ I have a question: It's about the common question "Business or pleasure?" I didn't go this year, but possibly next year. And I plan to visit a conference where I hopefully can collect information and knowledge, and then be able to transform that knowledge into products and earnings through inspiration. That's the whole point with arranged conference. But I won't plan to work IN the USA. :Is this business or pleasure? Do I need work permit? And if they ask me to work, and I do even if I had no intentions of doing so when I got there - how fast can I get a work permission, or can I work for a week without it? The work I talk about here is performing songs. It was an isolated alcohol refusal , again in Texas! Your question is, I suggest, one for the US embassy where you live, but sounds like pleasure would cover conference attendance? And I guess by "work" or "business", they only mean "paid work". The Embassy. Thanks! That's where I'll go.š
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Post by followyoudown on Sept 1, 2019 21:46:47 GMT
Why did you go if England hadnāt qualified. Loving theādidnāt want to suffer English hooligansā line on their soil, whilst they sponsored the IRA through Noraid so we had to suffer terrorism on our soil. Iām not surprised about their bonkers & ignorant comments. The Yanks have done more than most to fetishise humanity & thats bound to Ā£@#& up the software. āWill not computeā We were going there that summer anyway had been planned a year or so before. A very entertaining trip but a lot of very odd world views on display. I was refused alcohol in a shop as my UK passport was deemed not acceptable ID as ābut itās not an American drivers licenseā . Ā I could doubtless have purchased an assault rifle from the lady though lol The yanks are a funny lot me and my brother were carded in Chicago after being there for 4 days considering we were both in late 30s / 40s we had no passports or anything with us but luckily enough we had our true supporter id cards which were good enough
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 15, 2022 7:32:24 GMT
Another shooting this time (I say this time but it usually is) by a right wing maniac with easy access to guns and who is racist.
Their gun laws are a joke.
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Post by flea79 on May 18, 2022 8:18:59 GMT
Another shooting this time (I say this time but it usually is) by a right wing maniac with easy access to guns and who is racist. Their gun laws are a joke. nope its not the laws it the mentality of the use, canada has more lax gun laws and a considerable amount more fire arms but has a fraction of the gun related incidents of the USA, there was a lady in the Louis Theroux documentary in a ghetto in Michigan who bathed with her shotgun next too her and had no issues explaining she fired it at the slightest provocation
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on May 18, 2022 11:45:23 GMT
Another shooting this time (I say this time but it usually is) by a right wing maniac with easy access to guns and who is racist. Their gun laws are a joke. I imagine having to respond to this kind of thing in the States is basically Presidential 101. Sound appalled, say it should never happen again, thoughts and prayers...blah blah blah...don't know why they don't sign off with a cheery "see you at the next one", or "this Presidential sorrow was protected by Colt, when only an assault rifle will do..."
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Post by thehartshillbadger on May 18, 2022 17:36:12 GMT
Another shooting this time (I say this time but it usually is) by a right wing maniac with easy access to guns and who is racist. Their gun laws are a joke. I think youāll find there is a far higher representation of black on black shooting homicides in America that never get reported by MSM as itās an all day every day occurrence in most states.
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Post by thevoid on May 18, 2022 17:51:16 GMT
Another shooting this time (I say this time but it usually is) by a right wing maniac with easy access to guns and who is racist. Their gun laws are a joke. At least these instances are rightfully classed as what they are: race hate crimes, rather than being brushed under the carpet as 'someone with mental issues'
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Post by Seymour Beaver on May 18, 2022 18:07:25 GMT
Another shooting this time (I say this time but it usually is) by a right wing maniac with easy access to guns and who is racist. Their gun laws are a joke. I think youāll find there is a far higher representation of black on black shooting homicides in America that never get reported by MSM as itās an all day every day occurrence in most states. If you dig down into the details of the 17,000 murders in the USA in 2020 you'll find that just under 10,000 of the victims were black while just over 7,000 were white. White on White murder rates are similar to Black on Black at around 90%. So the idea that murder in the US is a 'black' problem (which I know is not what you said) is incorrect. Whilst only accounting for a small proportion of all murders mass shootings seem to be on the increase - a staggering 198 in the US so far this year - many of which are racially motivated and perpetrated by white men.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on May 18, 2022 18:16:24 GMT
I think youāll find there is a far higher representation of black on black shooting homicides in America that never get reported by MSM as itās an all day every day occurrence in most states. If you dig down into the details of the 17,000 murders in the USA in 2020 you'll find that just under 10,000 of the victims were black while just over 7,000 were white. White on White murder rates are similar to Black on Black at around 90%. So the idea that murder in the US is a 'black' problem (which I know is not what you said) is incorrect. Whilst only accounting for a small proportion of all murders mass shootings seem to be on the increase - a staggering 198 in the US so far this year - many of which are racially motivated and perpetrated by white men. You donāt need to dig down very far to find that the proportion of black on black shootings is by far the highest when comparing percentages of the population. Itās a fact and gets very little mainstream coverage because all the media is bothered about is a white man shooting a black man. Because for some reason they like to stir racial tensions still. Of course this right wing maniac and many others like him are sub human scum but letās not kid ourselves that this is as big an issue than all the gangland shite that goes on daily without reporting. I was also talking specifically about gun related crime not all murders
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Post by Seymour Beaver on May 18, 2022 18:48:06 GMT
If you dig down into the details of the 17,000 murders in the USA in 2020 you'll find that just under 10,000 of the victims were black while just over 7,000 were white. White on White murder rates are similar to Black on Black at around 90%. So the idea that murder in the US is a 'black' problem (which I know is not what you said) is incorrect. Whilst only accounting for a small proportion of all murders mass shootings seem to be on the increase - a staggering 198 in the US so far this year - many of which are racially motivated and perpetrated by white men. You donāt need to dig down very far to find that the proportion of black on black shootings is by far the highest when comparing percentages of the population. Itās a fact and gets very little mainstream coverage because all the media is bothered about is a white man shooting a black man. Because for some reason they like to stir racial tensions still. Of course this right wing maniac and many others like him are sub human scum but letās not kid ourselves that this is as big an issue than all the gangland shite that goes on daily without reporting. I was also talking specifically about gun related crime not all murders Interesting isn't it? The eagerness to categorise violence by race. On the other hand black, white, brown or yellow - the overwhelming majority of murders are committed by men - about 93% in fact. But then toxic masculinity isn't much covered by the MSM either - because it's largely what gets them out of bed in the morning.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on May 18, 2022 18:50:04 GMT
You donāt need to dig down very far to find that the proportion of black on black shootings is by far the highest when comparing percentages of the population. Itās a fact and gets very little mainstream coverage because all the media is bothered about is a white man shooting a black man. Because for some reason they like to stir racial tensions still. Of course this right wing maniac and many others like him are sub human scum but letās not kid ourselves that this is as big an issue than all the gangland shite that goes on daily without reporting. I was also talking specifically about gun related crime not all murders Interesting isn't it? The eagerness to categorise violence by race. On the other hand black, white, brown or yellow - the overwhelming majority of murders are committed by men - about 93% in fact. But then toxic masculinity isn't much covered by the MSM either - because it's largely what gets them out of bed in the morning. Indeed. I was actually surprised about the amount of women involved in āmurdersā in the US. Not so much shooting mind, which is what this thread is about of course
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Post by elystokie on May 18, 2022 20:15:38 GMT
I think youāll find there is a far higher representation of black on black shooting homicides in America that never get reported by MSM as itās an all day every day occurrence in most states. If you dig down into the details of the 17,000 murders in the USA in 2020 you'll find that just under 10,000 of the victims were black while just over 7,000 were white. White on White murder rates are similar to Black on Black at around 90%. So the idea that murder in the US is a 'black' problem (which I know is not what you said) is incorrect. Whilst only accounting for a small proportion of all murders mass shootings seem to be on the increase - a staggering 198 in the US so far this year - many of which are racially motivated and perpetrated by white men. I recently read a book called Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari, it's largely about the drug war/s and addiction, fascinating book, highly recommended. Anyroad, here's a passage which might go some way to explaining why there's so many shootings (with the possible exception of the mass shootings) - "Professor Jeffrey Miron of Harvard University has shown that the murder rate has dramatically increased twice in U.S. historyāand both times were during periods when prohibition was dramatically stepped up. The first is from 1920 to 1933, when alcohol was criminalized. The second is from 1970 to 1990, when the prohibition of drugs was dramatically escalated." I think that was just the extent of the research, I don't imagine, sadly, that deaths have fallen since 1990 if anything they seem to be on the increase
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Post by flea79 on May 19, 2022 10:23:01 GMT
i saw the video last night from the guy who livestreamed his massacre too the internet
seriously sickening, targeting non whites only, at one point in the video he apologies to a white worker whom he nearly shoots
its scarily fast how quick it happened
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 24, 2022 20:47:25 GMT
Totally normal country where they donāt have issues with their gun laws.
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Post by lordb on May 24, 2022 21:35:21 GMT
Totally normal country where they donāt have issues with their gun laws. Jesus
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 24, 2022 21:41:37 GMT
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Post by Kilo on May 24, 2022 22:05:10 GMT
Just the 215th such shooting so far this year in America. Makes the hysteria over partygate and beergate somewhat silly.
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Post by ashleyscfc on May 24, 2022 22:07:09 GMT
Yeah thank fuck we have gun controls and thank fuck unlike the yanks we are letting ex ISIS members return to the UK and get council housing and help to get work. So soon we will all be getting blown to fuck if not run over by some deranged bastard living in a council house working in the CO-OP The world is truly a fucking disaster and someone needs to destroy the fucking place, bring on South Korea. Good the futures bleak but I dont care I have single malt whisky and cuban cigars fuck em. And we have Stoke City FC so all is good but just keep an eye on the bastard in the co-op living in Shelton North Korea?ā¦ Fuck me
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 24, 2022 22:15:44 GMT
Just the 215th such shooting so far this year in America. Makes the hysteria over partygate and beergate somewhat silly. Not really. The people who set the laws then breaking them is a big issue.
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Post by Kilo on May 24, 2022 22:21:40 GMT
Just the 215th such shooting so far this year in America. Makes the hysteria over partygate and beergate somewhat silly. Not really. The people who set the laws then breaking them is a big issue. It really isn't when comparing it to 215 people going into schools and murdering numerous children in the last FIVE months.
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 24, 2022 22:24:33 GMT
Not really. The people who set the laws then breaking them is a big issue. It really isn't when comparing it to 215 people going into schools and murdering numerous children in the last FIVE months. Itās a daft comparison for one. This is horrible. Partygate should lead to the PM resigning. Both are big news stories.
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Post by flea79 on May 24, 2022 23:10:06 GMT
Just caught up on this latest one and itās truly horrific
These were not even teenage kids they were between 7 and 11.
America truly is a haemorrhoid on this earth sometimes and needs sorting out
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Post by shakermaker on May 24, 2022 23:53:39 GMT
Equally as incomprehensible is that it's a kid who committed this act of lunacy - only 18-years old. Teenage years are often a see-saw of emotions and uncertainty, sometimes troubled by loneliness and isolation. In those times, teenagers just want to be noticed... and often for the wrong reasons. That's why it's so dangerous for a troubled kid that age to have a gun. I can't believe he woke up one morning and thought "I'm gonna execute a load of kiddies today".
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Post by prestwichpotter on May 25, 2022 0:29:53 GMT
Iām staring to think āthoughts and prayersā arenāt the solution to this epidemic.
Truly horrificā¦ā¦
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Post by turtlefox on May 25, 2022 1:17:07 GMT
How ironic is it that American gun law was introduced to stop an American government from being tyrannical but when shooters feel that it has become tyrannical in their head, they kill each other instead. Confused in a country where they are told it's the greatest in the world. You'd think that if they were pissed off with how life was heading, they'd shoot their own politicians, not their own people. I know these shooters have lost the plot but with the 2nd amendment on their side, your lawyer might stand more of a chance. Makes you think that the 2nd amendment means jack shit if you are too frightened of your own government to do what they told you was right in the first place and instead go after people with no blame.
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Post by heworksardtho on May 25, 2022 4:20:32 GMT
19 kids and two teachers how totally tragic
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Post by deeside2 on May 25, 2022 4:32:15 GMT
SNAFU - to use the U.S. military acronym.
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Post by franklin on May 25, 2022 5:15:02 GMT
19 kids and two teachers how totally tragic Absolutely horrific š¢
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Post by superjw on May 25, 2022 6:10:39 GMT
When will they ever learn. America really needs to sort themselves out, they are a truly lost nation
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on May 25, 2022 6:35:09 GMT
Iām staring to think āthoughts and prayersā arenāt the solution to this epidemic. Truly horrificā¦ā¦ That's as far as it ever gets though. "There have already been 27 school shootings this year alone. Young school children routinely rehearse what to do if a gunman enters their classroom". Where the threat of someone shooting you in school is so real you practice what to do like it was a fire drill. Crazy. But they'll just move on to the next one like they always do and little if anything will change.
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