March 9, 201214 yr Why not build a new Panama Canal between the two - enormously expensive, but effective. (Do the same between Thailand and Malaysia, too)
March 10, 201214 yr I don't know, how many U.S. citizens are trying to enter Mexico Illegally? keep your eye on that in the coming years
March 10, 201214 yr Why not build a new Panama Canal between the two - enormously expensive, but effective. (Do the same between Thailand and Malaysia, too) Well the term wetbacks has its origins in swimming across ya know So effective? not so much PS: When I saw the title of the thread I thought Israel 1st choice
March 10, 201214 yr Why not build a new Panama Canal between the two - enormously expensive, but effective. (Do the same between Thailand and Malaysia, too) Well the term wetbacks has its origins in swimming across ya know So effective? not so much PS: When I saw the title of the thread I thought Israel 1st choice You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
March 10, 201214 yr You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you. Well that is the claim that makes a paranoid....paranoid isn't it
March 10, 201214 yr Which is which, Ian? Best reply so far! I think that's Lok Ma Chau, Hong Kong, on the left, and Lo Wu, Guangdong, on the right. SC
March 10, 201214 yr Which is which, Ian? Best reply so far! I think that's Lok Ma Chau, Hong Kong, on the left, and Lo Wu, Guangdong, on the right. SC Wow really? I thought it might be the Great Wall of China.
March 10, 201214 yr Author It's almost that bad as a single male Canadian citizen trying to get back into Canada after 6 months in Thailand. But, I was just having a bit of fun at the expense of theblethering Yanks.
March 10, 201214 yr Which is which, Ian? Best reply so far! I think that's Lok Ma Chau, Hong Kong, on the left, and Lo Wu, Guangdong, on the right. SC I know Lok Ma Chau pretty well, and it's not that bad (yes, I mean bad). When I saw the pics, I guessed that the left one was US, and the right was Mexico. I thought that anybody with their senses would prefer to live in the moderately green land on the left rather than the urban nightmare on the right. It's not about being paranoid... simply about having your wits about you. But then Americans are paranoid about almost everything, aren't they?
March 10, 201214 yr Which is which, Ian? Best reply so far! I think that's Lok Ma Chau, Hong Kong, on the left, and Lo Wu, Guangdong, on the right. SC I know Lok Ma Chau pretty well, and it's not that bad (yes, I mean bad). When I saw the pics, I guessed that the left one was US, and the right was Mexico. I thought that anybody with their senses would prefer to live in the moderately green land on the left rather than the urban nightmare on the right. It's not about being paranoid... simply about having your wits about you. But then Americans are paranoid about almost everything, aren't they? My point was that Lok Ma Chau and the Northern New Territories are pretty quaint and rural, unlike the thriving metropolis over the border. The glossy books on HK don't show the villages of Kam Tin, or the mountains of Lantau, or the wetlands until past the centrefold. It used to be (caution - invented factoid approaching) that for every person working for a HK company in HK, there were five in Shenzhen - for all I know that could be true... When I went to Mexico, I sneaked across the border under cover of a British passport at Cuidad Juarez, and came back somewhere much further East - I forget where... I sometimes wonder to what extent immigration rules are there for the benefit of the corrupt at the expense of the poor, with the bigots and prejudiced as unwitting accomplices blissfully unaware of the consequences for themselves of the lack of free movement of goods and people. I have a story, which I am not particularly minded to tell at the moment, that ties this story to the one on capital punishment (strictly, deterrence) though you may search for an earlier thread on deterrence... probably easiest to find by searching on Strangelove. My apologies for blundering bletheringly on to a byeway, by the way SC
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