Fifty countries issue travel warnings

[Donnie Brasco]

I must be dumb...OK OK..I don't catch on to the Julie Andrews bit. I lived in Canada once, ghastly place. As for Switzerland, who the hell would want to go there.

I think that France has a bloody cheek. Being concerned over their people. A few years back, when there was a load of trouble in Bkk, I read that the Aus Embassy and others were asking their people to register etc. So I did with the French Embassy, well I tried ....didn't even know what I was talking about. Embassies are useless, unless of course you are a hostage in international news and they get a bit of publicite out of it.

Canada . . . . world's second largest country, five time zones, Toronto and Vancouver consistently voted among the most liveable cities on the planet.

You must have been doing Canada on the cheap, hostels, soup kitchens and bus stations.

Realistically, other impression could you have come away with ;-?

Does Thailand get the same slagging when your down for your evening pint

at your local, then ?

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[slipperylobster]

I must be dumb...OK OK..I don't catch on to the Julie Andrews bit. I lived in Canada once, ghastly place. As for Switzerland, who the hell would want to go there.

I think that France has a bloody cheek. Being concerned over their people. A few years back, when there was a load of trouble in Bkk, I read that the Aus Embassy and others were asking their people to register etc. So I did with the French Embassy, well I tried ....didn't even know what I was talking about. Embassies are useless, unless of course you are a hostage in international news and they get a bit of publicite out of it.

Canada . . . . world's second largest country, five time zones, Toronto and Vancouver consistently voted among the most liveable cities on the planet.

You must have been doing Canada on the cheap, hostels, soup kitchens and bus stations.

Realistically, other impression could you have come away with ;-?

Does Thailand get the same slagging when your down for your evening pint

at your local, then ?

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Canada may be large, but if you chip away the snow and ice, remove the polar bears and hockey pucks, they are no bigger than Belgium. Only redeeming fact is, that Canadian Beer still reigns supreme.

[Donnie Brasco]

I must be dumb...OK OK..I don't catch on to the Julie Andrews bit. I lived in Canada once, ghastly place. As for Switzerland, who the hell would want to go there.

I think that France has a bloody cheek. Being concerned over their people. A few years back, when there was a load of trouble in Bkk, I read that the Aus Embassy and others were asking their people to register etc. So I did with the French Embassy, well I tried ....didn't even know what I was talking about. Embassies are useless, unless of course you are a hostage in international news and they get a bit of publicite out of it.

Canada . . . . world's second largest country, five time zones, Toronto and Vancouver consistently voted among the most liveable cities on the planet.

You must have been doing Canada on the cheap, hostels, soup kitchens and bus stations.

Realistically, other impression could you have come away with ;-?

Does Thailand get the same slagging when your down for your evening pint

at your local, then ?

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Canada may be large, but if you chip away the snow and ice, remove the polar bears and hockey pucks, they are no bigger than Belgium. Only redeeming fact is, that Canadian Beer still reigns supreme.

I do remember the PEI lobster-burgers and those wild Gaspasienne girls, the Native girl in Thunder Bay and some clubs in Toronto. Massively and delightfully unlike Amerikans. Educated and polite for the most part. Niagara wines as drinkable as anything in upstate New York.

Phonetically neutral English. A sprinkling of immigrants from just about every country. Met a former Pathet Lao guy with two kids in professional schools.

A little chilly in the mornings if you're sleeping rough, though.

Maple syrup flavoured mouthwash was a shock, though.

"Sometimes, 'fuggedabowdit' just means fuggedabowdit. . . . "

[slipperylobster]

I must be dumb...OK OK..I don't catch on to the Julie Andrews bit. I lived in Canada once, ghastly place. As for Switzerland, who the hell would want to go there.

I think that France has a bloody cheek. Being concerned over their people. A few years back, when there was a load of trouble in Bkk, I read that the Aus Embassy and others were asking their people to register etc. So I did with the French Embassy, well I tried ....didn't even know what I was talking about. Embassies are useless, unless of course you are a hostage in international news and they get a bit of publicite out of it.

Canada . . . . world's second largest country, five time zones, Toronto and Vancouver consistently voted among the most liveable cities on the planet.

You must have been doing Canada on the cheap, hostels, soup kitchens and bus stations.

Realistically, other impression could you have come away with ;-?

Does Thailand get the same slagging when your down for your evening pint

at your local, then ?

Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Canada may be large, but if you chip away the snow and ice, remove the polar bears and hockey pucks, they are no bigger than Belgium. Only redeeming fact is, that Canadian Beer still reigns supreme.

I do remember the PEI lobster-burgers and those wild Gaspasienne girls, the Native girl in Thunder Bay and some clubs in Toronto. Massively and delightfully unlike Amerikans. Educated and polite for the most part. Niagara wines as drinkable as anything in upstate New York.

Phonetically neutral English. A sprinkling of immigrants from just about every country. Met a former Pathet Lao guy with two kids in professional schools.

A little chilly in the mornings if you're sleeping rough, though.

Maple syrup flavoured mouthwash was a shock, though.

"Sometimes, 'fuggedabowdit' just means fuggedabowdit. . . . "

Haha....My ancestorys Acadia....(nowadays Nova Scotia, thanks to those silly Brits). Got expulsed and moved down to Quebec. Grandparents left the good life in Les Trois Rivieres for the Economically advantageous Upstate New York area about 1860. First Ancestors arrived 1666 in Acadia on the ship called the 3 Sisters.

You, my friend, are preaching to the Choir.....

Edited May 13, 2014 by slipperylobster

[kaveh]

is that " 11 April 2014 " or 11 May?!

[Gillyflower]

No Donnie Brasco dear, I lived in a very nice apartment on Sherbrooke West and worked for Air Liquide in Montreal. The only time I saw the bus station was when I was taking a bus out to visit my friends. I arrived in Canada from London not having any idea of what a Canadian winter was like. The snow of which I had seen very little in my life (in fact the first time I saw snow I was 21 years old - I was in a London supermarket and I didn't even know what it was) started very soon after. It went on for months and months. And all that ice, the dirty piled up snow on the streets and I could never get warm. My winter English overcoat wasn't warm enough, my beautiful English winter boots were ruined with all that salt they put down. I spent the summer in Montreal VERY hot and down in New Brunswick where I lived on the farm of very wealthy people. Lovely Canadians took me to P.E. Island (paid for everything) because I was a great fan of L.M. Montgomery. One of the world's most famous writer of children's books. Lived in Toronto in the home of a former Australian school mate. We both went to the same chic school. So don't patronise me!!!!! What a pity we aren't allowed to use naughty words on TV.

But that snow turned me off forever. My step-daughter lives in Quebec and wants me to visit. Yuk. I get a "rente" from Quebec on which I pay Provincial and Fed taxes. I just don't like Canada.

As for 'slagging' Thailand (what a strange word). When I spend my 4-5 months in CM every year, I very rarely have anything much to say about the country - good or bad. My only friends are people who like me spend many months there every year, or who live there all year round. I know and am aware of what a lot of posters say about Thailand, but if it doesn't affect me personally...................

[bina]

Just got a travel warning not to visit syria. Like duh? Other than that I live in a country that always has travel advisories issued for it...

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[Scarpolo]

I must be dumb...OK OK..I don't catch on to the Julie Andrews bit. I lived in Canada once, ghastly place. As for Switzerland, who the hell would want to go there.

I think that France has a bloody cheek. Being concerned over their people. A few years back, when there was a load of trouble in Bkk, I read that the Aus Embassy and others were asking their people to register etc. So I did with the French Embassy, well I tried ....didn't even know what I was talking about. Embassies are useless, unless of course you are a hostage in international news and they get a bit of publicite out of it.

Canada . . . . world's second largest country, five time zones, Toronto and Vancouver consistently voted among the most liveable cities on the planet.

You must have been doing Canada on the cheap, hostels, soup kitchens and bus stations.

Realistically, other impression could you have come away with ;-?

Does Thailand get the same slagging when your down for your evening pint

at your local, then ?

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Toronto seems to attract some VERY pretty women

[Donnie Brasco]

Just got a travel warning not to visit syria. Like duh? Other than that I live in a country that always has travel advisories issued for it...

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Could it be because the resident non-Semitic Khazar converts need desperately to posture as victims during their disgusting extermination program on the indigenous Semitic population ?

Just askin'.

(Don't bother . . . . Everyone knows. . . . . . . Everyone ;-)

"Sometimes, 'fuggedabowdit' just means fuggedabowdit. . . . "

[Publicus]

Wondering what foreign governments will say about martial law if it comes about.

In Thailand most fahlang figure martial law would settle the place down, bring some calm and perhaps a surface peace. Most fahlang know the military has the legal authority to itself impose martial law and would impose it while the present government remains in place, sans any coup.

Foreigners abroad however hear "martial law" and they figure if they come here they're going to get shot by some soldiers from across the street. Get run over by a column of tanks while crossing the road. Have to "produce your papers" anywhere and everywhere they go. Restricted movements and all of that, being stopped, searched, redirected, even questioned etc.

September 19, 2006 when the coup was reported on the news we were visiting in Phnom Penh, enjoying dinner at an excellent restaurant in the foreigner's quarter on the Mekong. The restaurant suddenly went quite abuzz. Many foreigners immediately cancelled their plans to travel on to Thailand. Martial law, my god.

We advised them it was Thai martial law, that people (back then) were putting flowers into tank barrels. But no matter. To the foreigners in the restaurant and throughout Phnom Penh martial law was exceedingly bad news. (Of course the days of Thais putting flowers into the barrels of tanks during a coup are forever gone.) Only a few such as ourselves knew otherwise.

So I wonder how foreign governments will react to martial law if it happens, and how the Thai government and travel agencies globally might sell this one, the tropical paradise under the barrage of M79 rifle propelled grenades, the raging lunatic Suthep carrying on and martial law. Sounds to me like a very tuff sell.

Edited May 17, 2014 by Publicus

[Mackie]

...So I wonder how the government and the travel agencies globally might sell this one, the tropical paradise under the barrage of M79 rocket propelled grenades, the raging lunatic Suthep carrying on and martial law. Sounds to me like a very tuff sell.

That's is definitely misleading advert. You should've said...the tropical paradise under the barrage of M79 rocket propelled grenades launched by 'friendly' UDD/red mob democracy lovers, the guru Jatuporn initiating you and opening new horizons for you and martial law which will make your holiday unforgettable. Lifetime experience.

[Publicus]

...So I wonder how the government and the travel agencies globally might sell this one, the tropical paradise under the barrage of M79 rocket propelled grenades, the raging lunatic Suthep carrying on and martial law. Sounds to me like a very tuff sell.

That's is definitely misleading advert. You should've said...the tropical paradise under the barrage of M79 rocket propelled grenades launched by 'friendly' UDD/red mob democracy lovers, the guru Jatuporn initiating you and opening new horizons for you and martial law which will make your holiday unforgettable. Lifetime experience.

I'm not a rapid response propagandist or an extension of either side. I don't immediately and always jump on all other posts in the interest of swiftly controlling the narrative in favor of one side only.

Because I'm not in any way vested in this conflict, I let a lot of propaganda posts pass without my comment because I know they're BS and that other posters / readers recognize them as such.

Your fleet fingered response this time bears a reply if only to point out the contorted agenda of the PDRC voices and their immediate and flash response posts to any and every post they don't like. Your post has the same knee-jerk and overdone talking points I've read repeatedly ad infinitum the past several months.

I've said for a couple of months you guys need new lines.

[55Jay]

Moreso that, with a minimum fact checking effort, the OP article was sussed out as misleading at best, inaccurate in the strictest sense; at least as far as the USA but I think others pointed out similar discrepancies with other countries. Many don't let that get in the way though.