06-22-2013, 03:41 PM
I think Carl's dream is to be English because he's embarrassed to be American.
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06-22-2013, 03:41 PM
I think Carl's dream is to be English because he's embarrassed to be American.
06-22-2013, 04:19 PM
(06-22-2013, 08:32 AM)debbie Wrote: Immagration to Britain: I think it's easier to get in with a student visa that with a work visa. They are making it downright impossible for our country to get a work visa there. Y u hate SA, Britian? y?I think the UK (like Germany and several other EU countries) is tightening up immigration policy. Now if only the US could do the same. I wholeheartedly embrace legal immigration -- illegal, not so much.
06-22-2013, 07:16 PM
06-22-2013, 08:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-22-2013, 08:33 PM by carlcockatoo.)
07-03-2013, 05:54 PM
07-20-2013, 06:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-20-2013, 06:37 AM by carlcockatoo.)
^@Phils: We discussed that in the community thread so I didn't technically not respond to that. :p
Anyway: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23382880 I am not looking forward to hearing my parents response to this tomorrow. :/ I'm a bit surprised he would say anything like that since I've kind of seen the president as 'playing things safe'.
07-20-2013, 01:22 PM
Obama's always been one of those guys who supported guys like Trayvon. I think the guy was a bit of a thug, but he didn't deserve to die either, I'm sure.
07-20-2013, 02:00 PM
My view of the whole Trayvon thing is that both sides acted very poorly, though he obviously didn't deserve to die or anything. I think the whole race thing has been blown so far out of proportion.
I said this on UG but I'll say it again here. Zimmerman was really paranoid. He called the police all the time for the stupidest shit. I think he would have followed Martin had he been black, white, brown, or whatever. Martin was walking along through people's yards at night in the rain in an area that had had robberies recently. He wasn't doing anything wrong, but it probably looked very suspicious to Zimmerman. I would be shocked if Zimmerman didn't follow the kid no matter what race he was. As for the verdict. I kind of agree with it. There just wasn't enough evidence that Zimmerman didn't act in self-defence. I would rather a guilty man go free than an innocent man go to jail. I also don't like how this is being compared to the OJ trial. OJ brutally murdered two people. Like, he didn't just shoot them. He pretty much fucking decapitated his ex-wife ffs. Zimmerman was supposedly getting his head pounded into the concrete when he shot Martin. OJ got off for bullshit reasons and was said to have not killed someone. Zimmerman got off on more flimsy laws than anything, and we all know he killed someone. It's just the circumstances around that that are the fuzzy part. The two are apples to oranges as far as I'm concerned.
07-21-2013, 04:19 AM
I pretty much agree with everything you said, Phils. Stop saying so much shit I agree with...
07-21-2013, 04:23 AM
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