Visa Waiver - KweschunFollow

Furriners need a Visa to enter the USA of Americaland.

Unless, of course, they're from a 'friendly' country like the UK, in which case we have a 'Visa Waiver' allowing us to fill in a form and be waved on through (OK, since 9/11 I have to have a fingerprint scan and photo on entry).

Now, understandably, the US Homeland Security guys are questioning this, since it's now clear that terrorists can easily be born-and-raised Brits, Germans etc.
We had English boys blowing up London on 7/7/5 and just convicted 5 more of trying the same thing on 21/7/5. Madrid had the same back in March a year or 2 before. So we accept that not all of what Prez Bush appears to call 'tourists' are from "Brownskinistan".


So there are options under discussion.

1 - Pfft. Fingers crossed. We'll be fine.
2 - Scrap the Visa Waiver scheme
3 - Introduce 'profiling' and make brown/muslim/odd people apply for visas

Now I know the NYT has suggested, that Washington are proposing option 3, but in fairness, a Whitehouse spokesman told the BBC that this is a BullShit story.

Anyhoo



Edited, May 2nd 2007 7:04pm by Nobby

As of January I have to have a passport to visit Cancun in November (3 bobdamn months to renew my passport is stupid) so your furrin *** can get a damn Visa.

Ahem.

All of the convicted London Bombers would be allowed into USA under that reasoning.

If MI5 (Our James Bod chaps) hadn't swtiched the terrorists' fertiliser with cat litter (nice move), we'd have had thousands dead on 21/07/05.

I say we all have to apply for visas

I am not applying for more ****, the damn passport was enough of a hassle!

I say keep it as I don't wanna have to apply for a visa yet I'm lazy... I'll just get a damn green card if/when me and the gf get married.

I'd say the weirdest thing was adding the tax on at the end of a sale, I mean what the bloody hell? If a price tag says $10 I wanna pay $10 not $10.64280967589 or whatever it was...


Oh and the guy at the cinema not understanding the words "How much is the Doctor Pepper" I mean christ it's not like I asked him "How much is the Physicians Spice" I just wanted a damn drink.

Oh Oh and the 21 being the drinking age thing is pretty stupid aswell....

NYC Was pretty weird. I had some lady ask me if she could have 25 cents. She just looked like some lady who might have needed change for a phone or a bus or something, so I gave her the change, and she gave me this little scrap of paper telling me it was her story of how she took down some government officials from power or something. A truly strange experience.


Then when I was deciding a watch to buy from one of the $5 'designer' watch stands that are on the corner of every street almost, they were in a neat little box and half of them had a nice little plaque type price saying $250. I said to the guy "Are these really all $5?"

To which he replied, and I kid you not, "***** please, would I lie to you?"

I almost burst out laughing and thought to myself. After saying that line to me, I can't not buy a watch.

Edited, May 3rd 2007 7:51am by remorajunbao

Yep. Crazy, paranoid, but friendly. Sounds like us, all right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Brown_%28novelist%29

He was pretty spry for an old guy, eh?