Shits you learn for £12.99

[Guest]

They know I hate it, which is one of the reasons they do it, some logic dictating that when you act annoyed at something people do, it becomes funnier the more they do it.
- Chairman Mao

My pussy hair doesnt respond well 2 getting wet, and it doesnt seem 2 enjoy becoming 2 dry either. Its like a fragile hanging garden that I constantly have 2 tend 2 prevent it from wilting or dying.
- Paris Hilton

It turns out that being frightened is all in the mind.
- OhMsLameDuck

You can justify doing the strangiest things on the basis that they may 'generate ideas'.
- Joseph Stalin

You think 'if you built it, he will come', but no: he won't, because he's going to chill out in Costa del Crime, in Spain.
- Little Prince cum King of New York

 

[Guest]

Oh, OK. If that's the attitude, I won't be reading any more shit I paid £12.99 for (hum. Toilet paper, I think).

I've got a Christopher Fowler shorts for 50p, Irvine Welsh's Porno for £2.49, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow for 70p, And an anthology Fetish for £1.99.

Plus, I'm yet to read 'Main Event' part of Martin Amis' biography (which will be a cracking read on the Spanish beach).

 

[Guest]

So, can you name the shits that cost you $12.99?

Oh, forget it. Ready, steady, cook is on.

 

[Guest]

Does anyone know if I need my passport for the Channel Tunnel crossing?

 

[Guest]

Isn't the Channel 5 News weather girl, Lara lovely?

 

[Guest]

Fifth post. No reply.

I win.

 

[Guest]

I'm not fucking picking a goat.

Now, share your porn.

 

[Guest]

So, ch6 done. So far so good.

One thing bugs me though. Which is correct?

Pris's apple
or
Pris' apple

I was taught the latter was the correct usage (a pan on my Yanky-English education).

Oh, I don't do phones. The last time I did, I ran into a difficulty (thus, my Spanish holiday).

 

[Guest]

Daily bandwith limit?

Them ISPs. Fucken corporate monopoly.

 

[lookingfor_ruth]

Seppuku

.....

 

[oggbashan]

Does anyone know if I need my passport for the Channel Tunnel crossing?

Yes you do, and perhaps a visa if you are a US citizen.

At present, and at the time you asked the question, that is the only border in the EU that requires a passport - BUT if you don't have a EU identity card you will need to carry your passport at all times and be prepared to produce it.

It seems that in the next few months (2011) you might need a passport to get into France from Italy.

Sorry that this answer is six years late.

Og

 

[Stella_Omega]

Well, it answers my question, asked now-- If I'd thought to ask it. So, thanks, Og.

 

[oggbashan]

Well, it answers my question, asked now-- If I'd thought to ask it. So, thanks, Og.

That's OK.

Last month I crossed by ferry to France, producing my passport in Dover because French border control is based there, drove off the ferry onto the Autoroute through Northern France into Belgium. The only sign was just that - a sign saying that I had entered Belgium as I passed at 80 mph.

After crossing Belgium I entered The Netherlands - another sign passed at 80 mph.

On the return journey I stopped at the last village in Belgium, Adinkerke, which specialises in selling cigarettes and tobacco to Brits because it is cheaper in Belgium than in France, and much cheaper than in the UK, crossed the border into France on a minor road (at 40 mph this time), and continued to the port of Calais. There I produced my passport to the British immigration officials and drove on to the ferry.

Once the ferry had docked in Dover, I drove out of the port and back home. I had shown my passport twice in ten days. If I hadn't crossed the Channel I wouldn't have had to show my passport at all.

Og

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I can drive 3,000 miles across the US and don't have to show a passport at all. Of course since 911 I now have to show a passport when I re-enter the US from Canada or Mexico, but I don't plan on going to either country.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

In 2000 we went to Europe and I tried to get my passport stamped in each country. It was damned hard! The office in Liechtenstein acted like they thought there was something wrong with me for doing it.

 

[lisa123414]

I can drive 3,000 miles across the US and don't have to show a passport at all. Of course since 911 I now have to show a passport when I re-enter the US from Canada or Mexico, but I don't plan on going to either country.

you should go to Canada - its pretty, or if you are closer, then Mexico, just because

 

[lisa123414]

In 2000 we went to Europe and I tried to get my passport stamped in each country. It was damned hard! The office in Liechtenstein acted like they thought there was something wrong with me for doing it.

yep, the passport "aint what it used to be"

 

[oggbashan]

In 2000 we went to Europe and I tried to get my passport stamped in each country. It was damned hard! The office in Liechtenstein acted like they thought there was something wrong with me for doing it.

In my father's last ten years of work (aged 70 to 80) he had to have his passport replaced three times because he ran out of spaces for immigration stamps and visas. The communist bloc were the worst. Their visas could cover two or more pages.

Now? I'm on my third ten year passport with no stamps in any of them.

Og

 

[voluptuary_manque]

LOL! Post 9/11 Jim and I were coming back from Canada, passports in hand of course, and the INS guy really gave us the fishy stare. For some reason he was really suspicious of two middled-aged sports with visas from two different African countries. The Canadians didn't blink an eye.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

In 2000 we went to Europe and I tried to get my passport stamped in each country. It was damned hard! The office in Liechtenstein acted like they thought there was something wrong with me for doing it.

My passport had/has six stamps in it. Two are re-entry to the US, the other are the UK, Hong Kong and China. The only times as a civilian I left the confines of the lower 48.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

you should go to Canada - its pretty, or if you are closer, then Mexico, just because

When I lived in Chicago I was never tempted to wander up Canada way. And now that I live in Houston, what with the drug wars going on in Ole Mexico, no thank you.

A for you my dear.

 

[oggbashan]

LOL! Post 9/11 Jim and I were coming back from Canada, passports in hand of course, and the INS guy really gave us the fishy stare. For some reason he was really suspicious of two middled-aged sports with visas from two different African countries. The Canadians didn't blink an eye.

One of my uncles was doing consultancy work around the Mediterrean. He worked in Greece (then under the Colonels), Cyprus, Egypt, Oman, Yemen and Israel. He had to go to British Embassies to get a fresh passport as he couldn't enter Israel with some of the stamps in his passport.

Og

 

[sr71plt]

One of my uncles was doing consultancy work around the Mediterrean. He worked in Greece (then under the Colonels), Cyprus, Egypt, Oman, Yemen and Israel. He had to go to British Embassies to get a fresh passport as he couldn't enter Israel with some of the stamps in his passport.

Og

When I worked in the Middle East, I had to have three passports for the same reason. One for Israel only; one for Turkey and the Turkish side of Cyprus only; one for the rest. And that meant that when I went to Israel, I had to leave from and return to Cyprus (where I lived) to complete a loop that didn't raise suspicions (although the Israeli authorities always asked me about going to other countries anyway). The divided Cyprus didn't really cause a passport problem for me, though. Once there, I had embassy credentials. The Greeks couldn't deny me access to the Turkish side because their line was that all of Cyprus was theirs and the Turks were so happy that the embassy maintained offices and houses on their side of the border that they didn't make a fuss that I'd come from the Greek side either. Only one crossing point, however--in the middle of Nicosia.

 

[lisa123414]

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[Zeb_Carter]

When I was 18 and living in Detroit we used to drive to Windsor on occasion and bring back cases of Molson because the drinking age was 18 in Canada and 21 in the US. I suppose we must have been stopped both coming and going but we didn’t need anything more than a driver’s license.

We once went over to bar hop – just ‘cause we could. Bad idea, it turns out the bars close to the bridge are mostly frequented by the merchant marine. Little bit too rough of a crowd for us. So we got back in the car, headed for the Ambassador Bridge and drove north, back into Detroit.

Don’t tell my mom this but I once hitch-hiked from Windsor to Montreal and back. Wanted to visit a friend and did not have the money for transportation. Times have changed, and I suppose I have too. I was naïve enough to believe that nothing bad would happen and fortunately I was right, or lucky, or both.

I would not have done any of it had I needed a passport.

Ah, you just might have. You never know who lurks here at Lit.

Just think back...how long ago was it that you did all this? I remember my childhood...Mom pushed us out the door at the crack of dawn and told us not to come home until it was dark. (not really...but we really never had to check in except at lunch and dinner)

Times in tight knit neighborhoods were gentler back then. I never heard about child abduction until I was in my teens. Even my children were allowed to roam the neighborhood without too many restrictions...of course living on a military base...well you see my point.

Now my grandchildren...when they were young, toddlers on up till they were in their teens were always under the watchful eye of mom, dad or grandma.