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I have a 2.2 air rifle and my pickup is 17 years old 😂
A .22 would be considered normal in the UK … a 2.2 maybe a tad excessive unless rewilding has really taken off in Great Bentley and you have woolly mammoths roaming around …
A .22 would be considered normal in the UK … a 2.2 maybe a tad excessive unless rewilding has really taken off in Great Bentley and you have woolly mammoths roaming around …
I went out on my bike this morning and didn’t see any Mammoths roaming the plains of Benters 😂
They always have been a country where you need to be very careful about having the right paperwork but there are some very disturbing specific cases coming to light.
They always have been a country where you need to be very careful about having the right paperwork but there are some very disturbing specific cases coming to light.
As a mini-counterweight to all that, my late Dad was born in the USA (but family then moved back to Europe) so I was offered US citizenship, first & last chance, when applying for holiday visa in the 1980s. Declined (because needing ongoing #NHS treatment) - bloody glad for other reasons now that I turned it down!
Interesting visit inside US Embassy though, had to swear & sign affadavit in front of official & Stars n Stripes. Was more usual at the time for mere plebs to be protesting outside it.
As a mini-counterweight to all that, my late Dad was born in the USA (but family then moved back to Europe) so I was offered US citizenship, first & last chance, when applying for holiday visa in the 1980s. Declined (because needing ongoing #NHS treatment) - bloody glad for other reasons now that I turned it down!
Interesting visit inside US Embassy though, had to swear & sign affadavit in front of official & Stars n Stripes. Was more usual at the time for mere plebs to be protesting outside it.
Presumably you could have gone for joint citizenship?
Presumably you could have gone for joint citizenship?
I don't remember being offered that, would probably have taken it if it was (was what my late Dad had).
However, I do remember that a straight 'no' meant my holiday visa would be given immediately, whereas anything else meant the process would be complicated, with possible delays. As we hadn't expected any such issues, we hadn't allowed extra time for the visa applications, & the trip was time sensitive - a friend's wedding in Albuqerque - so it's possible I might have just decided to forget it, can't recall.
Presumably you could have gone for joint citizenship?
That's how I obtained 'dual' citizenship with my father being in the US air force Bentwaters and me being born in the UK. No visas ever needed for either country, just flash the passports.
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Visiting America on 01:27 - Mar 31 with 1634 views
That's how I obtained 'dual' citizenship with my father being in the US air force Bentwaters and me being born in the UK. No visas ever needed for either country, just flash the passports.
Would have been good to have had time to look into it and consider all possible options. As it was, was simply told to go to the Embassy asap, there was a problem with my visa application (but not with my husband’s). They didn’t even hint at what the issue was, and it came as a shock. No internet back then of course, zero experience on the matter or time to research it/seek advice.
Remember now being told that if I wanted to accept citizenship (I suppose whether exclusive or joint) the delay could be several weeks. That was time we didn’t have - weren’t going to miss trip of a lifetime, friend’s wedding and staying 2 weeks with his soon to be in-laws at their New Mexico pad in the hills!
The trip did turn out to be wonderful; also included things like trail riding, Grand Canyon, Great Divide (developed a lasting love for Peterbilt trucks!); followed by a week scuba diving in Cozumel; and never had the wherewithal to return, so I suppose the decision turned out to be the right one anyway.
Would have been good to have had time to look into it and consider all possible options. As it was, was simply told to go to the Embassy asap, there was a problem with my visa application (but not with my husband’s). They didn’t even hint at what the issue was, and it came as a shock. No internet back then of course, zero experience on the matter or time to research it/seek advice.
Remember now being told that if I wanted to accept citizenship (I suppose whether exclusive or joint) the delay could be several weeks. That was time we didn’t have - weren’t going to miss trip of a lifetime, friend’s wedding and staying 2 weeks with his soon to be in-laws at their New Mexico pad in the hills!
The trip did turn out to be wonderful; also included things like trail riding, Grand Canyon, Great Divide (developed a lasting love for Peterbilt trucks!); followed by a week scuba diving in Cozumel; and never had the wherewithal to return, so I suppose the decision turned out to be the right one anyway.
I was born in Canada to British parents and left when I was one, sixty odd years ago.
Checking the Canadian government website, I am still almost certainly a Canadian citizen but I never got round to applying for a passport.
Early on in my life, my mother was concerned it might affect my application for a passport as a British citizen, which I didn't get until I was 18. My mother was alert to this sort of thing, including the importance of getting a British passport, unlike many of the Windrush generation.
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Visiting America on 17:31 - Mar 31 with 1312 views
I was born in Canada to British parents and left when I was one, sixty odd years ago.
Checking the Canadian government website, I am still almost certainly a Canadian citizen but I never got round to applying for a passport.
Early on in my life, my mother was concerned it might affect my application for a passport as a British citizen, which I didn't get until I was 18. My mother was alert to this sort of thing, including the importance of getting a British passport, unlike many of the Windrush generation.
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You’ll always be foreign to me. You’d be on a one way ticket to El Salvador if I was Emperor. 😃
I presume you could apply for a Canadian passport if you wished to. Duel nationality could be useful after America invades.
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Visiting America on 17:55 - Mar 31 with 1286 views
You’ll always be foreign to me. You’d be on a one way ticket to El Salvador if I was Emperor. 😃
I presume you could apply for a Canadian passport if you wished to. Duel nationality could be useful after America invades.
I'm almost tempted to in order to show solidarity, but sadly it confers no additional rights to a British passport when it comes to the EU.
I did come across this though on the Canadian government website.
"Canadian visitors can usually stay in the United States for 6 months without a visa. You must declare your intended duration of stay upon entry into the United States.
In most circumstances, Canadian citizens don’t require visitor, business, transit or other visas to enter the United States from Canada but there are some exceptions."
But with Trump on the rampage, it might be a bit risky to rely on a Canadian passport.
Interestingly, the rules have changed in the UK, and you are not automatically a British citizen if you were born in the UK on or after 1 January 1983.
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Visiting America on 18:27 - Mar 31 with 1251 views
I posed the question in a post "where does it stop?", but I hadn't realised what Trump has already done in relation to the Kennedy Center, of which he has made himself chair.
Here is a couple of snippets.
"At the beginning of February, US President Donald Trump announced plans to gut the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, including its chairman David Rubenstein, and installed himself as chairman.
The Kennedy Center’s board of trustees had historically spanned the political spectrum, but Trump removed 18 board members and replaced them with political allies such as Susie Wiles, his chief-of-staff, the Vice President’s wife, Usha Vance, and Fox News presenters Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.
“We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!”
"President Donald Trump offered the board of the Kennedy Center his suggestions for artists to celebrate at its annual Honors ceremony and even offered to host the star-studded event himself.
'I don't want to, but I want this thing to be successful,' he told the board, according to a recording obtained by the Washington Post.
The Honors is the Kennedy Center's biggest event of the year and a massive fundraiser for the arts center. The ceremony, attended by both Republicans and Democrats, pays homage to leaders in the arts.
Trump had his own list of suggestions for who should be honored this year, including Paul Anka, Sylvester Stallone, Johnny Mathis and Andrea Bocelli. All of them supported his presidential campaign.
He also complained about the past honorees, which include Bono, Billy Crystal, Tina Turner, Lin Manuel-Miranda, Johnny Carson, Tom Hanks, and Gloria Estefan.
'In the past, I mean, these are radical left lunatics that have been chosen. I didn't like it. I couldn't watch it. And the host was always terrible,' Trump said."
It will be interesting to see if anyone tries to justify this.
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I have it on good authority that Trump's choice for the next honoree is the legendary Jayne County.
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Visiting America on 18:35 - Mar 31 with 1228 views
I was born in Canada to British parents and left when I was one, sixty odd years ago.
Checking the Canadian government website, I am still almost certainly a Canadian citizen but I never got round to applying for a passport.
Early on in my life, my mother was concerned it might affect my application for a passport as a British citizen, which I didn't get until I was 18. My mother was alert to this sort of thing, including the importance of getting a British passport, unlike many of the Windrush generation.
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It is quite possible that although Ryorry chose the option of a visa on that occasion, the option of joint citizenship could remain open. I am no expert but it sounds like those presenting the options at the time weren't offering full disclosure.
It is quite possible that although Ryorry chose the option of a visa on that occasion, the option of joint citizenship could remain open. I am no expert but it sounds like those presenting the options at the time weren't offering full disclosure.
Interesting thought, never occurred to me to challenge it later but it did seem harsh at the time that it was only presented as a v. short notice 'take it now or forgo it forever' chance. They had full info about the hol being based around a one-off event with an unchangeable date, & you'd have thought they could have granted a short-term temporary visa & allowed me to pursue the nationality thing on return. Even if only on pragmatic grounds - at the time I was a mid-30s professional working in public services, so might have been useful to them.
Anyway I obvs wouldn't want to go now, & they certainly wouldn't have me if they managed to link my X account to me! filled as it is with regular postings of #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice & similarly accurate posts about Fusk (who I've blocked since he bought the platform).
Interesting thought, never occurred to me to challenge it later but it did seem harsh at the time that it was only presented as a v. short notice 'take it now or forgo it forever' chance. They had full info about the hol being based around a one-off event with an unchangeable date, & you'd have thought they could have granted a short-term temporary visa & allowed me to pursue the nationality thing on return. Even if only on pragmatic grounds - at the time I was a mid-30s professional working in public services, so might have been useful to them.
Anyway I obvs wouldn't want to go now, & they certainly wouldn't have me if they managed to link my X account to me! filled as it is with regular postings of #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice & similarly accurate posts about Fusk (who I've blocked since he bought the platform).
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As you say, it is academic now but if you were eligible then, and the law hasn't changed, I assume you would be eligible now.
I was born in Canada to British parents and left when I was one, sixty odd years ago.
Checking the Canadian government website, I am still almost certainly a Canadian citizen but I never got round to applying for a passport.
Early on in my life, my mother was concerned it might affect my application for a passport as a British citizen, which I didn't get until I was 18. My mother was alert to this sort of thing, including the importance of getting a British passport, unlike many of the Windrush generation.
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Digging a bit further it appears my children are also Canadian citizens, which given that Canada has a youth exchange scheme with, say, France similar to the one the UK governments have rejected, this would be one way for them getting round the post-Brexit restrictions.
And a thought has struck me that with a Canadian passport, I could using each passport alternatively to have consecutive 90 days visits to the EU interrupted by a one or two day return visit to the UK. Probably against the rules but with entry and exit stamps in different passports, and different passport numbers etc, whether anyone would find out, who knows?
Interesting thought, never occurred to me to challenge it later but it did seem harsh at the time that it was only presented as a v. short notice 'take it now or forgo it forever' chance. They had full info about the hol being based around a one-off event with an unchangeable date, & you'd have thought they could have granted a short-term temporary visa & allowed me to pursue the nationality thing on return. Even if only on pragmatic grounds - at the time I was a mid-30s professional working in public services, so might have been useful to them.
Anyway I obvs wouldn't want to go now, & they certainly wouldn't have me if they managed to link my X account to me! filled as it is with regular postings of #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice & similarly accurate posts about Fusk (who I've blocked since he bought the platform).
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It's also worth knowing that US passport holders have an obligation to file taxes every year in the USA.
It can take years, but they do track people down eventually.
For my own part, the idea of governments trying to control what cultural institutions do seems completely at variance with cultural freedom. Indeed, it has shades of what the Nazis did to the Bauhaus movement.
And the problem is, where does it stop?
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We've had the 'Woke Left' and now we have the 'Woke Right', who will be exactly the same and totally hypocritical but from the opposite view point
We've had the 'Woke Left' and now we have the 'Woke Right', who will be exactly the same and totally hypocritical but from the opposite view point
So in answer to your Q, it doesn't stop
Think the idea of the 'Woke Right' is a bit of an oxymoron, particularly if we're talking about the MAGA style right. The definition of woke is "alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination". That does not remotely describe Trump or the MAGA movement, what Trump is doing is force-feeding America a massive great sleeping pill. It's the opposite of being woke.
Think the idea of the 'Woke Right' is a bit of an oxymoron, particularly if we're talking about the MAGA style right. The definition of woke is "alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination". That does not remotely describe Trump or the MAGA movement, what Trump is doing is force-feeding America a massive great sleeping pill. It's the opposite of being woke.
But the term has moved on from that in reality, and most people would understand what the term means in this instance.
Sadly, there will be no higher ground taken, it is a chance to rub opponents faces in the dirt and it will be taken to the better of absolutely no one
But the term has moved on from that in reality, and most people would understand what the term means in this instance.
Sadly, there will be no higher ground taken, it is a chance to rub opponents faces in the dirt and it will be taken to the better of absolutely no one
So what does the term mean now? Because to me that's still exactly what woke means and it makes no sense to apply it to Trump and MAGA. What they are doing is just outright old fashioned authoritarianism.
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