The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVII

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well it's the only window in the house. I looked it up on Google and I might try putting those peel-on holiday decoration things on the window.

Edit: Did I say house? I meant room. Dang....

 

[Quackers]

Does anybody have any good podcasts to recommend? I'm interested in soccer, videogames, history and UK politics. I'm open to suggestions outside of my interests (basic lad model 1.1 here). Nothing too taxing on the noggin. I want an easy listen.

 

[Samson]

Does anybody have any good podcasts to recommend? I'm interested in soccer, videogames, history and UK politics. I'm open to suggestions outside of my interests (basic lad model 1.1 here). Nothing too taxing on the noggin. I want an easy listen.

I am not sure what your threashold for "taxing on the noggin", but the History Of Rome is pretty easy listening, but not fast. He has also done a norman one, but I have not listened to it.

 

[Quackers]

I am a British citizen. How easy is it to live and work in the USA permanently? I don't have any exceptional skills, I don't think I have any family (might check for some lost Irish-American relatives though).
What are my chances?

I am not sure what your threashold for "taxing on the noggin", but the History Of Rome is pretty easy listening, but not fast. He has also done a norman one, but I have not listened to it.

I listened to the first few podcasts, I quite like it. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[sophie]

Does anybody have any good podcasts to recommend? I'm interested in soccer, videogames, history and UK politics. I'm open to suggestions outside of my interests (basic lad model 1.1 here). Nothing too taxing on the noggin. I want an easy listen.

Nerdist is really entertaining. That's what I listen to at work.

 

[Hygro]

I am a British citizen. How easy is it to live and work in the USA permanently? I don't have any exceptional skills, I don't think I have any family (might check for some lost Irish-American relatives though).
What are my chances?

Yeaaaah we gonna kick it. (You like, "slow down mang!"). So, visas from the UK can't be too hard, and you might not need one for an easy holiday. But to stay, I would recommend grad school (which can mean anything) or get married to an American stat. A lot of foreigners do that. My Dutch tutor did that. I shoulda swooped Naw I'm playing but it crossed me mind 'cause. If you think you're a swell guy for the right gal but your time is limited, you gotta get the impersonal stuff out the way. That means first, dress to her scene, get sexy to her scene (gym and/or not gym, read up on your propaganda/literature etc). Honestly it's a win-win process anyway.

 

[bhsup]

Alternatively, fly into Juarez, Mexico and cross illegally into Texas. That pretty much gives you enough protections under the Obama's administration that you'll never have to worry about leaving.

 

[Quackers]

Yeaaaah we gonna kick it. (You like, "slow down mang!"). So, visas from the UK can't be too hard, and you might not need one for an easy holiday. But to stay, I would recommend grad school (which can mean anything) or get married to an American stat. A lot of foreigners do that. My Dutch tutor did that. I shoulda swooped Naw I'm playing but it crossed me mind 'cause. If you think you're a swell guy for the right gal but your time is limited, you gotta get the impersonal stuff out the way. That means first, dress to her scene, get sexy to her scene (gym and/or not gym, read up on your propaganda/literature etc). Honestly it's a win-win process anyway.

Don't think i qualify under anything here.
Post-graduate in the US must be very expensive too.

I need to find the Quacker's destiny out West.

Alternatively, fly into Juarez, Mexico and cross illegally into Texas. That pretty much gives you enough protections under the Obama's administration that you'll never have to worry about leaving.

It is a failing when the US government has a tacit acceptance of immigration from Mexico whilst expecting the highest standards from people of the British Isles. A typical moral inversion of our times.

 

[sophie]

I am a British citizen. How easy is it to live and work in the USA permanently? I don't have any exceptional skills, I don't think I have any family (might check for some lost Irish-American relatives though).
What are my chances?

It can actually be really, really difficult. Your best bet is to get a job over here where your employer will sponsor your visa. Otherwise you're in for a long, drawn out, and rather expensive ride. Getting a Green Card apparently is even more difficult.

 

[Mise]

I had a green card when I was a child but it's no doubt expired/no longer valid since I don't live there. It cost my parents about £7,000 in total per person, plus a bunch of flights and things. I'm sure it's more expensive now.

 

[Traitorfish]

It is a failing when the US government has a tacit acceptance of immigration from Mexico whilst expecting the highest standards from people of the British Isles. A typical moral inversion of our times.

Should we generously assume that you mean to write "unlwaful immigration from Mexico"?

 

[Borachio]

It cost my parents about £7,000 in total per person, plus a bunch of flights and things. I'm sure it's more expensive now.

Wow! > £7000!

I guess the US can manage very nicely without me, then.

 

[Arakhor]

Would it be unfair to comment on the apparent fact that anti-immigration Quackers is himself looking to immigrate?

 

[Borachio]

Seems perfectly consistent to me.

The most vociferous anti-immigrationists seem to be the latest arrivals. So, to keep nouveau-arrivistes at the cutting edge they have to keep emigrating.

Still, maybe my cynicism is showing.

 

[Mise]

It depends whether he bothers to learn the language or not.

 

[Farm Boy]

Wow! > £7000!

I guess the US can manage very nicely without me, then.

Only if you want to get a job legally while you're here. I think the US Federal Government still plays nicely and easily with the British Isles for visits. Northern Illinois is still missing that semi-automatic propeller beanie.

Post-graduate in the US must be very expensive too.

Sure can be. Can definitely pay off though if you want to rock the tenure track at a US educational institution where positive diversity seeking will help advantage you over cornfed white folks born and raised domestically. Not as much as say an English-fluent Phd-conferred Palestinian woman, but an advantage nonetheless.

 

[GinandTonic]

Alternatively, fly into Juarez, Mexico and cross illegally into Texas. That pretty much gives you enough protections under the Obama's administration that you'll never have to worry about leaving.

A mate of mine was touring the US and by the time he had made it down the east coast and across the south his visa was running out. When he had left it had been fine to cross into Mexico for a visit and re-enter to get one extra month - to potter up the west coast. Seems things had changed while he was there and the border guards wouldn't let him back in with only a day or whatever left on his visa.

So with all his worldly goods in a short stay carpark by the border it was impossible for him to leave via Mexico and nor would the border guards get his stuff from the car, even if they or the gov could have the car, gratis, in return. So because of the tightening up of the border he and his missus were forced to pay a bunch of nutters to run the border, in the middle of the night. Since the actual running of the border seemed less of a worry than lesser laws the driver stopped and demanded everyone empty any open bottles of tequila and any drugs into themselves before crossing. So completely off their faces they sped across the desert in the night. They got their stuff from the car but since it had been in a short stay car park they had to abandon the car.

At lax they were given a stern talking to for overstaying by a week. So the unintended consequence of tightening the border was to make more money for the border runners. The unintended consequence of open-bottle laws was that everyone involved was hammered, the unintended consequence of the war on drugs was that everyone was out of their gourd.

The guy died of a drugs overdose a couple of years later, so his is probably not a story to emulate. Pitty, one of the cleverest people I ever knew.

 

[Farm Boy]

That sounds about normal for government work.

 

[Takhisis]

Alternatively, fly into Juarez, Mexico and cross illegally into Texas. That pretty much gives you enough protections under the Obama's administration that you'll never have to worry about leaving.

The danger of somehow being found by a bald, mustachioed man who pretends to be a badass and insists on cooking meth appears to be very real.

It depends whether he bothers to learn the language or not.

He'd better do it quickly before the 'Mericans start making immigrints sit for language tests.

 

[Bugfatty300]

It is a failing when the US government has a tacit acceptance of immigration from Mexico whilst expecting the highest standards from people of the British Isles. A typical moral inversion of our times.

Mexicans do not receive any special treatment. Tons of people fly over from Europe on tourist visas and never leave. The catch is that you'll be deported almost immediately if caught because the authorities will have your visa records with your fingerprints and photos.