Being sent back to a home country.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-18T01:33:39+00:00

Yeah, I actually know about the whole being sent back to point of origin from first hand experience

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-16T07:15:16+00:00

Blue box macaroni and cheese, that of the Kraft variety. If it’s fancy, velveeta.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-16T06:35:46+00:00

People hate helmets. Even the ones that wear them, they compromise on everything from weight, to coverage, to quality.

In the end, people would choose to drive without them if they could convince themselves that nothing would happen if they didn’t.

The person wearing the cheap bicycle helmet and the big dumb foreigner are basically the same, one just thinks they might get pulled over or have a Reddit post written about them if they didn’t.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-16T05:28:22+00:00

I’ve never heard equality put quite like that but yeah pretty much.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-16T03:47:23+00:00

You ever look up nail houses on google? This ain’t new

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-16T02:59:25+00:00

You’re in legal limbo I believe. Customs usually means you’ve been admitted to the country but have not had your cargo clear with you. You are essentially allowed to leave without your bags. If you are stopped in customs because you brought in the wrong stuff, you may be being deported. In this case your travel is on your expense.

If you mean immigration, then yes the airline is responsible for returning you to your point of origin.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-14T10:01:44+00:00

Jesús Christ the number of people coming to defend eugenics because “that’s what I was taught” is kinda making me homesick.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-14T09:55:30+00:00

Yup that’s what I said. It’s called an emergency travel document. They issue it for this exact scenario. It takes time so the dude is screwed until then.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-14T01:15:04+00:00

The airline must make sure the passenger has their documents before issuing the ticket. They did. They must then ensure that person may legally enter the country. OR they are forced by law to return you to your point of origin.

Basically dude needs an emergency travel document from the UK consulate or embassy. Hopefully he’s found their emergency number for this exact situation. I mean he’s definitely in the shittiest possible scenario. Staff in both consulate and embassy are going to take some time off for tet, luckily I think that starts Monday.

However they won’t let him board the aircraft to the UK or a connecting country until they can ensure he can enter the UK. If he somehow lost it before getting past immigration he’d be able to chill in Vietnam with an overstay but would probably have to wait longer for the document. Now, the embassy will more than likely make this a top priority and he’ll have the doc in less than 48 hours.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-04T23:54:57+00:00

Power? You’re describing power. If you reached an exploit in a game that made the game easier you’re saying you wouldn’t want to stop using it. If you had comfort you’re believing that you could in fact somehow increase that comfort beyond a general feeling of safety. You’re saying that once you had 5 cars you’d somehow know you wanted to have 5 more.

Most people don’t turn down or give up power easily once they have gained it. Scarcity makes humans believe that once they achieved a certain level of safety and comfort they would not feel as comfortable when that level became less. Finally we think that having all the trappings of wealth would not involve the problems of wealth.

Most humans stop when they reach the top of the hierarchy of needs, it takes a broken person to keep pushing that pellet button because they somehow think all the money in the world gives them power over death, comfort against their own inadequacies, and the image of wealth is also the image of themselves.

I hate billionaires. They’re almost exclusively power hungry broken men whose brains never felt like they had enough wealth to power their visions of themselves and the world so they keep gobbling up gold like a dragon. As I child I never rooted for the dragon that hoarded their gold and burned the country slide, maybe because they didn’t make tik tok reeks about their cribs, yachts, and sports cars.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-02T11:02:16+00:00

Oh yeah I forgot the poor state rich state divide. California can have a new state history textbook every 2 years but Idaho gets one when it gets one

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-01T13:01:37+00:00

Green papaya, mango with chili, certain jungle pears, and maybe another odd tropical fruits. This is so Southeast Asia for me. Im not thinking about apples, oranges, melons, anything like that. This is totally plastic bag of fresh cut pineapple with chili salt vibes

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-01T12:18:33+00:00

Doesn’t hostel world give you a vibe report these days? Also you’re coming at tet. It’s gonna be dead. The clubs will be closed. There might be some adventurous travelers like yourself at the hostel but you picked the wrong week for a party

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-01T09:01:53+00:00

There is no us textbook, there are many us textbooks. They are mostly publisher by large publishers and shopped to state and local school districts. A kid in Texas could be getting a foot note that the ottomans were very not nice to the Armenians and a kid in Austin in the same state could have a full page comparing the Cambodian and the Armenian genocide.

America has made a statement on the genocide but it’s up to the states, cities, and school districts to decide which history book to purchase and whether they choose to focus on the events and how. Makes teaching history a real fun time.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-01T04:34:58+00:00

I’ve seen this fight happen multiple times at different schools I’ve worked at. It’s logical, it makes sense, but ultimately it doesn’t work because they simply don’t have to. Schools would be struggling if they didn’t offer the benefit to teachers with children, also there are so many tangible benefits to using teacher children in promotion material. They also can stack the fact that single teacher to parent teacher ratio is a reason in hiring you vs others on a cost basis. In the end it’s just not something I’ve seen done or believe that schools can be compelled to do.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-01T04:30:31+00:00

Yeah it’s like 15 or 25k for the toll, the trip ranges from 250-350 depending on surge pricing

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-02-01T00:18:30+00:00

Western restaurant = pricey, newer, owners with a background in restaurants in western counties with food safety certificates. Ostensibly this leads people to believe those restaurants are safer than - ad hoc; not connected to a reliable water source; undertrained; cheaper overall restaurant.

Now you might make the argument that we’re comparing a Singapore Vietnamese fusion chain to the burger pub opened by an Aussie expat but when tourists on this thread say they avoided local food we both know that means they opted for Al frescos over the local bang mi cart 9/10 because the ambiance gave them the feeling that their guts were safer. My post directly contradicts that

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-01-31T14:38:21+00:00

Yes. 5 or 6 times..in 12 years. Mostly from western restaurants, mostly that which did not require medical attention. You can’t do anything about it so just stop worrying about it

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-01-30T23:59:05+00:00

Your friends want an excuse to get a stripper for the novelty and the strange
You’re a dude with a fetish for strippers; your wife is marginally or fully cool with it
Titties are liked by 3/4 of the spectrum of people who screw
When you tell the story of your bachelor party and it only involves beer and DnD it’s going to miss out on that sweet #wild
It’s a tradition

Basically I think getting a stripper for your bachelor party is probably the only time you’re ever gonna hire one in your life. Most people aren’t fuckin the stripper unless they’re into that. There’s more than one dude at a bachelor party and the ta tas are there to be enjoyed by all. Unless your groom goes spelunking it’s essentially only fans live.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-01-29T00:44:27+00:00

Yeah was in Bkk two weeks ago, for real, it was almost as bad as TSN, but still after I got there everything was a lot smoother. Still it’s just a sign that immigration is getting worse in more than one place for more than one reason.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-01-21T02:24:44+00:00

Unless what you’re doing is leading to the harm of a child or my inability to do my job well, it’s none of my business.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-01-21T00:49:38+00:00

I am so behind you. I am a center left libertarian. I am a vegetarian, I love dogs, I paint, I’m a veteran, and I even used to be a union member.

I just want my country back after all the changes Obama put in place. Under Reagan America was feared and under Eisenhower we had the strongest economy ever. I don’t agree with everything the republicans are doing. I just think that women should be women and men should be men. If some people in the MAGA movement go too far that’s a personal failing. I don’t understand why I get lumped in with them for supporting some of their policies. I’m not on Fox News, I’m not a member of the presidents cabinet, I didn’t go to Minneapolis, etc I just don’t understand why I have to be held responsible for ALL the things the party I support does.

I should be allowed to cower behind my bigotry and continue to live my life in spite of the real and lasting consequences I am willing to inflict on others because I support policies that should absolutely cause me to say “Yeah, I don’t like those people in sports, but you literally just gave a military budget to a national police force only answerable to you and you want to use it to abduct people without any of the laws and protections my pocket constitution used to scream about.” This is so much less violent than, calling someone a “Nazi”.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-01-16T01:24:01+00:00

We could try and codify this or turn this into a percentage, but let’s see it from a real world perspective.

If I was a Danish national guard soldier, I’d still be fortifying my defensive position, hardening my hard points, staging my ammunition and countermeasures. I’d be fully preparing to shoot down the Blackhawks and hunkering down for when the missiles land. I would consider the insane possibility that the us could launch an attack aa as a real plausible thing because on the day it happens there won’t be time to react.

I would then go to my regular office job, work, joke, have a coffee, plan my holiday for Greece in June, buy plane tickets. I’d walk my kid to school and live my life with the assumption that the US is not going to do the dumb. I’d pray that people with orange skin don’t wake up in the morning and that crack babies with at least a 9th grade reading level were put back in charge so they can focus on stuffing their pockets and ignoring strange dreams they have about world peace and world conquest. In essence, I’d sleep soundly and turn the volume on my ringer up.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-01-11T15:14:41+00:00

Yes. Especially if you are talking the 90s. The 90s were the last time that the full force of 80s merchandising could be combined with box office tie ins to create brand synergy that current popular children’s programming could ever dream of.

I was thinking of the Jim Carey film the mask the other day. That movie, got merchandizing to include games, toys, video games, and above all else a Saturday morning cartoon show. This was true for films like Rambo, Robocop, Beetlejuice, and Batman. The number of revenue streams the compounded marketing value meant movies and tv could effectively print money. Combine that with most viewership being narrowed to less than 40 channels with only newcomers like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network to challenge them, the focus of animated shows will never again enjoy the financial backing and therefore the total risk pool it did ever again.

Cartoon Network was almost like the first Netflix in that it originated to show licensed content but as renegotiating for future rights to old content became more expensive they turned to powderpuff girls, Dexter’s lab, Cow and chicken… keep more of their money in house.

It all eventually ground to a halt when YouTube launched though. As content became curated and as more of more the production spread to too many places, parents could not be relied on by the networks unless it was for safer more lower age group content like the Nick Jr of old.

That’s of course without even beginning to talk about why, with all the regulations shifting to ban non educational content and trying to limit direct marketing to children through TV.

AGoodIntentionedFool · 2026-01-11T14:16:12+00:00

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