kittykatwoman

No I don't. I carry an ID card and my IP card that's it.

Washington State Laws, where I live right now :

I am a lawful permanent resident and must carry my green card. Can I be

arrested if I refuse to produce it when ICE asks me for it?

The law requires that everyone over 18 to carry their alien registration card. Failure to carry it

constitutes a misdemeanor. However, since the Fourth Amendment requires that government

officers must have a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity before they detain someone, the ICE

does not have the authority to force an alien to produce evidence of registration unless it has a

reason to believe that he or she will be unable to do so.

Can the local police ask me for my papers?

Until recently, the local police have not had the authority to stop your car or detain you only

to ask for your immigration papers. However, the Department of Justice is currently seeking

different ways to enlist the assistance of local enforcement agencies in enforcing

"immigration violations." Furthermore, if you are in custody for a criminal violation you can

expect the local police will ask for your papers and will make a referral to ICE.

As is always the law, you have the right to refuse to answer questions about your status to

both the police and to ICE officials.

Question : I'm knitting a set (kimono sweater, booties, hat) for a baby shower to come and was wondering if I should knit some mittens too, if there are useful or not?

Thank you

I don't carry it with me.

I have a ID card + a driver license card in my wallet.

My husband spent 3 years in my country.

If he could speak the language well enough we would still be there, he's getting better tho and we consider living out of the states eventually when we have enough savings and after I got the citizenship. There are various things he miss, first one is secularity, second is the lifestyle.

So far my in-laws are on married to white 'mericans, I'm the only non USC around and for sure the only French personn they "know".

I voted "something else"

It took me a lot of energy, perseverance, time and justification to obtain what I wanted pretty my whole life. I'm glad I found a partner that supported it by not interfering.

I still voted that my biggest achievement has yet to come, professionally.

I have never had a bad meal in France - from a humble bistro to top restaurants (Moulin de Mougins near Cannes being the best meal in, like, my entire life) the quality is always excellent.

kitty - do you know the brand name of french yoghurt that comes in a glass container with a foil top with fruit on the bottom. probably a bit random and vague, but I have been trying to track it down!

La laitiere? Is it a lady that pours some milk from a old clay jar? I miss the texture of those just like the homemade one in the yogurt machine.

You just didn't know what to buy haha

The French host family I stayed with made most of those decisions.

I had a lot of Americans at my table and I still hear a lot about the difference. From th bread to the chocolate, the cheese, the sorbets, the desserts and pastries and all the things I bought and cooked for them, I never heard what you say. But eh "tous les gouts sont dans la nature"!

*shrug* Tell an American that he/she is eating French food and they sort of accept whatever it is as being 'better' or 'gourmet' because French food has that reputation here. It's often undeserved. I didn't think French food was any better than anything else I've had.

Don't call my American friends sheeps that just don't know to make the difference between what they eat and what they are marketed for... And I was not talking about the Americans eating at my table here but the friends I have in France.

Also not all French people are good cook and don't get me wrong I don't say that you can only buy excellent food in France there is ####### for people that like ####### but I really think you ate at the wrong table and that you didn't try what makes our table one of the best, but again tous les gouts sont dans la nature...

Question : Did you go to school through an exchange programm on high school or did you live there? How many years? Which cities?

I'm not Brit but yes everything is too sweet. Add to that too fat and the quality is very average even for supposedly "gourmet" products.

The American palate is obviously different from the various European palates and food here is developed with the American palate in mind. It takes some getting used to. I found some 'gourmet' products in the UK strange; I wouldn't be so bold as to say the quality was poor but some of it definitely didn't appeal to me. British food took some getting used to, but I did eventually get used to it.

You could use this as an excuse to switch to non-processed foods like fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, freshly-baked bread (you can get it without HFCS if you look), and lean meats....then you would be healthier, too.

Well about the quality there is obviously a difference of focus from French shelves and American shelves : French companies focus on tasting qualities, American companies focus on the time it can stay on the shelf and the difference is so obvious to me it makes eating a huge dilemma (when I don't have time to cook). I will be the snooty and obnoxious French personn on the quality of the food in America because it is a reality. There are excellent products here, the meat, the fish and produces are good. Other than that it doesn't meet my expectations. My husband can't stand waht he used to eat and find pretty much everythign crappy after he spent 3 years eating my groceries and cuisine.

I do go to farmer's market, grow my own veggies, have chickens and shop at stores like Top food, Trader Joes etc etc to find at least thing that deserve to be cooked. Because a good dish starts with good ingredients. I have my routines and now enjoy my table again.

I've spent a lot of time in France and believe me, the French pride in the food on the supermarket shelves is...shall we say...misplaced. You can eat well in France, but I think it's ridiculous to say that the food there is fantastic and the food here is terrible. It simply isn't true.

You just didn't know what to buy haha

I had a lot of Americans at my table and I still hear a lot about the difference. From th bread to the chocolate, the cheese, the sorbets, the desserts and pastries and all the things I bought and cooked for them, I never heard what you say. But eh "tous les gouts sont dans la nature"!

Consolemaster, I think that's a stretch

As I said in the other thread...I'mma wait to hear more from the airlines because I can't see how there's not more to this story. Simple 'bye bye plane'...and no other passengers say or do anything while this woman is removed? Come on now...there must be more to it than that!

Just like you I think there is more than that.

And please, Vismaster, don't assume that women who can't have kids are frustrated, mean freaks that need to take it on other people's kids and mother, I know a lot of sterile people that think it's a blessing...

I'm not Brit but yes everything is too sweet. Add to that too fat and the quality is very average even for supposedly "gourmet" products.

The American palate is obviously different from the various European palates and food here is developed with the American palate in mind. It takes some getting used to. I found some 'gourmet' products in the UK strange; I wouldn't be so bold as to say the quality was poor but some of it definitely didn't appeal to me. British food took some getting used to, but I did eventually get used to it.

You could use this as an excuse to switch to non-processed foods like fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, freshly-baked bread (you can get it without HFCS if you look), and lean meats....then you would be healthier, too.

Well about the quality there is obviously a difference of focus from French shelves and American shelves : French companies focus on tasting qualities, American companies focus on the time it can stay on the shelf and the difference is so obvious to me it makes eating a huge dilemma (when I don't have time to cook). I will be the snooty and obnoxious French personn on the quality of the food in America because it is a reality. There are excellent products here, the meat, the fish and produces are good. Other than that it doesn't meet my expectations. My husband can't stand waht he used to eat and find pretty much everythign crappy after he spent 3 years eating my groceries and cuisine.

I do go to farmer's market, grow my own veggies, have chickens and shop at stores like Top food, Trader Joes etc etc to find at least thing that deserve to be cooked. Because a good dish starts with good ingredients. I have my routines and now enjoy my table again.

This case was ridiculous, but there's also sometimes where the parents are lenient.

I've travelled with a kid jumping in the seat behind me, kicking the back of seat so hard I couldn't relax. I talked the mother who did nothing, the kid kicked at my back for about 2 hours, no matter how many times I looked back to express it was bothering me. Worst, the kid was actually doing it on purpose, as she was laughing that I had to keep taking my back off the chair, and laughing when her mother told her to stop. After 2 times that the mother asked her to stop, she gave up and went back to reading her magazine, and let the kid have her way. The kid was around 6 and old enough to obey her mother.

I'd have taken her off the seat, distract her with something else, dunno, but I wouldn't let my kid disturb another passenger.

Crying babies is one thing (although I won't accept crying babies in the movies, if you don't have a sitter, a family member, someone to stay with the baby, please watch your movies on DVD until you can actually take the kid to the cinema without them screaming their lungs out), but obnoxious kids is something else. My mom has never let us misbehave in the streets. We tried it once, and learned our lesson (not by being spanked, just so you know), and if we ever even threatened to misbehave, one look from my mom was enough. We never made scandals in stores to get toys, or thrown things in the market 'cus we wanted cookies, etc.

One other bad experience I had was traveling by bus, a mother with a baby in the seat next to me, and the mom decided to change the diaper of the baby in the bus, by my side, and she didn't really have a bag to put to dirty diaper away so it was just folded and placed on the floor by her feet, full of baby smelly poo (mothers here should know how smelly baby poo can get). To top it off, we got stuck in a jam for about 2 1/2 hours, with that diaper stinking worse every minute. Argh! I just wanted to breath (the mom had the window closed 'cus of the baby).

Ditto!!!

I'm tired of the situations that you just discribed. I was in the same situation a little while ago at the restaurant this time. I was on a date with my husband, we didn't go out since March because we work too much even on the week ends, so we made a big deal of this time we could spend together. We dressed up and went to the restaurant.

We start to eat and enjoy our evening when 2 women and a 5 year old kid get there. The waitress gave them a spot 4/5 tables apart from us. The kid was wondering around, staring at everybody and ask questions and play on the floor next to our feet and so on.

First it was kinda cute (for other poeple, I feared the worst as soon as the kid got in the restaurant) and it became extremely annoyig and irritating when I couldn't have a conversation with my husband because some kid would stay at the end of the table and stare. I asked the kid to leave and he was like "no, I won't" and then laughing. Because I was not fawning all over him he was trying his thing at some other tables, a few were responsive but a few were not either.

Guess what his mother was too busy tchitchating with her friend and was calling him randomly once in a while. I asked the waitress to tell her about it that her kid is annoying customers and the thing I heard was "they don't understand". The waitress was obvioulsy annoyed too because kiddo was an obstacle many time to serve the plates. She called her kid and he started to cry and it all looked like WE (by we i mean, the people in the restaurant annoyed by a kid that should NOT be in a fancy restaurant in the first place unless he behaves because his parents make him...), we were the bad guys. The kid was obliged to sit next to his mom and he was unhappy about it and was making it clear to everybody. A real nightmare.

Countless time I go to the movies, to the restaurants or any social situation where kids have to be the center of attention.

To be honnest I've never seen so much misbehaving kids in my entire life!!!! And I don't talk about the parents that drag their kids wherever they feel like so you have a baby crying while you watch a R movie at the theatre... Now we always hear that asking parents to make their kids behave or to remind them that a kid doesn't belong to the restaurant or the movies or parties is selfish because we don't know, we don't have kids, it's so hard and this and that. Honnestly I don't want to hear any complaints about how hard it is to have kids, having babies is a choice. I just notice the new generation of parents (in America) never think they are selfish by forcing their kids on others.

Back to the topic. I really think there is something this lady won't tell.

I'm not Brit but yes everything is too sweet. Add to that too fat and the quality is very average even for supposedly "gourmet" products.

I watched the video. I saw a 19 month old toddler doing what most toddlers do: squirm. He was not in his normal environment, probably had already been in contact with numerous unfamiliar faces...no wonder he was wiggly and fussy. I cannot see that this video has any bearing on anything to do with the flight attendant's inappropriate and unprofessional behaviour. JMHO as always.

I also see that his mother can't handle him very well and the guy that is there is doing a better job. He should have been the plane!

No I would not tip and I would be rude in return to a douche that is begging for a service he doesn't provide.

You should watch this video tho...

Clicky

Ditto, Kitty.

America = A continent.

United States = A country.

Most people I have spoken to overseas, in Europe, AUS and Asia, refer to America as the USA.

And what are the people? "USAans"?

LOL

Yes if you translate it litteraly from my language.

Depends... America is not only USA... but another countries as well. We have Central America, South America and North America

Oh, not this shіt again.

Repeat after me:

America = USA.

Nope!!!!

In other languages America refers to a continent, eventualy precising which area. North, south... But does not define a country

Repeat after me :

America = A continent.

On the meat and only one kind, Maille mustard imported from France. I can't stand the deli mustard yikes!

I found my cat in the stree when she was 3 months, I suppose she escaped because she was pretty good at trying all kind of tricks to go outside but managed to keep her in until she was 10 months. I mean it was bad every morning when I was living for work I had to trick her, so I was trowing away some brewer's yeast pills while I was opening the door to make a diversion, she is a brewer's yeast junkie

There is no way I could make her an inside cat if I live in a house like I do right now. When I was living downtown Paris, she was scared shitless to go even just in the hallway because of the honking noises and the brouhaha but when I moved here since we live in a house in a small town I couldn't keep her in, she scratches the doors and meows for hours!!!!!

I make sure she comes home at night, so I feed her half in the morning before she goes out and half at night when she comes back. The only few times she would not come back home at night, I was worried.

New York, Chicago, sky scrappers, burgers, Californian diets and dollar stores.

You are T tiny

I'm 5'2 too and weight 108lb, I wear size 2 pants and xs shirts and I'm 31. I used to be lighter a while ago but quit smoking, since then I gained and kept 10 pounds. I'm not on a diet and eat tons of burgers, candies, sodas but have a healthy diet base to begin with. I know I owe a lot to my genetics to begin with but also know I maintained this weight because I'm a nullipara. My mother gained a lot of weight when she was pregnant with me, lost some but was never like she used to.

I came across that book here, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure because a lot of women ask me if I follow the diet that is in the book... We sure eat better because we focus on the quality for the customer and not the lifetime of the product on the shelf and it's no big news if I tell you we love our traditional gastronomic food more than anything. Eating well is a lifestyle we practice (at least most of us) all year long. I've noticed that I cooked more than any Americans I know and exercise on a regular basis, I'm a very active person and need to burn a lot of energy to go through my day.

I know people look at me eating with a lot of curiosity because my diet is "strange". First I start my meals with fresh produces, through the season it can go from a salad with nuts and apple to half a grapefruit or cantaloupe. Then I have my main course, always meat, fish, eggs with some vegetables again according to the season, then well not everyday anymore but sometimes when I go to Seattle and can get a hold on real cheese, I have a few slices of different cheeses with bread and butter + salad. I barely have dessert because at that point I'm full. My secret is to NEVER eat some of the main course dish a second time, instead if I'm still hungry I eat something else or have a dessert.

Take your time to cook your own food, don't see eating well or better as a punishment, it's good for your heart and it brings a lot of satisfaction.

I look like a French chick, 85% Audrey Tautou

Yeah, yeah...unfair, unfair. Not surprised to see so many people crying foul and blaming it on those darn "illegals."

I've worked with people without papers for quite some time and have NEVER seen the sense of entitlement that a few people here have ascribed to them.

I'm definitely facing financial hardship throughout this process, and am pleased that I have the opportunity to file for AOS before the fee hike.

But what I find REALLY unfair is not the discomfort caused by a fee hike, which is painful right now, but in a few years will be all paid off. What is UNFAIR is paying a coyote $2000 to be stuffed in the back of an 18wheeler with 60 other people and left to suffocate to death. Or screwed over and left to die in the desert. Until people dealing with immigration are faced with a life situation that makes suffocation or cooked insides sound like an acceptable risk, then I think that discussions about unfair are pretty much navel-gazing.

Not to sound like an a$, but if you try to sneak across the border...you deserve what you get...next thing you know, you will ask for pardons for bank robbers...they didn't kill anyone, they just robbed the bank...illegal is illegal, and a criminal is a criminal...do it the right way or don't come, well you can try your luck at the way you explained...

I believe you can't only have rights in life, that where there are rights (in this case having the right to live somewhere), there are duties. Entering a country illegaly is not. PERIOD.

Why should we expect a category of people to go through the nest because they made illegal choices. This is unfair to the people that live in the country in the first place, I don't even talk about the people immigrating through the USCIS procedure. Just the citizen of the country in the first place. There is nothing like rules that can apply to one and not another, that is precisely the picture of unfair.

The circumstances of the illegal entrance in the country are infortunate but they can't be held as an excuse to legitimate anything.