Krikit

You give 9 and 11-year old boys beer? Without supervision?

All, we are wrapping up our meeting after 2 minutes shy of 3 hours. Lots was discussed including all the items you requested . It's quite late now for the majority of our team so folks are going to get some shut eye and will will consolidate our meeting minutes tomorrow and action items. We will publicly post a few items tomorrow in the Site Discussion forum and once other actions are closed, we will amend our 'mod' example thread and other areas to increase visibility for everyone on how things are run.
In short, it was a great meeting and I look forward to following up with you in the other forum shortly.
-Capt

Something for you to ponder, I think.

OH SNAP.

Thanks for lifting the ban on my account. I didn't ask for it, but I appreciate it.

Us? You're the one posting the dirty pics.

Oh, but you have. And I treat no one unfairly. It is my job.

Something for you to ponder, I think.

"It" is not "inbred" nor is anyone "inbred" to be judgmental about an issue. It is reasoning and well thought out understanding
and plain logic that should form your perspective, the absence of that is an opinion which doesn't make it a fact.
This is not about how someone feels about everything and anything, this is about discussing how genuine a case may be
pertaining to immigration.
You are saying you judge all arranged marriages to be a bad thing and you admit you are being judgmental.
You are welcome to your opinion and we have a right to voice our own but please don't project your attitude
on anyone else here and say we are "as bad as you" to make yourself feel better.
I don't 'kick up against things' I don't like because I consider myself an adult with tolerance that lives and lets lives without
stigmatizing any couple. I do have a brain to think for myself and no gene pool in my make up will auto pilot me or drive my thoughts
to be judgmental about arranged marriages. Give me a break !
It is you who does not see the bigger picture in your 'inbred believing' prejudiced opinion but again you are entitled to it,
whatever floats your boat.
Opinions are like an orifice, everyone has one but they need not be stereotypical generalizations and prejudice notions
if you don't want them to be and allow yourself to be open enough to see, especially on a diverse immigration forum,
that every culture has their own traditions.
Instead you see only your own as valid.
I have read threads like this about varies countries....someone was scammed so they proclaim
the entire country scams because they can't take accountability for their own choices. Puleeaase !
What on earth is so hard to understand about people being all different and some scam and others don't ?
Why must you bring an entire cultural thing under the umbrella of a scam ?
Calling everyone who is in such a marriage a scam is just ridiculous and insulting to members here
and just because Joe Blow down the road you may have heard about scammed someone in an arranged marriage
doesn't mean all are scams and shams.
Can't stand stereotyping and I judge that as bad and am proud of it !
You can pick and chose the right and the wrong things to be judgmental about.

Her eyes seem to be pretty open to me. Please remain civil or your participation in this thread will be curtailed. Thank you.

Oh, but you have. And I treat no one unfairly. It is my job.

Anything could be a scam, though, Comic. Anything. I could meet a guy on the streetcorner today who tells me that his dog is starving and can I buy him a tin of dog food and he then turns around and donates it to win some contest. I could call up my brother and have him tell me he's got an infected foot and needs cash to pay for the prescription and then later find out he spent it on something entirely different.

Anyone can scam you. Any time. It's not exclusive to greencards, it's not exclusive to people you just met. It's not exclusive to people of a specific demographic, whether that be national origin, sex/gender, social status, age/age difference or income.

We see, on VJ, a much higher rate of problems than is seen in the general population. There is no one profile of scammer, because anyone can be, so judging any group or relationship type as being the culprit is judgemental as heck.

The National Trust volunteers are a treasure. I remember being at a NT property once with a friend and my friend asked a question about the archaeology and the old lady volunteer there said "I'll try to keep it simple as I know they don't teach much in schools these days". So I replied my friend here is a PhD candidate in history and I've just been awarded an MA in archaeology but don't worry we'll try to keep our questions simple

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This is believed to be Charles! checking in at the front desk. Again we have no proof that it is indeed Charles! but we are reporting it.

I'm on call to do the "best and worst dressed" list.

Minute by minute coverage on the upcoming VJ Mod summit later today. Exclusive coverage, by which I mean a lot of people with no inside information throwing out wild guesses on what they think will/should happen. Maybe a few shots of reporters standing outside the days inn talking about random cars pulling in.