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No i am not leaving the forum even if that would make some people happy. haha. Thanks to all of you and good luck. Those who await, your time will come.

Emailing can`t hurt can it? If i were you i would get onto your Senator aswell or whoever is important. Write to people and maybe they will pull their finger out and get you back on track. By the way the process is a lot of waiting. So much waiting that you might consider travellign during the process and not just before.

A big congrats out to you!!!! Now just keep the sucker in a "holy" place until your flight.

Christine

I took my passport to the pub tonight to show people.

I thought this was another thread about the Stallone movie. I hope you guys sort out your problems and find happiness on earth.

Yes today(well yesterday as it is gone midnight now) i got my visa. I can touch my future now. I have the grail known as the CR1.

I will soon be flying to be with my baby. My POE will be Atlanta.

I just thought i would continue to offer my support to those going throught the process. I think it is always helpful to see what you are chasing after. A little something to help you keep the faith.

I certainly don`t want this to come across as gloating or something.

So firstly i want to thank, once more, all the people who have helped me get here and keep us going. Long distance marriage is not easy despite the jokes that people make about it. It is hard going this marriage over distance stuff.

Anyway today the courier arrived eventually and checked my credit card name against her paperwork then made me sign and print. I was not expecting such a big package to be honest. So i opened it up like a kid opening nicely packaged christmas presents and my passport fell out. I looked my passport over and saw the new page(a sticker page). The new page was much fancier looking than my actual passport as these stickers are the best stickers on the market complete with American images and words.

I then looked over the envelope all ready to open it up.

great so now i have to resist the urge to open up the grail.

ha

Anyway yeah it is great to have it. Being told i will get it and actually getting it is a big difference. The emotions escalate and the ultimate emotion will be in a few weeks time.

I can not wait.

I am going to be a legal

I had a job lined up through my father in law but the Ford plant is now closing down so i will just have to apply everywhere i can think of. I might go back into retail for the money but i don`t really want to. Otherwise i will perhaps take a trip to unionjobs.com and learn a trade and get medical etc. A union job is where it`s at over there.

No i am not from Big Brother and as i typed my reply i did wonder if you were being cryptic but sadly i always fail to notice it in others.

When are you off have you your tickets?

& What did you do with the record collection.... I'm worrying about mine... Getting expensive shipping with the P.O.........

No tickets yet. My problems are financial. I am a lover not an accountant. I have however told the agency i work for that my last day will be 27th of July. I am going to book my flight for the friday or saturday i think but i am waiting to have the visa in hand just in case. The visa should arrive tomorrow hopefully.

I have been taking my record collection over in bits during my visits over the year. Not many have made the trip yet though and i still have a good few apple boxes worth of vinyl to transport. I will hopefully be able to afford to ship a pallet or something without selling my babies. People on here have mentioned excessbaggage.com and they do seem cheap. I had another place that ship 2 cubic metres of whatever for like 600 or something like that and they shrink wrap and box up etc. That looked a nice secure way but until i have that kind of money then i will just leave my dad with my collection and take some each time i come back to England. I have got most of my clothes in America at least, trouble is i use clothes to cushion my vinyl. ha.

Do you have a lot of records to transport? What about other stuff?

no you have it mixed up with an English W word. I wonder if it is edited here.

WANKER WANKER WANKER

No bible was involved, it was just raise your right hand. I can`t remember though if he said "so help you god" or not. I just waited for him to finish and said "i do"(i think we might be married now).

The band was thankfully nothing anti-american sounding but the website is now useless for meeting a spouse(haha). The band was Hole.

The Embassy guy looked kind of like David Duchovny when he didn`t smile but not really as much as when he smiled. His hair was too short too.

A mod look could be bad but not as bad as say a Lennon cut. The hut was very much a burger van type thing but with a metal detector in it instead of a frying worktop thingy.

No pin ups that i recall but i was not in there long.

thanks for all the well wishes everybody.

Congratulations. Sounds like you had a real worry for a while there. Glad you got it sorted out.

No charge for saturday but then the basic charge was £13.50 at the embassy so i would not expect to pay more unless it was delivered in a golden envelope.

They tried to deliver while i was at work today and left a card. It had a number to call and the website address to arrange redelivery. So i booked it for saturday online and was able to give my mobile number(a few people had the problem that in the embassy you have to have your phone off and that is the only way i know my number )

I would have got it delivered at work but i am not at a fixed location. So hopefully i get my visa on saturday. Incidentally it says on the website and the card they left that they accept bank cards as i.d. My only non card i.d. is my passport which of course the courier will have, so it better be o.k.

thanks a lot.

one sure fire way to tell - get the lip readers to watch it

Are you not trained in that field?

I know the debate took on a life of it`s own but it is worth noting this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/w...006/5168126.stm

Materazzi denies terrorist insult

Italy defender Marco Materazzi says he did insult France's Zinedine Zidane during the World Cup final, just before Zidane was sent off for a headbutt.

But Materazzi denied reports he called Zidane a "terrorist" or used insulting language towards Zidane's mother.

"It was the kind of insult you will hear dozens of times and just slips out of the ground," Materazzi is quoted in Italian paper La Gazetta dello Sport.

"I didn't call Zidane a terrorist and certainly didn't mention his mother."

Define any label? If i were called a liberal by a Republican i would assume they meant it as a slur but then again what is a republican? Your best bet is to abandon labels and the bias that goes along with them. Be yourself and debate issues instead of party politics.

If you think Johnny Depp said something outrageous why not debate that issue rather than make it liberals versus republicans? I mean come on now. How old are we all?(rhetorical question)

So...you can make an offensive joke as long as you tack a smiley on to it?

I think it depends on which smilie you use. I use Charles as my emoticon dictionary. He will tell you which emoticon to use for each response that can not be done with words.

i'll one up you and leave it to fishdude to decide if such fits xenophobia. how's that grab you?

Some people use Fishdude for definition of words but i use a dictionary myself.

Well the dictionary definition helps with the meaning of the word as you don`t seem to understand the meaning of the word that i used. That is why i posted the definition for you. I think i made my point. I would start a poll to see who thought your comment was xenophobic but i notice you only started using this defense in recent pages and i find that says it all.

Thanks anyway.

it was a xenophobic joke to only you. as fishdude pointed out above, it does not even meet that definition.

no matter how hard you try, you'll not be fishdude so give it up already. you keep making mountains out of molehills and seeing xenophobia where there isn't any. soon enough you'll have a whole new conspiracy theory to float. now quit acting like a major league ####.

from dictionary.com

xenophobia \ZEN-uh-FOE-bee-uh\, noun:

Fear or hatred of strangers, people from other countries, or of anything that is strange or foreign.

The word xenophobia was formed from the Greek elements xenos "guest, stranger, foreigner" + phobos "fear."

Zidane is a foreigner to you. Correct? Your joke was xenophobic. The denial on your pat does not really bother me. You are ignorant so naturally you would not realise that your comment had been xenophobic.

Again i made no mountain i simply pointed out that your comment was xenophobic. You keep replying to this and then accuse me of blowing it up. You have other options you know?

What on earth makes you think i am tryign to be Fishdude? No disrespect to him but i am happy being myself and that claim by you is just as daft as your "argument" ending in name calling.

As for the conspiracy theory remark why don`t you concentrate on trying to disprove the so called theories i have expressed instead of attacking me personally? I called you a name once and apologised but you seem to do it all the time to me. It kills your credibility and if you had any argument in the first place it would be tarnished by your attitude.

I was not suggesting there was anybody running away crying. I was simply saying i found it to be ignorant. Of course things like this can wash off your back. Of course on another day Zidane could have laughed it off and gone on to win the game. I imagine though that if you are always subjected to this type of subtle abuse then it can get on your nerves. For all we know Zidane could have been dealign with it the whole game. Maybe that was his *shut up already*.

but sure if we disagree then so be it but as soon as anybody makes general stertypical statements about me or others i just lose a little bit of respect for them. Sorry.

I never doubted that what Zidane must have heard was something pretty flaming and while not condoning it in the least, I can even say I understand where actions come from. It's not acceptable, but human reactions aren't always perfect either. But I DO ask that before you colour someone (me) as ignorant racially for finding what I read to be primarily harmless in some other posts, you read more of my posts before you judge them (me)....however silly and time wasting to your mouse they may be.

Peace...

I was not judging you. I have seen other posts by you and had no problems and the post you made here was one in a(however many posts you have) and i understand that you see it as harmless and acceptable. Of course most people with a negative view of something find that view acceptable. I happen to put it in the borderline grey area of acceptable and ignorant. I make plenty of statements that people do not agree with. I would be suprised if anybody here agreed with me on everything but agreeing to disagree is important. I do however lose respect for people when their views are what i see as wrong. Maybe i am wrogn to do that but i don`t let it effect how i see your next view expressed. If your next post is attacke dby all and i agree with you i will defend you even if it means pissing off an allie that i acquired in a previous debate. I don`t know if this makes sense to people but i have not written you off just as i would not rule out Charlesandnessa making a statement that i agree with.

Then again no foul words, no matter how nasty, justify a wild act such as a headbutt.

Seemed to shut him up though.

it was a joke. put away the electron microscope and quit making the smallest thing larger than life - build a bridge and get over it.

No it was a small minded xenophobic joke. I pointed it out and that was that. Nothign for me to get over. A si already stated you have the problem not me. I didn`t make it larger than life i just pointed it out. How does that make it larger than life? Other people have responded and are now debating the issue in general. If that is my doing in your eyes well forgive me for being such a mind controller without realising it.

I DO think though that most people know when they are making a "crepe-type" statement, they are not doing it without knowledge that all French people don't eat or even like crepes. Christ, if someone wants to call me a McDonald's lover, I'm not going to run for cover and cry or if they want to say....oooh, I must wear trainers won't illicit a response either ...mainly because it's not true and afterall, if that's the best they can do to insult me, they are pretty lame. And I'd still maintain that the crepe remarks are not terrible insults. Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that. Calling someone a terrorist, in this day and age though is a whole different level.

I was not suggesting there was anybody running away crying. I was simply saying i found it to be ignorant. Of course things like this can wash off your back. Of course on another day Zidane could have laughed it off and gone on to win the game. I imagine though that if you are always subjected to this type of subtle abuse then it can get on your nerves. For all we know Zidane could have been dealign with it the whole game. Maybe that was his *shut up already*.

but sure if we disagree then so be it but as soon as anybody makes general stertypical statements about me or others i just lose a little bit of respect for them. Sorry.