Forgot Brosmer!
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Betty Brosmer today, in real life.
I rest my case.[/quote]
I would double her current amount of pearl necklaces. The more aged the cheddar the more intense the finish. Betty could still hang.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]YamatoDamashii92 wrote:
…I am in my early twenties and anyone who thinks they have it all figured out at 22 is probably a fucking idiot.
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If you have this figured out you are wise beyond your years.
The older I get the less I realize I know.
One of the biggest myths around. Paul Bunyan sized even.[/quote]
Ha thanks dude.
As for the private healthcare thing I admit i might have preconceived notions of the realities of it but when my Nana got cancer she got all her meds, sent to specialists, was given carers had operations. She was not well off and had no money apart from a very meager pension. Would someone without health insurance get that in the states?
Again I understand the position that freedom can not be discarded and that using the state to coerce you to comply to taxation to pay for others medical care is not in line with a constitutional republic and a free market. But that still does not convince me simply not providing a sick person with the best possible care is ok.
I will have to do some actual research into the subject I suppose.
One definite bonus of moving to the states will be not having to listen to the news ramble on and on about another royal baby. Yes we get it, the descendants of the oppressors of my ancestors had a baby. Now can we actually see some football results sky news? Is there anything more disgustingly English than the Royal family and the morbid fascination regular people have with them?
[quote]YamatoDamashii92 wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Betty Brosmer today, in real life.
I rest my case.[/quote]
I would double her current amount of pearl necklaces. The more aged the cheddar the more intense the finish. Betty could still hang.[/quote]
All yours, my friend. I prefer soft, creamy Camembert over hard, crumbly, pungent aged cheddar, but that’s just me. 
[quote]YamatoDamashii92 wrote:
One definite bonus of moving to the states will be not having to listen to the news ramble on and on about another royal baby. Yes we get it, the descendants of the oppressors of my ancestors had a baby. Now can we actually see some football results sky news? Is there anything more disgustingly English than the Royal family and the morbid fascination regular people have with them?
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Trust me, you won’t escape it by moving to the States. Only way to get clear of the constant royal baby news is to move to a non-English speaking country. I didn’t even know Kate was pregnant again until a British friend told me she was about to give birth.
[quote]YamatoDamashii92 wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Betty Brosmer today, in real life.
I rest my case.[/quote]
I would double her current amount of pearl necklaces. The more aged the cheddar the more intense the finish. Betty could still hang.[/quote]
I do indeed prefer my porridge cured, sire.
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
(unlike the U.S., where you have to report and pay tax on income wherever you are in the world:
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Report, yes; pay, not really.
You can get US credit for your Japanese taxes paid, and you only pay if you go over a certain amount anyway.
But you DO have to pay taxes on worldwide income in Japan, too.
I assume you know all this?[/quote]
The requirement to report and pay tax on worldwide income ONLY applies to permanent residents, which I no longer am. Other residents only pay tax on income generated in Japan, or remitted to Japan.
And yeah, I know about the exemption. I just don’t like having to inform the IRS about every detail of my financial life when I’m not even physically present on the North American continent, and I really don’t the fact that if I want to open a bank account anywhere in the world, as soon as I pull out that fucking blue passport, out comes another piece of paperwork I have to fill out, so that the bank can comply with the stupid American money-laundering and anti-terrorist-funding bullshit law that lets the IRS keep track of my bank balances, too.
[quote]NorCal916 wrote:
[quote]YamatoDamashii92 wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Betty Brosmer today, in real life.
I rest my case.[/quote]
I would double her current amount of pearl necklaces. The more aged the cheddar the more intense the finish. Betty could still hang.[/quote]
I do indeed prefer my porridge cured, sire.
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You like stale oatmeal?
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
If only it were that simple.
I don’t hate America, and I most definitely don’t hate myself, but I would kill for a British passport.
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For real? I’ve got one and I’d just as soon use it as toilet paper.
Maybe we can work something out here. You’ve got a U.S. passport and I’ve got a British passport. Criss cross.
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Yeah, I think you’d be happier with the trade than Yamato would be. I predict that after three months in the States he would be pining for Blighty, where yeah, the weather is dismal and soft totalitarianism is on the rise, but at least people get his jokes.
This thread has convinced me that what Yamato loves is the idea of America, not the country itself. Kind of like the man who falls in love with the girl in a pinup poster from a previous century, not realizing that she looks nothing like that in real life today.[/quote]
There are parts of Queensland that are as or more right-wing than any red state in the U.S. The problem is country towns and rural areas are devoid of attractive, unattached women. I live in a rural area but spend much of my time in Sydney and Melbourne.
Royalists are going apeshit because an English republican appeared on the news yesterday. People are shouting about how he should be tried for treason. I would love to see every member of the royal family in the square lined up before a guillotine.
I remember they had these ad things claiming the queen was “value for money”. They popularised the belief the queen “works harder than most people ever do, she is so busy”.
They tell the public it costs 35 million a year for the running and keeping of the monarchy but when you factor in transport, security, gifts etc the annual cost is around 300 million a year. Not that 35 million would be ok but fucking hell.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Betty Brosmer today, in real life.
I rest my case.[/quote]
Hope to see your wrinkled ass photo at 80 years old on a post on T-N.
Promise to post it someday?[/quote]
If we are both still alive in thirty-five years, if the Internet is still running, if the United States still exists, if Biotest is still in business, and if they are still running the T-Nation site, then yes, I promise I will take a picture of my wrinkled ass and post it for you, Push.
[quote]YamatoDamashii92 wrote:
Royalists are going apeshit because an English republican appeared on the news yesterday. People are shouting about how he should be tried for treason. I would love to see every member of the royal family in the square lined up before a guillotine.
I remember they had these ad things claiming the queen was “value for money”. They popularised the belief the queen “works harder than most people ever do, she is so busy”.
They tell the public it costs 35 million a year for the running and keeping of the monarchy but when you factor in transport, security, gifts etc the annual cost is around 300 million a year. Not that 35 million would be ok but fucking hell.[/quote]
Three hundred million?! Shit, with that kind of money you could practically make a Hollywood movie!
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]YamatoDamashii92 wrote:
One definite bonus of moving to the states will be not having to listen to the news ramble on and on about another royal baby. Yes we get it, the descendants of the oppressors of my ancestors had a baby. Now can we actually see some football results sky news? Is there anything more disgustingly English than the Royal family and the morbid fascination regular people have with them?
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Few things disgust me more and I don’t even live there. We get enough of that crap here. Can’t imagine the immersion you must receive.[/quote]
Would that I ran a major television news operation. I would figure out when the royal baby was about to be born, and then I’d send an enormous crew – along with every one of my star reporters – to Cleveland or Baltimore or Muncie or Duluth or San Diego, and from there I would offer breathless, round-the-clock coverage of the birth of a randomly-chosen child from a low-or-middle-income family of no particular distinction.