That reminds me that I should reach out to my friends who have masked Irish ancestors from Belfast. To… Hear about their wild stories, totally unrelated to this post.

Gee ess dub dub sounds like a burger joint menu item.

I think Mainland China had a lot of kidnappings for some reason. Authorities didn’t do shit about it.

My parents gave me the impression that it was somewhat common in Bangkok too, but I didn’t need to worry as much because I’m not an attractive woman and/or rich looking white tourist.

But then again my mom was fine with halloween trick-or-treating? Lol?

Asian parents are so inconsistent like that. It’s weird how common it is. My parents were worried about me getting poisoned because of that whole Tylenol poisoning thing from the 80’s but didn’t bat an eye whenever the school called about my allergic reactions to peanut exposure. Even before they found out my case wasn’t life threatening. Same thing with peanuts in Halloween candy before I cared enough to read the labels to make sure I had regular M&Ms and not the peanut variety.

Gotcha, yeah, I could see the change bringing forward more suppressors on the market that are built with cheaper materials and meant to be more like wear items than something meant to last for years as the market had been for the US because of the regulations.

I’ve only heard from hunters/target sport shooters in other countries where suppressors are less regulated because gun ownership was more restrictive; that they have a lot more access to cheap suppressors then we do.

I said something along these lines and had to wrestle with a large Trailer-Trash-American kid in 3rd grade. 2/5, would not recommend.

Then my dad was like: “That Korean money, its like [$5-$10 USD]” that’s the moment I learned of the existence of other currencies, mind… blown… not everyone uses the same money.

I remember my experience with that. Doing the math in my head and realizing how much more expensive things were at the airport in Tokyo-Narita than the electronics shops around Bangkok.

Would I have made more friends? (since I would’ve never got the language barrier issue that damaged my self-esteem)

Do you mean learning English later than your peers? If so, I had a similar experience. I didn’t learn English until kindergarten and it made it harder to make friends. Though there were other factors (big one being my dad was paranoid about me being kidnapped by the parents of other students, so I never got to hang out with any of them outside of school), I think they outcome is largely the same. Especially if the other kids were the type to let that be a dealbreaker for engaging with you. I found it easier to get to know other students to whom English was a second language.

Would there be no bullying? I mean no racial differences… so might’ve been less conflicts…

Somehow in my case, I saw more white kids getting bullied by other white kids than I ever experienced of myself or other people of color I went to school with. Though I suppose I was one of the few in my graduating class. Also somehow I managed to gain a reputation for being one of “the least Asian” kids at the school. Of which there were maybe 10 during any given school year.

Born and raised in the US to Asian immigrant parents. The “are you Chinese or Japanese” question was rampant even before the episode of King of the Hill came out. So many others too:

Do you ever go back? (Sure, but it’s my parents that “go back”, the US is my home and I’ve never lived overseas long enough to feel attached to another place)

What’s it like in Taiwan/Taipei? (Not sure, I’ve only ever been to the airport on my way to ThaiLAND)

So do you know karate/kung fu? (Yeah, because all Asian people are born with an innate knowledge of martial arts without any kind of training or instruction)

The only thing that’s changed is the $200 stamp tax was removed from the process. Everything else including registration and the background check remains the same. Wait times had only really come down from ~a year to a month or less for most cases because the ATF finally got their systems in a decent state for form 4 eFile.

The last one I bought early last year took about a week for the form to be approved. The first one I ever bought a decade ago took nearly a year.

If you made it out of the airport, I’d say that counts. I’ve connected in South Korea and Taiwan several times since i was a kid, but never long enough of a layover to make it out of the airport.

US is the security reason

I may have mixed up the church and the French government. Or the local tour guides’ accounts may conflict with what I’m finding online.

I’ll see what I can dig up. It was mentioned at this museum I went to during my last trip there.

But, muh name on the road.

The stories of early New Orleans are a good example of this. Men were lonely and wanted wives. They wrote letters to the church back home. The church provided prostitutes and other women of ill repute by the boat load.

Hell, you could invest a small fraction of that billion and your returns would allow you to keep those roads repaired long after you died.

I refuse to believe that the US military doesn’t effectively have black sheep wall enabled constantly.

A week after being fired:

A Plot Against The King 4: First Blood Part I

He started getting cabin fever and thought he was Christopher Walken’s character from Joe Dirt

Clearly the energy and fuel is better spent sending a photographer and actors to a place with leopards for a meme. Without paying them for their time of course.

What she means is that the GOP is facing the challenges that the Nazi party did in their time. Primarily, how do we convince the public to let us exterminate the undesirables?