You Are Here - 2015-03-02

« first day (1349 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (3349 days later) »

5:21 AM

@MeNoTalk OK but what about capitalising the first word of each sentence?

6:08 AM

popping in to say BOUNTY!

2

Q: Marital status for re-entering USA if you got married abroad without registering?

If I came to the US as a single student on an F1 visa, then during college vacation got married abroad (but did not register it in any country) is it okay to declare my marital status as single? I'm concerned they'll deny me entry if I attempt to enter the country since I don't have the intent to...

customs-and-immigration f1-visas

BOUNTY!

4

Q: Will it be a problem for my Russian girlfriend to apply for a US nonimmigrant visa in Beijing while working in China on a business visa?

I would like to have my Russian girlfriend come visit me in San Francisco on a B-2 visa. She is currently working in Beijing, China as an English teacher. However, she received her employment through some type of agency (that basically finds internationals jobs in China and takes a cut of their p...

visas usa china b1-b2-visas russian-citizens

BOUNTY!

4

Q: Do I still need a blood test for a Kurdistan residency permit?

For a stay exceeding 15 days in Kurdistan even nationals of some visa free countries need residency permission. The short-term requirements are mentioned by the Kurdistan Regional Government and include: Evidence that the applicant has undertaken a blood test according to the procedures of th...

regulations residency iraqi-kurdistan

6:26 AM

week in NZ, couple of days back here and in theory, surgery tomorrow. Then I'll have enforced time to sit and scope out the chat again ;)

17 more hours left to enter the March answerathon:

3

Q: March Answerathon - NOW OPEN

To give people time to enter, this will start on March 1st, UTC at midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for your answer. once the upvote has occurred (and not earlier)), edit the latest answer on this page f...

discussion unanswered-questions fun competitions

3 hours later…

9:03 AM

i've been going wild on Quora the past few days.

The freedom to answer any old kind of question is great.

The freedom to post hunch, guess, assumption, fluff "answers" is not great.

9:17 AM

@JoErNanO hit shit+F3 again to get that.

9:33 AM

@MeNoTalk I often forget you're the Microsoft guy. :)

@hippietrail Come back to the dark side.

@JoErNanO you mean smart guy ;) :D

i'm also on the dark side. but nothing's happening here. d-:

Actually we think @MeNoTalk is actually a sockpuppet for Bill Gates

Potato, potAto.

Nothing's happening because you are constantly on the road.

So it's your fault. :)

@hippietrail sockpuppet for Bill Gates? he is sockpuppet for halabi...

oh everything's happening here on the road, just nothing's happening here in the chatroom

9:37 AM

@hippietrail I bought a $70 windows tablet, man it will be perfect for you.. HP Stream 7.

it is my daily driver now when I am away from home..

How much does bill gates pay you? it's OK you're between friends now, you can say.

:P

@MeNoTalk: forward it to my guesthouse in Kampot then please (-;

i will forward the page.. hahahahahaha

@JoErNanO i wouldn't mind a 0.0000001% commission..

I actually calculated it now.. 0.0000001% from bill gate's wealth ($80B) is only 80 bucks.. damn it..

enough to buy a windows tablet

barely

9:42 AM

there you go!

clearly that's how much he pays you, then.

anyway, the tablet comes with a 1 yr office subscription and 25% worth Skype minutes..

this costs around 80%.. so, it is basically a free tablet ;)

What's 25% worth?

Ah OK that's a dollar sign.

:)

$ not %

how long is the notepad subscription?

The chat app shows me percentage signs. Either she's drunk, I'm drunk or you're drunk.

9:45 AM

i can sell you a tablet for $100 with a free collection of human excrement worth $100 - that's also a free tablet!

hahahahahahaha

you are mean @hippietrail

some people don't deserve free gifts d-:

That would be a great social experiment.

Would you take it?

me?

apparently there's no tax on computers in cambodia but i'm having trouble finding something cheaper than in australia anyway

9:51 AM

@hippietrail what kind of computer u r interested in? notebooks?

hmm $269 is pretty cheap

cheap but decent brand (such as asus) low power netbook

that's still $345 AUD but more powerful than my current one which is a POS hp

5 hours later…

2:47 PM

@MarkMayo this does not bode well for me. Not really had a chance to look until this morning, and I'm not optimistic :-/

3:28 PM

Maybe this one

1

A: In the Grenadines, how could you get scuba tanks for diving if already on a boat?

Couple of parts to this answer: In the Grenadines, there is not anywhere that is far inland, and even on St. Vincent you cannot get more than about 6 miles from the sea. Dive shops are almost always at the dock/marina/shore - this may sound obvious, but they are where they will get business: ri...

3:48 PM

@MeNoTalk did you mean 'Shift'...?

@RoryAlsop good catch.. LoL

I guess the "smart" auto correct made it shit instead of shift because of my excessive use of the former..

@menotalk you are happy with your HP smart?

@menotalk would you give that to someone who is >70 as a present?

hi btw ;)

@andra hi there

HP stream you mean.. Yes I would.

Less complicated screen than android..

I just saw that I can only buy it online :(

how is life treating you @menotalk

still in indonesia?

4:26 PM

@andra life is treating me as it always did,,,, 50% 50%

and still, in saudi and Indonesia.. depends..

lucky traveler ;)

not really.. no new places.. been busy... there is always change in plans lately..

@andra how is life treating you?

are you going to be in Amsterdam/paris/bruxelles by the end of march/beginning of april?

4:40 PM

travel.diycenter.net/2013/12/14/…

I would not have skipped Council Bluffs in the Northern leg, but the Southern leg looks fine

The first dot in Montana would be the Little Big Horn battleground memorial

@GayotFow I have been to the US many many times (60 > times?) but always its 2-4 days.. only once or twice I stayed more than a week.. one day I will really love to spend a month there and tour the whole country...

i only been to 4 states..

or 5

which 4?

NY, VA, NJ, CA..

whats the state next to VA.. i forgot..

4:56 PM

md?

or NC

let me check..

where Baltimore is...

is that MD?

yes it is..

MD, Maryland

that's it..

5 states

Natives call it Balmer

i liked it.. there is a harbor there with nice restaurants and cafes..

4:58 PM

Yes, know it quite well

i spent a day there.. with a group of drunk people.. it was nice..

very well in fact :)

But I prefer a bit further up the coast to Rehobeth

Not as brash as balmer

never been there, i will go there once..

you mean to Rehobeth?

yup..

i have a note, where i put names.. bucketlist..

5:01 PM

I mean Rehobeth Beach in Delaware

It's a very cool place

noted.

The outer banks has it's moments. You could write down Duck, North Carolina

Rehobeth, Duck, they are totally American hangouts

will i look awkward there as an Arab?

Nah......

I remember one having a dinner at a local diner somewhere next to NYC, and people were not really happy with idea of me being there.. i made sure to leave a big tip (50%) because i was staying around for 3 days and i liked the food.. next day i was welcomed in a better way :)

5:06 PM

NJ?

it was in long island..

Yeah, I never liked long island

long island is in NY? right//

yes,

it stops being cool once you leave brooklyn/queens

it becomes full with rich people..

5:08 PM

Great Gatsby country

lol

i still remember that place for the chix wings they had...

Although I must confess the ferry from Montauk to New London CT is like a dream

in the summer that is

@GayotFow stop filling my bucketlist..

You can take the ferry from Mantauk to New London, and drive for an hour

and then take the ferry to Martha's Vineyard

:)

:) :)

my next plan is an Asian tour, inspired by @hippietrail's tours.. I liked it, i see his photos in FB all the time..

5:11 PM

And then take the ferry to Nantucket

although we have different travel styles, but i can achieve some of what he did..

I should plan more Asian stuff

i am planning for a 6 months unpaid leave.. and then spend it on the road.. but kids and these plans do not work well..

lots of plans.. none come to reality lately..

Bring the kids along.

Plenty of questions here on how to do that. :)

I never got to go fishing on Lake Titicaca

5:17 PM

@MarkMayo I've been advertising the answerathon without any shame to our new and not-so-new posters. Let's see.

@JoErNanO not as easy as it sounds.. especially when my wife lost the ability to walk due to some rare disease recently.. and that requires a few surgeries to fix her legs..

i need to ask questions about people with disabilities.. but never had good questions because no plans.. i am sure good questions will come to mind when we decide to travel..

Does she have a blue badge?

whats that?

That's the answer :)

lol..

5:22 PM

I was going to ask a killer question about St Chad's Well

but decided to research a bit more first

@GayotFow do not know whats that..

looks like a Christian thing?

Yes, sacred well... But this one is basically lost

i have a rage on religions lately.. kinda sick of all of them..

i guess it is normal as we grow up.. not sure..

It's rooted in the pagan if that makes any difference :)

didn't understand you..

5:37 PM

The well was a pagan spot before the Christians took over it

i think religions are holy and great.. except when humans fucked them by additions...

3

Q: Can food from Indian restaurants in America be found in India?

I love Indian food, specifically the following dishes that can be found in many Indian restaurants in America: Kadai chicken (also known as karahi chicken) Chicken jalfrezi Chicken madras Would I be able to find those dishes if I travel to India? The reason I ask this question is because I'v...

india food-and-drink

In the UK you wouldn't ask such a question

exactly,,,,,

@MeNoTalk i'm two to three months behind in my photo uploads \-:

Just ask your neighbour

5:45 PM

@GayotFow or if in London, ask the owner.. buhahahahahahaha

It's somewhat a silly question

one time i was in London during the Eid Islamic day, and i was shocked.. Indians and Pakistanis are doing some weird stuff.. it was around oxford..

America is about 5 time zones and maybe a quarter million indian restaurants

they are putting flags and riding cars.. some sort of wired competition..

@MeNoTalk sorry to hear that I had no idea. That could be one more reason to go on holiday together though.

5:48 PM

@JoErNanO sure mate, but even in normal cases she is not into that style of travelling.. so i enjoy being alone ;)

Sometimes they get along better than you would expect

That new law they are making in Italy would never work here

Makes sense.

@GayotFow which of the many laws?

That no more mosques can be built or something like that

obviously madras is half a continent away from dehli, what do you expect LOL

have not heard of that law.

Northern Italy

Austria is even worse

Now leaders from the Northern Italian region of Lombardy have gone a step further by passing a provisional law that forbids any more mosques to be built, while at the same time establishing monitoring for those mosques already in existence.

6:31 PM

How do they define a mosque? Switzerland has a law against minarets IIRC

7:05 PM

there is no definition of mosque in islam, any land is good for prayer..

the minaret and other art evolved in time I guess..

2 hours later…

8:42 PM

@JoErNanO damn you mate... 32 seconds ahead of me :D

@JoErNanO CHEATER hahahahahahaha

you used the window time for the edit history to appear.. lol

I don't know what you are talking about. :)

Jokes aside I use the android app which is far from being smooth and perfect.

So I really don't know what you mean.

ok, your answer was a one-liner...

then you added other stuff.. but it doesn't show an edit history, because there is a minute or so if you edited the answer in it will not show the edit history..

Ah yes that was me. I had to go fetch the link and quote, and to do so I must switch apps. More than once I had drafts that were not saved and hence lost so now I post before switching.

Did not know about the time window.

Anyhow you have my +1. I'm all maxed out in Rep for today... :P

anyway, I still need to work on answer for the FEB answerathon.

you have mine as well..

you have my +1, not because I love you.. but because you will not gain any rep, and because there is a sportsmanship badge.. hahahahahahaha

@JoErNanO we both were beaten badly by that answer.. hahahaha

8:59 PM

yes that was truly a race. but @phoog deserves the acceptance.

I've been swiping/typing with my left hand, while on the toilet

that was hard.

please do NOT share what was the right hand busy with..

And I already got a sportsmanship badge. Ha!

There's a question for that. I've been wanting to try many of the methods mentioned since I first joined tse... :D

speaking of your right hand..

When I was quickly reading the questions page, my eyes read "Does Mastercard or American Express..." as "Does masturbating on American express..."..

Still better than masturbating with...

lol

I miss @Geeo...

he used to like shitty dirty chatting..

I hereby summon @Geeo..

9:05 PM

go stalk him

Get him to come back: you clearly need him.

I can read it in your eyes.

lol

I need to go and cook the liver I just bought.. but i do not know how to cook..

so, let go fuck it, then order something by phone..

see ya all..

@andra I did not manage to board the earlier train because neither air France not SNCF knew whose responsibility it was to change my ticket.

Cook it as a steak.

:(

Thin slices. Then pan. Just a bit of oil.

TAt thalys it is the train manager

I guess you met the stereotypical bureaucrat

@MeNoTalk yeah I'll be arround

I might have a trip to the UK

but that will be one/two day trip

9:09 PM

@andra they ping-ponged me to one another up and down the platform and ticket booth until the train leaved. Should have done it the Italian way and just boarded the train.

:)

@andra I am going there with a friend for a two day trip to paris, including one day to Amsterdam...

Is it this "friend" again?

no, a real friend..

not one of the "friends"

@JoErNanO and then take the blond approach

"Oh I was just told by this nice man at the station, that it was okay"

9:11 PM

next time I am in paris with a "friend", I will let her bring her other "friend" and invite you.. hahahaha

@JoErNanO little slices, some onions and tomato.. that what was in mind, as a theory.. in practice I am sure it will turn out to be something else..

well I still owe you a coffee, so there might be the opportunity to cash in

i will be glad to meet you :)

likewise

but to answer your question

I have dived in the deep being a entrepeneur

which turned not so bad, but less time to spent on travel.se

and traveling in general :(

so, travelling is bad :( and travel.se is better :) ?

let me mess with that liver now..

@andra come back to your roots!

9:15 PM

ciao

:)

@MeNoTalk tell me when you are in Paris

See you man enjoy the liver

@JoErNanO i will (y)

thanks.. i will try to put photos of the liver when cooked :D

10:14 PM

And sorry I stole your February answer. ;)

« first day (1349 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (3349 days later) »

Transcript for

Mar '152

You Are Here

Chat room for Travel.SE travel.stackexchange.com

join this room
about this room

00:00

06:00

12:00

18:00

all times are UTC

site design / logo © 2024 Stack Exchange Inc; legal

mobile