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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Mar 23, 2005 13:01:04 GMT -5
TUE. MARCH 22/2005
Today, I received yet another envelope containing nothing that I had requested.
Instead, there were 4 photocopied pages of a 20-page document that had been returned for me to fill in again because I had *used parentheses in a single line of the first page*, a practise which MINITRU™ claims has voided the entire application, thereby necessitating that I once again waste time in pursuit of lawyers, notaries public & various other civil servants on 2 continents.
Had I but known that I would be penalised for correct Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation & Diction, I would have hired an illiterate for whom English is a 3rd language to fill in the bloody forms for me in the first place!
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Post by lizimal on Jun 28, 2005 2:45:35 GMT -5
You see, my dear Malcolm, this is why Alaric and I decided to have nothing whatsoever to do with actually filling in any documentation that has to go to the DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY down here, instead opting to have the lawyers take care of everything and let us know when it is all over. The brief taste of the tangle of bureaucratic nonsense we've had whilst all this has been going on, including but not limited to: being pulled aside in the airport and being grilled not once, but twice, while trying to enter the U.S. for the purposes of visiting my then boyfriend; being told it would be different if I was, and I quote, "independently wealthy or over 65" and wanted to visit this country for longer than 3 months; being asked if I was moving to the U.S. for the purposes of becoming a prostitute... You get the idea. I do sincerely wish that your troubles with MINITRU TM subside quickly, however, and that you are once again in possession of all your correct and legal documentation proclaiming your citizenry. Be seeing you! Elizabeth (I guess I'm Mrs. VW now, lol!)
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Jun 28, 2005 11:23:08 GMT -5
You see, my dear Malcolm, this is why Alaric and I decided to have nothing whatsoever to do with actually filling in any documentation that has to go to the DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY down here, instead opting to have the lawyers take care of everything and let us know when it is all over. The brief taste of the tangle of bureaucratic nonsense we've had whilst all this has been going on, including but not limited to: being pulled aside in the airport and being grilled not once, but twice, while trying to enter the U.S. for the purposes of visiting my then boyfriend; being told it would be different if I was, and I quote, "independently wealthy or over 65" and wanted to visit this country for longer than 3 months; being asked if I was moving to the U.S. for the purposes of becoming a prostitute... You get the idea. I do sincerely wish that your troubles with MINITRU TM subside quickly, however, and that you are once again in possession of all your correct and legal documentation proclaiming your citizenry. Be seeing you! Elizabeth (I guess I'm Mrs. VW now, lol!) ELIZABETH,
What very pleasant surprise; welcome to the domain! I had wondered what had become of you, but had hoped that you had joined MR. ROBERT RODRIGUEZ’S film commune.
That’s good advice; thanks for the intel. Ironically, the play in which I’m currently appearing addresses that very practise in order to skirt those very same issues.
I’m intimate with the peculiar form of public humiliation preferred by U.S. Customs personnel, for I have suffered it since 1989. I fail to grasp how being “over 65” would prevent someone from engaging in terrorism or organised crime, but I imagine being “independently wealthy” would make it possible for them to receive bakshish from would-be foreign insurgents, while “becoming a prostitute” would be reason enough for them to allow one to cross their border, pending a free demonstration of one’s skills.
MINITRU™ has been the bane of my existence since before my conception, but I thank you for your good wishes, & pray that they travel from your mouth to GOD’S™ Ears.
Doubleplusgood, CITIZEN V.W.!
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Jul 14, 2005 19:14:15 GMT -5
It would appear that the same nonsense which led to the banning of "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN" by THE SEX PISTOLS™ is being seen once again in my homeland. MXnews.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/12/ nbbc12.xml BBC edits out the word terrorist By Tom Leonard (Filed: 12/07/2005) The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling the perpetrators as "terrorists", it was disclosed yesterday. Early reporting of the attacks on the BBC's website spoke of terrorists but the same coverage was changed to describe the attackers simply as "bombers". The BBC's guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the "careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments". Consequently, "the word 'terrorist' itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding" and its use should be "avoided", the guidelines say. Rod Liddle, a former editor of the Today programme, has accused the BBC of "institutionalised political correctness" in its coverage of British Muslims. A BBC spokesman said last night: "The word terrorist is not banned from the BBC."
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Post by ladytass2001 on Jul 14, 2005 22:49:52 GMT -5
boy that is alot of double speak huh?
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Jul 15, 2005 13:48:44 GMT -5
boy that is alot of double speak huh? Doubleplustrue, CITIZEN LADYTASS!
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Post by First Leftenant on Jul 15, 2005 16:40:48 GMT -5
a 'bomber' is a big plane that drops things from afar, a 'terrorist' delivers the explosives personally.
and when you consider what London went through in World War Two you'd think the BBC would be more sensitive about using the word 'bomber' so cavalierly!
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Jul 18, 2005 14:38:39 GMT -5
a 'bomber' is a big plane that drops things from afar, a 'terrorist' delivers the explosives personally. and when you consider what London went through in World War Two you'd think the BBC would be more sensitive about using the word 'bomber' so cavalierly! FL,
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