Current Annoyances

[Dalty]

It's funny, but we always laugh at US Bureacracy the same way and snigger a little after chortling 'Land Of The Free'.

I guess the moral of this story is that everything of state is a bureaucratic nonsense everywhere and doubly so if you are not of that state.

Remind me, was Jubboiter born in Germany?

[Jubbers]

No We flew back a month before her expected arrival.

[Jubbers]

It would have been cool if we had both been born there.

[Dalty]

Darnit! Shame, because would she then have got dual citizenship automatically?

[Jubbers]

No, sadly. German citizenship requires parental citizenship for automatic conferral. I don't have it because my parents are both US citizens, therefore Jubboiter also would not have it. I wish I had it.

[Dalty]

That's a bummer. My friends in Canada and my friends in Australia both have auto citizenship for their child because the kid was born "on premises".

The only complication is the Canadian side, because apparently if they then come back to the UK then the child must go back to Canada for a period of time (many months, can't remember now) before the 18th birthday to maintain it.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Jubbers could have been German. Her parents were at fault. Too much American pride.

[Jubbers]

The rules changed when Germany united, which was before I could make decisions about these things.

[Dalty]

I remember watching the wall come down. I had just got home from Cubs. My dad made me sit on the sofa and said "watch this, it's going to be important!"

[Dalty]

It might have been Scouts. One, I came home and watched the wall come down, the other, I got home just in time to see Germany score a really fluke goal against England in the World Cup.

Uniform confusion!!!!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

No one else in my class--not a single damned kid--seemed to realize how big a deal it was or to care in the slightest that it was happening. Granted, they hadn't grown up in Germany like I had. But still!

Fuckin' Alabama farm town, man.

[Dalty]

I had grown up in the UK which the Russians referred to as "America's Aircraft Carrier" off Europe. Films like "Threads" and "When The Wind Blows" were a big deal at the time and the Russians were terrified of Thatcher as part of the Reagan double act. When it happened it was a big fucking deal here and I remember it clear as day.

[omicron]

I took 3 years of German in high school, and I remember my teacher tearing up about it. I don't recall if we were watching it in the classroom or it was the next day but she was pretty emotional.

[neglet]

There's a possibility that someday we might have to move to Germany for my husband's job. (Please keep this info restricted to the lounge.) if we do, it will not be as easy as when we moved to the UK, since the Spousal Unit is a dual US-Canada citizen, which meant no work permit for him. And I don't speak any German, except to say "scheise."

[Dalty]

Move here, hubby and I will do some Gaybo pretend marriage thing and then everyone else will have to let us in or else they are massively racist or something.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Current Annoyance
The Baltimore situation has given my white, Alabamian Facebook brethren another chance to remind me how they feel about black people.

[Dalty]

I did see that liquor stores have also been looted, 'cos rioting is thirsty work, right? I have definitely seen some white rioters though. Did your Alabamians notice that?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It's hard to tell. Most of them are being passive-aggressive about the whole thing and using equivocative language.

[Dalty]

I would be outraged, if I knew what equivocative language was!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I considered "equivocal language," but "equivocal" can hint at something like open-mindedness/considering things from more than one perspective. I also considered using "equivocation," but I usually reserve it for more focused discussions of logical fallacies. Also, it's a word I only like to use once a year on the boards. I still have a bit to go until the one-year anniversary of my last use of it.

[Dalty]

Nope, not a clue. You a way more smarterer than me.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

You take that back!

[Dalty]

Back to where? I don't have a receipt. It was a gift.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Just wrap it up and regift it to someone else.

[Dalty]

Here, I got you something.