Fun living in foreign lands

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:15 am

For all of us who've forsaken our homelands to live somewhere better/different (?)

FrankTrollman wrote: Yeah, events in Europe are a always a barrel of laughs.

That is much worse than Vietnam. VN can be quite easy actually, they're big on corruption so you can usually pay your way through many of these bureaucratic nightmares.

I'm trying to get my marriage papers through right now. I have to get a psychological test to show I'm not crazy (anyone who has ever met a vietnamese girl will know you have to be crazy if you are thinking of marrying them) and a dozen little bits of paper from the 4 corners of the earth. But a lawyer can grease the wheels for about 300$.

Then I can stop bribing the police to let her cohabitate with me.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:20 pm

I think this is as good a place as any to categorize the world's dumbest military conflicts:

Honduran - El Salvador Futbol conflict.
The Might of the UN chops down a fucking tree.
China seizes barren wasteland.
Thatcher sacrifices navy to hold strategic sheep.

-Username17

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:25 pm

Let's not forget
Reagan rescues a bunch of med students who weren't good enough to make it into a real school
Bush Sr. argues with his coke dealer
and words can't even describe this one

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:30 pm

Cod War I, Cod War II, Cod War III
India reclaims frozen hellscape

-Username17

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:46 pm

Actress Race Riot

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:53 am

Re: Operation Just Cause

More like "Operation Just Because", amirite?

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:21 am

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Grenada seems like one of the few conflicts like these that didn't end up completely fucked up by our involvement. That's worth something, right?

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:22 am

Surgo wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but Grenada seems like one of the few conflicts like these that didn't end up completely fucked up by our involvement. That's worth something, right?

Grenada was a distraction. Essentially, the US had troops being sent to Lebanon, which was a bad place to go. Israeli mass murders that we were going to be assisting with, urban pacification with no plan - it was going to be bad. On the way over, Reagan suddenly decided that we needed to liberate a random island that happened to be ruled by commies.

Frankly, it was stupid. The entire thing can be boiled down to "It's a slow news day, let's shoot some islanders to make the people happy."

-Username17

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:26 am

Well , Grenada was just pointless from the get go. The US had originally wanted to remove, Bishop, the pro-Cuban leader who had been deposed before the invasion even took place. The Cubans even said they wouldn't interfere in the invasion as long as the americans didn't attack the areas their troops on the island defended (which the US refused to do, of course).

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:42 am

Fun if you live in Peru, doesn't have to end at work any more

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:48 pm

Artist Suckers EU {OK}

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:18 pm

X-rate Consumer Report work friendly
The last paragraph is the icing on the cake