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This may or may not be rumour, so dont hold your breath, but..

According to a friend who knows someone pretty high up in the UK home office, due to the "special" relationship currently enjoyed between the US and UK (being best buddys and all), at some point next year there are plans to let British Nationals live in the US without a visa. Has anyone else heard about this? Is it common knowledge and I am just being slow? Or can anyone tell me categorically that this is not the case?
Im British and have a US fiancee.. so heres hoping!

oh and for all the people who are fascinated by pasties.. my mums cornish, and she makes the best pasties known to human kind, be they indigo, cobalt blue or viridian green. and whether they worship kumquats or my little ponies (the humans i mean, not the pasties. theyre kinda beige)

jimmyk

Sorry.

thing1

i'm curry loving and pasty...what does that make me?

Ranjini

Who exactly are these curry-loving friends you are talking about???? The Al queda?

Pimpbot

I would highly doubt that both countries would effectively open up their borders to each other that way.

Rete

JK

Asking nicely for you to edit your post. It is derogatory in nature and offensive to many nationalities who enjoy curry flavored foods.

One of the nice things about BE is the ability to correct what you have written.

Rete
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Rete

Seconded. It would need an Act of Congress and although the two countries are bosom buddies, I, personally, don't see that this would ever come to pass, at least in my lifetime. Although I don't see that the rumor included Britian opening its borders to the Yanks for immigration w/o visas.

Rete

missfrancosuiss

Strikes me like an April Fool's joke!

stevelisaw

I asked my hubby what pasties is supposed to mean as he's a Brit......he said he couldn't interpert a meaning for a quote made by an idiot (sorry if that offends anyone.)

BTW Steve LOVES curry, but doesn't resemble apparel worn by a stripper. (which is the only thing I can think a pastie means.)

cindyabs

Interesting thing I saw for myself in Birmingham Saturday, the President Saddam Hussein Mosque..........

shepslady

hehehe A pastie here in NZ is a pastry encased meat type of pie as I am sure it is in the UK too and they are also known as Cornish Pasties. Hope this little bit of useless knowledge helps !
Cheers Shepslady

ccalgreen

Yeah, I read that they were going to change the name, but I guess you have to choose your benefactors wisely just in case 10 years down the line they might turn out to be Public Enemy No.1 for American and British armed forces...

stevelisaw

lol oh I forgot about that type of pastie..........still who'd want to be likened to a pastry? Well.......wait I wouldn't mind being a Birds Vanilla Slice ........yummmmmmm...although that's not technically a pastry.

UK Isabelle

I think that in the context of JK's posting, pasty is derived from the word paste, i.e. pasty means "1. like paste, 2. white 3. sickly" (Collins Reference English Dictionary) and is the slang word for white people...

stevelisaw

Uh I got that .......was being sarcastic in not knowing as I find the poster's remarks to be racist and rather insensitive to a forum that isn't just for "whites" instead is multicultural.