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Search: Posts Made By: Okachickima
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Forum: USA
Jul 14th 2010, 6:51 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,002
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Best Business States in America

No, California was 48th in that category, ahead of only Hawaii and New York.
Forum: USA
Jul 10th 2010, 6:45 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 12,929
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Do you think police and laws are too tough in USA?

More than 600,000 private citizens in Florida alone have concealed handgun permits, and there are more than five million permit holders in the U. S.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 2nd 2010, 5:08 am
Replies: 27
Views: 1,965
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Close encounter with a rattlesnake

It is very irresponsible to leave a poisonous snake alive around buildings or where children play. They have a homing instinct and will try to return if removed. And I will point out again, for those...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 23rd 2010, 6:09 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,361
Posted By Okachickima

Re: How far for Jury Duty?

For a trial in state court once in Texas, one hundred miles each way per day, with no provision for mileage or lodging. In Arizona I was excused, apparently on the basis that I would have to travel...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Mar 10th 2010, 5:42 am
Replies: 68
Views: 4,972
Posted By Okachickima

Re: US Senate pushing biometric ID cards.

Of course, only one state does lie between if you go by way of Tennessee.
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Mar 10th 2010, 1:46 am
Replies: 68
Views: 4,972
Posted By Okachickima

Re: US Senate pushing biometric ID cards.

Since when have Mississippi and Missouri had a common border?
Forum: USA
Feb 14th 2010, 6:45 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,034
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Mexico's drug war

All true. I thought from your first post that you might be one of those people with their heads in the sand that argue that the press is sensationalizing the situation in Mexico and that its overall...
Forum: USA
Feb 14th 2010, 4:24 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,034
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Mexico's drug war

Why would it? It would not be considered high for any Mexican city.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 6th 2010, 2:49 pm
Replies: 164
Views: 10,783
Posted By Okachickima

Re: family giving me a hard time

At the grocery store, you ask the local Mexican worker (who struggles to understand 'American', let alone variants) "Where are the Tomatoes" (with a UK pronunciation) and they will probably struggle...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Feb 1st 2010, 5:12 pm
Replies: 163
Views: 10,920
Posted By Okachickima

Re: A personal opinion of the USA

So you are operating under some personal definition of the word that you expect others to know but you are unable to articulate. And I don't think that any amount of reading will show that the state...
Forum: USA
Feb 1st 2010, 8:18 am
Replies: 107
Views: 7,017
Posted By Okachickima

Re: A series of questions about USA

Talk about paranoia!
Forum: The Trailer Park
Feb 1st 2010, 5:53 am
Replies: 163
Views: 10,920
Posted By Okachickima

Re: A personal opinion of the USA

I am interested myself in knowing what "socialism" is if not what the dictionary--in this case Merriam-Webster--says, and why the Soviet Union was not "socialist" under the first definition.
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Forum: USA
Jan 30th 2010, 3:45 am
Replies: 227
Views: 14,194
Posted By Okachickima

Re: US - UK Dictionary

The implement used just for picking up and throwing loose material--snow, coal, grain, whatever- is a "scoop".
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jan 24th 2010, 4:32 pm
Replies: 96
Views: 15,677
Posted By Okachickima

Re: English accents on TV

Your reference is the first time I ever heard the term.
Forum: USA
Jan 24th 2010, 7:15 am
Replies: 63
Views: 6,967
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Another Pat wanting to live the american dream.

Actually, from Miami to the Yucatán is only about 680 miles, but that might involve crossing Cuban airspace.
Forum: USA
Jan 20th 2010, 6:37 pm
Replies: 57
Views: 4,119
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Property taxes... who pays the most?

These figures make my $148 per year seem not quite so onerous.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 17th 2010, 4:44 pm
Replies: 178
Views: 9,291
Posted By Okachickima

Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!

You are not racist and there is not a lot that scares you, yet you are absolutely horrified at simply driving through a non-white community?
Forum: USA
Jan 13th 2010, 8:53 pm
Replies: 121
Views: 9,600
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Feeling very down about the whole thing

In my neck of the woods schoolteachers are traditionally house painters during the summer.
Forum: USA
Dec 14th 2009, 11:22 pm
Replies: 154
Views: 11,340
Posted By Okachickima

Re: just became usa citizen however now usa passport, have uk passport travel to Can

It seems I was mistaken. Apparently the Natz. Cert. can't be used even at a land border.
Forum: USA
Dec 14th 2009, 10:22 pm
Replies: 154
Views: 11,340
Posted By Okachickima

Re: just became usa citizen however now usa passport, have uk passport travel to Can

If the inquirer is planning to enter by a land port instead of an airport in order to get around the passport requirement he should remember to have his naturalization certificate with him as...
Forum: USA
Dec 14th 2009, 7:23 pm
Replies: 154
Views: 11,340
Posted By Okachickima

Re: just became usa citizen however now usa passport, have uk passport travel to Can

Until recent years (after 9/11) U. S. citizens departing for or entering from any country in North or South America except Cuba were exempted by regulation from the U. S. passport requirement.

At...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 11th 2009, 2:35 pm
Replies: 405
Views: 30,090
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Is your accent a problem here?

I've encountered it once or twice among the Heather generation and they pronounced it like the surname Collins. All the Colins I have ever known--a few down through the years--pronounced it with a...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 24th 2009, 3:08 am
Replies: 34
Views: 2,297
Posted By Okachickima

Re: British 'world's worst tourists'

If you don't like the results of that "study" just Google and you will find another (and a more recent one) from the BBC that badmouths the French and says the British are the second best tourists in...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 17th 2009, 4:16 pm
Replies: 64
Views: 3,160
Posted By Okachickima

Re: A question for our American members

+1.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 6th 2009, 1:38 am
Replies: 72
Views: 4,822
Posted By Okachickima

Re: Life in the United Kingdom

I got 15 out of 24 and I've never set foot in the place.
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