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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    01:59 PM

    In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
     
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    01:45 PM

    In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
    This morning, when I blew a fuse making toast and plugging in an electric space heater, my first thought was that Russian gangsters had gotten wind of my critical stance on Putin.
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    Image of BicycleShed BicycleShed
    01:22 PM

    In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
    Maybe this is just car karma for her agitating for Polanski's release while not disclosing her relationship with her husband (who has also been critical of the Polanski prosecution). Regardless of where you stand on Polanski, Applebaum should have provided full disclosure when she wrote her WaPo column on the subject.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    01:19 PM

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I'm going to go one better and just not leave my house.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    02:16 PM

    @Mama Penguino: Soulmate.
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    Image of lustylady lustylady
    12:59 PM

    In reply to The Tiger Woods Mistress Dossier (Updated)
    It says "I will wear you out....When was the last time you got laid?" in the US Weekly I'm looking at. (I love the photo of her holding up the phone with "Tiger W" on it - as if that alone proves that it's his number in her phone?)
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12:22 PM

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    Hey, kiddies, remember: The Talented Mr. Ripley is NOT a how-to guide (it's harder than it looks).
    Or, for safety's sake, always travel in groups of three. That way you can frame your unknowing third wheel for your own mischievous, homicidal highjinks.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    12:06 PM

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I always try and follow this one: "Do your best not to be near the scenes of any vicious felony murders." But then I always run smack into the gentle misdemeanor sort.
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    Image of She_of_the_Socks She_of_the_Socks
    11:45 AM

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I thought the Fay case went down in Singapore, not Japan. Or maybe I'm just confused and you didn't mean to insinuate that all these events happened in the same country.

    "Do not be a terrible person whilst traveling or working abroad" might be excellent advice as well in either case, I suppose.
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    Edited by She_of_the_Socks at 12/07/09 11:47 AM She_of_the_Socks was starred She_of_the_Socks was unstarred
    Image of QADude QADude
    12:51 PM

    @She_of_the_Socks: I think that simply "Don't be an asshole" would be the best advice.

    Fay was dealt with in Singapore, where they don't screw around with people. I remember the Singapore embassy in SF being overrun with phone calls from people offering to cane Fay.
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    Image of She_of_the_Socks She_of_the_Socks
    01:52 PM

    @QADude: Sometimes being an asshole is helpful, though! For example, in dealing with employees at JFK, re: a friend's lost luggage. No one would listen to me until I began getting terribly impolite and causing a scene, screaming, "Suitcases don't dissolve into thin air. That luggage is somewhere in this fucking airport and I am not leaving without it. So stop talking on the phone with your boyfriend, summon the strength to keep your eyes from rolling each time I address you, do your fucking job, and I'll be out of your face forever." And then the luggage was found within five minutes.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11:39 AM

    In reply to Presenting the Worst Health Care Issue Spot, Ever: 'I Guess I'm a Racist'
    "I guess I'm a rapist. ... I mean RACIST, sorry. Racist! I never raped anyone. Ever."
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11:37 AM

    In reply to Presenting the Worst Health Care Issue Spot, Ever: 'I Guess I'm a Racist'
    "Apparently, a *lot* of people in this country are racist." **Snicker snicker** **eye-roll*** "NOT."
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    11:10 AM

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I visited Italy shortly after those douche shits from the US Military flew their plane too low fucking around trying to "see if they could fly it underneath a cable car wire" and ended up shearing the wire, sending a gondola full of Italian skiiers (20!) to their deaths. As this was fresh in their minds, needless to say, I felt compelled to be on my best behavior...

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    12:10 PM

    @lobstr: There is definitely a sense of entitlement for gringos abroad. Probably we are the most hated visitor to any land. (In Julio's that year, that was generally agreed, but one said the Canadians are pretty bad too.) I know my pals and I always avoided them in Mexico, and we wuz them! Obnoxious, demanding asses.

    On another note, just why was it the Iraquis didn't greet Our Boys with roses and sunshine?
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    10:55 AM

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I only know what I see on Locked Up Abroad, but American embassies don't seem to be as helpful as I was always told. *Maybe* they'll help get you an english-speaking lawyer, but that's about it.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    10:54 AM

    In reply to Presenting the Worst Health Care Issue Spot, Ever: 'I Guess I'm a Racist'
    But you wanna know who the REAL racist is?? Bet you won't see this twist coming!! It's that black Kenyan muslin Obama!!!! OMG!!! But his sinister and evil Kenyan muslin blackness kinda gave it away right? LOL!

    That's right, brethren. The racism is coming from inside the White House!!!
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    10:41 AM

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    Guede is the sole perpetrator. Really, they find irrefutable evidence of sexual contact with her and then his stools in her toilet. He's also a drug dealer and a known thief who flees to Germany after the crime. Plus, his version of events didn't have anything at all to do with Sollecito/Knox. Come on now, wouldn't he think to implicate them if they had actually played some sort of role in the crime? His fake story goes in a completely different direction. What happened here is that the Italian police went and found some confused college students, interrogated them and then used their confused statements as evidence of their guilt.
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    Image of once once
    11:22 AM

    @i'm a bottle: I'm fascinated by this story & have been following it on both CNN (here she seems totally innocent) & BBC (mostly guilty). It's a real mystery. The DNA evidence does seem contaminated while the circumstantial is quite strong. Knox accused her boss, Patrick Lumumba, of going into Kercher's room before she heard screaming - then she changed her story to not having been at the apartment at all b/c she was at Sollecito's. (Lumumba was later found to have an airtight alibi) Her story didn't just change from possible police bullying - it radically changed.
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    11:36 AM

    @once: They're innocent, but they still felt it necessary to lie. I'm pretty convinced that they were really scared, and thought to lie their way out of it, but they obviously underestimated police thoroughness and got tripped up in their lies. Just because someone lies doesn't mean they're guilty.

    Also, try to reconstruct everything you did on an otherwise unremarkable day when you've got a team of highly-trained investigators who are trying to trip you up. Add alcohol and illegal substances in the mix, and you've got an insurmountable problem on your hands.

    The best course of action is to write down what you can remember for yourself and then stick to that story. Don't let them try to talk you into implicating others either. That's such a credibility killer.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    12:17 PM

    @i'm a bottle: Over a thousand women have disappeared in Juarez in the last few years - probably many more, as that many were found in shallow graves. The policia are directly implicated, and so they go out and grab some dumb gringos and beat them until there is a confession. Case solved.
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    Image of markscottmusic markscottmusic
    10:31 AM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Destiny Aligns Us with the Vows Section
    Anyone who makes a big deal about not watching TV - like those two guys who got married do - are douchebags. I'd hate to be that kid living in the house.
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