Why the fuck are you so affraid of us?!?!?! :@

[Nine]

Reminds me of this bit from The Dictator:

If you haven't seen the movie its full of complete gems.

[Annik]

Here in Europe we grope each other anyway.

And have been doing so since the French existed.

Don't worry, you'll be welcome here. :3 And American girls gush over any European accent. ;D

[Shell B]

Don't worry, you'll be welcome here. :3

Speak for yourself. He did say he was planning on coming to Boston. We might be able to tolerate minorities, but Germans? Pfft.

[Brian37]

I would understand such precautions when citizens from a country like... Algeria, Egypt or Pakistan want to enter the US.

But Europe?

Lefty judges won't let us use some common sense profiling. Sorry.

Oh like listening to ABBA makes one a meat smoker automatically? So by that standard anyone who doesn't like ABBA is likely to blow up an abortion clinic.

Lets just all profile each other because that is far more easy than treating each other as individuals.

[Mystical]

How are they going to know that you did acid, ate shrooms, and took qu'aaludes in the 70s unless you tell em?

[Kayenneh]

Now that would be a feat, since Germans never lived during the 70's!

[Annik]

I pretty sure that there were some Germans around in the 70s (lol).

I doubt you'll have much trouble, Germans.

[Something completely different]

I dont know jet if I will be coming this year, but I know that I will be visiting you within the next 2 years.
I just wanted to get informed and I am still getting informed.
I have heared the weirdest horror stories on how every single detail of life is checked and that it can take a year until one finaly receives the visa.


I am 23, so no, I didn`t exist during the 70s. My parents didn`t even know each other then.

[Gooders1002]

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So I have been playing with the thought to visit Annik, Hovik and Psykhronic in Jacksonville (Florida) and Boston (Massachusetts) this summer or upcoming autumn, so I went to a travel agency and looked up the cheapest ways to get there, turning out that it wasn`t that expensive and that It would cost me an estimated 700 - 900 Euros which is pritty reasonable for a transatlantic flight (weirdly enought flying to Australia, Korea and Japan from Frankfurt or Munich is cheaper).
Now what pisses me really of are the things required by the US embessy to let me travel there.

I need a a 90 days tourist Visa, which is ok, a bit unusual to me since traveling within the EU no longer requires a visa for Eu citizens.
But why does the visa cost 60 Euros? A visa for Russia costs 25. For 60 Euros I could buy the Russian goverment for a day!

I need a passport, which is ok since I am on a flight. Traveling in EU countries without taking a flight is possible without a passport aslong as you are a EU citizen and have a ID with you. But a special passport with an electronic chip in it and a passport pic like some fucking criminal?

And why do you want to know so much about me? Suposedly, If I have ever used drugs, been inbeded with prostetution, member of a socialist group or ingaged in any other "inmoral activities" I cannot enter the US.
Now, if I would answere the provided questionaire honestly, I would not be able to enter the US. Since I was once a member of a marxist student group and have had a bit of a drug history.
And why ask the silly question: "Are you planning to engage in terrorist activities within the US?"
do you seriously believe that a potential terrorist will answere with: "Yes! please fucking arrest me and ship me to Guantanamo where we can engage in waterbording and other activites."
And why must I give up the complete details of my ID again, (Name, Adress, place of birth, citizenship)? Arent these on my fucking passport?

I would understand such precautions when citizens from a country like... Algeria, Egypt or Pakistan want to enter the US.

But Europe?

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This is even more stupid as me a UK citizen for a 90 day visa I have to play 117 Euros and were supposed to be best buddies with the USA. Seriously WTF.

[Something completely different]

Are Germans not buddies with the USA?