Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	to become an american citizen or not	QUOTE (littlepoem @ Aug 12 2009, 01:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (charles! @ Aug 12 2009, 09:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (littlepoem @ Aug 11 2009, 06:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wonder if anyone else feels like I do. I have been married for 4 years to an American citizen and I am Canadian. At times I think about getting my American citizenship but I just can't seem to bring myself to do it. I am a permanent resident and I am not sure why I would become an American citizen. I guess I have a strong attachment to being Canadian and am proud of my country and my heritage. I know I have nothing to lose by becoming a citizen and probably more to gain but I am what I am, no matter what you call me...I am Canadian dammit lol...does anyone else feel this way. Actually, I never really felt that patriotic about my country until I left it.....ok i am done ranting....I just wondered how other Canadians felt. why do you hate canada? hi charles...ya brat hey if you have to bear arms, i've got a selection for you to choose from	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-08-12 13:56:00
Canada	to become an american citizen or not	QUOTE (JillA @ Aug 13 2009, 02:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm going to respect this country when I get citizenship, just as I do now. Anyhoo, I love how we Canadians are so polite when we all have a difference of opinion. If this topic has been in the OT forum, things would be ugly by now and locked too	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-08-13 14:53:00
Canada	to become an american citizen or not	yay kathryn! soon we'll have an american mod around here. carla, never heard of anything like that.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-08-14 07:12:00
Canada	to become an american citizen or not	Think she's actually talkin about the USA but she's in texas! what is there to hate?	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-02-11 15:28:00
Canada	snow blower envy!	received the below in an email. some may be able to find more info on this monster: ==================================== This is what will occur when an engineer and/or auto mechanic has too much time on his hands. Ready for another Snow Storm 454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet V8 produces 412 horsepower. Just in case you're havin' any trouble removing snow from your driveway... This baby will blow snow back to where it came from... And now for the rest of the story.... If you're tired of anemic, one-lung snow blowers with their slipping drive belts, you might consider Kai Grundt's V8 snow blower, which raises the bar on the traditional snow blower in every respect. With electric start, electric block heater, antifreeze heater and eight cylinders, it has no drive belts to freeze up and you'll never get bored with the job, as the 454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet V8 produces 412 horsepower, 430 foot pounds of torque and can throw snow 50 feet at just 3500 rpm. Nor will you get cold, as the machine has been ingeniously designed to route the engine coolant through the handle bars, with the rear mounted, enclosed radiator keeping the operator nice and cozy. Maneuvering the massive beast (it has a total wet weight of 912 lbs) is a breeze thanks to the hydraulic-drive 4WD skid steer on independent walking beams, which offers a zero turning radius. It's also as fast as you like, with an infinitely adjustable speed range on the drive wheels via dash mounted flow control. At the opposite end of the scale, it has more than enough torque to pull your car out of the ditch before the hydraulic motors stall! Adding to the well-balanced feel of the unit, just 15 pounds of down force on the handlebars will lift the auger blade off the ground in order to climb stairs/walkways for ease of snow removal. Safety has been, and continues to be, paramount, with spring return to center "fail safe" type directional controls with emergency stop and tether cords. Safety is one of the key themes, with a flashing blue light (as required by law in many areas) being the least of the safety features. None will fail to hear you with those twin throaty exhausts, which come standard with 92 decibels at the controls, though if the rumble of a V8 exhaust is music to your ears, you can obviously go much louder. Even at the standard baffling, hearing protection is strongly suggested. The powerful yard machine lights and a dashboard with back lit gauges complete the package to ease the burden of this normally reviled task. The custom 42 inch, two-stage auger has a Chevrolet 10 bolt truck differential with spool and a centrifugal auger clutch with shear pin protection, further adding to the image of this "automotive theme blower." As each unit is custom-built, optional extras for the snow blower are both diverse and outrageous as the base unit - there is unlimited auger choices from single to multi stage designs and various motor combinations to suit the religious preferences of the customer (Chevy, Dodge Hemi, Ford); and such exotica as a V-10 or a diesel engine or remote starting can be accommodated. And if, after a while, you feel you've outgrown the 400 horses, this particular engine is well catered for in the performance modification area, with Lunati camshaft, Milodon Gear drive, Holley and Edelbrock components to name a few; and there's always the fuel injection option too, if you feel you need to throw the snow out of the county or ensure your seat in the "neighborhood blower blingster hall of fame."	charles!	Male	Brazil	2011-02-10 11:29:00
Canada	Canadian Consulates	maybe you could merge or delete the other thread that is here in the canada forum as well!! organizers can't do that. duplicate topics have been merged.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2011-01-23 20:44:00
Canada	Dreaded MIL visit..	how to make inlaws leave soon.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-12-13 12:11:00
Canada	qualify medical exam doc in calgary	one unrelated to topic post removed	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-12-31 20:19:00
Canada	Holier then thou attitude	well canada does have so it gets my vote	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-10-19 22:45:00
Canada	Holier then thou attitude	would it help any to know the town i lived in while in missouri was about 10 times smaller than boonville?	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-12-06 15:15:00
Canada	Official misspeaks, seeks more sex stories	OTTAWA (Reuters) – A small but significant slip of the tongue had Canada's industry minister pleading for "more Canadian sex stories" on Monday, although he quickly insisted he was actually talking about success. "We need more more Canadian sex stories," Tony Clement told an Ottawa crowd during a speech on the government's digital strategy. A roar of laughter prevented him from correcting himself for a few seconds. "We need more Canadian SUCCESS stories ..." he said pausing to emphasize the correction, "... like RIM and its world-famous -- and now ubiquitous -- BlackBerry." Teased by reporters about the slip, Clement insisted he had not been thinking about sex. "The male brain is a very strange organ at times, isn't it? I have no explanation," he said. "It really was not on my mind. I want to stress that for the record. It just sort of blurted out." link	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-11-24 10:33:00
Canada	Removing Conditions	QUOTE (*Len* @ Jul 21 2009, 08:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And...... it's official people!!! Yours truly has her biometrics on 08/13 at 11 a.m.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-07-21 20:30:00
Canada	Removing Conditions	greetings fellow timbit lovers! i've been putting together the package for nessa's removal of conditions, this is the list so far of what i've assembled: general: -i 751 -check ($545 - $465+$80 biometrics) -copy front and back of green card -notification to renew -copy of driver's license -copy of military cac cards -copy of mil id cards sworn affidavits: -3 bank/credit cards: -copy of usaa checking (nov and dec) -copy of local checking (nov and dec) -copy credit card (joint) taxes: -2008 -2007 -2006 insurance: -car insurance policy and insurance cards - sbp paper shown on retirement account statement - farmer's life insurance - tricare insurance cards and assorted bills - work papers showing on insurance (2009 and 2008 enrollments) - delta dental bill of vanessa property: - vehicle titles (car, truck, trailer) - intro letter and house transfer on death deed - water bills other: - birth certificate - ben - pictures - post cards (neighbor, nessa's mother, and sister of charles) ------------------ now for the "dumb questions" 1. as noted above under property, there is a transfer on death deed for the house. the reason for this is i bought the house in 2003, before nessa and i met/married. citimortgage () refused to add her to the title unless i refinanced the house - about 5-7k out of pocket for that. the base JAG office suggested a transfer on death deed, which i did and filed at the county courthouse. - has anyone heard of this being used before as nessa isn't on the house title? 2. the taxes were filed electronically - do i need to include the entire form 1040 and the form 8879 (irs efile signature authorization). 3. how important are w-2's to be included with the above? 4. am i missing anything?	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-12-30 11:06:00
Canada	Removing Conditions	QUOTE (Chica Yeyé @ Dec 30 2009, 11:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> charles, include the bank statements from all years. Not all of them, but say, 2 from each year since you married menina. haven't kept them, so not an option.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-12-30 12:24:00
Canada	Removing Conditions	QUOTE (NArocks @ Dec 30 2009, 11:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Xan you go on line and re order? Just looks better to have then throughout the marriage, what about the bills are they over the years or just the last few months past few months, just like the checking accounts	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-12-30 12:32:00
Canada	Removing Conditions	in further news, nessa's removing conditions paperwork is on the way! QUOTE (Krikit @ Dec 30 2009, 10:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It looks like you have a complete package, Charles. it's not every day a mod tells me this.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-12-31 15:22:00
Canada	Removing Conditions	we used 3 - one of which was the all powerful global mod affidavit, which should result in instant approval. check cashed last week, now all we can do is wait.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-01-11 12:25:00
Canada	Throwing in the towel with the US immigration	topic title corrected from trowing to throwing.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-10-29 08:18:00
Canada	Military ID ...confused.	QUOTE (Ber + Ter @ Jul 16 2009, 01:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hello fellow canucks! It's finally nice and sunny today. But on another note, I was wondering if anyone has any experience with obtaining US Military ID. Spousal of course. I've heard of some Filipinos getting it through the embassy in Manila, so I was wondering if the embassy in Ottawa does something similar. If not, should I just pay a visit to the US and go to a base and get it? If I do the latter, will I need a SSN? But yeah, I'm really confused and clueless! So if anyone has any information or experience on the matter. Please share. <33 Thank you. i've never heard of anyone being able to get a military id issued except at a military base. your spouse will need to complete the paperwork and send that to you, and you go to the nearest us military base to get the id card issued. your spouse may be able to ask at his location what is the nearest location to you. ssn isn't required, they will give you a temp id card (i can't remember if the ssn field is XXX'ed or if a computer generated one is used) but as soon as you have a ssn you need to get a new card with the corrected number on it. Edited by charles!, 16 July 2009 - 01:36 PM.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-07-16 13:35:00
Canada	Military ID ...confused.	QUOTE (Ber + Ter @ Jul 16 2009, 01:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, my plan is, once I have the paperwork, I'll go visit my in laws in Las Vegas, and go to the Airforce base which is a bit north. So, it should be fine if I bring copies of his deployment orders, the papers, and they won't demand a SSN? Hmm. How positive are you charles?! XD ask nessa, she didn't have a ssn when she got her first dependant id card. if you know what base you'll be going to, call ahead of time and verify just to be sure things haven't changed in the past 2.5 years. Edited by charles!, 16 July 2009 - 02:16 PM.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-07-16 14:16:00
Canada	Crossing the border with a border ...collie!	where's the pics of the doggie?	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-09-27 21:37:00
Canada	Crossing the border with a border ...collie!	awwww they are so cute!	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-09-28 02:24:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	QUOTE (Rob and Mel @ Jun 29 2009, 11:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Aparently, submitting a request for a day off for a holiday that is not American is cause for intrusive curiosity at my job. I just turned in the slip to my supervisor to get Wednesday off. I thought it would be a nice day to spend with my Mel, especially as it is her first Canada Day away from her family and friends. Well, my supervisor had never heard of it and googled it to make sure that such a thing exists. He was a bit surprised and was really excited to learn more. To be honest, I don't really know anything about it. So I told him i'd have to ask my wife about it. Of course I have no intention of actually bugging her with this. But, now the bane of my existance (Theresa) has found out and at first she was asking me questions every 2 minutes. I guess my "I don't know" responses weren't good enough. So now, every 2-3 minutes, I get a summary of what she's read off the wikipedia entry about Canada. I have since then got 2 emails and someone drop by my office asking about what Canada Day is. I think i'm going to make some sh!t up and try to get them to fall for it. Can't be too far fetched though. I was thinking something along the lines of "Canada Day is a celebration of when Sir Walter Canada rode in on a moose with his army of polar bears to drive out the british troops in 1923". I did have Theresa sold on the idea that Canada was named after Sir Walter Canada Damn you wikipedia!!! and most canadians celebrate this day by igloo building and seal swatting.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-06-29 12:41:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	QUOTE (Krikit @ Jun 29 2009, 12:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's also the official day of putting our aging seniors onto iceflows to drift away and die. culminating in the greased wolverine chase, first one to catch it wins a prize.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-06-29 13:23:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	QUOTE (Emancipation @ Jun 29 2009, 03:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (charles! @ Jun 29 2009, 02:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Krikit @ Jun 29 2009, 12:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's also the official day of putting our aging seniors onto iceflows to drift away and die. culminating in the greased wolverine chase, first one to catch it wins a prize. Charles *sigh.. it's the greased beaver chase... get with the program!!! sorry, i got confused and included part of the masochist marathon.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-06-29 19:56:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	my complaint - people that come visit in my office (holds 4 people - barely) and they stand around and yap. and yap. and comment on what i'm doing or not doing. gtfo!	charles!	Male	Brazil	2009-12-02 08:50:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	Do they have a vaild point Charles they are being as productive as i am........ but they can go do it somewhere else!	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-01-29 20:25:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	One might almost think there was a stalker in here. i call them "fans"	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-01-30 13:43:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	It was Charles! and if I remember correctly he brought his posse with him. i was following the timbits	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-02-01 13:51:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	thanks...youse guys are alright! . when i asked gum snapping colleague to stop it the first time i said: "hi there, would you mind not snapping your gum please it is ver distracting." she said: "i don't report to you, you have no right to TELL me what to do" ugh.... that's when you respond with "you'll do as i say - breath!"	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-02-09 15:42:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	a co-worker is comparing how many calories is in a burger at wendy's, bk, sonic, and so on. now i wants a burger! The office that I work at, we share 3 printers with 8 people. Two of them have gone down, and the only one that is left while we wait to fix the other two is a very expensive color printer. Theresa is completely spazzing out because it is only supposed to be used for special projects etc for the PR team. She doens't like me printing out my reports. So, I find out this morning that she has been emailing everyone, to get them to tell me to stop printing off that printer. Her rationale? That i'm destroying a valuable resource for their department. But as they all told her, the reports and documents that I print off are highly sensitive, and it is just not possible. So she just came into my office and asked me to limit my printing. I can hear her sighing and geting all worked up just outside in her cubicle. I was printing only the sensitive documents that I am responsible for their integrity off this printer, but now, I think i'll print out a full color catalogue color printer eh? maybe print her some porn.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-02-24 11:57:00
Canada	The Annoying Co-Worker Thread	I just got a talk from someone at HR about my attire last week. One day, I wore khaki pants and a polo shirt, but I didn't tuck it in. I was told this was unprofessional...... from a woman wearing basically a tank top, jeans and flip flops. #######. I am starting to notice that women can get away with wearing jeans and flip flops, but guys can't. This isn't just at my work either. I wanna wear flip flops at work sounds kinda like here - our boss holds our feet to the fire over the dress code, but rarely do other employees (who are not under my boss) follow the dress code.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-08-31 16:44:00
Canada	Building a Computer	Trying to build my first ever computer and man is it frustrating,lol! Everyone has their own prefs!! Pretty much have it figured out, but still!! Whewwwwww!! whatcha building?	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-08-30 11:56:00
Canada	Our Family in Grief.	my sympathies for your loss.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-08-21 23:10:00
Canada	can I work via laptop for Canadian clients while in the US with AOS or CR-1 pending?	one personal attack removed. please discuss the topic without the personal swipes.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-07-28 20:21:00
Canada	ive got a question for yall	one post with personal attacks removed.	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-07-26 13:50:00
Canada	Happy Canada Day!		charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-07-02 10:34:00
Canada	5th Annual Canada Day Across America!	closest one to me is over 4 hours away. no timbits for me!	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-06-11 13:45:00
Canada	Welcome to Sprails Chip Stand	what no timbits on the menu!	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-06-05 08:02:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	It's funny how even when you look at tequila you can remember the taste vividly. i don't remember anything after tequila.........	charles!	Male	Brazil	2010-01-07 13:09:00