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Posted on 5/7/17 at 3:58 pm to GooseSix
quote:Never got a Med cruise and I only went to berthing for inspections with my Chief and LPO.
Getting your arse pounded in the berthing area of a ship in the Mediterranean doesn't qualify either.
But I did live in Europe for 40 months and the Middle East for two years. Travelled to 41 countries on five inhabited continents. Missed Australia. It's a long story.
Don't hate.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 3:58 pm to kingbob
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Not at all. All of our vacations growing up were to where my dad had work conferences. The hotel room was paid for so while he was working, we'd have a summer vacation.
The Europe international trips were the result of my mom saving up for years by writing free-lance articles for local newspapers so she could take me.
I'm just busting your balls
My parents made it a point that I was well travelled as a kid bc they never left the south growing up.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 3:59 pm to cameronml
quote:I have traveled more than anyone on this board, outside of maybe a couple. . .maybe
Most of this board has never been further south than Louisiana, further west than Texas, further east than Alabama, and further north than Arkansas. But yet, they're all experts on foreign policy.
So tell me all about your expertise in foreign policy, cameronml.
I await your response.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 3:59 pm to Eurocat
Wife and i had a trip planned there. Thought we would spend a week in Paris, then head out to the Normandy area to Honfleur and take the D-Day tours.
My parents ended up moving in with us, so the trip has been postponed.
I have heard, as long as you are polite you typically don't have problems. It was also pointed out that Paris is a large city and the people could be likened to New Yorkers, or people from another large city. Not as accepting, but not as bad as some seem.
Glad you guys had a good time.
My parents ended up moving in with us, so the trip has been postponed.
I have heard, as long as you are polite you typically don't have problems. It was also pointed out that Paris is a large city and the people could be likened to New Yorkers, or people from another large city. Not as accepting, but not as bad as some seem.
Glad you guys had a good time.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 3:59 pm to Eurocat
quote:We are. Well most of us.
the USA should be all for it.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:00 pm to Roaad
To be fair he did say most of this board
So of course there are outliers
So of course there are outliers
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:01 pm to StraightCashHomey21
Dispute generalization with generalizations. Pompous bastards
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:01 pm to Eurocat
I've been to Paris twice (and west of Texas too), so before I quibble with your Point #1... Paris has a metro population of 12.5 million (per 2013 data). You were there 10 days, minus Disney days (I want to razz you for that, but I'll leave it alone).
You think for a massive city of that size, your investigation of "the popular touristy areas, ... also to some of the out of the way neighborhoods"
... you think that somehow allows you to declare that Muslims have not overrun certain areas?
Those educated amongst us, whether they have traveled east of Alabama or not, would declare your findings to be worth jack shite!
You think for a massive city of that size, your investigation of "the popular touristy areas, ... also to some of the out of the way neighborhoods"
... you think that somehow allows you to declare that Muslims have not overrun certain areas?
Those educated amongst us, whether they have traveled east of Alabama or not, would declare your findings to be worth jack shite!
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:04 pm to NIH
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I thought London for sure had a lot more than Paris. But OTOH, London had a ton of half white, half Indian broads who were straight fire.
I didn't care for London. I liked the Tower, but other than that. Been there several times as my daughter got her Masters degree at York University North of London.
Maybe I went to the wrong places. We went to London, Canterbury, Bath with a quick stop to see Stonehenge, out. in. the. middle. of. nowhere.
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Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:04 pm to Eurocat
Drove through Paris a few months ago on my way to Oklahoma
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:04 pm to Navytiger74
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We are. Well most of us.
The EU is a great concept that just needs a little tweeking. The issues are three-fold: the lack of accountability (EU leaders are unelected and do not really answer to the member countries directly), lack of controls over foreign migration from outside the EU and flow of labor within the EU, and issues arising from all fiscal policy being made within EU member nations but all monetary policy coming from Brussels.
In reality, the EU basically works like a loan shark where Germany is all of Europe's bank. Germany owns everyone, but fiscal idiocy by member nations or an unchecked foreign invasion can cause the entire house of cards to collapse.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:04 pm to StraightCashHomey21
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Sadly tons of people here mistakenly think the Indians are Arabs
Name three.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:04 pm to DawgsLife
Thankyou Dawgslife, I did indeed!
If you do go, go for an entire week, there really is so much to see and you might simply take a day to stroll. My wife and I found it very romantic.
I have understood the people who do a Europe trip and come back and say, oh it was great we were in Paris for two days, then we did a day in Rome, then we were in London for a day and a half, and then Dublin for a day.
Huh? You haven't actually been to any of these places if you are there less then four days or so. Well, okay, you can Dublin in a day, that city is tiny.
If you do go, go for an entire week, there really is so much to see and you might simply take a day to stroll. My wife and I found it very romantic.
I have understood the people who do a Europe trip and come back and say, oh it was great we were in Paris for two days, then we did a day in Rome, then we were in London for a day and a half, and then Dublin for a day.
Huh? You haven't actually been to any of these places if you are there less then four days or so. Well, okay, you can Dublin in a day, that city is tiny.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:05 pm to Eurocat
Meh, not surprised. My Dutch colleagues and I trade impressions from our respective media that they're all getting ready to pay the jizya, and we're all getting shot by cops.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:05 pm to Navytiger74
I am pretty-well traveled. But you don't have to be a, 'been around the world traveler' to know foreign policy. Ask Ben Rhodes,(who formed a crap ton of foreign policy-- He couldn't pass his security clearance and Obama had to push him through,) about his travels...He has probably never been outside CONUS. No offense to Euro OP but just because he went to Paris and EuroDisney doesn't completely reflect on the radical terrorists presence. In a lot of Europe the radical terrorists presence prevents the local police from bothering in the neighborhoods they are at.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:06 pm to Eurocat
Agreed. After spending no more than 2 days at a time in any other international city, I still felt like I never saw even a tiny fraction of London after being there for 5 days.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:06 pm to StraightCashHomey21
There are 1.7 million Muslims in Paris.
The population of the Paris Metro area is 12 mill.
means almost 1 in 6 are muslim.
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The population of the Paris Metro area is 12 mill.
means almost 1 in 6 are muslim.
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The French capital of Paris and its metropolitan area has the largest number (up to 1.7 million according to The Economist) of Muslims out of any city in the European Union.
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a population in 2016 of 12,142,802, comprising roughly 18 percent of the population of France.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:08 pm to Eurocat
Nobody is against the Euro we are against a European union of panel of none elected board telling all of Europe telling countries how to run the country.
Posted on 5/7/17 at 4:08 pm to Navytiger74
Marseilles, France is where the signs are on the piers; you would have liked. Five Dolla sucky, wucky, fricky
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