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Varitek said:
What's chai like? Goodness knows I've made it hundreds of times, but never tried it.
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What's chai like? Goodness knows I've made it hundreds of times, but never tried it.
coolian2 said:
I'd rather do it Air New Zealand via SFO.
Qantas Pacific 747 =
SFO was a good airport apart from the bloody customs staff who could barely speak a word of English. One minute, I'm trying to work out what this lady wanted, next she's grabbing my hand and fingerprinting and photographing me. I hate to think what that photo of me looks like. Bloody paranoid Yanks and their maximum security prisonports.
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I'm out, guys. Got art history tomorrow and I hate to miss that. Later. 
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major_panic said:
What's chai like? Goodness knows I've made it hundreds of times, but never tried it.
why the hell not?
well this is dunkin donuts' bastardized vanilla chai, so it's very sweet and tastes like vanilla and chai. uuuuuh don't know how to describe it better but it's delightful, particularly if you don't like coffee, as it is nothing like coffee.
Regular chai is also good, especially if brewed in milk or with lots of milk (usually i don't put milk in my tea, yeah, i'm weird/lazy).
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The Sad Punk said:I'm out, guys. Got art history tomorrow and I hate to miss that. Later.
See ya!
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Axver said:
didn't know the us photographed AND printed, but i guess it doesn't surprise me, we're assholes. thailand is the only place i've ever been photographed at customs, entering AND leaving (what if i'd wanted to have a nose job on the cheap?). it kinda weirded me out, yeah.
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Varitek said:
Don't know, it smells nice but I've always gone for coffee instead. Probably cause I enjoy the challenge of making a coffee well.
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The Sad Punk said:I'm out, guys. Got art history tomorrow and I hate to miss that. Later.
I read this as "got a history exam tomorrow" TWICE until I read it correctly in a quote. Yeah, I'm in the phase of exhaustion where I start seeing things.
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Varitek said:
Happened to us too. Also happens in Cambodia from what I remember.
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major_panic said:
well it tastes as nice/nicer than it smells. try some! it's a nice change from coffee, less bitter, more spicy, and your breath smells better with it.
weird fact: twice recently after i've had coffee from our dining hall eits guy has said my breath smells/tastes like hot dogs.
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Bye Bonnie
Varitek said:
Yeah, the US takes prints of two fingers and does a photo. I wonder if I was even looking at the camera. She was fucking useless.
And they take a photo when you LEAVE in Thailand? WTF. I don't even see what the bloody point is.
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Varitek said:
Get me a job in Seattle.
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fell asleep on the couch, almost made my little brother miss school, but he got there! Now to take a short nap before work Ax, like the beard, but I love the dinosaur comic on the wall even more
bono_212 said:
Ax, like the beard, but I love the dinosaur comic on the wall even more
Nice going there.And thanks. Yeah, I love the comic. As soon as I saw it, I had to print it and put it up. I don't normally have things on the walls, but that and my framed One Tree Hill single are the exceptions.
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major_panic said:
Well I guess I'm used to Europe where they're pretty laid back about customs. If you fly into an EU airport and make a connection to another Eu airport, you often miss customs entirely. And India was pretty minimal on security, and in Uganda and Ghana I felt lucky the airports had paint on their walls let alone customs desks. In Lagos Nigeria I never really went through customs but I DID get a personal escort around the airport cause I didn't have a transit visa and I maybe needed one and maybe didn't. That was useful, as the soldier with me got impatient with the airline clerk tryign to make me pay $50 for my big bag and ordered her to check it.
Though weirdly enough, ghetto and scary as the Ghana and Uganda airports were upon arrival, they were nice and pretty and full of western-style duty frees on the way out. You'd think they'd want to make a good impression on the way in.
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Varitek said:
Going through Malaysian customs from Singapore was great, it consisted of a fat bloke sleeping in a chair and a cat.
That being said, if you managed to smuggle anything into Singapore to begin with, you probably deserved to be able to bring it into Malaysia.
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bono_212 said:
Ax, like the beard, but I love the dinosaur comic on the wall even more
What are you doing for work?
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Varitek said:
Violet Hill is the new Coldplay song.
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Varitek said:
I work at Quiznos. Suckiest.job.ever. I really need a second job, I'm just too lazy to work.
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coolian2 said:
no no no you can't date my friend living in DC from 3000 miles away any better than from 12000 miles away. DC BUDDY. Baltimore maybe, but DC's way better.
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Axver said:Also, I did promise you lot a ridiculous metal-inspired photo of me.
What, no death metal growls?
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phanan said:
well I guess I'm proud that none of us knew wtf it was.
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bono_212 said:
Decent food though. Yeah that sounds awful. Was it just the only thing you could find near home? Seems like you need a replacement job more than a second job.
major_panic said:
Going through Malaysian customs from Singapore was great, it consisted of a fat bloke sleeping in a chair and a cat.
That being said, if you managed to smuggle anything into Singapore to begin with, you probably deserved to be able to bring it into Malaysia.
Varitek said:
Fuck our boring airports!
Which has led my mind on a tangent. Boring airports --> boring train stations --> interesting train stations --> video of crowded-as-fuck trains in places like India where people sit on the roofs and stuff --> remembering that in some train videos from patriarchal societies and such, there are sometimes markings identifying separate carriages for men and women --> question for Ian or you or anybody else who may know: do seating divisions like that ever occur on planes too, like separate cabins in the aircraft are reserved for men or women only?
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Axver said:
Maybe so you don't leave yourself in Thailand and send out a double? But then, your passport has to match your face too... I dunno. I also probably wasn't looking at the camera.
I hate the US security measures not just because they're ridiculous and probably ineffective vs real danger but also because they make other countries retaliate with the same measures.
e.g. chips in passports. we wanted electronic so everyone else said f.u. go electronic too. so now i've got a passport that doesn't expire for 10 years, and is fugly as all hell to boot, i hate the new ones. and it's got a chip in it with 3 year old technology that contains my identity and travel history. So that any dipshit with a reader can steal it, or worse, someone can leave a bomb to trigger when american chips are near. The government claims it's secure but uh....no technology stays secure for 10 years and it's already been hacked.
You can microwave your passport to destroy the chip, but that might leave a burn mark which is evidence of a federal crime: tampering with your passport. So I took a hammer to the vague area where the chip is said to be in hopes of crushing it. My passport has a bunch of little dents on it but that's less illegal.
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