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by distantaidenn 4y ago
4) Bob is outsourcing his work. Joking, but it is a possibility.
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
It's exactly as hard as I have made it out to be _for me_. I don't know what else to tell ya. Here's a fun read from DHH: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1192540900393705474
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
You seem hostile. Not sure if it's your intention, but ease up. > So did you lie about your address on the credit card application? If not, that’s how the bank knows you don’t live in the US and that’s why you were rejected. I didn&
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
> That’s normal. You don’t live in the US so American banks have zero recourse if you decide to default. I'm American, and have no reason to believe the credit reporting services are aware of my physical location. This is evidenced
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
Actual residence. Childhood home.
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
Did you ever get the situation sorted? If so, any tips?
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
I'm American and 90% of my banking/bill payment is done on the US side. I still get plenty of snail mail to my US address, as well. I don't think the credit reporting agencies are aware of my physical location.
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
That's how my journey started. I wanted to take advantage of my frequent flights (pre-pandemic), and applied for a card with travel benefits, only to be declined. I decided to check my credit report, and noticed a default from like 5 y
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
I'm afraid a lot _might_ have to do with my registered address (zip code) in the States, when I try to apply. Inner city and all that. Edit: The rejection note that I normally receive is: insufficient credit history. To me it's a
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
I have zero debt. Absolutely zero. However, I left the States soon after graduating university, and thus also have (had) no credit history there. Since I've been planning to return soon, I've been trying to build a history, so whe
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
I don't care if the person on the other end of the phone has an accent. I care if we are mutually intelligible and we can get things resolved. I have had (and I'm sure some of you reading this have as well) some call center people
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
You clearly missed my point. I was saying that OP should not call it "farang tax" and that they should call it "foreigner tax". The reason is that "farang" means "white foreigner". However, the tax is
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
Never called you a racist. Not even sure where you are getting that from either. You simply misunderstood what I said -- based on your own preconceived notions. When I tried to explain (several times), instead of taking a step back and tryi
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
I'm also scratching my head as to what was confusing about what I said. Boggles the mind. I can only assume English isn't their native language.
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
> Japan was the least friendly and I would probably never live there for a long stretch of time. This. Whenever I hear a young Black person saying they want to move or visit Japan, I say one thing: "Don't. Go to Korea instead.&
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
No worries, mate. It's always good to take a step back and challenge our assumptions about the person on the other side of the monitor. When you are the majority in a given situation, it's easy to have that mentally become the &qu
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
Here is my point. OP said "farang tax". Farang == white foreigner. This is the Thai language and not something I'm making up. So OP is essentially saying a "white foreigner tax". I wanted to make it clear that it&#x
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
You're assuming I'm white...think about that for a second. I don't mean to be flippant, I really mean to give it a thought as to why you made the assumption.
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
I didn't imply being white was bad -- and not sure how you came to that conclusion. I was referring to OP's usage of "farang tax". I was pointing out farang is usually used for white foreigners. So it's more of a ge
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
Lived in Thailand for a bit. The "foreigner tax" (farang is usually reserved for White foreigners) is usually for untraceable cash payments (i.e. taxis, stalls, etc.) and government ran spaces (national parks, etc). In the case of
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by distantaidenn 4y ago
Yeah the orgy places are one of the worst kept secrets here. Everyone knows they exists, but it's not really spoken of. I had a friend (Japanese) that was invited and he just explained it as being weird. The place he went to just had g
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
The whole concept of race is fast becoming outmoded as more and more "mixed persons" are being born. I myself am a multigenerational mix (both parents are mixes) of 4 races -- 3 from my mother, and 2 from my father, with one overl
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
By spotless toilet with a robotic bidet, I suppose you mean the washlet that's usually covered in fecal matter. Trust me, you don't wanna accidentally look under there. Anyway, you're a madman if you're using a public wa
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
Didn't posit it as a criticism. Also, did you check the Twitter link I posted? You think if these sandwiches weren't mass produced by an international conglomerate they would get away with that kind of (imho) false advertising?
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
Let's stick to the issue at hand -- the above poster said that eggs in a Japan 7-11 mass produced sandwich are better than anything you can find in America. That's false. Can you agree with that? Also you're making the assump
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
Or just avoid mass-produced convenience store sandwiches if I have the means.
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
Funny enough, it was bought by a Japanese company "Ito-Yokado".
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
Are you being facetious? America has Whole Foods, Trader Joes, co-ops, etc. I took my friend from Japan to a Whole Foods, and the variety and freshness blew her mind. And just with eggs, America has: free range, pasture raised, vegetarian g
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
Ugh, I hate articles like this. I'm glad the comments here are pretty grounded. For some reason foreigners feel the need to gush over 7-11 sandwiches -- it's the strangest thing. I wonder if these people just aren't that trav
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by distantaidenn 5y ago
What weight does Jessie Jackson's opinion hold? Believe it or not, he's often a target of jokes in Black America.

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