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It's really nice out :cool: but the snow conditions are way better for riding at around 8 am
 
So.....did any of the rioters get pardoned by their leader?
Joe Exotic apparently rented a limo in anticipation of a pardon....I hope this is false.
The the younger Trumps get pardoned?
 
mimico_polak said:
So.....did any of the rioters get pardoned by their leader?
Joe Exotic apparently rented a limo in anticipation of a pardon....I hope this is false.
The the younger Trumps get pardoned?
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Lets hope not.

The system is ****** up already. If one get pardoned that's a huuuuuuge "**** the system" shout.
 
I’ve always a great experience when travelling to the US. Super friendly and service beyond compare. Someone above mentioned Swiss Chalet employees making you feel like a nuisance. I completely agree. We could learn a lot about hospitality. That being said, I can’t help but wonder if the reception in the US would be different if I wasn’t white.


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robertv19 said:
I’ve always a great experience when travelling to the US. Super friendly and service beyond compare. Someone above mentioned Swiss Chalet employees making you feel like a nuisance. I completely agree. We could learn a lot about hospitality. That being said, I can’t help but wonder if the reception in the US would be different if I wasn’t white.


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Why would you wonder that?
 
robertv19 said:
I can’t help but wonder if the reception in the US would be different if I wasn’t white.


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It not just whiteness, it's blending in with the neighbourhood. I have been to some very unfriendly neighbourhoods in the US where being white was the issue. In my particular case, near Chicago, neighbourhoods are overwhelmingly segregated and though shall not mix. Head into a Puerto Rican, Hispanic or Black neighbourhood and you can sense something is not well (and in one case, a McDonalds employee was actively preventing me from entering McDonalds and told me I did not belong there and I should leave immediately). I am sure if I blended in, they are friendly people. Canada does not have those hard lines in my experience. Sure, we have places like china town, but it is not exclusively chinese and they don't care who is around.
 
GreyGhost said:
It not just whiteness, it's blending in with the neighbourhood. I have been to some very unfriendly neighbourhoods in the US where being white was the issue. In my particular case, near Chicago, neighbourhoods are overwhelmingly segregated and though shall not mix. Head into a Puerto Rican, Hispanic or Black neighbourhood and you can sense something is not well (and in one case, a McDonalds employee was actively preventing me from entering McDonalds and told me I did not belong there and I should leave immediately). I am sure if I blended in, they are friendly people. Canada does not have those hard lines in my experience. Sure, we have places like china town, but it is not exclusively chinese and they don't care who is around.
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Maybe the McDonald’s employee was trying to protect you,

I was in Detroit a while back and was met by officers that told me to follow them out of the area i was in as it it’s not a safe place to be for me
 
robertv19 said:
I’ve always a great experience when travelling to the US. Super friendly and service beyond compare. Someone above mentioned Swiss Chalet employees making you feel like a nuisance. I completely agree. We could learn a lot about hospitality. That being said, I can’t help but wonder if the reception in the US would be different if I wasn’t white.
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Agree that hospitality has always been great in the US, especially in small towns, or in the slim chance that I wasn't treated the best, it could be that the person is just having a bad day and has nothing to do with me.

My experience is that skin colour does have some effect on on how you are treated at the border. For example, I used to get the full lube treatment crossing the US border by land or air, but then when I started going with my wife who is blonde hair/blue eyes, they just wave me on through. For some strange reason I've never been hassled when on the bike by myself though.

Crossing into Israel from having just travelled through Lebanon, Syria and Jordan was a 3-4 hour interrogation by numerous people, while my wife watched in disbelief, since she got through in 5 minutes.
 
shanekingsley said:
Agree that hospitality has always been great in the US, especially in small towns, or in the slim chance that I wasn't treated the best, it could be that the person is just having a bad day and has nothing to do with me.

My experience is that skin colour does have some effect on on how you are treated at the border. For example, I used to get the full lube treatment crossing the US border by land or air, but then when I started going with my wife who is blonde hair/blue eyes, they just wave me on through. For some strange reason I've never been hassled when on the bike by myself though.

Crossing into Israel from having just travelled through Lebanon, Syria and Jordan was a 3-4 hour interrogation by numerous people, while my wife watched in disbelief, since she got through in 5 minutes.
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Assuming that the red/green light going into mexico is truly random and not controlled by someone looking through a camera, it seems like a reasonable way to remove bias from the selection process. Everybody presses the button and either gets green light (have a good day) or red light (you are getting searched/questioned). In a perfect world, targeted searches make sense but as implemented pretty much anywhere in the world, I suspect they are actually worse than random selection at finding "bad" people as they are targeted based on prejudice not data.
 
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