Well, it depends on what you mean by tourists?
If you are talking about a blue-collar family from Omaha or Denver on a road trip that will be spending $100 in gas, $20 in trinkets,  $30 in fast food and anywhere from a $20 a camp site to a $60 for a 2-star motel room as they go through your state, a tourist...then yeah.

This is designed to be about as sarcastic as the question.

Well who else do you think are tourists within the borders of the continental United States nowadays?  That's the market one has to work with in the new impoverished (highly unequal America).

Of course - just as a matter of convenience to the citizenry free movement between rich countries should be arranged.  But obviously not with poorer ones.

We're on opebo.

Wow, I must say this is a lot more flattering impression for our sole young female representative to have of moi than the usual fat sex tourist in flip-flops!

For our dear Dr J 101:

No, not a one.  I mean there might be one or two overweights, but only very moderately - I'm probably as bad as any of them.  Lots of them were downright slim and fit till death.. and they weren't eating particularly 'healthily'.  I think it is 99% genes rather than behavior.

[Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.]

Opebo being the knight in shining armor defending Bushie is an endearing twist to Season 8

Two guys who don't live in the real world. Makes sense.

Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

He's rationalizing his implicit abuse. This is terrible.

No, you are all just engaging in a witch hunt.

His behavior is absolutely fine.  You all are the revolting ones.

If Bushie sits in his parents' trailer fapping in front of the TV all day, that's his business. When his pathetic act causes harm to an innocent creature, it's another matter entirely.

Its an animal, they do normal live in some proximity to 'nature'!  You think dogs evolved in air-conditioning?  Or lack the instinct to lay down under a bush if they are hot?  

This is just a classist feeding frenzy guys, you all need to calm down.

If you weren't neglecting the puppy you would bring him inside like a normal pet owner.

This. That's why Lief is right as well.

Why would you bring a dog inside your house?  What are we, savages?

Next you'll have him housing swine there as well.

it's common courtesy not to be a busybody in another man's matters.

One thing these threads should've taught you Bushie is not to expect common courtesy from these forum know-it-alls.

It's also common courtesy not to ramble about one's personal life in the company of strangers. If Bushie doesn't want people calling him out as a scumbag animal abuser and alerting the authorities, maybe he shouldn't brag about his revolting behavior on the internet.

His behavior is absolutely fine.  You all are the revolting ones.

What the heck is wrong with keeping a cat and dog inside the house together?!  You do know that dogs - especially puppies - can go through this wonderful program called 'training'?

Its filthy enough in there already with a cat, they don't want to add a dog.  Personally I would suggest tossing the cat outside before I'd recommend bringing the hound inside.

Animals are bad for you with all that hair and dirt.

it's common courtesy not to be a busybody in another man's matters.

One thing these threads should've taught you Bushie is not to expect common courtesy from these forum know-it-alls.

...making $40 an hour playing the 'teacher'.  Should leave with $1,400 cash by the end of the week

Hope I don't get fired from my regular job!

Your'e becoming a rich.

I may have spoken a bit too soon - I only walked away with about $1,000, so it was only about $32/hour (the hours were short as well).  This does happen in Thailand - you'll be paid well, but you can never be sure if it will actually be as well as promised.  Everything is such a web of cheating and fakery (for example the paper work never matches the reality at all), that a few bucks one way or other is unpredictable and depends on many factors and many relationships.  (and one has little direct recourse). 

I just made it known through the 'third party channel' one must use in Asia that I wasn't going to complain publicly, and wasn't upset, but would be able to participate in future for less than $240/day.

I work in international development

Good heavens, how did you luck into that?  I know dozens of young people whose dream it would be to do this, but the door seems to be absolutely closed.

Its fine, I like it. Pop culture should focus more upon death.

Hmm. New Wave/Post-punk.  Not sure if that is one or two.

Oh god damn it.  Wel, Obama would be next to Jimmy Carter and Eisenhower I guess.

Did you ever dream that you were under the influence of alien creatures who defeat/consume their victims by making them dream they are doing something quite pleasant, while they're actually being eaten?

Guys the dog can go lay under a bush or in the forest, or under a porch, or whatnot.  We had dogs all through my youth and not a one of them was allowed in the house.  I suppose we did have doghouses but that is more for the winter, not the summertime.

 

Why don't you drink water, Bushie?

Laziness; preferring the taste of carbonated syrup over the fresh taste of water.

A mixture of carbonated water + (most kinds of) juice tastes quite better than either, imo.

Ugh, I hate fruit juice.  As usual Bushie's right on this one.

I'm really not much of a 'good time charley' like Ron Jeremy.  Nor am I much like this fellow:

Though certainly seeing photos like that gives me hope for mankind and the future.

...its just the French for me, oddly enough.

It seems unlikely to me that French would choose to emigrate from such a "good" country, their residence in Thailand seems to me counter intuitive.

They like supple, smooth, brown skinned lads or lasses 10-30 years their junior...

Good Tuesday Morning!  Kenya 2013 begins THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!!

Have you packed American Condoms?

His brow is far too low, Nathan.  I look at once quite Waspy and a bit Ashkenazi Jewish, not at all like that fellow.

Any D who would vote R is an HP worse even than an actual GOP.

Well it depends, obviously.

I will be having left over steak from Sunday at 18:15 and will be watching Texas Rangers baseball at 19:00 followed by the News at 22:00 and Jay Leno at 22:30.

Jay Leno is still on television?!

You should take the dog for a walk.

Indeed.  Bushie, dogs need real exercise.  As in, you need to walk them.  Are you ever going to walk Blondie?

we know the answer to that question.  blondie is sweltering outside.

If Bushie's going to both leave the dog outside all day and never walk it, then he should try to find a new owner for the dog who'll actually take care of it properly.

Guys, think about what you're saying - the dog lives outside.  Why would it need to be 'walked'?  

You may be urbanites, but surely you can reason: rural dogs living outside exercise themselves.  'Walking the dog' is just for apartment dwellers and such, a chance for the dog to urinate and for the owner to grasp his turd with a plastic bag over the hand.  In other words dog-walking is for dumbs.