No entiendo que una cosa maldecida de usted está diciendo.
Only American Sneeches should have the chips. Then you could just have cat-flaps in the border wall that detects the chip and lets gringo come and go as he pleases but keeps the undomesticated people out.
what…?
Microchips crash all the time. I’d rather have an Ichip.
Can we just give everyone chips? I like tortilla chips.
Not sure shy this thread sparked a recollection of a scifi plot. But I wish I could remember the name of the short story I read years ago involving migrant workers, insects and border crossings.
basically the insect/locust problem was a national security threat to the US. So at the border the migrant workers would get sprayed and examined to prevent the insects from migrating into the US. Only the locusts evolved to be able to organize themselves by the thousands into the shape of an ordinary migrant worker. Brown skin, mottled green workclothes the whole shebang, the colony (in the shape of a man) was able to withstand the insecticide and pass muster at the border to infiltrate the US. If only an inspector would look closer at the face they would have seen the alien worker had compound eyes. But they were looking for bugs on people, not people shaped bugs.
Chip the locusts?
I’ll be the thread shitter and say I’d take a microchip. Think about it - I wouldn’t have to carry a passport or my driver’s license, and if I could hook it up to my bank account, credit cards or debit cards.
Hell, the airlines could associate my tickets with me. Going on a trip? Go through security, have them scan my chip, go to board, have them scan my chip…the sheer convenience of it.
Of course, I’m a boring white chick with no tickets or arrests and was born in Canada and never tried illegal drugs or smoked cigs, and very rarely drink.
Would you guys fucking stop it? The embarrassing issue of me being one of those sad Americans who only speak English aside, this is an English-language message board and it’s getting tiring having to route posts through Google Translate just to see what the fuck you’re talking about.
I saw what you did there.
Of course, I had to run the phrase through Google Translate before I did…
Caiga sus bragas, Don William, no puedo esperar hasta hora de comer almuerzo.
Quiere subir a mi casa rebote rebote?
Siento, esto es un estanco!
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Sorry, but it was worth it since now I’ll be thinking “rebote rebote” from now on when someone makes a proposition.
You probably didn’t provide enough Canadian beer & TimBits. “Beer-longing” is the number one cause for domesticated Canadians to pine away in the U.S.
Wow, that sounds deeply stupid.
1.) If they’re insecticide-resistant, why would they need to continue to evolve to be able to mimic the shape of a human? That’s a whole fifty bagillion orders of magnitude more complicated, and irrelevant to boot. Being human-shaped won’t save you if you’re not resistant, and if you are resistant, there’s no need to be human-shaped.
2.) They can perfectly shape themselves into a human form, including clothes, but they have to make a compound eye instead of a human-looking one? WTF?
If you’d run *that *post through a translator, you’d see that I made it by sending “I don’t understand a damned thing you’re saying” through Babel Fish. Because *I *don’t speak Spanish, either.
Much to my embarrassment, it was pointed out to me elsewhere that a golf clap is actually an insult. At least, when used on the web.
So, Dan, please accept my apologies. I did not intend to be sarcastic. I’ve always thought a golf clap was meant to show restrained but genuine appreciation.
But it was appropriate in this case, the context being a golf joke.
We here in San Angeles call in “Low Jacking”.