Comments on: 10 More People Banned From Britain

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:57:03 +0000

Pablo Neruda was a socialist, not a communist.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:02:23 +0000

Looks like Hallie beat me to it. Yep, one of Martha’s fellow inmates crocheted the famous gray(!) poncho, which started a big wave of copycatting. Crochet patterns were up on The Onlines within hours, it seemed, and knitted approximations quickly followed.

Thank heavens even La Martha couldn’t keep that trend going. Lace shawls beat heavy ponchos any day.

By: Eromanga

Eromanga — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:14:32 +0000

If Snoop can’t get into Australia on because he failed a character test” then there’s a hell of a lot of Australians who should be deported. ;-)

By: hallie

hallie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:57:11 +0000

Ahem.
Martha’s poncho was CROCHETED, not knit (although there are matching knit patterns out there), and she didn’t make herself.
As a proud bistitchual hooker, I demand this be fixed! (Or at least an apology, lest I remain outraged and start lobbing yarn scraps at you.)

By: Wormbaby

Wormbaby — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:53:39 +0000

lol great article. It was also great when I read it in the Telegraph several weeks later. Andy Bloxham is ripping off Mental Floss.

By: Relor

Relor — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:34:27 +0000

“Gert Wilders”‘ first name is actually spelled as Geert, with EE.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:45:42 +0000

Hey, no offence, and this is not intended as a flame or anything, but you guys should realise how bad it is for people going into your country too. Criminal record or not, I know many people who have been turned around at the airport, just cause the immigration officer didnt like the look of them. Anyone with a criminal record has to queue in the American embassy to get a visa even if they are just TRANSITING through the USA….not even passing through Immigration. The USA is the only country in the world who processes everyone who is just transiting their country. Though we all know that is so the FBI can get as many records on as many people in the world as possible. I myself had to endure an immigration officer in Atlanta (the worst airport in the USA for this stuff) ploughing un-supervised through my Yahoo email account for 45 minutes printing emails off and questioning me about the contents of my emails, some going back years. All this because I had a 6 months visa, and had previously worked in USA, so he naturally assumed I would try to stay illegally?! Britain may turn a few people away, but we are a hell of a lot easier to get into than USA. AND we dont charge you to come to UK, unlike the USA who has started making everyone pre register and pay to go there.

By: carol

carol — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:11:00 +0000

the border control at heathrow are a bunch of a##holes. Imagine a meter maid on the biggest power trip ever. Even parliament will not deal with these people. I got stopped the last time I went through and was illegally filmed for a tv show without my consent and the lady that handled my case was a bitch. It does not matter who you are or what you do, if they don’t like you, they send you home on the next flight. The kicker of it all was they stole my drivers license and still claim they did not take it.

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:50:00 +0000

@ Mavis – hilarious! It’s like you wrote your comment specifically to make it sound worse than it was.

It’s fairly common for a country to deny access to people that intend to move there with no plausible method of supporting themselves. You can’t just hop a plane to another place and say “Oh, my boyfriend will support me” and expect them to say oh, alright, off you go then! Oh, and as long as you say it’s only flour in those bags I’m fine with that too.

Also, you make it sound like armed guards are worse than they are. Every airport has armed guards, and will often be used when someone resists or they believe someone is illegally entering the country or with illegal purpose. Same with withholding passports.

As for ‘taking her money away,’ no. They made her pay for a single flight home. This is not some kind of shock. If you are denied access to a country, you can’t offer to stay there for a bit, then buy a return ticket home. You are DENIED ENTRY into the country. This means you leave, on the next flight, with whatever money you have with you. If she had have had no money, it’s likely she would have been placed in a holding cell til someone sent her some.

By: TheLoneIguana

TheLoneIguana — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:06:00 +0000

Michael Savage’s real last name is so much more appropriate.