Why are US customs agents so talkative? I cringed hard when a US customs agent asked me if I was on vacation. He doesn’t need to know why I went to another country as long as I am a U.S. citizen.

Customs agent: Nice watch!

I had to explain this to a friend that thought his constitutional rights were infringed. No, you have no constitutional rights outside the USA. When you return to the USA these rights are curtailed until you clear customs. Customs agents have x rayed people and found drugs being body packed. This then allowed the customs agents to get a doctor to actually run a camera up your anus.

Smuggler: (nervous laugh) Yeah I, uh yeah, got it, yeah for Christmas last year.

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

I remember when Muhammad Ali’s son returned to the USA with a male friend. He was calling it racism that the customs officer wanted to view the contents of his phone and laptop. No it is two men returning from Vietnam. Lots of underage children are sold in the sex trade to sex tourists. They were looking for kiddie porn. Sex tourism is repugnant enough when it’s western men and enslaved adults. Children sex slaves and that trade makes my stomach hurt.

Customs agents go through your luggage and find the receipt, paperwork, and the box from where you bought it in Aruba.

They are looking for smugglers. It can be drugs, or it can be that duty free Rolex you bought on vacation that’s on your wrist.

What contributed to the popularity of The Beatles' song 'Yesterday'? Was it due to its simplicity, lyrics, or other factors?