On 7/8/2015 3:43 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:21:58 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> On 7/8/2015 10:09 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:49:50 -1000, dsi1
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/7/2015 8:10 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On 7/7/2015 4:38 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> On 7/7/2015 8:53 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 7/7/2015 3:37 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> My understanding is that people on the mainland
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> dsi1, please ttop talking about the "mainland" as if Hawaii is not
>>>>>>>>> part
>>>>>>>>> of the USA. It is. Maybe you should venture out.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've always heard of the continental 48 states referred to as
>>>>>>>> "mainland". The culture is much different that what we have. How
>>>>>>>> would you differentiate? We talk about southern states, left coast,
>>>>>>>> northern, etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Agree. Alaska has many differences as well. I had a friend from Hawaii
>>>>>>> and she had to learn to adjust to the foods that we had here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What you probably don't know is that eBay won't sell a lot of stuff to
>>>>>> Hawaii or Alaska. I have no idea why. We get treated like we're
>>>>>> Nigerians!
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder why!
>>>>
>>>> It's the latest craze - let's screw Hawaii and Alaska. It's like
>>>> everybody is jumping on the bandwagon on this one. I've even had sellers
>>>> in China refusing sales to us poor islanders. That's the breaks.
>>>
>>> Living in Hawaii I'd think you'd know... they can't afford any six
>>> legged hitch hikers, and Alaska's wild life has to be protected from
>>> diseases... many vermin arrive in foods and packaging materials.
>>>
>>
>> They're not pro-actively thinking about protecting our native species by
>> creating restrictions on shipping where there is none. What company does
>> such a thing? Mostly they're dumb and just following what other sellers
>> are doing without rhyme or reason.
>
> Who's dumb is you... extremely.
>

So you're saying that there's a super-secret quarantine on our state?
Holy smokes! You better spill the beans on everything you know about
this right now!

Hee hee.