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Da Boss wrote:Wouldn't you just walk or cycle then?

What are you, some sort of godless hippy communist? Nobody walks in LA!

I think the country side looks awesome... grass is so green

Boss, my missus had to drive to Pasadena for work, it used to take her 90 minutes.. sometimes 2 hours, but it was only about 25 miles!

LA traffic has to be seen to be believed, and exactly the same as you, I said "why not just cycle it?!" I mean, thats only gonna take half an hour right?

You cant do it, there are no cycle lanes mostly. Its just freeways, death, misery and suffering.

She moved to York. She has a bike now.

Melissia wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:I'd love to go to Russia; it's strict controls on almost everything makes it really quite a safe country

Nnnnnnnnnot as much as you'd think.

Cybronx wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:I'd love to go to Russia; it's strict controls on almost everything makes it really quite a safe country

I hope this is sarcasm.

EDIT: Damn Mel, you beat me to it.

The whole thing was indeed, sarcastic.

Melissia wrote:

Da Boss wrote:@Melissa:I don't really understand that. Because how can it be 15 minutes driving but take an hour? Is that in ideal conditions with no traffic? Does that ever happen?

Oh sure . It takes me twenty minutes to drive to class if there hasn't been a wreck downtown. This isn't Dallas, so we tend to have a bit safer drivers.

Up here in DFW, turn signals are treated as a challenge to the other driver's position in the lane. Naturally, the usage of signals has atrophied and everyone makes sudden, ninja-like lane changes (whether you're in the way or not).

I had to drive past a grass and tree fire yesterday while on 290. 18 wheeler rolled and caught everything on fire. So had to turn around and take a side road to get out before that whole burn to deathwhile listening to Cosmo on satellite radio thing reared its ugly head. Driving quickly through plumes of smokes and seeing TREEs on fire next to your face is, admittedly, a new experience for me.

Unfortunately thinking about the smoke now makes me hungry for barbeque or at least a good grilled burger. Torture!

micahaphone wrote:Yeah, but I doubt that the average brit is really that different from anyone else. I mean, you have less vocal idiots than America, so that's a plus, but I think that some people like to fantasize that the UK is a land of polite smart people who actually read books, or something like that.

I thought it was because Americans have a obsession with angry brits insulting average people.

Murray wrote:I think the country side looks awesome... grass is so green

I know. All we have over here is this crappy teal stuff.

And we like the accents, and hearing our favorite type of humor, insults/put-downs, ect, in a british accent is oh so entertaining.

I firmly believe if there is a god... he put Great Britain here to take the p@ss out of the rest of the world.

All the Yanks, Canooks (french canadians I was told at length) that have met me have said two words
"Culture shock"

mattyrm wrote:Boss, my missus had to drive to Pasadena for work, it used to take her 90 minutes.. sometimes 2 hours, but it was only about 25 miles!

LA traffic has to be seen to be believed, and exactly the same as you, I said "why not just cycle it?!" I mean, thats only gonna take half an hour right?

You cant do it, there are no cycle lanes mostly. Its just freeways, death, misery and suffering.

She moved to York. She has a bike now.

Also, many businesses don't have facilities for employees to deal with the side effects of exertion on reaching work. No one wants to sit in a sweaty button down all day.

dogma wrote:Also, many businesses don't have facilities for employees to deal with the side effects of exertion on reaching work. No one wants to sit in a sweaty button down all day.

They haven't got a toilet with room enough for people to change?

sebster wrote:
They haven't got a toilet with room enough for people to change?

Some of them don't. I worked at a garage in high school that didn't have a bathroom at all, we had to use the one at the carryout place across the street.

There's also the issue of smell, and some people also have to worry about hair issues.

dogma wrote:Some of them don't. I worked at a garage in high school that didn't have a bathroom at all, we had to use the one at the carryout place across the street.

There's also the issue of smell, and some people also have to worry about hair issues.

Fair enough.

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Yeah I told our lass about this thread dogma, she said "try cycling 25 miles when its 110 outside and no shower when you get there!

Being a man I didn't think of appearance, but I'm sure its as big an issue yeah

You know, I never used to care about that type of thing (appearance), then I grew out my hair.

Dublin has bus lanes that you use as cycle lanes for a lot of it, and then cycle lanes in the more civilised regions. LA sounds like hell on earth. I hate sitting in traffic. I bet the public transport sucks ass as well.

I wasn't particularly aware of any fascination...
The UK is like that drawer you have which gradually gets filled with bits and pieces no one wanted to throw away.
We have all of those bits and pieces but it's from the world.
Bits of really old stuff, Romans, Castles, some strange food, lots of weird people, the royal family (under rated but a good target for comedians)

(Bits and pieces you nicked and won't give back you mean )

Me?
Considering Birtain gained its culture from sevearl seperate invasions both cultural and physical i don't really think that's stealing... more like mugging the mugger.

When we visited the British Museum we took my picture next to the Sutton Hoo excavation treasures (yay, vikings!), and my wife's picture (she's a linguist) next to the Rosetta Stone.

Oh yeah...
The Empire, i forgot about that...
Yeah Britain nicked a load of stuff and forgot to give it back... funny how things work out.

purplefood wrote:Oh yeah...
The Empire, i forgot about that...
Yeah Britain nicked a load of stuff and forgot to give it back... funny how things work out.

Psssh. India/Afghanistan/America/Egypt/South Africa/Australia/all the other colonies weren't really using those artifacts, anyway.

WarOne wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:The history of Europe.

I thought we were talking about Britain.

We are. Britain is commonly used by many tourists as a jumping off point for a trip of Europe.

So Britain is now a diving board?

What parts of the UK make up the rest of the diving board?

Come on WarOne, many people had relatives in WW2 who were part of the D-Day invasion. It's something that probably popped into one of the D-Day invader's heads, like: "You know what, if I'm ever on vacation this seems like a good way to get to Europe easily."

The British folk should just be happy that we stopped using Sherman tanks when we decide to go across, the treads totally messed up their yards.

As far as Brits, I had a customer looking for a sheriff's badge for her son that was a cop in England somewhere. Although we usually get a lot more people from Quebec than anywhere else.

micahaphone wrote:

purplefood wrote:Oh yeah...
The Empire, i forgot about that...
Yeah Britain nicked a load of stuff and forgot to give it back... funny how things work out.

Psssh. India/Afghanistan/America/Egypt/South Africa/Australia/all the other colonies weren't really using those artifacts, anyway.

Well they really weren't...
At least this way we can protect them from other Imperial powers and let randomers look at them for a fee...

halonachos wrote:
The British folk should just be happy that we stopped using Sherman tanks when we decide to go across, the treads totally messed up their yards.

But that dishonors the tradition and legacy of general Sherman!

Paternalism! Paternalism! We demand free determination of our destiny! Rargh!

micahaphone wrote:

halonachos wrote:
The British folk should just be happy that we stopped using Sherman tanks when we decide to go across, the treads totally messed up their yards.

But that dishonors the tradition and legacy of general Sherman!

Nah, we keep the tanks in Normandy now. The French don't care as much about their lawns as the British do, and the British don't care about the French anyways so it works out.

Da Boss wrote:Paternalism! Paternalism! We demand free determination of our destiny! Rargh!

Well, you gits shouldn't have taxed our tea!


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halonachos wrote:

micahaphone wrote:

halonachos wrote:
The British folk should just be happy that we stopped using Sherman tanks when we decide to go across, the treads totally messed up their yards.

But that dishonors the tradition and legacy of general Sherman!

Nah, we keep the tanks in Normandy now. The French don't care as much about their lawns as the British do, and the British don't care about the French anyways so it works out.

Well, alright....
But there better be some railroads to bend out of shape!

Slarg232 wrote:Because women with British accents are HOT!

Even Scouse women..(ladies from Liverpool)?????????????????????????????????