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Madmac

Mar 16th 2005 2:05 am

Re: Ask yourself why you're moving here!!

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Originally Posted by Glaswegian

My mum's favorite was "If your friends went and jumped in the Clyde, would you do that too?" ...

Mmm, and the reply would be: "Yes Mum, I would." followed swiftly by: "Cheeky wee besom, do you want me to take my hand off your face?" Funnily enough, I never took Mum up on that particular offer.

Glaswegian

Mar 16th 2005 2:08 am

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Originally Posted by iaink

Wouldnt you break a leg or something, or bounce? I've heard its like the Mersey in that respect:) More likely to die of poisoning than drowning! I guess things have changes as industry has died off.

Last I heard salmon had returned ... I can certainly remember a cormorant living near "the toon" (downtown doesn't sound right) ... destroying the city's livelihood has certainly reaped huge environmental benefits ;)

Way to go Mags & Bliar ... *not* :mad:

dawnwynne

Mar 16th 2005 4:21 am

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Originally Posted by Craftybanshee

Thanks Madmac :)

Dawnwynne - I don't think you were putting your foot in it with your previous post. If I have to take a different approach to getting a job in Canada, then that's fine with me. Like I said previously it took me a year to get a job here with loads of rejections, so I can be just as tenacious in Canada ;)

Put one on the bar for me too please! :beer:

:beer: one for you.... :beer: one for me...I feel a hangover comin' on already

dawnwynne

Mar 16th 2005 4:24 am

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Originally Posted by Madmac

Yup: It's all down to hard work and bloody-minded stubborness. It took me six months and God alone knows how many applications/rejections to get a foot in the door of lecturing after I left university (after working as a laboratory rat for 13 years). Maybe we should organise a club for Stubborn Hardheaded Individuals Tenaciously Searching?

I'll let you work out the acronym :D

oh that really does deserve a double :beer: :beer:

Madmac

Mar 16th 2005 4:43 am

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Originally Posted by dawnwynne

oh that really does deserve a double :beer: :beer:

Oops, hold on. I think I'll have to leave the bar just now and go to the mens room. You really know how to knock them back dawnwynne. :p

flashman

Mar 16th 2005 5:40 am

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Originally Posted by iaink

Wouldnt you break a leg or something, or bounce? I've heard its like the Mersey in that respect:) More likely to die of poisoning than drowning! I guess things have changes as industry has died off.

Didn't the Mersey catch fire some time ago?

iaink

Mar 16th 2005 6:29 am

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Originally Posted by flashman

Didn't the Mersey catch fire some time ago?

Dont remember that. I know the one in Cleveland (OH) caught fire...several times! :eek: :scared: so it could have happened, who knows.

Madmac

Mar 16th 2005 6:31 am

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Originally Posted by flashman

Didn't the Mersey catch fire some time ago?

Can't comment on the Mersey but the Clyde has improved dramatically in the last decade. You only need single-figure immunisation after they've fished you out. :D

Seriously though, you can supposedly catch salmon once again: Two-headed salmon I grant you but that's a minor point.

Glaswegian

Mar 16th 2005 6:36 am

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Originally Posted by Madmac

Seriously though, you can supposedly catch salmon once again: Two-headed salmon I grant you but that's a minor point.

Are you heading to Ontario? I hear they don't use fish finders in Lake Ontario anymore ... geiger counters are much more effective ...

dawnwynne

Mar 16th 2005 6:52 am

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You guys do make me chuckle...of course it could be all the beers I've been drinking :p

Madmac

Mar 16th 2005 7:17 am

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Originally Posted by Glaswegian

Are you heading to Ontario? I hear they don't use fish finders in Lake Ontario anymore ... geiger counters are much more effective ...

Why bother with the electronics when you can see the fish glow in the dark? That way you can knock them out by lobbing (dawnwynne - a nice Glasgow word : it means throwing) a brick at them ;)

By the way: do topics always end up flying off into the outfield like this one so obviously has?

iaink

Mar 16th 2005 7:40 am

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Originally Posted by Madmac

By the way: do topics always end up flying off into the outfield like this one so obviously has?

Oh Hell yeah!!! thats what makes it fun.

Glaswegian

Mar 16th 2005 7:48 am

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Originally Posted by Madmac

Why bother with the electronics when you can see the fish glow in the dark?

Have you seen the colour of Lake Ontario's water?

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Originally Posted by Madmac

By the way: do topics always end up flying off into the outfield like this one so obviously has?

Only the best ones ....

Madmac

Mar 16th 2005 7:53 am

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Originally Posted by Glaswegian

Have you seen the colour of Lake Ontario's water?

Yeah, had a look at it last July when my fiancee and I were over. We went for a walk down by the beaches and then out to the Islands. I thought it was funny that no one was swimming when it was a gorgeous sunny day. Even the dogs ignored their toys that were thrown in!

iaink

Mar 16th 2005 7:56 am

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Originally Posted by Glaswegian

Have you seen the colour of Lake Ontario's water?

At least we have lakes :p Really its the e-coli you need to worry about more than any alleged radioactivity. The ontario environment ministry has a website devoted to telling you how many fish its safe to eat from which lakes! Tells its own story.
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/guide/index.htm

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