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Rain expected in the region between tonight and Sunday. Along with some high winds in some area's.

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This is my favourite clip from The Simpsons. When this episode came out I didnt get it as they were not operating in the UK at the time but since being in Vancouver I do. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I'm so glad this was just before I planned on coffee and not just after.

http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wor.../06/coffee.gif

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Lol

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Hey! That's ageist and sexist. I knew more about using computers than all of those young people at work and I'm old enough to be a grandma.

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My mum has seen off three computers since I moved here. I reckon she had experience of eight of those keys ;)

And she is a grandma. :nod:

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My sister (72 and grandma to 11, great grandma to 2) fixes her kids and grandkids computers for them.. she'll strip them down, install new hardware, get rid of virus's and malware; she's had no training, it's all self taught.

Having said that, she would have laughed her socks off at Bristols post!

:)

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Cheers :)

Not really a problem. My phone's usually on vibrate/silent mode and I don't keep it in my pocket - its face down in the centre console usually bluetooth connected so I can listen to my music thru the stereo and answer/make emergency phonecalls. So isn't much to be distracted with or flashing at me, not like I would ever take my eyes off the road anyways. Even looking away 1 second you miss too much with what is going on around you!

:nod:
Talking on the phone via handsfree is a big one too. Even though you are still focused on the road its similar to having a conversation with the passenger.

:lol:
Thats how I feel sometimes in my dads truck. Although I am used to driving it and know my way around it, I too feel like i'm taking up the whole street. Have to park in drive-thru, far away spots with it too. Like my mums car alot better. I'm with you on the compact car thing...

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I live in the Fraser Valley just south of highway 1. Highway 1 is a relatively straight road but does have the usual 3 into 2 and 2 into three lane changes at awkward intervals that some planner thought to be a good idea when he didn't quite have enough money to do the job properly.
Of a morning I listen to AM730, a channel that informs me on traffic problems.
Every morning there is a crash or car in a ditch or some such issue on what should be a safe-ish road over a short stretch from Langley to Abbotsford.
I had considered that most of these drivers were probably stoned but perhaps they're just texting... or being incompetent or canadian, but this thread has alerted me to the invidious in-car-mobile-phone hazard.

So.. Q1. Is canabis or the humble mobile phone a greater threat to driving safety?

Answers on a postcard please.

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I thought the end was going to read



Anyway. Well done that lad. Such a sense of freedom , especially when you gain your own wheels. Fab. :starsmile:


That was my old Dad with his pc BristolUK. A very intelligent man but technology overtook him in his 70's . Many a time I drove across town to sort him and the m/c out. :wub:

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Neither!

You have already answered the question above.

Not sure about the Fraser Valley but in Vancouver, people just don't know how to: drive, be curtious, be aware of other road users and then they have god awful expensive cars in tacky colours and designs.

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Yeah I would agree, forward planning particularly, and I mean in the next two seconds is not a Canadian driver's strength. I think that phones are a distraction. I love your comment about the design and "different"colour of the cars , you do make me chuckle BW Come on girl, say what you really think!:cool:

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I see so many kids (and some adults) texting or talking on the phone while driving, it's a major cause of accidents.

Texting while driving now a worse public hazard than drunk drivers | Driver Risk Management Solutions | AlertDriving

CAA Distracted Driving

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A couple of months ago, whilst stopped behind a school bus I noticed the guy behind was reading/sorting paperwork. He continued, once we started moving again. Every time I glanced in my rvm he was holding up a sheet of paper, or leaning over his passenger seat. All this, while driving very close behind me, at 70kph. Some people don't need technology to be idiots.

(That keyboard could easily be mine, and I'm not even (that) old. My kids despair.)

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Get your chips ready, there's a fish truck on fire on the highway near Pickering!

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That would thaw Nigel out very nicely.. Trouble is he will need a passport to get to Yorkshire and he says he prefers Lancashire............Oh Ontario...right :o

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Our own selfless icon Novocastrian has managed to persuede the academy to exchange his own Nobel Prize for Scientific Education and Research for a literature medal for a musician he's long admired.
Opinions on Bob Dylan receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature are varied, (Salman Rushdie gives his thumbs-up), and suggestions for alternative nominations are making the news on a slow day.

If Dylan can get a Nobel for literature Stephen King should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Keith Richards

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You know, I think we are missing a business opportunity. We should found “The British School of Driving” in Canada. We would have a wide choice of instructors as all Brits are perfect drivers. Unfortunately, we may have to concede driving on the wrong side of the road, at least for the moment. We can increase revenue streams by offering post-graduation courses such as Sunday driving, clocking and white van man.

I am sure Canadians will appreciate the opportunity to learn how to drive with a sense of superiority.

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The metal show the other night left me a pint from a craft brewery in Minnesota. I'm taking the day off with a sore back and 11 o'clock is close enough right now.
Edit: Not bad, dad! Dark amber and a bit murky, slightly hoppy without tasting green - like someone's really good home made beer, which is what a craft brewer does.

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My dreams were dashed today - got some mortgage advise and it wasnt good. Best i can afford is $178K (I was looking in Fraser valley) but based on what i pay in rent right now (not including taxes and strata fees) then its more around $100K.

Can you even get a property for $100K in Canada - like in the whole country?

This decision may have an inpact on me returning to the UK but its early days though.

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Top Floor Deluxe Studio ‹ Property Details ‹ Sun Peaks - Real Estate Broker

Of course mobile homes are available for considerably less than $100k.

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52 listed on Realtor.ca under $175k in the Fraser Valley. 30 under $100k.

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Absolutely you can, some very nice ones here.

Just a sample. All detached, close to downtown.

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...unswick-E1C6M7

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...unswick-E1C7S6

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...unswick-E1C7P4

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...unswick-E1C6P2

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...unswick-E1C6L3

Did you see my duplex when I linked to the listing? ;)

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I think Bristol has a property for sale in Moncton for under 100k.

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Aww they are sooo cute. I love them :)

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Wow really?

They sent trailers/mobile homes as I would prefer a condo?!

The mortgage broker was like 'yeah you are probably going to have to go in with someone else'

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Condo/strata here, under $100k tends to be low builds like these

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...unswick-E1A3R4

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...unswick-E1H3M1

Paying a bit more gets ones like these, which are springing up like weeds.
https://www.realtor.ca/Commercial/Bu...unswick-E1C0C5

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You can certainly get condos in Chilliwack for under 175k.

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I haven't a clue about the geography of the area but on telly on one of those property shows they had houseboats for sale in Vancouver. They were cheap.

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This listing was a surprise to me, because I saw an article in the Chronicle earlier today about a proposal to turn it into a 14 room hotel with a luxury penthouse. These days 180 grand is cheap for a business.
522 Fairview Road, Oliver, BC - commercial for sale | Royal LePage
Hotel development proposed for Oliver - Oliver Chronicle

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This is what I need for the dastardly downtown commute. You can drive it on the pavement. :thumbup:

http://daymak.com/boomerbuggy/images...blue-angle.jpg

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Someone in our village has one if those. Wouldn't trust it in a high wind but it's so cute.

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Japanese mini-truck, those don't look so much like a clown car and there are some nice models.

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But these can ride on the sidewalk I believe. But I agree, you would look like a bit of a cad in it, on the bright side I don't think there are any specific laws about consuming alcohol while driving one, so on the ride home, you probably wouldn't care.

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They have a catch-all law, I've seen it.

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Oh, :unsure:

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That wouldn't be a bad little business.

In other news, some airlines have started to add fire suppression bags to their fleet for electronic devices.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3002034/ai.../?sf38836327=1

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You can if you are prepared to get your hands dirty, and most people are not.

The place we bought with our son just outside Quebec City (not a cheap place) is 1,400 square feet (double that if you include the basement) and sits on half an acre in the country.

When we tell people that we paid 120k for it, the usual response is: "kinell!).

The reason it was cheap is that is was a total fixer-upper. A dump, really.

It is rapidly becoming not a dump. We have done most of the work ourselves. Only the specialist stuff has been done by professionals and even that is not a major cost.

As an example, we had the attic sprayed with insulation a few days ago. That cost $1,700. We can get about half of that back in provincial grants and federal tax deductions.

In short, you can get a lot for little money if you are prepared to put your back and brain into it.

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Plus there are places that you can rent a part out. Not just duplexes with one unit smaller than the other but houses with a 'granny flat' kind of set up.

Neither option need involve permanent renting, with numerous uses later, even reverting to larger house.