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Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by Rich_007
(Post 7053319)
apathy and self induced, gooning, stupour.
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Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 7052673)
Heh. I so thought of clynnog this morning. I went to one of those fireside chats with the Ministry to which one is invited after driving moderately quickly lots of times.
I'm not sure if it is a good thing or not that I am in dbd's thoughts. A friend of mine here in Ottawa got caught going 94 km/h in a 40 km/h zone (the speed limit went from 80 km/h to 40 km/h very quickly on the urban fringe of Sticksville)...the officer dropped it down to 89 km/h which is the limit before you have to go to a 'fireside chat' or some sort of court hearing...needless to say his fine is something like $350. I gather I am the metric anorack in your mind and you are the imperial holdout. |
Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by clynnog
(Post 7054181)
I gather I am the metric anorack in your mind and you are the imperial holdout.
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Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by clynnog
(Post 7054181)
I gather I am the metric anorack in your mind and you are the imperial holdout.
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Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 7055456)
Pretty much, I think you're unusual in attempting to use metric for communication and not just compliance. I'm not a fanatic for imperial but I don't go around pretending that people's dimensions, or areas of land, or vehicular fuel consumption can sensibly be measured in metric units.
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Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by Dave+Jules
(Post 7057909)
exactly.... I always resented being measured as 1.7 of anything tall. I much prefer 5'6" it sounds much taller than 1.7m :D
Quelle surprise! |
Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by AmyDavid
(Post 7051906)
When travelling across Canada last January my OH decided that it would be fine to just fill up the windscreen washers with water.....DOH. We couldn't see out of the front window for two days - talk about SCARY!
However, to avoid being done by the UK customs for smuggling vodka when I drove back to the UK, I put some blue washer stuff in the bottle which then froze into a blue ball at the bottom of the tank and stopped the washers from working anyway. |
Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by Diefenbaker
(Post 7059257)
When I lived in Germany in the 80's I was advised to fill my windshield washer bottle with vodka as it doesn't freeze (The winters there were as cold as those in Canada). This worked really well and smelt really nice when I cleaned my windshield.
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Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by Diefenbaker
(Post 7059257)
When I lived in Germany in the 80's .... (The winters there were as cold as those in Canada).
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Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by CaptainHook
(Post 7053962)
When did you watch Toronto FC?
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Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by woodmanbg
(Post 7050232)
We installed a dehumidifier in our home in the UK a few years ago, should have done it long before. The amount of water we got out every night was amazing and it certainly improved that damp feeling on the walls of the rooms we didnt use very much! Worth every penny. Here, of course, we have to run a humidifier. Anyone have one of those small portable ones in the bedroom? Are they noisey, do they work well. I suffer from lots of nasal problems in the morning and dont know whether to just stick with my snoring plasters (very romantic ;)) or invest in a small humidifier if they work and wont keep me awake all night. :)
My sinuses kill me in winter with the dry air, it also dries up your skin hair and everywhere.The air is much drier where you are due to the colder temps, when I lived in Alberta I would get nose bleeds. The small bedroom models in my opinion dont help much. |
Re: you'd think after 29 months in Canada
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 7057930)
You want to sound bigger than you are?
Quelle surprise! |
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