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Forum: Canada
Dec 1st 2011, 3:51 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

With me the first thing is the green. Seen from the air, London's very green. But then, I haven't been there since the summer, not since before The Dustbowl.
Forum: Canada
Dec 1st 2011, 3:43 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

Really? Isn't it the water meter penetration rate the second thing one notices on visiting the UK? Right after being knifed by feral youths who'd be on strike if they'd troubled to take a job in the...
Forum: Canada
Dec 1st 2011, 12:07 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

I had neither in the country. We have a meter now but it's not reducing any tendency to drought, there's a gap in the logic that says they do.

I can't say that parched earth is something I...
Forum: Canada
Nov 30th 2011, 9:33 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

I remember a hosepipe ban. Summer of '73 was it?
Forum: Canada
Nov 30th 2011, 6:26 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

I heard that AIDS spread around Brighton much more quickly than it did Omaha, that's why my eyesight hasn't yet failed me here.
Forum: Canada
Nov 30th 2011, 11:29 am
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

If you actually go back and read the thread, population density came up as part of a discussion about overcrowding.

So population density alone is not the issue - the real issue is actually...
Forum: Canada
Nov 29th 2011, 6:58 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

The first problem with that, as I suspect you well know, is that the cost of any litigation is prohibitive. It cost $100,000 in fees to get this far and, at that time, my former spouse was resident...
Forum: Canada
Nov 29th 2011, 5:22 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

Yes. "Prisoner of Conscience" then.
Forum: Canada
Nov 29th 2011, 4:55 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

I didn't say I liked the UK better, that's your thought not mine. However, were I outside Canada I would not be able to sustain my alimony payments so, yes, in a manner of speaking, I'm a prisoner.
Forum: Canada
Nov 29th 2011, 3:56 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

Guelph.



Yes, Guelph.



Because I can walk to work in Guelph. It's too far to walk from the UK.
Forum: Canada
Nov 29th 2011, 3:37 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

Well, since you're putting thoughts in the heads of people here, why don't you name them and then ask them specifically if they're living ironically?
Forum: Canada
Nov 29th 2011, 2:50 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

How is it ironic that people live in locations they might not choose? Is, for example, the entire population of the West Bank living ironically? How about the people in Fort McMurray; I don't suppose...
Forum: Canada
Nov 25th 2011, 5:48 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

What is an ABC dental plan?
Forum: Canada
Nov 25th 2011, 4:20 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

I'm acutely (sorry) aware of that.
Forum: Canada
Nov 25th 2011, 4:07 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

I can't claim any expertise, I've largely ignored dentists. Doctors too.
Forum: Canada
Nov 25th 2011, 3:31 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

Someone, presumably your wife's employer's insurer, paid handsomely for your flashier fangs.

Yes, there's still such a thing as a NHS dentist.
Forum: Canada
Nov 25th 2011, 2:56 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

What about the price of dental care?
Forum: Canada
Nov 25th 2011, 1:24 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

A couple of acres makes no sense to me. That's just a lot of grass to cut. If you can't get enough land to stick horses on you might as well live somewhere convenient.
Forum: Canada
Nov 24th 2011, 12:09 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

No idea. Most people I knew have left, going back to their countries of origin or on to new ones. Those who remain typically spend "six months less a day" per year outside the country. I don't think...
Forum: Canada
Nov 24th 2011, 11:49 am
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

Since 1981(!) They grew up here and went to high school in Toronto, next to Maple Leaf Gardens. One now lives in London, one in Vancouver, one in Switzerland. The one in Vancouver previously lived in...
Forum: Canada
Nov 24th 2011, 12:34 am
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

This may be the least "on topic" thread evah so I wouldn't worry about drift.

I understand your concern since I have, or had, a selection of female children and constantly compared their degree...
Forum: Canada
Nov 23rd 2011, 7:17 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

I think that's fair in many respects. Whether or not it's a blessing is another matter.



Again, I don't know what it means. If you're hoping for some sort of retardation try living in the oil...
Forum: Canada
Nov 23rd 2011, 1:27 am
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

And your count, accumulated over flouncing, is how many?
Forum: Canada
Nov 22nd 2011, 9:27 pm
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

Commuting in the GTA I averaged 11mph, the speed at which President Kennedy was travelling when shot. I often thought that would be a kinder fate than life on the 400 series highways.

This puzzles...
Forum: Canada
Nov 22nd 2011, 11:33 am
Replies: 435
Views: 45,088
Posted By dbd33

Re: Your observations when visiting UK from Canada !

Quite right. The problem being that those parts of Ontario are inconveniently far from the people, them living in one big heap, like ants, so while that idea is viable it's like someone in London...
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