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crazy canuck

#29670
August 09, 2013, 03:33:36 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 09, 2013, 02:23:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 07, 2013, 03:45:37 PM
Sense of humour failure ?
It's always worth remembering that we live in a country whose the most complained-about TV event is interrupting the Antiques Roadshow to show live footage of Nelson Mandela leaving prison :lol:

People leave prison everyday.  If you miss an antiques roadshow its gone forever.

Liep

#29671
August 10, 2013, 07:32:29 AM
I've missed out on the New Thing: growing your own cannabis. I read an article about an increase in the sale of seeds and went to google to find websites selling it. There's a wealth and all full to the brim with different seeds and growing kits, etc.

Apparently it's not illegal to sell cannabis seeds. Maybe I should try to make this a new hobby?
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

11B4V

#29672
August 11, 2013, 02:21:55 AM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Eddie Teach

#29674
August 11, 2013, 03:22:53 AM
Galena, Illinois, home to 3400 people, somehow managed to sneak on the friendly list. I actually stayed at a resort there once when I was a kid. Collected a lot of golf balls.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#29675
August 11, 2013, 06:14:42 AM


This dish looks like it might be a bit chewy.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Savonarola

#29676
August 11, 2013, 06:35:16 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on August 11, 2013, 02:21:55 AM
Way to go Jersey. We're #1. USA USA USA USA

http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/2013/07/world-travel-dublin-auckland-cork-friendly-unfriendly-cities_slideshow_item40_41

I'm glad to see Casablanca made the list.  Children through rocks at CB when we were there, and taxis wouldn't slow down for school groups crossing the street.

No surprise the D made the list:

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Tonitrus

#29677
August 11, 2013, 11:32:30 AM Last Edit: August 11, 2013, 11:37:38 AM by Tonitrus

Baron von Schtinkenbutt

#29678
August 11, 2013, 01:42:37 PM
That is AWESOME. :cheers: :w00t:

MadImmortalMan

#29679
August 11, 2013, 03:14:13 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on August 11, 2013, 02:21:55 AM
Way to go Jersey. We're #1. USA USA USA USA

http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/2013/07/world-travel-dublin-auckland-cork-friendly-unfriendly-cities_slideshow_item40_41

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3. Oakland, California


I recently noted that all the toll bridges around Oakland are set up so that you have to pay to leave town. It's free to get in.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

MadImmortalMan

#29680
August 11, 2013, 03:22:56 PM
New Zealand and Ireland both had three cities in the friendly list. Bhutan had two.  :huh:

Limerick was left out, naturally.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

PDH

#29681
August 11, 2013, 04:29:58 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 11, 2013, 03:14:13 PM

I recently noted that all the toll bridges around Oakland are set up so that you have to pay to leave town. It's free to get in.

It is always free to leave San Francisco, you pay to get in.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Admiral Yi

#29682
August 11, 2013, 04:31:14 PM
Manhattan has a cover charge too.

garbon

#29683
August 11, 2013, 04:31:49 PM
Quote from: PDH on August 11, 2013, 04:29:58 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 11, 2013, 03:14:13 PM

I recently noted that all the toll bridges around Oakland are set up so that you have to pay to leave town. It's free to get in.

It is always free to leave San Francisco, you pay to get in.

It's free coming in from the Peninsula.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

#29684
August 11, 2013, 04:34:43 PM
What's the deal up in NYC, g?  Do you have to pay to get into Manhattan, or to get out, or both?  I can't remember which way the VN Bridge toll goes.
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