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ddvmor


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So our colonial cousins have obviously found that having a public holiday forced upon them is so exhausting that they cannot fulfill their posting duty.


I think it's only fair that we take this opportunity to ridicule them for their obvious vacational deficiencies, inability to spell, speak properly or drive on the correct side of the road.


Have I missed anything?


Anyone remember the old days on UA - we'd bitch about the Americans all morning, they'd turn up at lunchtime and we'd bitch about each other, then they'd bitch about us after we went tio bed.  Happy days.



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HEY now...

We get cool fireworks so pllllbbbbbbbbbbbbbb!!!!

Ok so that's not much of a reason for anything.

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Aodan wrote:

We get cool fireworks so pllllbbbbbbbbbbbbbb!!!!

November 5th is firework day.  Anything else is just a pale imitation.


Note how everybody rushed to back me up here, anyway. 


I am disappointed in you all!



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I was ther in spirit.  Could you not feel me?

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The 4th was Sweet! Five days off in a row.


No internet access at my Sis' though.



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It's like the Dark Ages.  Beware the Sis with no internet?

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Well, it was her wedding, and I am her brother...

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hehehe the old days on UA

i also remember an awesome joke about dentists

and a really long conversation spurred by doillies and dollies

those were the days

and now i'm about to marry an american - so we can slag each other off all daaaay every daaaay

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What's to slag, slagger?



-- Edited by NateO at 23:22, 2005-07-06

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Where to start...


Sidewalks?  Fireworks on the wrong day?  Supersizing?



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What's wrong with sidewalks?? Am I missing something?

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> pssst < they're called 'footpaths'


(and actually, in quite a few neighbourhoods they do have an incredible lack of them.. but that wasnt what the king was alluding to)

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bonniepirateanne wrote:
> pssst < they're called 'footpaths'


(and actually, in quite a few neighbourhoods they do have an incredible lack of them.. but that wasnt what the king was alluding to)



Ahhh ok - so its not the slabs of concrete along the sides of roads themselves - its what we CALL them.... gotcha

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Or even 'pavements'.  But you guys just had to dumb it down!

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> pssst < they're called 'footpaths'

Hmm.  I thought they were pavements too. Footpaths meander through fields.

-- Edited by Susan at 16:49, 2005-07-07

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ddvmor wrote:
Or even 'pavements'.  But you guys just had to dumb it down!


If you think about it - "sidewalk" makes about as much sense as "footpath". You walk on the side - sidewalk. A Path for your feet - foot path.

Pavement is the street, or the basketball court - anywhere there's asphalt.

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Footpath? Sounds like a trail I would use to hike up a mountain...

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Aodan wrote:

...anywhere there's asphalt.
Asphalt.  There's a word that doesn't get used enough.

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There are so many different ways you could pronounce that word.


Well two anyway.



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er... really?


Only one of them is right though.



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Yeah, but...

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Er, I'm thinking most Yankee sidewalks are made with concrete, not asphalt.

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As long as they're not made of cobbles I don't mind.  Cobbles play hell with your ankles when wearing heels.

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Have you tried wearing sensible shoes?  Of the all terrain type?


Nope.  Silly me.  You're a girl.  One pair of shoes for cobbles, another for paving slabs, a different pair for tarmac... then there's the carpet shoes and the quarry tile shoes and the linoleum shoes, not to mention the laminated floorboard shoes and the bathmat shoes.


Linoleum.  Another good, but underused word.



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Completely unrelated, but once we made Linoleum prints in art class.


And yes I know that asphalt is not sidewalk or "footpath" material - its for the road or for basketball courts. Sidewalks are made of concrete, or brick, or sometimes annoyingly cobbles as Susan mentioned.

Subway and water grates are also dangerous for the high heel types. I saw a women get stuck in a subway grate just yesterday.

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Did you point and laugh?


I would have!



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I didn't point - but the boy and I had a good snicker at her expense.

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Mmmmm... snickers...

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The reason its called a pavement is because its made out of paving slabs - come on people!


Subway? Underground!!!!


Colonials....


Anyway the US should be nicer to us today - we just gave your boss the excuse he needed to bomb the crap out of syria!



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they might not be nicer to you after that comment stead

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