The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXV

[timtofly]

It is so road crews can clean up the snow and ice without people going out and crashing their vehicles and making a bad situation worse.

If your city, county, or state had a budget that allowed for cleaning roads everyday, then having people out and about would not matter. When your budget is limited, then avoiding unnecessary problems is mandatory.

 

[Joecoolyo]

My entire town seems to have shut down because of the snowfall. If society screeched to a halt every time it snowed, Finland would be about as prosperous as Antarctica. Why can't they deal with it? Why is every store except for Wallmart closed?

The heat has made you soft, and spongy. Live further north for a few years and you'll realize that what you get now is a mere dusting.

Though, that also means you give up snow-days, because the snow doesn't stop anyone up here. It took a foot and a half to close my high-school for a day, and Iowa hasn't had a snow day since the early 2000's.

EDIT: Also yeah, having a dedicated team of guys to clear the roads helps.

 

[Mouthwash]

The heat has made you soft, and spongy. Live further north for a few years and you'll realize that what you get now is a mere dusting.

I know; I grew up in Indiana. I can't figure out why literally no action has taken place. They haven't even salted the roads. There was an accident and huge traffic jams throughout the city, not to mention the fact that golf carts don't do too well in cold weather.

 

[Farm Boy]

They don't budget salt. They don't budget plows. They don't budget the quonset huts to store the salt, etc, etc.

 

[timtofly]

Did you mean they budget for these things to happen every 15 years?

 

[Farm Boy]

Well right. Let's just say they budget inadequately. Chicago doesn't run the same budget for this stuff that say, Northern Minnesota would either, so anyplace can get caught flat-footed if the weather is outside the norm.

 

[Borachio]

It's probably a sign of a misspent youth that I consider sleeping on your own bathroom floor to be the end of a rather restrained evening's carousing.

Yeah. It's a kind of rite of passage.

Vomiting into the toilet bowl, they used to say, was calling up God on the big white telephone - since, you know, heaving up would be accompanied by a lot of groaning "Oh God!"

Oh, those were the days! Clinging onto the floor for dear life, for fear of falling off the spinning thing.

Doesn't seem to happen nearly as often nowadays.

 

[bhsup]

Vomiting into the toilet bowl, they used to say, was calling up God on the big white telephone

"praying to the porcelain god" here.

 

[Borachio]

Ah yes. That too, as I remember.

Quaint, isn't it?

They're well designed for vomiting into though: you're on the floor already, so you're not going to fall any further, they don't clog up in the plug hole like a sink, and you can get a refreshing head shower anytime you're ready.

 

[Zack]

If your city, county, or state had a budget that allowed for cleaning roads everyday, then having people out and about would not matter. When your budget is limited, then avoiding unnecessary problems is mandatory.

To expound on this, it would be impractical to make room for this in the budget when it only snows maybe once or twice a year.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I know; I grew up in Indiana. I can't figure out why literally no action has taken place. They haven't even salted the roads. There was an accident and huge traffic jams throughout the city, not to mention the fact that golf carts don't do too well in cold weather.

Yeah, as others have said, its probably not within the budge to hire crews to plow, or to stock up salt for the roads. In Chicago, when driving down the highway there's always massive concrete pyramids every couple miles that hold stockpiled salt. I highly doubt they have that type of infrastructure in the south.

 

[Mouthwash]

Where do I watch Bassem Youssef with English subtitles? There are a few on Youtube, but nothing recent.

He's not really that funny (maybe I have to understand Egyptian), but I want to see what actually provoke his legal troubles.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Why is the CFC off topic forum called the coliseum?

 

[Mise]

+3 happiness

 

[sophie]

Where do I watch Bassem Youssef with English subtitles? There are a few on Youtube, but nothing recent.

He's not really that funny (maybe I have to understand Egyptian), but I want to see what actually provoke his legal troubles.

Have you tried spotify or pandora? Have you considered buying it off of iTunes or another online downloading service.

 

[Mouthwash]

Have you tried spotify or pandora?

Both of their websites seem to be about music. Not TV shows.

Have you considered buying it off of iTunes or another online downloading service.

Dunno. I usually don't watch TV shows, so I don't know where to get them.

 

[shadowplay]

Is anyone else in Canada noticing the enormous influx of personal injury lawyers advertising on Canadian tv stations? Some regulation must have recently been changed.

 

[Traitorfish]

That, or people have been falling down a lot more.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Can anyone advise me on how to prepare for moving out and getting an apartment of my own? I'm drawing up a checklist of what to do before, during, and after the process. Living with other people is starting to get bothersome and it's about time I moved out anyway.

 

[Antilogic]

In short, you are going to want to look for and find an apartment, check the place for insects or bugs (look for droppings) and probably avoid those. You'll want to get a price estimate for utilities up front if they are separate from the rent (depends on the place but usually are in my experience)--this includes cable for television and/or internet, water, electricity, and heating. Know whether you have gas or electric stoves or heating. Figure out what the laundry situation is, whether it is in the room, there is a building-wide laundry room, or if you will have to use a local laundromat.