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RavingPenguin said:
Dog sleds are more of a recreational thing now-a-days. In some remote places they are still the most practical means of transportation. Dog sled tours are now popular, as well as the Iditarod, which is a dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome. If your hoping to get a ride I suggest using a dog sled tour.
Never!! I will buy my own doggies and sled! D:

Zombie_Fish said:
My turn :) How hot is it usually in Florida? Is it really how everyone else pictures it (boiling all the time)?
Yes, it really is. Though Florida is a pretty large state... I live somewhere in the middle, and it's about 95F now. It'll drop to 80-85F at night, but during the summer day expect it to be over 90F and easily over 100F.

Winter it's about 60, sometimes occasionally if we're lucky it gets below 40F.

And it's muggy. Always.
SsilverR said:
fking awesome!!! i can break my arm right now for fun and it won't cost me a thing ... also pretty handy since i've been doing extreme sports my entire life and've never had to pay for insurance :p
Fuck you!!

Sorry, gut reaction. :p
I pay so much for various insurances it's ridiculous. :[
 

Dramatic Flare

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MagnetoHydroDynamics said:
To anyone with non-SI unit system (meter/kilogram/litre):

Is it as hard to SI as it is for me to non-SI?
No. SI is so incredibly logical it boggles my mind people won't switch.
1/10/100
As opposed to.. say
1/528/63,360

yeah, yours is easier.
 

Sonicron

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prettyinmagenta said:
lol nice! from Insane Clown Posse right? i don't really like them but i used to be friends with this guy who was obsessed with them
Well, I think being obsessed with something to the point of fanaticism is... not good, to say the least. I do enjoy some of their music, but not all of it... I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to music - I mainly listen to Rock and Metal, but I also enjoy all kinds of soundtracks, Blues, Jazz, classical music etc. A new flavor every now and then is important, otherwise life gets stale. ^^
 

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Sonicron said:
prettyinmagenta said:
lol nice! from Insane Clown Posse right? i don't really like them but i used to be friends with this guy who was obsessed with them
Well, I think being obsessed with something to the point of fanaticism is... not good, to say the least. I do enjoy some of their music, but not all of it... I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to music - I mainly listen to Rock and Metal, but I also enjoy all kinds of soundtracks, Blues, Jazz, classical music etc. A new flavor every now and then is important, otherwise life gets stale. ^^
lol...i also mainly listen to metal...some rock..if it is good...a lot of ska...and other randomness haha
 

Sonicron

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prettyinmagenta said:
lol...i also mainly listen to metal...some rock..if it is good...a lot of ska...and other randomness haha
I still remember dancing to the song 'Cannabis' by Ska-P.. always fun, that one. :)
Right now I'm in a 'ZZ Top' phase again, trying desperately to recreate the weird sounds they elicit out of their guitars in 'La Grange' on my own guitar. Difficult, but I shall persevere!! xD
 

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A random person said:
Also, to those in the UK, just how common are chavs? I've heard of them frequently here as being a problem, so I'm curious. And if anyone knows, how did a BNP guy get elected?
Chavs are a pretty big demographic in the UK, whether it's guys who think they're gangsters or out-right shell-suit jeweller-adorned indbreds. You get them in every big city, they tend to be from the poorer areas. People with money are rarely chavs.

The BNP issue is a complicated one, somebody got a seat in parliament, but that doesn't come with much power at all really. They often get a seat from areas which have a high ageing population, and at the same time a lot of immigrants. This is because the older generation are less inclined to look at the benefits of people moving to the UK, and instead go out and see all the ethnicity as a problem. This paired with the fact that most of the people that vote from a lot of areas are retired or approaching retirement age, gives the result of a couple of BNP seats. It's nothing to worry about though, to be honest, all they get really is a chance to be heard and vote on issues. They can't really bring forward anything and if they did it would get pretty much ignored or voted against if it was remotely controversial.

That's my theory anyway. Another theory is that during any economic crisis, more and more people vote for an extreme party in one form or another, because they think that (for one reason or another) whatever they stand for will solve the problem, whether it's right-extremism as a solution to unemployment, or socialism as a solution to inflation.
 

jh322

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[quote="A random person" post="18.128961.2780907Swedes, what is it like living in your socialist system of government? Is it good? Horribly oppressive like the republicans are making it out to be? Also to you and Canadians, what's your experience with the government healthcare? Is it a bureaucratic nightmare like the anti-government healthcare people here are saying it is?
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Sorry for the double post, but we have public healthcare in the UK too, and it does get a lot of bad press, but it's not that bad. The problem with it is that it is over-used, because people (MOST OF THEM ARE FUCKING RETARDS) go to the hospital instead of the doctor or a pharmacist when they get a headache, or a graze on their knee or something really minor like that. Basically, this results in the queues being really big, so sometimes you have to wait like 3-6 hours before you are seen by a doctor. Also, there have been reports of diseases like MRSA spreading really badly in hospitals, partly due to what is considered a lack of attention by the staff, but is more likely to be a simple case of understaffing (which may or may not be a direct result of the fact that they won't employ enough people, and won't pay them enough so a lot of people choose to work in the more lucrative private healthcare sector). The private hospitals are, generally, exceptionally good as far as my experience of them goes. However, they are outlandishly expensive in most cases.
 

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MagnetoHydroDynamics said:
To anyone with non-SI unit system (meter/kilogram/litre):

Is it as hard to SI as it is for me to non-SI?
No, considering it's mandatory to learn it in California schools.

I'm from California, by the way.
Ask me lots of questions.
 

gewuerzgurke

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how much costs toothpaste in france?
i'm moving there in a month, and asked a friend who just came from there for some usefull advise, and all she said was: buiy toothpaste, iit'S expensive there.
 

hungoverbear

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This one is for the Germans, Is it true that BMWs, Porches, Audis, and mercedes are actually inexpensive in your country? For comparison a 2009 BMW 328i costs $38,095, 2008 mercedes E class $50,399 and a Porsche Boxter $69,925, that is the average cost in america, what is it in germany?
 

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Island said:
jh322 said:
To US citizens...do that many of you really have a gun in your house? Is it pretty much everybody like we are led to believe? I'm aware that it may well be more common in some of the southern states, but really...how many of you don't have a gun somewhere in the house?
i don't own a gun, and i don't know anyone that does. i think that stereotype is way way exaggerated. also i have lived in the south and no ones setting on there porch with a shot gun or something like that here either. i think most of the American stereotypes and maybe just stereotypes in general are out right lies.
I don't own a gun. I know only one person who does. I was 25 before I even saw a gun in person. In the American south and in America in general there are people who own guns but they are not everywhere. We have the right to bear arms but it's not something we all do. I walk to work every day and feel safe.
 

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MagnetoHydroDynamics said:
To anyone with non-SI unit system (meter/kilogram/litre):

Is it as hard to SI as it is for me to non-SI?
Not really, we learn the SI system in school in America, but our government does not switch over to it even though THE ENTIRE WORLD USES IT!!!