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by av .

I'm sorry to hear about your operation. I hope everything goes well with it. Feel better soon.

AV

by oz_media

Last week, at night, it apparently dipped below -5 celcius in Vancouver. It even started to sprinkle a little of the white stuff, which was long gone a few hours later though. We did get some rain though, but it's always raining here in spring, fall and winter (we get most of the summer rain free). When I got back from Louisianna, I found it rather warm and comforting when I got off the plane. There were quite a few mumblings amongst passengers about how Americans think Vancouver is so cold but it was actually warm, sunny and dry (dry for once that is) in Richmond. Oh well, at least you don't have to shovel rain.

Yup it's life in Canada alright, brrr, the Great White North, the place that snow stories and hypothermia are made of. :)

Granted in Eastern Canada, even the BC interior, it has been -40 and they have several feet of snow, but that's just the rest of Canada showing off as usual. I've said more than once that many in Eastern Canadian cities, like Toronto and Montreal, love to pretend they are Americans/New Yorkers, so now the proof is that they even imitate having cold, snowy, American weather.

Weather channel says it is 6 degrees right now, will drop to 1 tonight! That's celcius though, +42.8F , +33.8F respectively. Yeah, brrr. :D

Anyway, Happy Holidays to all, drive safe AND DON'T BE DRINKING AND DRIVING!!!!!

OM - From a balmy Vancouver winter. ;)

by half9

That is something I cant relate to, here its barbie weather and summer. In saying that we have had a real wet winter and spring ,,just coming right now, southerly blast licked the south island this week with snow to 500m but it has gone out to sea. Because of the wet spring things are bolting to seed in the garden, corn, radishes, and some green stuff so may have to replant. 6pm here and 23.5c, 10km westerly, expecting 13c overnight

Have a great xmas you guys and keep warm and safe. snuggle up lol

by oz_media

It was a real culture shock. Everyone was hitting teh beach to swim as a family on Christmas Day, here the traditions of family outings are skiing on Christmas day.

by oz_media

But that's your summer...not that it's much worse in winter.

You have a climate similar to BC's, one weather all year.

While yours goes from really bloody hot to not quite so bloody hot, ours goes from really bloody wet to not quite so bloody wet.

by deadly ernest

Christmas songs seem SOOO unreal it's not funny. Thus, I can't help it when others complain about the cold where they are.

Anyway, when you consider the Christmas story itself, do you realise we are celebrating Christmas (ie the birth of Christ) at the wrong time of year? According to the details of the story the shepherds were in the fields tending their flocks as it was lambing time - that makes the event in the spring, not winter. But the early church found it easier, and probably safer, to tie in to a pagan festival of the time - the mid winter solstice one.

by av .

Go ahead baby and pick something up??? I thought you were reformed, JD.

AV

by av .

OH NO! Not the DICEMAN!!! He is the worst (next to Howard Stern). You need to do penance for emulating the Diceman. Maybe some sensitive poetry will do. :^0

AV

by oz_media

Sounds like the local forecast I just looked up here in Vancouver. But I was joking, that's not actually cold.

by oz_media

Not the news shows but when he opened that little Inn in Vermont, always looked like Christmas.

by boxfiddler

And Pleshette. Him as a shrink, with goofy airline pilot neighbor (from I Dream of Jeannie), and goofy dentist in the office building. Dang. Wish I could think of some of the patient names.

by nicknielsen

The finding took some time. Not many places stock duck curios. It was easier to find decoys, but they were primarily mallards (at least in my price range!) and the occasional loon.

I managed to not repeat myself (not even the gag gifts) for almost 20 years.

by Member 25348569

Missed the "best wishes" so take a "get well quickly" instead.

I assume that they're going for a bit of keyhole surgery so you should be up and swinging pretty quickly. Just to make you feel a little better, there are lots of accounts of this operation - or at least removal of the stones - being done without anaesthetic back in the days when they didn't have such luxuries. WATB, says I.

http://www.thegarret.org.uk/oot.htm is just around the corner from where I work. "It is well-worth a visit if you are passing (and of a twisted and macabre disposition)". Yeah, well, I suppose I am on all counts.

;)

by maecuff

Yeah, 4 little incisions. It hurts pretty bad right now, I'm hoping tomorrow will be better. 1 hour 5 minutes until I can take the pain medicine again.

It hurts where the biggest incision is and my shoulders are just killing me. Dr says it has something to do with the anesthesia and will wear off in 12 to 24 hours.

I have also learned that as far as pain killer go, oxy > vicodin. Unfortunately, the doc prescribed vicodin. Getting him to write me a new script for oxy tomorrow. I'll probably be posting from rehab soon. :)

by nicknielsen

"MR ducks"

"MR not ducks"

"OSAR! CM wangs? MR ducks!"

Do your best to approximate a southern American accent.

edit: pronounce the upper case as letters, not as words... :)

by santeewelding

That was pretty good.

Took me only twice-through. The, OSAR, though, took four times.

Tweak it some, and maybe you can write a trend-setting novel composed entirely of Southern dialog.

by jck

Doing work for others in my family.

Sometimes I wish I was an orphan. lol

by oz_media

I have bought car parts for family on more than one Chistmas. I was on the phone to mum this morning, I told her I'd bring extra clothes and coveralls to my brother's for Christmas (where we usually hang out once a year) so I can install new O2 sensors in her car while I'm there and change her serpentine belt. My brother then called me within minutes and asked if I could change his intake gasket on his car the same afternoon. Oh well, it beats sitting around with boring family chat all afternoon until turkeylurkey time!

by jamesrl

The 02 MPV has 4 O2 sensors(Duratec 3.0 litre). I have a check engine light that indicates a sensor problem, but the mechanics say its just a bad sensor and the rear two are just there for monitoring, the front two affect performance. So they tell me to just wait until something bad happens. I clear the CEL periodically with my code reader, and the van runs right, I just don't like the CEL on all the time.

I don't have a garage nor jack stands nor....
and its too darned cold to do it in this weather.
James

by michael jay

and it is good to keep them as friends, car repair costs too much.

For small money and dinner they will help you out.

Friends, the best Christmas gift, family, the gift of Christmas.

Nice going on that avatar, better than my suggestions.

by santeewelding

Who grow and raise their own food. I keep them very near and dear, reminding them that I weld for food, which I frequently do.

Beekeepers for the honey, wine and beer makers, fruit-tree keepers, chicken-keepers, vegetable-growers,...

Avatar: thank you.

by santeewelding

Fifty years ago, when I was sixteen.

My '57 Plymouth stick V8 threw a drive-shaft U-joint bolt. This was January, in New England, by the side of the road, below zero, traffic whizzing by, it and the wind buffeting the Plymouth as it stood leaning precariously upon a bumper jack.

I managed painfully in bare hands with a Crescent.

Made a note in my young, impressionable mind: Do Not, under any circumstances, no matter how dire, ever, ever contemplate doing this for a living.

I took up writing, instead.

by jdclyde

Of course the way things are today, the bullets cost almost as much as the firearm!

Forget gold, I'm buying stock in Federal arms!

by Member 25348569

I have beaten into your thick skull the difference between weather and climate and the difference between open and closed thermodynamic systems, then I will rest.

Happy New Year!

:D

by maxwell edison

I have beaten into your thick skull that man-made/caused/contributed global warming and/or global cooling and/or climate change is the biggest lie in history, then I will rest.

Happy New Year to you too!

by notsochiguy

...except yesterday, as I was walking after work on my way to the train station, I was approached by a GreenPeacenik, and was asked if I was willing 'to do my part to help combat global warming and climate change'.

I had the right mind to go into the nearest Walgreen's, buy a couple of cans of Aqua Net, 'mace' him with it, and continue spraying gleefully into the air until they were depleted.

by Member 25348569

that's just "London" and not "London, England" and certainly not "London, Canada", it's just crawled up to 0C from a low of around -3C with snow expected here overnight tonight.

Normal London weather is Atlantic weather, windy and wet and well above zero. sometimes we get cold and grey for a few weeks but rarely below freezing for long. No one in London has snow chains and very few have winter tyres unless they are ski buffs and drive to The Alps regularly.

This current three week cold snap is the worst for around thirty years and the usual measure of grit-and-salt is not working as the town and county councils are running out.

This is headlined as "The Big Freeze" and I reckon most of the Canadian and North US peers would laugh at us.

But, trust me, we reckon this is COLD!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/8

:D

by jamesrl

London Ontario sits in a snow belt. Doesn't get as cold as Montreal though. It has a deecnt university(preppy) and a few insurance company head offices - not an exciting place.

Congrats Neil, I had no idea you owned London England.

BTW I can drive from Moscow, though Warsaw, then onto Paris, and finally London in a day; all in southern Ontario. Before WWI I could have added Berlin to that list, but it was renamed to Kitchener during WWI.

I spent an entire day in -40 temps working on a ski hill during provincial championships. Of course it helps if you are dressed for it. Only my eyes were uncovered, and I could have used my goggles if it had been brighter. We did have to move around a little to keep warm. The racers actually wear just a thin spandex like suit for the race, and they give up their jackets as they prepare for the start. The coachs shuttle them down to the finish but usually wait till they have a few in hand, so I've seen some racers at the bottom of the hill anxiously waiting for their jackets...in nothing but spandex. Now thats cold.

James

by the 'g-man.'

Last time I checked I was a UK taxpayer, just like you.

RBS had / has more personal & business accounts in England and overseas than in Scotland so the impact would be felt more there.

Besides:

In addition to the support given to RBS (part of a 37bn scheme Lloyds are also involved in) the Treasury has protected the Bank of England against losses by providing over ?200bn of liquidity support.

by the 'g-man.'

and it is more than just funny to Canadian and North US peers!

Your neighbours are in hysterics as well!

by Member 25348569

Things are pretty shagged North of the Border as well from what I hear. All of the grit gone, Aberdeen and Glasgow airports shut and yet, we are led to believe, you guys "know all about snow" when compared to us Southerners who only get the stuff once every ten years.

:)

by the 'g-man.'

The much touted 'Big freeze' has been going on since December the 18th up here with tempratures at or way below 0.

However looking at the press it only started two days ago.

by nicknielsen

The guy who wrote that was probably able to get his car started and drive to work this morning. :D

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