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That sounds like something the 2deep4u crowd would love.
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I have had a lot of fish in my lifetime. More goldfish then I can remember( one of which lived over two years, I believe) and two Betta fish. The first Betta lived 2 years and the second, which I got for Christmas one year, lived 6 months. I like fish as pets, but they usually dont live very long :(
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See I've never heard a staff referred to as a stave in music so I was thinking like a stave as in a stake or something. Then I read 'played' as literally like played around, not played an instrument. That post was all sorts of nonsense to me hahah. |
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Felt like this was nessacary. |
i hate the rules...most of time it's the reason why i fail..
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Not gonna lie, this thing has always freaked the sheet out of me. It's creepy! |
but srs tho what is a singing fish? Is it like one of those "press me" dolls but creepier?
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It has a motion detector, starts singing when you walk by it haha.
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Someone gave one of those things to my parents as a gift when they first got really popular. I LOATHED it.
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We've never had a singing fish but I do remember playing with them at the store and making them sing. I still sometimes do that with singing things when I'm wandering about Wal-Mart with nothing else to do.
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I feel like they were the first popular things with motion detectors. Kind of like Avatar and 3D, they're the ones that pushed motion detectors into the 'fad' stage.
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oh lol that's what they are.
Yeah, I've never actually seen a singing fish, but oh my god some things motion detector scare the living **** out of you at Toys 'r' Us when you go to buy plushies :c |
I've never seen...plushie ones. o_O
I have seen the 'this is a halloween picture that OH MY GOD IT'S MOVING' things though. |
well no I went to buy plushies and there are these "try me out" toys that SING OH MOTHER OF HELL SO LOUD AND SHAKES AND OH MY CRAP and like all the kids were crying and the lady was like "what the hell"
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It must be my Australian linguistics, it is to my understanding that it's staff in America and other countries but since I was little it's always been stave. I have no idea if you're American or not but hey. Other words you might find confusing from the Australian dictionary: Boot - Trunk (like in a car) Biscuit - Cookie G-banger - Thong Thong - Sandal I think? like on your feet at the beach shah. Then there's the many synonyms for beer, hello, friend, not-friend, urination and female significant other, which are all very.. inappropriate for an internet forum. |
I say pop instead of soda which confuses people sometimes. I also say Aunt differently than everyone else here in New England. They say Awunt, and I say Ant and it gets confusing. xD
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I don't say pop or soda, I say fizzy drink or just the name of it! XD |
I refer to them as soft drinks personally.
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Flip flop! That's what I was thinking of. I dunno Toujours, I mean America thinks the Brits drive on the wrong side of the road even though America is the only country (to my knowledge) that drives on the right. I dunno if that's maybe saying something.. >_>
Yeah I have soft drink as well, or just the name of the beverage hah. |
Nope, most people drive on the right. Look at the picture from Wikipedia!
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Wow, I didn't know that either. That's insane.
Yay, I'm part of the majority. |
Finally, something where I actually am the majority xD
Then again, most of what I watch originates in Japan so maybe that's why I see so much driving on the left xD |
Imagine crossing a border between two countries that drove on the opposite sides. That would be quite interesting.
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Yeah I figured the US was the odd one out till I looked it up too. My original post said "there are a few others, like" and then I looked it up and was like "holy crap we're actually in the majority on this one".
It's okay, you can still make fun of our imperial system of measurement. |
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And whatever, I just go with whatever. See, like not complaining about mm and mL in China |
Apparently they just put up signs and when you leave border patrol you leave on the opposite side. Kind of like an uncontrolled intersection I guess?
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Wait what, they actually have countries right next to each other that drive on the opposite side of the road? O.o
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Yup! Rwanda and Uganda were the two I was reading about.
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I got to drive on the other side of the road once. I kept turning on the windshield wipers when I wanted to signal. I can't imagine switching sides mid-drive.
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I have enough trouble driving in general, let alone driving on the other side of the road :(
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People have said that I drive slow, like a little old lady. Which kinda makes sense, since I'm a big fan of the big old cars that are popular with little old ladies :P
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We have some singe-lane one-way roads on campus where for some reason people tend to end up going the wrong way on x_x Terrifying when you see someone come around a corner up ahead and come towards you :x
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I can't imagine driving on the wrong side of the road. Just reaching down for the gearstick with my right hand instead of my left... nope, that's just too weird! Well, it would be weirder if there was no gearstick at all. Driving in the US/Canada would be the weirdest for me, personally.
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Driving a Prius would be really weird for you then :P
No gear shift, no keys, and you don't have to buy gas every week. |
No gear shift? How do you reverse...what I'm so confused
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Also, there are an awful lot of females on this site. More than any other as far as I've seen. |
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I actually never imagined so many countries followed that style of driving. |
Oh yeah your Imperial measurements are stupid! You measure too many things in pounds, like pressure and force. Although you did get the 'weight' measurement correct by measuring it as a force whereas people get confused between mass and weight.
Grams are mass. Newtons are weight. .. Stop putting ideas in my head I'll get in trouble for saying something. Back on topic, I find I'm a very good driver (despite the abundance of speeding and parking fines I've racked up) the street I live on is like a race circuit in it's layout, it's fantastic. |
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I'm annoyed because if I end up working in the UK, I'll have to take some more driving classes XD Or just take the bus or something. (Also fun fact: people in Madrid used to drive on the left until 1931. Other parts of the country didn't. It was so horribly confusing it was decided to just keep it on the right everywhere. But our local trains still run on the left since it was too much hassle to swap that too and it's horribly confusing for everyone!).
And I'm still amazed to know that automatic transmissions are an actual real thing XD |
If you work in London, you DEFINITELY won't need a car, Went. The rest of the UK, sure. But absolutely not for London. If anything, a car will slow you down in comparison to either walking/bussing/Tubing/cycling/whatever-ing.
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Even outside of London, if you live in the town or city you work on, public transportation is just easiest. Well.. you'll be here over the weekend so you can see for yourself, Wenty :3
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I take it the Tube is the UK's version of the subway?
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Wikipedia demonstrates: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lancaster_Gate_tube.jpg |
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Wowowowowow, that looks so much cleaner then the stations here in NYC. Although, that train looks mighty old fashioned. |
BART's where it's at yo
I don't think I've seen a dirty subway, but then again I rarely go on subways :P |
Never been in a subway except the sandwich kind. C:
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You're missing out Live. I have a soft spot for NY subways. Especially the R train.
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I'm missing out on a Turkey BLT, lmao
/me likey old trains |
Toronto got new trains in their underground/ subway. They have no dividers which is pretty cool! I got a chance to ride one and they are wicked on turns.
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Toujie, I like you. You have taste. R is probably one of the cleanest. Also, you're from New York? I feel like I asked that before And Subway the sandwich store is god. $5 footlong all September, get them while September lasts! And god, NYC trains suck compared to Torontos. http://cache.virtualtourist.com/4/3618781-Dark_and_Dirty_BART_in_Frisco_is_Cleaner_New_York_City.jpg |
Tube stations are ridiculously varied in terms of cleanliness and general appearnce. Some are like stereotypical NYC stations: the one that's nearest me - Whitechapel - is sightly better than NYC ones but not much. Others have been recently updated and look really nice as a result: Blackfriars, where I get off to go to work, is an example of this. And different Tube lines have better/worse trains themselves. It's a real grab-bag of stuff, and it's always being updated so there's normally some sort of engineering work going on at any one time. Everyone complains about the Tube but when it stops (like it did in a series of strikes last year) the whole of London shuts down, practically.
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Wow, that looks superold and ugly and dirty XD
When I'm bored, I go around the Madrid Metro with my monthly pass and take pictures of stuff, I have a bit folder already. Should upload it eventually! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/222/dscn2744e.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/138/dscn2875.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/dscn2881h.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/6/dscn2761j.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/dscn2909g.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/dscn2907x.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/dscn2777r.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/853/dscn2899pb.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/19/dscn2903f.jpg/ |
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I miss being about to take the subway. They're so relaxing compared to taking the bus.
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I mean, the color scheme and everything, there's a divider in the middle, all that stuff :P |
But Cosmo, it's so old-timey! It's RETRO!
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Our subway system looks like a fat finger tbh.
http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/files/2006/06/bart-subway-stn.jpg And every time I go on public transportation there's a dude (usually ethnic) who got busted by the cops one way or another sitting across from me. |
Presently, these are the only two trains you can ride in my area!
Hiawatha Line (Light Rail) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Minneapolis_Light_Train.jpg Northstar Line (Commuter Rail) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Northstar_Doubleheader.jpg Unfortunately for me, I don't live along either one. Though I have ridden the subway lines in NYC between Central Park and Battery Park in the past on a trip there. |
That first one actually looks really cool imo. XD
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Every time I get the opportunity to go on the 1995 rolling stock on the Northern Line, I can't help but appreciate how sexy it looks compared to the S stock on the circle line ;~; maybe its that curved shape or the black strip at the face of the train that makes it look so badass as it enters a station.
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Oh! I didn't show our stations!
Toronto's Museum station :3 http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/photos/2008/04/museum_station_wide_01.jpg Union station http://i.thestar.com/images/5b/3b/c7f8b5394f2e8d2461775a68ee90.jpeg And random because I thought it was cool: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/photos/2008/04/Dundas_Square_Pano_Fisheye_tunnel_crop.jpg Dundas Square |
Your Union Station reminds me of the main train station in Philadelphia haha.
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If you can't walk around the circumference of Dundas Square without falling to your death, I'll be very disappointed.
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Although it's too dangerous to take photo's with the large number thugs that collaborate at the station where I live. I've been threatened with a knife at least twice for looking at someone at the station. A few of my friends have been stabbed, it's rough here I suppose. |
You...suppose? Lmao. I got in trouble once for taking pictures but that was in an Atlantic City casino and they have reasons for that.
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They only congregate at the stations though so you walk 100 metres (Oh no not the metric system) in a different direction and you're relatively safe. Unless it's into the nearest high school in which case you're probably in trouble..
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I don't live in a bad neighborhood, at least, not anymore. I used to live on Jefferson Street in Birmingham, Alabama and that's like mixing people from Bronx, New York with people from Harlem and taking away their basketball.
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Lol 'rough'. Oakland
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That's the mall with the indoor roller coaster, yes? Crazy.
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All my mall has is a mini-train for kids that I never even rode. :(
The one here at school has some kind of bungee thing though! |
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And I"ve bungee jumped at my mall. :D |
I always wanted to do it but never really got a chance. Plus I think it's for kids. >_o
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I saw a forty year old bald guy doing it so I thought I'd give it a shot. It wasn't half bad.
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The closest thing the mall closest to me has to that stuff is a play area for kids. It has a lot of stuff kids can climb on. But that's just at the closest mall to me. And there are at least 6 malls closer to me than MoA is, and there are probably more that I'm forgetting about.
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Oh, right, it's full of expensive novelty and souvenir stores. And they have plans to make it EVEN BIGGER. The eventual goal is to connect the Ikea store to the rest of the mall. That means the swaths of parking lots on the block north of the mall where Ikea is would be removed, almost doubling the mall in size! Personally, though, it's not my favorite mall in my area. The ones that are part of larger shopping districts tend to be more interesting to me. Like Rosedale, Ridgedale, Southdale, Eden Prairie Center, Brookdale, and Minneapolis's pedestrian mall, Nicollet Mall. |
Does your car have psychic powers that cause it to break down when PC members visit you?
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I wish that were the case. Then it would break down considerably less often! my fault for buying a lemon, though
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My mom got a new car and almost immediately it got scratched by a piece of metal on the road and then she thought it was breaking down because the mud flap broke off and sounded ungodly while she drove. XD;
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Well, at least it wasn't half the front bumper that came off!
And I've just realized that I have driven around 7000 miles so far this year, if I am recalling my mileages right. My brother and I put 3500 miles on the same car over this summer, and that was with me having my own car not breaking down for a month or two. |
Boring DCC title is boring.
Speaking of miles, since my mother started her new job courting animals around, she's stacked nearly 100,000 miles (perhaps more since I asked her a ~month ago) on her '98 Grand Voyager. Pretty insane, really, as I hardly drive a few miles a week and she drives nearly 500 every day just to make one delivery. |
My mother doesn't have to go nearly that far, but she still has to drive a lot since she's a Realtor. Perhaps that's why our PT Cruise keeps breaking. Haha, who knows. But it's been hard these days with our cars because we have three drivers who have to go places and only two vehicles (only one right now actually because our PT needs new tires yup.)
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Er, my dad has to drive about fifty miles max daily, so my family doesn't stack that many miles. We might have reached 30,000 miles on one of our cars. The only place I really have to go a good ways would be to and from school, which is downtown so I have to take the highway every morning. Actually, I go about the same distance as my dad, if not more.
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We have to drive about 20 miles each way whenever we need to do any shopping outside of simple groceries... down old country roads that aren't in the best shape. I think both of our family's vehicles have over 50,000 miles on them atm.
With that in mind, it's my dream to someday buy one of those cars on eBay that's 25-30 years old and only has 15,000 miles on it xD |
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