[shubi]

Sometime ago 1982 to 1985 I was working for CANADIAN GOVERTMENTS Department of Transport Canada. I had lot of good friends there. one I remember most was Steve Rattery. Once I told him WHY these farts dont set the ODOMETERS acording to INFO in the form. They get a properly filled application form. IF we change the occuption just do a AMEND. I think Steve said they wont do it
by the way all automobiles and motorcycles MOTHER NATURE GAVE US FOR SHORT DISTANCE TRAVELLING.
DRINKING while driving.
if you are durnk you cannot start car, at least check blood type, and more if necessary.
CELL Phone same as drinking while driving.

[vang]

drinking and then posting here is allowed? ;-)

[jtfanclub]

shubi, on Oct 10 2007, 09:33 AM, said:

if you are durnk you cannot start car, at least check blood type, and more if necessary.
CELL Phone same as drinking while driving.

While getting cell phone calls from drunk people is never fun, I don't think we should attach breathylizers to cell phones. For one thing, how would they pay for a cab?

I do think that using a cell phone in a movie theater should be the same as drunken driving, though.

[shubi]

by the way all of the world business people must give every body a quality CELL PHONE, attach to car key to open car door and PAY ME 15% of your GROSS value of your donations.
otherwise we the people of planet EARTH will sue you for everything you got.
good luck SHUBI
Consider thses is your first warning, as required by mother nature law.
JUST let me know how long it will take you bussiness person to do it, myself
I gave you 1 year.
good luck
have a drink on me, off course its not free'
thank you
shubi

[kenrexford]

I was thinking this very same thing this morning. I am frankly ticked off about the great Canadian odometer scandal, as well as the impact of drinking while talking on a cell phone in a motorized vehicle.

Just yesterday, a crazy old coot was driving his lawn mower, one that he bought in Toronto, while text messaging his grand-daughter and drinking Jim Beam from a plastic cup. I went over to complain, and I realized that he did not even have an odometer on his lawn mower. I flipped out. The police were called, BY ME, but they arrested me and took me to a hospital for processing. I just got out today, with a silly ankle bracelet. But, boy am I ticked.

[matmat]

shubi, on Oct 10 2007, 10:28 AM, said:

and PAY ME 15% of your GROSS value of your donations.

uh.... NO.

[keylime]

I'm waiting for the next rant about the metric versus imperial measurements deal.

[fred]

Perhaps not the most interesting story, but it is at least semi-on-topic...

When Sheri and I moved to the USA from Toronto about 5 years ago, our car came with us. It was an Acura with kilometers as the unit of measurement on the odometer (as well as the unit of measurement that was emphasized on the speedometer). This is normal for a car bought in Canada.

A couple of years ago when we went to buy a new car, the Acura dealership here is Las Vegas refused to pay us anything for the old car because everything was in kilometers instead of miles! Fortunately the Honda dealership did not seem to care. They offered us a fair price for our Acura and we bought a Honda.

I think I was about 10 years old when Canada switched to the metric system. I still think in miles, gallons, and Fahrenheit even though I spent most of my life exposed to only kilometers, litres, and Celsius.

To me that is strange.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[matmat]

fred, on Oct 10 2007, 11:17 AM, said:

litres

canadian...

[keylime]

I spent about a year and a half in Canada, in British Columbia.

One of the telling signs that I noticed was the fact that even tho everything was in metric, most of the natives thought in imperial terms - it was rather entertaining at times.

A few years ago a probe was sent to Mars and crashed, because one set of calculations were done in feet and the other set in meters. 165 million dollar oops. :-)

[helene_t]

vang, on Oct 10 2007, 05:02 PM, said:

drinking and then posting here is allowed? ;-)

No, but if you're 21 you are allowed to smoke crack.

[Fluffy]

fred, on Oct 10 2007, 04:17 PM, said:

I think I was about 10 years old when Canada switched to the metric system. I still think in miles, gallons, and Fahrenheit even though I spent most of my life exposed to only kilometers, litres, and Celsius.

To me that is strange.

I think it was Tomas de Aquino who said, give me a newborn from 0 to 6 years, and I 'll tell you who he'll be, where he'll work, who his friends will be, and everything.

[sceptic]

A rather unusal fact regarding Imperial and metric measureents, it would appear that only men have a problem with understanding this concept, you ask any woman and I guarentee she can tell the difference between 8 inches and 8 centimetres with her eyes shut

[helene_t]

Hey Wayne, why do men persist in thinking that that is a women's topic?

Actually I get totally confused by the four or five different size measures on shoes, pants and cardigans.

[gwnn]

we should have cars that will eject the drivers whenever it detects cell phone activity

[Al_U_Card]

or perhaps threads when they detect Shubi activity?

[pokerbids]

"by the way all automobiles and motorcycles MOTHER NATURE GAVE US FOR SHORT DISTANCE TRAVELLING." Shubi.

Mother nature has started giving us us automobiles and motorcycles? Darwin's new theory of automation?

And who on earth calls a speedometer an odometer - I must visit Canada and tell them if they want to catch drunk drivers put in an odourmeter!!!!

[helene_t]

gwnn, on Oct 10 2007, 10:14 PM, said:

we should have cars that will eject the drivers whenever it detects cell phone activity

My brother had a 007 toy car when he was a young boy. It could eject the driver who would then decent by parachute, hopefully in a place safe from the bullies who chased him into the cul-de-sac.

[nickf]

keylime, on Oct 11 2007, 01:46 AM, said:

I'm waiting for the next rant about the metric versus imperial measurements deal.

Well everyone knows the metric system is a scam.

But not nearly as much as the Dewey decimal system.

nickf
sydney

[nickf]

fred, on Oct 11 2007, 02:17 AM, said:

I think I was about 10 years old when Canada switched to the metric system. I still think in miles, gallons, and Fahrenheit even though I spent most of my life exposed to only kilometers, litres, and Celsius.

To me that is strange.

Me too. I was about 5 years old when metrics were introduced in Australia. But I only know how tall someone is when you tell me in feet and inches, or how heavy they are if in stones and pounds.

I can only understand horizontal distances in centimetres metres and km, temperature by Celsius and air pressure in psi not kilopascals.

nickf
sydney