
Tacticslion |

i..i..NO...I can't, I won't!
... let's try... again!
Freehold DM wrote:Interesting stuff, TL. I could almost not hate it.>:)
Freehold DM wrote:And this, I just like.Muwahahahah~! Aaaaaalllll part of the plan...
* steeples fingers, tapping them together slowly *

Drejk |

Drejk wrote:Until?*grumble-grumble*
Moronic ideas of moronic parliamentary parasites...
*grumble-grumble*
Don't mind me. I just consider going to England again but without coming back. At least until England grows equally stupid. Then I have no idea where I could move...
Situation is UK is still better than not as abysmally bad as in Poland when it comes to government stupidity. Lets say that if I would be opening a small business I would go to my parents in England instead of trying to do this here.

Kajehase |

Drejk wrote:Until?*grumble-grumble*
Moronic ideas of moronic parliamentary parasites...
*grumble-grumble*
Don't mind me. I just consider going to England again but without coming back. At least until England grows equally stupid. Then I have no idea where I could move...
Do we tell him about UKIP winning by-elections?

David M Mallon |

Grrr...
My boss gave me a minor rant due to some customer complaining about me.
I supposedly wasn't focusing on the customers enough, which is a load of bullcrap.
If there's one thing I've learned from spending a decade working on and off in the retail and service industries, it's this: f$+% customers.

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Freehold DM wrote:come to Wi, just not yet its cold as f*~@ing s%!! and it isn't getting better anytime soon:(David M Mallon wrote:you should come to ny.Tacticslion wrote:Ocala, FLFlorida? Oh dear...
and why didn't you give me this advice last week? ;-) I'm now on Watertown, WI and I'll wake up to single digits. I think I'm ready to head back to Texas.

captain yesterday |

I'd rather be frozen in Wisconsin then warm in Texas;-) (although i'm not sure if Texas will be much warmer then us tomorrow) but yes the cold weather is starting to irk me just a little:-)
edit: i just found out from the NWS we aren't going to get above 0 degrees again until friday morning:(
hope you brought layers:-)

Tacticslion |
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RE: FL - I've lived in Lithuania. It be cold, there, yo. I gots my cold-cred down. (No, seriously, it's cold there. Mind, living there early post-Soviet Union when Eastern Europe was still trying to figure out what they were really like without the oppressive USSR meant learning how people had lived for the last fifty years with really bad heating in really cold weather. Hint: we were in the kitchen. A lot. (Also, I had really thick blankets instead of curtains in my room, which I oft abandoned for the warmth of family.))
... man, there are times I really miss my childhood!

Freehold DM |
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RE: FL - I've lived in Lithuania. It be cold, there, yo. I gots my cold-cred down. (No, seriously, it's cold there. Mind, living there early post-Soviet Union when Eastern Europe was still trying to figure out what they were really like without the oppressive USSR meant learning how people had lived for the last fifty years with really bad heating in really cold weather. Hint: we were in the kitchen. A lot. (Also, I had really thick blankets instead of curtains in my room, which I oft abandoned for the warmth of family.))
... man, there are times I really miss my childhood!
sounds awesome.
You do indeed have cold-cred. I daresay you are my bro-berg.
berg-bump

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David M Mallon wrote:Don't come to New York. Everyone I know is leaving New York. They probably have a reason for that.I'm not leaving, and you know me.
He said New York, NOT New York City. Two completely different things. It is like Georgia. There is Atlanta and there is the REST of Georgia. ~grins~

Tacticslion |

Lithuania? They tend to be colder than us. As far as I can tell. The usually coldest part of Poland is bordering Lithuania at least.
Well, it is north of Poland! I'd imagine that Latvia is colder and Estonia colder still, but the only times I was able to visit those two countries they were both substantially warmer than we were, for some inexplicable reason (though Estonia wasn't that much warmer).
Nothing was as harsh as Belarus, however. Holy carp. That place was a frigid wasteland every time we went. And not in a good way! "Greetings, Lithuania! Nothing but sunny skies and exceedingly hot 60-degree weather, now that it's summer time - perfect for tank-tops and short-shorts! Meanwhile, on our adjacent border, nothing but six-foot snow drifts and a blizzard! Better not go out on the road today: there isn't one!" (said no radio-announcer ever, but that was a mild exaggeration of the experience)
And yeah: the two countries share a border, and more impressively share a national history! Although which one was "in charge" during that time is a matter of national pride and who you're talking to.
I remember how we used to boil water and pour it in the tub to get our hot baths. And pray that the clay piping didn't melt again, so we didn't have to call the (always-inebriated) "master plumber" to fix it. Guy was kind of a jerk.
Tacticslion wrote:RE: FL - I've lived in Lithuania. It be cold, there, yo. I gots my cold-cred down. (No, seriously, it's cold there. Mind, living there early post-Soviet Union when Eastern Europe was still trying to figure out what they were really like without the oppressive USSR meant learning how people had lived for the last fifty years with really bad heating in really cold weather. Hint: we were in the kitchen. A lot. (Also, I had really thick blankets instead of curtains in my room, which I oft abandoned for the warmth of family.))
... man, there are times I really miss my childhood!
sounds awesome.
You do indeed have cold-cred. I daresay you are my bro-berg.
berg-bump
*berg-bump*
Hahah! It helps that my windows were facing due north, where the polar winds came from.
I'm slowly being weakened by FL's oh-so-merciless sun. A decade will do that for ya...
I do hear they're doing much better, now. It was such a shock when I returned after five years and they had McDonalds! I mean, we had to deal with the ex-KGB-turned-mafia threatening the only Chinese place with bombs (and then setting them off). Five years later? Four Mickey-Ds, and a dozen different China places! Weird.
I mean - people were talking in the streets and everything! I couldn't have imagined it. It's pretty awesome.

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Drejk wrote:Lithuania? They tend to be colder than us. As far as I can tell. The usually coldest part of Poland is bordering Lithuania at least.Well, it is north of Poland! I'd imagine that Latvia is colder and Estonia colder still, but the only times I was able to visit those two countries they were both substantially warmer than we were, for some inexplicable reason (though Estonia wasn't that much warmer).
Nothing was as harsh as Belarus, however. Holy carp. That place was a frigid wasteland every time we went. And not in a good way! "Greetings, Lithuania! Nothing but sunny skies and exceedingly hot 60-degree weather, now that it's summer time - perfect for tank-tops and short-shorts! Meanwhile, on our adjacent border, nothing but six-foot snow drifts and a blizzard! Better not go out on the road today: there isn't one!" (said no radio-announcer ever, but that was a mild exaggeration of the experience)
Presence of sea makes wonder to reduce harshness of the weather, to a degree. Even such splash of water as Baltic. Belarus got a short stick on this one. So do the large parts of Russia.
And yeah: the two countries share a border, and more impressively share a national history! Although which one was "in charge" during that time is a matter of national pride and who you're talking to.
It's... complicated.

Tacticslion |

Quote:And yeah: the two countries share a border, and more impressively share a national history! Although which one was "in charge" during that time is a matter of national pride and who you're talking to.It's... complicated.
Oh, yeah it is. (As confirmed by the doctoral thesis-turned book that I got acquired from no less than four researchers. Naturally, it was - accidentally, mind - bound upside down, so that either the covers or the pages are facing "upside down" when you're reading it.)