the_yellow_dart

Canada's currency looked like America's once - back in the '80s. New bill design is like the metric system - America needs to join the modern age. Your current bills are a joke.

I apologize for putting a light note on such a serious topic (I'm not trying to be rude). I just want to relay the story of one of my friends as a lead in to a serious point. I have an Indian friend here in Toronto who turned 19 (Canadian drinking age) on Sept 11, 2001. He is dark skinned for an Indian, and falls into most people's ideas of what a Muslim would look like, and has a lot of friends here that also fall into the same category. He had to skip his own birthday party, because he thought that people would get the wrong idea about a group of brown men out drinking and partying on that day. The reason I relate this story is to show the fears that Canadians shared on that day: Fears that a renewed xenophobia would grow in America. Fears that a police or surveillance state would emerge. Also, fears that pressure from America would force the same effects on Canada. September 11th certainly has had an effect on America. However, now that I can look back nine years later, I'm pleasantly surprised by the outcome. America has become more cautious, but it doesn't feel that much more racist or afraid to me. I think this is something to be proud of, America. You have taken a terrible event and taken mostly only the positive lessons from it. To all of you who didn't jump on the 'kill the Muslims' bandwagon, give yourselves a pat on the back.

A '93 Safari, in a trailer park somewhere in the eastern US, sometime around '95. (I was 12) It was a rutted dirt road, and I stayed in the rots despite the tree which had overgrown the road on the side. I put some minor scratches down the side when passing the branches. My dad didn't seem to mind too much - thankfully they came out with a wax.

Man you guys made me laugh sometimes. The Lysol and Super Mario comments made it really hard not to laugh out loud in the office.

The public's right to own handguns. I really don't think (especially in Canada) that the fact that somebody might have a gun will stop a criminal with a gun from doing something. I think we should ban non-hunting gans. The anti-nuclear idiocy that misconceptions like The Simpsons have spread. Nuclear power is a great alternative to coal, and is safer than most people realize. The Russian design that exploded had obvious flaws that we've learned from. The Canadian CANDU design in particular is very safe, yet we have idiotic newspaper articles every year or so spreading fear based on absolutely nothing. Idiotic. The perception of big cities in Canada as 'dangerous' by those in smaller towns. Often, the crime in the smaller towns is higher, per-capita. You just hear about more crime in the bigger cities because there are more people and therefore more crimes per day. ..and obviously... The perception of Toyota as "The Only Car Company that Matters". Get your head out of your a** already.

From that guy's photostream... ...anybody want a Cobalt coupe? http://www.flickr.com/photos/explorertom/3714688759/in/photostream

Trust me, it's pretty bad in Toronto too. I was going on a vacation with my parents a couple of years ago. I was living downtown, and my parents were living approximately 100km or 60mi from Toronto. We talked on the phone as we were getting ready to head to the airport. We left at the same time. I took transit to the airport, and they drove the highways. They beat me there by about 15 minutes. According to these trip planners, I should have (barely) beaten them there, but you get the idea... Driving from out of town Transit from downtown

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Part-time Atkinson - has that ever been done before? One thing that strikes me as interesting too is restarting with the pistons - has any car gone without a starter motor before??

If you ever have a pasta pot bubble over get back to me. Burned starch is a b#*&%

I've never used a gas stove so I can't compare to that, but as far as coil electric vs. glass top electric, coil is far superior. I also had a chef that gave me a cooking class once tell me that he swears by the coil as well, because he found that the heat transfer through the glass wasn't as good as when you put the pot straight on the coil.

Don't buy into that b.s. about the glass tops!!! I bought a glass-top stove to replace an old broken stove when I was at my old place - what a nightmare. Anytime anything spilled on the stove while cooking, it would burn into this black mess that stuck onto the surface and wouldn't come off without about 5 minutes of vigourous wiping with a special clearner. We even tried different products, and nothing seemed to do a better job. My new house has the coil type again, and I'm SO GLAD to have that again. First of all, you don't have to clean it every single time you use the stove, and secondly when you do clean it, it requires a lot less elbow grease to do so. Since going back to a coil stove, my total stove cleaning time has probably reduced by about ten or twenty times.

Oldsmoboi - Let me provide you with a nasty example that shows how a HE washer could actually increase the volume of laundry done. My parents are the part owners of an optometry business with two offices. They brought in a young new optometrist on contract to take care of extra patient load. The man was still clearly in university party mode, and didn't have his life organized enough to do laundry on a regular basis. When they questioned him about a dirty shirt he wore in one day, he admitted that he didn't have any completely clean ones at home, and did the 'sniff test' to find the least dirty one. If he had an HE washer, his occasional bouts of laundry would last him longer and he'd do more laundry overall. I realize that's a wierd case, but I'm just pointing out that it could happen.

Care to quantify? My last bill was for 2 months, about $80, and 498 kWh.

Canada essentially legalized carrying quantities less than one ounce for about a year in the 2002-2003 time frame, then caved to American pressure and recinded it. I thought that was a shame (that is was recinded), but at the same time the laws that were in place during that period were really stupid. It was still illegal to possess in large quantities, but legal in small quantities. Also, it was not available from a controllable, taxable location - you still had to find a drug dealer. As several other people in this thread have stated, I want to see it sold like cigarettes. I don't do it anymore personally, but I support others who want to.

Croc - I think the approach to language in the US leans more towards the practical than the traditional. The spelling changes were just to update the words as their pronunciation changed. Most words with silent letters are that way because at one time, the letters weren't silent. Knuckle, for example. Pronouncing it the original way sounds kind of silly (no silent K), but that's how it was until people slowly dropped it. Taking the American, practical approach to spelling does make sense, and it's the normal way that languages developed over time - it's only recently that the Brits have taken to hanging onto traditions. What happens if we take it further? nuckles sanwich nife Wensday awnest awnor neumonia iland chrismas rong I like some of those and not others...

Here they're still spelled 'colour' and 'doughnut' (as in Britain). You Americans are the only ones changing the spelling of things. Which is ironic, because you're the only ones not changing your measurement system to metric.

Oh! I found it! TEST DRIVE. Watch the gameplay in the second half of the video. Pretty good for a Commodore!

Pole Position I remember. That was good. I also remember another racing game for the C64, it was racing through traffic that was going both ways with a cliff on one side and a rock face on the other. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

A Mitsubishi MiEV - in the parking lot at a Home Depot. Was really confused at first because I thought it was a Tata Nano... MiEV Nano This thing is only on sale in Japan so far, AFAIK. It had regular plates on it though. It was right-hand-drive, so somebody probably imported this thing themselves.

This is probably nothing for you Californians, but it was the first time I've ever felt an earthquake. Not a big one, just some shaking.USGS info I've heard that Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, western NY, and Maryland also felt it. Did anyone on this board feel it?

I got a rental at 18 when I had a no-fault accident (hit a deer).

I really hate this new forum software. Can't even get the link posted properly. Regardless, what it says when I enter my 2005 LS manual coupe with 177k km is $600-$2k. How you get $8k is beyond me. Even when I enter 1,000 km, I don't get a number that high.

$8k for a 2005 Cobalt???? Am I missing something??? WTF /currentkilometers/177777"]Check this