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I'm not sure I can wait for peak oil by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Aug 30, 2007 at 01:27:12 AM EST

I need a solution by, say, tomorrow morning.

And yeah, Architecture in Helsinki is as boring as the day is long. I trust actual architecture in actual Helsinki isn't that lame, and that the band is doing a disservice to the phrase.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Solution = move by blixco (4.00 / 1) #10 Thu Aug 30, 2007 at 09:01:14 AM EST

California isn't exactly new to the idea of really bad traffic. It's sort of famous for it. My commute twelve years ago was roughly 2 hours each way. My dad lives twelve miles from work, and it takes him an hour to get there, and he's all the way out in Livermore.

Austin now has roughly 60 percent California population, and it shows: the same sorts of stupid traffic nonsense coupled with very high speeds in certain directions and times of day == madness.

The only place safe from Californians seems to be Georgia.
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I can't move for 3 years by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #23 Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 12:58:58 AM EST

It's all part of a recently-revived plan to save up a ton of loot, then move to Barcelona and overdose on something or other.

This week, I've been amazed by the sheer number of otherwise completely politically castrated^Wcorrect people at work who blame the traffic on Asians. While I won't discount the effect any transient community suddenly finding themselves in an automobile-heavy culture and being unprepared to deal with that situation may have, I still maintain it's the general lazy attitude Cullifornians have towards life in general that compounds that problem and makes it as ubiquitous as it is.

The fucked up thing is that I can remember, almost fondly, and that's saying a fuck of a lot, considering how much I loathe Michigan, routinely doing 80+ mph with less than a car length between me and the other cars in Detroit, and we all kept the fucking speed up, and we all fucking paid attention to what was going on around us, and nobody got hurt. Out here, it's like fucking Mongoloid Central.

So, yeah, I could move, but I could also just trick 95% of the population into killing itself, and, to be honest, that seems the better of the two options. I like the proximity to the ocean that I haven't touched since February 2006.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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: my scariest driving experience, by garlic (4.00 / 1) #31 Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 02:33:36 PM EST

getting back on the highway in detroit from the airport. The speed limit is 75, meaning people in the slow lane are doing 85, and from the airport, you merge from the left, so you have to be going 95 to not get killed.

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