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A pretty meaningless message i know, but I had to tell some people as im so excited about it! Sorry |
tell us what it's like, inside and out. |
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Excitement is GOOD! |
Kudos to you! How will you decorate? Tell us about Nottingham. Did you ever find a sheriff?Or was that Sherwood Forrest,that for the first time in hundreds of years,didn't have a sherriff,and was accepting applications.[if that position hasn't been filled,perhaps you could consider it for part time employment,while you work your way through school] |
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We are still waiting to hear from the landlord about how much we can decorate, but if I have permission I will add some darker blue borders to my room and perhaps paint the chimney breast deep blue too. The rest of the house Im not sure about yet as we will have to sit down and talk about it. But Im sure it will be great whatever we do with it! Nottingham its self is a great city, the alcohol is cheap, the people are really friendly, there are loads of clubs and bars that are all really good. Actually Nottingham does still have a Sheriff, quite unfortunate really, as Im sure I would have fitted the job perfectly! Pez, have you visited Nottingham then? My house is near the castle and Maid Marrion way where the museum is. |
i took tons and tons of pictures but none of my pictures between stirling castle and windsor came out. stayed at the travelodge there, sharing a parking lot with the horrible fish and chips place. everyone got sick after eating there except the vegetarians. i got really annoying because i laughed at all my friends who were getting sick. |
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fucking a. i ate that paki's fish maybe six times in four days. then i took one hell of a shit. a big greasy floater. |
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Crisps are kinda round ish |
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bah. had 'em once, they were terrible. don't get the salt and vinegar crisps while in the u.k., whatever you do. |
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there are some american things that are called crisps here and they're made of GROUND potatoes. they come in a paper tube. and i can't remember the name. they have really stange musical commercials and are all the same size and shape. |
but yes, in the UK they call potato chips crisps. that's what we're talking about. |
that's it! they are nasty.... they taste like assshitfuck. |
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The mere thought of pringles turns my stomach. Especially plain. Urf. I'm a little better than I was a year ago, but talking about them still makes me feel vaguely ill. A lot of little kids' lunchboxes (which are never metal and sharp-edged any more!) come with these little pringle carrying-case things. You can stow maybe 10 or 20 pringles in there. I think they have to call them "potato crisps" for some legal reason. Like "pasturized process cheese food." |
i always thought chips were french fries. are they jojos? i love jojos. |
i like to slice potatoes into psydo-jojos and toss them in the oven for an hour. yummy. |
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the tao of buddy holly. listen, listen, and you will see. |
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1. cut a potato into sixths lengthwise. 2. batter with a fried chicken type batter 3. fry, baybee 4. eat with ketchup and/or tartar sauce and/or steak sauce. mmmmm. |
and you chuck spices on em. then deep fry till golden brown. drew likes em with sour cream (blah) I like em with relish and a JUMBO COKE |
mmm salt n vinegar chip sandwhiches |
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and i like shoestring (skinny) fries. Steaks fries are nice and all too. hey alex what do you call (what we call) tater tots? You know? Little thumb sized bits.....kind like hasbrowns rolled into a nice round 1" bit? maybe you call em tater tots too? Surely we can find some common ground in the spud department. Otherwise its war all over again, and we're bigger than you. |
otherwise they're no good. |
aaaaaaah, IRC. Last week i damn near ran my car off the highway collector ramp when i realized that what they had described was perogies, not tater tots. Of course it's been years since then and i've lost all contact with these poor souls, so i have no chance of apology. BUG, MALK, ANTIG, IM SORRY, YOU WERE NOT EATING TATER TOTS |
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it could be "maxi-nuggets" |
material that costs more than $20 per plant. |
i remember doing a part in a friend's play, we were playing babies that had this demonic mommy, and I had to be spoon fed cold tater tots with ketchup every night. took every ounce of method acting skill to keep from retching by the last night why do you do this to me |
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highway- really really hugeass road, a.k.a. expressway + collector- the entrance lanes that connect to a highway from smaller roads, run beside it momentarily, then merge with it. Also called 'collector lanes'. The opposite of an 'exit lane'. ie) "Traffic report this hour....QE backed up past Dixie...eastbound express moving slow, collectors moving well..." + ramp- an ascending or descending plane = highway collector ramp- a ramp that you drive down (or up) to get onto the highway. |
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a vacuum is a collector. comic books and stamps are for collectors. that, like homey says is a ramp...the on-ramp off-ramp. if its on the same level as the freeway...its an entrance and exit. It doesnt collect anything. fucking weirdos |
major highways are divided in two parts- the express and the collector, with 2-4 lanes each. The express is the main part, but to exit the highway you have to go into the collector lanes until you get to your exit. Or if you’re sneaky you can just stay in the collector side the whole time until you reach your destination, thusly avoiding the major volume of traffic. Do you have these? what do you call that side of the highway? They are called collectors because every car that wants on the highway has to go through that side first. Therefore, the ramps (“on-ramps”) used to get to them are collector ramps. and truthfully, i don’t talk about them enough to know what the general term is. Usually it’s just a ramp. ramp is a cool word. Say it a couple times. Bask in it. |
But generally speaking, most exits and entrances dont have them...just a ramp and GO! On this older freeway here in LA called the Arroyo Seco Parkway...CA first freeway between LA and Pasadena....it squirms through the hillsides. Its such a tight freeway and the entrance ramps were clearly not made for cars going 70mph...they literally are a stopsign and you have about 50-100ft to get up to speed and hope the a-hole approaching can slow enough to let you in. Some of the freeways ramps in San Fran, being so crammed and tight, not to mention elevated and old are like that as well. Just PUNCH IT and hope for the best. Junkyards, dealers and antiquarians collect cars silly girl. |
occasionally some lanes are designated HOV or Carpool lanes. sometimes these lanes are on the left, sometimes on the right, sometimes they have divders between them and the other lanes, sometimes they don't. rich american pigdogs collect cars. roads don't collect cars. |
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FOR ME TO SUCK ON!!!! |
you smell too. |
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3973/ "off-ramp" is just a word used by people who don't know any better, like saying "hangy-ball" instead of "uvula". man our education system sucks ass. |
calling our on-ramps and off-ramps highway collector ramps is like calling that hangy thing in the back of your throat "tonsils" |
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Stupid people who want to sound affected say "collector ramp" (if they're in the US, I'm not implying that wisper is stupid). Just like stupid people who want to sound affected say "thou" instead of "you" like regular people, even though "thou" is technically the plural/formal form of you--i.e. y'all. |
its a collector ramp. thats the right term. i use the term "on/off-ramp" as well. its simple, its easy, and i actually like it better. but i wont defend it with the word "dialect". just because a term is common doesnt make it right. i was saying wisper is right because she is. now stop being so proud, just say you prefer the new, simple, common (and wrong, but who cares - it doesnt make a difference) term of "on/off ramp" and be done with it. |
pretty simple, eh, hoser? |
And if there's no ramp, it's just an exit. Or an entrance. And if there's a ramp but no collector lanes, it's an off-ramp or on-ramp, unless you're in canada, where no one is sure what they're called. ....yeah....i think that's it. |
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http://www.fusionuv.com/about/dir_geithersburg.html http://www.geocities.com/mhking3/285insider.html some more links involving direct references to collector lanes and collector ramps. no collector lanes or ramps where you live? just name your location and i'll find one. |
from the first link: "Collector/Distributor Road = Improves traffic flow by collecting multiple ramp entrances into one entrance location onto the freeway or collects multiple ramp exits into one exit location off the freeway. This type of road is physically separated from the adjacent highway lanes of traffic by a concrete barrier, except at the location where traffic from the collector/distributor road joins the main highway lanes of traffic." |
search for collector ramp came up with nothing. |
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another direct reference to a collector ramp for Silicon Valley area: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/route101.htm http://www.ci.pleasanton.ca.us/archive/ccminutes980407.html http://www.pacificnet.net/~faigin/CA-HWYS/017-024.html |
there is no mention of a collector ramp in any of those (bottom three) documents. i've not seen a collector/distributer road thinger in the area. |
We do have gravel/dirt/grass -covered overpasses for cows though. |
Cunnamulla, Australia. Good luck mate. |
we've got a few in pdx, city of confusing roads. it's sortof hard to describe. i'll go drive a little tomorrow and then talk about it. |
I've come to believe that spoken language trumps written language. It's older, after all, and it's what people actually use. Insisting on using the so-called "right" term for on-ramps is like insisting that you refer to teh proper names of the bounty hunters in "The Empire Strikes Back" instead of just calling them the bounty hunters. Although, I can name a few - Bossk, IG-88, Boba Fett, but who the hell was that guy with the bandages? Oh, yeah, K'laekto Raampu. |
I think Portland has collector lanes. Damn things set me back half an hour because they whisked me away from the highway I had just spent an hour trying to locate after being on it for only 10 seconds. |
"Floccipoccinihilipilification" sucks ass. |
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Usually people get confused because I'll stop min-sentance and get a surprised look on my face. They usually look over their shoulder. |
Am I wrong to call my trunk a trunk, rather than a boot, which is something you put on your foot? No. When a word is spoken often enough, it passes out of the realm of slang. It's how LANGUAGES and dialects develop, you dipshit. |
i thought of you |
(427 North) (401) (401 again) Starting at the bottom, right to left you will see... curving entrance ramp going into... north collector lanes, then northbound express, southbound express, south collector lanes, and maybe a southbound exit curving off. (many examples because they keep changing the cameras on me) and congrats to sem for somehow working Star Wars into this |
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an on-ramp is a ramp you use to get onto something. like a highway or a collector road. this is really, really simple. provided you weren't born a fucko. |
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yes i thought of you. not necessarily naked. what are you doing up there? |
I'm not up to a whole lot, actually. I'm just sort of bumbling along. Stil printing, and I'm going to crisis counselor training in the fall--I'm going to take some shifts on the Project Sanctuary hotline. I sort of feel like I need to do something that's benefiting humanity or something. And I have a well, not a spring. Although I could try dancing naked around the pumphouse and see if that improves my water pressure... |
fort bragg....ahh yes..i recall now. actually i saw a blurb on pbs about the beaches up that way....how there was so much glass and trash on the beaches that its actually integrated in the landscape. |
As far as Tater Tots are concerned I have never seen anything like them! and have never heared of mexi-nuggets! The closest we have to them are called potato-croquettes and they are just mashed potato coated in breadcrumbs, no seasoning. As for collector ramps, we call them slip-roads and slip-lanes |
Sour cream and onion flavour. The salt and vinegar ones taste nasty! Perhaps ours are made differently. The ones I have in front of me are made in Belgium. mmmm....maltodextrin. |
"Glass Beach" is actually the most famous beach like that-it was a dump until the 1950's and the entire beach is made up of tiny pieces of really smooth glass. It's really cool. There actually isn't very much trash on the beaches, because the dirty hippies keep going and cleaning it all up. Sometimes there are dead whales, though. Do whales count as trash? |
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But my thoughts are not very pleasant at present. I am totally confused.Maybe I should be posting in drunking ramblings. I am not very happy.I could go so far,as to say, I am quite unhappy.Its time for things to change. Where is J,when I need her? I just may be moving to Costa Rico,5 years earlier than I planned.She is there,looking at properties.I should have made this trip with her. |
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Tastes the same as the smell of silicone sealant - once you make that connection, you can never eat salt and vingar anything! |
aw, and it was my favourite flavour of crisp! I have just spent the day at Ikea(you have that in the USA dont you?) buying stuff for my new house. They had closed the restaurant damn them! I nearly died of starvation(slight exaggeration perhaps) by the time we found the 'Bistro' downstairs, eugh - warm Pepsi`and crunchy hot dogs, Still I have come away with a large quantity of strangly named products, so all in all it was a good day. |
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When i went to get them someone said "they look like garage storage" but once they were up with stereo and computer equipment and books and the infinite art supplies, they look painfully modern in my ultra-tacky place. And my god they were cheap. And you can change their layout at will. It is some fine fucking shelving, i tell you what. |
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fine fucking shelving |
My favorite piece of furniture is from IKEA. It is a small, bright orange, triangular table. Did you get that? BRIGHT ORANGE and TRIANGULAR. It was $7. SEVEN. I mean, that is so cool! |
and they had little stools for £3! |
I bought a blue one, and I spray-painted the other one orange. We've also got 3 that we spray-painted silver: one has words painted all over it, the other's got a heart (anatomically correct) on it, and the other one has a leg in a red stocking on it. They're neat. |
they had these cool but strange things on sale as well they were little slipper/shoes/funny feet that you could put on chair or table legs! |
i mean, i'm sure you dig it and all. just my opinion. ikea cracks me up. you all crack me up. i've never bought furniture that i actually picked out. how sad is that? |
The orange tables are by my bed, the blue stool holds up the TV, and the silver stools are stands for plants on the balcony. Discreet locations, all. |
someday............ |
que es bueno. |
though it just occurred to me that this is how i decorated my house in college. back when i was... 23, 24. ah ha! all you need now is to smoke a little dope. or a lot of dope. and hang up some blacklights. i bet your house would look wickedawesome with some blacklights. |
Possibly beige. Goddamn i hate beige. |
i've watched fight club three times in six weeks span. perhaps this means something. |
But I don't think I was aware of Ikea before fight club. |
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I don't really have room for a kitchen table in my apt. The kitchen is badly designed for modern appliances. |
But it's still really cool. It's a big teak bookshelf that folds up! It's very exciting. I just discovered that my kitchen has an ironing board built into the wall. That's pretty trippy. |
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or at least don't be offended i've seen his furniture |
"i've never bought furniture that i actually picked out. how sad is that?" shouldn't be offended anyway. |
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does your house look cool with blacklights, spider? |
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Drivers license stuff - cause I want to finally be brave and get it. she gets me a freakin plastic dolphin LAMP |
Maybe the lamp is like a bath bead--if you throw it in water, it will turn into a plastic dolphin car? |
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a plastic dolphin car would be way cooler than a plastic dolphin lamp thats for sure |
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