Waiting Out The Storm.....

[Akitu]

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You are so right about the "pussification", that same day during the announcements in that school, they were going on and on about "drops in the bucket" and Johnny getting one because he let Timmy use the hoolahoop without arguing, and Janey getting one for helping Mrs. Smith clean up her spilled coffee without even being asked to help, and thank you for being such wonderful friends and neighbors, etc., etc., etc. It was all I could do not to vomit.

Jeez... Here in Canada we just call it common courtesy and assume everyone is capable of it. Do people actually have to get rewarded for it there? Every time I hear about any kind of interpersonal activity down there it's always about how someone seems to have no sense of reality and figure the world revolves around them. I'm having a hard time distinguishing between a case of "high population, high incident gross, small total percentage" and "everyone is an ass hole". How much of the good stuff do I not hear about? I would think with equal representation of a population over 10 times our size I would be hearing more about genuine nice things people have done to go out of their way to help someone, but I continually only catch the negative. Then again it's almost always from the same states too, so I would have to imagine it's something like an excessively vocal minority; am I too far off on this assumption?

[fixthecopier]

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If I can't go to work tomorrow, I am going to need one of you to ship me a broken printer to repair.

[Debs1964]

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You lot should try being in the UK, we are having the heaviest rain in 250 years, admittedly it is pretty bad, but IT'S RAIN, my skin is waterproof, I won't dissolve. I know a lot of people have had their homes flooded, but we are a small island that is overcrowded, if people couldn't see what was going to happen if you continually build on flood plains, then they must have been blind. There are so many calls to end foreign aid because apparently now, a bit of rain puts us as a disaster zone and the rest of the world should be sending aid to us. So far there has been ONE death, and that was a man electrocuted by trying to move a tree that had a fallen power cable wrapped round it.
Blimey, I've been camping in rain almost as heavy as this LOL

[Akitu]

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You lot should try being in the UK, we are having the heaviest rain in 250 years, admittedly it is pretty bad, but IT'S RAIN, my skin is waterproof, I won't dissolve. I know a lot of people have had their homes flooded, but we are a small island that is overcrowded, if people couldn't see what was going to happen if you continually build on flood plains, then they must have been blind. There are so many calls to end foreign aid because apparently now, a bit of rain puts us as a disaster zone and the rest of the world should be sending aid to us. So far there has been ONE death, and that was a man electrocuted by trying to move a tree that had a fallen power cable wrapped round it.
Blimey, I've been camping in rain almost as heavy as this LOL

I'll gladly take a downpour of rain over -50 cold and several feet of snow. Let's trade!

[Debs1964]

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I'll gladly take a downpour of rain over -50 cold and several feet of snow. Let's trade!

No

[Akitu]

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No

Must not be that bad there then.

[KapeKopyTek]

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Jeez... Here in Canada we just call it common courtesy and assume everyone is capable of it. Do people actually have to get rewarded for it there? Every time I hear about any kind of interpersonal activity down there it's always about how someone seems to have no sense of reality and figure the world revolves around them. I'm having a hard time distinguishing between a case of "high population, high incident gross, small total percentage" and "everyone is an ass hole". How much of the good stuff do I not hear about? I would think with equal representation of a population over 10 times our size I would be hearing more about genuine nice things people have done to go out of their way to help someone, but I continually only catch the negative. Then again it's almost always from the same states too, so I would have to imagine it's something like an excessively vocal minority; am I too far off on this assumption?

Yes, "common courtesy" is what us old folks call it. It's so weird, the teachers shriek at these kids in the hall between classes to keep your hands at your side, look straight ahead, no talking, etc., and the lunchroom sounds like a morgue even when filled with elementary kids, teachers hovering like vultures, ready to pounce on the slightest misstep. But when they get to the upper grades, it's like a zoo - kids running and screaming in the halls, some of them half nekkid. It's messed up, I feel sorry for the kids. This country will not be better off in the near future. We're in the best of hands....

[KapeKopyTek]

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You lot should try being in the UK, we are having the heaviest rain in 250 years, admittedly it is pretty bad, but IT'S RAIN, my skin is waterproof, I won't dissolve. I know a lot of people have had their homes flooded, but we are a small island that is overcrowded, if people couldn't see what was going to happen if you continually build on flood plains, then they must have been blind. There are so many calls to end foreign aid because apparently now, a bit of rain puts us as a disaster zone and the rest of the world should be sending aid to us. So far there has been ONE death, and that was a man electrocuted by trying to move a tree that had a fallen power cable wrapped round it.
Blimey, I've been camping in rain almost as heavy as this LOL

I was in Lockerbie, Scotland for Sept and October in 1982(?) - wettest year on record, according to the locals. Seems to be a trend over there!

[Debs1964]

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Must not be that bad there then.

It's not, but you know the British just love complaining...especially those that live in the Midlands, Essex or Yorkshire

[Akitu]

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Yes, "common courtesy" is what us old folks call it. It's so weird, the teachers shriek at these kids in the hall between classes to keep your hands at your side, look straight ahead, no talking, etc., and the lunchroom sounds like a morgue even when filled with elementary kids, teachers hovering like vultures, ready to pounce on the slightest misstep. But when they get to the upper grades, it's like a zoo - kids running and screaming in the halls, some of them half nekkid. It's messed up, I feel sorry for the kids. This country will not be better off in the near future. We're in the best of hands....

It's a trickle down effect. All the crap that's going on now is a direct result of the oldest generation spoon feeding their children utter BS about how they can achieve anything they set their minds to and how they're worth as much as they think they are; you wind up with situations that have 40 year old people working for ten cents above minimum wage at McDonald's thinking this should be the way they can earn their living wage. Soon enough the over entitled generation will be in the nursing home demanding flying wheelchairs so they don't have to roll themselves around by their own power.

If you think it's bad now, I'd be eager to see what the next generations will do when it's their turn; it's a steep downhill slope.

[Akitu]

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It's not, but you know the British just love complaining...especially those that live in the Midlands, Essex or Yorkshire

People in general love to complain, it's how our brains are hard wired. British just have funnier ways of complaining than us North 'Muricans.

[Lagonda]

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I'll gladly take a downpour of rain over -50 cold and several feet of snow. Let's trade!

Be glad to trade a bit of wet weather with someone as 50% of Queensland is now in drought. less than 200 km from Brisbane the paddocks are turning in to dust.

[Iowatech]

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You lot should try being in the UK, we are having the heaviest rain in 250 years, admittedly it is pretty bad, but IT'S RAIN, my skin is waterproof, I won't dissolve. I know a lot of people have had their homes flooded, but we are a small island that is overcrowded, if people couldn't see what was going to happen if you continually build on flood plains, then they must have been blind. There are so many calls to end foreign aid because apparently now, a bit of rain puts us as a disaster zone and the rest of the world should be sending aid to us. So far there has been ONE death, and that was a man electrocuted by trying to move a tree that had a fallen power cable wrapped round it.
Blimey, I've been camping in rain almost as heavy as this LOL

Careful with your descriptions, when I was probably in the Reserves there was a saying: Sugar melts and, um, something completely unlike sugar dissolves. It was popular when we were out in the rain.

[Iowatech]

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Yes, "common courtesy" is what us old folks call it. It's so weird, the teachers shriek at these kids in the hall between classes to keep your hands at your side, look straight ahead, no talking, etc., and the lunchroom sounds like a morgue even when filled with elementary kids, teachers hovering like vultures, ready to pounce on the slightest misstep. But when they get to the upper grades, it's like a zoo - kids running and screaming in the halls, some of them half nekkid. It's messed up, I feel sorry for the kids. This country will not be better off in the near future. We're in the best of hands....

I'm not sure that's what Akitu was looking for.
Sure, there's a bunch of bumps and warts and crap we need to get after in the grand scheme of things. But I'd guess Akitu is more looking for stuff like out here in my portion of the periphery the first person out with a snowblower clears the full sidewalk on our side of the block after a few inches of snow. At least that's what I interpret the common courtesy thing to mean.
Sorry if I'm wrong.

[NeoMatrix]

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Be glad to trade a bit of wet weather with someone as 50% of Queensland is now in drought. less than 200 km from Brisbane the paddocks are turning in to dust.

Yeah,rigtho....
We've just come through the back end of TC Dylan.
We've had a nice drop of rain up here in Central Queensland.
Everything is nice and green once again. The dams are full.
Fish should be coming on the bite.
There should be plenty of prawns/shrimp
about fairly soon after the rain washes the creeks out.
I might get a chance to take the boat crabbing on this weekend.
The temperature has been moderate at around 35 degC.

All round nice weather....