Great Idea. ~:cheers: I have always wondered why those "survivors" are always in some tropical Island.Lets put them into arctic forest.I prefer winter time. ~D
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Great Idea. ~:cheers: I have always wondered why those "survivors" are always in some tropical Island.Lets put them into arctic forest.I prefer winter time. ~D
Well if you take the average "survivor" cast, half of them would be dead after the first episode. ~D
Atleast surviving skills would be needed then... :sneaky:
Yes the winter would be too hard for those poor buggers. ~;) But maybe at summertime.I go to Lapland almost every summer to fish with my mates.We have been walking down the rivers for over a week sometimes only food we carryied with us was dry dark bread, spam,salt and Vodka.The rivers are full of trouts and you can eat berryes if you want something sweet.My friend has a cottage in half way between Inari and Ivalo,which we have been used as base.
It will never happen. How can they get lingering shots of men and women in semi-nude conditions in an arctic environment? Bare flesh is very important to the survival of Survivor.Quote:
Originally Posted by kagemusha
Its hot in Lapland at summer but if they would be semi-nude the mosquitos would eat them alive. :grin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemurmania
Sounds nice kagemusha. :bow:
Not that much of an outdoor person myself, I prefer some civilisation when sleeping. Tent's aren't that fun. Haven't got much experience about fishing and hunting either.
But you could put them above the tree line. But then it's probably too cold again most of the time. :earmuffs:Quote:
Its hot in Lapland at summer but if they would be semi-nude the mosquitos would eat them alive.
Thanks Ironside sama :bow: .Its nice to go hiking sometimes.When you get back home soft bed is like heaven after a week in tent or when the weather was nice we slept outside in sleeping bags. ~:)
Around here if you work in NYC its usually about 3 or 4 hous a day. The average american now spends more time driving to work than going on vaction, over 100 hours a year.Quote:
Interesting. How many hours do those people spend on actually go to thier working place? (one way)
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On good days, it took Jen Wells 20 minutes to get to work, but the good days were rare. Usually, in fact, it took the 26-year-old art director up to an hour to get to her office in downtown Atlanta. Finally, she had had enough. So, like millions of Americans, Wells traded in the stress, tolls, and gas bills for a place in town and gave up the lousy commute. "It's the hassle factor," she says.
Traffic, everyone knows, is one of the bigger hassles of modern life. But just in time for Memorial Day, a blizzard of brand-new data confirms just how bad congestion has become. Since 1982, while the U.S. population has grown nearly 20 percent, the time Americans spend in traffic has jumped an amazing 236 percent. In major American cities, the length of the combined morning-evening rush hour has doubled, from under three hours in 1982 to almost six hours today. The result? The average driver now spends the equivalent of nearly a full workweek each year stuck in traffic.
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Few political issues touch more Americans' daily lives than traffic. On a typical day, the average married mother with school-age children spends 66 minutes driving–taking more than five trips and covering 29 miles. Single moms like Linda Turner, of Chicago's South Side, spend even longer behind the wheel. Each day, Linda rouses her three children at 5 a.m. so she can leave the house by 7. The ride to school is only 15 miles, but it takes 45 minutes to an hour. Then it's on to her job, where she arrives at 8:30–totally wrung out. The return trip, especially if there are after-school activities to plan around, is usually worse. One night, Turner says, "I was coming home from work and every expressway I tried was jammed. Finally I was so angry, I rolled up the windows of the car and just screamed. I just let out a big 'uggghhh.' It didn't make me feel any better, and I was still sitting there."
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Catch-22. Will building new highways help people who don't want to use mass transit or who can't afford to live where it's available? Not really. Consider what it would take just to accommodate the projected growth in traffic in San Diego over the next 20 years if auto dependency isn't reduced. San Diego is expected to grow by 1 million persons by 2020. If current patterns continue, that would mean an additional 685,000 cars. Today, there are five parking spaces available for every car in San Diego and parking is still a problem. To find sufficient parking spaces for another 685,000 cars, the city would need an additional 37 square miles of parking lots.
You see its coming sooner than you think.Quote:
So, embrace change. A recent survey sponsored by Smart Growth America, a new coalition of public-interest groups, asked a cross section of Americans: "Which of the following proposals is the best long-term solution to reducing traffic in your state? Build new roads; improve public transportation, such as adding trains, buses and light rail; or develop communities where people do not have to drive long distances to work or shop." Three quarters of respondents called for either improving mass transit or developing less auto-dependent communities; just 21 percent called for building new roads. Talk about a tipping point. America's long love affair with the car, it seems, may have finally soured into a less healthy relationship, one based not on freedom but on its opposite.
American Gridlock
Of course I live with the worst gridlock in the US if not the world. I average well over 100 miles a day in my car and probably 6 or 7 hours a day on the road. Now if I can just get a license.
Send me the airline tickets Ill be there with bells on.Quote:
Uhm, Gawain feeling for a vacation in pleasant Scandinavia? Kagemucha and I can pay for it.
Gawain i dont think we have that much money with Ironside after our huge taxes. ~;) But if you ever happen to stumble here in Finland i would be honoured to grab a beer with you.I havent actually ever met a marine in person. :bow:
Just to add in, my dad has to drive a bunch to work everday. He sometimes takes the train (he still has to drive a half hour to get to the train station), but when he drives it's over two hours back and forth (I think).
The problem is urban sprawl. Few people live in the same place they work, because of the cars.
Hmm, about worst case scenario were I live. :thinking:Quote:
Around here if you work in NYC its usually about 3 or 4 hous a day. The average american now spends more time driving to work than going on vaction, over 100 hours a year.
Less time getting to work, less workhours, much more vacation. Europe sound much nicer to me ~D
And Gawain I assume you got internet in the car right? ~;)
Bells on?? ~:confused: ~:confused:
No way. I have an old 1986 Honda Accord. Im gonna have to get something now with better gas milage. Too bad its a great old car.Quote:
And Gawain I assume you got internet in the car right?
Were do you find the time to drive 6-7 hours a day, work and beat JAG in posting here at the forum? You do sleep right? ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
And you still haven't said what you meant with those bells.
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Send me the airline tickets Ill be there with bells on.
I do it in spurts. I work for myself. Im one of the last door to door salesmen around . Ill go out and drive around(work) for a few hours and then get on a comp somewhere for a bit and then go back out. And no I cant sleep for more than a few hours straight four at the most. Ill throw in a few posts and go back to sleep ~;)Quote:
Were do you find the time to drive 6-7 hours a day, work and beat JAG in posting here at the forum? You do sleep right?
It's a common colloquial expression, Ironside. It's used to express eagerness to attend after an invitation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironside
From Word-Detective.com
Just helping out Gawain, who appears to be suffering from a unique combination of sleep deprivation and travel fatigue which caused him to miss your question. ~DQuote:
Dear Word Detective: You can make me look really smart if you know the origin of the phrase "with bells on." I know, why should you care about making me look smart? Still, it would be great to impress my friends. -- Michael Rafferty, via the internet.
We'll do our best. With his question Mr. Rafferty included an e-mail concerning a get-together of friends, one of whom encouraged the others to "be there with bells on." And indeed this phrase is used almost exclusively in the context of a social invitation, where the assurance that "I'll be there with bells on" means that one's attendance will be eager, enthusiastic and energetic.
The question, of course, is what bells have to do with showing up for a party or dinner date. The phrase "with bells on" seems to have first appeared in this sense in the early 20th century, and there are two theories about the bells. One is that the reference is to the costume of a court jester, including a fool's cap festooned with bells, thus perhaps alluding to the speaker's intention to appear "dressed to the nines" and ready to boogie. The other theory harks back to the days of horse-drawn carriages, when on special occasions the horse's harness might be decorated with festive bells.
Interesting enough, although "with bells on" is primarily heard today in the US, the British have a venerable equivalent in the expression "with knobs on," also meaning more generally "with embellishments" or simply expressing emphasis. So while you might hear a British friend agree to show up at your party "with knobs on," it's also not uncommon for someone who has borne the brunt of an insult to reply, "Same to you, with knobs on."
Yeah I missed it the first time. You beat me to the punch and saved me the trouble on the second. Funny how you expect people to know such things . I thought everyone knew that expression. But then I never heard with knobs on before.Quote:
Just helping out Gawain, who appears to be suffering from a unique combination of sleep deprivation and travel fatigue which caused him to miss your question.
We use colloquial and idiomatic expressions every day without really thinking about them, in whatever language we call our own. They become more obvious here where we have so many people from all over the world sharing ideas.