Post Race!

[dday9]

My dad was the regional sales manager at the time and had come back from Chicago after 2 and a 1/2 weeks.

[dday9]

My mom was taking birth control....

[dday9]

However, she didn't know that it's ineffective if you're taking antibiotics too.

[dday9]

7 and 1/2 months later here comes my brother.

[szlamany]

Brother's name is Chance?

[dday9]

Lol, nope.

[szlamany]

Post Race has 2.6 million views - gotta love the bots...

[Bonker Gudd]

I'm not a bot.

[homer13j]

I'm not a bot.

Prove it.

[dday9]

Prove it.

[Gruff]

Goofy sipping cat

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Prove it.

Bonker is quite clearly a Rabbit, unless you are accusing him of being a Robot Rabbit?

[RobDog888]

However, she didn't know that it's ineffective if you're taking antibiotics too.

W T F? Really? Hmm...

[Gruff]

Yup, and though the pregnancy rate with condoms is 3% under perfect conditions in the lab, in the real world you get about an 18% pregnancy rate.

[szlamany]

However, she didn't know that it's ineffective if you're taking antibiotics too.

Starve a virus - _____ a bacterial infection!

[dday9]

We got a Tropical Storm as of 4 PM.

[dday9]

Man I hate hurricane season.

[RobDog888]

I love SoCal weather but thats all. Time to move out of state soon.

[dclamp]

I love SoCal weather but thats all. Time to move out of state soon.

What, you dont like the lack of water??

I have thought about moving out of state. I have some friends who moved to Michigan this year, I am going to visit in October. Who knows, maybe I wont come back.

But I agree. California will eventually dry out and if the government doesn't figure out a source of water. I am also pretty annoyed at the general cost of living in California. The cost of a house is outrageous compared to the rest of the States....

The main reason I probably wont move is because everyone/thing I know is here in Southern California. My family, friends, and job

[Niya]

MOAR MERMAIDS!!!

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[dday9]

Where have you been Niya?

[dday9]

I was so lost.

[RobDog888]

What, you dont like the lack of water??

I have thought about moving out of state. I have some friends who moved to Michigan this year, I am going to visit in October. Who knows, maybe I wont come back.

But I agree. California will eventually dry out and if the government doesn't figure out a source of water. I am also pretty annoyed at the general cost of living in California. The cost of a house is outrageous compared to the rest of the States....

The main reason I probably wont move is because everyone/thing I know is here in Southern California. My family, friends, and job

Yea a modest house here is $500,000 and yet just about anywhere else its a mansion The cost of living is one of the highest in the nation and #1 worst traffic too! Cant even shift into 2nd gear if I get on the freeways lol

[dday9]

Yea a modest house here is $500,000

My dad lives in a $500,000 home and it's a 3615 square foot home with a garage apartment in downtown against the lake, so it's pretty big and in a nice neighborhood. How much would $500,000 get in him Southern California?

[dclamp]

Depending on the area, $500,000 would get you a small one family home, maybe 3 bedrooms if you are lucky.

[dclamp]

Yea a modest house here is $500,000 and yet just about anywhere else its a mansion The cost of living is one of the highest in the nation and #1 worst traffic too! Cant even shift into 2nd gear if I get on the freeways lol

I have been saving up to buy a house but I am still a year out until I can even start looking. If I were in another state I would have over 20% down for a huge house.... Traffic isnt too bad in OC. LA is a lot worse. I hate having to drive out there. There is traffic no matter what time of day.

[FunkyDexter]

I was curious what that would buy you in the UK. $500,000 is roughly £320,000 in proper money.

I'm buying a house right now for £335,000 It's a 4 bed (one of which is an attic conversion) terrace in a fairly good part of Bristol. Not in the city centre but only about 5 minutes out by bus.

Compare that to this:-

a 3615 square foot home with a garage apartment in downtown against the lake, so it's pretty big and in a nice neighborhood.

and I can't help feeling you American's have got it pretty good.

[SJWhiteley]

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and I can't help feeling you American's have got it pretty good.

Depending on where you live, that's pretty spot on. To be fair, we generally don't build houses out of brick, as wood is plentiful (and a hurricane, earthquake or tornado can rip a brick house apart, too); a house can be thrown up in almost no time at all.

Actually, a few years ago, I was up North in the UK where my brother had bought a brand new house - the development looked like a scorched earth wasteland. In the US, a lot of places go out of their way to make sure as few trees as possible are cut down.

[szlamany]

Talk about de-forestation.

It always amazes me at how many eco systems we have destroyed.

Look at this paltry list of old growth forests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...#United_States

Check the UK - check some states in the US.

[FunkyDexter]

In the US, a lot of places go out of their way to make sure as few trees as possible are cut down.

I don't know if you have similar in the US but over here we have "Greenfield" and "Brownfield" land. It's basically illegal to build on Greenfield (although some very rare exceptions are made). Brownfield's pretty much a free for all. So our conservation efforts are largely around protecteing the Greenfield rather than individual trees in a Brownfield area.

Note that Greenfield isn't a few isolated areas like your national parks. I don't know the percentages but I'd estimate that Greenfield makes up 50% or more of our land.

All that said, I'm a bit of a lefty hippy type and I do think our developers could be more sympathetic to the enviroment when developing Brownfield sites.

edit>I share an office with an ex planning officer who estinates Greenfield is rougly 80% of the UK. I guess my point is that, while developers might be pretty ruthless to nature where they're developing, they're pretty much never developing in areas where there's any nature left to ruin. Pretty much all our development is back filling existing urban conurbations.

The vast majority of the UK is still rolling hills, corn fields and rosy cheeked children with bad teeth. Lawks, Guvnor.