I hate lazy delivery drivers. Stayed home today to sign for a package to end up having the UPS driver not even come to my apartment door or contact me, so I'll have to wait around again tomorrow. 

Today was a small miracle of nature: two weeks later, patches of sidewalk have begun to become visible again! Seriously though, cities have to find some way to motivate people to shovel their sidewalks. And if you are going to shovel your sidewalk (props to you), please put some salt on so it doesn't turn into a skating rink. Otherwise leave an inch of snow on there so we can actually walk without risking breaking our necks.

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Where I am from also has an ordinance, and probably here as well. In an ideal world the city would fine the citizens and use the money to pay for someone else to do the snow removal, but I think we all know why that would never work.

We have about the same rule, and it is enforced even.

And if someone happens to fall or something happens on a pedestrian sidewalk, the one who should have taken care of it can be sued for pretty much. And that's coming from a country where we have no such legal habits like you do.

We have about the same rule, and it is enforced even.

And if someone happens to fall or something happens on a pedestrian sidewalk, the one who should have taken care of it can be sued for pretty much. And that's coming from a country where we have no such legal habits like you do.

That would seem to be the adequate legal recourse - I'm not sure if that applies or how much luck you would have with it in the USA.

Almost done at work for the day, and apparently this New 3DS arrived while I was out. Not meant to come out till the 13th, so I'm not complaining. :>

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My city plows the sidewalks as part of municipal taxes. I think they started doing that for everyone last year, and it was pretty popular. I don't think everyone gets it on day one, though where my house is, we've only had it happen once that we had to wait a night (there was just too much snow, and it slowed them down). It's a pretty awesome service.

 

As I understand it, if someone slips and falls in front of a house, the homeowner is liable, so there is some incentive to do things like salt. This is of course in addition to any innate desire to be able to walk out your own front door without dying yourself.

Today was a small miracle of nature: two weeks later, patches of sidewalk have begun to become visible again! Seriously though, cities have to find some way to motivate people to shovel their sidewalks. And if you are going to shovel your sidewalk (props to you), please put some salt on so it doesn't turn into a skating rink. Otherwise leave an inch of snow on there so we can actually walk without risking breaking our necks.

 

I once went on a German exchange where the moment I go to my exchange partner's house in suburban Hamburg I was made to shovel the sidewalk and road of snow and ice for about 2 hours. Wilkommen aus Deutschland. 

I guess they believe in imported labor too!

Yearly post about how it's my birthday so Rob (if he still browses here) is once again in sole possession of the youngest OT poster belt.

I think Gabe is still younger, sorry.

I think ezee or someone bonez or someone is even younger.

I'm planning on getting that 3DS When EB games eventually stock the damn thing...

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Yearly post about how it's my birthday so Rob (if he still browses here) is once again in sole possession of the youngest OT poster belt.

Happy birthday :P.

I'm planning on getting that 3DS When EB games eventually stock the damn thing...

Good luck. Seems that there wasn't that many of them made. Only reason I picked up a preorder is because I was doing email-related work stuff when I got an email saying preorders were available, I think they vanished in about 15 minutes.

Yearly post about how it's my birthday so Rob (if he still browses here) is once again in sole possession of the youngest OT poster belt.

 I was about to say how I'm younger, then I realized I turned 21 a few weeks ago.

 

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Even I am only 20.

 

God damn, that Riga plan has changed, for the worse. Seems like I can't be there, or at least for 2 days.

Rocc0, you share a birthday with my grandmother

I read an article in The New Yorker today and was astonished at how pretentious it is. The worst thing is the way they avoid a diphthong: rather than use the modern hyphen to separate vowel sounds (e.g. re-education), they do it in the French way (reëducation). It's so pedantic and 19th century. 

 

Also, the articles are too long. They take a lot of words to say very little. 

GOD you Brits take forever to say nothing!

*Italian (Sicilian) living in Britain. 

 

Otherwise, what I was essentially saying is OMG the New Yorker is so try hard - I never knew lololol.

They take a lot of words to say very little.

Sounds like every document I produce ever.

I cant tell you how many symposiums and papers I've submitted that sounded like huge run on sentences mashed with big words for the sake of big words. Apparently being concise != intelligent

They teach you to be wordy rather than thorough, really.