Strange things you're not used to

[StillThePrettiest 4]

I think you might be a thread-killer

[Jeraly 4]

[StillThePrettiest 4]

strange thing I'm not used to: farking hurricanes

but seriously: why the DANG are the street numbers all so high? my first street number in Australia was a single digit (5); my two addresses in London were three digits (111) and two (16) respectively, and here our address has FIVE bloody digits (18010)! I could sort of understand it if that made the number totally unique for the district - fewer postal mix-ups - but no; there are at least three more in our subdivision alone! and there's no standardised way of saying it - is it 'one eight oh one oh' or 'eighteen oh one oh' or 'one eighty ten' or 'eighteen thousand...' you get the idea

in the words of Obelix (slightly paraphrased): these yankees are crazy

[StillThePrettiest 4]

*pinches mox*

how do you tell someone your address then? 'ambulance smiley-face aeroplane heart star arrow, Cambell Parade, Los Angeles'

[Jeraly 4]

*pinches mox*

how do you tell someone your address then? 'ambulance smiley-face aeroplane heart star arrow, Cambell Parade, Los Angeles'

Exactly.

And if you think that's bad, it was really crazy down in Pitcairn. They don't even have a written alphabet, so each address is assigned a unique smell. My fiancee's address was:

" "

Pitcairn Islands

The Ocean

If I wanted to mail something to her, I had to put a little drop of the postal scent (obtained during my visit) in between the quotes.

:lol:

Ahh Pitcairn - I never realised it was a Polynesian island

As for numbers - we are 912 but all the other addresses I have known Jeremy living at were five digits as well - I used to just say each number individually, but of course that prolly changes depending on the number

[TBoneTX 48,075]

"I posted to VJ, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt... er, hat -- si, man!" And numberlessness. Guess I'll have to go to a numberyard, si man.

Edited September 18, 2008 by TBoneTX

[StillThePrettiest 4]

bloody hell; that thread-killer's back

[Jeraly 4]

bloody hell; that thread-killer's back

I can't be bothered to find another picture now

[Krikit 1,166]

You answered your own question StP. You bloody Aussies and Brits took all the low numbers, so we're stuck with all the big ones. In fact, by the time California became a state they'd run out of numbers out here, so all our addresses are made up of wingdings. True fact.

Awwww, Mox. I've missed you buddy. Glad you're back.

[Krikit 1,166]

I really like the toilet seat covers they provide in a lot of the washrooms here. I also like the great rest areas/welcome centers on the highways. Except for the one whose toilet seats were so high I had to climb up to use it. Ew. Thank God for toilet seat covers.

[Jeraly 4]

I like the automatically flushing toilets - they rock. I feel unclean when I have to pull the flush myself now Except in our own house of course

[baxxy 0]

I recall having to put my race on our application for the marriage license, and many job applications also ask for race. In Canada, this is illegal. btw, I put "white" on the marriage license application, the lady behind the counter looked at my passport, scratched it out and put "Canadian" under the "Other" checkbox! We tried to explain the difference between nationality and race, and she would have none of it! *snarf*

Lots of labour laws (labor) in the US are a lot different than in Canada and take some getting used to.

I don't recall ever seeing where they ask for race on an application anywhere. There may be a box where they ask for your ethnicity but its OPTIONAL maybe you missed that part..

[StillThePrettiest 4]

every time I see a 'race' box I just want to put 'human'

[Ontarkie 15,022]

Omg me too, i really hate that. When I was filling out papers to register my kids in school i left it blank i'm sitting there and the lady is like you left the race part blank i looked and said nothing hubby told her. I'm there thinking good god. Then I had someone from the school call me to set up an appointment and she was what race i'm like what, so she repeated herself and asked again whats the race. I told her sorry I'm not used to that question, and how you can't ask that question back in Canada. She goes on to say well here we have many different ppl here and we need to know the race. But then shes like we accept everyone so i'm like so whats the point then. Ya like Canada doesnt have many different ppl there gees talk about brain dead ppl.

My kids started school and my daughter comes home and tells me she was asked what her race was. Poor thing she was clueless to what they meant she just said i dont know i'm from Canada. She made me smile. Well for many reasons I pulled the kids from the schools here they are now being home schooled. But we wont get into that.

Maybe its supposed to be optional but if you dont put it in the dum computers wont accept it at least thats my experience

Edited September 22, 2008 by Ontarkie

[StillThePrettiest 4]

it's tricky all right... I know that a lot of the time data like that can be useful for stats, demographics, funding, whatever, but at the same time it just perpetuates the idea that we're all somehow fundamentally different when in my opinion we should be focusing on what makes us similar