The "I have nothing Interesting to Say" Thread

Started by Lise, Feb 06 07 02:40

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Sportsdude

#781
Jul 30 08 08:18
Usually when streets end, they end. lol
Imagine your first day at the job as a pizza delivery person and you had to deliver on one of those streets. Talk about confusing.
 
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purelife

#782
Jul 30 08 08:27
My pupil dilation experience wasn't that bad... it didn't smell and my eyes didn't bulge... but the light hurt!  

P.C.

#783
Jul 30 08 08:29
I can find my way around Vancouver with one eyeball tied behind my back.....but whenever I get into those other areas.....Langley, Ladner, Surrey....etc.  I WILL get lost every time.....no matter how many times I go there.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Sportsdude

#784
Jul 30 08 08:30
lol. P.C. is it because the streets curve like a web? (sprawl)

Good to here purelife, that it went well.
 
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purelife

#785
Jul 30 08 08:32
 I get confused driving around Poco/Coquitlam highways all the time.  It took me a while figuring out how to get to Coq. Centre instead of heading over the Port Mann.  I also get even more confused when a Highway becomes something else and then reconnects somewhere else.  ie.  Lougheed Highway!  

P.C.

#786
Jul 30 08 08:34
No...it's because it's all numbers.....no names.  I can find streets with names.....Broadway and Main (names....not area....lol)......but not with 132nd Ave and 164th Street.....(or whatever the case may be).  Names will stick with me....numbers, not so much.      
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

purelife

#787
Jul 30 08 08:37
Me too, PC.  I can't remember the avenues and streets....120th street and 18th avenue.  It takes me a while to figure out that the avenues are east/west and the streets are north/south... New West is confusing for me...  


 

Sportsdude

#788
Jul 30 08 08:38
 Oh of course they do! lol We are visual people.
You can put an image on names and not numbers. Car manufacturers are the best example. Imagine if the Mustang was called the 325m or something. lol

   
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Sportsdude

#790
Jul 30 08 10:43
 B-52 isn't that a band? lol hehe

Just saying, people can put places to names of familiarity, Madison Ave, Bay Street, Champs-Élysées, Red Square, Downing Street, Pennsylvania Ave., Wall Street, Abbey Road, Bourbon Street, Fleet Street, Piccadilly Circus etc.
Although the only bucking the trend I can think of street wise is 42nd Street and 5th Ave. I can't think of any other numbered famous streets.
   
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Sportsdude

#792
Jul 30 08 11:02
lol The idea of Broadway being 253st is hilarious.
*starts singing 'On 253st'*  hilarious.



 
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Lil Me

#793
Jul 31 08 10:25
lol  
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