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Don't pick your nose

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by bredekamp, Apr 11, 2009.

  1. bredekamp

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    CCTV cars snap distracted drivers

    People in the UK must be careful, you're turning into a nanny state. All your actions are monitored and scrutinized. You're not even safe in your own car anymore.

    UK traffic, don't record people. Put a traffic officer in an unmarked patrol car and start taking down license numbers. That's real policing.

    I love what some UK residents are doing to the google street view car. Having detailed photos of houses on the Internet will only make crime easier. Google seems not to care, but if their car drivers keep on being harassed, what then?
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    effwitt Paparazzi Magnet

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    I'd rather be caught picking my nose than some of the other things I've seen on Google street view: a man coming out of a brothel, a man passed out in his yard and a woman urinating in the street.
     
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    Hmm....

    Smart Car Police Daleks? Only in the UK!
     
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    You can pick your friends,
    You can pick your nose,

    You just can't pick your friends nose!!!
     
  5. jayman

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    Oh, says who?

    (plop!)

    Seriously though, that camera technology was used by Rathyeon in the mid 1990's, for military use. Eg: surveillance at secure installations

    A Smart as a police car makes a lot of sense in a city like London. The traffic is so congested, they even have paramedics rushing to emergency calls on motorcycles instead of ambulances
     
  6. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    In Spain it's common for doctors to prescribe medicines that must be injected, and there are people called simply "practitioners" who make house calls to give injections. But parking and traffic are so problematic, that they typically go about on motor scooters.
     
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    My first thought when seeing the subject line go by was,
    "because it really sucks when the airbag goes off"...
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    Never been, but would like to
     
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    I would like to start a new thread: "embarrassing places your fingers are when the airbag goes off ..."
     
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    I believe the saying goes,

    "You can pick your firends."
    "You cna pick your nose."
    "But it's hard to wipe your friends under your car seat."
     
  11. KK6PD

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    Now, That's Funny!!! LOL!!!
     
  12. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    One thing to be aware of: Pretty much everyone smokes, pretty much everywhere.

    When I went to Cuba the first time I was afraid I'd have to deal with second-hand smoke, but the Cubans are very educated and know that smoking kills. Only the very old folks smoke (typically cigars so cheap they blossom out like a flower at the lit end). But in Spain they smoke like a collective forest fire.

    In other respects they are very friendly.
     
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    Ok, so if I travel to Spain, I had better not inhale through my mouth ....
     
  14. KK6PD

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    Also remember these two phases. They should help!

    "Querría 2 cervezas por favor."
    (I would like 2 beers please.)

    "Yo no soy Americano, no es mi culpa!."
    (I am not American, it is not my fault!.)


    Adios Amigo
     
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    Hopefully the Canadian flag on my tee means I won't have to use phrase #2. Phrase #1 I'm sure I'll know by heart
     
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    I always honk the horn when someone ahead of me at a traffic light is picking their nose. Don't know when I started doing this, but it was a long time ago, and my two older kids who drive have made it a practice too. We used to have fun watching and wagering what they would do with their pickings once interrupted.
     
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    I've wondered what a group nose-picking would be like. May even catch on as a fad ...
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    I was in Spain immediately after the onset of the second gulf war. Despite being American, I was treated very well by everyone.

    Tom
     
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    But they didn't offer to pick your nose, did they?