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Snow is my best friend when I have to drive to work. With most of the dimwits off the road, who want to push their cars at the sight of the first snowflake, I actually get there faster than on some days in summer.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I work from home. That problem....solved. 
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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My experience of Germany is that in the flatlands everything shut down completely, while in the more mountainous areas (non-touristy) it's more or less business as usual.
I grew up in one of the snowier areas of Sweden, so I learned how to drive in snow. Well, it was either that or staying home.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I grew up in one of the snowier areas of Sweden, so I learned how to drive in snow. Well, it was either that or staying home.
I had seen snow once in my whole life when I bought my car in germany, I lost control of the car once. I went to a big parking field of a comercial center and I trained for a couple of hours... it is pretty fun, once you get used to.
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Yep, that's how to do it.
And don't stop until you have learned to control the car while driving with a skid, without even thinking about it.
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That's how we learn to do about everything. Practice, practice, practice, until your hand 8and feet) do the right things almost automatically. Once you reach that point, you can concentrate on what you are trying to do and not on how to do it.
Driving a car, playing an instrument, operating some tools are all the same in that respect. A good sleep after practicing also seems to be important, because the actual memorization takes place then. And one morning you wake up and can fly a helicopter, after crashing by the minute just the evening before.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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In Norway, getting a driver's license requires that you go through an ice driving course. If no suitable ice covered lake is available, they pour a mix of water and heavy oil on an asphalted range; that comes very close to water on top of hard ice.
The traniers set up these orange traffic cones for a curved lane your car should follow, they throw an object into the lane and you should do your best to avoid driving over it, etc.
The bad thing about this traning, the studded tires, the anti-skid and anti-spin systems, ABS brakes and all the other safety systems of modern cars, is that people believe everything is safe, nothing can go wong. So they continue driving at 90 km/h, regardless of driving conditions. (Two cars skidding at 90 km/h towards each other on wet ice is actually far more dangerous than the same two cars hitting the brakes on a dry summer road, reducing their speeds to 40 km/h before they hit.)
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I visited Norway in the winter some years ago (to see the northern lights) and the host drove us 120km on snowy roads at about 100kmh, scared the crap out of me.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Snow?, I don't do snow, had to de-ice the car this early am. Don't like this... If it snows I'm getting back in bed and not coming out to April! 
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I love it when it's weekend and I don't have to leave the house.
Not so much on weekdays.
We get 1000+ km of traffic jams, which is quite a lot considering our country is only about 300 km long and 200 km wide.
It's even more when you consider most of it is centered around Randstad, which is about a 5th of the country 
Heck, we even get that on regular weekdays sometimes!
Last January we had 2287 km of traffic jam due to snow 
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What do you do, stack the cars on top of each other to fit them all in? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Well if it's slippery enough you probably don't have to stack them, they do it by themselves...
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We make lines and rows
If the country is 300 km long and we make 10 rows we have room for 3000 km of traffic jam
Since the country is about 200 km wide and a car is about 2 m wide we can have 200.000 / 2 = 100.000 rows or 30.000.000 km of traffic jam, if we really try
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That doesn't sound too Gouda. In fact, its Edam shame.
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That took me a while... I suddenly remembered that the English pronunciation of Gouda is nothing like the Dutch
You say something resembling "good", we say it more like Gau-Da.
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And we both know the origin of the word:
It's from the heavily accented pronunciation of the word 'good' by Italian immigrants to the US.
You guys thought it was a good-a idea and named a city after it and a cheese after the city.
Or was it the other way around?
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Like this Jellinek fellow who named his daughter after a car, you mean?
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I thought the M25 was the largest parking place in the world. Turns out I was wrong.
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Time to move.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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If the snowflakes are to be believed, the entire world will be a baked desert in about 11 years. Why bother moving?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well, here in Phoenix... I can see snow on the mountains to the north... with binoculars.
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As the voice said...
Frank sinatra - Let it snow - YouTube[^] 
Slacker007 wrote: They say you gotta love it. I say, no I don't.
I know what you mean. Snow is nice in the mountains, but in the city is a PITA. I hate padding snow at 4 am, so I can take my car out of the garage
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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here in Singapore only place we get snow is on the internet. 3.3 billion hits on google alone.
for mine pictures is where snow belongs. Sure looks beautiful on photo's - not on my car.
but Singapore isn't always about sweating: caught in rain this afternoon while out bicycling
... a bracing 24C (with wind chill). so see, we can do cold here too!
this internet has become nothing but fake news.
... time to fix it, time to get back to the fax!
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One of the finer parts of living near an Atlantic beach is that we're two growing zones warmer than even 20-30 miles inland. That translates to "a coating" for the coming storm . . . maybe. Unlikely to get below freezing.
Bad part - it can be ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing windy.
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