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My $0.02 so YMMV: Diapers aren't so much a sexual thing for me as they are a 'comforting' thing... leading to less inhibition during sexual feelings.

Angela Bauer, on 18 Jan 2013 - 18:27, said:

SpokaneGirl, One can't discount a psychological need for being just as medically necessary as physical/mechanical reason.

I'm of European stock and I can't stand football (soccer as the Americans call it). But I LOVE American football. Also, I just don't get cricket.

I think a friend of mine put it best when I asked if he liked the new MS Tablets and the new Windows 8 UI: "If I run out of vomit, can I borrow some of yours?"

I think I'm going to be a homocidal mainiac. They look just like normal people. How many times have I read/heard, "he's the last guy you'd suspect..." and so on.

I have some of my favourite food... BOOZE!

I've dabbled in AB a long time ago, but it REALLY wasn't my bag. I'm firmly in the DL camp here. I can't say that I'd like to go back to AB... it's just not my style.

What were you hauling (if you can say)? The last time I was a roll-over that bad, the guy was coming from a hoggery. Apparently the hogs spooked all at once and shifted all their weight to the very tail of the trailer and caused instability resulting in a roll-over. It was likely overloaded too... I understand the driver's problem that you don't know how much a hog weighs (practice at the time was to use a generic average weights). And I bet you've NEVER had a bill of lading where the weights were off. Dispatchers NEVER known to do that, after all in most states it's your ticket from the DOT, not his. The guy with the hog hauler survived, battered and beaten, but OK. This was many years ago when I was a large-animal vet. asst. Stay safe! Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down!

OK so I've used it for a while and Win 8 ONLY GETS WORSE, especially in a domain/enterprise environment. The fact that you now have a start "screen" and desktop that you have to toggle between to get stuff done... it's bad. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being literally unusable and 10 being "WANT" more than any computer thing ever, I'm being generous at a 3.5. My previous ratings at release (please take in context of 'state of the art' at release date): Windows 95: 6 (doesn't include 95b, which is a 7) Windows NT 4.0: 7.5+ Windows 98: 7(doesn't include 98SE which is about 8.5) Windows ME: 3 (I could literally never get the damn thing to run right!) Windows 2000: 9 (I have to say relative to time of launch, I think Win2K is one of MS best products ever!) Windows XP: 7 (XP service pack 2 makes about 8.0+) Windows Vista: 5- Windows 7: 8 (with XP virtual machine, I'd have to say close to 8.75) Windows 8: 3.5 (at least it runs)

One of the thing I just thought of, which really makes a case against seperation, would be relations with the international community. It would be a serious logistical pain and a legal nightmare to re-negociate treties with foreign countries. Yes, it could be done, but it would be quite a headache for some period of time. Which is the bigger headache is up to the people of Quebec and the rest of Canada. Call me overly optomistic, but I just can't believe that some kind of greater autonomy or "deal" can't be worked out. To borrow an above reference, a divorce this big would undoubtedly be very messy for both sides. If both sides have enough fortitude, sometimes it's best to 'fake it' for the good of the children even if you can't stand each other. I'm glad to hear you seem to think there is little chance of a breakup. I'm not anti-seperatist as much as anti-break up. If Quebec were to become a "special administrative region" (akin to Hong Kong in China) maybe this could eventually be a route? I still think that would be a lot better than a 'divorce' and all the pain that comes with it. I hope for the best for all you Canadian chaps and hope a 'truce' can be found. And when feelings boil over again, have a good shouting and yelling match and at the end of the day decide it's easier to stop fighting and save it for another day

It seems like here are some deep feelings and wounds on both sides... I didn't mean to raise animosity. My opinion, which is worth exactly $0.00 CAD (-$0.02 USD at current rates), is that all sides could benefit from some reconciliation and that the politicians on both sides are not helping (populism gets one elected, voices of moderation seldom do)! Maybe some way to grant a greater degree of autonomy without splitting up the country? Something like what The Netherlands did in the Antilles? I seriously doubt when Canadians were being shot at Juno Beach they weren't too concerned about who was from where... the just wanted to do their job and get home. Some reconciliation would be good for everyone.

I'm wondering if our friends to the north, regardless of being Francophone or Anglophone, have any opinions on the results of the election in Quebec. Pauline Marois from Parti Quebecois seemed to downplay it, but part of her party's platform is Quebec separatist (please correct me if I mis-understand). My personal opinion is that Canada is better off as a whole and the separatist notion of some Provinces is not advisable. Look at how well it worked out for the US! Yes, I understand the principles of preserving one’s culture, but I don’t see how that is any different to regional cultures in the US (the Creole, Southwestern Hispanic, and Florida Cuban exiles/ex-pats come to mind) I just don’t understand why the Francophones are so paranoid at to want to break off and destroy Canada as we know it! Do you think Marois will try to push the separatist agenda? Why can’t we all just get along? I think part of the thing that makes Canada great is the diversity and it would be incredibly short-sighted to rip apart a long-standing institution for what seems like, to me, nothing more than a paranoid ego trip. Being a “national mutt” as it were, I can only observe and get opinions from the few places I spend a lot of time. I used to go to Windsor often for work, but now not so much So, friends from all corners of The North, what say you?

I was in Richardson for a couple of weeks last month. I used to be going there once every couple of months, but my new position has far less travel. I have family in Irving.