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I never saw a house without one until I went to Australia! Old farmhouses here still have dirt basements. I guess it has to do with the water table of where you live.
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I am still yet to see one. 
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leckey wrote: Old farmhouses here still have dirt basements
I thought a dirt basement was called a root cellar? 
If you don't have the data, you're just another a**hole with an opinion.
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A basement in Florida is a "in-ground" pool (a "cement pond" for you country folk)!
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Stay safe. My step-daughter lives in Osawatamie,Ks. I always have to call her to see if everything is ok, then out of the blue she'll call. It's really wierd, too, cause she acts like it's no big deal. Me, I've never lived in Tornado country and it doesn't sound fun.
Don't take any wooden nickels.
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Many of my family including myself have been in tornadoes. It's scary and cleaning up is dangerous and is no fun. It's just this year we've had warnings on almost a weekly basis. Even if we moved then we'd have to worry about hurricanes, earthquakes or mudslides. Oh, and large spiders. Ewww.
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leckey wrote: Oh, and large spiders. Ewww.
Heh heh, if you don't like spiders you would *not* want to live around here. No tornados or even hurricanes really but we do have the occasional earthquake and lots and lots and lots of spiders of all shapes and sizes up to pretty big "wolf" spiders, they're more spindly than a tarantula but can get as big. We also have black widows further south of here but I've never seen one myself.
It's the small hyper jumping ones that bother me. Quite often I'm sitting outside chilling and along comes one of these things ripping across the patio table looking for who knows what, sees me move and freezes if I move my hand towards it, it starts moving side to side and doing false charges at me until it decides I'm not going to back off, then it suddenly springs away and dissapears.
They all act so differently from each other it's like they have personalities, some types are really lethargic and slow, others are super fast and hyper. Some seem almost curious about what we're doing.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: if you don't like spiders you would *not* want to live around here.
I hate spiders and here in Amman there aren't that many except for the particular area I live in because its still underdeveloped. Almost daily I have to deal with about a dozen or so of different sizes, shapes and colors.
Whereabouts do you live in Canada to have that many spiders?
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"You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer
"I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon
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Vancouver Island way out on the west coast in the pacific ocean. We have a temperate rainforest climate here with jungle like forests and plenty of bugs and slugs.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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All we have here are blizzards and mosquitoes. 
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"There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
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leckey wrote: Even if we moved then we'd have to worry about hurricanes, earthquakes or mudslides.
I was about to say, "come on out to Phoenix" until you added
leckey wrote: Oh, and large spiders. Ewww.
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leckey wrote: One hit the ground a few miles from us and the sirens do not sound off.
At work we were watching one form overhead, and one on the ground five miles south for at least 45 minutes before the alarm went off. Since we didn't have a different alarm, they raised the fire alarm which evacuated everyone out of every building to watch the tornado... 
Hope you get some rest from the tornadoes soon!
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I make jokes that you know someone is from the midwest if the sirens go off and everyone is standing on their front porch trying to find it.
Some of the boaters didn't get out in time and they rode it out in their trucks at the dock parking lot. I heard some of them talking and they didn't take it seriously at all.
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leckey wrote: Some of the boaters didn't get out in time and they rode it out in their trucks at the dock parking lot. I heard some of them talking and they didn't take it seriously at all.
When I was in Tulsa, that was how everyone treated them. I was huddled in the bathtub with a radio listening to the tornado come down the street and pull up less than a mile from my apartment. Now I photograph storms when I have a chance. But then we don't get tornadoes here... 
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so i put vista back on my dell laptop again (with sp1 immediately afterwards) and i have to say they really have improved a *lot* of stuff ... i'm almost pleasantly surprised
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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Ooooweooooweooo <- Mysterious music
Invasion of the body snatchers?
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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you mean u havent got the super features
"while(1) autoupdate("MSXML4.0");showmessage("muhahahhaha, u can never defeat me");
or the pearler that crashes the video drivers when u open a DiretX application, this happens randomly in the first 15mins or might be a particular render action that crashes it.
other than that UAC wtf is that!!! it is like having a mother in law built in to second guess ever action u take.
least i mention the whole file system is now a DB so the CIA can remotely parse your files more easily. none of the pesky custom file system to parser just SQL ur data up nice one Big Brother.
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I wouldn't say this if I didn't think english was your native language but: come back when you learn to write english.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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ZOMG u put a colon instead of a semi colon OMG come back when u learn to write english.
i cant fathom why people take the time out to correct people on things like that? maybe nothing has gone right today and u want to be right about at least one thing before 5pm comes around?
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Hey don't shoot the messenger, I'm trying to help you besides which it's well after 5 so it's too late to be right about anything here today.
It's the way we are at this site as a community. We try to maintain a certain level of professionalism. You can go ahead if you want with the txt spk and the rest but be assured that many people will:
a) judge you negatively
b) tell you pretty much the same thing I did
c) just ignore you as a result of point a
Your choice but it's never a bad thing to practice your communication skills on a professional level, it's an important ability to have in life.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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i think it just comes down to an age difference that would be better measured in decades rather than years 
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It's quite likely true there's an age difference but it's entirely untrue that is the reason I brought it up but don't take my word for it, keep at it and you'll see.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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don't forget wisdom and experience!
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killabyte wrote: better measured in decades
So if you are a decade younger then me, that would make you...... 10! I guess that explains the "l33t txt speak" and the inability to form proper sentences.
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