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Only in third world countries ... 
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I didn't realized we are so advanced already 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Here in the First World, we lay 'em flat, then sit back and watch 'em go wavy with potholes, lumps, channels, dips, ... 
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in Italy, they lay 'em flat, then sit back and watch the utility companies dig 'em up again.
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Now, you are exactly right.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only in third world countries ... 
Like Denver. It seems that all new pavement in Denver is like driving on a dirt road.
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I think that's deliberate: everyone's driving a SUV now, so why take away the fun of driving offroad? 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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In NL, half or more of the roads are block-paved, and are as bumpy as Hell before the first car even drives on them.
I've worked on site with block pavers in the UK, where you could walk on their work blindfolded with no shoes or socks, and not even know it was block paving.
The Dutch block pavers don't even whack silver sand after the blocks are laid, to lock them; they just throw shovelsful of coarse building sand over the road surface, and leave it there for the cars to pick up and carry away in their tyres.
As a cyclist who does a minimum of 30km a day, I'll be sending a very stern letter if I develop serious back or joint problems.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'll be sending a very stern letter if I develop serious back or joint problems.
I'm also reaching that age.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I'm also reaching that age.
It's time to find someone to blame, then.
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The age of stern letter-writing?
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Sorry about your back, then.
My back's been getting worse, but I primarily blame both my mattress, and my office chair. Need to get both replaced ASAP. Yet I find myself putting it off...
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I had a bad back for fifteen years.
A change of car brand and a new mattress fixed it.
So get that ASAP done, for your own sake.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: A change of car brand
Who made such bad car seats? Name and shame, please...
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Volkswagen Passat, and before that a Peugeot.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Passat
In French, the T would be silent, and "pas ça" = "not that". Sounds like a fair warning when you go car shopping 
And Peugeot, well...here in Canada, they've had them back in the 80s at the Chrysler dealer my dad worked for. Nobody wanted to work on them. The one guy they managed to hire to work exclusively on them turned out to be the reason there's a "crooked mechanic" stereotype.
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dandy72 wrote: And Peugeot, well...here in Canada, they've had them back in the 80s at the Chrysler dealer my dad worked for. Nobody wanted to work on them. The one guy they managed to hire to work exclusively on them turned out to be the reason there's a "crooked mechanic" stereotype.
Sounds about right.
Except for that it killed my back, it was the dealers that made them a no go for me. Not sure if they were crooked or just incompetent though.
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To some it's the quantity and quality of what they smoke that determines how straight and how wavy.
A friend told me!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
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In that case I should fly in circles
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
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That explains the Dutch roads.
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In the UK, they just throw loose stones over sticky tarmac and then let the traffic 'bed it in' for a couple of months - generating lots of business for the spray shops! 
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The "art of street building" is some undervalued engineering science. I have studied it long time ago, but it is underpayed and some boiler plate job. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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If the ground under the road freezes in winter, so it raises up as water freezes to ice and expands (unevenly, varying with the distrbution of water in the ground), the forces from below are immense.
The roadbuilders can avoid it if they dig a bed deeper than the freezing goes, and fill it up with draining material that lets the water run out, so that there is no water under the road surface that will freeze in winter. Obviously, that raises the cost of building the road significantly. Lots of roads here in Norway are not built that way (mostly small and old roads), so we are quite familiar with these problems. Usually they are moderate during winter, as long as the ground is frozen, but when it starts thawing, it can be terrible!
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