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[scriver]

I fell into a storm drain. Didn't see it, was walking in ankle deep water, and just kinda fell. Thankfully my frenzied swimming meant that I didn't get my face underwater- despite the steel cap boots making floating a little difficult. Anyway, I managed to struggle my way to a nearby guard rail and pull myself out of the water. Funny thing you never imagine in a flood- The water goes through everything. First, and most notably, the sewerage of 25,000 homes. But also any food, drink or meat left in fridges and cupboards, anything that died, and any aquatic life. And I had a cut.

So now I'm having a quick break between the frantically getting rushed to a doctor thing.

What the hell? Why don't they put up signs/posts if it's fall-throughable?

[Keita]

Haven't, slept. In two days...

I feel dead, pills aren't working. How can I get college work done? Meh...

[Blargityblarg]

I fell into a storm drain. Didn't see it, was walking in ankle deep water, and just kinda fell. Thankfully my frenzied swimming meant that I didn't get my face underwater- despite the steel cap boots making floating a little difficult. Anyway, I managed to struggle my way to a nearby guard rail and pull myself out of the water. Funny thing you never imagine in a flood- The water goes through everything. First, and most notably, the sewerage of 25,000 homes. But also any food, drink or meat left in fridges and cupboards, anything that died, and any aquatic life. And I had a cut.

So now I'm having a quick break between the frantically getting rushed to a doctor thing.

What the hell? Why don't they put up signs/posts if it's fall-throughable?

Because usually Queensland isn't flooded to hell and back.

[scriver]

Yeah, but if it's big enough to fall into, then it would have had to been opened, wouldn't it? Or am I just not able to imagine the kind of drains you have down there?

[Tack]

I'm guessing it was a manhole kind of dealy - except the cover or grate got pushed off.
Or possibly a sinkhole.

I wasn't exactly in a situation where I felt like contemplating what I had found myself in.

[Derekristow]

There probably was a sign there, before a flood turned most streets in to rivers.

[Cheese]

Changing from Christmas avatar to normal one. It looks naked.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

There was a rather unpleasant general mood in the social area of my college today, and on a day where I have most of the day off. Not very nice when you're not really one for emotional introspection and empathy.

[Mindmaker]

When I was growing up here, everyone thought I was European, or Asian, or... just something not American, because they couldn't believe it.  I went to Europe and they thought I was European, too (Swiss, British, French--even Portuguese was more likely than American).  I lived in a dorm for international students and, even after I started talking, they'd always say "So, where are you from?  What country?  You sound like someone with a European education!"

Recently, I've been starting to think: "If everyone thinks I'm European, why don't I try to spend 10-15 years in Europe?"

Everybody I meet seems to think, that I'm from germany. There seems to be some cliche, I'm not aware of.
I don't recall Germans being known for their use of standard german, but rather for their dialect and weird accent.

And we eat terribly over here, and our houses are poorly-insulated, and there's all the weird anti-foreign sentiment plus crazy conservatives... American English is a mess and I live in California, where it's even worse because no one speaks good English and even my mother says "hella."  Furthermore, we sell bad ice cream!  I mean, seriously, guys.  How do you mess up ice cream?  At least our drivers and roads are good, even if we have an enormous anti-intellectual problem right now.  Plus, there's the terrible foreign policy and all the messes about public health care, the Tea Party, the shootings, the "we don't care about how anyone else feels because we're Amurrican" attitude, the lack of drive of the younger generations, the disinterest in foreign cultures even among the citizenry, the casual racism and nationalism and desire to swagger around everywhere like we own everything on a citizen-based level.

Well lets see how austria compares:

• Politics - 2 big stagnating parties, resting in their cradle of power, slowly loosing support to the ascending right parties, which do not deliver any solutions to the problems we have, but use firebrand speeches on everyone and everything
• Language -  Dialect is dominating, while standard speech is slowly vanishing
• Food - well except for the typical "Heuriger"-food, not much we did contribute
• Racism and discrimination are nothing unusual here

Can't say much about Poland though except that the food is great (Bigos, Pierogi, Flaki, Kluski).

I'd be a bit scared of moving to Poland, too, especially because I am very not-Catholic and I hear folks over there find imperfect Polish incomprehensible, rather than merely annoying.

No idead, how poles stand to immigration. It's pretty uncommon there and the few immigrants you get there, are mostly from other slavic countries.
I don't think being atheist would be a great issue. Most of the younger generations you meet in churches there, treat it as a social meetup. As long as you don't start a theistic argument with some of the older people there, you should be fine.

[Il Palazzo]

I'd be a bit scared of moving to Poland, too, especially because I am very not-Catholic and I hear folks over there find imperfect Polish incomprehensible, rather than merely annoying.

No idea, how poles stand to immigration. It's pretty uncommon there and the few immigrants you get there, are mostly from other slavic countries.
I don't think being atheist would be a great issue. Most of the younger generations you meet in churches there, treat it as a social meetup. As long as you don't start a theistic argument with some of the older people there, you should be fine.

Totally. The stereotypical god-fearing Pole doesn't exist anymore, apart from some isolated strongholds, which are naturally dying off. What remains here, is a huge, devoid of deeper meaning, inert load of religion(i.e.Catholicism) themed cultural habits.
From what little I've seen of the US, you guys appear to be worse in that respect.

As for immigrants - we're mostly prejudiced against our eastern slavic neighbours, in a similar fashion as our western germanic ones are prejudiced against us. Everybody knows they're thieves, brutes, and hobos.
Other than that, it's a nice place for foreigners. Just choose a large city, so that you'll get more English-speaking people.
It's also very easy to get a job in a language school, if you're a native speaker. Especially if you've got some experience already.

Also, I'd say immigration is not that uncommon. In Kraków, it's hard to pass a day without at least once hearing somebody speaking some foreign language - and that's outside of the holiday season.

[ToonyMan]

I fell into a storm drain. Didn't see it, was walking in ankle deep water, and just kinda fell. Thankfully my frenzied swimming meant that I didn't get my face underwater- despite the steel cap boots making floating a little difficult. Anyway, I managed to struggle my way to a nearby guard rail and pull myself out of the water. Funny thing you never imagine in a flood- The water goes through everything. First, and most notably, the sewerage of 25,000 homes. But also any food, drink or meat left in fridges and cupboards, anything that died, and any aquatic life. And I had a cut.

So now I'm having a quick break between the frantically getting rushed to a doctor thing.

D:

Pain story go go go
My Dad told me over the phone that yesterday he was working out when his arm came out of his shoulder and made a "pop" sound real loud.  It went back in place after he rolled off the bench thing but he said the pain was unimaginable.
Ouch.

[Tack]

Dislocation hurts like a bitch.
That's all there really is to say on the matter.


Anyway, They still haven't made a male gender for the Demon Hunter. So that's annoying.

[Lord Shonus]

I keep getting kinda nuts about my hard drive space, I have 95gigs left but whenever I get under 90 go blitzing around the hard drive trying to figure out how to free more space, like uninstalling games I don't play much and cataloging my folders to see what is using all my space. (300 gig hard drive btw) So far M2:TW and ETW are my heaviest games with M2:TW taking 30 gigs and ETW taking 24 gigs. (Yay for mods)

Also for some strange reason there is 8-10 gigs just... used by something and I have no idea what, haha. (Like I add up all the folders and the files in C: and it comes out to 176ish and right-click properties on the hard-drive says 188 used) Ah well I'm sure there is a good reason I'm ignoring.

There's a shareware programe called Spacemonger that will analyze that for you.

[Megaman]

Dislocated thumb.

[Sowelu]

I keep getting kinda nuts about my hard drive space, I have 95gigs left but whenever I get under 90 go blitzing around the hard drive trying to figure out how to free more space, like uninstalling games I don't play much and cataloging my folders to see what is using all my space. (300 gig hard drive btw) So far M2:TW and ETW are my heaviest games with M2:TW taking 30 gigs and ETW taking 24 gigs. (Yay for mods)

Also for some strange reason there is 8-10 gigs just... used by something and I have no idea what, haha. (Like I add up all the folders and the files in C: and it comes out to 176ish and right-click properties on the hard-drive says 188 used) Ah well I'm sure there is a good reason I'm ignoring.

There's a shareware programe called Spacemonger that will analyze that for you.

Spacemonger is a great tool to keep around.  It's very well designed, has a great interface, and is incredibly lightweight.  It's everything that a program should be.