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WCDT 28-32 March 2011 (1891-1895)
knucklesandgyros:
--- Quote from: bicostp on 28 Mar 2011, 20:51 ---Penelope must be a transplanted Rhode Islander because I've never heard anyone in MA say 20 minutes is too far to travel. :psyduck: (She's even got a car for frig's sakes.)
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I said exactly the same thing. As a Rhode Islander myself, you cannot believe how true this is. Even I'm guilty of it. If I was up at school in Providence and I had like 5 hours to spare between classes, most normal folks would think that "Hey, I only live about 30 min away, nothing wrong with driving home for lunch and chilling out" but nope, my inner Rhode Islander thinks "Oh geez, five hours to spare? What the hell am I going to do?! I can't go home because that's like 2 hours in itself!" For the record, I'm working on this...
I don't know how true it is with MA folk or other small staters, but Rhode Islanders are easily the most notorious. I know a few non-native RIers who live here and they commute to Boston or New York for work. That is like damn near impossible to me!
Deadlywonky:
My last job was 1.5 hrs away in the center of London, 55 mins on the train getting into the city, 25 mins on the Underground and 10 mins of walking in between, when everything worked OK. In the height of summer, being stuck on one of the hottest lines in the system, with a power failure, no wind, no light and no room to move for 2 hrs (literally, rammed into the carriages) obviously no A/C because that would be so much hard work, luckily I'm 6'1 and didn't have to spend my time breathing peoples armpits. After that I moved away and my new job is a 10 mile 10 minute drive.
BTW, comic, has anyone else noticed Angus's colour predilection? pink sheets, pink pillows, purple bedsheets and puce condoms ...
[edit] please ignore the above, it's early morning and the caffeine has yet to kick in. thank you akronnick for pointing out the howler :psyduck: [/edit]
[edit 2] actually on the topic of the poll, I put after waking up but it's more when walking the dog in the morning, I can guarantee solitude at that point [/edit 2]
Ravenswing:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 28 Mar 2011, 21:31 ---...How the frak does an 8.7 mile journey take 20 minutes???
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Because Route 9, pretty much the only feasible way to get from Amherst to Northampton (a small matter of crossing the Connecticut River), has as much in the way of traffic backups as exists in that part of Massachusetts. A divided, limited-access highway it is not.
Seriously, it isn't just Rhode Islanders. New Englanders generally have this incredible and insane hatred of traveling much of any distance at all. I've lived in the Boston area most of my life, and in Springfield and Easthampton for a dozen years, and driving out as far as Worcester - halfway to the Valley - is considered a daunting trip by many Bostonians. The number of times I drove out to Amherst to visit when I was in my 20s, only to have the locals treat me (after my not-quite-2-hour drive) as if I'd fought through two hundred miles of jungle with a machete and a leaking waterskin. (shakes his head)
cesariojpn:
Did Dora pack the entire Pancake makeup pot and tube of Lipstick on herself today? She's....shinier than usual.
akronnick:
--- Quote from: Deadlywonky on 28 Mar 2011, 23:19 ---BTW, comic, has anyone else noticed Angus's colour predilection? pink sheets, pink pillows, purple bedsheets and puce condoms ...
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I believe that was Faye's room.
Either that or Marten is hooking up with Marigold now.
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