Worked a 16 hour security shift at Blizzcon yesterday and am currently working a eight hour shift before working graveyard. My legs may be screaming but they can rest later
Post how your day was…
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Yesterday was amazing i took a girl on a date we saw Thor Dark World then I took her home to my house and we watched Strong world and Film Z and then i had sex with her.
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@Print:
The person closest to me in the entire world is dead. She died sometime in the past 24 hours, and I am an utter utter broken wreck. Seems like suicide.
I've already spent a while curled on the floor screaming and I'm not going to be functional for a couple of days, I expect. At least I don't currently have any work to cancel but I'm a total mess. I'm going to head up to where she lives for a while to be around her other close ones.
You know it's bad when the person you instinctively go to when your world falls apart is the one who called it to fall apart by their departure.
There are no words.
I might be gone for a bit or I might be here trying to distract myself. But yeah, sorry in advance for my incoming loss of rationality.
This is horrible, please, be strong….
I know how it feels when you lost a friend.
Just endure this pain and see the happy side of life.
OT: My friend made a "late surprise party" for me, after the cake, we went to the 3° national Lego exhibition. So many sculptures...
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You know what? Today was not half bad.
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After I had come home from work around 1 am I had to stay awake to take my brother to school at 3 am for his drill meet…proceeded to go home and sleep till 3:30 pm...Work wasn't too bad, only thing that got on my nerves was a customer with foodstamp griping because they couldn't get cooked lobster with said foodstamps...love my job and stupid people...
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I finally had the chance to actually speak to an American
and guess what
He's also half Japanese. :DI guess you guys aren't all that bad afterall. :P
And to make this day even more beautiful, IT ACTUALLY RAINED.
I swear I almost forgot how it feels like, its been a long loong while since Jeddah rained.
It was just a fun day overall, I hope it was even better fo you guys <33
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Was mostly waiting for the forums to go back up.
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@No:
Was mostly waiting for the forums to go back up.
I can say the same … waiting for thursday (another working meeting with my client).
Maybe I will travel throughout Brazil in January ...
EDIT: I don´t know if anyone remembers when I posted about that girl who sang "Agony" from KOTOKO with me at the bakery.
Well, I decided to call her again, so that we could meet again in another place.
And to my surprise, she likes fripSide.
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When Apforum is down I feel like the whole internet is down, too.
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@No:
Was mostly waiting for the forums to go back up.
Hehe, same here…
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@NER:
When Apforum is down I feel like the whole internet is down, too.
It's true, this is pretty much the only site I'm on, and it's my computer's homepage. Tumblr's my fallback, but it's not as fun… :/
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Today was fun I re read the whole thriller bark arc.
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Had enormous cramps and felt sick , had to go to the doctor and he says it hopefully is just a flue and not something with my appendix~
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i guess lot of us felt the same way about AP going down.
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@metteminne:
Had enormous cramps and felt sick , had to go to the doctor and he says it hopefully is just a flue and not something with my appendix~
That seems like a random thing for them to say. I mean, I didn't assume you'd get cramps for your appendix suddenly deciding it's gotta leave like right now.
Hope you get well soon :O
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Boring as helll studied the whole day finding out that tomorrow is a holiday in my country so the test is postponed.
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ApForums was down?? I didn
t even notice. Went to the birthday party of a friend of mine, who recently moved to another city. I had a grand old time and drank way too much Jägermeister, lol. Today I really paid the price for that though, lol. I don
t know the last time I had such a rotten hangover. There is a lesson to be learned here, and that lesson is that I should seriously cut back on the alcohol, yikes. -
Ohoho! My beloved grandparents have returned from their trip, and we all went out for lunch! It's so good to see them again… :happy:
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@No:
Was mostly waiting for the forums to go back up.
@NER:
When Apforum is down I feel like the whole internet is down, too.
I love you guys.
Though, to be honest, I didn't even know that the forums were down…
Because yesterday was one of the best days of my entire life. -
Went out to practice me driving skillos. Nobody got hurt and i didn't commit any major trafic violations so i think that counts as a win
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I love you guys.
Though, to be honest, I didn't even know that the forums were down…
Because yesterday was one of the best days of my entire life.Do tell missy Cryssy
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Though, to be honest, I didn't even know that the forums were down…
Because yesterday was one of the best days of my entire life.All the juicy details. Now~
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@wolfwoof:
Do tell missy Cryssy
@Toraish:
All the juicy details. Now~
Well, there's an LGBTQ Film Festival that's going on right now. Opening night was on Thursday at the university's Multicultural Center. So I went to that, and saw the collection of shorts they were showing, and of course I bumped into a lot of people. Including my friend Corinne, who has worked with me before, and invited me to see one of the movies on Saturday morning.
So yesterday, I went downtown first thing in the morning, ate breakfast. Then I went to movie theater, and asked Corinne if I should pay for tickets. They said "Oh… You don't need to PAY for tickets. I've got this." So they walked up to the desk and said "She's with me. We're on the panel after American Vagabond (the film that was showing)." Now, I had no idea that I was going to be on a panel yesterday. But I got a free comp ticket to the movie, so I figured, why not? My other friend Skyler, who is my bro for life, got into the movie doing the same thing. It may seem weird that I got to be on the panel for a movie that I wasn't involved in making, but the reason why it worked out was because the movie was about homeless queer youth in California, which is something that all of us could speak to, especially Skyler. I mean, I hadn't seen either of these close friends of mine for so long, and it was just so cool to watch a movie with them and speak about our experiences in front of a crowd of people after the film. All I had to do was tell my life story to the mic, sell a few resources that are available to people like us, and talk about how it could be much better.
Skyler and I got special treatment the whole rest of the day. So many people were thanking us for what felt like a few words. But one of them told us that he was seventy years old, and that the older crowd needs people like us to speak, so that they can learn. Then I kind of understood why people were thanking us. One of the organizers of the event told me that he would "plant a seed" for me so that I could be on the programming committee for next year's festival. After that, we got into another movie for free. It was called "A Self-Made Man". Usually, portrayals of trans people just tend to bug me, wig me out, and fuel my hatred of my own people. But this portrayal I felt was very modern, legitimate, educational, informative, eye-opening, heartwarming, and actually kind of funny. By that I mean, I found myself laughing really hard at some of the injokes. So that was cool, to see that kind of movie with my bro. All of you should see it.
BTW, Skyler has a new dog, a chihuahua. So we bought a tiny sweater for his dog. And then later that night, we got into the after-party for free. Got to munch on fancy hor's d'oeuvres, and have photographers take pictures of us in front of those advertisement boards.
We decided to leave early and go to this other party that was thrown by our old friend, who was visiting from Seattle. We just happened to bump into her on the street, so... Hey why not? Skyler and I got pretty drunk, him much more so than me. But for some reason, everything was so beautiful in that moment. So many of my friends and frienemies were there, it felt like a bizarre sort of clip show episode. Somebody who I've known for a long time, asked me to go on a walk with her. She told me that I get on her nerves. That I'm a self-absorbed, self-entitled, rude, pompous asshole. That I'm a bratty princess who doesn't ask nicely. And then she told me that she's really attracted to me. When I asked why she's attracted to me if I get on her nerves, she said "That's WHY you get on my nerves!" LOL. So we're going to see one another later this week.
There was somebody else at the party, who I hadn't seen since I had sex with her about half a year ago in a hotel room. So I had her drive me and Skyler back to his apartment, and I slept with her while Skyler slept with his chihuahua. She waxed poetic about how beautiful my body is, it was really quite nice.
I spent a lot of time looking at myself in the mirror this morning. I'm starting to look a bit different now. I stepped on the scale just now, and I've gained 15 pounds since I made that pledge to gain weight in Confession Session. I also watched another set of shorts and ate lunch with my mom, who just got back from Mexico for the first time in like two weeks. Tonight, I'm going to eat dinner with my dad for the first time since before I left for Santa Cruz. Next weekend, I think that I'm going up north to visit Foolio and participate in the Shine Study, which can net me a total of $350. And the weekend after that, I have a photoshoot lined up, which could be in a gallery.
Yes, I'm technically a bad person. I'm a self-absorbed, self-entitled, rude, pompous, bratty, cynical, sarcastic, and sex-crazed person. But I'm also a beautiful person, and I'm very important to a lot of people. I may not own these streets now, but I will.
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There was somebody else at the party, who I hadn't seen since I had sex with her about half a year ago in a hotel room. So I had her drive me and Skyler back to his apartment, and I slept with her while Skyler slept with his chihuahua. She waxed poetic about how beautiful my body is, it was really quite nice.
This is how i imagine the courting process went
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But yeah that sounds nice. Walking onto a Q&A panel uninvited, family, partying, insults, hate driven sexing, potentialy meeting Ed Asner i mean Foolio. It has all the neccesary and unneccesary ingredients of a nice night out.
Only sad part was where Skyler didn't get any
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Pretty boring day, laid back and watch TV mostly, enjoying a rest day. Also got confused as to why an Assassin's Creed commercial has Started From the Bottom as it's music.
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@wolfwoof:
This is how i imagine the courting process went
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Yep, that's… Yeah, basically me.
@wolfwoof:
Only sad part was where Skyler didn't get any
Well, he got some at the party. There was a time when I looked over and he was making out with this cute girl. I don't know what happened with that. I'm sure that he gets plenty.
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Damn, Taylor, that sounds like a lot of fun from one day.
I hope you have many days like this one, or even better~
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My cat that I had since before first grade died today.
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Spend the day with my girlfriend shes my soul mate.
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My cat that I had since before first grade died today.
That sucks :(
Sorry for your loss.
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My cat that I had since before first grade died today.
Oh, such sad news to hear; sorry for your loss. Do try to think about all the good times you had with your cat, though.
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My day hasn't begun yet, as it's only 5:55 AM, but today I'm going in to have my nose re-broken, and am not allowed to eat/drink anything since they'll be putting me out for the procedure. And considering that I have the eating habits of Luffy to a degree, this is going to be a rough morning...
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! @Toraish:
! > Now, if anyone says anything tactless to Print even while just trying to "cheer her up" or some nonsense like that, I'm going to have a word with you. Give her time, give her space, and if you can, even in the slightest, give her comfort and a little glimmer of hope for a future that's fine. That's all.And, Print, dear, I know this might not be the time for that and you might have better friends than us to seek help and solace from, but if you ever need an ear and someone to talk to, we're all here. We'll be listening. Take care.
! Thank you Dryish, and thank you for looking out for me. I know this is the Internet so these kind of comments do happen but it's kind of you to make a statement against them.
! @Riddler:
! > Oh man, thats terrible, my deepest condolences! I cant even begin to imagine how you must be feeling right now and I hope you have some people who
ll support you through your time of mourning.
! Thanks Riddler. I'm up with some of her other friends and we're trying to support one another. My flatmates were also awesome but they never knew her so…well, it's different, y'know? Lets you just say all those thoughts that come to your head without needing to clarify them.
! @Silverblade:
! > Please accept my sincere condolences.Autumn would be so much better without November, wouldn't it.
! Thanks. And yeah, although she actually always liked the winter. She'd already tried back in June though we didn't know until afterwards and then we all sort of put it out of our minds when we felt we could…
! @Crocodyne:
! > I'm really sorry to read this. I've experienced on my own skin what means to lose a close relative with suicide so I might understand how you're feeling right now.Hold on, keep your mind busy, it gets better.
! Thanks. Yeah, it's horrible. I knew her reasons and they were as rational as these things could possibly be but there's still the temptation to blame myself, y'know? As if I could have saved her somehow. Even if I'm fairly sure I helped her live longer than she initially intended.
! @LaCaSiNa:
! > You'll be in my thoughts, Print. I won't claim to know how you feel, because each person deals with loss differently. I have also experienced the death of a dear loved one, and it would seem there are quite a few people with similar experiences here. So we will all support you in our hearts, no matter how cheesy that sounds.
! Thanks LaCa. It might sound cheesy but I appreciate it anyway, and sometimes I think the cheesy things are the truths that are too difficult to recognise on a daily basis.
! @metteminne:
! > Sorry to hear madam , if you need to you can talk to me if needed . try to stay strong
! Thanks mette.
! @Epoida:
! > Oh dear, that's terrible news! Sorry for your loss, you must have a lot going through your mind right now. Please take time to rest, time to grieve and take care of yourself, okay? I wish I knew what else to say.:sad:
! Thank you Epoida. I don't know what to say myself and I'm at the epicentre of this, so don't feel bad about that!
! @Wooden_Giraffe:
! > I often worry I'll one day hear the same news about my closest friend :(
Disheartening to hear it's actually happened to someone. Many condolences to you Print, take all the time you need, we'll be here for you should you need us.
! I hope you never do, Wooden. Even when you think it might be coming, you can never prepare for it. And thanks.
! @MetaMario:
! > I….god, what can I even say?My deepest and sincest condolences, Print. Just know as tough as it will get, you have a community that will listen and console you. After all….you made me feel better when my grandmother passed on.
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! Thank you, Meta. I think you said the right thing, insomuch as there are right things to say. I'm glad for having this place.
! @captain:
! > This is horrible, please, be strong….I know how it feels when you lost a friend.
Just endure this pain and see the happy side of life.
! Thank you, Ugly. I do still see the happy side of life but it feels awkward right now. Bit like watching old television where everything seems more blurry and the colours aren't quite right…Thank you for the response, both here and on my wall and elsewhere for those who have me added on FB or wherever. It's been helpful knowing so many people care, want to help, offer an ear or a shoulder or a place to stay etc. I have never felt less alone while feeling alone, if that makes any sense? It's confusing. I keep wanting to go to her and talk to her about how things are, because she's who I always did that with, and so it's like an autopilot. I keep checking to see if she's online, even while I'm discussing her death with friends. I guess it will take a while to sink in. I travelled up to where she lived on Friday evening and the journey was hell (which is why I kept putting it off) where instead of meeting her at the end of it, it was her closest friends gathered in her living room, sharing words and not words and it was painful but it was better than being a hundred miles away surrounded by people who never knew her. I'm crashing with some of our mutual close friends whose house I'd never visited before, so there's no physical memories around to send my mind spiralling like there would have been at her house, much as I'm concerned for how her cat will take it - that cat practically lived on her shoulders every day for years.
This bit might be triggery so if you think it might inspire bad thoughts of whatever. Hence putting it behind tags.
! Her suicide was partially out of depression - she was bipolar - but had a 'rational' grounding in that she had a chronic illness. In the past four years, I saw her go from cycling 10 miles to uni and back most days to barely being able to leave the house, and ending up needing to rest in pain just because she went downstairs to make dinner. Her treatments didn't seem to be making her any better and she just found it really difficult to hold on in the face of a future that wouldn't get better and could quite possibly get worse. She tried this before and we only found out afterwards, and when I confronted her about it, she explained that it wasn't a reflection on us at all…in fact, my support and monthly visits apparently helped her keep going for much longer than it otherwise may have. But I guess it was always a matter of a time, and as the most capable scientist I know (and don't take that lightly, I know rocket scientists, professors, and my own father was hired by governments as a world-class statistician), she knew exactly what she was doing. Doesn't make it much easier, but it might in the long run, especially given I've sort of already had the conversation with her that I'd love to have now.
! Though when her parents called, wanting to know about her, and why she'd avoided her parents for the past two years...that I couldn't answer, even though they were clearly so very hurt. That was possibly the worst phone call of my life. I went and hid in a bath with candles, mead, and music afterwards for two hours.I expected to be a crying wreck these days, but I only cry in bursts. Most of the time, I just feel like a glitched game. That things feel wrong and unreal means that I'm not being exactly rational - I gave my debit card for my friend to hide after a brief burst of splurging on a 3DS to try and help me have some distraction, even though I'm unemployed. I'll get through this because how this works. I won't ever get over it, exactly, but it will become easier to deal with. In five days, I'm going on a weekend trip with friends to act out Firefly and then I've got job interviews and poetry performances and things so I can't hide from the world and nor should I but it's difficult being 'normal' right now.
And I'm now kind of glad I never got her into One Piece.
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Good to see you guys still hanging on there! It's good to see some optimism around.
@wolfwoof:
Went out to practice me driving skillos. Nobody got hurt and i didn't commit any major trafic violations so i think that counts as a win
Do you swedes need to do a driving test before getting the license? I heard that european vehicle controls are pretty chill and its easy to start on the get-go
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Do you swedes need to do a driving test before getting the license? I heard that european vehicle controls are pretty chill and its easy to start on the get-go
What? That's not true at all, at least not over here in the neighboring country. o.O
Getting your mandatory lessons plus the written exam, the driving test, and the license itself costs a bit over 3000e right about now, and the exams are incredibly strict. The written part is relatively easy for everyone because who doesn't know or learn the traffic regulations, but the driving test is incredibly grueling. It kind of depends on the company, honestly, but most driver's schools employ a policy of one major infraction (i.e. something that can be dangerous in traffic) = failed test.
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Most also take home lessons with their parents or such, for which you have to apply for a trainers permit and provide health information to the department that's in charge of trafic affairs. It's all a clusterfuck of rules and regulations, applications and permits
But if we're harsher than anybody else that i do not know, as i don't know how other nations do it
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@wolfwoof:
Most also take home lessons with their parents or such, for which you have to apply for a trainers permit and provide health information to the department that's in charge of trafic affairs
It's all a clusterfuck of rules and regulations, applications and permits
Basically this. And this is what I would be doing right now, but our glorious traffic minister decided to give in to the Car Union's persistent lobbying and raise the cost of the teaching permit to high heaven so that it's about twice as expensive as taking lessons is right now. Everyone got so angry and raised such a huge public outcry that they promised to revert it at some point, but they haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
I'll probably be driving in like some five years plus as a result, lol. We simply don't have that kind of money, and even if we did we still have a mortgage to pay.
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traffic…. we also have those tests, but so what? some cars don't even bother to stop during red light signal.
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I know 16 year old kids who drive. Many, actually, and they have cars of their own
We're the ones who're super chilled about it.
and about getting your licence, the fee is around 500 Riyal (Last I checked, One dollar = 3.5 dollars)Crazy, isn't it?
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Oh, if you're one with connection, or just know someone who work at the place you probably wouldn't pay anything at all.
corruption at its finest.
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@Toraish:
Basically this. And this is what I would be doing right now, but our glorious traffic minister decided to give in to the Car Union's persistent lobbying and raise the cost of the teaching permit to high heaven so that it's about twice as expensive as taking lessons is right now. Everyone got so angry and raised such a huge public outcry that they promised to revert it at some point, but they haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
I'll probably be driving in like some five years plus as a result, lol. We simply don't have that kind of money, and even if we did we still have a mortgage to pay.
It's such a catch-22. In nations such as ours you need to drive to be worth spit on the unskilled labour market
But to afford to throw down the cash needed for the license you'd need a job
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here it's from 17, you just mustn't be alone in the car, and after you're 18 you can it. And lot of people don't pay attention to the rules. Even people who just walk. They cross streets not using bridge, nor light signal, nor underground passage. when they need to walk just little bit to cross it using on of these.
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Nuts. I forgot yesterday that today would be Veteran's Day, and that would put a wrench my usual bank plans. I still went today, figuring "okay maybe just the ATM section will be open…." nope. There goes a wasted $2.50 in bus fare.
Thankfully I can go tomorrow after school, and I have enough fare (got two cards) to travel today and tomorrow. Don't need money atm, so...
Also.....it seems I got a 97 on my math test.
@Print:
Thank you, Meta. I think you said the right thing, insomuch as there are right things to say. I'm glad for having this place.
And you are welcome, and glad to see you're….managing.
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@mary:
here it's from 17, you just mustn't be alone in the car, and after you're 18 you can it. And lot of people don't pay attention to the rules. Even people who just walk. They cross streets not using bridge, nor light signal, nor underground passage. when they need to walk just little bit to cross it using on of these.
Saudi Arabia V2? :|
That sounds too similar.
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@NER:
Saudi Arabia V2? :|
That sounds too similar.
mind telling me where you're from? :Pcountry Georgia.
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I don't actually mind that our trafic is so regulated since it all makes the terrifying prospect of driving a little less daunting
A friend of mine went to Italy and claims that they work by mad max rules in the trafic, overtake or be overtaken
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It gets alot easier and managable the more you do it. I've been out maybe 6 times now and i'm actually starting to get the hang of it.
In general i only ever feel comfortable with things that i can practice relentlessly
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Ya know I'd kinda want to be able to drive.
Of course I can't afford to get a driver's license so the debate is purely academic.
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@wolfwoof:
I don't actually mind that our trafic is so regulated since it all makes the terrifying prospect of driving a little less daunting
A friend of mine went to Italy and claims that they work by mad max rules in the trafic, overtake or be overtaken
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Everyone I know from Italy says that stop signs are just a suggestion there.