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globeandmail.com: Cyclists' deaths flag highway safety issue →
Comments on the story are here.
Any thoughts from cyclists?
When I ride, I act as a vehicle - use turning lanes, signals, etc. - as much as I possibly can. I am known to head to the sidewalk on very busy streets but try and avoid it. In the end, I’m a vehicle just like any other car on the road - and deserve to be there too. I find it frustrating that a combination of ignorant drivers (some, not all) and arrogant cyclists (some, not all) make it unsafe for the rest of us who are just trying to travel safely.
cbc.ca: Fired Halifax school board members lose court battle for jobs →
Easy Sugar Cookies - Allrecipes →
globeandmail.com: A dude's guide to wedding season →
My personal favourite tip:
And if all else fails, consult the nearest female.
“The saving grace is really the women,” says Craig Schumacher, 25, a best-man-to-be. His strategy: “Ask whoever, and try to figure out what I’m supposed to do.
globeandmail.com: First the stroke, then a Newfoundland accent →
Mrs. Doré, 52, has an extremely rare condition called foreign accent syndrome. In fact, hers is the first documented case in Canada, says Alexandre Sévigny, a researcher at McMaster University in Hamilton.
In many ways, she did sound like someone born and bred in Newfoundland, says Dr. Sévigny. She often dropped the ‘th’ from words, saying ‘dat’ instead of that and ‘tink’ instead of think. She pronounced “roof” so that it sounded more like “ruf,” and “greasy” became “gracey.” She dropped the g at the end of many words, so hurting became hurtin’.
Urban legends discussed as of late...
There is nicotine in Tim Horton’s coffee - FALSE.
Here in Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is responsible for the monitoring and labelling of all food products in the country. I contacted them about this, and they were quick to inform me that this urban legend is certainly not true. They pointed me towards a list of additives that are acceptable under the Food and Drug Regulations. This list is several pages long, and nicotine is not anywhere to be found. At least the part of the story where Tim Horton’s keeps the nicotine levels ‘below regulation standards’ is clearly not true. NO nicotine is allowed in food products whatsover. (Source.)
Tim Horton’s coffee isn’t made from coffee beans - FALSE (most likely).
I couldn’t find anything on this, no matter what I searched. Must not be true then. I did find one guy wondering about the ingredients but nothing conclusive. Tim Hortons claims that they use “100% Arabica beans”. Can anyone find anything else on this?
You can’t have an epidural if you have a lower back tattoo - FALSE.
“The tattoo pigments do not stay “loose” within the dermis or connective tissue, but are rapidly assimilated by macrophages during the healing process. Many of these pigment-laden macrophages stay in the dermis, and the dermis only, for the life of the tattooee. The amount of pigment that is used in the tattoo process is quite miniscule, also. The pigments are made of inert metal salts and different structures of a phenolphthalein base, and allergic problems are nearly nonexistent. You should have no concern whatsoever in placing a needle through a tattoo and into the spinal or epidural space, as the pigment particles are “fixed” and stationary within the dermis, and cannot be mobilized by the needle or migrate along the needle track. There is really no danger at all in inserting a needle through tattooed skin. (Source.)
Another site did say it was undetermined and made a snarky comment about women with lower back tattoos being temptresses like Eve, but the quote above is from a Harvard doctor so I’m going to believe him. And the women rejoiced!
Snopes.com is a great site for finding info on urban legends - they research them and provide answers from normally reputable sources. They seem to have done something to their site to prevent me from cutting and pasting, which is why they’re not a source I used above.
Any favourite urban legends out there?
globeandmail.com: Service lets U.S. drivers lock in gas prices →
The founder/owner of MyGallons.com claims “We don’t sell futures”… But this sure sounds like futures. If it works for these folks, fine. I’m not attacking the service. I’m just saying, a future by any other name…
“We don’t sell futures. It’s pre-purchased gas,” said Verona, who said MyGallons.com uses a sophisticated hedging strategy to protect and meet obligations to members.
The risk to the consumer is if price of gasoline in the future becomes cheaper rather than more expensive.
reportonbusiness.com: Online petition protests Rogers iPhone plan →
“We fail to understand why you are giving Canadian customers a patently worse deal than AT&T in the U.S.,” writes a user named Rodger Morrow. “You will make more money and sell more iPhones if you make the rates affordable…”
In a statement Friday, Rogers said that its 400 MB plan would allow a user to send about 200,000 text e-mails or view 3,100 Web pages or 1,360 photo attachments. It claims its 2 GB plan would allow a user to download 16,000 Web pages.
However, one user on the forum points out that loading a Facebook page can rack up as much as 1.2 MB, which would drop the number of page views per month to 1,600 from 16,000.
