- Posted by Wellfed (A) on June 30, 2009 at 21:48:08
Who's the tweakiest dealer in NYC?
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Who's the tweakiest dealer in NYC?
Nigella Lawson and strawberries and cream - two of my favorite brit yummies
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -HST
That's not an unusual sight in areas with a lot of Amish such as Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. You'll also see Amish boys and girls tearing down country roads on Rollerblades. Apparently they view Rollerblades as just a variant on the roller skates they've always allowed.
The beliefs and culture of the Amish are more complicated than the popular misconception of them as Luddites. They believe in self - reliance and independence. A connection to the electrical grid ties one to the larger world, so the Amish don't do that. On the other hand they have to refrigerate the milk from their cows, so Amish dairy farms use generators to power refrigeration units. The Amish are very practical people who carefully evaluate new technologies and adopt those that offer a benefit to them. In the last decade, for example, they came to understand that they needed phones to place orders with farm supply businesses, so the church leaders have allowed farmers to have phones. The catch is that the phone is only used for outgoing calls and must be far enough away from the house that it's ring cannot be heard there. Linoleum is easier to care for than hardwood floors, so the Amish quickly adopted it and widely use it in their homes.
My wife and I once stayed at a Mennonite family's bed and breakfast around Bird in Hand and as we were about to retire for the night an Amish man rushed into the house and asked the owners if he could use the barn phone. I guessed that the Mennonites had the phone as a convenience for their friends. I gathered later is was a livestock emergency.
Ee love going antiquing & collectableing in the area. that was over a decade ago, I don;t know what the Adamstown area looks like post-ebay. Not good hunting ground for records or tubes, unfortunately.
Don't let their folksy ways fool you, particularly when bidding against them at local auctions.
Gregg
Look, it runs off milk!!!
That isn't English, THIS is English:
I've never ridden in a J.A.P. Morgan three wheeler but a friend of mine in Massachusetts has a Triking which is the modern equivalent - way cool.
Edits: 07/01/09
With a bit of italian thrown in for fun......
;-)
That's the one that flies isn't it?
When tax payers' money can be spend in such a socially uplifting and valuable manner?
;-)
Oh dear. I'd forgotten abouth that.....
Best regards,
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You call that emblematic of fine English craftsmanship?
Edits: 07/01/09
(With a rear training wheel, natch.)
That is not a good design. Too little storage. Too little crash protection. It's a golf cart.
OTOH, the Smart Car is probably over engineered and too expensive in the US for what it is.
How about decent, ubiquitous mass transit as a completely obvious, necessary idea that is yet still ahead of its time? Supplemented by hourly car rental services when needed.
bleep
Even though bicycles work fine in certain blue cities and in other countries.
Ya'll keep on with your Hummers! Praiz!
... easy to park, take up hardly any road space and very good fuel consumption.
Just wait for the light to go on in some struggling car company trying to think of the car of the future...
what the music is in that video? I kinda like it.
Watch the credits at the end of the clip.
...that Berlinetta.
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