Why is the clock on Miss City Hall so ugly?

[wildman]

Heres a cool little wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_park_accidents

I for one actually have gotten bored of roller coasters. I used to go to cedar point every summer at least once but now the millenium force just isn't worth the two hour wait.

According to the above statistics, the chances of being injured in an amusement park is one in 9 million. However if we look at the stats, the chances of being killed by the injury is less than one in twenty so the chances of being killed is less than one in 180 million anyone day.

Now for comparison let's look at the chances of dying in your car. About 40,000 people died in the US last year in motor vehicles. Since just about everyone drives that is 40,000/300,000,000 or about 1 in 7500. But of course that is over 365 days so it becomes about one in 3,000,000 anyone day. So the chances of you dying in your car on the way to the park is about 60 times that of dying on that coaster.

 

[Sorry!]

Thanks; I appreciate that. I can manage to squeeze out a reasonable one once in a while (joke, I mean, not...)

Vaughan, you say? Did you say Vaughan? Man, I saw that place on the news an hour ago. They just got flattened by a tornado. I hope that you don't live there, or are okay if you do.

Yeah, Vaughan, Vaughan. Thanks for the concern but no I don't live there. Live in Mississauga. Enviroment Canada says the activity will stay west and north of Toronto I live west and a little south :). Although the my area had many Tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings. The same storm that caused that Tornado rolled through here and last for I would say 30 minutes. In that 30 minutes it caused the power to go out for over 3 hours :(.

I never even knew a Tornado had actually touched down though thanks for bringing that to my attention lol.

 

[DaveC426913]

Live in Mississauga. - Toronto I live west and a little south

When people ask me where I live and I say South Etobicoke, they invariably give me a blank stare. So I roll my eyes and say "Right on the border of Mississauga." And they say "Ah. Mississauga."

 

[Sorry!]

When people ask me where I live and I say South Etobicoke, they invariably give me a blank stare. So I roll my eyes and say "Right on the border of Mississauga." And they say "Ah. Mississauga."

hahaha. People that aren't familiar with South Ontario do the same thing for Mississauga. Even though we're quite a big city with lots of wealth. I always just say near Toronto because everyone knows Toronto. Actually people even know of Oakville even though it is a lot smaller.

 

[DaveC426913]

Even though we're quite a big city with lots of wealth.

Too bad you didn't spend any of that wealth the design of your [strikethrough]Auschwitz[/strikethrough] City Hall.

Oh snap!

http://www.weddingstressrelief.com/wedding_planning/locations/images/miss_city_hall/miss_city_hall.jpg

 

[Danger]

I always just say near Toronto because everyone knows Toronto.

I do the same thing with Detroit. Any time that I mentioned Windsor, people thought that I meant the one in Nova Scotia.

 

[Phrak]

Are you talking about the one at West Ed? I know that it had a semi-serious accident a few years back.
As for the not understanding someone being afraid to get on one, you apparently have no idea of what a true phobia is. As I said, I have a bit of trouble looking over W's balcony on the first floor. A buddy of mine from over 20 years ago lived on the 7th floor of an apartment building. I had to stand in the balcony doorway to grab a smoke (non-smoking apartment). One warm evening, all of his guest were standing out there. I forced myself to crawl on my belly to the edge and look over. I was within two quick sphincter contractions of garbageting my pants. Never again.

That's wild Danger. I had to stop free climbing because I'd wake up from a dream, falling. Something about having a little boy to take care of, I think. Looking down cliff faces makes the hair stand up on my head, and that's Utube! A second story staircase does the same looking over the edge, but I'd strap on a hang glider in two seconds, given the chance. This is someone who would fly a glider without a harness, standing on the crossbar and hanging onto the downtubes, just for the thrill.

 

[Sorry!]

Too bad you didn't spend any of that wealth the design of your [strikethrough]Auschwitz[/strikethrough] City Hall.

Oh snap!

http://www.weddingstressrelief.com/wedding_planning/locations/images/miss_city_hall/miss_city_hall.jpg

hahaha I always wondered WHY that damn clock looks so freaking ugly. I love the library there though.