ridiculous

[Su-Yin]

Canada's post office is threatening to stop mail deliveries to a woman in Ottawa because her doorstep is 10 centimetres too high.
Christine Charbonneau said when she went to check her mail last Friday she found a Canada Post employee measuring her doorstep. He told her it was 30cm high - 10cm more than the maximum limit specified by building regulations.

"I said it was ridiculous to say that the step is too high ... Nobody else has complained," she told the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.
:lol: petty...no idea how this little issue made itself to the news

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Unusual-Tales/Out-of-step/2005/06/01/1117568256635.html

[Krypton]

LOL thats pretty pitiful

[GameMaster]

The Post Office regulators have stepped way out of line, in my opinion.

[Krypton]

The Post Office regulators have stepped way out of line, in my opinion.

LOL, well explained.

[Typhoid]

:lol: petty...no idea how this little issue made itself to the news

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Unusual-Tales/Out-of-step/2005/06/01/1117568256635.html


Because its Canada....what the hell else do we have for news?

[GameMaster]

LOL, well explained.

Thanks, I hope Canada Mail Service doesn't go postal when they read my comment.

[Happydude]

wow...never knew our post office was so....lazy....eesh...10 cm?...man, i'm amazed at their laziness...i just have words.

[Typhoid]

wow...never knew our post office was so....lazy....eesh...10 cm?...man, i'm amazed at their laziness...i just have words.


Its not that he doesnt want to step the extra 10 cm, its that its illegal because its not following the building code.

[Jason1]

The Post Office regulators have stepped way out of line, in my opinion.


Its not the post office...its Canada. Theyve got all sorts of bull**** regulations over there. For instance, were I work, we make waffle machines. We recently have gotten all our new machines "Canadian Standards Approved" which involved a whole bunch of pointless stuff to be done to them. I remember awhile back we had some machine going in a back room for weeks, that would just open and close a waffle iron...open...close...open...close. Why? Because apparently waffle machines must be opened and closed an ungodly amount of times before its good enough for Canada.

[Happydude]

yeah, canada has stupid rules...i mean, not as stupid as some US rules, which i won't get into right now, but pretty stupid none-the-less.

[Typhoid]

yeah, canada has stupid rules...i mean, not as stupid as some US rules, which i won't get into right now, but pretty stupid none-the-less.


Well, I like our rules.


I don't want my chips full of oils that can cause anal leakage if you eat enough of them, just to increase shelf life.

I will take random stupid rules I will never encounter, to no anal leakage any day.

[DarrenMcLeod]

That's funny.

[GameMaster]

I have yet to experience this supposed leakage from chips. Any suggestions?

[Bube]

I have yet to experience this supposed leakage from chips. Any suggestions?
If it's anal leakage you want, there are quicker (and more exciting) ways than chips...

[Su-Yin]

If it's anal leakage you want, there are quicker (and more exciting) ways than chips...
:rofl:
/me faints laughing

[Yan]

:lol: petty...no idea how this little issue made itself to the news

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Unusual-Tales/Out-of-step/2005/06/01/1117568256635.html


Lol yinnie...

I think this happpened at Wayne's suburb as well. Some lady renovated her front porch and the postbox is now about 2-3 metres further into the compund that it was before that.

The postie wouldn't get off his bike to put the letters in...so the woman had to put an ice cream tub out as a substitute postbox.

[Krypton]

yeah, canada has stupid rules...i mean, not as stupid as some US rules, which i won't get into right now, but pretty stupid none-the-less.

Sure the U.S has some stupid rules, but I hate the way Canadians talk about Americans. :mad:

What can I say, i'm just too opinionated :D

[MuGen]

The U.S. laws may be a little ridiculous, but when you compare them to Canadian laws & regulations... one stands out more than the other in terms of stupidity.

Blame Canada..

[Dyne]

Wait, maybe I'm not reading that right.

Are they measuring the bottom of her door to the patio?

This sounds like it could only happen in Quebec.

[Crono]

Sure the U.S has some stupid rules, but I hate the way Canadians talk about Americans. :mad:


Can you elaborate on that? Or were you just joking?

[MuGen]

I think I can elaborate...... A lot of Canadians talk about America is messed up.... mind you I said A LOT OF... not all..... but Canadians talk about America badly....

[Dark Samurai]

^ and vice versa...

[Crono]

I think I can elaborate...... A lot of Canadians talk about America is messed up.... mind you I said A LOT OF... not all..... but Canadians talk about America badly....

Well I'm sure there are a lot of Americans who talk about Canada straight out of their ass as well.

[Krypton]

Can you elaborate on that? Or were you just joking?

wasn't joking one bit, I was being dead serious

[Fox 6]

Well have you guys thought that maybe its not just Canadians who talk badly about Americans? Im sure its that same for Canada.

( This comment was not ment to start an argument, just to raise thought)

[Ginkasa]

Well, I'm sure if anybody outside of Canada (and America, I guess) actually cared about Canada, they'd talk bad about it, too.

I kid! I kid!


/me dodges rotten tomatoes and walks away

[Happydude]

Dodge this!

/me throws chair

[Swan]

Does stupidity towards our country count?

[Krypton]

sure I talk bad about america to, especially George Bush, I think the guy's a nut. But I bet Canada does the same too.