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Old Dec 8, 2011, 8:45 am
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Originally Posted by Genius1
I took the High Life and Business Life from my seat last night.
I would ask WHY but as you've saved someone from a boring read I won't bother
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 8:51 am
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Originally Posted by LondonAndy
I would ask WHY but as you've saved someone from a boring read I won't bother
I find Bus life to be a very interesting indication of the Brist, it gives me a different perspective of people. And I mean the statistics, love reading them.
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 9:01 am
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I find Bus life to be a very interesting indication of the Brist
Brits?
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 9:02 am
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Originally Posted by LondonAndy
I would ask WHY but as you've saved someone from a boring read I won't bother
I take the mags as well, I use them to read when I am my exercise bike.
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 9:10 am
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Originally Posted by Phil the Flyer
Brits?
Excuse ze englishhhhh British/English/from that little island across the big ocean/ the country where they drive on the wrong side of the street .. Monsieur.
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 9:19 am
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Originally Posted by Yahillwe
Excuse ze englishhhhh British/English/from that little island across the big ocean/ the country where they drive on the wrong side of the street .. Monsieur.
We drive on the correct side of the road.

Its the other countries who are confused and in the wrong.
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 12:31 pm
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Originally Posted by origin
We drive on the correct side of the road.

Its the other countries who are confused and in the wrong.
I believe there are 56 other countries around the globe who also drive on the "correct" side of the road. Must be true as it was a tiebreaker in our local pub quiz!
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 12:58 pm
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Originally Posted by becket5
I believe there are 56 other countries around the globe who also drive on the "correct" side of the road. Must be true as it was a tiebreaker in our local pub quiz!
From that font of knowledge Wikipedia:
Though originally most traffic drove on the left worldwide, today about 66.1% of the world's people live in right-hand traffic countries and 33.9% in left-hand traffic countries. About 72% of the world's total road distance carries traffic on the right, and 28% on the left.
. . .
List of jurisdictions where traffic keeps left
Total: 76 countries, territories and dependencies
. . .

List of jurisdictions where traffic keeps right
Total: 164 countries and territories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_...t-hand_traffic
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 1:03 pm
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They used to drive on the left side of the road here once upon a time. A lot of the cars were imported from Britain.
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 1:37 pm
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Yaaay .. we're OT again!!

I usually have no difficulty driving on either side, depending on where I am of course Where I lose it is in those huge US parking lots, where there's no real point of reference ... and then I tend to drive on the left

My real king-size "screwed it" was after the last trip to the the US, and we went to our local supermarket multi-storey. On leaving, I contentedly drove out using the "Up" ramp to the 2nd level.

To get back OT ... we were stocking up on wine
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 4:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Phil the Flyer
TexasFlyr - with just six posts in 68 months of FT membership it would appear that you reserve your words of wisdom for topics of great importance.
I'm guessing that due to the influence of his GF it appears that he's learnt to use words sparingly and wisely.
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 4:37 pm
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Originally Posted by origin
We drive on the correct side of the road.

Its the other countries who are confused and in the wrong.
How do lefties handle driving on the other side of the street, and shifting the gears?
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Old Dec 8, 2011, 8:36 pm
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Originally Posted by SimonsMiles
Hehehe, so you've been slowly forcing yourself to drink something that you don't particularly like? Awesome :-)
Indeed.....much prefer wine or beer to be honest. I only bought the case because Tesco had it on offer and were giving away a load of points (those were the days). Money off codes brought the price further down to something like 8 a bottle including free delivery.

Had two left but I gave a local council chief one earlier this year for doing me a favour (so I thought).
I shall open the last one this Christmas. A nicer tasting Argentine sparkler can be had for about the same price.
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Old Dec 9, 2011, 2:05 am
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Originally Posted by Yahillwe
How do lefties handle driving on the other side of the street, and shifting the gears?
I havent shifted gears for 10 years. I should drive the manual car more often!!

I always think of computer mouses more than gears when people try that argument. Which hand is your mouse in. I use the left, this confuses many people.

To be on topic, I cant drink at the moment. I need to have a party to clear my stock.
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Old Dec 9, 2011, 2:10 am
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Originally Posted by origin
I havent shifted gears for 10 years. I should drive the manual car more often!!
I always think of computer mouses more than gears when people try that argument. Which hand is your mouse in. I use the left, this confuses many people.
I think my last manual car was about 30 years ago. And I also use the mouse with my left hand, and wear my watch on the right, for very long, complicated and fairly boring reasons.

We're OK for wine, atm, but I need to pick up some Calvados this morning
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