... we will all be travelling by boat ..
if your prediction is correct, vin won't have to worry about his promise that "I'll show my bottom in Woolworths when it happens" because woolworth's will also have long disappeared and replaced by tesasdaburysons express stores.
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Pet daft theory of mine.
In the Northern hemisphere the Coriolis effect tends to turn things anticlockwise. So a tornado will turn this way.
As we drive on the left, the draft made by two passing vehicles negates possible tormados, wherea if you drive on the right, it encourages them.
The mini tornado that hit Brighton a few days ago started at sea and boats "drive" on the right.
QED I'd say...
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On hols in St.Lucia and in transit from Hewanorra to the north of the island was sitting in the passenger seat of VW TransporterMiniBus. Had travelled a few miles and I commented to driver" I thought you drove on the left here" . Answer: "Here in St Looshia we drive on de smooth side." Saw more collisions in ten days than you could believe.
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you should have gone by boat. Safer, faster & more scenic. Our hotel ws up a rutted track. The night the fire broke out it a helluva long time to get the fire engine up!
JH
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On hols in St.Lucia and in transit from Hewanorra to the north of the island was sitting in the passenger seat of VW TransporterMiniBus. Had travelled a few miles and I commented to driver" I thought you drove on the left here" . Answer: "Here in St Looshia we drive on de smooth side." Saw more collisions in ten days than you could believe. Phil I
LOL-ish!
That reminds me of my trip to India about 10/11 years ago. We hired a Tata Jeep, based around the Landrover Disco. As the car was a new model there and came with a driver we set off to Rajasthan, to Punjab to Himalya. As we left the city, the driver of our car drover very carefully as he was reposible for what was a deemed a very expensive car in India in those days, but we noted that lorries, buses, cars, motor bikes, cycles, bikes and cows went up and down most roads outside the major towns at will. So I asked him how he knew which side to drive on. His response was that when he came across lorries/buses and older cars, he moved ove to the verge as the others would never give way know that the person driving the expensive car did not want a crash..
I kid you not re the fact that as we drove through punjab, we saw at least 4/5 accidents every day and the old Amercian type jeeps that had rolled over as they had around 20 people in and on them. The lorries and buses had people hanging of their foofs and sides - traffic lights were never obeyed. I think they still drive like that now.
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>..traffic lights were never obeyed. I think they still drive like that now.
Not in my experience.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=30...6
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Don't you mean 'dive' on the right?
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In 40 years time I will either be 97 or dead. If not the latter then I should have enough life experience to change the side of the road I drive on from left to right.
I may ocaisionally drive on the left for the odd day just to remember the good old days.
Can your friend look forward to Saturday and post the lottery numbers on the site for us, please?
Adam, we invaded Australia years ago and used it as a big open prison.
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I prefer the term colonised. Invading sounds so harsh.
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I live in a part of London where the number of traffic humps is greater than the number of cars. Thinking about just today's experience of driving confirms that around here, all the locals drive in the middle of the road anyway - who needs new laws?
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I live in a part of London where the number of traffic humps is greater than the number of cars. Thinking about just today's experience of driving confirms that around here, all the locals drive in the middle of the road anyway - who needs new laws?
Indeed!!
This just goes toshow how people in London are more readily adaptable to driving conditons.
The number of vehicles on the roads is increasing daily.
When people come to visit us in London from up north or down south, they often comment about how difficult it is to drive in central London. However, locals are used to driving in heavy and strssful driving conditions.
People are trying to make a joke out of the facts, but facts can be stranger than fiction.
This report that is doing the rounds in a central gov HQ are for real. It makes sense to have uniformity with Europe as almost all other Euro countries drive on the correct side of the road as well as our big brothers aka USA.
Intially, the transistion will cost a few quid, but mid to longer term, we'd save billions.
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Intially, the transistion will cost a few quid, but mid to longer term, we'd save billions.
How?
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Please do not thank me for posting the facts.
Please read and educate everyone you meet.
Clealry shows who drives on the left and who drives on the right. In more detail, why countries chose to drive right/left!!!
Please do not thank me.
Ask you MP if he/she is aware of gov secret plans re the conversion.
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Please do not thank me for posting the facts.
Don't worry, I don't think anyone was. Perhaps if you posted some, that would help.
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Soory, Adam, you are quite correct, invading is when you attempt to take over from the existing inhabitents.
I wonder if the Aboriginies used to keep to the left of the tracks when they went "walkabout"
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Although it was a monumenrtal lack of foresight in the early days of motoring that led to the ludicrous situation whereby all the countries in the world don't drive on the same side of the road, changing now would be extremely difficult and expensive!
If we (and Ireland) did change to conform with the rest of Europe, then English should be adopted as the main common language of Europe!
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If we (and Ireland) did change to conform with the rest of Europe, then English should be adopted as the main common language of Europe!
Sounds like a fair exchange to me..... but without the British market won't all European car manufacturers stop making RHD cars for export to Japan, Australia etc etc?
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I prefer the term colonised. Invading sounds so harsh.
Adam you've been hardwired as an Imperialist.
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There was a lot to be said for the Empire.
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See previous thread Adam, I have you sussed.
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>>See previous thread Adam, I have you sussed.<<
Yes, I think you do PU!
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There is a District Commisioner's post coming up in the Turks and Cacos Islands. They drivve in the shade, so audidua should be at home. They have bilingual signs and you can get Radio Wales there and on top of that they see the Ford Focus Saloon as the acme of the automotive world. Suit you down to the ground.
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That would be fine....but I have a fear of islands. In particular, ones of the Cacos variety.
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Adam
don't look now but you're living on one!
JH
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they shut down our empire in 48, so my dad said after the wizard of oz had been on for 5 years
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users.pandora.be/worldstandards/driving%20on%20the...y
users.pandora.be/worldstandards/driving%20on%20the...y
Read and learn
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i could knock that crap site up in my teabreak all it does is show demography
it aint going to happen until steering wheels are in the middle like milk floats.
86 posts you done well audiaudi whats next steering wheels in the back seat for overweight europeans ;-)
read and learn
read and yawn more like.....................
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erm, yes.....wonderfull - I think not !!!
I remember hearing this one before, but it was just slightly different and great for telling those gullible people within our nation..... it went something like this.....
Very soon car drivers in the UK will be making a change, and this will mean we will start to drive on the right hand side of the road, if this trial period is successfull then after three weeks the lorries will also make the change over....
think about it ?
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Incredible!
You lot make me laugh.
A few years ago people were say 'congestion charge? It will never work as they won't be able to track cars/vehicles'!! And the rest, my friends is hisotry!!
About twenty years ago, people laughed when I suggested that it would soon be affordable to have your vehicle tracked if stolen or you want to keep an eye on your business vehicles - people laughed as the technology would not be afforable and too bulky - the rest is history my friends.
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I don't think there we are having a mass debate about technology here. It has litte, if anything to do with your original posting "plans to drive on the right".
The main body of opposition is founded in practicality, and much more importantly cost.
I personally believe the deciding factor in this is that the whole scenario does not leave a "value added" situation for the government, i.e. they are set to earn no extra from us driving on the "other side" (although at current levels of motoring inflation, I will be taking Shanks' Pony everywhere 40 years from now).
Back to your reasoning of technology being the deciding factor; whether or not there is a black box in my dashboard that takes control of the steering when I veer over to the left hand lane (I do not think that is far fetched, by the way), what on Earth is the point?
If it was worth doing it would have been done 20 years ago, and if it would benefit the public purse I am sure that it would be in the pipelines for the next general election spiel.
P.S. I hope you patented your idea about tracking stolen cars!
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audiaudi still hasn't explained how switching to driving on the right would save money. Unless he thinks it would ease the strain on pension funds with far less people round to collect after the initial carnage.
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audiaudi still hasn't explained how switching to driving on the right would save money. Unless he thinks it would ease the strain on pension funds with far less people round to collect after the initial carnage. --
I have and I reiterate. The UK and especially europe will save money as in the mid to long term there will be less accidents by uk and other euro country drivers as they will all be used to drivving in a fa,iliar environment.
The euro lorry drivers and citizens, I seen them in London and Kent, they hold up traffic/etc costing jams/etc - thus costing us and industry billions and the same goes for uk drivers over in France/Germany/etc/etc!
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audi, you're cool.
Indefatigable too.
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He also spent £40k on an Audi S2 in recent years according to another thread of his. Hmmm.
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Incredible! You lot make me laugh.
Given that your age varies considerably from thread to thread, is it any wonder no one believes you?
And the rest, my friends is hisotry!!
Please don't class us as your friend, given how unlucky you claim they are.
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AudiAudi's posts can be amusing. But I think a lot have to be wind ups. Apologies if they are not but they seem that way.
Witness the example where he claims his friend was speeding at 45-50 in a 30 one way street and an "off duty" police officer speaks to the driver. And then the subsequent debate.
I hope he enjoyed the Audi S2. It was newish in April this year but cost him near £40k. Think he was ripped off because they started to make the S2 in 1990 and stopped in 1996.
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I am not getting involved in this one, I prefer to be middle of the road myself ;-)
Just a small point, re the earlier comments about France, French railways run on the left like ours even though they drive on the right, even more strangely when you go into Alsace, still France, there are complex intersections alowing trains to cross to run on the right.
Why? The first French railways were influenced by a British engineer. However Alsace was annexed by Germany in the mid 19th Century and returned to France at the end of the First World War by which time German engineers had laid out a rail network.
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"but mid to longer term, we'd save billions."
HOW?
You do seem to be ignoring this quastion, audiaudi.
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"but mid to longer term, we'd save billions." HOW? You do seem to be ignoring this quastion, audiaudi. V
I refer you to my post made a few mins ago!
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...I hope he enjoyed the Audi S2. It was newish in April this year but cost him near £40k. ..
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rtj70; the fact seems to be that audiaudi just likes to change cars as frequently as he changes his age and driving experience.
eg. in april, in his very fisrt post here, he had the newish audi s2 costing £40k, when he had an accident with some dodgy uninsured unlicensed "pilloc" . ["Had An Accident Today - Uninsured Pilloc ...the guy crashed into our car and make it wobble and loud bang - the damage appeared hefty ]
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=40...4
in july he had got a brand new merc "a" class, to replace a "c" class which was itself a downgrade from an "e" class. that washwen he nearly got his first speeding ticket in 40 years of driving. [" Picked up a brand new Mercedes A180 Cdi Avantgarde, Auto today ..... think I've got a speeding ticket for the first time in 40 years of driving :(I took early retirment a few years back and decided to give up my E class that year, and down graded to a C class. "]
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=43...3
in august, he was back in his "c" class when he said he passed at 18 and had been driving 25 years. ["my merc C class and live in SE3 and clear licence since 18, abot 25 years, no tickets or accidents."]
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=43957&...t
in september, he was saying he had always driven audis and changed to merc recently. he had passed and bought his first car at 17, and he was 42 years old now. [ "I got my first car at 17 when I passed my test and now 42 years old. I used to drive with 100% confidence and through skill/luck never had an accident or been booked for a road traffic violation"]
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=45167&...e
and as rtj70 says, audiaudi has so many interesting friends and relatives - a brother in law who buys a new jag for 43k, a 17 yr old niece for whom audiaudi is going to buy brand new car as a gift, his immaculately dressed young friends in an audi who got stopped by a fake copper, etc. etc.
it all adds to the fun and livens things up a bit. as i say, without people like boris johnson, politics would be dull.
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Cheers Dalglish, really brightened up my morning :-)
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confirms what my old gran taught me then........ you've got to have a good memory if you're going to tell 'pork pies'
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I recall a similar poster who left before audiaudi joined...
I don't have a good memory so cannot remember his name.
I agree tho: driving on the right will save billions because all the immigrants from Romania can drive here without having to buy new cars...
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Outside our hotel in eastern France the other day I was amazed to find an immaculate Austin A35 Countryman. Turned out to be owned by a Dutch guy who had bought it in the UK 20 years ago and upgraded it with MG Midget bits.
Point is, he converted it from RHD to LHD himself because it was so easy - A35s had all their instruments and switches in the middle. A Hillman Minx I had years ago was the same.
So Audiaudi must be right; more and more new cars have their instruments in the middle again and could be converted easily - the first evidence of the sinister plot for the future.
BTW, I live in a LHD country and own two RHD drive cars so I don't care much either way. Of course, I don't get round to overtaking much these days...
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I saw a LHD Ford Anglia in a shopping centre last year. It was being used to promote a Harry Potter book and it was in stunning condition. I wondered if it was built LHD or had been converted.
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I saw a LHD Ford Anglia in a shopping centre last year. It was being used to promote a Harry Potter book and it was in stunning condition. I wondered if it was built LHD or had been converted.
Most likely a left hooker as I remeber an uncle from france that used to visit us in the uk had a similar/light green with white roof Anglia.
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Perhaps it was an east Anglia ;-)
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or an Anglia Saxon.
Please don't class us as your friend, given how unlucky you claim they are.
I was going to say that but feared Moderation.
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Yes Anglia Saxon, better re the French connection (some wise guy is going to Mustang not Anglia)
I made the point about aa having a lot of unlucky friends and that there appears to be one common denominator in the Parking Space thread the other day.
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I had an uncle that was the pilot of the bomber found on the moon!
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that pilot was my third uncle removed :-0
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Does that mean we're related. :)
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Does that mean we're related. :)
Escaped from the same asylum?
:-))))
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And the rest, my friends is hisotry!!
Are you inferring that you have no friends left because of your lies?
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Audiaudi is so named because (s)he hears twice as much as (s)he should.
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Obviously has a double everytime....................With ice and LEMON Sir??
MDMD
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From his many tales and versions of truth, maybe he can't remember if he does or doesn't have other friends - or even trolls ;-) Cannot believe he's not responded to Dalglish's excellent post (took time) pointing out the different versions of reality posted about in his threads. But still AuduAudi posts in this same thread.
Make me wonder if the's someone else who's come back to the forum to wind us up.... Apologies if you're not audiaudi.
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From his many tales and versions of truth, maybe he can't remember if he does or doesn't have other friends - or even trolls ;-) Cannot believe he's not responded to Dalglish's excellent post (took time) pointing out the different versions of reality posted about in his threads. But still AuduAudi posts in this same thread. Make me wonder if the's someone else who's come back to the forum to wind us up.... Apologies if you're not audiaudi.
Mo worries, apology accept!
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Mo worries about what ?
pugugly:
i think mo is worried that dualaudi is the same as the audidual who joine on 22 april 2006, as audiaudi has already admitted to be so further up this thread:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=45463&...e
incidentally, i have always been puzzled as to how he was given a court date at the time of an incident ["....his car was taken away by the police driver and they left me with details of the court it will be going to next week ...]
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=40922&...e
pugugly - question for you: is that how things are dealt with?
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>> And the rest, my friends is hisotry!! Are you inferring that you have no friends left because of your lies?
That was not nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had a lot of respect for your sensible and at times witty comments. IMO, there was no need for your comments as there have been plenty from others here :(
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That was not nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're right, it wasn't - and I apologise for that comment. However, from what I've seen so far, and evidence presented to me by others, I put it to you that you are nothing but a charlatan though.
As your aim in life is to wind people up in this forum, then you should expect to be wound up in return.
DD.
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But AudiAudi has not explained the many versions of the truth - e.g. driving for 40 years and being 42. If he cannot clear up some of these weird facts then yes we have to assume he's out there to wind us up.
But .. who knows apart from audiaudi.
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