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    Dalek Dave
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    I have just given someone directions, and said "Come off at Junction 11 and head east." "Right ho" came the reply, and we ended the call. One of the Elves popped her head up and said "You mean go West, he's coming down from the north, not up from London!" Imagine the stunned silence.

    ------------------------------------ "Possessions make you poor, wealth is measurable only in experience." Sun Tzu 621BC

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      I have just given someone directions, and said "Come off at Junction 11 and head east." "Right ho" came the reply, and we ended the call. One of the Elves popped her head up and said "You mean go West, he's coming down from the north, not up from London!" Imagine the stunned silence.

      ------------------------------------ "Possessions make you poor, wealth is measurable only in experience." Sun Tzu 621BC

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      Nagy Vilmos
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      Do you work for DHL? :-D


      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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        Do you work for DHL? :-D


        Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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        NormDroid
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        :laugh: Nope but I bet he's gunning for a postion at DHL.

        Software Kinetics - Moving software

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          I have just given someone directions, and said "Come off at Junction 11 and head east." "Right ho" came the reply, and we ended the call. One of the Elves popped her head up and said "You mean go West, he's coming down from the north, not up from London!" Imagine the stunned silence.

          ------------------------------------ "Possessions make you poor, wealth is measurable only in experience." Sun Tzu 621BC

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          NormDroid
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          You mean he hasn't a Sat Nav. Which planet is he from?

          Software Kinetics - Moving software

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            You mean he hasn't a Sat Nav. Which planet is he from?

            Software Kinetics - Moving software

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            Baconbutty
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            He's probably been used to that old fashioned tried and trusted method of reading maps. It all falls down if you are given wrong directions by a local of course.

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              You mean he hasn't a Sat Nav. Which planet is he from?

              Software Kinetics - Moving software

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              pompeyboy2
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              Is it not the elf who should work at DHL??? I can imagine her amazement when he actually turns up on time or did you point out the error of her ways?

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                You mean he hasn't a Sat Nav. Which planet is he from?

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                I drive a lot and make use of SatNav. About a month ago, I was going to unfamiliar place. Oh shit, my car power source (cig liter) got loose and I lost power (Since I insert, remove, and twist the power connector, I guess it got loose over years of use). I had no time to fix it and decided to fall back to Google Maps. Print direction and off I went. Little did I notice that I typed wrong address and ended up being about 2 miles off. I'd no choice but to call for help :-O

                Yusuf May I help you?

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                  I have just given someone directions, and said "Come off at Junction 11 and head east." "Right ho" came the reply, and we ended the call. One of the Elves popped her head up and said "You mean go West, he's coming down from the north, not up from London!" Imagine the stunned silence.

                  ------------------------------------ "Possessions make you poor, wealth is measurable only in experience." Sun Tzu 621BC

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                  Electron Shepherd
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                  Makes perfect sense... If you look at a normal map, oriented so it can be read easily, east is to the right, and west is to the left. Therefore, in the context of navigation, east = right and west = left, so "go east" becomes "turn right" and "go west" becomes "turn left". Yes, I know that coming south the "map is upside down", as it were. But that's not how girls think when navigating...

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                  • D Dalek Dave

                    I have just given someone directions, and said "Come off at Junction 11 and head east." "Right ho" came the reply, and we ended the call. One of the Elves popped her head up and said "You mean go West, he's coming down from the north, not up from London!" Imagine the stunned silence.

                    ------------------------------------ "Possessions make you poor, wealth is measurable only in experience." Sun Tzu 621BC

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                    Pete OHanlon
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                    She's right. Everybody knows that people from up north have to swim oceans and cross continents to complete a section that could have been completed in 3 miles by turning left instead of right.

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                    • N NormDroid

                      You mean he hasn't a Sat Nav. Which planet is he from?

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                      Luc Pattyn
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                      Norm .net wrote:

                      Which planet is he from?

                      :confused: how do you think he got from another planet and ended up so close to his destination then? intergalactic maps aren't that detailed you know.

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                      • E Electron Shepherd

                        Makes perfect sense... If you look at a normal map, oriented so it can be read easily, east is to the right, and west is to the left. Therefore, in the context of navigation, east = right and west = left, so "go east" becomes "turn right" and "go west" becomes "turn left". Yes, I know that coming south the "map is upside down", as it were. But that's not how girls think when navigating...

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                        NormDroid
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                        Electron Shepherd wrote:

                        girls think

                        :confused: you've got me there.

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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          She's right. Everybody knows that people from up north have to swim oceans and cross continents to complete a section that could have been completed in 3 miles by turning left instead of right.

                          "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                          As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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                          Electron Shepherd
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                          Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                          people from up north have to swim oceans and cross continents to complete a section that could have been completed in 3 miles

                          Especially if you're coming from Kettering[^]

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                            She's right. Everybody knows that people from up north have to swim oceans and cross continents to complete a section that could have been completed in 3 miles by turning left instead of right.

                            "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                            As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                            My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                            Tom Deketelaere
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                            There is a woman in the UK who's afraid of taking right turns. When she has to go somewhere she spends about an hour plotting the trip so that she can get there with all left turns. On average that adds about 45min to the travel time. (seen it on tv couple days ago)

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                              Makes perfect sense... If you look at a normal map, oriented so it can be read easily, east is to the right, and west is to the left. Therefore, in the context of navigation, east = right and west = left, so "go east" becomes "turn right" and "go west" becomes "turn left". Yes, I know that coming south the "map is upside down", as it were. But that's not how girls think when navigating...

                              Server and Network Monitoring

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                              Henry Minute
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                              "All power to shields, Mr Shepherd"

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                                There is a woman in the UK who's afraid of taking right turns. When she has to go somewhere she spends about an hour plotting the trip so that she can get there with all left turns. On average that adds about 45min to the travel time. (seen it on tv couple days ago)

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                                ftw melvin
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                                Wasn't that on Zoolander too?

                                "If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .

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                                  I have just given someone directions, and said "Come off at Junction 11 and head east." "Right ho" came the reply, and we ended the call. One of the Elves popped her head up and said "You mean go West, he's coming down from the north, not up from London!" Imagine the stunned silence.

                                  ------------------------------------ "Possessions make you poor, wealth is measurable only in experience." Sun Tzu 621BC

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                                  ftw melvin
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                                  It's taken me over 3 minutes to understand that east is east, clearly redundancy kills brain cells. Can't stop to think about it though, episodes of 'The Professionals' don't watch themselves.

                                  "If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .

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                                    It's taken me over 3 minutes to understand that east is east, clearly redundancy kills brain cells. Can't stop to think about it though, episodes of 'The Professionals' don't watch themselves.

                                    "If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .

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                                    Dan Neely
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                                    [ftw]melvin wrote:

                                    east is east

                                    ... nest is nest, and never the mane shall tweet. *Ducks while running*

                                    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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                                      I have just given someone directions, and said "Come off at Junction 11 and head east." "Right ho" came the reply, and we ended the call. One of the Elves popped her head up and said "You mean go West, he's coming down from the north, not up from London!" Imagine the stunned silence.

                                      ------------------------------------ "Possessions make you poor, wealth is measurable only in experience." Sun Tzu 621BC

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                                      Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                                      $0.001 = 0.001¢

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