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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?

      Software Kinetics - Moving software

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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.

          My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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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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          • 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.

            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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            • 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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              Henry Minute
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              "All power to shields, Mr Shepherd"

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              • T Tom Deketelaere

                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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                • 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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                  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*

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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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                      Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                      $0.001 = 0.001¢

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