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Your right! It's always good to keep the commonly stronger right hand on the wheel while changing gear. Assuming you can handle changing gear yourself ;)
- Rob
And passing on the left makes it easier to draw your sword and have at the blaggard trying to deprive you of your colonial birthright (or is that birthleft?).
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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Oh I totally agree. feet/inches/pounds/stone are all stupid. Personally I do everything in metric except driving speed limits. (I have a digital speed display in my car which has the option of displaying in mph or kph, and I've tried but I just can't quite make it work in my head in kph when all the road signs are in mph) What I'm interested in is if there is some sensible historical reason why mm/dd/yyyy is used over there rather than dd/mm/yyyy. (It sounds like keefb has what sounds like a sensible reason)
Simon
How tall are you?
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Actually it is the safer side. Human brains have a tendency to turn left to avoid a crash, (this is standard in aviation), and in UK this means going up the embankment or hitting a wall. In the US this means crossing into the oncoming traffic, very nasty. And this is not Nationalistic BS...many studies will show this, also there is a five out of six chance you are right handed, and where better to keep you dominant hand than on the wheel. Samoa recently changed from right to left.
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
Dalek Dave wrote:
Samoa recently changed from right to left.
All at once, or gradually?
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Samoa recently changed from right to left.
All at once, or gradually?
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
6.00pm on a Friday evening. About 2 months ago. All at once. No major crashes reported!
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
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Eight pints.
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
Half a night out in Gateshead then?
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
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160 Fluid Ounces, naturally
CCC solved so far: 2 (including a Hard One!)
I Gallon of water weighs 10 pounds.
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
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6.00pm on a Friday evening. About 2 months ago. All at once. No major crashes reported!
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
I read a while ago that while driving on the wrong side, that to begin with your chance of having a crash is less because you are concentrating a lot, it's only later when you relax a bit that you risk letting your normal reflexes take over and go to your usual side.
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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1 US Gallon = 0.8327 Imperial Gallons. Now do the maths.
CCC solved so far: 2 (including a Hard One!)
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I read a while ago that while driving on the wrong side, that to begin with your chance of having a crash is less because you are concentrating a lot, it's only later when you relax a bit that you risk letting your normal reflexes take over and go to your usual side.
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
I had that in LA, was driving fine, then after a meal, jumped into the car and went about 300 yards before wifey said, "Other Side!". Thankfully nobody noticed!
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
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Your right! It's always good to keep the commonly stronger right hand on the wheel while changing gear. Assuming you can handle changing gear yourself ;)
- Rob
See I've always wondered this, I'm left handed, and feel very comfortable changing gear with the left with the right hand on the wheel. I've imagined changing gear with my right hand, and it feels odd!
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Current Weight: 16st. 2lbs 10/10/2009 Target Weight : 14st. Weight lost : 0lbs
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To say nothing about driving on the wrong side. What's with that? Isn't that a bit extreme, even if you don't want to do what the French do? :)
Best wishes, Hans
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How tall are you?
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
throw new PrivacyInvadedException(); Why do you want to know? ;P
Simon
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And pints! What the hell is a pint? :-D
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What the hell is a pint?
About 1/5th - 1/10th of a hangover, depending on how you metabolise alcohol...
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So today is 20th of October 2009. In UK format that is 20/10/2009. Kinda makes sense right, smallest to biggest. Logical. In US format it's 10/20/2009. Now to me that's totally illogical. Why would you do that. Can any Americans explain to me why this makes sense. (lets try to forget about patriotism). I don't understand why it would ever be useful to break the logical order. It's like writing the time in HH:SS:MM. [As a developer I obviously recognise that the superior format is neither of the above but is in fact YYYY-MM-DD as it maintains correct sort order and digit significance]
Simon
Well... This thread appears to have turned into a euro-trash love fest...
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Samoa recently changed from right to left.
All at once, or gradually?
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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Actually it is the safer side. Human brains have a tendency to turn left to avoid a crash, (this is standard in aviation), and in UK this means going up the embankment or hitting a wall. In the US this means crossing into the oncoming traffic, very nasty. And this is not Nationalistic BS...many studies will show this, also there is a five out of six chance you are right handed, and where better to keep you dominant hand than on the wheel. Samoa recently changed from right to left.
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
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See I've always wondered this, I'm left handed, and feel very comfortable changing gear with the left with the right hand on the wheel. I've imagined changing gear with my right hand, and it feels odd!
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Current Weight: 16st. 2lbs 10/10/2009 Target Weight : 14st. Weight lost : 0lbs
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Samoa recently changed from right to left.
All at once, or gradually?
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
Steve_Harris wrote:
All at once, or gradually?
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throw new PrivacyInvadedException(); Why do you want to know? ;P
Simon
I was hoping you would say something like 5' 11" so that I could reply with a bit of scorn at your sticking with metrics, but you confounded me! :)
------------------------------------ To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham 1925
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So today is 20th of October 2009. In UK format that is 20/10/2009. Kinda makes sense right, smallest to biggest. Logical. In US format it's 10/20/2009. Now to me that's totally illogical. Why would you do that. Can any Americans explain to me why this makes sense. (lets try to forget about patriotism). I don't understand why it would ever be useful to break the logical order. It's like writing the time in HH:SS:MM. [As a developer I obviously recognise that the superior format is neither of the above but is in fact YYYY-MM-DD as it maintains correct sort order and digit significance]
Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
[As a developer I obviously recognise that the superior format is neither of the above but is in fact YYYY-MM-DD as it maintains correct sort order and digit significance]
Arabic developers might see that differently...