That's a roundabout? No wonder they don't let you people carry handguns.
LMAO! If you can find a big enough one thats not covered in spilt diesel they also vary good for practicing getting your knee down.
Only In America.
by Englishman 82 Replies latest jw friends
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Gadget
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smack
spilt diesel, ruts your need to engage 4WD low range to get through, and your talking about getting a knee down?
You da man Paul.
Steve
Tasmanian Overbeer (best performance mod for my bike is......change the rider) Psalms 119 ... Blessed are the upright
ps. grits sound like bleached mud, or farax for grown ups
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FlyingHighNow
Englishman,
Interesting to hear how Brits like it here, especially a southern state, Florida. I knew some JWs from Jersey who used to fly over, rent an RV (caravan) and drive through several states. They would attend the meetings along the way. We met them at the theocratic school/service meeting.You should try RVing here sometime. My dad's wife is from Great Yarmouth. She likes the material abundance here; but she thinks Americans are too candid and open. She considers this to be bad manners.
That's a roundabout? No wonder they don't let you people carry handguns.
Stacy, you make me laugh (in a good way) more than anyone on JWD or in person. Grits? You probably didn't have good ones. They do vary. I am southern born (Mobile, the Alabama part of Fla.) and raised. We always ate grits with butter or margerine and salt added. But then that's how we ate Cream Of Wheat, too. When I eat them at Cracker Barrel, I add sawmill gravy to them.
Heather
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bebu
There is a very small roundabout that was newly "installed"(?) last year during a major highway exit interchange project near me. I don't use the roundabout much, but I swear it makes me a bit dizzy when I do. It feels very strange, though the concept is good.
Can't imagine driving thru one in England.
(Reminds me a of joke I read today: why did the Siamese twins go to England? A: So the other one could drive for a while.)
bebu
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Abaddon
Emglishman:
Would an immigration official ask me in all seriousness if I were here to commit an act of terrorism, yes or no?
This has been a source of constant joy and hilarity to me whenever I've visited the 'States; if I remember correctly, it used to be on the landing cards;
Osama "Damn these feindish infidels! I was so lulled by the in-flight Romantic Comedy I ticked the box saying yes!"
Could I find 2 double beds in our hotel room and pay for that room rather than the person at an astonishingly low price of $49 for 2 of us and that included breakfast!
I love this about the 'States as well.
Could we eat lobster, crab and oysters, as much as we wanted for $29 each and also get 5 platefuls each while the waiter sat and entertained Simon and Angharads boys.
Good food and plenty of it, cheap.
Rent me a car where the parking brake is operated by my foot.
Strange fo us but easy to get used to.
Have an incredibly well maintained road system that paradoxically has hardly any direction signs.
Funny isn't it? I know part of it is 'what you're used to'; Englisg road signs aren't really clearer than, say, Dutch ones, but I'm used to the format. The thing I noticed was that it's dead easy to over shoot a freeway exit as the signs seem to be there the second you need to start your exit' if yopu're a second out you're in trouble. Dumb-ass speed limits too, but they are better than they used to be.
Allow me to turn right when the lights are red and lets me overtake another vehicle on either side and also not limit the outside lane for overtaking only.
Doesn't it feel naughty undertaking and turning right on red?
Have enormous and long trucks with 18 wheels that are only allowed to carry 40,000 pounds against the UK's limit of 89,000. Maybe that's why our roads get so torn up!
Didn't know that (the weight limit). What I love it the Winnebagoes with cars towed behind them where in Europe there would be (behind a far smaller camper van) a few bicycles or (at the most) a moped.
Build houses out of wood, the concern being that the house would not fall down but might go up in a hurricane.
American woodframe houses can be utterly beautiful.
Have air conditioning as standard.
Oh, it's not standard, even in the South; you have two optins; AC or heatstroke!
Where ice is not a luxury.
... and you get a picher full of ice water the second you sit down in a restaurant!
Where the people wish me a nice day and actually really, really want me to have a nice day. Thank you!
Mmmmmm... I am torn between wondering if they mean it (any more than an English person means it when they say 'sorry') and wondering if they should mean it (if they do).
Where sports pubs provide darts made out of plasic for safeties sake to customers who can carry a gun.
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Where petrol is one quarter of the price that we pay!!!
It has to be lower, given the scale of the country! -
Cassiline
Mike and Christine
I truly wish I could have said, "Welcome to America" in person. I truly missed meeting you both, Simon, Ang and children. I really hoped to be able to have meet all of you who attended the "Freedom Fest".
Cassi, living vicariously through pictures of the event and some wonderful chats.
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Scully
Shamus writes:
We call them Traffic Circles up here in Canada, eh! I know of only one province that has them, and that's Alberta... You should see the confusion of drivers from other provinces.. priceless!
Sorry to disappoint you, Shamus, but there are definitely traffic circles in other Canadian Provinces. I know of one in Montreal (Dorval Circle), another in Ottawa, one in Halifax, NS (Armdale Rotary) and another in Dartmouth, NS (Micmac Rotary). I haven't been to NS since 1988, but I hear that the Micmac Rotary is no more.
The Canada Agriculture Museum is located on Prince of Wales Drive on the Central Experimental Farm. Please note that the Museum entrance on the NCC Scenic Driveway is now permanently closed. Visitors are now required to enter the museum grounds and buildings through the entrance off Prince of Wales Drive, south of the traffic circle, where there is free parking.
www.roundabouts.ca This website has a live webcam to a traffic circle in Hamilton, Ontario.
Love, Scully
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primitivegenius
they couldnt have traffic circles in the south......... where the most often installed option on a vehicle is a beer holder................. lol. we would drive straight through the damn things maybe noticeing a small bump........... but then again with the huge tires might not even notice that lol
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Englishman
Roundabouts generally do away with the need for traffic lights. We have around 20 roundabouts in WSM alone.
Nothing like this one in Swindon though..!
Englishman.
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got my forty homey?
And you forgot the numberone thing about America
WALMART!
Where you can get tires for the car, the wife can get her napkin thingies and get some fried chicken sitting under hot lights for 8 hours all in one place. And you can pick up a tee shirt as well that says:
Welcome to loserville
Population 1
ME!
