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Seriously. Before I lived in LA, I lived in Boston. I still have the rather nice pair of wire cutters that were left behind rather hastily when I came back to
by neffy 10y ago
Seriously.
Before I lived in LA, I lived in Boston. I still have the rather nice pair of wire cutters that were left behind rather hastily when I came back to get my bicycle at the stand after being in a shop for about 3 minutes. Now that is a city with a bicycle theft problem.
But military histories quite often comment how most of the GI's had much better mechanical skills that their British counterparts, and how baseball pitching was instrumental in their superior grenade use. (Cricket bowling just doesn't teach quite the right skills there.)
Despite being one of the most homogeneous species on the planet, everybody is different. I agree it was rather cruel of the local council to stick a magic roundabout right outside Heathrow's car hire[1], to add to the driving on the wrong side/manual transmission nightmare, but at least it let's people know what they're in for.
[1] http://goo.gl/Dk3mXw http://goo.gl/Dk3mXw
- Fiahil 10y ago> I agree it was rather cruel of the local council to stick a magic roundabout right outside Heathrow's car hire[1] The inverted pentagram shape (facing east) of that thing was made on purpose, right? It seems, somebody on the city council just wanted to summon a massive demon :)
- chillydawg 10y agoThe whole M25 is a cruel, demonic joke.
- usrusr 10y agoA two-stage roundabout??? This gives me an entirely new level of respect for the general insanity of humankind!
- rsync 10y agoDo I view this sat pic correctly and see that those are nested roundabouts ? Is that a thing ? Is this the only example of such a thing, or do they exist elsewhere ?
- detaro 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Magic_roundabout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Magic_roundabout first one, some additional info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)