Ichthypresbyter

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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
Neither does most of the UK (the exception is Welsh in Wales).
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
The Volkswagen Up has a smartphone cradle for navigation (which will also charge your phone, and let you play music from it via Bluetooth), though it has a built-in radio.
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And the Swiss railways operate high-speed trains for those links with neighbouring countries- their routes to Milan, Venice and Frankfurt use trains capable of 250 km/h (ETR610 or Giruno), though they only travel at 200 km/h withi
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
High speed trains in other countries also share tracks with freight- even if there are no freight services on dedicated high-speed lines, they won't necessarily be on such lines all the time. FRA crash safety standards are stricter bec
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
AIUI the German solution is to make their cars so difficult to repair and maintain, and require so many specialised tools, that nobody who isn't an authorised dealership will want to touch them.
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
There's also limited communication- the drivers can receive text messages from their pit crew and race direction, but there is no voice communication and no way for the driver to reply - and most teams still use traditional pit boards.
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
In the UK, it's changed recently because of a Supreme Court ruling, but AFAIK there are various levels of check depending on the specific job. In most cases a conviction for which the person was sentenced to less than 4 years in prison
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
The higher numbers of traffic fatalities in the US aren't simply because Americans drive further- American roads are more dangerous per billion vehicle km than roads in other developed countries.
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
That's a common feature of car-carrying trains because of the infrastructure required, not to mention that loading and unloading cars takes so long that you really don't want to do it at an intermediate stop. For instance, the Aus
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
From the 1950s to the 1970s there was a regular service transporting cars by air between the UK and various airports in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. It cost about twice as much as the boat from Dover to Calais. They initially used B
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
>There are two types of license for London black cabs - one for the city center and one for the whole of London. The one that can only do the city center have a green sticker. AFAIK the opposite is true. The green badge is the 'All
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
There have been other cases of an 'untouchable' caste who are discriminated against, like burakumin in Japan or Cagots in France. The Cagots are particularly weird, as nobody knows why they were treated like that.
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
This is why Sikhs are supposed to all have the same surname (Singh for men, Kaur for women). Sikhism has always been strongly opposed to the caste system- see, for instance, their tradition of offering free food to anyone who wants it as lo
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
Even among ordinary people, the default system was limited (if not selective) enforcement. There were a lot of capital crimes, but even assuming someone who committed one of them was caught (before the introduction of police forces or detec
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
Is there actually proof of this? The OED thinks that it comes from boxing (where the bell signals the end of a round), and the first recorded uses of the phrase are in a boxing context.
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
Or the old naval tradition that, when a dead sailor was sewn into his hammock to be buried at sea, the last stitch went through his nose in the hope that the pain would wake him up if he was still alive.
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
In England certainly the person supervising a learner driver is subject to the same laws about alcohol, mobile phone use, etc as someone actually driving- and can be convicted on a charge of aiding and abetting any crime the learner driver
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
The official maximum weight for a "light quadricycle" is 350 kg- but that doesn't include the batteries in the case of an electric vehicle.
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
Exhibition "races" only in the very broad sense. The post-tour criteriums are almost as fake as pro wrestling- the riders have agreed beforehand who is going to "break away" and cross the line first, though occasionally
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
The closest thing to it in the UK is that traffic police would put "Black Rat" stickers on their personal cars. Of course, it didn't take very long for members of the public to find out what the stickers meant and for people
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
It's already been found that small shops in the Netherlands have seen an increase in sales, according to this article (in Dutch): https://nos.nl/artikel/2342691-het-gaat-goed-met-de-bakker-g... A study by the mark
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
Not quite. An acre is the area that oxen could plough in a day. A furlong is the distance that they could pull the plough without resting. As turning an ox-drawn plough is difficult, they would plough the maximum straight distance before
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
The Hindu men I know whose parents wanted to give them names easily pronounceable in English are called Neel and Kiran.
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The oars used in competitive rowing switched from wood to carbon fibre in the early 1980s. The Dreissigacker brothers sold their first pair of carbon oars in 1977, and AFAIK 1984 was the last Olympics where wooden oars were used. Even at th
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
Not to mention the various American houses with walls full of used razor blades: https://isarchitecture.com/seen-around-town-mid-century-blad...
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by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
>This is plenty of range for day trips throughout the Spanish, US, and British Virgin Islands. Or indeed the Stockholm Archipelago, which I imagine is what this is designed for.
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There were pictures last year of Ryanair aircraft with "737-8200" painted on them: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48995509