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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
That's a problem in most of North America. Only place I've been where people get it is Colorado, where the speed limit is 75, and the Winnebagos going 60 have been forced to learn the concept. Everywhere else, the 'passing' lane is treated as the 'go a little over the speed limit and relax' lane. Drives me mad. |
lololololololol i get it |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
That's a problem in most of North America. Only place I've been where people get it is Colorado, where the speed limit is 75, and the Winnebagos going 60 have been forced to learn the concept. Everywhere else, the 'passing' lane is treated as the 'go a little over the speed limit and relax' lane. Drives me mad. |
women putting on makeup in the fast lane...i threw my coffee at one last week.:p |
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| iclone |
| the speed limit lane/fast lane/superfast lane concept is very-well understood in italy and germany...not so much in the netherlands, where everyone is driving a camper :p |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by iclone
the speed limit lane/fast lane/superfast lane concept is very-well understood in italy and germany...not so much in the netherlands, where everyone is driving a camper :p |
Europeans are just better drivers in general. Their narrow roads mean they're used to squeezing their cars through tight spaces and negotiating quickly when drivers come the other way. In places like America and Australia, people have no ing clue where the edges of their vehicles are, and they barely bother to make eye contact.
The other problem is that a driver's license is treated as a right, not a privilege to be earned. Europeans who can't drive adequately, don't. Contrast that to home; the amount of timid s who can't make a turn into incoming traffic is insane. |
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| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
Europeans are just better drivers in general. Their narrow roads mean they're used to squeezing their cars through tight spaces and negotiating quickly when drivers come the other way. In places like America and Australia, people have no ing clue where the edges of their vehicles are, and they barely bother to make eye contact.
The other problem is that a driver's license is treated as a right, not a privilege to be earned. Europeans who can't drive adequately, don't. Contrast that to home; the amount of timid s who can't make a turn into incoming traffic is insane. |
Word. |
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| Domesticated |
So, I've been doing a bit of exploring in Berlin's abandoned buildings of late. Today we went to Teufelsberg ("Devil Hill"). At the end of WWII, the British and Americans took the rubble from an estimated 400,000 buildings, built a huge -off hill just outside the city, and put a giant spy station up there to intercept Soviet communications. It's the biggest hill in the city, and the view is great. I took about 60 photos, but only uploaded one because my photobucket keeps crashing. Enjoy it, fags.
One from google:
The square buildings below the domes have no walls and are full of awesome graffiti. You can actually still climb up into the tallest dome, which makes the most insane echoes whenever you move. The whole site has been completely trashed, but it's still really interesting. |
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| iclone |
| nice...totally missed that when i lived in berlin last summer. the city's full of fantastic graffiti. |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
Europeans are just better drivers in general. Their narrow roads mean they're used to squeezing their cars through tight spaces and negotiating quickly when drivers come the other way. In places like America and Australia, people have no ing clue where the edges of their vehicles are, and they barely bother to make eye contact.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head there. The road system works so much better out in canada too generally with management doing as good a job as possible in many places, and things like being able to turn right on a red light (except in quebec I believe) helping to keep things moving smoothly, but they definitely have issues with lane changing, tailgating and brains generally, especially truck drivers who stick in the middle lane and make visibility from people going from lane 3 to 1 (or 4 & 3 to 1) so much more difficult. My sister in law actually said that she'd be very wary of driving some of the narrower roads we have here in places where you have to be careful because only one car can pass and there are places that you pull over at to let them through etc because it's such a foreign concept to many of their wide open spaces. |
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| Vernon Wanderer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
It does now that they've built the highway. Zagreb-Split used to take like what, 4 hours? Regardless, I can do that in my sleep. You get used to large distances in Australia ;)
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45 minutes via plane, son. Using the highway it's anywhere between 3 and 4 hours, depending on how rich and illegal you are. Using the old national road, it took about 5-6 hours, but there was some epic food in many nice restaurants along the road... :tongue2 |
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| Vernon Wanderer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
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Sucks big time. |
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