Re: The all-new all things driving thread

[Nightjar]

Typical Italian.

[cosmictanya]

An Italian wouldn’t wear those disgraceful platforms unless she was touting for business on the kerbside at the time, and if she was, the dress would be shorter and tighter. Therefore, not a typical Italian.

[Nightjar]

You have singularly and tragically misunderstood the joke.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1689690285440389120

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Does anyone know where that is?

According to the comments on Twitter, it's definitely in China, Spain and Japan.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I note that they seem to be driving on the left, which would lend credence to the Japan claim.

[Nightjar]

You have singularly and tragically misunderstood the joke.

I'm still waiting for an acknowledgment regarding this 'epic fail'.

[SiberianPrincess’sMidriff]

[The Call of the Wendigo]

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1689690285440389120

It looks like it might have been in Wenling, Zhejiang Province and was demolished in 2012.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Hold on. Looking at it, the one in Wenling doesn't look anything like the one in the video above.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

It's clearly a totally different house on a totally different road and possibly in a totally different country.

[Fangirl Three]

Also they drive on the right in China.

The only Asian left-handers are Thailand, Japan and Indonesia. My money's on Thailand or Indonesia for this location.

Btw, while reading Wikipaedia about researching this subject, I discovered that the ancient Romans drove on the right. Or at least they did in Pompeii.

[cosmictanya]

While looking, I found out that China had a 12 day traffic jam in 2010.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-longest-traffic-jam-in-history-12-days-62-mile-long-47237.html#:~:text=Back%20in%20August%202010%2C%20China,and%20lasted%20for%2012%20days.

I can only imagine it was made monumentally worse by the numbers of people who fell asleep at the wheel/run out of petrol/died of natural causes.

[Fangirl Three]

It looks from Fixmystreet like the traffic lights at the Penrith roundabout on the A66 (apparently known as the Kemplay Bank roundabout) are on the blink again.

I can't decide whether to sneak round via Culgaith and Lazonby or just take the A69 instead.

[Fangirl Three]

Yes, although the Lazonby route is 9 miles shorter than the A69 one, it includes at least 10 miles of B roads, which will mean the journey takes 10 minutes longer.

So I can choose whichever one I please at no extra time cost.

[Fangirl Three]

I went the A69 route. One advantage it has over the A66 is that, while there's less dual carriageway, all the villages are bypassed, and the speed limit is 60 all the way.* Yesterday morning I only had to slow down for the roundabouts (4 count, if I recall).

On recent journeys I've had the phone in the car so as to spot upcoming traffic problems on Google Maps. But this time I used the phone as a hotspot for my mini tablet, which has a bigger screen and doesn't keep tipping over when I turn corners. Also I can listen to podcasts on it while I'm driving.

*apart from the end bits at Newcastle and Carlisle

[Butterfield]

I think I've only ever once been on the A69 between Carlisle and Newcastle. It was circa 2002 when staying in the Lake District and me and my brother went to see Hadrian's Wall, somewhere near Haltwhistle, or Hexham or somewhere.



Housesteads Roman Fort.

[Fangirl Three]

We went there too, in 1986 when we were staying near Alnwick. The only other visitors there were Italian tourists, which I thought was appropriate.

[Fangirl Three]

You and I were crossing paths before I'd even heard of the HOTW!

[cosmictanya]

I’ve never turned off the motorway before the junction that applies. That way lies pitchforks and wicker men, wielded and built by the twelve fingered whose parents are also their second cousins. I wouldn’t feel safe.

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