OT- Product Of The YEAR! -Somebody Should Get A Nobel Prize For This-

On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:57:18 -0800, the infamous Gunner Asch scrawled the following:

The welder or the vehicle?

-- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -- Marcel Proust

Is that the one with the signs that say "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here"?

That's evil.

We used to have lots of them in NJ. There still are a few. We call them circles.

They're difficult enough, sometimes, even if the traffic stays on the right side of the road. The first time I encountered one in the UK, it felt like being in a demolition derby.

There are two of them in Bakersfield

Gunner

Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do something damned nasty to all three of them.

ah....er....hummmm! Both of course!

Though to be fair..the welder will need a cig lighter and a stereo system added.....

Gunner

Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do something damned nasty to all three of them.

First time I was in HK, jet-lagged, I looked the wrong way, stepped off the curb (spelled "kerb" there, I guess) and got knocked down by a mini-van. Fortunately, no major damage to either party. These days they have markings on the pavement that say "Look right".

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Don't forget the cup holders! ;-)

Try these links on the same ...

The Magic Roundabout

Videos

Finally, a use for those car stereo systems with the 5 farad capacitors and extra batteries in the trunk!

Wes

I was home on leave after spending a year in Japan and Okinawa, I'm minding my beeswax driving down a road when some idiot is coming my way in my lane.

Eventually the real idiot (me) got back in to my lane.

Wes

I ran into one just off an interstate in the USA. All this expense for wide roads, trees cleared away, guard rails and such to protect me from misadventure and then they put in a round about. Wtf was that engineer thinking? Didn't he get the message we are trying to make the road ways safer?

Wes

They were a good way to avoid 4-way intersections, when traffic moved at 35 mph. I spun my VW beetle on one in '69, in south Jersey, out in the Pine Barrens, where there were no lights and you couldn't see it coming. 'Damned near wound up on my back.

The last one in my area was replaced around ten years ago (intersection of US 1 and US 130). Good riddance.

Oh hell yes. Most rickytick!

Gunner

Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do something damned nasty to all three of them.

Ye Gods! What purpose does that serve? How many accidents a day do they get there? Reply using scientific notation if necessary.

A particular observation for US readers - from the perspective of British drivers, they're going the wrong way around the middle circle.

Sylvia.

There's only one way I'd even try to negotiate that monstrosity; over in rec.arts.sf.written a discussion of inertially-confined fusion swerved into hole-in-the-ground fission-bomb-powered steam-mediated power generation. One poster pshawed that and expressed a desire for an Orion-based engine. With a crankshaft. Poster then suggested imagining the truck one could power with such an engine.

Now that he's redefined the term "monster truck", I might give that a shot.

Mark L. Fergerson

You can use old CD-ROM drives, in a pinch! ;-)

Related to this IIRC in the early years of the 20th century British Columbia drove on the left, as in the UK and a few other places, but as there was no formal border patrol to stop US people driving across and continuing on the wrong side a number of accidents ensued. The gave up and swapped sides, not a big issue in the day as cars weren't that common.

Where's the other? I've only ever driven round Garces Circle.

You should try going round the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. No rules, no discipline, every man for himself, change lane at will without using mirror.