Wither Natami?

[bloodline]

pixie wrote:
@bloodline:

Well at least the British, and Australians drive on the correct side of the road... How you lot all managed to get it wrong, I'll never know!!!

Sheer luck, I guess... :roll:


:-D

:lol:

But seriously... Driving on the left is safer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_on_the_left_or_right#Myths_and_miscellaneous_facts

[uncharted]

When I lived in Kent, it always used to amuse me just how far in-land some of the "Drive on the left" (in English, French and German) signs were placed.

Seriously, if you hadn't sussed it 20+ miles along the M20, you probably shouldn't be driving a car :-)

[Flashlab]

@bloodline

Interesting article. Also this quote from it:

Today, just four European countries still drive on the left: Cyprus, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom.

Maybe you should edit the article to make it more "true"?  ;-)

[ZeBeeDee]

It's so refreshing to see that the level of debate in this thread has dropped so dramatically over the past few posts as per usual  :-)  

Flashlab wrote:
Today, just four European countries still drive on the left: Cyprus, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom.

Ahhhh there are still some normal people left in the world then  :-)

/me exits to the tune of Rule Britannia and the stirring sounds of a 21 gun salute in the distance

[Flashlab]

Hehe, just heating up the fire a little to see the stiff upper lips get their knickers in a twist.

No harm intended. ;-)

[bloodline]

Flashlab wrote:
@bloodline

Interesting article. Also this quote from it:

Today, just four European countries still drive on the left: Cyprus, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom.

Maybe you should edit the article to make it more "true"?  ;-)

Bah! It should read thus:

Today, just three European countries follow the British and drive correctly: Cyprus, Ireland, Malta.

[ZeBeeDee]

Flashlab wrote:
No harm intended. ;-)

It's nothing more then mere fun and games on the playground of life  :-)

[ZeBeeDee]

@ bloodline


Forget 'Ripping Yarns' ... Can't beat a good ol dose of The League Of Gentleman  :-D

Youtube linky

[kolla]

the_leander wrote:
We have such a strong sense of independance because scumbags from all over Europe have, time and again tried to take that away from us. The reason we, for the most part do not like being refered to as "Europeans", is because we have faught so bitterly hard to stop Europe from dominating us.

Those who have tried to take away your independance have mostly succeeded (romans, vikings, anglians, saxons, normans). Your royal house is very much a European royal house, with close family ties to the continent. Your language is mostly nethergerman/norse mix, spiced up with french - the english _love_ french and consider it far more sophisticated (Hyacinth Bucket), yet they hate the french.

My favourite english word is (ironically) "island", which is "frenchification" of old norse eyland (iland, or ayland, considering how most isles of Shetland are named). It wasnt classy enough with the old eyland, so they mixed it with the french isle and created island - with a silent s - how clever!

And yet, interestingly, many large trading blocks, such as the US for the most part still go on about "Britain and Europe". Part of Europe, but not Europe.

Really, I never noticed. Clearly they should say "Britain, Iceland, Malta, Cyprus and Europe", maybe also toss in Ireland as well, in case some Irish are listening.

Hey, just because you folk decided to follow the road laws set down by a Portuguese dwarf is not our problem   :lol:

A Portuguese dwarf that happened to be beaten by the British, btw  :-D

Yes, beating up a dwarf sounds like something a gang of british soldiers might find entertaining, after that they get naked and pee on each other in good tradition.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979990/posts

(Notice the last sentance.)

[ZeBeeDee]

kolla wrote:
Yes, beating up a dwarf sounds like something a gang of British* soldiers might find entertaining, after that they get naked and pee on each other in good tradition.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979990/posts

(Notice the last sentence*.)

Ahhhhhh what a night that was  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:


* corrections due to the 'European' way of teaching I guess lol

[bloodline]

@kolla

Don't you mean European soldiers?

[tonyyeb]

This thread has gone wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy off track!

[ZeBeeDee]

tonyyeb wrote:
This thread has gone wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy off track!

So far off track I think it's somewhere near Malta at the minute ... I think it's trying to get to the Beijing Olympics for the closing ceremonies :lol:

[tonyyeb]

ZeBeeDee wrote:
This thread has gone wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy off track!

So far off track I think it's somewhere near Malta at the minute ... I think it's trying to get to the Beijing Olympics for the closing ceremonies :lol: [/quote]

At least it will be driving on the left  :-P   :lol:

[ZeBeeDee]

tonyyeb wrote:
At least it will be driving on the left  :-P   :lol:

Too right!  :lol:

The picture says it all really lol

[kolla]

bloodline wrote:
@kolla

Don't you mean European soldiers?

Yes, they were european soldiers, but all of them were british, hence it makes sense to point out that they were british soldiers - not german, not french, but british soldiers. I know this concept is very hard for you to grasp.