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Thread ID: 80806	2007-07-05 19:47:00	Just Gotta Be A NZ PIx!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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566210	2007-07-06 05:15:00	omg that pic was 1 . 5meg!! thats criminal . . . Well . . . at least I didn't send it jpeg this time! I'm learning :thumbs: Tomorrow I gotta go trout fishing practice in the local mountains . . . . and breathe better air too .	SurferJoe46 (51)
566211	2007-07-06 05:18:00	Well . . . at least I didn't send it jpeg this time! I'm learning :thumbs: Tomorrow I gotta go trout fishing practice in the local mountains . . . . and breathe better air too . What size trout do you expect to catch SJ?	winmacguy (3367)
566212	2007-07-06 05:22:00	Nothing too large . . there were some 3 and 4 pounders taken last week . . . but that lake is shallow and I don't suspect the trout will be sticking around for much longer . The bass will be running good in the early am and later toward dusk . . . I might stay for a while and play with them too . Ever get bit by a largemouth on a surface popper? Kinda like a bear rips the thing down and it makes your knees very flexible . . . a good thrill to get that sortta action . Love surface plugs and poppers .	SurferJoe46 (51)
566213	2007-07-06 06:13:00	Hi Joe. The cars are all on the wrong side and the signs too...gotta be one of youse guys Looks like you're right this time but a few other places also drive on the correct side of the road.... 1. Anguilla 2. Antigua and Barbuda 3. Australia 4. Bahamas 5. Bangladesh 6. Barbados 7. Bermuda 8. Bhutan 9. Botswana 10. Brunei 11. Cayman Islands 12. Christmas Island (Australia) 13. Cook Islands 14. Cyprus 15. Dominica 16. East Timor 17. Falkland Islands 18. Fiji 19. Grenada 20. Guernsey (Channel Islands) 21. Guyana 22. Hong Kong 23. India 24. Indonesia 25. Ireland 26. Isle of Man 27. Jamaica 28. Japan 29. Jersey (Channel Islands) 30. Kenya 31. Kiribati 32. Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) 33. Lesotho 34. Macau 35. Malawi 36. Malaysia 37. Maldives 38. Malta 39. Mauritius 40. Montserrat 41. Mozambique 42. Namibia 43. Nauru 44. Nepal 45. New Zealand 46. Niue 47. Norfolk Island (Australia) 48. Pakistan 49. Papua New Guinea 50. Pitcairn Islands (Britain) 51. Saint Helena 52. Saint Kitts and Nevis 53. Saint Lucia 54. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 55. Seychelles 56. Singapore 57. Solomon Islands 58. South Africa 59. Sri Lanka 60. Suriname 61. Swaziland 62. Tanzania 63. Thailand 64. Tokelau (New Zealand) 65. Tonga 66. Trinidad and Tobago 67. Turks and Caicos Islands 68. Tuvalu 69. Uganda 70. United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) 71. Virgin Islands (British) 72. Virgin Islands (US) 73. Zambia 74. Zimbabwe	Scouse (83)
566214	2007-07-06 06:38:00	Hi Joe. The cars are all on the wrong side and the signs too...gotta be one of youse guys Looks like you're right this time but a few other places also drive on the correct side of the road.... 1. Anguilla to 74. Zimbabwe yada-yada-yada...but, according to Wikipedia: "............ About 34% of the world by population drive on the left, and 66% on the right. By roadway distances, about 28% drive on the left, and 72% on the right, even though originally most traffic drove on the left worldwide." and......... "........Approximately one quarter to one third of the world's traffic travels on the left-hand side of the road. Some claim that this practice arose from the prevalence of right-handedness, although such prevalence occurs in virtually all populations, regardless of which side of the road is used. In any case, the need to be ready for self-defence (see that! That's Brit-talk for Defense...so it's gotta be correct.....right? Your own mother-tonguers would not tell a fib! ) on rural roads inclined most horse-riders to keep to their left when encountering oncoming wayfarers, so as to be able to deploy a sword or other hand-weapon more swiftly and effectively should the need arise. Also, those on foot and in charge of horse-drawn vehicles would more usually hold the animals' heads with their right hand, and thus walk along the left hand side of the road. The first legal reference in Britain to an order for traffic to remain on the left occurred in 1756 with regard to London Bridge. The Highway Act 1773 contained a recommendation that horse traffic should remain on the left and this is enshrined in section 78 of the Highway Act 1835. The British author C. Northcote Parkinson has presented what he calls "proof" that the British way of driving (on the left side of the road) is the natural one. "It is commonly asserted that left-hand traffic is a singularly British custom, the corollary being that the rest of the world "naturally" keeps to the right when meeting. The historical record suggests otherwise. (See "Places of Interest" section below.) Prior to World War I, countries observing the left-hand rule included parts of Canada, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, parts of Austria, Sweden, Iceland, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, parts of Brazil, parts of Chile, parts of Italy, China, the Philippines, and Burma. Italy changed with unification, Austria and Czechoslovakia when Adolf Hitler annexed or occupied them, the Latin American countries by 1945, the Philippines and China in 1946 (leaving Hong Kong and Macau isolated), and Burma/Myanmar in 1970 on the advice of a soothsayer." Some Commonwealth of Nations countries and other former British colonies — notably Hong Kong — continue to drive on the left, but others, such as Canada, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and the United States switched to the other side. Apart from former British colonies, most countries' traffic now moves on the right hand side. Exceptions are Indonesia, Suriname, Japan, Thailand, Mozambique, East Timor, Macau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands." Guess that makes youse guys still a British Colony........	SurferJoe46 (51)
566215	2007-07-06 07:32:00	Well...at least I didn't send it jpeg this time! Why would you use .bmp rather than jpeg?	roddy_boy (4115)
566216	2007-07-06 16:42:00	Errr...smaller files?	SurferJoe46 (51)
566217	2007-07-06 21:13:00	jpeg is smaller, bmp is HUGE! IIRC the bliss.bmp that comes with XP is 1.6MB, and when converted to JPEG, is about 50KB.	pcuser42 (130)
566218	2007-07-07 12:39:00	Hey SurferJoe Do people in the US walk on the right as well? Say, in a stairway?	george12 (7)
566219	2007-07-07 22:30:00	Do people in the US walk on the right as well? Say, in a stairway? The Germans certainly seem to do so.... try walking on the Abel Tasman track in the summer. The oncoming bastards walk right over the top of you if you try to keep to the left.	Scouse (83)
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