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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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566220	2007-07-08 02:20:00	Hey SurferJoe Do people in the US walk on the right as well? Say, in a stairway? I wasn't too sure of the correct answer here, so I went out and walked through the Hemet Mall for a nonce . Yup! They seem to adhere to the right side like drivers do . . but that may be from the fact that everybody here in Hemet has a license . . even the crochitty old blind, deaf, mental retards with Alzheimer's disease and are crippled in both legs on a cell phone . You can see them driving with the driver's window open and a white-tipped can out the car trying to feel the lines on the road . Yup . . . the only difference is that pedestrians don't walk with their left turn signals blinking ad infinitum! BTW: "crochitty " won't run in my US Spell-Checker . . how's it work in Brit-Speak? NZ-Speak? Aus-Speak?	SurferJoe46 (51)
566221	2007-07-08 04:33:00	crotch·et·y /ˈkrɒtʃɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kroch-i-tee] –adjective 1. given to odd notions, whims, grouchiness, etc. 2. of the nature of a crotchet. NZ-speak :rolleyes: :) Old b.st.rd wearing a hat (in the car).	feersumendjinn (64)
566222	2007-07-08 05:20:00	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........ And some people here in NZ insist on crossing the centre line. This, sometimes, makes them DEAD. Sadly they may take others with them. The right side of the road to me means the left side or correct side!	Sweep (90)
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