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| Thread ID: 77736 | 2007-03-20 12:08:00 | Auckland Driver's Handbook | motorbyclist (188) | PC World Chat |
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| 534587 | 2007-03-21 00:24:00 | . . . Otara or Manukau plates. Quick change plates? They never have rusty mounting screws, in fact I saw a car with both plates held on by "twisties" last week. As I understand it this is a generic term for any plates that are mysteriously irreconcilable with their paperwork. Frequently show a different number front and rear, and liable to change suddenly, especially after a hurried refueling stop. Somebody may care to explain why these locales are used in this term, the condition is seen all over the place, they could possibly have been called "Young punk with beanie/hoodie plates". |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 534588 | 2007-03-21 07:42:00 | ok i didn't write it, i just got it via email, as i said. actually avoid any poorer looking cars from west auckland too, they're just as bad for insurance and attitude. as for the plates, somebody probably just adopted it for NZ after receiving it from another country still worth a laugh IMHO, who really cares for the specifics? |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 534589 | 2007-03-21 08:10:00 | Italian drivers go one better - a red light (traffic) is a "suggestion" Misty :eek: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 534590 | 2007-03-21 12:07:00 | Italian drivers go one better - a red light (traffic) is a "suggestion" Misty :eek: Using the pedestrian crossing in a small Italian square on my first day in Italy, I suddenly realised Dunedin drivers weren't the worst in the world - as North Islanders had been telling me. It wasn't simply that the oncoming car didn't slow down. Or that it was coming at me like a bat out of hell. It was the fact that it was approaching from the front. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 534591 | 2007-03-22 00:21:00 | What country were you in when the eyebrows came back down? | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 534592 | 2007-03-22 00:36:00 | Italian drivers go one better - a red light (traffic) is a "suggestion" Misty :eek: I have driven in Holland, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy on business during the 1970s. No problems in Holland, Germany, or Switzerland. The French and Belgians are just lunatics, they drive out at you from side roads, and then put their fingers up to their foreheads when you dont stop for them, just as though it is you that is a lunatic, not them. The Italians are all expert rally/racing drivers, and like to demonstrate their skills with flare, drift, and wheel spin up narrow mountain roads. I never did find out the rules at traffic lights. Particularly nasty are those huge junctions, about 500 metres in diameter, with about 6 roads converging, and traffic lights way up overhead, and no one, just no one appears to see the red light. Edit: I should have said Italians in northern Italy, no experience of their southern cousins who seem to be rather looked down upon. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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