Britain / England considered the 52nd fifty second state ?
No problem - what is there to wory about? :-) All you need to do is check out the time at which that bogus posting was logged, allegedly in my name....... 02:45hrs GMT (that's 03:45hrs BST clock time here in the UK.)
I have never posted on Antimoon at that hour of the night...I have to get my sleep quota in to keep my physical fitness and mental agility levels up to scratch, so the muppet who posted it was obviously in a very different time zone to that of the UK......unless of course s/he's one of those sad people who spend their nights surfing internet sites...... :-)
"Didn't Sweden drive on the left side a few decades ago? I seem to recall they they switched over some time ago with great fanfare"
Yeah, 1967. Just yesterday. How old are you, and how old is Adam? Jeez, this forum is too old for me.
I have never understood why people get "punchy" when they are drunk. I'm a happy drunk.
<<Yeah, 1967. Just yesterday. How old are you, and how old is Adam? Jeez, this forum is too old for me. >>
I'm pretty old, now. I was in college in 1967. It's amazing how fast time passes. soon, I'll have one foot in the grave.
BTW -- Hungary also changed over to right side driving in 1939, before my time. Maybe Adam remembers that far back. :)
Around here, it looks like we started driving on the right in 1804.
Isn't it strange that it took two militaristic Dictators (Napolean and Hitler) to force the nations they over-ran and conquered to switch over from left hand to right hand driving. Before these two nutjobs came along all nations in Europe kept to the left as that was in fact the most convenient way to proceed along highways (either by horse or horse and carriage) as most people were right handed and they could reach for their weapons quicker and easier when confronted by possible enemies approaching from the front and therefore on their offside.
Neither Nappy nor Hitler made it to the shores of Britain, except for the 5 years of German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940, the only British territory to be taken by the Nazis, and during these 5 years the Germans made the Channel Islanders drive on the right, but the very day after Liberation in May 1945-back to the left again and have done so ever since. As there has never been a foreign invasion of the British Isles by an enemy force, of any kind, since 1066, there has never been any attempt to switch over to right hand driving, and the chances of it ever happening are pretty much zero. Not even the EU Dictators (only joking) will ever force the Brits to change over.......this is such a complex country with enormous traffic congestion problems it would simply be one gigantic nightmare to change everything round back to front, plus the fact that driving on the right on any road seems totally illogical and just plain awkward! Keeping left is sort of....well, natural, for the reasons I gave earlier. Even our Irish mates agree on that one!
Driving on the right you can reach for your weapon with your right hand and shield yourself with your left hand. So it's better.
Damien wrote: <<EU Dictators>> That's very good.
Also, driving on the left makes it more difficult for the Irish and English to toss empty beer bottles at oncoming traffic.
I used to think that driving on the right side of the road was wrong until I went to India, where they drive on the left. If anyone has ever experienced Indian roads, then they will surely disassociate themselves with anything connected to them, even driving on the left.
Here in Japan, they also drive on the left and they assume everyone else will be polite and not mind if anyone pulls out in front of them or come flying round a blind corner on the wrong side of the road.
Anyway, imagine there's no countries (bad grammar Mr Lennon), it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die for (or mock), and no religion too.
I think William of Orange invaded the Britain and Ireland after 1066. He didn't make us drive on the right though. He was too busy making orange a dangerous colour to wear.
Even if Britain wanted to become the 52nd (?) State of the American Union I really don't think we'd fit in too well! :-) Or maybe we would??? Listen to these Americans who joined in the "Last Drinks on the Tube" Party last Saturday night before the new Mayor of London, Tory posh guy Boris Johnson, enforced a total ban on alcohol on the entire London Transportation system, including the vast tube network, from 00:01hrs 01/06/08/
This very wealthy young City Banker (City in this case being the City of London - the financial centre) advertised on Facebook his plan for a massive party on the Circle Line of the tube, and literally thousands of partying people besieged all the tube stations along the whole Cirlce Line route (it takes about an hour and a half to travel round the whole circuit from, and back to, the same station. Many stations descended into mayhem.
One American guy said they wouldn't be able to "do this sort of thing" back home in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and I love the way the American girl referred to Boris Johnson as a "wanker". :-) I never realised that Americans use that word of abuse - I always thought it was an exclusively British form of insult!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vFNNDdI036s&feature=related
The idea to have parties on the Circle Line started way back in the 1920s, and I know that recently there have been some pretty cool parties with wine, cans and nosh etc, all for the price of a train ticket for which you can go round and round and round the whole Circle Line circuit for as long as you like, so long as you took your own nosh and slosh and pooled it....fantastic way to actually meet and socialise with other people on the tube when, normally, you would not even look at them (unless they were cute) let alone give them the time of day. Admittedly, some parties recently have turned into wild drunken orgies, frightening other passengers, (but not the horses in the street) so that's where new Mayor Boris stepped in and put his foot down with a heavy hand.....
One thing's for sure....London is NEVER dull! :-)