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oh yeah, ireland / uk, like australia, drive on the left. americans / Leafistanians often get hit by cars crossing the road cause they look the wrong way before they cross. I think it's like 100 a year end up in hospital due to this, so be extra careful crossing the road there, they all drive like Senna without the skill.
 
One of my sisters has been in Toronto for several weeks looking after her baby grandson. She reports back on how expensive things are in Canada. While pints and cocktails may not be her thing, a glass of wine of an evening more likely, she finds it generally much more expensive than at home.

Diesel/petrol hover around 1.70 mark per litre. A litre is significantly less than a gallon. Back in the 90's my wife and I decided to fill my brother's car in St Louis as gratitude for letting us use it. It came to 8 dollars. We bought him a little gift instead.

North America and much of the world drives on the right side of the road. We drive on the correct side.

Things are more expensive here than they were before the world decided to try batshit crazy as the default. Overall, depending on your purchases, and hawkers to tourists will find you, we may be less expensive than Canada.

Having said all that, just one of party girl Louanne's famous all-nighters would probably bankrupt a village.
 
Rigor Mortis said:
Things are more expensive here than they were before the world decided to try batshit crazy as the default.
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"Batshit crazy" might simply be the world's reaction to decades of our ruling classes' refusal to stand for anything and a tolerance for everything (even foreign diplomats who live in your country who claiming that it's country is utter ****).

Decades of our ruling classes doing nothing while expressing contempt for their own citizens have made said citizens restless and disillusioned. Hence the appeal of populists, as well as the reason they're so dangerous. (And that's all I'll say about that).
 
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Yeah, lots of things are way more expensive in Toronto than here in Niagara. My sister lives in Toronto, and some recent mentions - getting her hair done costs twice as much, and buying a birthday cake costs twice as much. And gas/petrol is only about $1.20/litre here

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Having said all that, just one of party girl Louanne's famous all-nighters would probably bankrupt a village.
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🤣

That's just a sweet memory, now
 
If you remember the sixties, you weren't really there.

I remember the sixties, but I was only 14 in 1969, so my memory was unimpared by chemical experimentation. I even remember the seventies and eighties, but by the time the nineties came along, time had sped up considerably and I couldn't store information in my aging braincells fast enough to remember anything. Ergo... where did I put my keys last night?
 
Rigor Mortis said:
North America and much of the world drives on the right side of the road. We drive on the correct side.
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The best dissertation I've run across on this subject was written by columnist Cecil Adams back in 1988:

www.straightdope.com

Why do the British drive on the left?

www.straightdope.com www.straightdope.com

In other news, I read today that the US has minted its last penny. While the current stock continues to be used, I foresee a time when prices that were $9.99 will be rounded down to $9.95 rather than rounded up to $10.00. Does this mean that a bag of potato chips (or crisps, in your country) will be a better deal? No, because there will be fewer chips in the bag.
 
JLT said:
The best dissertation I've run across on this subject was written by columnist Cecil Adams back in 1988:
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It was in my head that it was something to do with sword usage. I may even have read it around these parts over the last little while. If not, somewhere else, years ago. Thing is, that didn't pay much regard for the swordly usage of a ciotóg like me.
 
duh it's better to use your dominant hand to steer and the other (left) to change gears. That's why Americans think being able to 'drive stick' is a virtue on par with the ability to walk a tightrope or tame lions.
 
DLC said:
duh it's better to use your dominant hand to steer and the other (left) to change gears. That's why Americans think being able to 'drive stick' is a virtue on par with the ability to walk a tightrope or tame lions.
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I never thought of it that way, but since I'm left-handed, the "American system" seems to be in my favor. I first learned to drive stick-shift and it's second nature to me now.

But I doubt if that really matters anymore. Most American cars now come with automatic transmissions as standard equipment, so the driving mode is usually selected when you start the car and never changes until you get to where you're going. Maybe that's why manual transmissions gave way to automatic ones faster in the US than elsewhere.

I don't think driving "stick-shift" is on a par with walking a tightrope. It's just that to most Americans, it's as obsolete as starting a car with a crank or fiddling with the choke setting. And for stop-and-go traffic, which plagues most people living in or near cities, automatic is the way to go.
 
I've mentioned this before, but I've driven in Scotland on the left-hand side of the road, and it was easy-peasy. Remember, the steering wheel is also on the opposite side of the car. The only thing you have to remember is that you as the driver should be in the middle of the road, and not hugging the curb. Then it all falls into place.

The four of us going to Ireland - my one brother and his wife said, "No way! We're not driving!" but my other brother and me just shrugged. "Okay, no problem."
 
I've only ever driven on the left-hand side of the road. *shrug* I can't imagine it any other way.

Speaking of driving, I read that despite the high number of shootings in the US, the world capital of murder, assault, rape and carjacking is Johannesburg. So many carjackings and murders were happening there that someone created a device to protect cars with flamethrowers. :eek: But its high price range limited its sales, and it was taken off the market and replaced with a pocket-sized "personal flamethrower".

I wonder if South Africa became any safer after that.
 
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