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Old 08-07-2006, 01:23 PM   #61
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Yes indeed...there's all kinds of things you can do including paths and tours; I've only scratched the surface.
I need to learn how to do paths. I find paths much more interesting than placemarks.
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Old 08-07-2006, 02:36 PM   #62
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I need to learn how to do paths. I find paths much more interesting than placemarks.
Yeah, me too. I want to do the GFW HST rides out and back, my wanderings in London, and the famous Mumbles Pub Crawl.
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Old 08-10-2006, 11:55 AM   #63
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....where a scrap metal dealer is currently up on charges of bludgeoning to death three generations of a family......With a bar of scrap metal, naturally... :-)
You know I have to ask.

Have they outlawed scrap metal yet?
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Old 09-07-2006, 04:16 PM   #64
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I can't beleive I was in Wales and missed this...


See also: http://www.creativepaperwales.co.uk/
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Old 09-07-2006, 08:09 PM   #65
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I can't beleive I was in Wales and missed this...


See also: http://www.creativepaperwales.co.uk/

eww..or was that ewe.
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Old 09-08-2006, 05:34 AM   #66
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It makes sense really - when it comes down to it it's only grass after all. Very interesting though, might see if I can get hold of some.
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Old 09-08-2006, 01:19 PM   #67
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I can't beleive I was in Wales and missed this...

well, yesterday I was going to say. I can't believe I missed YOU when you were in Wales but I didn't want to appear to be kissing your ass.


I hate ass kissers so take if for what it's worth. :p since my attempt at humor failed.
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Old 09-08-2006, 01:28 PM   #68
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Sorry, just went over my head!
Sure other people got it
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Old 09-08-2006, 01:55 PM   #69
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an ewe is a sheep ? get it eww...or ewe??
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Old 09-08-2006, 02:28 PM   #70
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I can't believe I missed YOU when you were in Wales
I didn't know you were in Wales. Althoough I certainly didn't get around much; I was hazardous enough on foot. I didn't want to subject UK drivers to my wrong-handedness behind the wheel; I wasn't there long enough to properly adjust.

Or did you mean missed me posting here? T'was only a few days...and I'd expected to have Internet access in Mumbles. But it turned out that "wideband internet available" meant "the desk clerk has a cable modem". I had wireless in my room in London though.
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Old 09-11-2006, 09:20 AM   #71
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I was hazardous enough on foot. I didn't want to subject UK drivers to my wrong-handedness behind the wheel; I wasn't there long enough to properly adjust.
I visited Edinburgh once on business and they stuck me with a stick shift. I can drive stick, but shifting with the left hand, in addition to the mirror image thing, was a challenge. Luckily, the gas, brake, and clutch were in the usual positions or I'd be dead now.
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Old 09-11-2006, 09:54 AM   #72
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I visited Edinburgh once on business and they stuck me with a stick shift. I can drive stick, but shifting with the left hand, in addition to the mirror image thing, was a challenge. Luckily, the gas, brake, and clutch were in the usual positions or I'd be dead now.
I worry about sometime being in the right-hand seat of an aircraft where the pilot in command (who traditionally sits in the left-hand seat in airplanes) becomes incapacitated. I'm used to having the throttle in my right hand during approach.

If you think mixing up clutch and accelerator is bad, think about an airplane on approach...pushing with the throttle hand adds power, pushing with the stick/yoke hand puts the nose down.
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Old 09-18-2006, 12:10 PM   #73
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My biggest difficulty was as a pedestrian. I had been warned that the road belongs to the cars, and that the only safe place to cross would be at a "zebra crossing". Fair enough, but you still have to look before you cross the street, right? Well all my insticts were sdrawkcab-ssa and I *always* started by looking to my left as I started into the street. It's a doggone miracle I wasn't found dead in the crosswalk with tire tracks running up the back of my American head.
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Old 09-18-2006, 01:39 PM   #74
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Well all my insticts were sdrawkcab-ssa and I *always* started by looking to my left as I started into the street.
Most of the zebras in London have been thoughtfully painted "LOOK LEFT" or "LOOK RIGHT" as appropriate right on the edge of the street pavement.

I guess they got tired of hosing all the Yanks who looked the wrong way off the street. :-)

Actually, I must say London drivers are extremely courteous to pedestrians. Which is a good thing, because the congenstion charges have reduced the traffic to levels at which some insanely high speeds are possible on very metropolitan streets. I was amazed at how quickly London traffic moves...
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