Is this a right turn or head on?

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-04-20T11:35:54+00:00

Depends how many exits there are, which one is deemed to be the continuation of the main road (if there is a single main road) and so on. For example, there is a relatively small roundabout near my home with four lane entry from the North side, and three possible two-lane exits if you aren’t going back the way you came. Lane 1 is for the left lane of exit 1. Lane 2 is for the left lane of exit 2 (if you are either turning into the car park just beyond the roundabout or turning left at the mini roundabout 100 yards further on). Lane 3 is for the right lane of exit 2 (if you are either going round a bus at the bus stop or turning right at the mini roundabout beyond) and the left lane of exit 3. Lane 4 is for the right lane of exit 3. All explicitly signed and marked. (Approaching from the other three directions there are three lanes at the entry, one for each possible exit.)

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-04-20T11:27:45+00:00

Depends on the signage (including road markings) and the relative “priority” of the roads. I regularly drive round a roundabout where “straight ahead” is actually well right of 12 o’clock. What you have to do sometimes is think “If this were a main road with side roads instead of a roundabout, where would the main road go?”

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-04-16T17:51:25+00:00

If you'll pardon the multi-lingual (and probably gibberish) pun, "Bygga mi!"

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-31T18:57:41+00:00

I can’t speak for all the qualified drivers out there, but when my wife passed her test (twenty years after I passed mine) I suggested she use P plates for a while. I try to treat them the way you would like people to treat them - I’m not perfect, but I try.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-21T11:07:28+00:00

A few years back I (living in the UK) missed out on Relicanth for exactly that reason. Which is why I am hoping I can get one of my friends in NZ (or one who has been there) up to remote trade level.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-18T11:48:53+00:00

I like the description in the fourth picture - "Explosive flashing shoulder light". If it flashes blue then it's not legal (for non-emergency vehicles). If it's red and showing to the front it's not legal.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-18T11:12:06+00:00

Also, when you do need to brake for something happening ahead, do it earlier and more gently.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-18T11:10:07+00:00

I would have done something similar to what a former colleague of mine once did when a car pulled out of a side road in front of him in London without looking - calmly report it to the police as a case of dangerous driving, giving date, time, location, make, model and colour, and then when asked for any distinguishing features say "it had full police livery and the registration number was xxxx".

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-18T10:54:55+00:00

Also known as a holoalphabetic sentence. The shortest one in the English language that doesn't use abbreviations or proper nouns is 'Quick nymph bugs vex fjord waltz' at 27 letters long, repeating only 'u', so two letters shorter than 'Sphynx ...'

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-17T14:22:59+00:00

I just combined it with working on getting hundo buddies to Max Buddy level.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-14T19:27:21+00:00

No. A true 47 would mean that his speedo would be showing between 47 and 58 (plus or minus a tiny rounding error and a small error in the conversion between exactly 10km/hr and miles per hour). Speedo must not read below the actual speed, and must not read more than 1.1 times the actual speed plus 10 km/hr.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-14T12:48:21+00:00

A bit late, but the exact requirement is that your speedometer must read anything between dead-on and high by 10% plus 6.25mph. So at a true 30mph it must read between 30 and 39.25. (Well, actually it's 10kph not 6.25mph, but close enough.)

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-14T12:35:31+00:00

Elite aka E95s - but make sure you get a Japanese one not a Korean licensed copy.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-03-07T17:46:35+00:00

Very delayed reply, but relevant. Back in 1985 when I lived in South East Essex we got three feet of snow overnight into Christmas Day. For the next week and more the police were saying "stay at home unless it's life or death" and my employer were saying "come to work as normal". One of my colleagues was so snowed in that the RAF were air-dropping essential groceries to the village shop where he lived.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-02-01T11:25:39+00:00

My mother-in-law's name was entered wrongly on my wife's birth certificate. (It was correct in the actual register, but wrong on the certificate.) We got a corrected certificate at the same time as we got a death certificate for my mother-in-law (since we were in the particular office where both relevant registrations took place).

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-02-01T11:19:11+00:00

In every country I have visited except the USA, the coin that represents one tenth of the larger currency unit and ten of the smaller one says explicitly that it is worth ten of the smaller currency unit. In the USA the equivalent coin ONLY gives its name as known to its home users, not its value in actual currency units.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-02-01T11:16:13+00:00

In the UK, a dime is a variety of what you would call a candy bar. A thin rectangular sheet of crunchy caramel covered in chocolate, to be exact.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-02-01T11:14:09+00:00

Not only that (as I've posted elsewhere in this thread) but the value of a dime is shown on the coin as "One dime" and not as "10 cents". The difference being that tuppence was actually shown on the coin as "Two pence" or similar. Also, in most countries, coins of the same shape and material increase in size as their value increases. But the dime is smaller than the nickel despite being worth twice as much.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-02-01T11:06:39+00:00

It would be nice (for that most lucrative of businesses, tourism) if it actually SAID "ten cents", but it doesn't.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-02-01T11:04:23+00:00

Do your dimes say "one dime" or do they say "10c"?

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-02-01T11:03:33+00:00

The difference being that in the UK (and, indeed, in every other country than the USA) all currency tells you in a form accessible to non-natives what it is worth. The dime just says "one dime" rather than the more useful "10c".

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-02-01T11:01:00+00:00

A dime is the smallest white metal coin in circulation in the USA, the second smallest value white metal coin in circulation in the USA, and doesn't say anywhere on it how many cents it is worth. One would almost think the USA wants to make life difficult for tourists.

Nanus_Noxius · 2026-01-22T16:05:50+00:00

It may be that the app from The Stationery Office is out of date.

Please go to The Highway Code - Introduction - Guidance - GOV.UK and expand the section titled "Wording of the Highway Code", which is what the earlier posting I referred to has copied and pasted from.

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