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Today I have been mostly driving to Sheffield to collect a poorly trike for Dr Rob to fix.

Could have done without the roadworks on the A61, but the real problem is that British drivers are crap at merging - if they'd done a proper zipper merge like they do on the Continong, it would have been much easier.

Anyway, poorly trike is now all mended, so tomorrow I'm taking her back to her owner.

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merge? But that means some bastard might get ahead of me and don't you know it is a race, and it is an utter insult to have someone come in in front as it negatively affects my own social status... Anyway I'm far too important to let someone go ahead of me, those three-quarters of a second it costs me is vital to whatever the hell it is I do.
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You've been using that mindreading machine again, haven't you? Although how you found enough mind to read on some of these specimens is a mystery to me...

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Well I tried to use it on one, just got a 404 "braincell not found" message though.

FWIW I agree totally, the UK driving public should learn to merge!

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FWIW I agree totally, the UK driving public should learn to merge!

In some cases, with carnivorous plants, for preference...

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oooh nasty, what did those plants ever do to you?

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Amen, sistah! A great percentage of Germans must freeze in winter because they clearly believe you close a zipper by trying to squeeze ten or twenty teeth into the other side at any given time.

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You surprise me - in my, admittedly brief, experience of driving on the Autobahns, I was impressed by how much better the German drivers were than the ones I'm used to...

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I think it's a kind of evolution. Autobahnen are so much faster than most countries I know, so only the fittest survive. In general I'm not complaining. You get the occasional idiot who thinks he's more important than anyone around him, but most people take those into account. Those who don't crash one day and are eliminated from the pool (or learn, even).

Zippers is a completely different matter though. In Germany it seems, everyone on the merging side is afraid they "won't get a place in the new order" and try to squeeze in five or ten cars before the actual end, which causes the other line to go slower and sloeer because more and more cars get in before the fifth and tenth car.
On the other hand we then have the honorary policeman (there is one with a picket helmet in nearly every German driver) who will block the others from doing the right thing and drive to the very end of their lane, then zipper in. To be "in the right" in very important in Germany. And to be "in the right" is much more important than to do the right thing or be smart about it. It's... a German thing I think ;-)

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And to be "in the right" is much more important than to do the right thing or be smart about it. It's... a German thing I think ;-)
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My dad used to say that it's not much good being in the right if you're dead...He was talking about things like having right of way, but I daresay the same thing applies. And he was a ambulance driver, so I imagine he knew what he was talking about...

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There's a road in Pontypridd with a sign that says, "Merge In Turn". And they do. And it works. Honestly it does, really truly!

Though I do agree that most other places they don't, and it doesn't.

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There's a road in Pontypridd with a sign that says, "Merge In Turn". And they do

Does it say it in Welshish? Praps the non-Welshish think it means "beware of the Dragon" and apply caution :-)

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Frayed knot. It says it in English to confuse the natives. Unfortunately for those who set out to confuse, most people in Pontypridd speak some form of English, so the attempts to confuse haven't worked.

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