Spots on the Internet (2023)
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I assume you mean a gamer? - If so, no, never played a video game since space invaders!
Dave
Is it just me, or do they look a little creepy when shown all together? Not sure I’d want to frequent a restaurant that had waiters looking like that myself…..
Dave, I think I was a little cryptic or using out of fashion words: nighthawks are (or were) supposed to be those persons hanging about bars till late night (in the pic a famous painting by Hopper named "Nighthawks).
Space invaders: I hated the soundtrack of that video game :dizzy:
I recall those days when 'going out for breakfast' after a long night of partying was a common occurrence in my youth back in Buffalo, NY when Phillie cigars were a nickle.
The CH-54 was used in the beginning but proved to costly and to slow and due to it low range inefficient. The task was given to C-130 .
The blast from this 4500kg bomb could clear an area 60m which was not really that large an area taking the size of the bomb.
It's more an American turn of phrase. In England they call a spade a spade.
'Nighthawks' is also a term in the UK for illegal metal detectorists, who dig things up without the landowners permission & sell them. - I always wonder where all those Roman Coins on Ebay came from ( to be fair quite a lot are PAS registered )
Dave
Dave
I always thought that had been made up for the detectorists TV show
As an MK resident I take exception to that scurrilous allegation......oh wait.... It's true...DAMN. :smiling2:
Apparently over 500 excluding painted mini roundabouts.
In all seriousness though, the roundabouts were only ever meant to be temporary.
The idea was that there would be traffic lights at each junction but they ran out of money for all the work that would require. So, as roundabouts don't cost a lot and they had the land and a lot of it, they did that instead.
Also 1/3 of MK is designated parkland
Again....I can only defend my adopted home town..... They're not just far from me actually!!
…..and made from concrete……
Will work in the Sydney suburbs...lots of roundabouts there. There's even a set of rules to negotiate these roundabouts.:smiling6:
Cheers,
Wabble
Cheers,
Wabble
A shovel and a spade are two completely different tools. lolOver here Ian, we call it an efffffing shovel!
In England I guess the best word for a nighthawk would be a P**shead lol
G
But those from MK are easily spotted as the left side tyres are more worn out than the right. And it took me 4 years before I managed to get a street map!!!:tears-of-joy:
He may have moved to Weymouth. We used to have a working road system prior to 2012, (Olympics). Then some planner came in changed everything for the 'better' and traffic hasn't moved since!!!!
Did he cut his teeth on this one……first used in 1972…..
It’s worse than you think…….you don’t just go around the outside, you can drive through the middle….years ago I was on a road trip with some mates. The guy that was navigating just looked at me when we came up to this and said (in his best Blazing saddles impersonation) Son, yer on yer own….
It’s worse than you think…….you don’t just go around the outside, you can drive through the middle….years ago I was on a road trip with some mates. The guy that was navigating just looked at me when we came up to this and said (in his best Blazing saddles impersonation) Son, yer on yer own….
I used to work for an American company in Swindon, and I sued to enjoy taking American visitors through the magic roundabout. They were already on what to them was the wrong side of the road.
It's not difficult to negotiate, once you realise that you just have to treat each mini-roundabout according to the normal rules for roundabouts. So, for example, if you're coming from the town centre and want to go to Oxford, you can go left at the first one, right at the next two, then left to get on the A4132, or if you prefer you can go right at the first one, left at the second, then right. At one time there was another mini-roundabout in the centre so there were 3 possible exits from each of the 'perimeter' roundabouts, but that's been removed now.
There's a larger Magic Roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, but that doesn't seem to cause so much confusion as the Swindon one, perhaps because the larger size, particularly the centre island, makes it more obvious that it's just a collection of discrete roundabouts.
At one time - not sure if it's still true - Swindon had more roundabouts than MK!
Pete
It's not difficult to negotiate, once you realise that you just have to treat each mini-roundabout according to the normal rules for roundabouts. So, for example, if you're coming from the town centre and want to go to Oxford, you can go left at the first one, right at the next two, then left to get on the A4132, or if you prefer you can go right at the first one, left at the second, then right. At one time there was another mini-roundabout in the centre so there were 3 possible exits from each of the 'perimeter' roundabouts, but that's been removed now.
There's a larger Magic Roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, but that doesn't seem to cause so much confusion as the Swindon one, perhaps because the larger size, particularly the centre island, makes it more obvious that it's just a collection of discrete roundabouts.
At one time - not sure if it's still true - Swindon had more roundabouts than MK!
Pete
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