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From: Ace on 9 Mar 2010 05:18 On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:18:30 +0000, spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote: >And verily, didst Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> hastily babble thusly: >> Ships and aircraft seem to accept that port and starboard are always >> referenced in the direction of travel, so why should motor vehicles be >> any different? > >Not quite... Royal Navy pilots don't use port/starboard for their travel. >They keep those terms reserved for the aircraft carrier they might take >off from/land on. Don't think that you'll get away without a *ginge* just because your system clock is slow...
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 9 Mar 2010 06:40 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> saying something like: >>It's common for those who know no better to regard left and right sides >>of the vehicle as being from looking at it standing in front of it. They >>will not beleive otherwise. > >I've never heard of anyone genuinely doing that. I have, several times. Start up a thread on one of the car groups and you'll find out how many misguided souls there are.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 9 Mar 2010 06:42 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Ace <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> saying something like: >>It's common for those who know no better to regard left and right sides >>of the vehicle as being from looking at it standing in front of it. They >>will not beleive otherwise. > >I don't believe you. Ask people at random in the street. The clueless abound.
From: spike1 on 9 Mar 2010 07:05 And verily, didst Ace <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> hastily babble thusly: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:18:30 +0000, spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote: >>Not quite... Royal Navy pilots don't use port/starboard for their travel. >>They keep those terms reserved for the aircraft carrier they might take >>off from/land on. > > Don't think that you'll get away without a *ginge* just because your > system clock is slow... > Eh? -- | |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack| | spike1(a)freenet.co.uk |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you| | |can't move, with no hope of rescue. | | Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been | | in |good to you so far... | | Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
From: Champ on 9 Mar 2010 07:40
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:05:44 +0000, spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote: >And verily, didst Ace <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> hastily babble thusly: >> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:18:30 +0000, spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote: >>>Not quite... Royal Navy pilots don't use port/starboard for their travel. >>>They keep those terms reserved for the aircraft carrier they might take >>>off from/land on. >> >> Don't think that you'll get away without a *ginge* just because your >> system clock is slow... >Eh? You made the same point as Ace. In the thread, it looks like you made it before him (9:18 vs 9:32), but as yours didn't appear until much later, he concluded that the clock on your machine (and therefore the time on the outgoing post) is wrong. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk |