Brian please explain!!! I'm not very good with motoring terms and this was not a slip, just the best way I could think to describe the road I was on! As in not a duel carriageway but a road with 2 lanes in each direction.
Glad if I've given you a laugh though ;)
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The term for a road with a central island is "DUAL carriageway".
The way you spelt it, "DUEL" is the term for a fight between two people.
Freud was a psychiatrist who, IIRC, had a theory that "unintentional" mistakes had a subconcious cause.
HTH
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Brian,
OMG so embarrassed now, and I'm usually a good speller!!!
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Oh dear HF - you are losing the plot now aren't you ? ;-)
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HF.........try dual.
You need two people with spikey things or loud, bangy things for duels............
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Stop pushing in, BrianW, there's a queue you know!
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Paul have you got a shovel I can borrow so I can gradually dig my way out of the hole in the ground that I just asked to swallow me?
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If there's one plus point of the very dark nights, and it's that I see less of my number one enemy, people who drive on their sidelights. They tend to do this more in the summer "because it isn't dark enough for proper headlights". Oh, and of course they do it in fog as well, not realising that you can't see their sidelights until they're close enough for you to see the car anyway!
Rant over! :)
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"If there's one plus point of the very dark nights, and it's that I see less of my number one enemy"
There's one MINUS point of very dark nights, and it's that I see less of my number one enemy, and that's people who drive round rural roads with only one headlight.
I'd like to see more of them, i.e. TWO headlights!
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Yeah, that would also be nice. Although to be honest, I see a lot more ghost drivers with their sidelights than I do one eyed drivers who seem to think they're riding a motorbike! :) At least the MOT *should* force them to fix the car, no one makes people improve their standard of driving, ever.
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Actually, Blue, you remind me here of something I meant to say in my earlier post. For reasons unknown, the past week the number of cars I have driven past with their full beam on has been incredible, many in full traffic, and the ones on country-ish lanes, where we might need a full beam, don't even have the courtesy to dip them anymore. Have been blinded by these so many times the last few days. It's hard enough to drive in driving rain, roads covered with slippery leaves and the remains of the trees from last sunday, in premature dark, without having the advantage of vision taken from you by those that have no consideration except that for themselves.
(or did I just forget to put my lights on and they were ALL flashing me?)
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If you think that's bad, try it on a motorbike.
No windscreen wipers, visor covered in raindrops, car coming the other way, zero vision!
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Methinks you forgot to put your lights on... thats if ur anything like my mother who never services any car ever, and has had 6 points in 4 months, one set for a red light, and then shouts at me about my speeding.
ANYWAY.. I think driving with full beam when there is oncoming traffic on country roads is one of the most stupid and selfish and pathetically ignorant things to do. Should carry 6 points but I doubt many ignorant hitlers, sorry traffic police, would bother.
Last night I was in a taxi; the driver was doing 50 in a 40 on an (unusually) traffic free stretch of straight road. Did they stop her? No. They followed at about 1.7cm from her car until she slowed down.
Point is, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that crap drivers who have their main beam on, squeeze in at the end of filter lanes (whatever u call 'em,) tailgate (hate that) etc... are just going to get away with it.
Promise I'll stop ranting now before Im banned.
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"Paul have you got a shovel"
Nah, worry not, we've all been there..........
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Nah, worry not, we've all been there..........
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Well that's reassuring - however I believe on that note I should retire to my bedchamber and rejuvenate my dignity for another day.
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