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The St. Mary's Stadium Challenge

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  1. - Doing The Lambert Walk

    - Doing The Lambert Walk Well-Known Member

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    Round one... recognise that presenter? :)


     
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  2. Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc)

    Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc) Well-Known Member

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    This thread should be renamed: "Saints players perform simple tasks whilst pretending to use Garmin products"
     
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  3. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Wonder if Gabbi has got used to right-hand drive yet.?

    Sorry, I'm a nerd at heart. I think of these things. :)
     
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  4. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    So Italians drive fast but are dangerous....stop the presses. :)
     
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  5. San Tejón

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    Having just arrived back from Spain, just over 2 hours ago, I thought exactly the same.
    Many times, after a long spell over here, I find myself climbing into the wrong seat, in Spain, then wonder where the steering wheel has gone.
    Didn't happen this time, but remembering to leave extra space on your right, owing to there being more car that side, when passing parked cars needed a bit of thought.
     
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  6. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Yes, and potentially bloody expensive if you forget. ;)
     
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    I drive a lot abroad and always get asked this by friends and work colleagues. It never causes me a second thought. Lots of other people do as you mentioned though but I've not experienced that. Odd.
     
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  8. San Tejón

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    I lived in Spain for several years, so driving "on the wrong side" became second nature.
    My mental aberration would then happen in the UK, as in going to the passenger side before remembering where I was. In my defence it usually only happens when I am pre-occupied with something.
    This was my first time back there for around 10 months, so I fully expected it to happen, but it didn't. Nor did I rap my knuckles on the driver's door, reaching for the gear stick with the wrong hand. Done that before. <laugh>
     
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  10. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    About 20 years ago I was driving in France at least one weekend every month, as I lived in Kent and took the Shuttle. Many years earlier in the early 1980's I'd decided that this driving in the right lane issue was to be cracked before I had a problem. So the first time I drove there I realised that everything you view is reversed. Almost immediately practically any potential problem disappeared. I do find that driving a left hand drive car in Europe is more natural than driving a right hand drive, so if I have a preference, I like to hire a car rather than take one of my own.

    Of course, touring with a motorcycle presents no problems at all. ;)
     
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  11. The Ides of March

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    When drivng around Mallorca, I sometimes say to my friend, we "turn right", knowing I'm turning left, but the spoken word comes out incorectly due to the driver's seat being on the right in the UK.
     
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  12. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    been driving on the right now for 12 years so yes it comes naturally, but only last week I was driving down a single track road and met a car coming the other way. Without the white line down the middle of the road my brain forgot 12 years of practice, reset and made me swerve to the left! other driver not too impressed!
     
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  13. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Got to admit that when I first started driving on the continent I came off an autoroute and nearly went round a roundabout the wrong way. Luckily [or unluckily] a ****ing great articulated truck was coming straight at me so I quickly went the right way instead. That cured me. :emoticon-0141-whew:
     
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  14. fran-MLs little camera

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    I'm surprised Long wasn't flagged offside during the run.
     
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  16. thereisonlyoneno7

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    Exactly what I do every time I go to see my daughter in Atlanta and borrow her car :) So much so my other half says turn American Right or turn American Left :)
     
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    Wonderful!!
     
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