Independent Scotland to drive in the eleventh dimension?

[Roger the Horse]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/01/scotland-driving-on-right-independence-road-scheme

Although it worked for Sweden back in the sixties, I personally think Scotland would be ill advised to make such a switch now. Thoughts?

April fools.

 

[Keef]

I think Scotland being a "part of Europe" is a crappy move. I also think it's ironic that the "nationalist" party wants to be more like Europe...that's not very nationalistic at all. A much more nationalistic approach would be do refuse to accept European standards and do their own thing...like England.

I think I'd rather be associated with England than the rest of Europe. This scheme sounds like a crap idea.

 

[R.S]

Yeah because Scotland is connected by road to others who drive on the right. Hang on a sec What? Who pays for all the RHD to LHD car conversions? Change for the sake of change right?

Will they also speak Spanish?

 

[Wiegert]

I wouldn't believe that crap even if it wasn't an April Fool's joke.

 

[Hun200kmh]

 

[TenEightyOne]

I heard it's true, they're going to change cars and bikes over on the first day, lorries and buses on the second

Seriously, the internet has really spoilt April Fools day by demonstrating that the line between human truth and ludicrous fiction was never really there at all

 

[Imari]

"It sends out an explicit signal: we are part of Europe," said one of the brains behind the scheme. "The little Englanders who want out of Europe are the only ones driving on the left-hand side. We've been the smaller relative dominated and having to copy their ridiculous ways for too long. No more. Just think, this will be an indignity for little England – isolated in Europe and pootling along in the slow lane on the left," he added.

So he used a lot of words to say "It's a big **** YOU to England".

 

[Famine]

So he used a lot of words to say "It's a big **** YOU to England".

Unfortunately they said nothing at all. Since that person doesn't exist, because it's an April Fool's Day joke.

 

[Imari]

Unfortunately they said nothing at all. Since that person doesn't exist, because it's an April Fool's Day joke.

I can't believe I nearly got through the whole day without noticing. What a noob.

 

[Famine]

A good AFD gag follows the principles of Poe's Law - it's impossible to distinguish between extremism and a parody of extremism without a blatant display of humour.

 

[Roger the Horse]

Weirdly, the best April fools joke I've ever encountered took place on the 27th of March 1996.

Hipster fools?

The second best is still the Panorama Spaghetti harvest.

 

[Grayfox]

They want to use a helter-skelter styled thing to change traffic.


one of style of things that are found on Rally Special Stages would be better cause it would be cheaper and easier for all to use, and if this is an april fools joke, using this would make it more believable so the joke is just that much more.
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[Famine]

They want to use a helter-skelter styled thing to change traffic.


one of style of things that are found on Rally Special Stages would be better cause it would be cheaper and easier for all to use, and if this is an april fools joke, using this would make it more believable so the joke is just that much more.

Check out Hong Kong's Pearl River Necklace Bridge that serves the same function...

 

[Grayfox]

Double Helix just works for traffic switching

 

[Famine]

That being the purpose. It switches traffic that drives on the right in Hong Kong to drive on the left in China - and vice versa. Thus the point about it being suitable for the same function between Scotland and England to help bolster the joke.

 

[Liquid]

Just a tidbit on "England" being the only place in Europe to drive on the left... Republic of Ireland, anyone?

Stuff like that is sloppy AFJ or not.

 

[Imari]

Check out Hong Kong's Pearl River Necklace Bridge that serves the same function...

Jesus, I thought the name of that bridge was still an April Fools. I'm getting it all wrong in here.

I guess some colloquialisms don't translate well, eh?

 

[Famine]

Jesus, I thought the name of that bridge was still an April Fools. I'm getting it all wrong in here.

I guess some colloquialisms don't translate well, eh?

Yeah, they missed a trick by not including that one in the piece.

 

[kikie]

Too bad it's an April Fool's Day joke. If it was true, I'd have been able to visit Scotland.

 

[Touring Mars]

We already drive on the right side of the road - the left.

 

[Grayfox]

We already drive on the right side of the road - the left.

Not to mention the steering wheel is in the "right" place too.

 

[Hun200kmh]

Yeah right ... I just drove about 1000 kms from London and back last month. It can be done, the brain adjusts quickly, luckily the pedals aren't reversed. But to be forced to use my left arm/hand to shift gears was a total nightmare.

I guess it's okay though, my wife likes strange foreign places where everything is different, preferably in other continents. I don't, I like Europe a lot, so the UK, that island up there with funny road rules, is a nice compromise between "familiar" and different


PS - With the added bonus that they make cars I like. In fact, they're the only ones making them nowadays

 

[TenEightyOne]

No, it's YOUR pedals that aren't reversed

My parents tell a story about being in deepest France in the early seventies driving their (UK) Renault 4. What a pig that thing was. Anyway.

Three old Frenchmen were deep in argument outside the car when my parents got back to it, and apparently all over the position of the pedals. Were they the same or not? My mother demonstrated that they were in fact dans la meme place they were doubly amazed that not only do the English copy their pedals but they even train their women to operate them

My father says he always used to let her drive because it was in the days before breath testing...

 

[JMoney]

Of course I'm just reading this for the first time three weeks after April Fools, and completely buying it.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I was just thinking that the thread title could do with a minor edit... the Internet blurs fact/fiction enough already.

 

[Roger the Horse]

Title edited without changing meaning.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Title edited without changing meaning.

Yes, not really, now it doesn't mean anything at all

Independent Scotland to drive on the wrong?

 

[LancerEvo7]

They already do drive on the wrong side of the road.

 

[Roger the Horse]

If it were the wrong side of the road, a lot more people would be being arrested for dangerous driving.

 

[Famine]

Fun fact - there is no "wrong side of the road" in the UK.