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Well several years ago I got a good deal on an airline flight to Sydney.

Then also I got a great deal for a rental car, an automatic transmission for 125 Us dollars for a week.

Went from Sydney to Katoombah, and I had to say to myself, stay in the left lane, that is the slow lane, and there were at least two speed traps along the way.

1 posted on 05/05/2025 12:05:07 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To avoid the dingoes?


2 posted on 05/05/2025 12:05:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Because that’s the direction their toilets flush


3 posted on 05/05/2025 12:08:01 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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“Why do they drive on the left in Australia?”

Because they’re wrong.


4 posted on 05/05/2025 12:11:38 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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Does Australia traffic use Roundabouts, as they do in Scotland
and England? I’ve heard they can be hectic and very confusing for many tourists.


5 posted on 05/05/2025 12:15:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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When we were in Ireland, going straight was easy but turn on another road, watch out.


6 posted on 05/05/2025 12:15:12 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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Nonstops from JFK to Sydney starting next year.

Plan JFK-SYD nonstop, Indian-Pacific train to Perth, PER-LHR nonstop, back home from London - Boston.

Circumnavigation in less than a week. What a world.


15 posted on 05/05/2025 12:24:04 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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I can understand Australia, (that’s Australia, NOT Australian), but why do they drive on the left in JAPAN?


19 posted on 05/05/2025 12:28:24 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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two roundabouts were installed here near us in USA and the number of accidents and near-miss accidents and road rage incidents skyrocketed

roundabouts are simply very confusing and usually don’t allow sufficient merging distances for safety, to begin with


21 posted on 05/05/2025 12:35:29 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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I took a cab in England and I was hanging on for dear life. I couldn’t get used to them driving on the wrong side of the road.


22 posted on 05/05/2025 12:35:52 PM PDT by roving
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They also drive on the left, in the US Virgin Islands.


23 posted on 05/05/2025 12:36:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The brits used Australia as a penal colony guess what side of the road they drive on.

It’s not the wrong side of the road it’s the other side of the road.

In the early days of the auto in the U.S. people drove on the left side of the road.
When steering wheels evolved on the left side of the car it changed.


27 posted on 05/05/2025 12:38:43 PM PDT by Vaduz
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Trump should fix this, they need to get right.


29 posted on 05/05/2025 12:39:05 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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I wonder what they do about escalators? Keeping to the right seems to make sense all over the world - where there are rules at all.


44 posted on 05/05/2025 1:16:20 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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“Roundabouts” are called “Rotaries” in Massachusetts. They all over the place, compared to many other states.


48 posted on 05/05/2025 1:45:27 PM PDT by dancusa (Donald Trump is Acting Like Rush Limbaugh on Steroids!)
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Start a classics music thread... I'ts happy hour!! I feel like drankin and Jammin!!

Flashback !!

TOMMY ROE-"SWEET PEA" - 1967


51 posted on 05/05/2025 1:46:59 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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Start a classics music thread... I'ts happy hour!! I feel like drankin and Jammin!!

Flashback !!

TOMMY ROE-"SWEET PEA" - 1967


52 posted on 05/05/2025 1:48:39 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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Start a classics music thread... I'ts happy hour!! I feel like drankin and Jammin!!

Flashback !!

Good Vibrations the Lost Studio Footage


54 posted on 05/05/2025 2:04:05 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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Because it is illegal to drive on the right. They are ass-backwards in Australia, UK, etc.


55 posted on 05/05/2025 2:12:08 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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Flashback !!

Ride My See Saw - Moody Blues {Stereo} 1968


56 posted on 05/05/2025 2:13:52 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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What I was told was that riding on the left was originally standard. If two knights on horseback encountered each other, both would have their right hand closest to the other knight in case a sword fight developed.

The French Revolution wanted to change everything for the sake of change so they changed that too--to have travelers keep to the right. Other countries followed suit, but the British were firmly opposed to the French Revolution and kept to the old ways. Naturally their colonies followed their practice (except for Canada).

Sweden only switched a few decades ago. It was one of the European countries never ruled by Napoleon.

61 posted on 05/05/2025 2:45:36 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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