Breaking navigations
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The river is a slight right, but the road is an equally slight left. I can see how someone, when it's dark and rainy, could have trouble differentiating between the wet road to the left and the river to the right.
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Agree. Anywhere in the US there would be one of these:
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That's a funny looking bridge.
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There is one of these:
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There is one of these:
Yes, and since people seem to turn right anyway often enough for it to be notable, obviously that isn't good enough.
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Yeah, that, followed by some of these
http://i.imgur.com/vUuNhQb.jpg
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Pass.
It'd be useful. Even if the odd person didn't end up in the river, the road is a handy route between a few villages and a major road but ends up closed for a few months over winter as it floods.
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Even if the odd person didn't end up in the river
Best I could find for "odd person in river." The rest, the people may have *been* odd, but they didn't *look* odd enough to be humorous. I am disappoint.
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How about, "Odd person films river?"
It's actually kind of cool. And I wouldn't want to have to navigate there, but at least they have a bridge.
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It's so the schooners can get up and down the river without having to unstep and step the
cocktail sticksmasts
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You
'd me (probably for different reasons) but I would not have thought to suggest a VW as an alternative make of motor vehicle. Bus seeing as you have, could I suggest a "flatback" variant as they would be more fit for purpose?
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I don't disagree, except why do you think the person filming it is odd — other than apparently being unable to hold the camera steady, which is unfortunately all too typical?
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I would not have thought to suggest a VW
I don't know what @aliceif was thinking, but I'm going to guess this:
https://youtu.be/1qB0lb401ZU?t=26
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Yeah! I recall their claim it was watertight. Incidentally: I used to be a service engineer in the fen district. There are two rivers / drains that were design to act as a
to flooding by containing a flood plain (something they need to do down Somerset way). A colleague of mine, in his brand new, new model Vauxhall Cavalier thought he could cross it. He floated off of the road, and was picked up somewhere near Kings Lynn (this is a slight exaggeration).
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Not me. But you say that. One of my regular clients in Kings Lynn took fresh root vegetables like carrots and onions from the fields and froze them. A bloody cold place to work, but I never went short of them of fresh veg. They used to scoop them up and move them around with the sort of plant you would see on building sites
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FWIW Kings Lynn was where I was born
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It's a lovely town, the single pub there is well recommended. Then you'll know who I'm talking about - they are at the junction of the A47 and the "one" road through Kings Lynn.
Shouldn't be difficult to find, after all the have a great big red "find us" sign right outside.
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Then you'll know who I'm talking about
Not really. I was fairly young when we moved away (but not far from The Fens), and I now live even further away (but still not too far from The Fens).
My main dealing with the place these days is driving past it on the way to Hunstanton.
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It's just as rubbish. I used to live closer to it than Hunstanton, and now I don't.
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Status: Learning more about obscure bits of English geography than I ever cared to know.
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That's how I feel a lot of the time with all of you left-pondians
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Yes, but at least there is less of it to learn
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It's so the schooners can get up and down the river without having to unstep and step the
cocktail sticksmastsDoes the pedestrian bridge have a mast passer?
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You spotted that :) , shame somebody else didn't. Don't need a bridge there cos there is already one there. I am seriously hoping that there is another (quaint) UK roadside sign just out of frame, that says "not suitable for vehicles"
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I am seriously hoping that there is another (quaint) UK roadside sign just out of frame, that says "not suitable for vehicles"
Negative.
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Well, if we knew the answers to either or both of those questions, then we would have one or two less things to worry about
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What I don't know is why we aren't using ground-based systems instead.
The biggest issue with land based nav systems would be coverage, especially over rugged terrain. Mountains, canyons, tunnels, and so on, require extra cell towers to cover all the blind spots, and the same would be true of a land based nav system. An orbital nav system doesn't have all the same issues because the high altitude puts the satellite above the obstruction angle of most points. Obviously, you still have problems in caves and tunnels, but that wouldn't really change with a land-based solution.
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I don't disagree, except why do you think the person filming it is odd — other than apparently being unable to hold the camera steady, which is unfortunately all too typical?
Look at who uploaded it and everything will be clear. Or as clear as anything gets with him.
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Ah, I had only watched it embedded here (IIRC); I hadn't gone to the YT page, thus hadn't seen who uploaded it. Yes, very odd indeed.
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Ah, I had only watched it embedded here (IIRC); I hadn't gone to the YT page, thus hadn't seen who uploaded it. Yes, very odd indeed.
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