Never try to explain how blogs are little First Amendment publishing systems to the unemployed daughter of a trial lawyer.
So while I will be occupied this weekend, I suspect, in a lengthy dissertation by her educating me on the value of specious subpoenaes, I will need your help to explain some other things.
For example: do Americans whinge?
I used to love whingeing about taxi drivers, saying what wankers they were to push me out of a lane or cut me off.
I whine. But is it just in the U.K. or Europe or the former Cheque Republic that one would whinge?
Since I’m asking: would you translate this into American for me?
Drivers dithering at the lip of a slip lane are asking for me to overtake them. People sitting at filter arrows across from me seem to want me to cut them off, it’s not my fault.
Whearas ‘whine’ is described as ‘an instance of feeble or undignified complaining’, ‘whinge’ is a more informal term suggesting a peevish grumbling. Most whiners whinge, yet a lot of whingers consider themselves above whining, like yours truly. I’m far too dignified for whining, see.
We get a lot of drivers here who tend to stop and indicate at a slip road joining a main road, even though there is only one way to turn, and the whole bleedin’ point of a slip road is that you don’t have to stop! It gets my goat. I like to push past them onto the main road, and force them to stay on the slip lane for as long as possible just for kicks. I learned this from my dad.
We also get a lot of sleepy drivers who will sit at a green light in the hope that it will turn a nicer shade of green if they wait long enough.
At a major crossroad, you often get filter arrows for traffic turning left. They either yield to traffic flow, or take advantage of a clear road. If the road is clear and they just seem to be sitting there soaking up the atmosphere, I’ll cut across them, as is my right of way, but I still get beeped at.
Roundabouts are another anomaly that you don’t seem to have in the U.S. We have them all over the kip here. Drivers love to mis-use them, and beep at people who use them properly. It’s just their way!
Enough whingeing from me…
And thanks for clearing up - HA - the slip road and filter arrows! I bet when I can figure it out it will make a lot more sense than whatever they are called here.
I would love roundabouts. They are basically a state sanctioned game of aggressive driving.
When will you record a post so we can hear you? This post would be a good one!
When things are slow with the taxi, why don’t you record your thoughts for posting once in a while.
I was asked twice today, once yesterday and twice on Tuesday if I am an American. Isn’t that weird?!?! I must be watching Boston Legal too much and have picked up their accent.
Also this dial-up problem scuppers me when it comes to audio stuff. I’ll tell you what… I’ll try, how’s that?
I guess it doesn’t make any sense for you to record and email it to me, does it? Would Grandad have any ideas? A try would be wonderful!
The lady what pronounces ‘whinge’ on this here link sounds a bit like me if that’s any use to you.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/whinge
HTML is a bugger to type when one’s brain battery is running low. Why aren’t there more hours in a day?!
Of course, that’s just civil law. I didn’t really do a good job; there is soooo much more.
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Unemployed: I’m sorry. I only repeated what I read on your blog.