Good point this. I looked up whinge and whine in the dictionary.

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…

But my accent confuses people!!!

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 hadn’t figured that you didn’t know what the terms meant!! I have no idea what the Armerican terms are, I’m baffled that you don’t say slip road when it most blatently is one, or filter arrow because that is exactly what it does…

The lady what pronounces ‘whinge’ on this here link sounds a bit like me if that’s any use to you.

*sigh*

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?!

Oh, I did a shitty job of educatin’ ya. The law is definitely perverse; it’s not about what’s right; it’s about bankrupting the individual until they have no choice but to give in.

Of course, that’s just civil law. I didn’t really do a good job; there is soooo much more.
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